The Pursuit of Intensity

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-294
Author(s):  
Braxton D. Shelley
Keyword(s):  
Music Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
The Third ◽  
Tonal Modulation ◽  
Musical Syntax ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter offers a phenomenological approach to the vamp’s form, arguing that gospel vamps emerge as repetition and intensification become musical conduits of belief. Beginning with an analytical essay on the live recording of Smallwood’s “Anthem of Praise,” the chapter elucidates the interpenetration of compositional strategy and religious expectation in the gospel tradition. Its second section interrogates the phenomenological implications of gospel’s participatory character and analyzes a performance of Brenda Joyce Moore’s “Perfect Praise” by Lecresia Campbell and the Houston Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America in order to clarify the relationship between musical syntax and musical experience—“the gospel stance.” The third part of this chapter weaves together analytical vignettes and theories of repetition, groove, and teleology, theorizing the vamp’s “affective trajectory.” In so doing, this section pays special attention to tonal modulation, “inversion,” and textural accumulation, three techniques that pervade the gospel choral repertory. The chapter’s fourth move reflects on the practice of music analysis, using Kurt Carr’s “For Every Mountain” and Thomas Whitfield’s “Soon as I Get Home” to assert that the chapter’s concern with the way sound is organized provides a deeper understanding of the way musical sound structures believers’ traffic between the seen world and another. This interchange motivates the gospel song’s relentless pursuit of intensity, a quest that comes into particularly clear relief in the chapter’s concluding analysis of Smallwood’s “I Will Sing Praises.”

Analyzing Gospel

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Braxton D. Shelley
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
Musical Syntax ◽  
Communal Experience ◽  
Gospel Choir ◽  
Communal Orientation ◽  
Black Christians ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Invisible

This article presents an analytical paradigm that employs the repetitive musical cycle known as “the vamp” to illuminate the interrelation of form, experience, and meaning in African American gospel music, focusing on music performed by gospel choirs with soloists. I argue that, more than just a ubiquitous musical procedure, the gospel vamp functions as a ritual technology, a resource many African American Christians use to experience with their bodies what they believe in their hearts. As they perform and perceive the gospel vamp's characteristic combination of repetition and escalation, these believers coproduce sonic environments that facilitate the communal experience of a given song's textual message. Through close readings of four canonical songs from the gospel choir repertoire—Kurt Carr's “For Every Mountain,” Brenda Joyce Moore's “Perfect Praise,” Richard Smallwood's “I Will Sing Praises,” and Thomas Whitfield's “I Shall Wear a Crown”—the article examines the phenomenological implications of gospel's communal orientation, outlines the relationship between musical syntax, musical experience, formal convention, and lyrical content in this genre, and suggests that analyzing gospel offers a way of studying how many black Christians come into contact with the invisible subjects of their belief.

The Moral World

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-240
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Insole
Keyword(s):  
Highest Good ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
The Third ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Moral World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter shows how central it is, for Kant, that the concept of God only comes downstream from, and after, the possibility of belief in the ‘moral world’. This moral world is the realm of freedom, wherein autonomy is possible. Only if (deterministic) space and time do not go ‘all the way down’, are freedom, and autonomy, possible. If space and time are ‘things-in-themselves’, Kant asserts, ‘then freedom cannot be saved’ (A536/B564). Only if there is a dimension of reality beyond mechanism, is end-setting, and so autonomy, and the highest good possible. Not even God could achieve the highest good in a universe without end-setting, and without freedom, because this universe would be a sort of ‘desert’ with no ‘inner value’. The sequence of thought we find, both in the second Critique, and in other texts is this: first of all, Kant identifies a need for happiness in proportion to virtue; then Kant identifies the obstacle to the realization of such happiness, which is the mechanistic and deterministic structure of nature; and then Kant moves to the solution, which involves leaning into the realm of freedom, which realm includes God. The significance of the third phase in the progression of thought (the realm of freedom) has not been sufficiently considered, it is argued, when considering the Kant’s ‘moral proof’, and the relationship, for Kant, between morality, the highest good, and God.

scholarly journals School and Sport as “Epistemicic Ludic” in the Abya Yala Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (40) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Alberto Moreno Doña ◽  
David Hortigüela Alcalá ◽  
Bastian Carter-Thuillier
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The Third ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Components ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way ◽  
Abya Yala

The aim of this research is to analyze the relationship between school, play and sport, from a sociocultural, critical and decolonial positioning. In order to do so, it exposes itself to the idea of epistemicide, understood as the way in which modern epistemology destroys its own cultural components and knowledge and imposes Eurocentric criteria in the way of understanding and practicing play and sport. The analysis is divided into three sections. The first shows how the western school has broken into Latin American educational processes. The second section focuses on how the conception of sport has disrupted the playful processes inherent in educational processes. In the third, the interaction between the apparent educational chaos and the playful aspects is considered. Key words: epistemicide; sport; game; Abya Yala; Eurocentrism.

Exile

2021 ◽  
pp. 398-414
Author(s):  
Johannes Bartuschat
Keyword(s):  
Major Element ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Vita Nuova ◽  
Moral Lesson ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter examines the way the poet represents his exile. It is composed of three parts: the first considers the way Dante handles his exile in relation to authorship, and reveals how he constructs his authority from his position as an exile in the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, and his Epistles. The second analyses exile as a major element of the autobiographical dimension of the Commedia. It shows that the necessity to grasp the moral lesson of the exile constitutes the very heart of the poem. The third part explores the relationship between exile and pilgrimage, the latter being, from the Vita Nuova onwards, a symbol of the human condition, and demonstrates how Dante interprets his experience both as an exile and as a wanderer in the other world in the light of pilgrimage.

