Erika Harris

The Lost Battalion of Platonic Conversationalists

An exploration of Identity formation, Constitutive Rhetoric and Jazz Music

Buch

I argue that rhetorically, music functions constitutively, rather than merely persuasively as previous scholars suggest. The following analysis of five separate jazz songs from the Harlem Renaissance period elaborates the process by which musical lyrics constitute qualities already apparent in their audience members, structure visible cultural identifiers that prompt collective identities, and form sub-cultures. This analysis employs Maurice Charland's (1987) work on Constitutive Rhetoric to examine the collective bohemianism that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance as an identifiable sub-culture, as well as Kenneth Burke's (1969) methodologi… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-3-8473-0594-1
EAN: 9783847305941
Produktnummer: 37793580
Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 56 S.
Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.3 cm 102 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 102

Über den Autor

Erika Harris graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a degree in Political Science and Communication with an emphasis on Rhetoric. She is a life long music lover, and is interested in continuing research in social movements and music.