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Topics covered include trauma, political violence, and the
memorializations of trauma; how French psychoanalyst Jacques
Lacan’s concept of “passage l’acte” can be used to
analyze the dissolution of social bonds and the emergence of
violence in contemporary societies; and the emergence of
necropolitics, necrocapitalism, Afropessimism, and “Lacan noir”
on the socio-politico-cultural scene. Contributors Gustavo Dessal,
Stefan Ecks, Peter Goodrich, Marina Gržinić, Rosaura
Martinez-Ruiz, Tracy McNulty, Elizabeth Stewart, Calvin Warren,
Anthony Wexler
Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist and
accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an
outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of
her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the
1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth's mother
Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical
influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer and
in 1961 Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic
ballad recordings that brought the family's music and name to an
international audience."Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen" is a
significant memoir of Scottish Traveller life, containing stories,
music, and songs from this prominent Traveller family. The book is
the result of a close partnership between Elizabeth Stewart and
Scottish folk singer and writer Alison McMorland. It details the
ancestral history of Elizabeth Stewart's family, the story of her
mother, the story of her aunt, and her own life story, framing and
contextualizing the music and song examples and showing how totally
integrated these art forms are with daily life. It is a remarkable
portrait of a Traveller family from the perspective of its
matrilineal line. The narrative, spanning five generations and
written in Scots, captures the rhythms and idioms of Elizabeth
Stewart's speaking voice and is extraordinary from a musical,
cultural, sociological, and historical point of view. The book
features 145 songs, eight original piano compositions, folk-tale
versions, rhymes and riddles, and eighty fascinating illustrations,
from the family of Elizabeth, her mother Jean (1912-1962) and her
aunt Lucy (1901-1982). In addition, there are notes on the songs
and a series of appendices. "Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen" will
appeal to those interested in traditional music, folklore, and folk
song--and in particular, Scottish tradition.
A collection of musical transcriptions, song lyrics, memoir,
stories, and lore from a matrilineal line of famed Traveller
balladeers, musicians, and storytellers Elizabeth Stewart is a
highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation
has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the
principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music.
First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of
Fetterangus, including Elizabeth's mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and
her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in
particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961
Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad
recordings that brought the family's music and name to an
international audience. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen is a
significant memoir of Scottish Traveller life, containing stories,
music, and songs from this prominent Traveller family. The book is
the result of a close partnership between Elizabeth Stewart and
Scottish folk singer and writer Alison McMorland. The narrative,
spanning five generations of women and written in Scots, captures
the rhythms and idioms of Elizabeth Stewart's speaking voice and is
extraordinary from a musical, cultural, sociological, and
historical point of view. The book features 145 musical
transcriptions and song lyrics, including eight original piano
compositions, folktale versions, rhymes and riddles, and eighty
fascinating illustrations of the Stewart family. Elizabeth Stewart,
Mintlaw, Scotland, is an outstanding practitioner of the
traditional arts. An internationally recognized singer,
storyteller, composer, and song writer of remarkable ability, she
has performed all over the UK and made several tours of America.
She and her family have been visited by musicians, singers,
folklorists, and journalists for over fifty years. Alison
McMorland, Dunblane, Scotland, is a traditional singer, collector,
broadcaster, teacher, and writer, who over forty years has
forwarded the cause of traditional music in her numerous
recordings, publications, and classes throughout the UK, Europe and
the USA. Her most recent publication is Herd Laddie o the Glen:
Songs and Life of the Border Shepherd, Willie Scott.
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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When alcohol and chocolate fail to fill the gap left by the
departure of her children from the nest Julia, alone for the first
time in over twenty years is overcome with restlessness and a
desire to rediscover the carefree, adventurous girl she once was.
A night spent reading her old travel diaries inspires her to try
and find the first love of her life, the enigmatic, green-eyed
English artist she fell in love with on a moonlit night on a
tropical beach.
Her journey into the past takes this Sydney woman from the
artistic enclaves of Cornwall to the bright lights of New York and
she finds the most important thing to pack after great shoes is the
ability to laugh at oneself. She learns much about art and herself
in the process and discovers that the past is not always what it
seems and that knowing what you want is even harder than attaining
it.
'Catastrophe and Survival' addresses a blind spot in Benjamin
scholarship: namely the way that Benjamin's thoughts regarding
mental space, the mind-body problem, and the individual's
experience of the material object world make significant contact
with post-Freudian psychoanalytic confrontations with similar
issues.
This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has
been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of
Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, the collection
is partly about Germany itself, addressing questions of trauma,
historical memory, politics, fascism, and democracy. The essays
range from investigations of particular art forms such as music and
tragedy to clinical studies of melancholia, depression, anxiety,
and other somatic phenomena that have a symbolic or psychic
dimension. As a whole, the book explores the breakdown of meaning
and the failure of social and political structures, which Lacan
addresses through the category of the Real, and it offers
English-speaking readers a variety of new perspectives on Lacan and
psychoanalysis.
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