The Rise of Baptist Republicanism By Oran P. Smith (1998 book review)

Review: Oran P. Smith, The Rise of Baptist Republicanism.
New York University Press, N.Y., 1997
Intro., append., biblio., ill., tab., fig., 320 pages. $38.50 cloth.
Published in The Southeastern Political Review
[now Politics & Policy]
Volume 26, Issue 3 (Fall), 1998.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.1998.tb00518.x/abstract
PDF: https://www.academia.edu/298476/Review_The_Rise_of_Baptist_Republicanism_by_Oran_P._Smith_1998_

A fellow sociologist told me that he was convinced that within the chest of every political scientist beats the heart of a pollster. Oren P. Smith’s work show that this was clearly merely the usual disciplinary rivalry. Smith has given both political scientists and sociologists a fascinating and well documented study of the transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) into the single largest religious force in modern American politics. What is especially appealing about this work is that its eclecticism is its strength. It would be easy to present a one-sided account of the Southern Baptist Convention, and especially easy to reduce the SBC to being just another religious group and lump them into the so-called “New Right”. All too often in lesser or more journalistic studies, we find the latent prejudice of many non-southerners directed towards the peculiar historical traditions of the south. This is what Smith calls the problem of “Southerness”---which even he, as a native South Carolinian, has trouble defining. But this is not a detriment, because throughout this work one notices the depth of feeling the author has for his region and state, and this translates into his desire to tell this portion of its story in as much of its complexity as possible. It may well be true that only a southerner could have written with so much insight into Southern politics.

The strengths of the book are many and the argument is laid out in a convincing manner. Smith details how the historical changes in the SBC parallels the changes in the Republican party and in what ways the political challenges and disputes in each are similar. In terms of the its influence on regional politics, the SBC functions as a barometer of southern culture and politics, in part because it is a fairly open and democratic organization and in part because of its reflection and reproduction of “Southerness” and “Southern political culture”. Through it all, the SBC has become “the very symbol of the rising influence of the religious right”(27).

This brings up the question of how we are to understand such entities as the “New Christian Right,” or the “New Right”. The terms themselves denote ambiguous common sense notions that cover a messy amalgam of neo-conservatives, fundamentalist and evangelical Christians, military/industrial sectors, political action committees, think tanks, etc., whose grip on power results from one of those wonderfully abstract pendulum swings of American politics. It is clear that the difficulty in defining the New Right has raised the troubling possibility that there is no unitary politics of the Right, and therefore no single ideology emanating from a central source. Smith examines this problem of the definition of the New Right without sacrificing the real differences and conflicts between what he terms “Movement Right” ideologies. He makes a genuine contribution to the excavation of one of the multiple locations of conservative ideology. Perhaps most importantly, Smith’s study helps situate the New Right in the arena of everyday social conflicts; conflicts which have long histories and which are passionately fought. Consequently, Smith’s study renders the usual definitions of the New Right problematic, and contributes to the great need to understand the complexity of American conservatism. The “Movement Right” is neither the creation of a small group of leaders, nor a formless mass of half-wits, dupes, or religious fanatics.

The richness of Smith’s study in terms of everyday politics is found in his case study of the rise of Baptist Republicanism in South Carolina. The principle actors, Bob Jones University (Bob Jones Sr. and III), the Christian Coalition (Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed), the Moral Majority (Jerry Falwell), and the SBC, form the nodes around which the movement of fundamentalist and evangelical Southern Democrats into the Republican Party can be traced. “Each comes to politics with unique motivations, each has a religious and political history of its own, and each fundamentalist group responds to different stimuli”(99). Smith’s examination of the political realignment to the Republican Party and the dynamics of the interaction between the four branches of the “Movement Fundamentalist Right” in South Carolina is particularly insightful in showing us how the politics of a region, and the politics of a religion, came to dominate major portions of the national political agenda. Especially important in Smith’s discussion is the effect of the “culture wars” on the development of Baptist Republicanism.

