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In Their Own Voices - Immigrant Musickers In A Changing City, Tiffany Pollock
In Their Own Voices - Immigrant Musickers In A Changing City, Tiffany Pollock
Journal of Urban Culture Research
The following paper is drawn from a larger research project undertaken during2008-2009, in which I closely examined the immigrant music community in St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. To this end, I interviewed overtwenty-five people, most of them immigrant musicians, and in some cases viewedperformances and rehearsals, created jam sessions, and participated in variousmusic-making activities over an eight-month period. Here, I will present portraitsof some of my consultants from that time, whose negotiations in their musicmakingactivities demonstrate the diverse ways they see themselves in the Canadianmulticultural milieu and the issues faced in relocation. I will highlight someof their experiences that …
The Destruction Of Heritage - Rock Art In The Burrup Peninsula, José Antonio González Zarandona
The Destruction Of Heritage - Rock Art In The Burrup Peninsula, José Antonio González Zarandona
Journal of Urban Culture Research
The destruction of rock art in the Burrup Peninsula, performed by several mammoth industries strategically located in the Peninsula since the 1960s, allows me to analyze the concept of heritage and find meaning in the difficult task of interpreting rock art. The Burrup Peninsula not only hosts the largest rock art site in the world, but also one of the largest deposits of natural gas, iron ore and salt. As a consequence, the land (sacred to the Indigenous people), becomes extremely important in order to sustain the booming economy of Australia. In this difficult negotiation between heritage and progress the …