Culture, the Arts, and Inequality
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Beginning with the work of Langston Hughes, whose fears for the African-American community echo fifty years later in Stevie Wonder’s urban chronicles, and including key American voices such as Nelson Algren, Thomas McGrath, Ann Petry and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as “Godfather of Rap” Gil Scott Heron, this book tackles the mechanisms that compelled writers and musicians to re-assert the worth and value of those they wrote about, opposing the fixing in place of moral classifications applied to cultures and people deemed of little worth. Without adequate analysis of those classifications, and particularly the role of moral attribution in identifying and categorizing those deemed unworthy, we struggle to understand inequality’s impact on society and individuals – leading to a partial conceptualization of how it is understood and experienced.
Recognizing that new ways of thinking about class, dominated by moral questions but with real material effects, and its impact on writers, musicians, and society are at stake, this interdisciplinary project redefines discourses on inequality in the United States today.
Ian Peddie is Professor of English at Sul Ross State University, USA. He is the author and editor of numerous works on literature and culture, including Music and Protest (2012), Popular Music and Human Rights Volumes I and II (2011), and The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest (2006).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Langston Hughes and “Negro Neighborhoods”: From the Ghetto to the Hyperghetto
2. Exclusionary Discourses, Articulated Disadvantages: Nelson Algren and
The Politics of Inequality in Mid-Century America.
3. Thomas McGrath: The Moral Obligation to Those Who Suffer
4. Ann Petry: The Spatiality of Injustice
5. The Privacy of Pain: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Privations of Property
6. Village Ghetto Land: Stevie Wonder and the Arrival of the Hyperghetto
7. Gil Scott Heron: Revolution of the Mind
Epilogue
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-44139-9 / 1032441399 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-44139-9 / 9781032441399 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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