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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 77–108.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Katherine Borland 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 04-RHR 84 Borland.btw 9/12/02 2:27 PM Page 77 Marimba: Dance of the Revolutionaries, Dance of the Folk Katherine Borland In the wake of the 1979...
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 109.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Karl Hagstrom Miller 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 05-RHR 84 Reflections.btw 9/12/02 2:28 PM Page 109 REFLECTIONS Reflections on the Folk Karl Hagstrom Miller Keeping with our theme...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 127–138.
Published: 01 May 2010
... interchangeable concepts like “country folks,” “farmers,” and “frontier dwellers,” and (2) constructed and articulated together technical apparatuses of electricity, an old/new category of rural space, and an old/new category of rural population. More specifically, rural electrification produced the rural...
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (113): 143–154.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of an intimate knowledge of petty crime, criminal episodes embedded in folk memory, and gruesome sensationalism. This essay argues that in this mix of objects evoking technological modernity and empirical knowledge of the “other side” of social reality lies a critical claim to intellectual superiority...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 75–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
... from the heteronormative able-bodied ideal of militancy—gay men, women, trans folk and those with disabilities—used the futurist, universal, and self-developmental aspects of the New Man to reject exclusionary leftist politics. Furthermore, the New Man as an aspirational yet abstract goal enabled...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (106): 137–161.
Published: 01 January 2010
... analysis of the production and reception of two popular photobooks, one by Weimar photographer August Sander ( The Face of Our Time ), and the other by Nazi photographer Erna Lendvai-Dircksen ( German Folk Faces ), reveals the degree to which both progressive and reactionary factions relied on photography...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 83–104.
Published: 01 January 2009
... to offer alternative explanations of the various kinds of violence that have emerged (epistemological and actually existing) among black folk here and there. Ultimately, I argue that the classed and gendered dimensions of state projects are entangled and that this entanglement is both reproduced...
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Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 1. In the wake of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the negative media representations of him, young black folks began posting twinned images of themselves, one respectable (e.g., in graduation caps and military uniforms) and another that tapped into stereotypes More
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 119–123.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Daniel Walkowitz 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 08-RHR 84 Walkowitz.btw 9/12/02 2:30 PM Page 119 REFLECTIONS Patrolling the Boundaries Daniel Walkowitz My present research on folk dance...
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2002
...,” the manager retorts, “I’m looking for old-timey material. Folks can’t seem to get enough of it.” In an abrupt turn, the convicts reply that they can deliver the goods: “We ain’t really Negroes, all except for our accompanist.” They sing their song and get paid...
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Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 63–78.
Published: 01 October 1986
..., and a commitment to folk music and Communism. Neither big names in show business nor political leaders on the left, as a group they demonstrate aspects of a rank-and-file commitment to Communism which, until recently, have received little attention. People’s Songs had no formal ties with the Communist...
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 124–136.
Published: 01 October 2002
... the diverse folk cultures of New York City. References to Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett dotted our conversation. A longtime colleague and pioneer of the urban folklore movement, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has challenged nostalgic ten- dencies among folklorists...
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 110–114.
Published: 01 October 2002
... perplexed when the first call for papers for a special issue on “The Uses of the Folk” circulated on-line. “Haven’t we worked on this topic since the 1960s?” they asked, and they followed that query up with a sardonic obser- vation that, once again, the labors...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 209–221.
Published: 01 January 2008
... formation had completely disappeared, as had the circumstances and motivations that first gave rise to GLAAD. At one point in the speech, Garry went so far as to say that the “folks who founded GLAAD back in 1985 probably did not consider themselves activists either but rather just a group...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 97–118.
Published: 01 May 2007
... while suppressing a landmark African American visual performance. This is a case study of the cultural politics of Atlanta, the vested interests of the fine art and folk art worlds, and, most of all, of the performative power of art exhibitions themselves. In Atlanta, the experiential knowledge...
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 43–76.
Published: 01 October 2002
... years. As Britain’s first concerted attempt at a “folk” museum,3 the London Museum elevated everyday objects—what James Deetz has referred to as “the small things forgotten” of household life—to prized museum artifacts.4 As the leading radical...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 182–187.
Published: 01 January 1994
... to exhibit European-influ- enced art, but rather that it intentionally excludes "folk art." The motives here were not consciously bad, for the exhibition clearly strives to prove that Latin American art is not "just" folk art. But here is where the Eurocentricism enters with a vengeance, for real...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 183–187.
Published: 01 January 1994
... to exhibit European-influ- enced art, but rather that it intentionally excludes "folk art." The motives here were not consciously bad, for the exhibition clearly strives to prove that Latin American art is not "just" folk art. But here is where the Eurocentricism enters with a vengeance, for real...
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Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (45): 181–185.
Published: 01 October 1989
... Top (Virginia) Folk Festival-Whisnant argues that the effects of cultural intervention in Appalachia have proven as pronounced and corrosive as the physical trans- formation of the land. While timber, coal, and railroad companies, most of them with north- eastern home addresses, were...
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Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (81): 153–161.
Published: 01 October 2001
... Entertainment Group, Inc., 2000. The years immediately following World War II were difficult ones for Woody Guthrie. The once rich folk music scene in New York City all but disappeared. His recording career ended. His second and third marriages...