scholarly journals Johannes Kerkorrel en postapartheid- Afrikaneridentiteit

Literator ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Music Representations

Johannes Kerkorrel and post-apartheid Afrikaner identity The music of Johannes Kerkorrel (Ralph Rabie, 1960-2002) gave expression to the sentiments of a young white urban generation that rebelled against the autocratic rule of the apartheid government. Kerkorrel’s songs, many of which were banned during the apartheid era, created an alternative Afrikaner voice through biting social criticism and political satire. His politicised narratives evoke collective memories and experiences that construct moral hierarchies by means of an exceptional intensity, simplicity and power. Kerkorrel’s life-story may be read as a continuous textual reconfiguration of identity throughout which an uninterrupted thread of self-remembrance is simultaneously woven. In a society in the process of constant transformation, a speculative theorising of Kerkorrel as a construct of local identity may serve as a starting point for understanding popular music representations of the postapartheid Afrikaner character.

scholarly journals Secret Plots: The False Endings of Dickens's Novels

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-246
Author(s):  
Camilla Ulleland Hoel
Keyword(s):  
Social Criticism ◽  
Direct Approach ◽  
Productive Life ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Our Mutual Friend ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mutual Friend

Oliver Twist does not find wealth and family and live happily ever after. Amy Dorrit and Arthur Clennam never escape the workhouse. And Eugene Wrayburn does not revive to marry Lizzie Hexam and start a new and productive life. This article takes as its starting point the idea that a story can have ‘false’ endings and uses it as a way of approaching the problem of Charles Dickens's plots, tracing Dickens's method in three novels from different periods of his authorship: Oliver Twist (1839), Little Dorrit (1857), and Our Mutual Friend (1865). Dickens's novels are full of plots that should never have played out and are enabled by a series of miracles. Instead of seeing the happy endings as undermining the impact of the novels' social criticism, the article argues that Dickens encourages his readers to see through the simple solutions he presents. The novels themselves undermine their happy endings through overt markers of fictionality and use doubled plots and characters to highlight the starker, more realistic outcomes of the main plots. In this way, Dickens manages to evade the hostility and resistance which a more direct approach might provoke.

Gendered and Censored Modernity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soojin Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the ways in which a juxtaposition of two definitions of modernity are reflected in the two female singers, Yi Mi-ja and Patti Kim, who actively performed in postwar South Korea, particularly between the 1960s and the 1970s. While different social values and cultural practices constituted the modernity of South Korea, most scholarship on Korean popular music gives particular attention to the cultural products of modernity that have been influenced by the West, mostly by the U.S. This chapter, however, suggest that the different cultures from Korea, Japan, and the U.S. together constitute the modernity of Korea. Also, different collective memories from the Japanese colonial experience, the Korean War, and the Korean government-led economic development project shape the ideal form of modernization. Modernity in South Korean popular music shows that the periods between the 1960s and the 1970s juxtapose what the Korean society was facing and seeking at the time. Focusing on the Yi and Kim’s music and their performance styles, this chapter explores how different musical cultures and social values are reflected in their music as a way to construct gendered and censored modernity.

Punk, class, and taste in Desert Island Discs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Webb
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Desert Island ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Uk

This chapter attempts to use popular music as a way of connecting a number of castaways who shared a similar love of punk and post-punk and who described certain experiences that their appreciation of that music had resonance with. The music is used as a starting point to trace the experiences of the castaways to wider sets of social, cultural, and political histories of the UK. Among the castaways chosen are Kathy Burke, Ian Rankin, Ricky Gervais, and Hanif Kureshi. Each of these had a working-class upbringing and Kureshi grew up in a working-class area with parents who had been well off in India before moving to the UK. The choice of music intertwines with their descriptions of economic hardship, domestic violence, and racism but also a developed sense of community, sensitivity, and humanism that illustrates a sector of British life in the 1950s through to the 1980s.

scholarly journals GENERAL OVERVIEW TO DRUM KIT IN TURKISH POPULAR MUSIC DURING THE PERIOD 1970-1980

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (46) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Music History ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Popular Music History ◽  
Set Up

The invention of Drum has been known to trace thousands of years.However, the drum kit came to exist in the early 20th century. Considering its historical development and our country's popular music history, development of this instrument in Turkey is the starting point of this research. In this study, the cults and playing attitudes that influenced the drummers, the location of drum kit in the studio environment, the set up prefrrences in the band with equipments used will be commented by analysing the data obtained via interviews. Within this framework, questions in 4 main topic have been asked to Osman İşmen and Turhan Yükseler, two of the significant arrangers of the period; Okay Temiz, one of the significant drummers of the period; Cahit Berkay, one of the founders of the band Moğollar; İsmail Soyberk, the bass-guitarist; the drummer Mert Türkmen as the representative of Cezmi Başeğmez. In accoedance with the data obtained, it has been concluded that jazz and rock drummers influenced our country, Anadolu Pop attitude was seen in the playing attitudes and set ups of that period drummers, Studio Hayri and sound technician Sıtkı Acim (tonmeister) rose to prominence in terms of studios where drum records were made, Ludwig drums were used together with Turkish brands in equipments. Keywords: Drum kit, drums, popular music, turkey, drummers, drum playing

APPLICATION OF NARRATIVES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSULTATION OF RESCUERS – JFO PARTICIPANTS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH TIME PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
N. Afanasieva
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Psychological Counselling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Joint Forces ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

