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Myths of the 130 Quarter
Published 2018-12-01“…The more popular the 130 Quarter becomes, the more there are legends related to historic houses and events. The honored crooner and collector of urban folklore Kozma Kvartalov is opening another mythological layer in the existence of this rather small city area. …”
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Myths of the 130 Quarter (Continued)
Published 2017-09-01“…They are told by an honored crooner, collector of the modern city folklore Kozma Kvartalov. …”
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Myths of the 130 Quarter
Published 2016-05-01“…They are told by an honored crooner, collector of the modern city folklore Kozma Kvartalov. …”
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Adam Smith and the Dark Nightingale: on twentieth-century sentimentalism
Published 2006“…This article reconsiders sentimentalism in the light of the writings of Adam Smith and the career of Abd al-Halim Hafiz, Egypt's 'Dark Nightingale' and film-star crooner of the 1950s and 60s. It explores competing representations of emotionality, the limits of enchantment, and the contemporary politics of nostalgia and melodrama in Egyptian public culture. …”
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Adam Smith and the Dark Nightingale: on twentieth-century sentimentalism
Published 2006“…This article reconsiders sentimentalism in the light of the writings of Adam Smith and the career of Abd al-Halim Hafiz, Egypt's 'Dark Nightingale' and film-star crooner of the 1950s and 60s. It explores competing representations of emotionality, the limits of enchantment, and the contemporary politics of nostalgia and melodrama in Egyptian public culture. …”
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BEHIND THE COVERS OF AUSTRALIAN ROLLING STONE: NEGOTIATING THE PERSONA OF A FEMALE MUSIC MAGAZINE EDITOR
Published 2019-07-01“…Singers, songwriters and musicians create personas and perform the (gendered) role of rock star, punk, heart-throb, crooner, diva, or rock chick. Magazine covers are a key factor in consolidating and marketing that constructed persona. …”
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The Loss of the Real in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Klara and the Sun and Nocturnes
Published 2023-07-01“…In terms of methodology of analysis, this paper is primarily based on a close examination of the author’s literary texts: two novels (Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun) and three short stories from Nocturnes (“Malvern Hills”, “Nocturne” and “Crooner”). Postmodernist concepts have been of great relevance to the analysis of these texts, for his fiction could not be approached in isolation from the realities of the postmodern era where it’s produced. …”
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