Martin Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5232-781X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Grace Notes
With this issue of Rock Music Studies and with “Dave Grohl, the Disco Flam, and the Un-Whitening of Alternative Rock” by Theo Cateforis, we are introducing “Grace Notes,” a new section that will fe
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation
This article explores how nuclear disaster narratives have both been informed by and articulated collective images of risk and uncertainty since the 1980s. Drawing on ideas from classical and affective narratology that are framed by a perspective informed by the sociology of knowledge, we examine three variations of narrating nuclear disasters in different media: (1) sociologist Charles Perrow’s detailed analysis of the Three Mile Island accident…
Beyond lazy; external locus of control as an alternative explanation for the privacy paradox
Purpose The privacy paradox refers to the situation where users of online services continue to disclose personal information even when they are concerned about their privacy. One recent study of Facebook users published in Internet Research concludes that laziness contributes to the privacy paradox. The purpose of this study is to challenge the laziness explanation. To do so, we adopt a cognitive dispositions perspective and examine how a person’…
Serial (Hi)Stories
Defamiliarizing the Familiar
This article argues that the Residents' songs are defined by both an avant-gardist and an archival momentum. While their music goes beyond established patterns of pop, iit also “stores” musical forms and themes by mashing up references from commercial(ized) popular music, distorted to different degrees of (un)recognizability. Thus defamiliarizing the familiar, the Residents articulate a particular metareferential stance on popular musical product…
Pop, Pandemic, Politics
In a dialogic form incorporating perspectives from Germany and Poland, the essay maps the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic on the production, distribution, and reception of popular music, arguing that the virtual realm of social media and sharing platforms allows for alternative ways of engaging with pop. Yet, while this “virtual social” may help overcome social disintegration and foster shared identities through times of crisis, the withdrawal t…
PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis
In perhaps unparalleled fashion, the ongoing pandemic has showcased the complex entanglements between science and other fields of society, such as politics and the media. This intricate and often conflictive relationship becomes particularly manifest in the controversies surrounding scientific experts, who have been transformed from science communicators into iconic figures since the outbreak of COVID-19. Accordingly, this article examines two of…
Praktiken der Diagnostifizierung der Singer/ Songwriter-Figur am Beispiel der Fremd- und Selbstinszenierung Tom Morellos
The Tempest and the Jonsonian Masque
Martin Butler explores some intertextual relationships between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Jonson’s reservations about Shakespeare’s late plays are well known. In the induction to Bartholomew Fair, Jonson alludes to the grotesque dances at the sheep-shearing in The Winter’s Tale and to the servant-monster Caliban and the 'strange shapes' in The Tempest’s banquet scene, the latter described by Sebastian, in vocabulary which Jonson pointedly echoes…
Resistance
All around the world and throughout history resistance has played an important role – and it still does. Some strive to raise it to cause change. Some dare not to speak of it. Some try to smother it to keep a status quo. The contributions to this volume explore phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments. In so doing, they not only contribute to shaping a comparative view on subjects, representations, and contex…
Musical Autobiographies
Crack open Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove, and you'll find yourself in the middle of a conversation between the subject of this autobiography, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the drum
Reading Masques
Journal Article Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century, by Lauren Shohet Get access Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century, by Lauren Shohet (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2010; pp. 288. £55). Martin Butler Martin Butler University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 531, April…
The Poetics and Politics of Metafiction
He feels like a man who has been condemned to sit in a room and go on reading a book for the rest of his life. This is strange enough—to be only half alive at best, seeing the world only through words, living only through the lives of others. But if the book were an interesting one, perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. ... But this book offers him nothing. There is no story, no plot, no action—nothing but a man sitting alone in a room and writing a boo…
The condition of the theatres in 1642
The London theatres had been active for barely eight months of 1642 when their operations were peremptorily halted by order of Parliament. On 2 September, a directive was issued from Westminster commanding that performances of stage plays should cease forthwith.
