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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of “popular music” would serve the concepts under discussion with more efficacy. Specifically, the music of Wesley Willis executes such a political/musical act through deterritorializing refrains that are expressed directly through the profane repetitions of musical technology. Lyotard was swift to cite...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 107–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Lyotard and Deleuze and Guattari as philosophical lenses through which to approach the work of African American alternative musician Wesley Willis, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and who made music in part to silence his demons. On the one hand, these thinkers help in “reconceptualizing the terms...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the importance of music in Lyotard (Matthew Mendez's richly documented piece on Lyotard's repeated appeals to the work of John Cage, and Mickey Vallee's intriguingly speculative piece on Wesley Willis). This musical (or at least sound-related) dimension, which cannot fail to emerge once we pursue Lyotard's...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
...” or “participatory journalists” ( Bowman and Willis 2003 ) that reported on the respective events in summer 2005 were among the first to begin offering comprehensive coverage and detailed information, with user-generated content, eyewitness accounts, and cell-phone visuals forming a backdrop to formal news...