If there are criticisms to be made, they are minor. It might honestly be said that sociologists are more skeptical of polling data than are political scientists. While Smith implicitly seeks to move beyond the traditional confines of his discipline, the results of public opinion polls are often reported uncritically. Another criticism is that one wishes Smith had told us a bit more about his own relation to his subject, for it certainly informs his work.

This book will be valuable to anyone interested in contemporary southern politics and religion. Political scientists, sociologists, and students of the relationship between religion and politics in contemporary America will also find important insights in this book. The appendix giving a chronological history of the Southern Baptist Convention’s move towards Baptist Republicanism is an excellent resource for researchers as well.

B. Ricardo Brown
Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
BRBrownIII@earthlink.net

Theodor Adorno on the time Charlie Chaplin imitated him "at a villa in Malibu"

"....surely I am one of the few intellectuals to whom this happened and to be able to account for it when it happened."

From
The Yale Journal of Criticism 9.1 (1996) 57-61
Chaplin Times Two
Theodor W. Adorno Translated by John MacKay

"Perhaps I may justify my speaking about him by recounting a certain privilege which I was granted, entirely without having earned it. He once imitated me, and surely I am one of the few intellectuals to whom this happened and to be able to account for it when it happened. Together with many others we were invited to a villa in Malibu, on the coast outside of Los Angeles. While Chaplin stood next to me, one of the guests was taking his leave early. Unlike Chaplin, I extended my hand to him a bit absent-mindedly, and, almost instantly, started violently back. The man was one of the lead actors* from The Best Years of Our Lives, a film famous shortly after the war; he lost a hand during the war, and in its place bore practicable claws made of iron. When I shook his right hand and felt it return the pressure, I was extremely startled, but sensed immediately that I could not reveal my shock to the injured man at any price. In a split second I transformed my frightened expression into an obliging grimace that must have been far ghastlier. The actor had hardly moved away when Chaplin was already playing the scene back. All the laughter he brings about is so near to cruelty; solely in such proximity to cruelty does it find its  legitimation and its element of the salvational. Let my remembrance of this event and my thanks be my congratulations to him on his 75th birthday."

*The actor described here was Harold Russell (b.1914 in Nova Scotia), who in fact lost both his hands as a soldier during World War II. Acclaimed for his performance as one of the three returning veterans in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Russell became the only actor ever to win two Oscars for the same role: one for Best Supporting Actor, the other a special Oscar given "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans." Russell made history again in 1992, as he became the first Oscar recipient to sell one of his awards, which he did in order to raise money to help cover his wife's medical expenses.

Hanns Eisler's Film Music with Screenplay & Story Written By John Steinbeck: The Forgotten Village (1941)

"A sociological study of the people, of a small pueblo in Santiago, in the remote mountains of Mexico, who have not caught up with modern civilization, as reflected in the life of a young boy, Juan Diego, and his family. A protest against the government and religion that keeps the peasants poor, uneducated and rooted to superstition and poverty."

 Opening caption:

"None of the people in this film are actors.  They are peasants, doctors, teachers, etc. in real life.  Most of the peasants have never seen a movie, but they understand our story well.  It was a part of their lives.
Among the tall mountains of Mexico the ancient life goes on sometimes little changing in a thousand years.  Now from the cities of the valley, new thinking and new techniques reach out to the remote villages.  The old and the new meet and sometimes clash, but from the meetings a gradual change is taking place in the villages.
This is a story of the little pueblo of Santiago in the mountains of Mexico.  And this is the story of the boy Juan Diego, and of his people who live in the long moment when the past slips reluctantly into the future.

