Fabricating Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fabricating Pleasure write by Karin A. Wurst. This book was released on 2005. Fabricating Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces how the German middle class created a unique form of domestic culture that fused consumption with high culture in fashionable forms of entertainment. Entertainment, defined as occasions for creating pleasure, added an important dimension to the lifestyle and self-definition of the German middle class around the turn of the nineteenth century. Modern forms of culture and consumption appearing around this time not only enhanced pleasure in physical sensations but also enabled imaginary sensations in the absence of actual stimuli. Desiring, rather than having, became an important mode of cultural consumption, linking products and practices with self-image, serving to express social identity in an increasingly more anonymous society--a society where the modern freedom of choice brought with it a loss of tradition and the stability attached to it. Fabricating Pleasure traces the creation of this unique form of domestic culture, showing how the bourgeoisie of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Germany fused consumption with high culture. Author Karin Wurst illuminates the sociohistorical context and the emergence of the modern middle class, its differentiation, and its conception of culture. In her thoughtful analysis, Wurst reconstructs the roles of Empfindsamkeit (sensibility) and the new love paradigm, examining the change in mentality they fostered through the reconceptualization of pleasure and entertainment. The book also discusses the relationship between print culture (using Bertuch's Journal des Luxus und der Moden as its prime example) and an increase in social mobility. From art and music to fashion and travel, Wurst places these popular forms of entertainment and pleasurable diversion in their social and historical contexts and also shows how they have remarkable bearing on present-day debates on cultural literacy.
Fabricating Consumers
Fabricating Consumers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fabricating Consumers write by Andrew Gordon. This book was released on 2012. Fabricating Consumers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.
An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957, Part 2
An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957, Part 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957, Part 2 write by Pamela Richardson Dennis. This book was released on 2011-01-01. An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957, Part 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Annotation: The Index is published in two physical volumes and sold as a set for $250.00. As America's geography and societal demands expanded, the topics in The Etude magazine (first published in 1883) took on such important issues as women in music; immigration; transportation; Native American and African American composers and their music; World War I and II; public schools; new technologies (sound recordings, radio, and television); and modern music (jazz, gospel, blues, early 20th century composers) in addition to regular book reviews, teaching advice, interviews, biographies, and advertisements. Though a valued source particularly for private music teachers, with the de-emphasis on the professional elite and the decline in salon music, the magazine ceased publication in 1957. This Index to the articles in The Etude serves as a companion to E. Douglas Bomberger's 2004 publication on the music in The Etude. Published a little over fifty years after the final issue reached the public, this Index chronicles vocal and instrumental technique, composer biographies, position openings, department store orchestras, the design of a successful music studio, how to play an accordion, recital programs in music schools, and much more. The Index is a valuable tool for research, particularly in the music culture of American in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With titles of these articles available, the doors are now open for further research in the years to come.
Impossible Dance
Impossible Dance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impossible Dance write by Fiona Buckland. This book was released on 2002-03-04. Impossible Dance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An ethnographic account of gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City. "Impossible Dance is a highly accessible, original and engaging account of the complex and often heavily theorized debates around the body, identity and community. Focusing on gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City, this is the first book to bring together vital issues such as dance culture, queer community, sex culture, HIV identity and politics. Based on four years of field work, the book takes readers on a journey from the streets of New York City into the dance clubs and onto the dance floor. Detailed interviews with club-goers capture their perspectives on how they stage their self-fashioning through dancing. Fiona Buckland argues that such dancing embodies and rehearses a powerful political imagination, laying claim to the space and to one's body as queer."—Publishers Weekly
Companion to Johnson's Dictionary, Bengali and English. Peculiarly Calculated for the Use of European and Native Students
Companion to Johnson's Dictionary, Bengali and English. Peculiarly Calculated for the Use of European and Native Students - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Companion to Johnson's Dictionary, Bengali and English. Peculiarly Calculated for the Use of European and Native Students write by Samuel Johnson. This book was released on 2024-06-01. Companion to Johnson's Dictionary, Bengali and English. Peculiarly Calculated for the Use of European and Native Students available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
