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.

Topics covered include trauma, political violence, and the memorializations of trauma; how French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s concept of “passage à 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

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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.

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'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.