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Studies of opera, film, television, and literature have demonstrated how constructions of madness may be referenced in order to stigmatise but also liberate protagonists in ways that reinforce or challenge contemporaneous notions of normality. But to date very little research has been conducted on how madness is represented in popular music. In an effort to redress this imbalance, Nicola Spelman identifies links between the anti-psychiatry movement and representations of madness in popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, analysing the various ways in which ideas critical of institutional psychiatry are embodied both verbally and musically in specific songs by David Bowie, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd,...
Pendant la guerre d'Algérie, des chrétiens ont joué un rôle important dans la mobilisation contre la torture et la lutte pour l'indépendance. Des hommes d'Eglise, conscients de leur mission, vont ainsi témoigner de la justesse d'une cause : l'égalité des hommes bafouée par un ordre colonial injuste. Etude historique qui met notamment en valeur le rôle décisif de prêtres de la Mission de France.
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The author discusses the role of French Catholicism in the internal and foreign affairs of modern France, with a detailed examination of French Catholic groups and their effect on temporal life. Presenting a wealth of material from official archives and files of French Catholic periodicals and organizations, Mr. Bosworth supplements his research by direct interviews with key personnel from a variety of Catholic groups. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.