A trilogia de Antônio Torres, formada pelas obras Essa Terra, O cachorro e o lobo e Pelo fundo da agulha, traz em seu corpo um expressivo número de referências musicais. A grande maioria dessas citações apresenta peças da canção popular brasileira que, de forma comparável à trilha sonora em um filme, ajuda a narrar a história. Além disso, essas referências ao universo cancional trazem para a superfície do texto uma série de informações históricas, culturais, sociais e estéticas sobre as personagens, suas trajetórias e os diferentes cenários onde atuam. Em uma narrativa sobre experiência migratória, as canções, manifestação artística amplamente explorada pelos compositores brasileiros para falar sobre esse fenômeno social, servem perfeitamente para ilustrar os diferentes momentos narrados. Para compreender a presença da canção nas obras, o presente trabalho estuda a relação intertextual entre música e literatura e retoma o passado de intersecção entre as artes. A canção na trilogia de Torres é tratada através de sua significação cultural, uma vez que quando uma obra literária evoca a letra de uma canção em seu corpo, uma série de implicações socioculturais vem à tona, o que é provado pela história da canção popular brasileira, pois essa manifestação, no Brasil, tanto quanto a literatura, sempre serviu como modo de entendimento e comentário de um espaço-tempo. / Antônio Torres‟ trilogy, formed by the works Essa Terra, O cachorro e o lobo and Pelo fundo da agulha contains an expressive number of musical references. Most of these quotations of Brazilian popular songs, just like a film soundtrack, help to narrate the story. These references to the musical universe bring to the text a treasury of historical, cultural, social and aesthetics information about the characters, their trajectories and the different settings where they act. In a novel about the migration experience, the songs, artistic manifestation very explored by Brazilian composers to talk about this social phenomenon, fit perfectly to illustrate the scenes shown by the text. To understand the presence of the songs in the novels, this work aims at studying the intertextual relationship between music and literature and recovering the past of intersection of these art forms. The popular song, in Torres‟s trilogy, is analyzed through its cultural meaning, considering that when a literary work brings excerpts from a song in its body, many cultural implications are brought to the surface of the text. It has been proved by its history that Brazilian popular song enables to understand and to discourse about space and time.

A trilogia de Antônio Torres, formada pelas obras Essa Terra, O cachorro e o lobo e Pelo fundo da agulha, traz em seu corpo um expressivo número de referências musicais. A grande maioria dessas citações apresenta peças da canção popular brasileira que, de forma comparável à trilha sonora em um filme, ajuda a narrar a história. Além disso, essas referências ao universo cancional trazem para a superfície do texto uma série de informações históricas, culturais, sociais e estéticas sobre as personagens, suas trajetórias e os diferentes cenários onde atuam. Em uma narrativa sobre experiência migratória, as canções, manifestação artística amplamente explorada pelos compositores brasileiros para falar sobre esse fenômeno social, servem perfeitamente para ilustrar os diferentes momentos narrados. Para compreender a presença da canção nas obras, o presente trabalho estuda a relação intertextual entre música e literatura e retoma o passado de intersecção entre as artes. A canção na trilogia de Torres é tratada através de sua significação cultural, uma vez que quando uma obra literária evoca a letra de uma canção em seu corpo, uma série de implicações socioculturais vem à tona, o que é provado pela história da canção popular brasileira, pois essa manifestação, no Brasil, tanto quanto a literatura, sempre serviu como modo de entendimento e comentário de um espaço-tempo. / Antônio Torres‟ trilogy, formed by the works Essa Terra, O cachorro e o lobo and Pelo fundo da agulha contains an expressive number of musical references. Most of these quotations of Brazilian popular songs, just like a film soundtrack, help to narrate the story. These references to the musical universe bring to the text a treasury of historical, cultural, social and aesthetics information about the characters, their trajectories and the different settings where they act. In a novel about the migration experience, the songs, artistic manifestation very explored by Brazilian composers to talk about this social phenomenon, fit perfectly to illustrate the scenes shown by the text. To understand the presence of the songs in the novels, this work aims at studying the intertextual relationship between music and literature and recovering the past of intersection of these art forms. The popular song, in Torres‟s trilogy, is analyzed through its cultural meaning, considering that when a literary work brings excerpts from a song in its body, many cultural implications are brought to the surface of the text. It has been proved by its history that Brazilian popular song enables to understand and to discourse about space and time.

