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UNINA9910330707003321 |
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Edkins Jenny |
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Change and the politics of certainty / / Jenny Edkins |
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Manchester, UK, : Manchester University Press, 2019 |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019 |
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1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital, PDF file(s) |
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Social change - Political aspects |
Change - Social aspects |
Political science |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Despite the imperative for change in a world of persistent inequality, racism, oppression and violence, difficulties arise once we try to bring about a transformation. As scholars, students and activists, we may want to change the world, but we are not separate, looking in, but rather part of the world ourselves. The book demonstrates that we are not in control: with all our academic rigour, we cannot know with certainty why the world is the way it is, or what impact our actions will have. It asks what we are to do, if this is the case, and engages with our desire to seek change. Chapters scrutinise the role of intellectuals, experts and activists in famine aid, the Iraq war, humanitarianism and intervention, traumatic memory, enforced disappearance, and the Grenfell Tower fire, and examine the fantasy of security, contemporary notions of time, space and materiality, and ideas of the human and sentience. Plays and films by Michael Frayn, Chris Marker and Patricio Guzmán are considered, and autobiographical narrative accounts probe the author’s life and background. The book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope. |
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UNINA9910779651403321 |
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Autore |
Morris Mitchell <1961-> |
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The persistence of sentiment [[electronic resource] ] : display and feeling in popular music of the 1970s / / Mitchell Morris |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Popular music - United States - 1971-1980 - History and criticism |
Singers - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Black Masculinity and the Sound of Wealth -- 3. Transport and Interiority in Soft Soul -- 4. The Audience and Barry Manilow -- 5. The Voice of Karen Carpenter -- 6. Cher's "Dark Ladies" -- 7. Crossing Over with Dolly Parton -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In The Persistence of Sentiment, Mitchell Morris gives a critical account of a group of American popular music performers who have dedicated fan bases and considerable commercial success despite the critical disdain they have endured. Morris examines the specific musical features of some exemplary pop songs and draws attention to the social contexts that contributed to their popularity as well as their dismissal. These artists were all members of more or less disadvantaged social categories: members of racial or sexual minorities, victims of class and gender prejudices, advocates of populations excluded from the mainstream. The complicated commercial world of pop music in the 1970's allowed the greater promulgation of musical styles and idioms that spoke to and for exactly those stigmatized audiences. In more recent years, beginning with the "Seventies Revival" of the early 1990's, additional perspectives and layers of interpretation have allowed not only a deeper understanding of these songs' function than when they |
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were first popular, but also an appreciation of how their significance has shifted for American listeners in the succeeding three decades. |
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