Tag: Banal

Free Download Bart Barendregt, "Popular Music in Southeast Asia: Banal Beats, Muted Histories"
English | ISBN: 9462984034 | 2017 | 104 pages | AZW3 | 1143 KB
From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life and the societal changes that came with it. Reaching new audiences across national borders, popular music of the period helped push social change, and at times served as a medium for expressions of social or political discontent.

Free Download Banal Nightmare: A Novel by Halle Butler
English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: 0593730356 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1 MB
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, the "definitive work of millennial literature" (The New Yorker)

Free Download David Deane, "The Tyranny of the Banal: On the Renewal of Catholic Moral Theology "
English | ISBN: 1978700814 | 2023 | 290 pages | EPUB, PDF | 583 KB + 3 MB
Catholic positions on contested moral issues are rejected by the majority in the secular West and are increasingly rejected by Catholics themselves. In this book, David Deane argues that there are two main reasons for this. First, the dominance of secular approaches deprives Catholic positions of their claim to coherence. Second, the Catholic positions, Deane shows, have lost contact with the theology on which they were originally based. In response, Deane undertakes a deconstruction of the dominant secular positions, and seeks to restore Catholic positions to their theological roots. The result of this is a moral theology reconnected with the Trinitarian understanding of God and God’s relationship with the world. Restored to its doctrinal foundations, the moral theology that Deane offers is more coherent, more beautiful, and more convincing than has been found in Catholic moral discourse for centuries.