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"From movies to novels to fashion, the mixtape has become a kind of personal signifier. Point Park University professor Jehnie I. Burns is fascinated with the re-emergence of this outdated and distinctly analog bit of technology in today’s popular culture. She writes in her new book, “Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation,” “I had to wonder why.
What about the mixtape has captured the imagination of the pop culture world that no longer owns, sells, or plays cassette tapes as a viable outlet for music?” Burns’ fun and informative book investigates how it all happened."
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After the First World War, Parisian officials debated the city’s border ground: Did the zone define the edge of Paris? The founders of the new Cité Universitaire de Paris joined the discussion. The effort to create the Cité and fit it into its new neighbourhood, emphasises the continued debate about the margins of Paris and who and what they represented to the urban officials and elites invested in them. The Cité fits with other urban renovation projects of the era; the goal of independent advocates and government representatives to create a social transformation – both on a cultural ideological level and on a practical housing level – focused on social hygiene. Entrepreneurs who funded the organisation viewed the future Cité as a utopia for international students to learn from one another and live in modern quarters reflecting a modernised, sanitised, healthy France. The zone became a logical locale for the new enterprise because it represented a border ground: a middle space between the city proper and the perceived ‘fresh air’ of the countryside. The future of the zone opened up a debate about public space, the nature of a modern city, and the role of the state as an agent of social transformation.
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In the 1920s, French scholars and bureaucrats created the Cité Universitaire in Paris. The institution housed university students from around the world. The Cité founders formulated a model for the Cité that reflected ideological concerns in interwar Europe with a focus on pacifism, international education and cultural internationalism. The organisers of the Cité attempted to adhere to these theories to make the organisation viable in the politically strained interwar era while simultaneously demonstrating the continued excellence of French education. The French attempted to combine the goals of international education with the continued hope of national educational superiority. This article describes Germany and France as the earlier ‘national competition’ model of education. It traces the early history of the Cité as it incorporated the new international education model. Finally, it examines sports and social gatherings at the Cité, which was used as a specific venue to show examples of cooperative exchange.