War! What is it good for? A hype as national anthem, for one thing
In the very first reading we did for this class, there was a quote from the German historian...
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War and Peace and All That Jazz!
Briefly, citing written academic articles in a post so entrenched in audiovisual mediums didn’t seem ‘hip’ as the Jazz cats would say, so I’ve also referred to various documentary clips of musicians performing and speaking about...
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What does ‘Conflict(s)’ mean? ‘Context(s)’? ‘In’???
Wherein I philosophise about how defining a context for a war is as impossible as finding all of them.
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Revising Rosie: The Myth that Encompasses the Riveter
She dominates our perception of female empowerment – the face of modern feminism. Unfortunately, Our perception of Rosie the Riveter is doused in myth, distorting our view of feminist history …
Read MoreWAR…WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR???
Welcome to Arts Scholars! The lyrics to this protest song have been detached from the conflict of its origin and become both meme and memory and I thought it a fitting way to begin. I am so glad to be going on this journey with...
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