A trilogia de Antônio Torres, formada pelas obras Essa Terra, O cachorro e o lobo e Pelo fundo da agulha, traz em seu corpo um expressivo número de referências musicais. A grande maioria dessas citações apresenta peças da canção popular brasileira que, de forma comparável à trilha sonora em um filme, ajuda a narrar a história. Além disso, essas referências ao universo cancional trazem para a superfície do texto uma série de informações históricas, culturais, sociais e estéticas sobre as personagens, suas trajetórias e os diferentes cenários onde atuam. Em uma narrativa sobre experiência migratória, as canções, manifestação artística amplamente explorada pelos compositores brasileiros para falar sobre esse fenômeno social, servem perfeitamente para ilustrar os diferentes momentos narrados. Para compreender a presença da canção nas obras, o presente trabalho estuda a relação intertextual entre música e literatura e retoma o passado de intersecção entre as artes. A canção na trilogia de Torres é tratada através de sua significação cultural, uma vez que quando uma obra literária evoca a letra de uma canção em seu corpo, uma série de implicações socioculturais vem à tona, o que é provado pela história da canção popular brasileira, pois essa manifestação, no Brasil, tanto quanto a literatura, sempre serviu como modo de entendimento e comentário de um espaço-tempo. / Antônio Torres‟ trilogy, formed by the works Essa Terra, O cachorro e o lobo and Pelo fundo da agulha contains an expressive number of musical references. Most of these quotations of Brazilian popular songs, just like a film soundtrack, help to narrate the story. These references to the musical universe bring to the text a treasury of historical, cultural, social and aesthetics information about the characters, their trajectories and the different settings where they act. In a novel about the migration experience, the songs, artistic manifestation very explored by Brazilian composers to talk about this social phenomenon, fit perfectly to illustrate the scenes shown by the text. To understand the presence of the songs in the novels, this work aims at studying the intertextual relationship between music and literature and recovering the past of intersection of these art forms. The popular song, in Torres‟s trilogy, is analyzed through its cultural meaning, considering that when a literary work brings excerpts from a song in its body, many cultural implications are brought to the surface of the text. It has been proved by its history that Brazilian popular song enables to understand and to discourse about space and time.

