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Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness and richness that we associate with a Shakespeare, a Proust or a Whitman. Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone into reverse - taking our lead from America and the legacy of the 19060s, our culture increasingly privileges the oral over the written, spurning the art of elaborated, 'written'-style language in favour of returning to the state of a spoken culture. Parallel developments have occurred in music. In this controversial and thought-provoking book, Jon McWhorter argues that the 1960's rejection of cultural traits associated with the Establishment, as well as a democratic celebration of what anyone can do over what requires training or talent, has led to our culture being increasingly impoverished, both intellectually and artistically, a culture that hates itself.
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Doing Our Own Thing, John McWhorter
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- Erscheinungsdatum
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- Titel
- Doing Our Own Thing
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John McWhorter
- Verlag
- Heinemann Young Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2004
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 280
- ISBN10
- 0434010588
- ISBN13
- 9780434010585
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Kunst & Kultur, Historisches Thema, Wahre Geschichten, Geschichte, Musikalische Thematik, Musik, Meinungsjournalismus, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Sprachen, Linguistik
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- Once languages become written, they change. Only in writing does language develop the artfulness and richness that we associate with a Shakespeare, a Proust or a Whitman. Yet over the last forty years, the English-language has effectively gone into reverse - taking our lead from America and the legacy of the 19060s, our culture increasingly privileges the oral over the written, spurning the art of elaborated, 'written'-style language in favour of returning to the state of a spoken culture. Parallel developments have occurred in music. In this controversial and thought-provoking book, Jon McWhorter argues that the 1960's rejection of cultural traits associated with the Establishment, as well as a democratic celebration of what anyone can do over what requires training or talent, has led to our culture being increasingly impoverished, both intellectually and artistically, a culture that hates itself.