Music, Radio and the Public Sphere: The Aesthetics of Democracy

Radio, the main regular medium on this planet, is a dominant mediator of musical which means. via a mixture of severe research, interdisciplinary conception and ethnographic writing approximately neighborhood radio, this publication presents a singular theorization of democratic aesthetics, with very important implications for the research of previous and new media alike.

Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

This publication bargains a well timed dialogue concerning the interventions and tensions among contested and contentious fields, functionality and phenomenology, with overseas case reports that map an rising twenty first century terrain of severe and function perform. development at the foundational texts of either fields that confirmed the performativity of notion and cognition, functionality and Phenomenology keeps a practice that considers adventure to be the basis of being and which means.

The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea (Critical Africana Studies)

The Negritude circulate offers readers with not just an highbrow historical past of the Negritude circulation but additionally its prehistory (W. E. B. Du Bois, the hot Negro flow, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism). via viewing Negritude as an “insurgent proposal” (to invoke this book’s deliberately incendiary subtitle), in preference to only a sort of poetics and aesthetics, The Negritude stream explores Negritude as a “traveling thought” (à los angeles Edward Said’s proposal) that continuously crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean within the 20th century: from Harlem to Haiti, Haiti to Paris, Paris to Martinique, Martinique to Senegal, and on and on without end.

Why Are We Attracted to Sad Music?

During this publication, views in psychology, aesthetics, background and philosophy are drawn upon to survey the worth given to unhappy track via human societies all through historical past and this present day. Why will we love hearing tune that makes us cry? This secret has wondered philosophers for hundreds of years and has a tendency to defy conventional versions of feelings.