Böcker av Barbara Titus

Hearing Maskanda outlines how people make sense of their world through practicing and hearing maskanda music in South Africa. Having emerged in response to the experience of forced labour migration in the early 20th century, maskanda continues to straddle a wide range of cultural and musical universes. Maskanda musicians reground ideas, (hi)stories, norms, speech and beliefs that have been uprooted in centuries of colonial and apartheid rule by using specific musical textures, vocalities and idioms. With an autoethnographic approach of how she came to understand and participate in maskanda, Titus indicates some instances where her acts of knowledge formation confronted, bridged or invaded those of other maskanda participants. Thus, the book not only aims to demonstrate the epistemic importance of music and aurality but also the performative and creative dimension of academic epistemic approaches such as ethnography, historiography and music analysis, that aim towards conceptualization and (visual) representation. In doing so, the book unearths the colonialist potential of knowledge formation at large and disrupts modes of thinking and (academic) research that are globally normative.

This is the somewhat true story of Eddie, a little shelter dog-unloved, unwanted, and labeled as 'unadoptable.' He was about to receive an opportunity to prove himself and find his forever home with a loving family, so Eddie thought to himself, "Why not?" The question is; can he? Will he?Barbara Titus began her career with pets in Michigan working at a small animal hospital and later opened her own grooming salon. Upon moving to Arizona, she continued her pet career and spent nearly twenty years working in a larger animal hospital as both veterinary technician and pet stylist along with volunteering for a pet rescue. Since retirement she has continued to volunteer and donate time to a local animal shelter / pet rescue in hopes to someday put an end to euthanasia and give deserving pets a second chance in a forever home.