CONSPIRACIES OF MEANING: MUSIC-HALL AND THE KNOWINGNESS OF POPULAR CULTURE
CONSPIRACIES OF MEANING: MUSIC-HALL AND THE KNOWINGNESS OF POPULAR CULTURE
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意义的阴谋:音乐厅和流行文化的认知
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1994
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Peter Bailey
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Peter Bailey
Knowingness might be defined as what everybody knows, but some know better than others. At once complicit and discriminatory, this popular mode of expression was frequently noted by middle-class commentators as a distinctive — and objectionable — feature of comic performance in nineteenth-century British music-halls. This essay argues that a more specific and articulated account of the phenomenon can contribute to a more satisfactory explanation of how music-hall engaged with its public. Treating knowingness as discourse and practice enables us to get inside the dynamics of this influential modern cultural form. It suggests too how spoken (and unspoken) language functioned as a prime resource in the "mobile infinity of tactics" that constituted everyday life.