An "Idle Singer" and his audience
Author: Delbert R. Gardner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-07-24
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 3111632539
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William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics
Author: Bradley J. Macdonald
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-12-15
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1666976059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile William Morris (1834-1896) is generally considered one of the most important cultural and political figures of late Victorian England, there is avid disagreement on the way in which we can understand the interconnections between his aesthetic commitments (as a celebrated poet and decorative artist influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism) and his later revolutionary socialist advocacy. As opposed to dominant interpretations within Morris scholarship, Bradley J. Macdonald argues for the importance of understanding the role a “critical notion of beauty” had in moving Morris toward a theory of socialism that took seriously the way in which desire, pleasure, and “beauty” (as applied to all externals of human life, not just art works) could be regenerated only through radical transformations in socioeconomic life. Consequently , William Morris's development represents an interesting example of cultural politics. Given this genealogy, Macdonald clarifies, Morris’s mature political theory incorporated a very important commitment to not just economic justice, but also, among other distinctive applications ; ecological sustainability, making him one of the first eco-socialist theorists within the Western tradition, and also an early proponent of what is today known as “degrowth communism.”
Notes on the Piano
Author: Ernst Bacon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0486483665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis easy, entertaining read by a distinguished musician and teacher is suitable for players at all levels. Topics include "The Performer," "The Learner," "The Player and Writer," "The Observer," and "Technically Speaking."
Epic Singers and Oral Tradition
Author: Albert Bates Lord
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1501731920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlbert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and on the theoretical writings of Milman Parry, Lord concentrates on the singers and their art as manifested in texts of performance. In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues. Individual chapters discuss aspects of the Homeric poems, South Slavic oral-traditional epics, the songs of Avdo Metedovic, Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon poetry, the medieval Greek Digenis Akritas and other medieval epics, central Asiatic and Balkan epics, the Finnish Kalevala, and the Bulgarian oral epic. The work of one of the most respected scholars of his generation, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of myth and folklore, classicists, medievalists, Slavists, comparatists, literary theorists, and anthropologists.
Speaker and Audience Participants in Micah
Author: Kenneth Wayne Shoemaker
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConrad Veidt, Demon of the Silver Screen
Author: Sabine Schwientek
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2023-06-16
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1476649170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. His legendary performance in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1919/20) earned him the epithet "Demon of the Screen" and made Veidt an international star. To this day, Veidt is considered an icon of early horror film. He showed his acting range in more than a hundred films, among them masterpieces such as The Indian Tomb (1921), Orlac's Hands (1924), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and Casablanca (1942). Conrad Veidt used his acting career to become socially and politically involved, starting with the film Anders als die Anderen, the first film to advocate homosexual rights, in 1919. After the Nazis came to power, he left Germany to protest anti-Semitism and Nazi rule. Along with his biography, this book provides insights into the development of filmmaking from its beginnings through the 1940s, an epoch of cinematic art marked by technical innovations like sound and color film and by world-shaking events, including two world wars.
Broadcasting the Faith
Author: Michael E. Pohlman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1725290847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBroadcasting the Faith tells the riveting story of the American church's embrace of radio in the early decades of the twentieth century. By investigating major radio personalities like Walter Maier, Aimee Semple McPherson, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and Charles Fuller, this study considers the implications for theology in America when Christianity moved to the airwaves. In the heyday of radio, religious-radio preachers sought to use their programs to counter the secularization of American culture. Ultimately, however, their programs contributed to secularization by accelerating changes already evident in both the conservative and liberal streams of American Christianity. To reach a vast American audience, radio preachers transformed their sectarian messages into a religion more suitable to the masses, thereby altering the very religion it aimed to preserve. To make religion accessible to large and diverse audiences, radio preachers accommodated their messages in ways suited to the medium of radio. Although religious-radio preachers set forth to advance the influence of religion in American society, their choice to limit theological substance ironically promoted the secularization of the American church.
