Edward G Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward G Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward G |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murray State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Presentation of Identity in the Work Songs of Johnny Cash
This paper approaches music lyrics as a delivery system for the presentation of identity and reports the result of a content analysis of the work songs recorded by Johnny Cash. Beginning with a discography of 684 songs, the analysis found that 115 mention jobs, of which eighty concern work, and eight pertain to factory work. The study provides a detailed description of the factory work songs and categorizes them in terms of four themes: (1) going…
The Drug Court as Postmodern Justice
Eminem's Construction of Authenticity
(2004). Eminem's Construction of Authenticity. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 335-355
The Commodified 23, or, Michael Jordan as Text
Semiotics is employed in an examination of Michael Jordan (the signified) and his uniform number (the signifier). A systematic comparative framework is used to limit the potentially infinite multiplicity of interpretants. Its themes are the way Jordan expresses the modernity-postmodernity division and is, himself an aspect of this cultural characterization. Seven diacritical alternatives are considered: (a) secularism versus immanence; (b) bureau…
The Rhetoric of Violence in Rap and Country Music
This study is a semiotic ethnography and ethnomusicological comparison of the rhetoric of violence found in two increasingly popular musical forms, rap and country. Based on the production-of-culture perspective, musical genres are considered socially constructed organizing principles and lyrics, the primary data, are viewed as ensembles of texts. The strategy is to address rap and country songs as they present claims concerning the focal concern…
Authority and the Liberal Tradition
Country music sex songs: An Ethnomusicological account
Pondering pandering
The purpose of this paper is to examine the pandering activities of pimps and to formulate a critique of the concept of pandering. First, popular perceptions of the phenomenon are described in terms of a case story. Information on preferred recruitment sites (e.g., bus terminals) and standard modes of operation (talk, drugs, and violence) is provided. Next, the results of two exploratory studies are reported. Police perspectives are revealed thro…
Sceptical Sociology
The sociology of prostitution
The purpose of this paper is to formulate a critique of the sociology of prostitution by calling into question its theoretical premise—the concept of prostitution. Sociologically defined, prostitution is an occupation in which an individual sells sex in a promiscuous and emotionally indifferent manner. This definition is divided into four parts and each is examined separately. The parts are prostitution as (1) an occupation; (2) an act of selling…
The rapprochement of country and soul music
Phenomenologophobia
Black Sociology and Phenomenological Sociology
This paper is a comparative analysis of black sociology and phenomenological sociology and an attempt to show how phenomenology might be used to provide an epistemological foundation for black sociology. Attention is directed toward the writings of black and phenomenological sociologists. Arguments rest on appeals to authorities—quotations from and citations to influential writers. The specific points of comparison are the way the protagonists of…
Massage parlors and their customers
The System Paradigm and the Sociological Study of Racial Conflict
THERE HAS BEEN an increasing amount of criticisms of sociologists' study of the black-white conflict in America. One sympathetic investigator has even concluded that the sociological field of minority groups lacks testable theories and cumulative research findings.' More important, however, is the fact that there has developed a set way of criticizing the sociological studies. As Robert Staples points out, the new criticisms continue, at least in…
Eminem's Construction of Authenticity
(2004). Eminem's Construction of Authenticity. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 335-355
Massage parlors and their customers
The Commodified 23, or, Michael Jordan as Text
Semiotics is employed in an examination of Michael Jordan (the signified) and his uniform number (the signifier). A systematic comparative framework is used to limit the potentially infinite multiplicity of interpretants. Its themes are the way Jordan expresses the modernity-postmodernity division and is, himself an aspect of this cultural characterization. Seven diacritical alternatives are considered: (a) secularism versus immanence; (b) bureau…
The Rhetoric of Violence in Rap and Country Music
This study is a semiotic ethnography and ethnomusicological comparison of the rhetoric of violence found in two increasingly popular musical forms, rap and country. Based on the production-of-culture perspective, musical genres are considered socially constructed organizing principles and lyrics, the primary data, are viewed as ensembles of texts. The strategy is to address rap and country songs as they present claims concerning the focal concern…
Country music sex songs: An Ethnomusicological account
The sociology of prostitution
