A folklore approach of modern and contemporary expressions of the ecclesiastical popular arts in Greece

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.G. Varvounis ◽  
N. Macha-Bizoumi
Keyword(s):  
Popular Arts

The ‘Chocolate Arabesques’ of Josephine Baker: Fitzgerald and Jazz Dance

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Jade Broughton Adams
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Short Story ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Popular Arts ◽  
Josephine Baker

This chapter shows how Fitzgerald often associates modern dance with the primitive. Fitzgerald’s engagement with African American culture is complex, and though the appropriation of African American culture for profit is punished in certain stories, Fitzgerald’s engagement with black culture is elsewhere more challenging. This chapter explores how performative identity (that is to say, the deliberate, theatrical presentation of inner traits) functions at the level of both form and content in the story ‘Babylon Revisited’, using the appearance of the dancer Josephine Baker’s ‘chocolate arabesques’ as a platform from which to explore how people perform identity. Fitzgerald prizes authenticity as the key attribute of any artist, dancer, or writer. In the story, Baker is berated for an inauthentic performance, merely delivering her routine without improvisation. This chapter argues that this sense of inauthentic artistry informed Fitzgerald’s self-conception as a popular short storyist. In Baker, Fitzgerald presents an artist who has bridged the ‘high’ and popular arts: ballet and cabaret. Fitzgerald sets up jazz dance as formulaic by satirising blind adherence to rules and fashions, and this chapter offers a reading of these rules as a metaphor for the short story conventions within which Fitzgerald toiled as a commercial short storyist.

In Defence of Popular Arts

Aesthetics ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 398-404
Author(s):  
Richard Shusterman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Arts

The Aesthetics of the Popular Arts

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Popular Arts

The manipulations of time: On the temporal embeddedness of urban insecurity

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 836-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E Agbiboa
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
Popular Arts ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The City ◽  
Structure Of Everyday Life

Turning the table on Henri Lefebvre’s argument that the structure of everyday life is closely associated with the non-accumulative routing of cyclical or immanent time whereas it lags behind the forward-moving linear or transcendent time, I argue that cyclical and linear time are in fact intertwined in lived reality and popular imagination. This suggests that the ebb and flow of time cannot be grasped in rigidly binary terms such as the opposition of cyclical and linear time. Interrogating popular arts like the entextualised slogans painted on the mobile bodies of commercial minibus-taxis ( danfos) and tricycles ( keke napeps) in Nigeria’s – and in fact, sub-Saharan Africa’s – most populous city, I argue that the interaction of these seemingly conflicting representations of time affects and ultimately shapes the grounds of our meaning(lessness), (in)security and being-in-the-city. At these interfaces and interstices of conflicting notions of time, and in the interchange between familiar and unfamiliar termini, a powerful sense of unknown (or future) time can emerge, which in turn reinforces the need for a more experimental re-positioning and re-orientation in everyday urban life.

The Aesthetics of The Popular Arts

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-364
Author(s):  
ABRAHAM KAPLAN
Keyword(s):  
Popular Arts
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