Debt And Redemption In The Blues
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Debt And Redemption In The Blues
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Author : Julia Simon
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2023-04-18
Debt And Redemption In The Blues written by Julia Simon and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-18 with Music categories.
This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come. Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-Reconstruction South, Jim Crow America, and the civil rights era, Julia Simon finds a deep symbolism in the lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal. The blues calls out and indicts the tangled web of deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Surveying blues music from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century, Simon’s analyses focus on economic relations, such as sharecropping, house contract sales, debt peonage, criminal surety, and convict lease. She demonstrates how the music reflects this exploitative economic history and how it is shaped by commodification under racialized capitalism. As Simon assesses the lyrics, technique, and styles of a wide range of blues musicians, including Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, B. B. King, Albert Collins, and Kirk Fletcher, she argues forcefully that the call for racial justice is at the heart of the blues. A highly sophisticated interpretation of the blues tradition steeped in musicology, social history, and critical-cultural hermeneutics, Debt and Redemption not only clarifies blues as an aesthetic tradition but, more importantly, proves that it advances a theory of social and economic development and change.
Theology And The Blues
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Author : Justin McLendon
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-12-15
Theology And The Blues written by Justin McLendon and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-15 with Music categories.
While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a genre of music born from suffering. The great Mississippi Delta bluesman, Muddy Waters, once said, "The blues was born behind a mule." Behind a beast of burden, the working man found in the blues a way to console the everyday experiences of struggle, sin, loss, despair, love, grief, sin, death, and the fear and hope of crossing the River Jordan into eternal life. The church's gospel songbook explores doctrinal foundations set to music, but the blues dares to uncover insight into the lived experiences of spiritual journeys. Theology and the Blues showcases theological themes inherent within the organic and expressive genre of the blues.
Journal Of The Senate Of The General Assembly Of The State Of South Carolina
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Author : South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Journal Of The Senate Of The General Assembly Of The State Of South Carolina written by South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with South Carolina categories.
Journal Of The Senate Of The General Assembly Of The State Of South Carolina
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Journal Of The Senate Of The General Assembly Of The State Of South Carolina written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with South Carolina categories.
Journal Of The Senate Of The State Of South Carolina Being The Sessions Of
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Author : South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Journal Of The Senate Of The State Of South Carolina Being The Sessions Of written by South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with South Carolina categories.
Working For Debt
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Author : Simon Bittmann
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-08-06
Working For Debt written by Simon Bittmann and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-06 with Business & Economics categories.
In the early twentieth century, wage loans became a major source of cash for workers all over the United States. From Black washerwomen to white foremen, Illinois roomers to Georgia railroad men, workers turned to labor income as collateral for borrowing capital. Networks of companies started profiting from payday and property advances, exposing debtors to the grim prospects of garnishments of their wages and possessions in order to mitigate the risk of default. Progressive and later New Deal reformers sought to eradicate these practices, denouncing “loan sharks” and “financial slavery” as major threats to a new credit democracy. They proposed fair credit as a universal solution to move past industrial poverty and boost consumer freedom—but in doing so, reformers, lenders, and bankers limited credit access to the white middle-class constituencies seen as worthy of protection against extortion. Working for Debt explores how the fight against wage loans divided the American credit market along class, race, and gender lines. Simon Bittmann argues that the moral and political crusades of Progressive Era reformers helped create the exclusionary credit markets that favored white male breadwinners. The politics of credit expansion served to obscure the failures of U.S. capitalism, using the “loan shark” as a scapegoat for larger, deeper depredations. As credit became a core feature of U.S. capitalism, the association of legitimate borrowing with white middle-class households and the financial exclusion of others was entrenched. Blending economic sociology with business, labor, and social history, this book shows how social stratification shaped credit markets, with enduring consequences for class, race, and gender inequalities.
Judas Iscariot Damned Or Redeemed
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Author : Carol A. Hebron
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-22
Judas Iscariot Damned Or Redeemed written by Carol A. Hebron and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-22 with Religion categories.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Judas was characterised in film as the epitome of evil: the villainous Jew. Film-makers cast Judas in this way because this was the Judas that audiences had come to recognize and even expect. But in the following three decades, film-makers - as a result of critical biblical study - were more circumspect about accepting the alleged historicity of the Gospel accounts. Carol A. Hebron examines the figure of Judas across film history to show how the portrayal becomes more nuanced and more significant, even to the point where Judas becomes the protagonist with a role in the film equal in importance to that of Jesus'. Hebron examines how, in these films, we begin to see a rehabilitation of the Judas character and a restoration of Judaism. Hebron reveals two distinct theologies: 'rejection' and 'acceptance'. The Nazi Holocaust and the exposure of the horrors of genocide at the end of World War II influenced how Judaism, Jews, and Judas, were to be portrayed in film. Rehabilitating the Judas character and the Jews was necessary, and film was deemed an appropriate medium in which to begin that process.
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The State Of South Carolina
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Author : South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The State Of South Carolina written by South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with South Carolina categories.
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The State Of South Carolina
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
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Form Affect And Debt In Post Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction
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Author : Eoin Flannery
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-04-21
Form Affect And Debt In Post Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction written by Eoin Flannery and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Based on readings of some of the leading literary voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland's recent economic 'boom' and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and contrasting aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory in relation to shame and guilt, and the philosophy of debt, this book offers an entirely original suit of perspectives on both established and emerging authors. Through analyses of the work of writers including Donal Ryan, Anne Haverty, Claire Kilroy, Dermot Bolger, Deirdre Madden, Chris Binchy, Peter Cunningham, Justin Quinn, and Paul Murray, author Eóin Flannery illuminates their formal and thematic concerns. Paying attention to generic and thematic differences, Flannery's analyses touch upon issues such as: the politics of indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of affect theory to understandings of Irish culture and society in an age of austerity; and the relationship between literary fiction and the mechanics of high finance. Insightful and original, Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction provides a seminal intervention in trying to grasp the cultural context and the literature of the Celtic Tiger period and its wake.