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Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of the local for cultural brokers in West Africa even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication It highlights the contribution of foreign and indigenous languages of wider communication to the formation of the new alliances and sodalities that are testing the relevance of locality and reshaping the concept of local culture in West Africa The author traces the role of discourse about language in West African identity politics from the cultural nationalists of the early 20th century to the religious transnationals of the contemporary period Using examples from video film popular literature the activity of religious associations and educational practice this book seeks to advance our understanding of the varied functions of nonnative languages in multilingual societies
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Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular The language question was one of the great intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century but it has since acquired a reputation as a dead end for narrow nationalism This book returns to the language question from a fresh perspective Instead of asking whether language matters The TongueTied Imagination explores how the language question itself came to matter Focusing on the case of Senegal Warner investigates the intersection of French and Wolof Drawing on extensive archival research and an understudied corpus of novels poetry and films in both languages as well as educational projects and popular periodicals the book traces the emergence of a politics of language from colonization through independence to the era of neoliberal development Warner reads the francophone works of wellknown authors such as Léopold Senghor Ousmane Sembène Mariama Bâ and Boubacar Boris Diop alongside the more overlooked Woloflanguage works with which they are in dialogueRefusing to see the turn to vernacular languages only as a form of nativism The TongueTied Imagination argues that the language question opens up a fundamental struggle over the nature and limits of literature itself Warner reveals how language debates tend to pull in two directions first they weave vernacular traditions into the normative patterns of world literature but second they create space to imagine how literary culture might be configured otherwise Drawing on these insights Warner brilliantly rethinks the terms of world literature and charts a renewed practice of literary comparison
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In the first decades of the twentieth century rural populations throughout Europe changed the language they used in everyday life abandoning their traditional vernacularssuch as French patois local Italian dialects and the Irish languagein favor of major metropolitan languages such as French Italian and English nbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp nbspnbsp In this book Barry McCrea argues that the sudden linguistic homogenization of the European countryside was a key impulse in the development of literary modernism The decline of rural vernaculars caused these languages to become the objects of powerful longings and projections Seán Ó Ríordáin in Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages for use as private idioms of poetry the revivalist idealization of Irish as a lost utopian language deeply affected the work of James Joyce the disappearing dialects of northern France seemed to Marcel Proust to offer an escape from time itself nbsp Drawing on a broad range of linguistic and cultural examples to present a major reevaluation of the sources and meanings of European literary modernism Barry McCrea shows how metropolitan literary culture was fundamentally shaped by the vanishing vernaculars of the European countryside
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Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular The language question was one of the great intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century but it has since acquired a reputation as a dead end for narrow nationalism This book returns to the language question from a fresh perspective Instead of asking whether language matters The TongueTied Imagination explores how the language question itself came to matter Focusing on the case of Senegal Warner investigates the intersection of French and Wolof Drawing on extensive archival research and an understudied corpus of novels poetry and films in both languages as well as educational projects and popular periodicals the book traces the emergence of a politics of language from colonization through independence to the era of neoliberal development Warner reads the francophone works of wellknown authors such as Léopold Senghor Ousmane Sembène Mariama Bâ and Boubacar Boris Diop alongside the more overlooked Woloflanguage works with which they are in dialogueRefusing to see the turn to vernacular languages only as a form of nativism The TongueTied Imagination argues that the language question opens up a fundamental struggle over the nature and limits of literature itself Warner reveals how language debates tend to pull in two directions first they weave vernacular traditions into the normative patterns of world literature but second they create space to imagine how literary culture might be configured otherwise Drawing on these insights Warner brilliantly rethinks the terms of world literature and charts a renewed practice of literary comparison
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Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of the local for cultural brokers in West Africa even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication It highlights the contribution of foreign and indigenous languages of wider communication to the formation of the new alliances and sodalities that are testing the relevance of locality and reshaping the concept of local culture in West Africa The author traces the role of discourse about language in West African identity politics from the cultural nationalists of the early 20th century to the religious transnationals of the contemporary period Using examples from video film popular literature the activity of religious associations and educational practice this book seeks to advance our understanding of the varied functions of nonnative languages in multilingual societies
