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Importing, Trading, and Collecting Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Cospi Museum (2017)
Thesis
Gigante, F. Importing, Trading, and Collecting Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Cospi Museum. (Thesis). Warburg Institute; SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the importation, trading, and collection of Islamic art in Italy in the seventeenth century, focusing in particular on the case of the Cospi Museum, which featured more Islamic artefacts than any other contemporary Italian collec... Read More about Importing, Trading, and Collecting Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Cospi Museum.

Celebrity Endorsement of Political Aspirants and its Effects on College Students in Lagos (2017)
Journal Article
Agina, A., & Ekwevugbe, A. (2017). Celebrity Endorsement of Political Aspirants and its Effects on College Students in Lagos. Journal of African Media Studies, 9(3), 487-505. https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.9.3.487_1

This article examines two main research questions: what factors justify celebrity endorsement as an election campaign strategy given the increasing doubts associated with celebrity involvement in politics? Did celebrity endorsement of political aspir... Read More about Celebrity Endorsement of Political Aspirants and its Effects on College Students in Lagos.

Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright (2017)
Book
Harris, R., & Stokes, M. (Eds.). (2017). Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315191461

This volume of original essays is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East. Wright’s work, which comprises, at the time of writing, six field-defining volumes and countless... Read More about Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright.

The New Battleground: Song-and-dance in China’s Muslim borderlands (2017)
Journal Article
Harris, R. (2017). The New Battleground: Song-and-dance in China’s Muslim borderlands. The world of music (Wilhelmshaven), 6(2), 35-56

In a speech at China’s National People’s Congress in March 2014, the deputy chair of the China Dancer’s Association, Dilnar Abdulla, complained that ‘religious extremists’ in the Muslim region of Xinjiang were ‘campaigning for the commoners not to si... Read More about The New Battleground: Song-and-dance in China’s Muslim borderlands.

Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian Maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi (2017)
Book Chapter
Harris, R. (2017). Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian Maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi. In R. Harris, & M. Stokes (Eds.), Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright (217-237). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315191461-11

This chapter considers the problem of theory and practice in Central Asian maqām traditions with reference to two distinct traditions: the Kashmiri Sūfyāna Musīqī and the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam. I speculate that the imposition of different forms of mu... Read More about Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian Maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi.

The Network of Collecting Japanese Ceramics Focussing on A.W. Franks.' [明治神宮PhD日本研究奨学生レポート：日本陶磁蒐集のネットワーク―A.W.フランクスを中心に―] (2017)
Journal Article
Fukunaga, A. (2017). The Network of Collecting Japanese Ceramics Focussing on A.W. Franks.' [明治神宮PhD日本研究奨学生レポート：日本陶磁蒐集のネットワーク―A.W.フランクスを中心に―]. 神園 = Kamizono: Journal of the Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute, 18, 195-199

Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France (2017)
Book
Tythacott, L. (Ed.). (2017). Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113395

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted o... Read More about Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France.

Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History (2017)
Book Chapter
Horlyck, C. (2017). Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History. In K. L. Chiem, & L. C. Blanchard (Eds.), Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries (224-250). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004348950_009

Since the 1970s, feminist art historians have extensively critiqued the systematic exclusion of women artists and their works from the canon of Western art history . More recently, attention has been directed towards Asia, where women’s contributions... Read More about Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History.

Songs between cities: Listening to courtesans in colonial north India (2017)
Journal Article
Williams, R. D. (2017). Songs between cities: Listening to courtesans in colonial north India. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 27(4), 591-610. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186317000311

In the aftermath of 1857, urban spaces and cultural practices were transformed and contested. Regional royal capitals became nodes in a new colonial geography, and the earlier regimes that had built them were recast as decadent and corrupt societies.... Read More about Songs between cities: Listening to courtesans in colonial north India.

Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool (2017)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2017). Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool. Buddhist Studies Review, 34(1), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.29020

This article explores issues involved in representing Buddhism in museums, drawing on the author’s experience of curating the Buddhism display at the World Museum Liverpool. It is concerned with processes of de-contextualization and re-contextualizat... Read More about Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool.