Emergence

styles. As the Jazz musician Ahmad Alaadeen once said, “Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.” Among the early music styles, Ragtime and Blues are two contributors which largely influenced the emergence of Jazz. Jazz is a form of music combines the characteristics and sound of Ragtime and Blues. The syncopation and improvisation of Ragtime and the polyrhythm and swing feeling of Blues all became the main features of the jazz. I am going to…

Regula Burckhardt Qureshi compiles ten essays by contributing authors ranging from musicologists, ethnomusicologists, political scientists, and historians, all providing prospective for studying music through a Marxist lens. In Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics, the chapters highlight the place of music in society by engaging Marxist theories on society. The book provides “music-directed approaches to Marx,” which express the issues of musical thinking and theorizing as it relates to…

In Polanyi’s paper the emergence of market society is determined as “the great transformation”. First of all, what characterizes the market society is that it is a self-regulated market. People’s mentality changed and they were motivated by economy. That is to say, market society is based on three fictitious commodities: land, labor, and money. Work had to be converted into labor, and labor into wages. So as land converted to real-estate which converted to money (Polanyi, 68). Which mean that…

these 3 dynasties in term of political, social and economic and the tension arise between Umayyad and Fatimid and what contributed to their decline – however, this will be focusing more on Fatimid and Idrisid while Umayyad as a background. The emergence of Umayyad was when Uthman was killed by mutinous Egyptian troops, therefore his second cousin Mu’awiya was inevitably implicated in the crisis. Mu’awiya made claim and demanded justice for his murdered kinsman and demand to manoeuvre ‘Ali bin…

and the emergence of new power such as China. Secondly, the shift and loss of power that has occurred in our…

Islam dormant or alive? Some authors believe that Islamic Legal Tradition has become dormant. They believe this extinction was started with the emergence of the state and modernity. Before the emergence of the State, in Islamic countries there were no codified rules or procedures. The cases were being decided by the Qadi who was almost relying on Mufti’s fatwa and rulings. At that time for finding a legal rule which was not covered by other sources of Quran, Mujhatids had the…

Internationalization is the expansion of a firm through participation in international processes, especially outside domestic borders (Kutschker and Baurle, 1997). Firm internationalization is based on solid models like the eclectic paradigm, the Uppsala model, the network theory of internationalization, the knowledge theory, and the “born global” theory. The Dunning eclectic paradigm (2010) principal hypothesis is that the level and structure of firm’s foreign value-adding activities will…

Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Webber could refer to as the “blind man touching an elephant, they touch different parts of the elephant and when they touch the same parts each define it their own way” (Garner & Hancock, 1971, p.33). This essay will outline the description and commentary on the three theorists when it comes to working class resulting from capitalism. For illustration purposes, I will use Marx’s and Webber’s perspectives. I intend to use materials from; the lecture, tutorial…

It examines the nature of the business as well as the socio- economic impact on the society. It tries to unravel the factors that led to the decline of the business and the new trend in the re-emergence of cinema houses in the country. Key words: Cinema, Business, Lagos, Nigeria. 1. Introduction Prior to the advent of the television and home video in Nigeria, cinema was one of the major means of entertainment and relaxation in the country. Lagosians…

There are three themes in Indigenous archaeology as Watkins and Nicholas described the figures into its emergence “(1) treatment of ancestral remains (and sacred objects and places), (2) participation (or not) in archeological/ heritage management, and (3) cultural heritage and legislative concerns about ownership of cultural and intellectual property.” (Watkin and Nicholas 2014: 3797) The emergence of Indigenous archaeology gave more power to the Indigenous communities over their own cultural…