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Four Parts No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular barbershopstyle close harmony has played in American musical history in American life and in the American imagination Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian fourpart close harmony in the 1830s Averill traces the popularity of this musical form in minstrel shows black recreational singing vaudeville early recordings and in the barbershop revival of the 1930s In his exploration of barbershop Averill uncovers a rich musical traditiona hybrid of black and white cultural forms practiced by amateurs and part of a mythologized vision of smalltown American life Barbershop harmony played a central and overlooked role in the panorama of American music Averill demonstrates that the barbershop revival was part of a depressionera neoVictorian revival spurred on by insecurities of economic and social change Contemporary barbershop singing turns this nostalgic vision into lived experience Arguing that the old songs function as repositories of idealized social memory Averill reveals ideologies of gender race and class This engaginglywritten often funny book critiques the nostalgic myths especially racial myths that have surrounded the barbershop revival but also celebrates the civicminded participatory spirit of barbershop harmony The contents of the CD have been replaced by a companion website with helpful links resources and audio examples
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The legacy of radio and the arts has spawned many forms of radical culture over the years from early Modernist notions of the Wireless Imagination and its subsequent vernacular tongues to Acoustic Ecologys call for Radical Radio This contemporary history of radical radio addresses the transformation of this broadcast medium by recent breakthroughs in digital technologyfrom digital streaming to web radio and podcastingpaying special attention to the transmission arts in culture and politics It includes creative and critical essays by historians media theorists radio producers and activists coupled with artistic and audio projects by current avantgardists Kabir Carter Brandon LaBelle James Sey and others While Modern radio stitched together an electronic network by expanding outward todays radio may fulfill Marshall McLuhans idea of the global extended nervous system by networking individual lives on more of a cellular level According to the authors radio is no longer out there in the ether but inside us transmitting intense stratifications of culture Comes with audio CD
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Four Parts No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular barbershopstyle close harmony has played in American musical history in American life and in the American imagination Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian fourpart close harmony in the 1830s Averill traces the popularity of this musical form in minstrel shows black recreational singing vaudeville early recordings and in the barbershop revival of the 1930s In his exploration of barbershop Averill uncovers a rich musical traditiona hybrid of black and white cultural forms practiced by amateurs and part of a mythologized vision of smalltown American life Barbershop harmony played a central and overlooked role in the panorama of American music Averill demonstrates that the barbershop revival was part of a depressionera neoVictorian revival spurred on by insecurities of economic and social change Contemporary barbershop singing turns this nostalgic vision into lived experience Arguing that the old songs function as repositories of idealized social memory Averill reveals ideologies of gender race and class This engaginglywritten often funny book critiques the nostalgic myths especially racial myths that have surrounded the barbershop revival but also celebrates the civicminded participatory spirit of barbershop harmony The contents of the CD have been replaced by a companion website with helpful links resources and audio examples
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This book draws together the many strands of folk art from across Europe exploring the vernacular traditions of these artefacts which have been created from local resources and influenced by regional styles They reveal the imagination spirit and ingenuity of the untrained although often skilled artists craftsmen and craftswomen who made them
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The Essential Charles Bruce explores the clear direct verse and vernacular imagination of Maritime poet Charles Bruce whose practical nononsense lyrics audaciously eschewed the trappings of modernist poetry
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The legacy of radio and the arts has spawned many forms of radical culture over the years from early Modernist notions of the Wireless Imagination and its subsequent vernacular tongues to Acoustic Ecologys call for Radical Radio This contemporary history of radical radio addresses the transformation of this broadcast medium by recent breakthroughs in digital technologyfrom digital streaming to web radio and podcastingpaying special attention to the transmission arts in culture and politics It includes creative and critical essays by historians media theorists radio producers and activists coupled with artistic and audio projects by current avantgardists Kabir Carter Brandon LaBelle James Sey and others While Modern radio stitched together an electronic network by expanding outward todays radio may fulfill Marshall McLuhans idea of the global extended nervous system by networking individual lives on more of a cellular level According to the authors radio is no longer out there in the ether but inside us transmitting intense stratifications of culture Comes with audio CD
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