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Song and Democratic Culture in Britain An Approach to Popular Culture in Social Movements




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Editore:

Routledge

Pubblicazione: 09/2017
Edizione: 1° edizione





Note Editore

Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences – an expression of celebration, commiseration, complaint and protest. This innovative book is a study of popular and working-class song combining several approaches to the subject. It is a history of working-class song in Britain which concentrates not simply on the songs and the singers but attempts to locate such song in its cultural context and apply principles of literary criticism to this essentially oral medium. It triggered controversy: some critics castigated its Marxist approach, others enthused that ‘such unabashed partisanship amply reveals the outstanding characteristic of Watson's book’. The author discusses the way in which the popular song, from Victorian times onwards, has been forced by the entertainment industry out of its roots in popular culture, to become a blander form of art with minimal critical potential. The book ends by considering the possibilities for a continued flourishing of a genuine popular song culture in an electronic age. It has become a standard title in bibliographies and curricula. Much has changed since 1983, not least in music; but this then innovative book still has a lot to say about popular song in its social and historical context.




Sommario

1. Sounding Off: Aims and Approaches 2. Roots: Industrial Folk Song and Other Song Types 3. The Folk and the Revivals 4. Two Cultures 5. Song and the Reaction to Social Change 6. Song and Work 7. The Dialectics of Oppression and Resilience 8. Towards Criteria for Aesthetic Assessment 9. Introducing Jim Brown 10. The Contribution of Ewan MacColl 11. The Movement: Prospects and Suggestions for a Cultural Policy




Autore

Ian Watson taught British and Irish Literature and Cultural History as well as Literary Writing at the University of Bremen, and still teaches writing in schools and in adult education. In 1994 he founded newleaf Press and newleaf magazine, which he still edits with Simon Makhali and Julia Boll. He is vice-chairman of the Virtual Literature House in Bremen.










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ISBN:

9781138122307

Condizione: Nuovo
Collana: Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music
Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.00 lb
Formato: Brossura
Pagine Arabe: 248
Pagine Romane: x


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