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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
... explores representations of the past from an unusual place: punk rock music and the Canadian band Propagandhi (1986–present). It asks: Can we read history through punk rock? If so, what do we learn? Punks’ treatment of the past should be integrated into how we evaluate public consumption of history. While...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 152–156.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Gabriel Solis Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Stuart Hall was, throughout his life, and no less in Familiar Stranger , a passionate music fan, attuned to music’s capacity to play a generative role in the history of culture at large. And yet, I’ve often been struck by a funny...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 129–134.
Published: 01 April 2020
...” of jazz musicians whose improvisational approach to music achieved a unique sound that laid bare the relationship between structure and freedom. In his view, the new creations of jazz artists bear the mark of what was left behind, even as they destabilized what they left behind (128). Consider Hall’s...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 2–22.
Published: 01 April 2021
... about the instability of racial distinctions, to enact melodramatic fantasies of white supremacy, and to envision apocalyptic nightmares of racial revolution” (“Trying the Dark”). West argues that they did so “by treating Mammoth Cave as a stage, complete with costumes, music, props, and illusions...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... nationalist political purposes, they sought different effects according to their reading of the people on the ground, as it were. She points out that Bharati adopted the emotive language and music of the Saivite tradition to “galvanize the nation to political awakening.” In other words, he sought to forge...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Fantasia , an experimental feature-length film combining animation and Western classical music. Though punctuated with light movements and fantastic characters such as dancing hippopotamuses choreographed to Amilcare Ponchielli’s Dance of the Hours , a dark and foreboding tone pervades the music...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 139–174.
Published: 01 October 2017
... 1952 sum mer "Gospel BigTop" tour.Humbard, an ordained Pentecostal minister, her alded from Little Rock, Arkansas and had grown up in a traveling gospel min istry led by his parents.When Humbard arrived in thismidwesternindustrial hub he was the patriarch of his own traveling music ministry...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 April 2020
... their pamphlet with poems. And that I find as encouraging and as emancipatory as any theory I have read. Poetry is that working upon language and world that unconceals their unseparation. Are those words combined for their music or their truth? The poet Ben Lerner writes: “Part of what I loved about poetry...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., for his part, points to the space between jazz and other forms of popular music in Hall’s writing and thinking and speaking about race and blackness. Class differences and positionalities hover over this analysis as well, never beyond their historical context of course because they are invariably symptoms...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Hannah-Louise . “ Of Jinn Theories and Germ Theories: Translating Microbes, Bacteriological Medicine, and Islamic Law in Algeria .” Osiris 36 ( 2021 ): 64 – 85 . El Hadidi Hager . Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt . Cairo : American University in Cairo Press...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 176–182.
Published: 01 April 2020
... food and drink or a woman and a bed, or mentally, as we seek in music the resolution of a discord or, in mathematics the proof of a theorem” (McCulloch, “Machines” 307). “Theses on Theory and History” is a wake-up call for our viral time. For lest we forget that all critique is immanent...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 208–215.
Published: 01 October 2016
... our tales, 2 11 INTERVENTION Hartman our songs, our music, our expressive flight, our creative m arronage. 16 The beauty ofthis black thing borne ofterror. Such were the resources with which they were endowed and which would enable them to persist and endure. I did not speak of the ways other...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., which is not performed any where except in his critical cranium. Let him see a dance at the Chaumiere in Paris, and his Christian-German soul would be outraged by the boldness, the frankness, the graceful petulance and the music of that most sensual movement:'41 For Marx, Szeliga's abstract...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 April 2012
... "other such favoured pursuits-for ex ample, music and the cultivation of roses" were afforded to the Halders through "generations oflanded leisure" (39). Access to this pleasure gar den, in other words, was granted by Idleness (or Leisure, Oiseuse), who in the dream sequence of Roman ce ofthe Rose...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
...,” and a prevailing New Age hippie attitude is complemented by euphoria-inducing drugs such as MDMA and magic mushrooms. Avner, my neighbor from the outpost, is in charge of the music. He specializes in adding oriental touches to the more customary trance sounds. He and Moshe explained that the landscape around...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 209–222.
Published: 01 October 2021
... 22–24. See also “Sojourner’s Words and Music.” Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee. sojournertruthmemorial.org/sojourner-truth/her-words/ (accessed December 30, 2020). 4 See Fire Lyte ( @incitingariot ). “If a little blond white woman . . . ” Twitter, October 2, 2019, 9:52 p.m. twitter.com...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 200–216.
Published: 01 October 2015
... tures such as punk, wicca and drag, other feminist movements that are at once philosophical, sartorial, aesthetic, musical, and spiritual can offer 212 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT desirable representations of female dangerousness. Such images can pro mote this idea ofdangerousness by playing...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Durée of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music in Liviu Rebreanu’s Ion .” Literature Compass . Forthcoming. Peter Laszlo , ed. Historians and the History of Transylvania . Boulder : East European Monographs , 1993 . Quijano Aníbal , and Wallerstein Immanuel...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of culpability. Now and again, Western men appear as monstrous figures, but much in keeping with the melodramatic form, always as agents of individual evil. Indeed, The Selling ofInnocents opens with a shot of white fingers typing on a computer keyboard, as ominous music plays in the background. The fe male...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of the Strangers ( bi-lisān al-ghurabā’ ), then in Hindi. In other years I have seen Indians with a dancing boy. They were playing a long-necked stringed instrument ( ṭanbūr ), a tambourine, and a vertical flute. Two copper bowls were in the hand of the boy. They wander from one musical act to another, just...
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