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White Musical Mythologies

Author : Edmund Mendelssohn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150363664X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book White Musical Mythologies written by Edmund Mendelssohn and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a narrative that extends from fin de siècle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of "pure sound" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism. Each of the musicians studied in this book re-created or appropriated non-European forms of expression as they conceived music ontologically, often thinking music as something immediate and immersive: from Satie's dabblings with mysticism and exoticism in bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s to Varèse's experience of ethnographic exhibitions and surrealist poetry in 1930s Paris, and from Boulez's endeavor to theorize a kind of musical writing that would "absorb" the sounds of non-European musical traditions to Cage, who took inspiration from Eastern thought as he wrote about sound, silence, and chance. These modernist artists believed that the presence effects of sound in their moment were more real and powerful than the outmoded norms of the European musical past. By examining musicians who strove to produce sonic presence, specifically by re-thinking the concept of musical writing (écriture), the book demonstrates that we cannot fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity without music and sound.

White Mythologies

Author : Robert J.C. Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134384548
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book White Mythologies written by Robert J.C. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We must, many now argue, `get back' to history. but which one? History has always been a problematical concept in Western theory, particularly for Marxism. In the wake of postmodernism, its status has become ever less certain. Is it possible to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Robert Young's investigation of 'the history of History', from Hegel and Marx to Althusser and Foucault, calls into question the Eurocentrism of traditional Marxist accounts of a single 'World History', in which, as he shows, the `Third World' appears as an unassimilable excess, surplus to the narrative of the West. Young goes on to consider recent questionings of the limits of Western knowledge. He argues that the efforts of Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhabha to formulate non-historicist ways of thinking and writing history are part of a larger project of a decolonisation of History and a deconstruction of 'the West'.

The White Goddess

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374504939
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The White Goddess written by Robert Graves and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.

Myths and Mythologies

Author : Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315475766
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Mythologies written by Jeppe Sinding Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all cultures and at all times, humans have told stories about where they came from, who they are and how they should live their lives. 'Myths and Mythologies' brings together the key classic and contemporary writings - philosophical, psychological, sociological, semiological and cognitivist - on myth. To the insider, myths contain truth, revelation and a 'history of ourselves'; to the outsider, a culture s myths can be seen as the product of foolish, infantile and wishful thinking. Myths tell us about specific cultures, about human creativity, and how narrative shapes and reflects understanding. The 'Reader' is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the impact of narrative on human culture and the meaning of truth in religious language.

Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer

Author : Michael Brocken
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498574475
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer written by Michael Brocken and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In charting the life and times of Gordon Stretton, this text makes a major contribution to both jazz and popular music studies. By asking historians to re-evaluate the contributions made to the development of jazz by those “other than” African Americans, it proposes new jazz histories emanating from pathways, influences and encounters.

The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960

Author : Kathryn Hume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501359886
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 written by Kathryn Hume and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do contemporary writers use myths from ancient Greece and Rome, Pharaonic Egypt, the Viking north, Africa's west coast, and Hebrew and Christian traditions? What do these stories from premodern cultures have to offer us? The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 examines how myth has shaped writings by Kathy Acker, Margaret Atwood, William S. Burroughs, A. S. Byatt, Neil Gaiman, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Jeanette Winterson, and others, and contrasts such canonical texts with fantasy, speculative fiction, post-singularity fiction, pornography, horror, and graphic narratives. These artistic practices produce a feeling of meaning that doesn't need to be defined in scientific or materialist terms. Myth provides a sense of rightness, a recognition of matching a pattern, a feeling of something missing, a feeling of connection. It not only allows poetic density but also manipulates our moral judgments, or at least stimulates us to exercise them. Working across genres, populations, and critical perspectives, Kathryn Hume elicits an understanding of the current uses of mythology in fiction.

Mythologies of the World

Author : Michael C. McKenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816044801
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Mythologies of the World written by Michael C. McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at ancient myths and legends, how they are interpreted today, and what they mean now.

Organizing Color

Author : Timon Beyes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503638626
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Organizing Color written by Timon Beyes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color as fundamental medium of the social. Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, Organizing Color demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with colour's allure and flux. Beyes takes readers from Goethe's chocolate experiments in search of chromatic transformation to nineteenth-century Scottish cotton mills designed to modulate workers' moods and productivity, from the colonial production of Indigo in India to globalized categories of skin colorism and their disavowal. Tracing the consumption, control and excess of industrial and digital color, other chapters stage encounters with the literary chromatics of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow processing the machinery of the chemical industries, the red of political revolt in Godard's films, and the blur of education and critique in Steyerl's Adorno's Grey. Contributing to a more general reconsideration of aesthetic capitalism and the role of sensory media, this book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization—a "chromatics of organizing"—that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color.

Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Author : Katherine Butler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783273712
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture written by Katherine Butler and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Sacred and Mythological Animals

Author : Yowann Byghan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476679509
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Sacred and Mythological Animals written by Yowann Byghan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the household cat to horses that can fly, a surprisingly wide range of animals feature in religions and mythologies all across the world. The same animal can take on different roles: the raven can be a symbol of evil, a harbinger of death, a wise messenger or a shape-changing trickster. In Norse mythology, Odin's magical ravens perch on his shoulders and bring him news. This compendium draws upon religious texts and myths to explore the ways sacred traditions use animal images, themes and associations in rituals, ceremonies, texts, myths, literature and folklore across the world. Sections are organized by the main animal classifications such as mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians and insects. Each chapter covers one significant grouping (such as dogs, cats or horses), first describing an animal scientifically and then detailing the mythological attributes. Numerous examples cite texts or myths. A final section covers animal hybrids, animal monsters and mythical animals as well as stars, constellations and Zodiac symbols. An appendix describes basic details of the religions and mythologies covered. A glossary defines uncommon religious terms and explains scientific animal names.

Whose Country Music?

Author : Paula J. Bishop
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108837123
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Whose Country Music? written by Paula J. Bishop and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions and challenges the systems of gatekeeping that have restricted participation in twenty-first century country music culture.

Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music

Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319770136
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music written by Aaron Lefkovitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo child” whose racialized “freak” visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix’s transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music’s global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix’s place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.

The Origins of the World's Mythologies

Author : E.J. Michael Witzel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199913323
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the World's Mythologies written by E.J. Michael Witzel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years. Identifying features shared by this "Out of Africa" mythology and its northern Eurasian offshoots, Witzel suggests that these common myths--recounted by the communities of the "African Eve"--are the earliest evidence of ancient spirituality. Moreover these common features, Witzel shows, survive today in all major religions. Witzel's book is an intellectual hand grenade that will doubtless generate considerable excitement--and consternation--in the scholarly community. Indeed, everyone interested in mythology will want to grapple with Witzel's extraordinary hypothesis about the spirituality of our common ancestors, and to understand what it tells us about our modern cultures and the way they are linked at the deepest level.

Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet

Author : Randall Sandke
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081086990X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet written by Randall Sandke and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination, or is it more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture? This book does not question that jazz was created and largely driven by African Americans, but rather posits that black culture has been more open to outside influences than most commentators are likely to admit. The majority of jazz writers, past and present, have embraced an exclusionary viewpoint. Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet begins by looking at many of these writers, from the birth of jazz history up to the present day, to see how and why their views have strayed from the historical record. This book challenges many widely held beliefs regarding the history and nature of jazz in an attempt to free jazz of the socio-political baggage that has s

The Heroes of Asgard

Author : Annie Keary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Heroes of Asgard written by Annie Keary and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship

Author : Olivia Bloechl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107026679
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship written by Olivia Bloechl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

Nothing Happened

Author : Susan A. Crane
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614050
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Happened written by Susan A. Crane and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing happened"? Why might we feel as if "nothing is the way it was"? This book transforms these utterly ordinary observations and redefines "Nothing" as something we have known and can remember. "Nothing" has been a catch-all term for everything that is supposedly uninteresting or is just not there. It will take some—possibly considerable—mental adjustment before we can see Nothing as Susan A. Crane does here, with a capital "n." But Nothing has actually been happening all along. As Crane shows in her witty and provocative discussion, Nothing is nothing less than fascinating. When Nothing has changed but we think that it should have, we might call that injustice; when Nothing has happened over a long, slow period of time, we might call that boring. Justice and boredom have histories. So too does being relieved or disappointed when Nothing happens—for instance, when a forecasted end of the world does not occur, and millennial movements have to regroup. By paying attention to how we understand Nothing to be happening in the present, what it means to "know Nothing" or to "do Nothing," we can begin to ask how those experiences will be remembered. Susan A. Crane moves effortlessly between different modes of seeing Nothing, drawing on visual analysis and cultural studies to suggest a new way of thinking about history. By remembering how Nothing happened, or how Nothing is the way it was, or how Nothing has changed, we can recover histories that were there all along.