Daniel S Traber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel S Traber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel S |
| FAMILY NAME | Traber |
| SIGNATURE | TRABER D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University at Galveston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6625-8261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Motorsports as Popular Culture as Politics
Pick It Up! Pick It Up
Ever since its birth in the late 1950s, ska has been a genre marked by physical and cultural diasporas and an openness to borrowing from outside its origins. The history of ska travels across national borders and integrates with other musical styles, making it one of the most hybrid, transnational forms of postwar popular music. The author follows that journey through the recent third-wave phase to close with Los Skarnales, a Chicano-based ska ba…
Locating the Punk Preppy (A Speculative Theory)
In a previous article on whiteness and Los Angeles punk, I interrogated suburban kids who attempt a total break with their origins through the subcu44lture; now I want to think about a subset of punks who do not. It has long been a doctrine of popular music studies that music functions as a means of identity construction, yet those subjectivities do not always fit snugly into the descriptions found in books and documentaries, where the quoted com…
Whiteness, Otherness, and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk
Traber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture. H
Recentering the Listener in Deconstructive Music
Recentering the Listener in Deconstructive Music Daniel S. Traber (bio) The problem with applying the term deconstruction to anything is that it raises expectations, perhaps too high. For all its disdain of totalization, to ever arrive at a final deconstruction (which Derrida would say is impossible) of whatever form of text, medium, or object that is under construction requires a total dismantling by the initial producer or the receiver of the t…
"Hegemony and the Politics of Twain's Protagonist/Narrator Division in "Huckleberry Finn
in Huckleberry Finn studies has been Mark Twain's advocacy of a non-conformist individualism--the belief that independence and self-sovereignty can be achieved by living outside the social institutions of sivilization. But with the shifting emphasis on identity politics another major subject has attracted wider study: analyzing the issue of race as it corresponds to the relationship between Huck and Jim. Critics have discussed the position of con…
"Hegemony and the Politics of Twain's Protagonist/Narrator Division in "Huckleberry Finn
in Huckleberry Finn studies has been Mark Twain's advocacy of a non-conformist individualism--the belief that independence and self-sovereignty can be achieved by living outside the social institutions of sivilization. But with the shifting emphasis on identity politics another major subject has attracted wider study: analyzing the issue of race as it corresponds to the relationship between Huck and Jim. Critics have discussed the position of con…
Whiteness, Otherness, and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk
Traber reexamines the practice of self-marginalization in Euro-American literature and popular culture that depict whites adopting varied markers of otherness to disengage from the dominant culture. H
Recentering the Listener in Deconstructive Music
Recentering the Listener in Deconstructive Music Daniel S. Traber (bio) The problem with applying the term deconstruction to anything is that it raises expectations, perhaps too high. For all its disdain of totalization, to ever arrive at a final deconstruction (which Derrida would say is impossible) of whatever form of text, medium, or object that is under construction requires a total dismantling by the initial producer or the receiver of the t…
Locating the Punk Preppy (A Speculative Theory)
In a previous article on whiteness and Los Angeles punk, I interrogated suburban kids who attempt a total break with their origins through the subcu44lture; now I want to think about a subset of punks who do not. It has long been a doctrine of popular music studies that music functions as a means of identity construction, yet those subjectivities do not always fit snugly into the descriptions found in books and documentaries, where the quoted com…
Pick It Up! Pick It Up
Ever since its birth in the late 1950s, ska has been a genre marked by physical and cultural diasporas and an openness to borrowing from outside its origins. The history of ska travels across national borders and integrates with other musical styles, making it one of the most hybrid, transnational forms of postwar popular music. The author follows that journey through the recent third-wave phase to close with Los Skarnales, a Chicano-based ska ba…
Motorsports as Popular Culture as Politics
Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works)