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Authenticity and subversion: protest music videos’ struggle with countercultural politics and authenticity
No full textSubversive articulations in popular music commodities are as old as the industry itself, from Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’(1939) to M.I.A.’s ‘Born Free’ (2010).Protest songsnot only enable musicians to express social concerns in the public domain, they also shape musicians’ personal narratives of authenticity about themselves, their fans and protesters. This paper analyses how authenticity and subversionare articulated in protest music videos. After Turkey’s 2013 June protests, a number of Turkish and international musicians have used lyrics, images and sounds about and from the protests in official videos. A typical one of these is analysed here. Using social semiotics, I examine lyrics, visuals (Kress and van Leeuwen 1997; Machin 2007; van Leeuwen 1995, 1996) and sounds (Machin 2010, van Leeuwen 1999; Tagg 1990, 1984, 1983) to demonstrate how these are used to articulate not only popular politics, but also authenticity. This extends the theorisation of authenticity and subversion in music and considers music’s likely place in political debates about politics and democracy
Understanding music as Multimodal Discourse
No full textFor many scholars of language, discourse and society, multimodal analysis has come effectively to mean the interrelating analysis of text and image. Definitions of multimodality do of course make reference to other modes including sound, music, taste, gesture or somatic perception, but there has until now been very little attention to the social semiotics of sound within multimodal texts. Multimodal semiotics, and indeed social semiotic treatments of music have been theorized primarily upon the static, and interrelated modes of text and image. Much of this work in multimodality has relied on homologous relationships frozen in time although embedded in complex social life. Whilst we acknowledge that our own role as interpreters of signs changes in different contexts and times, much of the literature of multimodality considers fairly static texts such as posters, paintings or roadsigns. This is one reason why sound, and more specifically music, has not been fully theorized in multimodality and its significant social semiotic power is largely absent from many analyses of important social discourses about power, ethnicity, race, gender, nationalism, to name but a few. Musical experience is today very often multimodal, and has a powerfully affective role in contemporary society, and has inspired a wide range of semiotic, aesthetic and mystical theories of how it makes meaning in people’s lives. Moreover, much of the discourse of multimodal semiotics has until recently, relied upon linguistic models of musical meaning. This book however builds upon a growing interest in the work in this area of key scholars such as Theo Van Leeuwen and David Machin amongst others, who have been working within Social Semiotics or discourse analytical approaches to communication who have been dealing with musical sound as communication. Therefore, building upon this new surge of interest, the aim of this book is to bring together a collection of key scholars working in this area to demonstrate, across a range of distinct contexts, how music acts as a fundamental aspect of multimodal communication. We therefore believe that music and sound are not trivial concerns for scholars of communication and media, but that they play an important role both as a discrete mode in itself, but perhaps even more crucially, in dialogue with other modes of communication such as image and text
Portrait of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
No full textHandwritten inscription: \u27To Skeeter Johnston with high regards and respect - from his friend. Lyndon B. Johnson\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1111/thumbnail.jp
Inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
No full textEngraved: \u27Inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. 20 January 1965\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1096/thumbnail.jp
President Lyndon Baines Johnson and unidentified man.
No full textHandwritten Inscription: \u27To Skeeter and Wanda - my best always. Lyndon B. Johnson\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1069/thumbnail.jp
Portrait of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
No full textHandwirtten inscription: Judge Claude F. Clayton with every good wish for continued success - Lyndon Johnson ; Accompanying letter in Claude F. Clayton Collection Box 32, Folder 37https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cfclayton/1006/thumbnail.jp
Lyndon Arrays Simplified
Get PDFA Lyndon word is a string that is lexicographically smaller than all of its proper suffixes (e.g., "airbus" is a Lyndon word; "amtrak" is not a Lyndon word because its suffix "ak" is lexicographically smaller than "amtrak"). The Lyndon array (sometimes called Lyndon table) identifies the longest Lyndon prefix of each suffix of a string. It is well known that the Lyndon array of a length-n string can be computed in O(n) time. However, most of the existing algorithms require the suffix array, which has theoretical and practical disadvantages. The only known algorithms that compute the Lyndon array in O(n) time without the suffix array (or similar data structures) do so in a particularly space efficient way (Bille et al., ICALP 2020), or in an online manner (Badkobeh et al., CPM 2022). Due to the additional goals of space efficiency and online computation, these algorithms are complicated in technical detail. Using the main ideas of the aforementioned algorithms, we provide a simpler and easier to understand algorithm that computes the Lyndon array in O(n) time
Origins of the Great Inflation
Get PDFThe Great Inflation from 1965 to 1984 is the climactic monetary event of the last part of the 20th century. This paper analyzes why it started and why it continued for many years. Like others, it attributes the start of inflation to analytic errors, particularly the widespread acceptance of the simple Keynesian model with its implication that monetary and fiscal policy should be coordinated. In practice, that meant that the Federal Reserve financed a large part of the fiscal deficit. This paper gives a large role to political decisionmaking. Continuation of inflation depended on political choices, analytic errors, and the entrenched belief that inflation would continue.Inflation (Finance) ; Economic history ; Monetary policy
President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his way through a crowd during his visit to St. Louis
No full textPresident Lyndon B. Johnson makes his way through a crowd during his visit to St. Louis for its 200th Anniversary celebrations. (14 February 1964) [The photographer was T. Mike Fletcher of St. Louis. Original photo number is PHO 66.03.27a
From more to less 'Civil' borderline discourses in mainstream media and government Reflections on Turkey since 2002
Get PDFBetween the civil and uncivil lie 'borderline' discourses where speech that appears civil is laden with uncivil ideas, norms and discourses that normalise anti-pluralist, nativist and exclusionary views. Such discourses are found in videos and websites of far-right groups and in some mainstream media. Here, we argue that Turkey's government and mainstream media use similar discursive strategies. We examine both speeches and media representations of these that represent capital punishment since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's 2002 rise to politics. Analysis leans on Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies to expose how Erdoğan, who transforms from a cautious reformist prime minister into an authoritarian-populist president, has always articulated uncivil ideas cloaked in civility, with uncivility increasing over time. Analysis of lexica and imagery in associated news stories reveal how media normalise such discourses. As such, these borderline discursive acts contribute to a decline in civility in a deeply polarised society
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