Mark Fenster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 285798 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mark Fenster |
| PRENOMES | Mark |
| SOBRENOME | Fenster |
| ASSINATURA | FENSTER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9535-5474 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A “Public” Journey Through Covid-19
Donald Trump ignored numerous governance norms in his one term as U.S. President, especially those that prescribe disclosure of official and personal financial information. His brief period of illness from COVID-19, which he broadcast to the world via his Twitter account, revealed the complexity of Trump’s relationship to the concept and norms of transparency that presume information’s necessity for a functional and accountable state. At the same…
Transparency in Trump's America
Un manque d’imagination
Cet article décrit l’émergence des attentats du 11 septembre contre le World Trade Center et le Pentagone comme un objet d’intrigue et d’imagination conspirationniste, proposant un instantané du « mouvement de vérité du 11 septembre » et de ses diverses théories lors de leur éclosion. Les théories concernant ces attentats dominent le présent des conspirationnistes –un présent remarquablement proche du passé du milieu et de la fin du 20° siècle, e…
A failure of imagination
This essay describes the emergence of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon as an object of conspiratorial intrigue and imagination, offering a snapshot of the "9/11 truth movement" and its various theories as they began to reach full bloom. Theories about the attacks have come to constitute the dominant conspiratorial present - a present that looks remarkably like the mid- and late-twentieth-century past, despite significant ch…
Transparency in search of a theory
Transparency's importance as an administrative norm seems self-evident. Prevailing ideals of political theory stipulate that the more visible government is, the more democratic, accountable, and legitimate it appears. The disclosure of state information consistently disappoints, however: there is never enough of it, while it often seems not to produce a truer democracy, a more accountable state, better policies, and a more contented populace. Thi…
Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy Theories
JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Queen Elizabeth II, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton -- all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. In this enlightening tour of theories, Mark Fenster guides readers through this shadowy world and analyzes its complex role in American culture and politics.Fenster argues that theories are a form of popular political interpretation and contends that understandi…
On Idiocratic Theory
One of Murray Edelman’s most important insights was that understanding public ignorance about politics and policy requires an analysis of how symbolic communication and popular culture shape public knowledge and opinion. Approaches that simply dismiss the public as ignorant or idiotic make a similar error as those that simply embrace the modern public as capable of engaging in the work of a competent demos, insofar as both simplify complex social…
Murray Edelman, polemicist of public ignorance
Murray Edelman's work raised significant theoretical and methodological questions regarding the symbolic nature of politics, and specifically the role played by non‐rational beliefs (those that lack real‐world grounding) in the shaping of political preferences. According to Edelman, beneath an apparently functional and accountable democratic state lies a symbolic system that renders an ignorant public quiescent. The state, the media, civil societ…
Essay Review
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Commercial (and/or?) Folk
Research Article| January 01 1995 Commercial (and/or?) Folk: The Bluegrass Industry and Bluegrass Traditions Mark Fenster Mark Fenster Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (1): 81–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-1-81 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Fenster; Commercial (and/or?) Folk: The Bluegrass Industry and B…
Authorizing Memory, Remembering Authority
Authorizing Memory, Remembering Authority Mark Fenster Schudson, Michael. Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. New York: Basic Books, 1992. Zelizer, Barbie. Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1992. “Best Evidence is the story of my journey in search of the truth about the autopsy [of John F. Kennedy]. When my litera…
Queer Punk Fanzines
The Problem of Taste Within the Problematic of Culture
Theories of Taste attempt to conceptualize the processes of signification by which cultural forms have meaning and are made to mean, and how subjects and groups of subjects insert themselves and are inserted into such processes. This article argues that any working theory of taste must explain the individual, group, and social originations of cultural “choice,” and the consumptive, communicative, and affective enactments or objectifications of ta…
Buck Owens, country music, and the struggle for discursive control
