L'esprit de l'alpinisme : Une sociologie de l'excellence en alpinisme, du xixe siècle au début du xxie siècle / / Delphine Moraldo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910724324903321
• Autore: Moraldo Delphine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lyon : , : ENS Éditions, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 pages)
• Collana: Sociétés, espaces, temps
• Disciplina: 796.522
• Soggetti: Mountaineering
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why do great mountaineers turn away from Everest? Why do they reject the use of artificial oxygen on certain Himalayan summits? Why do they risk their lives for a new ascent? How come they are mostly men - and, until recently, men from the social elites? Ever the theatre of drama, purveyor of heroes and polemics, high level mountaineering is the object of facination. In the discourse surrounding it, the same images reappear: those of a great and noble practice, which cannot be assimilated to a simple sport, with protagonists devoted body and soul, prepared to sacrifice themselves for a new ascent. But only if it is done in the right spirit. Because at the highest level mountaineering still requires that the summit be reached within the strict ethics of the discipline. It is this spirit of mountaineering, synonymous with excellence, that this book questions, through an original historical and sociological survey, using unpublished material, which takes the reader from the origins of mountaineering, in the great English bourgeoisie of the 19th century, to the beginning of the 21st century. The spirit of mountaineering, both as an ethical principle and an esprit de corps, is embedded in hierarchies and relationships of both class and gender domination, which distinguish the elite from the masses, the climbers from the guides, the men from the women. The book reveals how such conceptions continue to reflect the ideologies of the small male elite that codified it over a century and a half ago, surviving the dissemination of mountaineering beyond geographical and social ; boundaries. The Spirit of Mountaineering will be of interest both to academics and to a wider readership of mountaineering enthusiasts. However, it is an important contribution more generally to all those who question the way in which the structures of social and gender hierarchies are constructed and maintained through time and space.; Pourquoi les grands alpinistes se détournent-ils de l'Everest ? Pourquoi refusent-ils l'oxygène artificiel sur certains sommets himalayens ? Pourquoi risquent-ils leur vie pour une ascension nouvelle ? Mais aussi, pourquoi sont-ils en majorité des hommes, qui plus est, des hommes longtemps issus des élites sociales ?00Théâtre de drames, pourvoyeur de héros, objet de polémiques, l'alpinisme de haut niveau fascine. Dans les discours qui l'entourent ressurgissent les mêmes images : celles d'une pratique grande et noble, qu'on ne saurait assimiler à un simple sport, dont les protagonistes dévoués corps et âme, sont prêts à se sacrifier pour une ascension inédite. À condition, cependant, qu'elle soit réalisée dans le bon esprit, car dans le grand alpinisme, il faut parvenir au sommet sans tricher, dans le respect d'une éthique stricte.00C'est cet esprit de l'alpinisme, synonyme d'excellence, que l'ouvrage interroge à travers une enquête originale, à la fois historique et sociologique. Mettant à profit des matériaux inédits, il emmène le lecteur des origines de l'alpinisme dans la grande bourgeoisie anglaise du XIXe siècle, jusqu'au début du XXIe siècle.00L'esprit de l'alpinisme, principe éthique et esprit de corps, s'inscrit dans des hiérarchies et des rapports de domination de classe et de genre, qui distinguent les élites des masses, les alpinistes des guides, les hommes des femmes. L'ouvrage dévoile comment, par-delà la diffusion, la démocratisation et la féminisation de l'alpinisme, son esprit, codifié il y a plus de cent cinquante ans par une petite élite masculine britannique, continue d'en refléter aujourd'hui les idéologies, au Royaume-Uni mais aussi en France. Ouvrage destiné à un large public, il intéressera, au-delà des universitaires et des amateurs d'alpinisme, toutes celles et ceux qui s'interrogent sur la manière dont des hiérarchies sociales et genrées se construisent et se maintiennent.

Analyzing popular music / / edited by Allan F. Moore [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828467703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-107-12866-8; 1-280-41781-1; 0-511-17926-X; 1-139-14628-9; 0-511-06669-4; 0-511-06038-6; 0-511-30629-6; 0-511-48201-9; 0-511-06882-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 781.64
• Soggetti: Popular music - Analysis, appreciation; Popular music - History and criticism; Musical analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-257), discography (p. 258-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Popular music analysis : ten apothegms and four instances / Rob Walser -- From lyric to anti-lyric : analyzing the words in pop song / Dai Griffiths -- The sound is "out there" : score, sound design, and exoticism in The X-files / Robynn J. Stilwell -- Feel the beat come down : house music as rhetoric / Stan Hawkins -- The determining role of performance in the articulation of meaning : the case of "Try a little tenderness" / Rob Bowman -- Marxist music analysis without Adorno : popular music and urban geography / Adam Krims -- Jethro Tull and the case for modernism in mass culture / Allan F. Moore -- Pangs of history in late 1970s rock / John Covach -- Is anybody listening? / Chris Kennett -- Talk and text : popular music and ethnomusicology / Martin Stokes.
• Sommario/riassunto: How do we know music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Each of these essays, written by leading writers on popular music, is analytical in some sense, but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The books presents a wide range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy listening, Turkish Arabesk) and deals with issues as broad as methodology, modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication. It aims to encourage listeners to think more seriously about the 'social' consequences of the music they spend time with and is the first collection of such essays to incorporate contextualisation in this way.