Cast
Burgess Meredith ... Narrator (voice)

Directed By Herbert Kline, Alexander Hammid
Screenplay & Story Written By John Steinbeck
Associate Producer Rosa Harvan Kline
Producers Alexander Hammid, Herbert Kline
Cinematography By Alexander Hammid
Film Editing By Herbert Kline
Original Music By Hanns Eisler
Assistant Director Carlos L. Cabello

Release Date: November 18 1941 (USA)

Syllabus for Cultural Studies (SS.330) Spring 2014, Pratt Institute

Cultural Studies  

SS 330.01 & .02

Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies

Pratt Institute Spring 2014

Meetings & Rooms:

Section I: Engineering 311 

Tuesday 2:00-4:50pm

Section II: Engineering 311 

Wednesday 2:00-4:50pm

B. Ricardo Brown, Ph.D.

Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies

Office: Dekalb 419 Hours: 12:30-2pm Tues/Weds Phone: 1.718.636.3533

Email: BBROW993@Pratt.edu

URL: http://node801.org

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com

SS-330 Cultural Studies

This course explores the relations of cultural artifacts in the contemporary world to their various social contexts. Culture is understood as the material expressions and images that people create and the social environment that shapes the way diverse groups of people experience their world and interact with one another. The course focuses on the critical analysis of these various forms of media, design, mass communications, arts, and popular culture.

Detailed Course Description & Objectives

The present era is often characterized as an age of global integration and a truly world economy as well as an era of social and environmental crises. In the midst of these changes we can often hear “culture” invoked as both a positive expression of this globalism and sometimes as something that opposes it. The full meaning of culture remains a topic of fierce debate and so “culture” is used as a political weapon, a claim of privilege, a rallying point for identity, a reservoir of resistance, or refers to various artifacts and practices that must be either preserved (good culture) or eliminated (degenerate culture).

Cultural Studies emerged from the attempts to understand these complex social and political uses of “culture” in such debates as those over “high & low” art, the value of the artifacts of popular culture (cinema, television, music, etc.), the deployments of knowledge and authority in the social relations of everyday life. We will examine how Cultural Studies offered a critical understanding of what Max Horkheimer termed “life as it is lived.” Attention will be paid to the fate of Cultural Studies as it became accepted and absorbed by various academic disciplines. In the final sessions, special attention will be given to the reception of Cultural Studies in the United States.

This course is designed to give you a foundation in Cultural Studies. It will show you how Cultural Studies emerged and its subsequent variations and lines of descent. You are not expected to already know this, nor are you expected to already be familiar with the texts we will use and issues that will be raised. You are expected to engage the course materials seriously. You will finish the course with an introduction to different ways of understanding the history of the present day and the social relations of everyday life.

OUTLINE OF THE COURSE OF STUDY

Session I: Introduction to the Course

Session II: Cultural Studies as a Cultural Artifact

On the Question “What is Cultural Studies?”

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/01/lecture-one-on-question-what-is.html

Simon During. 1999. “Introduction” to The Cultural Studies Reader. Second Edition. New York: Routledge.

 

Peruse and review:

Raymond Williams. 1983. “Culture” and “Society” from Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 87-93 and pp. 291-295.

Richard Johnson. 1987 (1996). “What is Cultural Studies Anyway?” in What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. Edited by John Storey. New York: Arnold, pp. 1-30. 

Comment Due By Sunday, 7am.

What, if anything, has changed about your answer to the question “What is Cultural Studies?” and what do you hope to learn from the study of a field like Cultural Studies?

Session III: Dialectic of Enlightenment I

Immanuel Kant. “What is Enlightenment?”

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.html

Peruse and review:

Raymond Williams. Civilization, 57-60; History, 146-148; Humanity, 148-151; Individual 161- 165; Western, 333-334. from Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.

The Dialectic of Enlightenment I: Bach, Kant, Theresiana, Frederick, Sade, Horkheimer

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/01/lecture-two-dialectic-of-enlightenment.html

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. “Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality” from Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, pp. 81-119.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/82614460/2/Excursus-II-Juliette-or-Enlightenment-and-Morality

Debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky (1971)

           http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1634494870703391080#

Session IV:Dialectic of Enlightenment II: The Culture industry

Theodor Adorno. 1975. “Culture Industry Reconsidered.” New German Critique, 6, Fall, pp. 12-19.

http://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/Culture_industry_reconsidered.shtml

In Our Time --- The Frankfurt School (BBC Radio4 podcast)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20100114.shtml

Peruse and review:

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” 129-167.