In the early- and mid-1960s, as mainstream popular music began to reach and exploit the growing youth market, the country music genre was going through a number of important transformations (see Malone 1985; Hemphill 1970). During this period the country music industry, including record companies, recording studios, managing and booking agents, music publishers and musicians, was becoming more fully consolidated in Nashville. In addition, a diffe…
Preparing the Audience, Informing the Performers
John A. Lomax's 1910 book, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, while not the first collection of such material, was the first widely distributed, full length publication that featured the image of the cowboy as singer. Stanley Clark had included a few songs in his 1897 book Life and Adventures of the American Cow-Boy.' and N. Howard Thorp's self-published, self-promoted and self-distributed collection/broadside Songs of the Cowboys had appea…
Country music video
In order to take advantage of the promotional potential of the music video, the country music industry was forced to adapt a medium with conventions and aesthetic elements established by other musical genres - by pop and rock. And to reach its distinct market country music video also had to incorporate country's own established iconographic elements. This iconography is constructed and understood in two ways: through the traditional concerns of c…
Transparency in search of a theory
Transparency's importance as an administrative norm seems self-evident. Prevailing ideals of political theory stipulate that the more visible government is, the more democratic, accountable, and legitimate it appears. The disclosure of state information consistently disappoints, however: there is never enough of it, while it often seems not to produce a truer democracy, a more accountable state, better policies, and a more contented populace. Thi…
Transparency in Trump's America
Murray Edelman, polemicist of public ignorance
Murray Edelman's work raised significant theoretical and methodological questions regarding the symbolic nature of politics, and specifically the role played by non‐rational beliefs (those that lack real‐world grounding) in the shaping of political preferences. According to Edelman, beneath an apparently functional and accountable democratic state lies a symbolic system that renders an ignorant public quiescent. The state, the media, civil societ…
Country music video
In order to take advantage of the promotional potential of the music video, the country music industry was forced to adapt a medium with conventions and aesthetic elements established by other musical genres - by pop and rock. And to reach its distinct market country music video also had to incorporate country's own established iconographic elements. This iconography is constructed and understood in two ways: through the traditional concerns of c…
On Idiocratic Theory
One of Murray Edelman’s most important insights was that understanding public ignorance about politics and policy requires an analysis of how symbolic communication and popular culture shape public knowledge and opinion. Approaches that simply dismiss the public as ignorant or idiotic make a similar error as those that simply embrace the modern public as capable of engaging in the work of a competent demos, insofar as both simplify complex social…
The Problem of Taste Within the Problematic of Culture
Theories of Taste attempt to conceptualize the processes of signification by which cultural forms have meaning and are made to mean, and how subjects and groups of subjects insert themselves and are inserted into such processes. This article argues that any working theory of taste must explain the individual, group, and social originations of cultural “choice,” and the consumptive, communicative, and affective enactments or objectifications of ta…
Buck Owens, country music, and the struggle for discursive control
In the early- and mid-1960s, as mainstream popular music began to reach and exploit the growing youth market, the country music genre was going through a number of important transformations (see Malone 1985; Hemphill 1970). During this period the country music industry, including record companies, recording studios, managing and booking agents, music publishers and musicians, was becoming more fully consolidated in Nashville. In addition, a diffe…
Country music video
In order to take advantage of the promotional potential of the music video, the country music industry was forced to adapt a medium with conventions and aesthetic elements established by other musical genres - by pop and rock. And to reach its distinct market country music video also had to incorporate country's own established iconographic elements. This iconography is constructed and understood in two ways: through the traditional concerns of c…
Preparing the Audience, Informing the Performers
John A. Lomax's 1910 book, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, while not the first collection of such material, was the first widely distributed, full length publication that featured the image of the cowboy as singer. Stanley Clark had included a few songs in his 1897 book Life and Adventures of the American Cow-Boy.' and N. Howard Thorp's self-published, self-promoted and self-distributed collection/broadside Songs of the Cowboys had appea…
Buck Owens, country music, and the struggle for discursive control
