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In Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European
Son, Trinidadian-American writer & activist Lesley-Ann Brown
explores, through the lens of motherhood, issues such as migration,
identity and nationhood, and how they relate to land, forced
migrations, and imprisonment and genocide for Black and Indigenous
people. Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over
eighteen years ago, Brown attempts to contextualise her and her
son's existence in a post-colonial and supposedly post-racial world
in where the very machine of so-called progress has been premised
upon the demise of her lineage. Through these letters, Brown writes
the past into the present - from the country that has been declared
"The Happiest Place in the World" - creating a vision that is a
necessary alternative to the dystopian one currently being bought
and sold.
As she travels across the US during the Black Lives Matter protests
and Covid-19 pandemic and then to Trinidad and Tobago to attend the
funeral of her grandmother, Brown tells her own life-story, as well
as writing about race, gender, sexuality, and education, and ideas
of home, family and healing. Both a radical political manifesto and
a moving memoir about finding your place in the world, Blackgirl on
Mars is about what it means to be a Black and Indigenous woman in
Europe and the Americas in the twenty-first century.
Following the development of the German Lied after the nineteenth
century - when it was widely known as the setting of Romantic
poetry to music - this book explores the changing artistic scene in
the early twentieth century, as rapid social, economic and
environmental changes affected German cultural production. The Lied
then faced not only a crisis of identity, but also a threat to its
survival. This book considers the literary and musical ideas that
both challenged and complemented each other as new directions in
songwriting were developed across the modern period. The composers
selected for their relevance in Lieder composition during this time
illustrate not only the diversity of their musical thought but also
a changing approach to the relationship between the poetic text and
its musical counterpart. Hans Pfitzner represents the determination
to maintain established tradition; subsequently, a chronological
progression through the individuality of Paul Hindemith and social
integrity of Hanns Eisler leads to the point where transformation
of the genre can be said to have begun, with Arnold Schoenberg.
With the Lieder of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, the genre arrived
at a point of convergence with the ideals of German modernism. This
study offers new insights into the cultural significance of German
songwriting in the first part of the twentieth century.
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