The aim of this thesis was to examine changing representations of men and masculinities in a particular historical period (“The Sixties”) and to explore the impact that this had in a period of rapid social change in the UK and the legacy of that impact. In order to do this, a multi-method study was developed, combining documentary research with a set of eleven semi-structured interviews. The documentary research took the form of a case study of The Beatles, arguing that their position as a group of men who became a global cultural phenomenon, in the period under study, made theme a suitable vehicle through which to read changing representations of masculinities in this period and to reflect on what this meant for men in UK society. The Beatles’ live action films were chosen as a sample of Beatle “texts” which allowed for the Beatles to be looked at at different points in the “The Sixties” and for possible changes over that time period to be tracked. Textual analysis within discourse analysis (based on a framework suggested by van Dijk [1993], Fairclough [1995] and McKee [2003]) was used to analyse the texts. Ideas advanced by the Popular Memory Group (1982) about the interaction of public representations of the past and private memory of that past were influential in the decision to combine this piece of documentary research with interviews with a sample of men, in an age range of 18 to 74. The interview stage was designed to elicit data on the perception of the participants of the role of representation (with particular reference to the Beatles) of masculinities on them as individuals and their ideas about how this may have had an impact in terms of longer term social change. Ehrenreich’s (1983) notion of a male revolt in the late 1950s, an emergence of a challenge to established ideas about men and masculinity, was also influential, particularly as it is an idea at odds with the “crisis in masculinity” discourse (Tolson, 1977; Kimmel, 1987; Whitehead, 2002) at work in a number of texts on men and masculinity. Examining further Inglis’ (2000b : 1) concept of The Beatles as “men of ideas” with a global reach, the chosen Beatle texts were examined for discourses of masculinity which appeared to be resistant to the dominant. What emerged were a number of findings around resistance, non-conformity, feminised appearance, pre-metrosexuality, the male star as object of desire and The Beatles as a global male phenomenon open to the radical diversity of the world in a period of rapid social change. The role of popular culture within this process was central to the thesis, given its focus on The Beatles as a case study. However, broader ideas about the role of the arts also emerged with a resultant conclusion that “the sixties” is where a recognition of the importance of representation begins as well as a period where representations of gender (as well as class and race) became more accessible due to the rise in popularity of TV in the UK and a resurgence in British cinema. The thesis offers a number of ideas for further research, building on the outcomes of this particular study. These include further work on the competing crisis/ revolt discourse at work in the field of critical men’s studies, ascertaining female perspectives on representations of masculinities and their impact, further work on the Beatles through fans and an application of some of the ideas at work in the thesis to other periods of British history.

Nyimbo, kama tanzu ya fasihi yeyote ile zina majukumu mbalimbali ambayo hutekeleza katika jamii. Lengo kuu la fasihi ni lile la kuielimisha na hata kuiburudisha jamii. Ndivyo ilivyo katika nyimbo kwa sababu kupitia kwazo wanajamii huburudika na kuelimishwa. Ni kwa sababu hiyo ndipo makala hii inalenga kuangalia nafasi ya nyimbo zinazopendwa katika fasihi ya Kiswahili. Huu ni utanzu ambao huwafikia watu wengi katika jamii. Kutokana na kutumia lugha ya Kiswahili, utanzu huu unaweza kueleweka na Wakenya wengi. Nchini Kenya, vyombo vya habari vimeipa fasihi hii nafasi kubwa sana na hivyo basi kuipanua hadhira yake. Hii ni kutokana na sababu kuwa fasihi hii inathaminiwa sana na wengi na ipewe nafasi kubwa katika vyombo vya habari hasa katika redio kwa muda mrefu. Ni kutokana na sababu hii ndipo tunajaribu kuonyesha nafasi yake katika fasihi ya Kiswahili.

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Bagpipes and pipers, as cultural identifiers, are embedded within their national culture, charged with symbolisms. British authors have often viewed bagpipes as cultural icons, endowing them with connotations from devilish to virtuous, from rural to military. By analysing literary and artistic references one can perceive how the attitude towards the bagpipe changes with the evolution of Britain’s internal dynamics. Jacobitism contributed in casting a particular light on the bagpipe: it was the ‘voice of the rebellion’. In Scotland this constituted a reason for national pride, while in England the ‘common denominator’ of the Scot-enemy charged the bagpipe with the worst connotations. After Jacobitism stopped being seen as a threat, authors and artists came to view the bagpipe in a different light: the once negative icon was now imbued with ancestral values. The Scot – and the bagpipe by synecdoche – was romanticised: as James Boswell wrote, “The very Highland names, or the sound of a bagpipe, will stir my blood, and fill me with [...] a crowd of sensations with which sober rationality has nothing to do” (1785). The words of many Romantic authors contributed in characterising the instrument, endowing it with implications the influence of which is still relevant today.

