Miscegenated America: The Civil War

Samuels, Shirley

doi:10.1093/alh/9.3.482

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“…Symbolism is required to create a national identity (Lopez, 2006), in order to provide representations that can later be incorporated into identity performances to define oneself as an American. These performances may include direct representations of the values that compose national identity, symbolic representations of the nation as a whole -specifically seen in colours, flags, anthems and other American national symbols -or representations of a prototypical member of this identity (Bird, 1994;Billig cited in Theiss-Morse, 2009;Osborne & Wintle, 2006;Roediger, 2007;Samuels, 2000;Sidanus & Pratlo cited in Theiss-Morse, 2009;S. Smith, 1999;Wallace, 2000).…”

Section: Social Construction Of Identities: American National Identitymentioning

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“Walk Like the Heroes”: The Performed Identity of Bruce Springsteen and the Relationship to Contemporary Popular Music Performance

Petkovski¹

2021

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This thesis examines the trend of contemporary popular musicians referencing and being compared to Bruce Springsteen. To do so, the work analyzes the performed social identity of Springsteen and its relationship to popular music performance, particularly in terms of understanding and assessing the motivations behind comparisons with Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem, a band frequently though to represent Sprinsteen's influence. Two case studies were conducted to examine the performed personas of both artists, informed by theories of the communication of meaning and identity. Springsteen is found to portray a traditionally American, White, working class male, representative of the idealized image of early American republican philosophy. Alternately, Fallon is found to perform a similar social identity without the significant evocation of this republicanism. Comparisons between these artists are theorized as emerging from their use of similar identity representations and indicators of meaning, particularly in their communication of authenticity.

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Section: Social Construction Of Identities: American National Identitymentioning

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“Walk Like the Heroes”: The Performed Identity of Bruce Springsteen and the Relationship to Contemporary Popular Music Performance

Petkovski¹

2021

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Uncle Tom's Cabinand Apocalyptic Sentimentalism

Pelletier

2009

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Specters of Democracy

Wilson¹

2011

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This book interrogates the representational strategies that 19th-century Americans used in art and literature to delineate blackness as an index to the forms of U.S. citizenship. The book reveals how the difficult task of representing African Americans—both enslaved and free—in imaginative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy. More specifically, the book analyzes how African Americans manipulated aurality and visuality in art that depicted images of national belonging not only as a mode of critique but as an iteration or articulation of democratic representation itself. Such a turn to culture as a particular arena where African Americans had varying levels of agency is all the more necessary in the years before they were ostensibly granted access to formal political structures with the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Recovering important aspects of the African American presence in the debates about democracy and citizenship, this book focuses on the mutual engagement with the national idioms by both black and white Americans and illustrates how African Americans in particular deployed artistic practices to enact a more egalitarian society.

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Miscegenated America: The Civil War

Cited by 15 publications

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“Walk Like the Heroes”: The Performed Identity of Bruce Springsteen and the Relationship to Contemporary Popular Music Performance

“Walk Like the Heroes”: The Performed Identity of Bruce Springsteen and the Relationship to Contemporary Popular Music Performance

Uncle Tom's Cabinand Apocalyptic Sentimentalism

Specters of Democracy

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