Collecting Music in the Aran Islands Perri Old Futures offers a counterhistory

Old Futures offers a counterhistory of works that have sought-with varying degrees of success-to speculate otherwise

speech patterns

Byzantine Crete

Shapiro investigates aspects of contemporary politics and articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema

how policy is formed

Collecting Music in the Aran Islands Perri Old Futures offers a counterhistoryFor more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of songs, music, and stories shared by communities. As technologies and methodologies have advanced, the task of gathering music has been taken up by a much broader group than scholars. The resulting collections created by these various people can be impacted by the individual collectors' political and social