The Quest for "Being"

Hook, Sidney

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“…116 The way that Gallagher's accent is framed in two opposing ways at the same time (i.e., both unintelligible and intelligible) show up the major flaw of stereotyping, thus serving to destabilise its power. 117 While 'accent' seems to evoke a mixture of perceptions in the music press, 'brogue' is a far more loaded term and is almost exclusively used in a negative sense to single out the Irish accent as one that is not standard and is, therefore, to be treated as a joke or even with suspicion. As Heininge 118 notes, Irish accents 'provoke laughter' because people have been historically cued to see them as humorous.…”

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'Rory Gallagher's Leprechaun Boogie': Irish Stereotyping in the International Music Press

O’Hagan¹

2023

RISE

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This paper seeks to explore the presence of Irish stereotyping in the international music press using a case study of the Irish blues rock musician Rory Gallagher. Using a dataset of 600 articles about Gallagher published between 1968 and 1998, it draws upon a combination of corpus and thematic analysis to identify frequently occurring Irish stereotypes and how they were used to describe him, embedding arguments in postcolonial theory, particularly the work of Homi K. Bhabha. The analysis identifies five major themes—the Irish as violent troublemakers; the Irish as heavy drinkers; the ‘Irish’ way of talking; the Irish as ‘dumb Paddys’; Irish folklore and traditional ways of life—highlighting the different roles into which Gallagher was unwillingly cast by the music press. These references often wrapped Irish prejudice in a cloak of fun and frivolity, which made it seem harmless and trivial. However, such disparagement humour fostered discrimination by moulding (negative) public opinion of what it meant to be Irish at a time when Anglo-Irish tensions were already high and ignored the deeply emotional impact of the Northern Irish conflict on Gallagher. It also took attention away from Gallagher’s music and, in doing so, downplayed the important contribution he made to the world of blues and rock. Keywords: Rory Gallagher; music press; Irish; Ireland; stereotypes; disparagement humour; postcolonialism

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Section: Stereotypes Ireland and The Music Press: A Postcolonial Pers...mentioning

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'Rory Gallagher's Leprechaun Boogie': Irish Stereotyping in the International Music Press

O’Hagan¹

2023

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“…The first mistake is that of regarding the word 'being' as a descriptive word, capable of picking out some characteristic which all beings have in common. 34 The problem here, as Kant pointed out, is that 'being' is not a descriptive term. 35 I take nothing away from the idea of a unicorn -I deprive it of none of its characteristics -if I judge that no unicorns exist.…”

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“…In this case, they would be are no more pointers to a divine 'ground of being' than is the mathematician's parallel creation of the idea of infinity. 40 Incidentally, to recognise that all these ideals are our creations -that they are to a certain extent fictions, to which no reality completely corresponds -is not necessarily to undermine their force. A world without God, contrary to much theological (and even 'postmodern') polemics, is not necessarily a world without truth or value.…”

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God Beyond Theism? Bishop Spong, Paul Tillich and the Unicorn

Dawes¹

2002

Pacifica

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“…These questions have more scientific relevance and are irrelevant to metaphysical concerns over "the basic, fundamental, ultimate or essential categories". SeeHook (1953) for a fine distinction.…”

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Revisiting the Logical Empiricist Criticisms of Vitalism

Chen¹

2019

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Vitalism claims that biological organisms are governed by nonmaterial agents like entelechies. The received view today rejects vitalism by presupposing metaphysical materialism (or physicalism). Metaphysical materialism maintains that the world is ultimately material (or physical), and it, therefore, repudiates the existence of nonmaterial entelechies. However, this marks a shift compared with the arguments against vitalism developed by logical empiricists, who were indifferent to metaphysical issues and were only concerned with logical and empirical matters in the sciences. Logical empiricists rejected the concept of the entelechy (vitalism), because vital laws confirmed by biological phenomena were unavailable; in contrast, they accepted the concept of the atom (materialism), since it constituted physical laws and was therefore associated with verifiable results in modern physics.

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The Quest for "Being"

Cited by 5 publications

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'Rory Gallagher's Leprechaun Boogie': Irish Stereotyping in the International Music Press

'Rory Gallagher's Leprechaun Boogie': Irish Stereotyping in the International Music Press

God Beyond Theism? Bishop Spong, Paul Tillich and the Unicorn

Revisiting the Logical Empiricist Criticisms of Vitalism

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