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

Radio, the main well-known medium on the planet, is a dominant mediator of musical which means. via a mixture of severe research, interdisciplinary conception and ethnographic writing approximately neighborhood radio, this ebook offers a unique theorization of democratic aesthetics, with vital implications for the examine of previous and new media alike.

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

This e-book deals a well timed dialogue concerning the interventions and tensions among contested and contentious fields, functionality and phenomenology, with foreign case stories that map an rising twenty first century terrain of severe and function perform. construction at the foundational texts of either fields that confirmed the performativity of notion and cognition, functionality and Phenomenology maintains a convention that considers event 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 presents readers with not just an highbrow heritage of the Negritude flow but in addition 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 concept” (to invoke this book’s deliberately incendiary subtitle), rather than purely a kind of poetics and aesthetics, The Negritude circulate explores Negritude as a “traveling conception” (à los angeles Edward Said’s idea) that regularly 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 ebook, views in psychology, aesthetics, background and philosophy are drawn upon to survey the price given to unhappy song through human societies all through heritage and this present day. Why can we love hearing track that makes us cry? This secret has wondered philosophers for hundreds of years and has a tendency to defy conventional versions of feelings.