Doing Our Own Thing : The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

McWhorter, John

ISBN 10: 0434010588 / ISBN 13: 9780434010585

Editore: Farshore, 2004

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• Titolo: Doing Our Own Thing : The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
• Editore: Farshore
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0434010588
• ISBN 13: 9780434010585
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 1,168 libbre

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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.