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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Encompassing contemporary research in ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, history, and race studies, the volume explores the intersections between music and class, and how the meanings of class are asserted and denied, confused and clarified, through music. With chapters on key genres, traditions, and subcultures, as well as fresh and engaging directions for future scholarship, the volume considers how music has thought about and articulated social class. It consists entirely of original contributions written by internationally renowned scholars, and provides an essential reference point for scholars interested in the relationship between popular music and social class.
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Popular Music and Human Rights
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. At a time of such uncertainty and confusion, with human rights currently being violated all over the world, a new and sustained examination of cultural responses to such issues is warranted. In this respect music, which is always produced in a social context, is an extremely useful medium; in its immediacy music has a potency of expression whose reach is long and wide. This two-volume set comprises Volume I: British and American Music, and Volume II: World Music.
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Popular Music and Human Rights. Volume 2 World Music
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. At a time of such uncertainty and confusion, with human rights currently being violated all over the world, a new and sustained examination of cultural responses to such issues is warranted. In this respect music, which is always produced in a social context, is an extremely useful medium; in its immediacy music has a potency of expression whose reach is long and wide. This two-volume set comprises Volume I: British and American Music, and Volume II: World Music.
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Warmth and Light and Sky
Born in Toxteth, Liverpool, in 1966, Niall Griffiths lives in the west Wales town of Aberystwyth. Now with seven novels to his credit, Griffiths originally arrived on the literary scene in 2000 with his first book, Grits, much of which was based on personal experience. Incorporating a narrative style critics frequently describe as ‘uncompromising’, Griffiths’s convincing regional vernacular lends his work a good deal of its authenticity, or, as the author puts it, the argot of place and class ‘carries a weight of nonestablishment, marginal knowledge’ (see page 102). This conviction is akin to shibboleth, to the recovery of custom and place and language that dominates his work. To see his fiction in this light necessitates acceptance that the vast multitude so often unrecognised in literature have a story to tell. Yet critics unwilling to comprehend the world inhabited by Griffiths’s characters invariably reach for adjectives such as ‘stark’, ‘raw’ and ‘uncompromising’ – the accustomed synonyms attributed to his work – as a means of explaining away a view of society at odds with their own.
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\There's No Way Not To Lose\: Langston Hughes and Intraracial Class Antagonism
[...]as a treatise on changing social relations, the play is more sophisticated than Hughes's earlier poem of the same name which, with its constant refrain of \"I am your son, white man!\" confines itself solely to issues of race. [...]Redding could conclude that \"No longer do Sue and Ruby,\" two characters from Hughes's 1927 poem \"Red Silk Stockings,\" \"put on their red silk stockings and go out and let the white boys look' at their legs for free. [. . .] [...]it is worth recalling that it was not until the 1960s that the Civil Rights movement began to realize that race alone could not explain the preponderance of blacks living in desperate poverty. [...]if in this matter Hughes was prophetic, his sensitivity towards writers who appeared not to share his deep allegiance to the working class was marked. [...]when James Baldwin included a sustained attack on black religious practices in Go Tell It on the Mountain, in a letter to Arna Bontemps Hughes's response was to suggest that had it been written \"by Zora Hurston with her feeling for the folk idiom, it would have been a quite wonderful book.\"
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POLES APART? ETHNICITY, RACE, CLASS, AND NELSON ALGREN
Peddie discusses writer Nelson Algren. Algren, for whom the axis of race, ethnicity and class provided a career's worth of material, is not usually viewed as a novelist with any particular concern for issues.
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