This thesis is an interdisciplinary analysis of jazz music and poetry produced by African-American artists, primarily in New York, over the course of the 1960s, set within the broad context of the civil-rights and black-nationalist movements of the same period. Its principal contention is that the two forms afford each other symbiotic illumination. Close reading of jazz musicology in particular illuminates the directions taken by the literature of the period in a manner that has rarely been fully explored. By giving equal critical attention to the two artistic forms in relation to each other, the epistemological and social radicalism latent and explicit within them can more fully be understood. Through this understanding comes also a greater appreciation of the effects that the art of this period had upon the politics of civil rights and black nationalism in America - effects which permeated wider culture during a decade in which significant change was made to the legal position of African-Americans within the United States, change forced by a newly, and multiply, vocalized African-American consciousness. The thesis examines the methods by which jazz and literature contributed to the construction of new historically-constituted black subjectivities represented aurally, orally and visually. It looks at how the different techniques of each form converse with each other, and how they prompt consequential re-presentations and re cognizations of established forms from within and without their own continua. That examination is conducted primarily through forensic close readings of records made between 1960 and 1967, which though of widely differing styles nevertheless can be said to fall under the broad umbrella term of 'post-bop' jazz, alongside equally close readings of poetry written primarily by members of the New York wing of the equally broadly-termed Black Arts Movement [BAM] between 1964 and 1969.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2010 Aug 17.

La musique a beaucoup influencé l’écriture de Michel Butor, dont les œuvres traduisent bien souvent dans l’art littéraire des structures musicales, comme celles du contrepoint (fugue, thème et variations), de la musique sérielle ou du jazz. Ce travail a l’ambition de montrer la métamorphose de ces structures musicales dans les textes, tout particulièrement complexe lorsqu’il s’agit de traduire la simultanéité inhérente à la polyphonie musicale.Cette pratique musicale de l’écriture bouleverse les structures littéraires conventionnelles, s’associant ainsi aux innovations caractéristiques du Nouveau Roman (changements fréquents de narrateur, fragmentation du récit) et proposant aussi de nouvelles contraintes qui mènent l’écriture à des formes inédites : concerts-conférences, formes mobiles, œuvres radiophoniques. Cela transforme aussi notre perception du temps, non plus linéaire mais cyclique, ainsi que nos habitudes de lecture en nous impliquant dans la construction de l’œuvre.Enfin, l’influence de la musique permet de créer ce que j’ai nommé des cosmos culturels, inventant des connexions entre des cultures éloignées les unes des autres dans le temps ou l’espace, dans un geste d’hospitalité et de générosité caractéristique de l’œuvre butorienne. L’écrivain propose souvent de voir dans cette hospitalité littéraire un modèle éthique, voire politique. Les différents genres littéraires pratiqués par Michel Butor sont étudiés à travers quelques œuvres qui témoignent des diverses modalités de l’influence musicale sur l’écriture de Michel Butor : le roman, les œuvres mobiles, les dialogues avec des œuvres d’art, l’opéra Votre Faust et les récits de rêve sont rapprochés de tendances musicales familières à l’écrivain. / Music has much influenced the writing of Michel Butor whose works often translate musical structures into literary art. These can be the counterpoint (fugue, theme and variation), serial music or jazz. This way of working shows the metamorphosis of these musical structures in the texts, particularly complex when the writer has to translate the simultaneousness inherent in musical polyphony. This musical practise of writing upsets the conventional literary structures, thus associating with innovations which characterise the Nouveau Roman (frequent change of narrators, fragmentation of the narrative) and also proposing new constraints that lead the writing into novel forms: conference-concerts, mobile forms, radio works. This practise also modifies our reading habits, compelling the reader to be responsible for the construction of the work and our perception of time which is no longer linear but cyclical. Lastly, the influence of music enables to create what I have called cultural cosmoses, inventing connections between cultures usually isolated in time or space, in a gesture of hospitality and generosity which is characteristic of the works of Michel Butor. The writer sees this literary hospitality as an ethic, or politic model. The different literary genres practised by Michel Butor are studied through a few works which testify to the various modalities of the musical influence on the writing of Michel Butor: the novel, the mobile works, the dialogues with art works, the opera Your Faust and the narrations of dreams are related to the musical trends familiar to the the writer.