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Premature Ventricular Contractions as an Underrecognized Cause of Chronic Cough: A Case of Misdiagnosis in a Patient with Bronchiectasis
Get PDFPatient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) in Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing IMRT Versus IMRT with Brachytherapy
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First report of limb anomalies in the Mashpi Stream Frog, Hyloscirtus mashpi (Anura: Hylidae)
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The Hidden Transcripts of the Blues: Subaltern Voices in Blues Music and Lyrics
No full textMusicians are social actors whose lyrics had real consequences. Their lyrics were not confined to rural regions or musical genres. The blues were mobile. The blues followed the same paths that people did, from which the “migration narrative emerges as one of the twentieth century’s dominant forms of African-American cultural production.” Through migration narratives “African-American artists came to terms with the massive dislocation of black peoples following migration. Just as people migrated throughout the country so too did their music. Neighborhoods in New York City became a destination for many black migrants. The residents of Harlem are well known for the contributions of American culture, but their ideas defied geographical and racial boundaries as they traveled across the country.
This project reveals the relationships between songs, performances, society and their history. Music can, and often does, function as a method of protest. But just as often, music reveals the daily lives of musicians and their audiences. Music can foster social movements - reimaginings of original and traditional songs can provide spaces for cultural growth, conversation, experimentation, and audience participation. The songs of blind blues singers exist in multiple forms and contexts and this study will, in-part, rely on elements of James Scott’s “everyday resistance,” and “hidden transcripts,” along with disability studies concepts of otherness, passing, and masquerade. Together, a complex reading of blind blues musicians’ life and lyrics offers a way to analyze both protest songs and leisure songs revealing the radical black imagination as a countercultural moment
The Awakening of W.E.B. Du Bois
Get PDFkeywords: primacy of black feeling, verstehen Sociology, double consciousness, race
abstract: This is an interpretive article that concentrates on the early W.E.B. Du Bois who shaped the wider world\u27s understanding of the Black experience in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Under the intellectual compression of learning and scholarship at the highest level, an awakening Du Bois developed ideas evolved in his youth and early maturity about the primacy of African American "feeling" and its importance in rejuvenating the American personality as well as the regeneration of Africa. Influenced by William James\u27s pragmatism and interest in the paranormal as well as the verstehen method of Sociology learned in Germany, Du Bois sought a humanistic perspective by extending the frontiers of art, culture and spiritual values to fulfill a vision of the Africana great-souled person. As prelude to The Souls of Black People, Du Bois undertook his scholarship from the inside-out. Instead of positing the so-called "Negro Problem" as a problem to be solved in the style of academic Philosophy or statistical Sociology, Du Bois took the point of view of one who lived the strain and stresses afflicting African Americans, sharing their hopes and failures in the search for recognition and respect thereby introducing an alternative to traditional definitions of thought and reality.