The article determined the ways to use narratives in psychological counselling of rescuers – Joint Forces Operation (JFO) participants for optimization of their time perspective. Psychological counselling is considered as a special type of a narrative, which have the following characteristic elements related to its deployment – a starting point, localization, beginning, development of actions, culmination, a solution and a code. This structure of narrative deployment is directly related to a time-perspective structure, since its reflects the chronology of events. Rescuers participated in the JFO have a negative attitude towards the past, which is associated with the experience of really unpleasant events and injuries, so pleasant impressions are shadowed and most of the memories are reconstructed into negative ones. Rescuers’ attitude to life is associated with pursuance of joy, excite, enjoy at the present, risk taking without worries about possible consequences of such behaviour. The future life in general is less important than the present and the past. In order to optimize the time orientation of rescuers – JFO participants, we suggest using the elements of their autobiographical narratives during psychological counselling. The autobiographical narrative of each person is a unique combination of memories, awareness of event meanings, feelings and mythology, which all together build an individual life story. An individual history includes all events occurred with a person in the past. An autobiographical narrative includes a selection of events in the context of three time intervals – the past, the present and the future. Psychological counselling for rescuers – JFO participants is aimed at time orientation balancing, which is needed for an individual’s effective life. A balanced time orientation is the most psychologically and physically healthy for a person and is optimal for his/her life in society. Positive changes in the time perspective are one of the indicators of traumatic symptom reduction.

Popular Music and Local Identity

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Steven Feld ◽  
Tony Mitchell ◽  
Timothy D. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Local Identity

scholarly journals A Basic-Systems Approach to Autobiographical Memory

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Clinical Disorders

Memory for complex everyday events involving vision, hearing, smell, emotion, narrative, and language cannot be understood without considering the properties of the separate systems that process and store each of these forms of information. Using this premise as a starting point, my colleagues and I found that visual memory plays a central role in autobiographical memory: The strength of recollection of an event is predicted best by the vividness of its visual imagery, and a loss of visual memory causes a general amnesia. Examination of autobiographical memories in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggests that the lack of coherence often noted in memories of traumatic events is not due to a lack of coherence either of the memory itself or of the narrative that integrates the memory into the life story. Rather, making the traumatic memory central to the life story correlates positively with increased PTSD symptoms. The basic-systems approach has yielded insights into autobiographical memory's phenomenology, neuropsychology, clinical disorders, and neural basis.

scholarly journals Nuta po nucie. Lokalność muzyki popularnej a miejska tożsamość

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (53) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Maciej Smółka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
World Cities ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Regional Specificity ◽  
Musical Heritage

Popular music is an indispensable part of peoples’ lives, shaping not only their aesthetic sensitivity and providing entertainment, but it also has the potential to construct their identities. Often having a strictly local character, it tells stories about regional specificity, creating its image and influencing its perception, while constructing the identity of its listeners. In this context, musical pieces directly related to the uniqueness of cities, some of which are often perceived as culturally distinctive from their surroundings, seems particularly interesting. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the topic of locality in music and its influence on the construction of urban identity. By studying cultural studies’ texts with particular emphasis on the concept of world cities, the research concentrates on the examples of urban centres, where their musical heritage suggests its strong influence on the construction of local identity. Moreover, the issue is extended to the role of locally-oriented artistic works and the ways in which they can build urban identity. The paper also poses the question about the role of music in shaping local identity and the degree of its participation in the process.

scholarly journals KRITIK SOSIAL DALAM TIGA CERPEN DI KORAN MANUNTUNG TAHUN 1980-AN DI KALIMANTAN TIMUR

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Dwi Hariyanto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
East Kalimantan ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sociological Approaches

AbstrakPengkajian ini memaparkan gambaran kritik sosial dalam tiga cerpen yang dimuat dalam koran di Kalimantan Timur pada tahun 1980-an, yaitu  “Nomer”, “Suatu Sore di Pinggiran Desa”, dan “Tatkala Takbir Menggema”. Fenomena sosial di masyarakat dalam cerpen yang dimuat dalam media cetak berbentuk koran ini layak diungkapkan. Pengungkapan  fenomena sosial dalam tiga cerpen tersebut sangat diperlukan untuk melihat kondisi sosial masyarakat di tahun 1980-an karena pada tahun-tahun tersebut dapat dikatakan sebagai awal kemunculan  karya sastra berbentuk cerpen dalam media cetak berbentuk koran di Kalimantan Timur. Metode kualitatif digunakan penulis untuk mengungkapkan gambaran sosial yang terjadi pada tahun 1980-an di Kalimantan Timur. Pendekatan sosiologi sastra digunakan sebagai alat untuk mengungkapkan masalah sosial dalam tiga cerpen ini. Namun, sebagai pijakan awal, penulis akan memanfaatkan struktural untuk mengungkapkan salah satu unsur intrinsik yang terdapat dalam karya cerpen yang dibahas. Gambaran masalah sosial yang terdapat dalam tiga cerpen di atas adalah masalah kemiskinan, disorganisasi dalam keluarga, disorganisasi keluarga, generasi muda dalam masyarakat modern, pelanggaran terhadap norma masyarakat, kependudukan, lingkungan hidup, dan birokrasi. Kata kunci: kaltim, kritik sosial, koran, cerpen Abstract This study presents a picture of social criticism in three short stories published in newspapers in East Kalimantan in the 1980s, namely "Nomer", "Suatu Sore di Pinggiran Desa", and "Tatkala Takbir Menggema". Social phenomena in the society in those short stories are worth disclosing. It is necessary to see the social conditions in the society in the 1980s. It can be considered to be the beginning of literary works in the form of short stories in print media of newspapers in East Kalimantan. The author uses qualitative methods to reveal the social picture in the 1980s in East Kalimantan. It also uses the sociological approaches to literature to show social problems in these three short stories. However, as a starting point, the writer will use the structure to reveal one of the intrinsic elements in the short stories. Social problems in those short stories are poverty, disorganization in the family, family disorganization, young people in modern society, violations of social norms, demography, environment, and bureaucracy. Keywords: East Kalimantan, social criticism, newspaper, short stories  

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