Re-Presenting Ben Jonson
Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11-volume Oxford text of his Works , edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-52). In this monumental edition, Jonson seems a re
Re-Presenting Ben Jonson
Inventing New England
Early Encounters
The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson
Preface to the series Acknowledgements Introduction THE ALCHEMIST Introductory note Text BARTHOLOMEW FAIR Introductory note Text THE NEW INN Introductory note Text A TALE OF A TUB Introductory note Text Notes Textual notes Additional notes
Early Stuart Court Culture
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Politics and the Masque
Talking About Connecticut
Talking About Connecticut: Oral History in the Nutmeg State.." The Oral History Review, 14(1), pp. 109–110
Two Playgoers, and the Closing of the London Theatres, 1642
An interesting incident at one of the London theatres, which has been overlooked by theatre historians, is recorded in the Historical Collections of Nehemiah Wallington, a citizen and turner of London. Wallington (1598–1658) operated a small independent business in Eastcheap and, in common with many other contemporaries of middling station, had a very pious cast of mind. For thirty years he compiled a collection of memorabilia of men and affairs,…
A Case Study in Caroline Political Theatre
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Thomas Welcome Roys
Journal Article Thomas Welcome Roys: America's Pioneer of Modern Whaling. By Frederick P. Schmitt, Cornells de Jong, and Frank H. Winter. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. xiv + 253 pp. Map, illustrations, chart, table, appendixes, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access Martin J. Butler Martin J. Butler Southeastern Massachusetts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
Musical Autobiographies
Crack open Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove, and you'll find yourself in the middle of a conversation between the subject of this autobiography, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the drum
Beyond lazy; external locus of control as an alternative explanation for the privacy paradox
Purpose The privacy paradox refers to the situation where users of online services continue to disclose personal information even when they are concerned about their privacy. One recent study of Facebook users published in Internet Research concludes that laziness contributes to the privacy paradox. The purpose of this study is to challenge the laziness explanation. To do so, we adopt a cognitive dispositions perspective and examine how a person’…
The Poetics and Politics of Metafiction
He feels like a man who has been condemned to sit in a room and go on reading a book for the rest of his life. This is strange enough—to be only half alive at best, seeing the world only through words, living only through the lives of others. But if the book were an interesting one, perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. ... But this book offers him nothing. There is no story, no plot, no action—nothing but a man sitting alone in a room and writing a boo…
Early Stuart Court Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Case Study in Caroline Political Theatre
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Thomas Welcome Roys
Journal Article Thomas Welcome Roys: America's Pioneer of Modern Whaling. By Frederick P. Schmitt, Cornells de Jong, and Frank H. Winter. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. xiv + 253 pp. Map, illustrations, chart, table, appendixes, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access Martin J. Butler Martin J. Butler Southeastern Massachusetts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
Two Playgoers, and the Closing of the London Theatres, 1642
An interesting incident at one of the London theatres, which has been overlooked by theatre historians, is recorded in the Historical Collections of Nehemiah Wallington, a citizen and turner of London. Wallington (1598–1658) operated a small independent business in Eastcheap and, in common with many other contemporaries of middling station, had a very pious cast of mind. For thirty years he compiled a collection of memorabilia of men and affairs,…
A Case Study in Caroline Political Theatre
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Talking About Connecticut
Talking About Connecticut: Oral History in the Nutmeg State.." The Oral History Review, 14(1), pp. 109–110
Politics and the Masque
Early Stuart Court Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson
Preface to the series Acknowledgements Introduction THE ALCHEMIST Introductory note Text BARTHOLOMEW FAIR Introductory note Text THE NEW INN Introductory note Text A TALE OF A TUB Introductory note Text Notes Textual notes Additional notes
Early Encounters
Inventing New England
Re-Presenting Ben Jonson
Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11-volume Oxford text of his Works , edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-52). In this monumental edition, Jonson seems a re
Re-Presenting Ben Jonson
The condition of the theatres in 1642
The London theatres had been active for barely eight months of 1642 when their operations were peremptorily halted by order of Parliament. On 2 September, a directive was issued from Westminster commanding that performances of stage plays should cease forthwith.
