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Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are
inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global
environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with
politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural
Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and
ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers,
documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each
asking a particular question or presenting a specific local case
study about cultural and environmental sustainability. Contributing
to the environmental humanities, the authors embrace and even
celebrate human engagement with ecosystems, though with a profound
sense of collective responsibility created by the emergence of the
Anthropocene. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Michael B. Bakan,
Robert Baron, Daniel Cavicchi, Timothy J. Cooley, Mark F. DeWitt,
Barry Dornfeld, Thomas Faux, Burt Feintuch, Nancy Guy, Mary
Hufford, Susan Hurley-Glowa, Patrick Hutchinson, Michelle Kisliuk,
Pauleena M. MacDougall, Margarita Mazo, Dotan Nitzberg, Jennifer C.
Post, Tom Rankin, Roshan Samtani, Jeffrey A. Summit, Jeff Todd
Titon, Joshua Tucker, Rory Turner, Denise Von Glahn, and Thomas
Walker
Moving beyond the biographical and journalistic approaches of most
writing on Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A. was the first
major work of cultural criticism to situate Springsteen's work in
the broader sweep of American history--the heir of Walt Whitman and
Woody Guthrie, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Springsteen
is an influential chronicler of our society, says Jim Cullen, a
"good conservative" who preserves the traditional values of hard
work, inclusive families, and genuine concern for the less
fortunate. In the new edition to this landmark work, Cullen also
discusses new currents in Springsteen's music since 9/11, notably
his 2002 album The Rising. This Wesleyan edition includes a new
foreword, introduction, and afterword. Must reading for any serious
fan--or anyone who has ever been curious about what all the fuss
has been about.
Based on three years of ethnographic research with Bruce Springsteen fans, and informed by the author's own experiences as a fan, Tramps Like Us is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to Bruce Springsteen and his music and how those attachments function in people's daily lives to create meaning, shape identity, and create community. An insider's narrative about Springsteen fans -- who they are, what they do, and why they do it -- it is also about the phenomenon of fandom in general. The text moves back and forth between fans' stories and ideas and the author's own anecdotes, commentary, and analysis. Cavicchi argues that music fandom is a useful and meaningful behaviour that enables people to shape identity, create community, and make sense of the world.
Based on three years of ethnographic research with Bruce Springsteen fans, and informed by the author's own experiences as a fan, Tramps Like Us is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to Bruce Springsteen and his music and how those attachments function in people's daily lives to create meaning, shape identity, and create community. An insider's narrative about Springsteen fans -- who they are, what they do, and why they do it -- it is also about the phenomenon of fandom in general. The text moves back and forth between fans' stories and ideas and the author's own anecdotes, commentary, and analysis. Cavicchi argues that music fandom is a useful and meaningful behaviour that enables people to shape identity, create community, and make sense of the world.
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My Music (Paperback)
Charles Keil, Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi
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My Music is a first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music
plays in people's lives. "What is music about for you?" asked
members of the Music in Daily Life Project of some 150 people, and
the responses they received -- from the profound to the mundane,
from the deeply-felt to the flippant -- reflect highly
individualistic relationships to and with music. Susan Crafts,
Daniel Cavicchi, and Project Director Charles Keil have collected
and edited nearly forty of those interviews to document the diverse
ways in which people enjoy, experience, and use music.
CONTRIBUTORS: Charles Keil, George Lipsitz.
Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in
the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era,
when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of
hearing musical performance, to the Gilded Age, when genteel
critics began to successfully redefine the cultural value of
listening to music. In a series of interconnected stories, American
studies scholar Daniel Cavicchi focuses on the impact of
industrialization, urbanization, and commercialization in shaping
practices of music audiences in America. Grounding our contemporary
culture of listening in its seminal historical moment--before the
iPod, stereo system, or phonograph--Cavicchi offers a fresh
understanding of the role of listening in the history of music.
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