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welcome to bbc news. spain s interior minister says the terror cell behind the two vehicle attacks on thursday and friday, which left 1a people dead, has now been dismantled. officials believe the cell consisted of 12 young men, most of them moroccan nationals. however the hunt is still on for one man, younes abouyaaquob, who police believe may have been the driver of the van, which killed 13 people and injured 130 more in barcelona. james reynolds has sent this report. this morning in barcelona, the mayor opens the book of condolences. the city has lost residents of its own and visitors from abroad. the attacks surprised barcelona. it is the first time the city has been hit in more than 30 years. barcelona now follows the same rhythm of mourning familiar to so many other cities on this continent. this footage from a museum security camera appears to show part of the attack. the van goghs at great speed through las ramblas. passers by run for their lives. the police typ ....
attend the meeting of the golf council. dating livingstone stood in for her. this is 40 minutes. questions to the prime minister. dr. philip of wexford. question number one, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i ve been asked to reply. my right and honorable friend the prime minister is extending the golf council in our rain. council in bahrain. yesterday signing of a memorandum of understanding a hugethe reality of boost to the aerospace industry. jointhe u.k. government the scottish government in getting this off the ground. but i can assure the honorable lady that the government is looking keenly at the opportunities for scotland and for the whole united kingdom emerging from the development of commercial space operations. it will be examined very closely by those of my ministerial colleagues who are particularly concerned with this area of policy. we want to see the u.k. as a pioneering force and opportunity. speaking of rail passengers trying to get to their jobs, the unio ....
professor kotten siler cotton seiler teaches a class about the emerging definitions of whiteness and blackness in colonial america and how they impacted the emergence of country music. you described how laws elevated poor whites above slaves and free blacks, which helped white frontiersman form a separate group identity. some of the traditions of this group and their ballots became the basis of country music. his classes about an hour and 10 minutes. prof. seiler: good morning, everyone. today we are going to talk about country music, hillbilly music. i m going to ship shift back and forth between the terms. one of the things we see from peterson is that country music is music of my damaging music of modernity. in response to it, grapples with it. i want to frame our discussion around couple of quotations. the first is from an anthropologist. country music is widely disparaged and racialized terms and assertions of its badness are quickly flamed in specifically r ....
sneak peek into santa s workshop it would only look a little like this. center it s viral, it s addictive, i love it. is it like a fight? reporter: inside this san jose convention center hall earlier this month, 1,000 volunteer spent their saturday assembling christmas presents for people they would never meet. turning wheels for kids. and just building bikes, having a pretty fun christmas and it is something that you would love to do. centered instead they are all lit up and carrying on a 12- year long tradition to build bikes for needy children in santa clara county. they get a bike and a helmet. i remember getting my first bike, they could ride up to the corner store on their own. hi, mom. and smiles behind it all. this cisco employee who volunteered alone last year brought some new recruits this year. last year z way doing it by myself. you need to get the team ahead of time. the man behind this basket is also a father. we just love to do this once ....
forth between the terms. one of the things we see from peterson is that country music is music of modernity. it responds to it, grapples with it. i want to frame our discussion around couple of quotations. the first is from a anthropologist aaron fox. they write, country music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its badness are quickly flamed in specifically racial terms. for cosmopolitan americans especially, country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness, not as an unmarked, neutral condition lacking or trying to shed race, but as a foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness unredeemed by ethnicity, folkloric authenticity, progressive politics, or elite musical culture. i want us to think about that. country music as articulating and conveying this type of marked white particularity. the second quote is from roxanne dunbar-ortiz, a writer and historian, in the book red dirt, a mem ....