Josh Sopiarz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1369673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josh Sopiarz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josh |
| FAMILY NAME | Sopiarz |
| SIGNATURE | SOPIARZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Governors State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture
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Hostess, Ghost, and Apocalypse
The global COVID-19 pandemic affords contemporary readers a unique perspective for reinterpreting the relationship between Jack and Louisa in Alice Munro’s short story “Carried Away.” This alternate reading prioritizes Louisa’s difficult experiences with illness and rejection and reconsiders Jack as an abusive interlocutor who takes advantage of Louisa’s status as town librarian and the era’s social mores, its calamities, and the fog of war to ex…
Sport and the Shaping of Civic Identity in ChicagoGerald R.Gems. Lexington Books, 2020
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Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
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“This Machine Kills”
Guitars and guns have been sharing imagery since 1916. This essay traces the associations between the two as they persisted through much of the twentieth century before becoming more explicit during the 1980s and 1990s. It then examines the use of guitar music as a weapon in the “global war on terror” while continuing to track the more express similarities between guitars and guns since September 11, 2001. Ultimately, the paper reads examples of …
Rockin’ the Free World
Leaders of the Pack
Dueling Perceptions
The recent glut of “hillbilly” television has introduced and/or reintroduced millions of American pop culture consumers to the music of the five-string banjo. In some ways this phenomenon is similar to what happened during the 1960s and early 1970s when programs like The Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw, and others were popular with American television-viewing audiences. What is different, however, is that contemporary Americans are reacting to the p…
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching by Julie Buckner Armstrong
Reviewed by: Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching by Julie Buckner Armstrong Josh Sopiarz (bio) Armstrong, Julie Buckner. Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2011. Despite the unique circumstances surrounding her death—she was a woman; she was eight months pregnant; she was killed for speaking out against the men that murdered her husband—Mary Turner has, for the most part, been forgotten by history. And, according t…
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Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching by Julie Buckner Armstrong
Reviewed by: Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching by Julie Buckner Armstrong Josh Sopiarz (bio) Armstrong, Julie Buckner. Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2011. Despite the unique circumstances surrounding her death—she was a woman; she was eight months pregnant; she was killed for speaking out against the men that murdered her husband—Mary Turner has, for the most part, been forgotten by history. And, according t…
Dueling Perceptions
The recent glut of “hillbilly” television has introduced and/or reintroduced millions of American pop culture consumers to the music of the five-string banjo. In some ways this phenomenon is similar to what happened during the 1960s and early 1970s when programs like The Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw, and others were popular with American television-viewing audiences. What is different, however, is that contemporary Americans are reacting to the p…
Leaders of the Pack
“This Machine Kills”
Guitars and guns have been sharing imagery since 1916. This essay traces the associations between the two as they persisted through much of the twentieth century before becoming more explicit during the 1980s and 1990s. It then examines the use of guitar music as a weapon in the “global war on terror” while continuing to track the more express similarities between guitars and guns since September 11, 2001. Ultimately, the paper reads examples of …
Rockin’ the Free World
Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
https://opus.govst.edu/fac/1282/thumbnail.jpg
Sport and the Shaping of Civic Identity in ChicagoGerald R.Gems. Lexington Books, 2020
https://opus.govst.edu/fac/1284/thumbnail.jpg
Hostess, Ghost, and Apocalypse
The global COVID-19 pandemic affords contemporary readers a unique perspective for reinterpreting the relationship between Jack and Louisa in Alice Munro’s short story “Carried Away.” This alternate reading prioritizes Louisa’s difficult experiences with illness and rejection and reconsiders Jack as an abusive interlocutor who takes advantage of Louisa’s status as town librarian and the era’s social mores, its calamities, and the fog of war to ex…
Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture
https://opus.govst.edu/fac/1290/thumbnail.jpg
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