Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics - 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 Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics write by Mirjana N. Dedaić. This book was released on 2015-10-15. Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The discourses of the post-apartheid South Africa embody symbols of change and promises of new lessons in history. This is the first volume that brings together analyses of a variety of discourses produced in South Africa through which we follow the evolution of transitional processes in the country’s political institutions and in the opinions of its populace. The book offers to the reader a visit to the Parliament, a peek into the internet forums, analyses of the country's official papers and speeches, and the media accounts. Through all these discourses we see the burning questions – "Who Are We Now?" and "Who Do We Want To Be?" – being repetitively examined and identities cross-formed while the country deals with new, post-apartheid challenges, as well as successes.
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe - 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 The Singer-Songwriter in Europe write by Isabelle Marc. This book was released on 2016-03-22. The Singer-Songwriter in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the singer-songwriter is significant and much-debated for a variety of reasons. Many such musicians possess large and zealous followings, their output often esteemed politically and usually held up as the nearest popular music gets to high art, such facets often yielding sizeable economic benefits. Yet this figure, per se, has been the object of scant critical discussion, with individual practitioners celebrated for their isolated achievements instead. In response to this lack of critical knowledge, this volume identifies and interrogates the musical, linguistic, social and ideological elements that configure the singer-songwriter and its various equivalents in Europe, such as the French auteur-compositeur-interprète and the Italian cantautore, since the late 1940s. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of this figure in the post-war period, how and why its contours have changed over time and space subsequently, cross-cultural influences, and the transformative agency of this figure as regards party and identity politics in lyrics and music, often by means of individual case studies. The book's polycentric approach endeavours to redress the hitherto Anglophone bias in scholarship on the singer-songwriter in the English-speaking world, drawing on the knowledge of scholars from across Europe and from a variety of academic disciplines, including modern language studies, musicology, sociology, literary studies and history.
Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History
Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History - 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 Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History write by Joasia Krysa. This book was released on 2015-09-11. Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi—composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist. Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, computer animator, roboticist, inventor, and futurologist. Kurenniemi is a hybrid—a scientist-humanist-artist. Relatively unknown outside Nordic countries until his 2012 Documenta 13 exhibition, ”In 2048,” Kurenniemi may at last be achieving international recognition. This book offers an excavation, a critical mapping, and an elaboration of Kurenniemi's multiplicities. The contributors describe Kurenniemi's enthusiastic, and rather obsessive, recording of everyday life and how this archiving was part of his process; his exploratory artistic practice, with productive failure an inherent part of his method; his relationship to scientific and technological developments in media culture; and his work in electronic and digital music, including his development of automated composition systems and his “video-organ,” DIMI-O. A “Visual Archive,” a section of interviews with the artist, and a selection of his original writings (translated and published for the first time) further document Kurenniemi's achievements. But the book is not just about one artist in his time; it is about emerging media arts, interfaces, and archival fever in creative practices, read through the lens of Kurenniemi.
Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials
Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials - 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 Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials write by Adam Garfinkle. This book was released on 2014-12-18. Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing well, and persuasively, is not only a discipline that can be learned, it is one deeply rooted in the classical arts of rhetoric and polemic. This book introduces the essential skills, rules, and steps for producing effective political prose appropriate to many contexts, from the editorial, the op-ed, and the polemical essay to others both weighty and seemingly slight.
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric - 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 A Companion to Roman Rhetoric write by William Dominik. This book was released on 2008-04-15. A Companion to Roman Rhetoric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture. A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond Comprises 32 original essays by leading international scholars Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth Covers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics, gender, status, self-identity, education, and literature Provides suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter Includes a glossary of technical terms and an index of proper names and rhetorical concepts
