Lee Robert Blackstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 250246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Robert Blackstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackstone |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKSTONE L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Old Westbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8259-7730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
A 'High Lonesome Sound' Calling you Home
Sounding out Music and Health: Transforming Selfhood and Social Life through Musicking
The Aural and Moral Idylls of 'Englishness' and Folk Music
The idea of 'Englishness' is explored as an historical social construction that is subject to ongoing negotiation. Important features of 'Englishness' are embedded in the sacralized symbolism of the 'rural idyll,' which represents traditional English values. 'Landscapes' and 'soundscapes' are utilized to construct personal and national identities in periods of 'revivalism.' By viewing English folk music through an interactionist framework, respon…
The Spider Is Alive: Reassessing Becker's Theory of Artistic Conventions through Southern Italian Music
Howard Becker wrote that art is constructed, and understood, according to conventions. However, Becker does not adequately explain how artists negotiate historical circumstances affecting their work. Using the southern Italian phenomenon of tarantism and its music, I address how contemporary musicians employ conventions to transform sounds with deviant connotations. The alteration of musical conventions reflects material social conditions in the …
A New Kind of English: Cultural Variance, Citizenship and DiY Politics amongst the Exodus Collective in England
This article addresses the construction of citizenship in contemporary England as a boundary between 'proper' and 'improper' English behavior. Through an ethnographic study of the Exodus Collective, a Rastafarian-anarchist community that was located north of London, I show that constructing citizenship also constructs criminality by indicating inclusion or exclusion in England. The Exodus Collective's alternative lifestyle and radical politics tr…
The Rhetoric of Moral Protest
The Spider Is Alive: Reassessing Becker's Theory of Artistic Conventions through Southern Italian Music
Howard Becker wrote that art is constructed, and understood, according to conventions. However, Becker does not adequately explain how artists negotiate historical circumstances affecting their work. Using the southern Italian phenomenon of tarantism and its music, I address how contemporary musicians employ conventions to transform sounds with deviant connotations. The alteration of musical conventions reflects material social conditions in the …
A New Kind of English: Cultural Variance, Citizenship and DiY Politics amongst the Exodus Collective in England
This article addresses the construction of citizenship in contemporary England as a boundary between 'proper' and 'improper' English behavior. Through an ethnographic study of the Exodus Collective, a Rastafarian-anarchist community that was located north of London, I show that constructing citizenship also constructs criminality by indicating inclusion or exclusion in England. The Exodus Collective's alternative lifestyle and radical politics tr…
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
The Aural and Moral Idylls of 'Englishness' and Folk Music
The idea of 'Englishness' is explored as an historical social construction that is subject to ongoing negotiation. Important features of 'Englishness' are embedded in the sacralized symbolism of the 'rural idyll,' which represents traditional English values. 'Landscapes' and 'soundscapes' are utilized to construct personal and national identities in periods of 'revivalism.' By viewing English folk music through an interactionist framework, respon…
The Rhetoric of Moral Protest
A New Kind of English: Cultural Variance, Citizenship and DiY Politics amongst the Exodus Collective in England
This article addresses the construction of citizenship in contemporary England as a boundary between 'proper' and 'improper' English behavior. Through an ethnographic study of the Exodus Collective, a Rastafarian-anarchist community that was located north of London, I show that constructing citizenship also constructs criminality by indicating inclusion or exclusion in England. The Exodus Collective's alternative lifestyle and radical politics tr…
The Spider Is Alive: Reassessing Becker's Theory of Artistic Conventions through Southern Italian Music
Howard Becker wrote that art is constructed, and understood, according to conventions. However, Becker does not adequately explain how artists negotiate historical circumstances affecting their work. Using the southern Italian phenomenon of tarantism and its music, I address how contemporary musicians employ conventions to transform sounds with deviant connotations. The alteration of musical conventions reflects material social conditions in the …
The Aural and Moral Idylls of 'Englishness' and Folk Music
The idea of 'Englishness' is explored as an historical social construction that is subject to ongoing negotiation. Important features of 'Englishness' are embedded in the sacralized symbolism of the 'rural idyll,' which represents traditional English values. 'Landscapes' and 'soundscapes' are utilized to construct personal and national identities in periods of 'revivalism.' By viewing English folk music through an interactionist framework, respon…
Sounding out Music and Health: Transforming Selfhood and Social Life through Musicking
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
A 'High Lonesome Sound' Calling you Home
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