In the early- and mid-1960s, as mainstream popular music began to reach and exploit the growing youth market, the country music genre was going through a number of important transformations (see Malone 1985; Hemphill 1970). During this period the country music industry, including record companies, recording studios, managing and booking agents, music publishers and musicians, was becoming more fully consolidated in Nashville. In addition, a diffe…
The Problem of Taste Within the Problematic of Culture
Theories of Taste attempt to conceptualize the processes of signification by which cultural forms have meaning and are made to mean, and how subjects and groups of subjects insert themselves and are inserted into such processes. This article argues that any working theory of taste must explain the individual, group, and social originations of cultural “choice,” and the consumptive, communicative, and affective enactments or objectifications of ta…
Authorizing Memory, Remembering Authority
Authorizing Memory, Remembering Authority Mark Fenster Schudson, Michael. Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. New York: Basic Books, 1992. Zelizer, Barbie. Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1992. “Best Evidence is the story of my journey in search of the truth about the autopsy [of John F. Kennedy]. When my litera…
Queer Punk Fanzines
Essay Review
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
Commercial (and/or?) Folk
Research Article| January 01 1995 Commercial (and/or?) Folk: The Bluegrass Industry and Bluegrass Traditions Mark Fenster Mark Fenster Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (1): 81–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-1-81 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Fenster; Commercial (and/or?) Folk: The Bluegrass Industry and B…
Murray Edelman, polemicist of public ignorance
Murray Edelman's work raised significant theoretical and methodological questions regarding the symbolic nature of politics, and specifically the role played by non‐rational beliefs (those that lack real‐world grounding) in the shaping of political preferences. According to Edelman, beneath an apparently functional and accountable democratic state lies a symbolic system that renders an ignorant public quiescent. The state, the media, civil societ…
On Idiocratic Theory
One of Murray Edelman’s most important insights was that understanding public ignorance about politics and policy requires an analysis of how symbolic communication and popular culture shape public knowledge and opinion. Approaches that simply dismiss the public as ignorant or idiotic make a similar error as those that simply embrace the modern public as capable of engaging in the work of a competent demos, insofar as both simplify complex social…
Conspiracy Theories
JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Queen Elizabeth II, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton -- all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. In this enlightening tour of theories, Mark Fenster guides readers through this shadowy world and analyzes its complex role in American culture and politics.Fenster argues that theories are a form of popular political interpretation and contends that understandi…
Conspiracy Theories
A failure of imagination
This essay describes the emergence of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon as an object of conspiratorial intrigue and imagination, offering a snapshot of the "9/11 truth movement" and its various theories as they began to reach full bloom. Theories about the attacks have come to constitute the dominant conspiratorial present - a present that looks remarkably like the mid- and late-twentieth-century past, despite significant ch…
Transparency in search of a theory
Transparency's importance as an administrative norm seems self-evident. Prevailing ideals of political theory stipulate that the more visible government is, the more democratic, accountable, and legitimate it appears. The disclosure of state information consistently disappoints, however: there is never enough of it, while it often seems not to produce a truer democracy, a more accountable state, better policies, and a more contented populace. Thi…
Un manque d’imagination
Cet article décrit l’émergence des attentats du 11 septembre contre le World Trade Center et le Pentagone comme un objet d’intrigue et d’imagination conspirationniste, proposant un instantané du « mouvement de vérité du 11 septembre » et de ses diverses théories lors de leur éclosion. Les théories concernant ces attentats dominent le présent des conspirationnistes –un présent remarquablement proche du passé du milieu et de la fin du 20° siècle, e…
Transparency in Trump's America
A “Public” Journey Through Covid-19
Donald Trump ignored numerous governance norms in his one term as U.S. President, especially those that prescribe disclosure of official and personal financial information. His brief period of illness from COVID-19, which he broadcast to the world via his Twitter account, revealed the complexity of Trump’s relationship to the concept and norms of transparency that presume information’s necessity for a functional and accountable state. At the same…
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