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“It is not simply as release or play, in other words, that popular music saves society from its routine murders; it is not just relief from the long day's work or the joy that comes from cutting loose or the affirmation of community that makes it attractive, although all of these play their parts. In the Americas, popular music is a mission and strategy to recover the deep theoretical roots that extend far into the past and constitutes nothing less an alternative history of Western civilization.”
― Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz
― Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz
“He believed that whereas reality may be independent of the stories told about it, the meaning of that reality never is. Facts are “created” to the extent that some facts are ignored, others selectively chosen, then arranged in the form of a narrative, which is the only way they make sense. More often than not, a naive insistence on “the facts” reveals a “contemptuous dismissal of opinion and interpretation,” usually favoring what already passes for fact in conventional wisdom, and is therefore part of a larger “cult of ‘objectivity’ and expertise.”
― Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
― Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
“He chose not to be buried in Palestine. The political symbolism of his life made the desecration of his grave an unfortunate possibility. Instead, drawing on Mariam’s family connections, he selected a small Quaker cemetery perched on a grassy, tree-lined shelf of a steep hill in Brummana, Lebanon. There his simple black marble slab rests, his name appearing in English above and in Arabic below. Like the cemetery itself, the plot is tucked away from the world, almost secreted, in a way entirely unfitting a life like his own, except for the encroaching signs of modernity marring the general splendor of the valley. Modern high-rises vie with cypress trees to border the verdant triangle of the graveyard, which, although small, is too large for the number of Quakers buried there. And although it faces south toward Palestine overlooking a mountain range towering above Beirut, even the final resting place was not quite right.”
― Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
― Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
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