The Poetics and Politics of Metafiction
He feels like a man who has been condemned to sit in a room and go on reading a book for the rest of his life. This is strange enough—to be only half alive at best, seeing the world only through words, living only through the lives of others. But if the book were an interesting one, perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. ... But this book offers him nothing. There is no story, no plot, no action—nothing but a man sitting alone in a room and writing a boo…
Reading Masques
Journal Article Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century, by Lauren Shohet Get access Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century, by Lauren Shohet (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2010; pp. 288. £55). Martin Butler Martin Butler University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 531, April…
Musical Autobiographies
Crack open Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove, and you'll find yourself in the middle of a conversation between the subject of this autobiography, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the drum
Resistance
All around the world and throughout history resistance has played an important role – and it still does. Some strive to raise it to cause change. Some dare not to speak of it. Some try to smother it to keep a status quo. The contributions to this volume explore phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments. In so doing, they not only contribute to shaping a comparative view on subjects, representations, and contex…
Praktiken der Diagnostifizierung der Singer/ Songwriter-Figur am Beispiel der Fremd- und Selbstinszenierung Tom Morellos
The Tempest and the Jonsonian Masque
Martin Butler explores some intertextual relationships between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Jonson’s reservations about Shakespeare’s late plays are well known. In the induction to Bartholomew Fair, Jonson alludes to the grotesque dances at the sheep-shearing in The Winter’s Tale and to the servant-monster Caliban and the 'strange shapes' in The Tempest’s banquet scene, the latter described by Sebastian, in vocabulary which Jonson pointedly echoes…
Defamiliarizing the Familiar
This article argues that the Residents' songs are defined by both an avant-gardist and an archival momentum. While their music goes beyond established patterns of pop, iit also “stores” musical forms and themes by mashing up references from commercial(ized) popular music, distorted to different degrees of (un)recognizability. Thus defamiliarizing the familiar, the Residents articulate a particular metareferential stance on popular musical product…
Pop, Pandemic, Politics
In a dialogic form incorporating perspectives from Germany and Poland, the essay maps the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic on the production, distribution, and reception of popular music, arguing that the virtual realm of social media and sharing platforms allows for alternative ways of engaging with pop. Yet, while this “virtual social” may help overcome social disintegration and foster shared identities through times of crisis, the withdrawal t…
PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis
In perhaps unparalleled fashion, the ongoing pandemic has showcased the complex entanglements between science and other fields of society, such as politics and the media. This intricate and often conflictive relationship becomes particularly manifest in the controversies surrounding scientific experts, who have been transformed from science communicators into iconic figures since the outbreak of COVID-19. Accordingly, this article examines two of…
Serial (Hi)Stories
Beyond lazy; external locus of control as an alternative explanation for the privacy paradox
Purpose The privacy paradox refers to the situation where users of online services continue to disclose personal information even when they are concerned about their privacy. One recent study of Facebook users published in Internet Research concludes that laziness contributes to the privacy paradox. The purpose of this study is to challenge the laziness explanation. To do so, we adopt a cognitive dispositions perspective and examine how a person’…
Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation
This article explores how nuclear disaster narratives have both been informed by and articulated collective images of risk and uncertainty since the 1980s. Drawing on ideas from classical and affective narratology that are framed by a perspective informed by the sociology of knowledge, we examine three variations of narrating nuclear disasters in different media: (1) sociologist Charles Perrow’s detailed analysis of the Three Mile Island accident…
Grace Notes
With this issue of Rock Music Studies and with “Dave Grohl, the Disco Flam, and the Un-Whitening of Alternative Rock” by Theo Cateforis, we are introducing “Grace Notes,” a new section that will fe
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