Session V: Fetishism and Popular Culture

Umberto Eco. “Casablanca” in Travels in Hyper-Reality pgs. 197-212.

Fetishism and Popular Culture

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/03/fetishism-and-popular-culture-umberto.html

Comment II. Due Sunday 7am.

Keeping in mind that the Frankfurt School’s concept of a Culture Industry is not just a matter of corporate domination, but also the commodification of leisure (i.e., it is a commodity to be consumed) and the constant repetition of styles and fads, does the Culture Industry still exist?

Session VI: Cultural Studies and Understanding the Popular

Angela McRobbie. 1996 (1999). “The Place of Walter Benjamin in Cultural Studies” in Simon During, ed. The Cultural Studies Reader. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, pp. 77-96.

Stuart Hall in During. “Encoding, decoding” in Simon During, ed. The Cultural Studies Reader. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, pp. 507-517. 

Session VII: The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and “The Birmingham School”

Michael Green. 1985 (1996). “The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies” in John Storey, ed. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. New York: Arnold, pp. 49-60.

Peruse and review:

Stanley Aronowitz. “British Cultural Studies” in Roll Over Beethoven: the Return of Cultural Strife. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, pp. 109-130.

The Origins of Cultural Studies in the U.K.

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/03/lecture-eight-origins-of-cultural.html

Session VIII: The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and “The Birmingham School”

Raymond Williams. 1989. [Three essays from] The Politics of Modernism. New York: Verso. [Required]

 

 “What is Modernism?” pp. 31-37.

 “Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism” pp. 37- 48.

  “The Politics of the Avant-Garde” pp. 49-64.

Comment III. Due Sunday 7am.

Raymond Williams is very critical of the concept of “postmodern” in its many uses. Describe what you believe are three arguments supporting his view. Briefly put forward any alternative view that you might hold.

Session IX: Intellectuals, Power and Commitment, Identity, Authenticity, Multiculturalism

bell hooks. “A Revolution in Values: the Promise of Multicultural Change,” in Simon During, ed. The Cultural Studies Reader. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, pp. 233- 240.

Cornel West. “The New Cultural Politics of Difference,” in Simon During, ed. The Cultural Studies Reader. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, pp. 203-220.

Audre Lorde. 1984. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.” in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, pp.110-113. 

Session X: Intellectuals, Power and Commitment, Identity, Authenticity, Multiculturalism

John d’Emillio. “Capitalism and Gay Identity.” from Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell & Sharan Thompson, eds. 1983. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Argentine Writer and Tradition” in Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Essays.

Stuart Hall. “What is this ‘Black’ in Black Popular Culture?” Social Justice, Vol. 20, nos 1-2. pp. 104-114.

In Our Time --- Borges (BBC Radio4 podcast)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070104.shtml

Session XI: Cultural Studies in Societies of Control I

Kafka and the Crisis of the Society of Discipline

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/06/lecture-four-kafka-and-crisis-of.html

Franz Kafka. The Penal Colony.

http://www.kafka-online.info/in-the-penal-colony.html

Peruse and review:

The Dialectic of Enlightenment I: Bach, Kant, Theresiana, Frederick, Sade, Horkheimer

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/01/lecture-two-dialectic-of-enlightenment.html

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. “Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality” from Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, pp. 81-119.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/82614460/2/Excursus-II-Juliette-or-Enlightenment-and-Morality

Session XII: Cultural Studies in Societies of Control II

Kafka and the Crisis of the Society of Discipline

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/06/lecture-four-kafka-and-crisis-of.html

Franz Kafka. The Penal Colony.

http://www.kafka-online.info/in-the-penal-colony.html

Peruse and review:

The Dialectic of Enlightenment I: Bach, Kant, Theresiana, Frederick, Sade, Horkheimer

http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/01/lecture-two-dialectic-of-enlightenment.html

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. “Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality” from Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, pp. 81-119.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/82614460/2/Excursus-II-Juliette-or-Enlightenment-and-Morality

Session XIII: Cultural Studies in Societies of Control III

Herbert Marcuse. One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Introduction and Chapter 1, http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/64onedim/odmcontents.html

Gilles Deleuze. “Postscript on the Societies of Control”

http://www.n5m.org/n5m2/media/texts/deleuze.htm

Comment IV. Due Sunday 7am.

