Hymns and Constructions of Race

Hymns and Constructions of Race
Author: Erin Johnson-Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2024-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1003838480

Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality examines how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of race. It brings together diverse perspectives from musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, anthropology, performance studies, history, and postcolonial scholarship to show how the hymn has perpetuated, generated, and challenged racial identities. The global range of contributors cover a variety of historical and geographical contexts, with case studies from China and Brazil to Suriname and South Africa. They explore the hymn as a product of imperialism and settler colonialism and as a vehicle for sonic oppression and/or resistance, within and beyond congregational settings. The volume contends that the lived tradition of hymn-singing, with its connections to centuries of global Christian mission, is a particularly apt lens for examining both local and global negotiations of race, power, and identity. It will be relevant for scholars interested in religion, music, race, and postcolonialism.

Sounds of liberty

Sounds of liberty
Author: Kate Bowan
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 152610623X

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists – women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded, inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching, electioneering, celebrating, commemorating as well as striking, rioting and rebelling; and it listens within the walls of a range of associations where it was a part of a way of life, inspiring, nurturing, though at times restrictive. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World Since 1600

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World Since 1600
Author: Karen Hagemann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199948712

To date, war history has focused predominantly on the efforts of and impact of war on male participants. However, this limited focus disregards the complexity of gendered experiences with war and the military. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 investigates how conceptions of gender have contributed to the shaping of military culture, examining the varied ideals and practices that have socially differentiated men and women'swartime experiences. Covering the major periods in warfare since the seventeenth century, The Handbook explores cultural representations of war and the interconnectedness of the military with civil society and its transformations.

Hymns

Hymns
Author: Robert Bridges
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1920
Genre: Hymns, English
ISBN:

Gender and Sexuality in South African Music

Gender and Sexuality in South African Music
Author: Chris Walton
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2005-05-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1919980407

During the past two decades, the study of sexuality and gender in music has become a decidedly mainstream activity. To be sure, music has long been obviously and intimately involved in matters pertaining to relations, both sexual and otherwise, between and amongst the sexes. Its use in courtship is the one that perhaps first comes to mind, this use being probably as old as music itself. This book contains all the papers presented at the conference by the same name.

Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction

Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction
Author: Uffa Fox
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 048614903X

Packed with information, ideas, and more than 300 excellent illustrations, this classic of the genre was written by the father of modern planing sailboats. Most of text focuses on individual vessels.

The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States

The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Author: Prince Brown
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This groundbreaking collection of classic and cutting edge sociological research gives special attention to the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. It offers an in-depth and eye-opening analysis of (a) the power of racial classification to shape our understanding of race and race relations, (b) the way in which the system came into being and remains, and (c) the real consequences this system has on life chances. The readings deal with five major themes: the personal experience of classification schemes; classifying people by race; ethnic classification; the persistence, functions, and consequences of social classification; and a new paradigm: transcending categories. For individuals who want to gain a fuller understanding of the impact the ideas of race has on a society that is consumed by it.