The Relationship of the Minor Prophets to the Major Prophets

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Steed Vernyl Davidson
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Prophetic Literature ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay explores the relationship between the Minor Prophets and the Major Prophets. It covers three pathways that connect these two sections of the prophetic corpus. The historical pathway traces how the two sections reflect upon a selected set of historical issues and events. The textual pathway examines the exchanges that appear between the Major and Minor Prophets. In the third section, the thematic pathway, the essay provides a look at the way the two sections treat gender and ecology. The essay demonstrates that despite the perception of smallness, the Minor Prophets make significant contributions to the understanding and shape of prophetic literature.

scholarly journals A tríade influenciadora dos espaços residuais: duas perspectivas

Revista Prumo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 144-151
Author(s):  
Karina Martins de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Residual Space ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This paper deals with the relationship between urban residual spaces and fragmentation urbanism, through the triad: functionality, visibility and technical density. Given that the functionality and the urban visibility present in the triad are inherent to the concept of residual space, the third item — technical density — can be considered as a booster of these spaces. This study also considers the possibility of functionality, visibility and technical density being applied by the public authorities, as actions that work the residual spaces and the fragmentation urbanism. This paper does not gleam to generate assertive responses to the relationship of the triad as something positive or negative for residual spaces. Instead, it intends to open the way for the discussion about this topic in the academic and professional spheres.

scholarly journals Harm, Forgiveness and the Subjectivity of the Victim

Philosophia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarosław Horowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractForgiveness is one of the most valued decisions in contemporary culture, although it has been emphasised that imprudent forgiveness can cause more harm than good in human relationships. In this article, I focus on the rarely discussed aspect of forgiveness, namely the recovery of subjectivity by the victim in their relationship with the perpetrator. I divide my reflection into three parts. In the first, I deal with the issue of the subjectivity of individuals in social relations. In the second part I present the consequences of the victim’s experience of harm, which include, first, the evoking of negative emotions, and subsequently the impact of these emotions on the way the victim functions as a subject in the relationship with the perpetrator. In the third part I show how – thanks to forgiveness – the victim regains subjectivity. Furthermore, I address the moral value of forgiveness. I argue that the regaining of subjectivity by the victim is a premise for recognising forgiveness as a morally good act and illustrate that forgiveness – properly defined – does not pose a threat to the good of people creating a relationship with the perpetrator.

… and Climbing Out Again

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Birch
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Inclusive Fitness ◽  
Horizontal Transmission ◽  
Hamiltonian Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Novel Synthesis ◽  
Conceptual Connection ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter lists in brief some of the key claims for which the book has argued. It then provides a conclusion to the book, relating some of the book’s recurring themes to other debates in the philosophy of biology and sketching some directions for future work. The first theme is the relationship between statistics and causality, which is connected to the long-running clash between ‘statisticalist’ and ‘causalist’ interpretations of evolutionary theory. The second theme is the way in which inclusive fitness synthesizes the organism-centred and gene-centred perspectives on evolution, pointing the way towards a Hamiltonian approach to culture that may offer a novel synthesis of agent-centred and meme-centred approaches to cultural change. The third theme is the conceptual connection, due to the importance of horizontal transmission in both cases, between genetic evolution in microbes and cultural evolution in humans.

scholarly journals Peirce’s “Ideas, stray or stolen, about scientific writing” and the relationship between methodeutic, speculative rhetoric, and the universal art of rhetoric

Semiotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (220) ◽  
pp. 221-234
Author(s):  
Gabriele Gava
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Rhetoric Of Science ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper is a reading of Peirce’s manuscript “Ideas, stray or stolen, about scientific writing.” The latter text has been considered to be a key for understanding the relationship between speculative rhetoric and methodeutic. While I agree that it includes essential reflections on the third branch of Peirce’s logic, I will argue that the classification of rhetoric studies that it contains cannot be used to clarify the way in which methodeutic and speculative rhetoric are related to one another. I will first introduce the classification as it is presented by Peirce in “Ideas, stray or stolen, about scientific writing” and list some problems that immediately arise when we identify methodeutic with the rhetoric of science. Then, I will elucidate Peirce’s distinction between the universal art of rhetoric, speculative rhetoric, and ordinary rhetoric. I will argue that the classification of rhetoric studies in “Ideas, stray or stolen, about scientific writing” should be seen as a classification of the ways in which we can obtain different ordinary rhetorics specifying the contents of speculative rhetoric for different contexts of sign use. To finish, I will propose a different approach to support the claim that methodeutic is a subdivision of speculative rhetoric.

From Charisma to Routinization and Beyond

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Sarat
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Thinking ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter argues that the charismatic period of law and literature scholarship and the days when some turned to literature as a template for legal thinking are long gone. It identifies three possible futures for law and literature. One would see the field emphasizing its distinctiveness and resisting incorporation into broader interdisciplinary explorations of law. The second would see the field embedded in broader analysis of the relationship of law and cultural production. The third involves pushing the boundaries of law and literary study beyond the humanities and culture. This law as performance perspective brings literary and cultural analysis together with social studies of the way law performs in a variety of domains. The chapter concludes that the brightest future for the field is one in which the distinctiveness of law and literature scholarship fades so that its contribution to broader understandings of law can be enhanced.

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