5 The Voice of the Masses

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Keyword(s):  
The Masses ◽  
The Voice

The Voice of a Transgressive Young Man

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-134
Author(s):  
Machiko Ishikawa
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
New Left ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Voice

This chapter focuses on Nakagami's early writings and a short story titled “Rakudo” (1976). A number of prominent themes feature in his late 1960s writing. These include criticism of Japanese New Left writers, recollections of his “uneducated” half-brother's violence and suicide, and reflections on then nineteen-year-old Nagayama Norio, who shot and killed four people in 1968. First, through an analysis of nonfiction material produced by Nakagami from 1965 to 1969, the chapter profiles two elements that were frequently represented in literary production and discussed in academic writing during this period: the masses (taishū) and loss (sōshitsu). It also provides a detailed discussion on the intertextual relationship between Nakagami's late 1960s texts and the contemporaneous perspective of two Japanese critics. By referencing these scholars' texts, the chapter articulates Nakagami's motives for writing—giving representation to—hidden voices that express a sense of loss. Finally, the chapter focuses on Nakagami's short story “Rakudo.” Through reading this “autobiographical” yet fictional shōsetsu, it demonstrates how Nakagami represents the voices of a violent young husband and the silence of his battered wife.

‘Where are we going?’ International Relations and the voice from below

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER HILL
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Second World

They tell us that the Pharoahs built the pyramids. Well, the Pharoahs didn't lift their little fingers. The pyramids were built by thousands of anonymous slaves . . . and it's the same thing for the Second World War. There were masses of books on the subject. But what was the war like for those who lived it, who fought? I want to hear their stories.Writing about international relations is in part a history of writing about the people. The subject sprang from a desire to prevent the horrors of the Great War once again being visited upon the masses and since then some of its main themes have been international cooperation, decolonisation, poverty and development, and more recently issues of gender.

The Intellectual: Power and the Voice

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-135
Author(s):  
Corey Kai Nelson Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Serving Society ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Intellectual Power

Chapter 4 analyzes the intellectual, as primarily found in the documentaries Useless and Dong. It examines this humanitarian figure and the structures of feeling that are associated with it, which include patriotism, altruism, and a sense of mission, and the desire to save the nation and its people. This chapter is based around the voice – the power of the voice, the class that has it, and its effects. It also examines the “voice” of the camera, which is interpreted as the voice of another intellectual, that of Jia Zhangke, and how it switches from a passive “observatory lens” to an engaged “exploratory lens” when it breaks its orbit around these figures to examine other people and environments. It argues that, in the Reform era, the intellectuals have resumed their traditional role and moral obligation of speaking for the masses and serving society, arguing that this in effect “Others” them, and therefore emphasizes the intellectual’s power in the Reform era in that, although they speak for the masses, they do not share their problems.

4. The populist leader

2017 ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Cas Mudde ◽  
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
Hugo Chavez ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Silvio Berlusconi

A common feature of populism is its reliance on strong leaders who are able to mobilize the masses and/or conduct their parties with the aim of enacting radical reforms. Populism is often guided by strong leaders, who, through their behavior and speech, present themselves as the voice of the people. “The populist leader” describes the characteristics of the charismatic strongman, such as Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. Yet, some populist actors portray themselves as voices of the people by using their gender, profession, and ethnicity. There are three types of populists: outsiders (very rare), insider-outsiders (often the most successful), and insiders (also very rare).

scholarly journals Technokracja i demagogia

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Stanisław Gałkowski
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Voice

A modern society cannot function without experts in every field and without high level specialists. Before any undertaking is initiated, an issue of effectiveness emerges, one which only they may ensure. At the same time, however, it tends to be forgotten that there is no such thing as ‘just effectiveness’; there is only effectiveness in meeting the targets adopted. Technocracy, in itself, does not issue any social objectives. On the one hand, this is in  accordance with the liberal approach, which demands the neutrality of the state; on the other hand, however, it may lead, at the very least, to dangers to democracy, to the possible collaboration of technocrats with a totalitarian government, with this group possibly resorting to populism (that is, to an unthinking subordination to the demands of the masses) and, third, to an attempt to govern on their own by demagogy, making the voice of public opinion subject to its rule.

Singing and Suffering in Africa A Study of Selected Relevant Texts of Nigerian Gospel Music

Matatu ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 411-425
Author(s):  
Femi Adedeji
Keyword(s):  
Folk Art ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
African Music ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Textual Content ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Musical Elements

A major aspect of African music which has often been underscored in Musicological studies and which undoubtedly is the most important to Africans, is the textual content. Its significance in African musicology is based on the fact that African music itself; whether traditional ethnic, folk, art or contemporary, is text-bound and besides, the issue of meaning 'what is a song saying?' is paramount to Africans, whereas to Westerners the musical elements are more important. This is why the textual content should be given more priority. In terms of the textual content, Nigerian gospel music, an African contemporary musical genre which concerns itself with evangelizing lost souls, is also used as an instrument of socio-political and economic struggle. One of the issues that have been prominent in the song-texts is the suffering of the masses in Africa. This essay aims at taking a closer look at the selected relevant texts in order to interpret them, determine their message, and evaluate their claims and veracity. Using ethnomusicological, theological, and literary-analytical approaches, the essay classifies the texts into categories, finding most of the claims in the texts to be true assessments of the suffering conditions of the Nigerian masses. The essay concludes by stressing the need to pay more attention to the voice of the masses through gospel artists and for people in the humanities to work energetically towards fostering permanent solutions to the problem of suffering in Africa in general.

How Civil War Was Avoided in France

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 207-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattei Dogan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Silent Majority ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Key Characters

AbstractAt At the end of May 1968 France has found herself on the brink of a civil war. The role of key characters is observed as in a Greek tragedy. The crisis started in a flamable social contexteture – a significant part of the population have been persistently manifesting deep mistrust of the rulers, the same faces again and again without responding to the aspirations of many social categories. A survey conducted immediately after the crisis by the author gives the voice to the silent majority and shows what could have been the behavoir of the masses in the eventuality of a popular uprising or of a military intervention. The recourse to elections has mobilized passive masses and appears retrospectively as the miraculous solution to avoid a civil war by hushing the active minorities.

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