Barbara Browning

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1) The Gift

Author

Browning, Barbara

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English

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In the midst of Occupy, Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensued, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.

2) Infectious rhythm: metaphors of contagion and the spread of African culture

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Browning, Barbara

Pub. Date

1998.

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English

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Barbara Browning follows the trail of ""infectious rhythm"" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the diasporic spread of African culture, and serves as the justification for its brutal repression. The essays in this book examine both the vital and violent ways in which recent...