Should an intellectual/ artist/writer etc. be social/y/politically committed in their work or should they stand at a distance from their commitments. Is the latter just another form of commitment?

Session XIV:

Herbert Marcuse. One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Introduction and Chapter 1, http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/64onedim/odmcontents.html

Peruse and review:

Lefebvre, Henri. 1968. “Terror and Everyday Life” from Everyday Life in the Modern World. New York: Harper Torchbooks, pp.143-193. 

 

Ivan Zatz-Diaz. 2005. "The Weight of Nightmares: Small screens, social space and representation in contemporary capitalism" from Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, Vol 1, No 1 (2005). http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/article/view/3

XIV. Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies

Raymond Williams. 1989. “The Future of Cultural Studies” in The Politics of Modernism. New York: Verso, pp. 151-162.

Stuart Hall. “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies” in Simon During, ed. The Cultural Studies Reader. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, pp. 97-112.

Session XV: Review. Final Essay.

Comment V.

What do you see as the achievements and legacies of Cultural Studies? How do you respond to the question “What is the Future of Cultural Studies?”

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Course Requirements and Grading

Short Essay Questions

There are five short essay questions. Each is directly related to the readings just completed. Short essays should be 2-4 pages (800-950 words).

While the quality of your weekly comments is most important, it is also important that all the work is performed as the semester progresses.

Self-Evaluation

At the end of the course you may submit a 1-2 page essay describing your evaluation of your performance and your assessment of what you believe to be a fair final grade.

Absences and Lateness

Persistent absences or lateness will result in a reduction of your final grade consistent with the policies of the university and of the department of Social Science & Cultural Studies.

An incomplete will be granted only in accordance with the established policy of the university. An incomplete is “available only if the student has been in regular attendance, has satisfied all but the final requirements of the course, and has furnished satisfactory proof that the work was not completed because of illness or other circumstances beyond control” (Pratt Institute Bulletin). If you do not turn in your final work on time, and you do not have an approved incomplete, you will fail the course.

Grades

80% - Short Essay Questions

10% - Class participation (e.g., being prepared for class, having the week’s reading in class, questioning the professor’s interpretation of the material, comments and questions about the course readings, etc)

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Readings

Required Text

ONE TEXT MUST BE PURCHASED:

Raymond Williams. 1989 (2007). The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. New York: Verso. ISBN-10: 1-84467-580-7

ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-580-7

Most of the readings will be available through the LMS site for the course (at my.pratt.edu) or via the links provided in the syllabus. The exception is the required text by Raymond Williams.

*BRING YOUR OWN COPY OF THE READINGS TO CLASS EACH SESSION.*

*See Course and Grading requirements*

Suggested sources for purchasing the required text:

Book Culture (Broadway and 114th Street) http://www.bookculture.com/

St. Marks Bookshop http://www.stmarksbookshop.com

The Strand www.strandbooks.com (the huge second-hand store on 12^th Street & Broadway).

The Advanced Book Exchange http://www.abebooks.com

Powell’s Books http://powells.com

Academic Integrity

Pratt Institute considers Academic Integrity highly important. Instances of cheating, plagiarism, and wrongful use of intellectual property will not be tolerated.

• Faculty members will report each incident to the registrar for inclusion in students’ files.

·More than one report to the registrar during a student’s program of study at Pratt will result in a hearing before the Academic Integrity Board, at which time appropriate sanctions will be decided. These may include dismissal from the Institute.

·The nature and severity of the infraction will be determined by faculty members who can: ask students to repeat an assignment, fail students on the assignment, fail students in the course and/or refer the incident to the Academic Integrity Board.

For more details about these procedures please see the Pratt Student Handbook, the Pratt Bulletins, and the pamphlet entitled Judicial Procedures at Pratt.

