ExperienceIt is not uncommon for people to claim a bit of authenticity by immersing them-

MembershipAuthenticity through group identity is a construct that is elastic. The

to the presentation of self one claims and Taylor (1992) calls self-reflexivi

end consumers of the musi

 As  Bill  Yousman  has  effectively  argued,  this  consumption  reflects  a  simultaneous  “blackophilia”  and  “blackophobia”   among   white   consumers,   allowing   white   consumers   to   “contain   their   fears   and  animosities  towards  Blacks  through  rituals  .  .  .  of  ador

ouTube seems like the only way songs become truly massive anymore

Mechanical reproduction means repetition, which ensures that your voice livesand yet suggests death.

According to this view, text itself is a dying medium, as we turn to voice,spectacle, and performance; this turn is in any case a return, since poetry is originall

I have also thought it expedient to restrict myself still further, having abstained from the use of many expressions, in themselves proper and beautiful, but which have been foolishly repeated by bad Poets, till such feelings of disgust are connected with them as it is scarcely possible by any art of association to overpower

Others who pursue a different track will interest him likewise; I do not interfere with their claim, but wish to prefer a claim of my own.

Writers in metre seem to lay claim to by prescription

The Reader will find that personifications of abstract ideas rarely occur in these volumes; and are utterly rejected, as an ordinary device to elevate the style, and raise it above prose.

If one hasn’t enjoyed a poem and been moved by it, one hasn’t really experienced it as an artwork

Because lyric is a short form (unlike the epic or the verse-tale), it must be more concise than narrative or drama. Every word has to count. So does every gap [. . .]

But besides the narrative and dramatic social gestures, there exists the large body of poetry we call lyric.

The diary is the nearest prose equivalent to the lyric, but a diary is seen by a reader as the words of another person, whereas a lyric is meant to be spoken by its reader as if the reader were the one uttering the words.