The purpose of this paper is to formulate a critique of the sociology of prostitution by calling into question its theoretical premise—the concept of prostitution. Sociologically defined, prostitution is an occupation in which an individual sells sex in a promiscuous and emotionally indifferent manner. This definition is divided into four parts and each is examined separately. The parts are prostitution as (1) an occupation; (2) an act of selling…
Phenomenologophobia
Pondering pandering
The purpose of this paper is to examine the pandering activities of pimps and to formulate a critique of the concept of pandering. First, popular perceptions of the phenomenon are described in terms of a case story. Information on preferred recruitment sites (e.g., bus terminals) and standard modes of operation (talk, drugs, and violence) is provided. Next, the results of two exploratory studies are reported. Police perspectives are revealed thro…
Black Sociology and Phenomenological Sociology
This paper is a comparative analysis of black sociology and phenomenological sociology and an attempt to show how phenomenology might be used to provide an epistemological foundation for black sociology. Attention is directed toward the writings of black and phenomenological sociologists. Arguments rest on appeals to authorities—quotations from and citations to influential writers. The specific points of comparison are the way the protagonists of…
The System Paradigm and the Sociological Study of Racial Conflict
THERE HAS BEEN an increasing amount of criticisms of sociologists' study of the black-white conflict in America. One sympathetic investigator has even concluded that the sociological field of minority groups lacks testable theories and cumulative research findings.' More important, however, is the fact that there has developed a set way of criticizing the sociological studies. As Robert Staples points out, the new criticisms continue, at least in…
Massage parlors and their customers
The rapprochement of country and soul music
Phenomenologophobia
Black Sociology and Phenomenological Sociology
This paper is a comparative analysis of black sociology and phenomenological sociology and an attempt to show how phenomenology might be used to provide an epistemological foundation for black sociology. Attention is directed toward the writings of black and phenomenological sociologists. Arguments rest on appeals to authorities—quotations from and citations to influential writers. The specific points of comparison are the way the protagonists of…
Sceptical Sociology
The sociology of prostitution
The purpose of this paper is to formulate a critique of the sociology of prostitution by calling into question its theoretical premise—the concept of prostitution. Sociologically defined, prostitution is an occupation in which an individual sells sex in a promiscuous and emotionally indifferent manner. This definition is divided into four parts and each is examined separately. The parts are prostitution as (1) an occupation; (2) an act of selling…
Pondering pandering
The purpose of this paper is to examine the pandering activities of pimps and to formulate a critique of the concept of pandering. First, popular perceptions of the phenomenon are described in terms of a case story. Information on preferred recruitment sites (e.g., bus terminals) and standard modes of operation (talk, drugs, and violence) is provided. Next, the results of two exploratory studies are reported. Police perspectives are revealed thro…
Country music sex songs: An Ethnomusicological account
Authority and the Liberal Tradition
The Rhetoric of Violence in Rap and Country Music
This study is a semiotic ethnography and ethnomusicological comparison of the rhetoric of violence found in two increasingly popular musical forms, rap and country. Based on the production-of-culture perspective, musical genres are considered socially constructed organizing principles and lyrics, the primary data, are viewed as ensembles of texts. The strategy is to address rap and country songs as they present claims concerning the focal concern…
The Commodified 23, or, Michael Jordan as Text
Semiotics is employed in an examination of Michael Jordan (the signified) and his uniform number (the signifier). A systematic comparative framework is used to limit the potentially infinite multiplicity of interpretants. Its themes are the way Jordan expresses the modernity-postmodernity division and is, himself an aspect of this cultural characterization. Seven diacritical alternatives are considered: (a) secularism versus immanence; (b) bureau…
Eminem's Construction of Authenticity
(2004). Eminem's Construction of Authenticity. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 335-355
The Drug Court as Postmodern Justice
The Presentation of Identity in the Work Songs of Johnny Cash
This paper approaches music lyrics as a delivery system for the presentation of identity and reports the result of a content analysis of the work songs recorded by Johnny Cash. Beginning with a discography of 684 songs, the analysis found that 115 mention jobs, of which eighty concern work, and eight pertain to factory work. The study provides a detailed description of the factory work songs and categorizes them in terms of four themes: (1) going…
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