Doing Our Own Thing : The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care Paperback / softback
by John McWhorter
Paperback / softback
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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 1960s, 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, John 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...
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Cornerstone
- Publication Date:03/11/2005
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- ISBN:9780099445357
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Cornerstone
- Publication Date:03/11/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099445357