Tag: Genre

Free Download Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre (Routledge Studies in Popular Music) By Julia Ehmann
2019 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 113833474X | EPUB | 1 MB
Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band’s varied reception in online and offline media. Radiohead’s work combines traditional rock sounds with a unique and experimental approach towards genre that sets the band apart from the contemporary mainstream. A play with diverse styles and audience expectations has shaped Radiohead’s musical output and opened up debates about genre amongst critics, fans, and academics alike. Interpretations speak of a music that is referential of the past but also alludes to the future. Applying both music- and discourse-analytical methods, the book discusses how genre manifests in Radiohead’s work and how it is interpreted amongst different audience groups. It explores how genre and generic flexibility affect the listeners’ search for musical meaning and ways of discussion. This results in the development of a theoretical framework for the study of genre in individual popular music oeuvres that explores the equal validity of widely differing forms of reception as a multidimensional network of meaning. While Radiohead’s music is the product of an eclectic mixture of musical influences and styles, the book also shows how the band’s experimental stance has increasingly fostered debates about Radiohead’s generic novelty and independence. It asks what remains of genre in light of its past or imminent transgression. Offering new perspectives on popular music genre, transgression, and the music and reception of Radiohead, the book will appeal to academics, students, and those interested in Radiohead and matters of genre. It contributes to scholarship in musicology, popular music, media, and cultural studies.

Free Download Lalita du Perron, "Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre: Thumri Lyrics"
English | 2007 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 0415394465 | PDF | 3,7 mb
Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles’ sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century.

Free Download New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre by Martin Shuster
English | November 24, 2017 | ISBN: 022650381X, 022650395X | True EPUB | 272 pages | 1.2 MB
Even though it’s frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappeared.

Free Download The Orphic Hymns: Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation (Mnemosyne, Supplements) by Daniel Malamis
English | December 6, 2024 | ISBN: 9004714073 | True PDF | 684 pages | 3.5 MB
The first major study of the Orphic Hymns as a poetic text to appear in English, this book combines a new critical edition and translation of the hymns with an in-depth analysis of their poetic strategies and generic contexts.

Free Download Re-thinking Travel Writing: The Journey of a Genre
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031561872 | 222 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.5 MB
This book stems from the question that we as co-authors grappled with for the past 3-plus years while in our own periods of stasis during the pandemic: What place does the travel writing genre hold in a post-COVID world? With the massive interruptions to travel and travel writing across 2020-2023 as the pandemic forced us indoors and into isolation, it also raised many other pertinent questions about the practice of and future of travel writing. Part of the prompt for this book comes from the post-pandemic assumption that in an ecologically fraught, less mobile, and more uncertain world, there may not be a place for travel writing as we know it to exist in any meaningful way. We examine the problems and solutions apparent for travel writing as it engages with a period of re-thinking, prompted by the pandemic, though necessary for a plethora of other reasons as well. As academics and travel writing practitioners, with decades of experience in the field, we offer a unique perspectiveon this topic – as we have the in-the-field experience of professional travel writers, and we have the academic grounding to better understand the history, theoretical concerns and contradictions of the genre to provide a more in-depth perspective to our travel writing colleagues. This grounding allows us to access a unique and valuable perspective for Re-thinking Travel Writing: The Journey of a Genre for academics, aspiring travel writers and contemporary colleagues in the field.

Free Download Angela Smith, "The Language of Journalism: A Multi-Genre Perspective Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1501351672 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Language of Journalism (2nd edition) provides lively and accessible tools to understand and analyse the language of journalism. The authors explain how language develops across divergent media platforms, old and new, by looking at the differences across various forms of journalism – including broadcast, magazine, newspaper, sports, radio, and online and citizen. As well as introducing the reader to the principles and methods of discourse analysis and how it can be applied to media, the book addresses the dynamic interplay between the emerging linguistic forms of social media and the journalistic field.

Free Download Faten Haouioui, "Genre Studies in Focus: Transgression or Reconciliation"
English | ISBN: 1036400158 | 2024 | 209 pages | PDF | 1519 KB
This collection of essays aims to revise genre theory and studies. Authors in this volume present and discuss different literary genres in transition. They investigate genre hybridization, transformation, reconciliation and evolution. Therefore, the volume reconceptualizes the theory according to novel texts and contexts in, for example, trans-generic film series, feminine poetry, and Arab women writing. It introduces new generic labels in travel literature and new sub-genres in Maghrebean literature.

Free Download Natasha Artemeva, "Genre Studies around the Globe: Beyond the Three Traditions"
English | ISBN: 1490766332 | 2016 | 500 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Genre Studies around the Globe: Beyond the Three Traditions exemplifies rich and vibrant international scholarship in the area of non-literary genre studies in the early 21st century. Based on the "Genre 2012" conference held in Ottawa, Canada, the volume brings under one cover the three Anglophone traditions (English for Specific Purposes, the Sydney School, Rhetorical Genre Studies) and the approaches to genre studies developed in other national, linguistic, and cultural contexts (Brazilian, Chilean, and European). The volume contributors investigate a variety of genres, ranging from written to spoken to multimodal, and discuss issues, central to the field of genre studies: genre conceptualization in different traditions, its theoretical underpinnings, the goals of genre research, and pedagogical implications of genre studies. This collection is addressed to researchers, teachers, and students of genre who wish to familiarize themselves with current international developments in genre studies.

Free Download Sean Prentiss, "The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: An Anthology of Explorations in Creative Nonfiction"
English | ISBN: 1611861217 | 2014 | 172 pages | PDF | 706 KB
Though creative nonfiction has been around since Montaigne, St. Augustine, and Seneca, we’ve only just begun to ask how this genre works, why it functions the way it does, and where its borders reside. But for each question we ask, another five or ten questions roil to the surface. And each of these questions, it seems, requires a more convoluted series of answers. What’s more, the questions students of creative nonfiction are drawn to during class discussions, the ones they argue the longest and loudest, are the same ideas debated by their professors in the hallways and at the corner bar. In this collection, sixteen essential contemporary creative nonfiction writers reflect on whatever far, dark edge of the genre they find themselves most drawn to. The result is this fascinating anthology that wonders at the historical and contemporary borderlands between fiction and nonfiction; the illusion of time on the page; the mythology of memory; poetry, process, and the use of received forms; the impact of technology on our writerly lives; immersive research and the power of witness; a chronology and collage; and what we write and why we write.

Free Download Emma Baulch, "Genre Publics: Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia "
English | ISBN: 0819579645 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
How popular music structures Indonesians’ social and political subjectivities