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Postcolonialism on the make: the music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie and John Zorn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Ellie M. Hisama
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When we acknowledge that an idea, history or tradition is not ours, we distance ourselves from it. When we then proceed to use, incorporate or represent it, we arrogate the right to employ what we acknowledge as not ours. It is not something we do despite the foreignness of our subject; it is something we do because of our perception of it as other. The implicit hierarchical nature of otherness invites seemingly innocuous practices of representation that amount to (often unknowing) strategies of domination through appropriation. (Dominguez 1987, p. 132)

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Popular Music , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , May 1993 , pp. 91 - 104
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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