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What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies.

Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociolinguistics --- Africa --- Oral tradition --- Folklore --- Oral tradition. --- Folklore. --- #SBIB:39A2 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Storytelling --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Oral tradition - Africa --- Folklore - Africa

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"In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford breathes life into photographic albums. These travelogues, memoirs, thematic collections, and family sagas embody the intimate preoccupations of their compilers and the great events of a golden photographic age, 1860 to 1960. Langford also traces the influence of photograph albums on the installations, photo narratives, and photo sequences of contemporary artists. Whether dealing with art, museum archives, or the family heirloom, Suspended Conversations bring photography into the great conversation about how we remember our stories and send them into the future."--Jacket.

Photographs in genealogy. --- Photograph albums --- Oral tradition. --- Photography in historiography. --- Photographies --- Tradition orale. --- Photographies en généalogie. --- Photographie en historiographie. --- Social aspects. --- Albums --- Aspect social. --- Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne. --- Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne. --- Oral tradition --- Photographs in genealogy --- Photography in historiography --- #SBIB:309H122 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A8 --- Historiography --- Genealogy --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Photo albums --- Photographs --- Photobooks --- Social aspects --- Fotogrammen: functies, genres, historiek --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- McGill University. --- McCord Museum of Canadian History --- McCord Museum --- Photographies en généalogie.

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Crèches (Nativity scenes) --- Christmas crèches --- Manger scenes (Crèches) --- Nativity scenes (Crèches) --- Christmas decorations --- Crib in Christian art and tradition --- Tableaux --- Bayerisches Nationalmuseum --- Munich. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum --- Munich (Germany). Bayerisches Nationalmuseum --- Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München --- Bayerisches National-Museum --- Bavarian National Museum

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cultuursociologie --- Sociology of culture --- 316.7 --- Culture --- Popular culture. --- Folklore --- #SBIB:309H040 --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Cultural sociology --- Civilization --- Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Populaire cultuur algemeen --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Social aspects --- Culture. --- Folklore. --- 316.7 Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Netherlands --- Popular culture --- C3 --- volkscultuur --- volkskunde --- cultuurgeschiedenis (x) --- Kunst en cultuur --- Book --- Anthropology

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Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk both extended the piano tradition known as Harlem stride and was at the center of modern jazz's creation during the 1940s, setting the stage for the experimentalism of the 1960s and '70s. This pathbreaking study combines cultural theory, biography, and musical analysis to shed new light on Monk's music and on the jazz canon itself. Gabriel Solis shows how the work of this stubbornly nonconformist composer emerged from the jazz world's fringes to find a central place in its canon. Solis reaches well beyond the usual life-and-times biography to address larger issues in jazz scholarship-ethnography and the role of memory in history's construction. He considers how Monk's stature has grown, from the narrowly focused wing of the avant-garde in the 1960s and '70s to the present, where he is claimed as an influence by musicians of all kinds. He looks at the ways musical lineages are created in the jazz world and, in the process, addresses the question of how musicians use performance itself to maintain, interpret, and debate the history of the musical tradition we call jazz.

Jazz --- History and criticism. --- Monk, Thelonious --- Monk, Thelonious, --- Monk, Thelonious Sphere --- Monk, Thelonius --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century american music. --- american music. --- avant garde music. --- biography. --- classicism. --- cultural studies. --- danilo perez. --- ethnography. --- experimentalism. --- fred hersch. --- harlem stride. --- jazz bandleader. --- jazz composer. --- jazz music. --- jazz pianist. --- jazz. --- jessica williams. --- live arts. --- musical tradition. --- musicians. --- musicology. --- neoconservatism. --- nonconformist. --- performance. --- performing arts. --- randy weston. --- roswell rudd. --- steve lacy. --- thelonious monk. --- united states of america.