Cheating

If students use dishonest methods to fulfill course requirements, they are cheating. Examples of this include, but are not limited to:

• Obtaining or offering copies of exams or information about the content of exams in advance.

• Bringing notes in any form to a closed book exam.

• Looking at another student’s paper during an exam.

• Receiving or communicating any information from or to another student during an exam.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a bit more complicated, but the rules of documentation and citation are very specific and are tailored to different academic disciplines. Types of plagiarism include:

• Including any material from any source other than you in a paper or project without proper attribution. This includes material from the Internet, books, papers, or projects by other students, and from any other source.

• Using your own work to fulfill requirements for more than one course.

• The extensive use of the ideas of others in your work without proper attribution.

• Turning in work done by another person or a fellow student as one’s own.

Please remember that all work must be the student’s own. If it is not, the source should be cited and documented appropriately. If there are aspects of this statement that are not understood, ask faculty members for help.

“Community Standards”

Students must adhere to all Institute-wide policies listed in the Bulletin under “Community Standards” and which include policies on attendance, academic integrity, plagiarism, computer, and network use.

Accommodation of Disabilities

Not a problem, you should talk or write to me after one of the first classes. However, I am required to state that students who require special accommodations for disabilities must obtain clearance from the Office of Disability Services at the beginning of the semester. You should contact Mai McDonald, Disability Services Coordinator, in the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Main Building, Lower Level: 718-636-3711.

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In addition to the readings for the course, it is highly recommended that you obtain these texts, especially if you are majoring in Critical & Visual Studies or completing the Minor in Cultural Studies:

Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt, eds. 1982. The Essential Frankfurt School Reader. New York: Continuum.

Stanley Aronowitz. 1993. Roll over Beethoven: The Return of Cultural Strife. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN: 0819562629.

Jorge Luis Borges. 1989. Ficciones. Anthony Kerrigan (Editor), Anthony Bonner (Translator). Grove Press; ISBN: 0802130305. 

 

Simon During, ed. 1999. The Cultural Studies Reader. 2nd edition. Routledge; ISBN: 0415137543.

Murray Edelman. 1998. Constructing the Political Spectacle. University Of Chicago Press. ISBN-10: 0226183998.

Michel Foucault. 1973. The Order of Things: A History of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage. ASIN: B000HZIHD0.

Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, translated by Edmund Jephcott. 2002. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Stanford University Press. ISBN: 0804736332. DO NOT ORDER THE OLDER TRANSLATION PUBLISHED BY CONTINUUM EXCEPT FOR REFERENCE.

Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, eds. 1988. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. University of Illinois Press. ISBN-10: 0252014014; ISBN-13: 978-0252014017.

John Storey, ed. 1997. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. New York: Arnold/St. Martin's Press. 1997. ISBN-10: 0340652403; ISBN-13: 978-0340652404.

John Storey. 2003. Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture: Theories and Methods.

University of Georgia Press, Second edition. ISBN-10: 082032566X; ISBN-13: 978-0820325668.

Raymond Williams. Materialism and Culture. New York: Verso. ISBN-10: 1844670600

ISBN-13: 978-1844670604.

Raymond Williams. (1976) 1985. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN-10: 0195204697; ISBN-13: 978-0195204698.

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Documentaries, Films, and Music which will be referred to during the Course

Stuart Hall Representation and the Media (lecture)

Debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault on Human Nature (video)

bell hooks Cultural Criticism & Transformation (interview/discussion)

Casablanca

The Trial (Orson Wells version)

Metropolis

Brazil

Dr. Strangelove

Degenerate Art Exhibit documentary.

Michael Wood Hitler’s Search for the Holy Grail documentary.

Marcuse's Hippopotamus documentary.

Committee for a Free Congress History of Political Correctness documentary.

