SING A SONG OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE. By R. Serge Denisoff. Ohio: Bowling Green University Press and THE SOUNDS OF SOCIAL CHANGE: STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE. Edited by R. Serge Denisoff and Richard A. Peterson

Social Forces ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 572-574
Author(s):  
P. H. Ennis
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Significance

The Shop-Girl Revolutionary in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Local Color ◽  
Literary Naturalism ◽  
Public House ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Marginal Characters

Abstract This essay argues that the complex political resonances of Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1886) can be further elucidated through closer critical attention to one of its more marginal characters, the shop-girl Millicent Henning. Ebullient, assertive, and, for many early reviewers, the novel's sole redeeming feature, Millicent supplies the novel with far more than local color. Instead, James seizes on a sexual persona already well established within literary naturalism and popular culture alike to explore a rival mode of insurrection to that more obviously offered elsewhere. While the modes of revolution contemplated by Hyacinth Robinson and his comrades in the Sun and Moon public house are revealed to be anachronistic and ineffectual, Millicent's canny manipulation of her sexuality supplies her with an alternative, effective, and unmistakably modern mode of transformation. The novel's portrait of ““revolutionary politics of a hole-and-corner sort”” is thus set against Millicent's brand of quotidian yet inexorable social change.

Editorial: Refashioning stories for celebrity counterpublics

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Moro ◽  
Samita Nandy ◽  
Kiera Obbard ◽  
Andrew Zolides
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Ted Talks

Using celebrity narratives as a starting point, this Special Issue explores the social significance of storytelling for social change. It builds on the 8th Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies conference, which brought together scholars and media practitioners to explore how narratives inspired by the lives of celebrities, public intellectuals, critics and activists offer useful rhetorical tools to better understand dominant ideologies. This editorial further problematizes what it means to be a popular ‘storyteller’ using the critical lens of celebrity activism and life-writing. Throughout the issue, contributors analyse the politics of representation at play within a wide range of glamourous narratives, including documentaries, memoirs, TED talks, stand-up performances and award acceptance speeches in Hollywood and beyond. The studies show how we can strategically use aesthetic communication to shape identity politics in public personas and bring urgent social change in an image-driven celebrity culture.

Sounds of Social Change: Studies in Popular Culture.

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 568
Author(s):  
Henry Etzkowitz ◽  
R. Serge Denisoff ◽  
Richard A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change

Sport History and the Historical Profession

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Sport History ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Broad Overview ◽  
Historical Profession

This chapter addresses the paradox that, despite its prevalence in national and global cultures, sport fails to receive due attention from historians interested in the problem of “modernity.” Yet, the history of sport’s rise to its current place in popular culture, combined with its boundedness as phenomenon, serves as a powerful lens on the intersecting processes that historians have identified as the hallmarks of this modernity—economic transformation, urbanization, the invention of “traditions,” and the construction of coexisting and disparate identities, not to mention broader vectors of social change encompassed in the parallel projects of domestic amelioration and the colonial “civilizing mission,” along with their nationalist and globalist or neoimperial successors. The chapter offers a broad overview in the career of sport as reflections of modernizing processes that have long interested historians while suggesting that sport’s history also complicates many of these historical perspectives.

Popular culture and social change in Africa: the case of the Nigerian video industry

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 731-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adedayo Ladigbolu Abah
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change

scholarly journals NEWSPAPER PORTRAYAL OF TEACHERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF TEACHERS IN A BRITISH AND A CZECH BROADSHEET

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Dita Trčková
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
The Social

The study compares representations of teachers in the Czech broadsheet Mladá fronta and the British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, aiming to reveal their possible impact on the level of public respect towards teachers. The methodology employed is critical discourse analysis, combining an investigation of semantic macrostructures and recurrent transitivity patterns. It is revealed that both newspapers call attention to problems regarding the teaching profession, advocating social change and higher job prestige. The social significance of a teacher is enhanced in both newspapers by allocating a teacher not only the role of a transmitter of knowledge but also a moral guide concerned with social issues. The main difference between the two broadsheets is that The Daily Telegraph foregrounds teachers’ wrongdoings, while Mladá fronta highlights teachers’ accomplishments. This seems to be mainly due to the inclusion of a section with regional content in the Czech broadsheet.

scholarly journals Political Potential: The Women of Instagram Poetry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimia Rashidisisan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Media Platform

Introduction The historical canon of poetry is predominantly male. The historical domain of policy making and politics is predominantly male. In the digital age, however, where the means to share or publish one’s thoughts and views is available to almost anyone, the strict gatekeeping of literature and political discourse is no longer upheld. The phenomenon of instapoetry, poetry published to Instagram, is an example of a social media platform being used by women to bring poetry into popular culture, and, by that means, address political issues surrounding womanhood. By addressing issues of female oppression, sexual assault, and race through poetry, female instapoets wield political power by raising awareness about these issues and influencing and mobilizing their young and female demographic to instigate social change. Rupi Kaur, a famous Canadian-Indian instapoet with 4 million Instagram followers, is an exemplar of the intersection of poetry, social media, and politics. Kaur’s female-centred content reaches millions of people and speaks to healing by way of self-help. Through her words and illustrations, readers are encouraged to think about the politics of being a woman today.

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