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Reading Song Lyrics offers the first systematic introduction to lyrics as a vibrant genre of (performed) literature. It takes lyrics seriously as a complex form of verbal art that has been unjustly neglected in literary, music, and, to a lesser degree, cultural studies, partly as it cuts squarely across institutional boundaries. The first part of this book accordingly introduces a thoroughly transdisciplinary interpretive framework. It outlines theoretical approaches to issues such as performance and performativity, generic convention and cultural capital, sound and songfulness, mediality and musical multimedia, and step by step applies them to the example of a single song. The second part then offers three extended case studies which showcase the larger cultural and historical viability of this model. Probing into the relationship between lyrics and the ambivalent performance of national culture in Britain, it offers exemplary readings of a highly subversive 1597 ayre by John Dowland, of an 1811 broadside ballad about Sara Baartman, 'The Hottentot Venus', and of a 2000 song by 'jungle punk' collective Asian Dub Foundation. Reading Song Lyrics demonstrates how and why song lyrics matter as a paradigmatic art form in the culture of modernity.

Lyric writing (Popular music) --- Songs --- Texts --- History and criticism. --- Songs -- Texts -- History and criticism. --- Songs -- Texts. --- Songs. --- Music --- Music History & Criticism, Vocal --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- History and criticism --- Lyric writing (Popular music). --- Arias --- Ariettas --- Art songs --- Lieder --- Solo songs --- Solo vocal music, Secular --- Songs with various acc. --- Lyric poetry --- Vocal music --- Recorded accompaniments (Voice) --- Poetry --- Popular music --- Musicals --- Revues --- Authorship --- Writing and publishing --- Chansons --- Textes --- Histoire et critique --- Analysis, appreciation. --- Study and teaching.

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Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novelists Patrick Neate and Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ showcases how artistic representations in literature, film, music and the visual arts reflect and respond to social and political discourses, and how they contribute to our understanding of the current (trans)cultural situation in Britain. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of writers such as Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay, Nadeem Aslam, Gautam Malkani, Nirpal Dhaliwal and Monica Ali; films ranging from Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice to Michael Winterbottom’s In This World and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men ; paintings and photography by innovative black and Asian British Artists; and dubstep music.

Immigrants in literature. --- Immigrants in motion pictures. --- Immigrants in art. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Ethnic relations. --- Immigrants. --- Race relations. --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Motion pictures --- Immigrants as literary characters --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Inter-ethnic relations --- Interethnic relations --- Relations among ethnic groups --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnic groups --- Race relations --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Colonization --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Arts and society --- English literature --- Ethnic arts --- Minorities in art --- Minorities in literature --- Minorities in motion pictures --- Multiculturalism in art --- Multiculturalism --- History --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Cultural policy --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Minorities in films --- Minorities in the arts --- Arts --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- MULTICULTURALISME --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- Anthropologie culturelle --- Art --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- AUTEURS APPARTENANT A DES MINORITES --- Artistes appartenant à des minorités --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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English literature is a global affair. Many of the most widely read and critically acclaimed writers of our time - such as Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee or Salman Rushdie - write from diverse literary and cultural traditions in many parts of the world. This companion provides readers with a systematic framework to place and understand these various traditions of writing in English - from Britain to South Africa, from Canada to the Caribbean, from Australia to the USA. It critically assesses recent literary theories of transcultural exchange, and provides introductions to all major English literatures across the globe. To facilitate orientation and enable comparative perspectives, each chapter offers concise historical and political background information, an extensive overview of literary developments, and discussions of representative key texts, dealing with the legacies of colonial encounter, with postcolonial revisions, but also with literary explorations of today's global challenges.

Litterature du commonwealth --- Litterature du commonwealth

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Postcolonial Justice addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in "utopian ideals" of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Law