The Train

Arnold Schoenberg

Pierrot lunaire

http://grooveshark.com/#/search?q=arnold+schoenberg+pierrot+lunaire

Alban Berg

Violin Concerto

Anton Webern conducts Alban Berg's Violin Concerto ("To the Memory of an Angel"), with Louis Krasner, who commissioned the work as a tribute to Manon Gropius, the recently deceased daughter of Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYAm0BXkxs&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKO-GKUgDXw&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P7pz4aCNSk&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O59hMmE98Jw&feature=relmfu

or

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Berg+Violin+Concerto/4047478

Theodor Adorno

String Quartets

Zwei Stücke für Streichquartett op. 2, I
Zwei Stücke für Streichquartett op. 2, II
Sechs kurze Orchesterstücke, I
Sechs kurze Orchesterstücke, II
Sechs kurze Orchesterstücke, III
Sechs kurze Orchesterstücke, IV
Sechs kurze Orchesterstücke, V
Sechs kurze Orchesterstücke, VI

Anton Webern

Five Movements for String Quartet

http://www.youtube.com/user/MusicMountainSCMF#p/search/0/HUKM19Oh3d0

http://www.youtube.com/user/MusicMountainSCMF#p/search/1/C6kFzeZBrds

Variations for Piano (performed by Glenn Gould)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_niGEXisA

Quartet for violin, clarinet, tenor sax and piano

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Complete+Works+For+String+Quartet+And+String+Trio+artis+Quartett+Wien+/601464

Arr. of Bach's Musical Offering

http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Musical+Offering+Bwv+1079+Fuga+ricercata+A+6+Voci/3wjubi?src=5

Video of a performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqimOkQuz4

John Cage

Music for Marcel Duchamp

http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Music+For+Marcel+Duchamp/2WKjbW?src=5

As Slow as Possible

http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Aslsp+1985+/3r9fOk?src=5

Music for Piano

http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Music+For+Piano+number+2+bowed+Piano+/2yTuHD?src=5

Charles Ives

Songs

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Charles+Ives+Songs/5314667

Conlon Nancarrow

Studies for Player Piano

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Studies+For+Player+Piano+Volume+1/5336660

Steve Reich

Octet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE13q-AWNDk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps083PPVtM8&feature=related

Six Marimbas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUE7IA__NZM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXBduuac9RM&feature=related

New York Counter Point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX63vaPT9Pk&feature=related

Music for 18 Musicians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiV9f1_PFHE&feature=related

http://grooveshark.com/#/artist/Steve+Reich/2678

Dagmar Krause

Songs of Kurt Weill (see also her Tank Battles: Songs of Hans Eisler)

Deutsche Miserere

http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Deutsche+Miserere/2uGEFE?src=5

Zu Potsdam "Unter den Eichen"

http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Zu+Potsdam+and+quot+unter+Den+Eichen+and+quot+/3IDbdF?src=5

In Potsdam "Unter den Eichen"

http://grooveshark.com/#/s/In+Potsdam+and+quot+unter+Den+Eichen+and+quot+/3IDcDk?src=5

Carla Bley

Musique Machanique

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Music+Mecanique/6380980

Sidney Bechet

High Society

http://grooveshark.com/#/s/High+Society/3EyBau?src=5

Louis Armstrong & King Oliver

Canal Street Blues

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Louis+Armstrong+And+King+Olive/907707

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker

Bebop

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Town+Hall+New+York+City+June+22+1945/344358

The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet

Free Jazz

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Free+Jazz/5051453

John Coltrane

A Love Supreme

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/A+Love+Supreme/5763837

Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane

Off Minor

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Thelonious+Monk+With+John+Coltrane/246375

Fred Frith

Prints

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Prints/4536484

Legs (from the documentary Step Across the Border)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iUR_IIQMKw

Robert Fripp

Frippertronics Improvisation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kcuqIqmIU

Robert Fripp String Quintet Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqsIXmsVQgs&feature=related

League of Gentlemen - Dislocated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HGyfms_pU&feature=related

Astor Piazzolla musical settings of some poems of Jorge Luis Borges

Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/Rough+Dancer+and+The+Cyclical+Night/748169

El Tango

http://grooveshark.com/#/album/El+Tango/4041714

see also Borges & Piazzolla

http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_borges%26piazzolla.html