Identity and Everyday Life : Essays in the Study of Folklore, Music and Popular Culture

Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Part One: Everyday Life in Theory and Practice Chapter One New Directions in the Study of Everyday Life: Expressive Culture and the Interpretation of Practice 3(20) GIOVANNA P. DEL NEGRO AND HARRIS M. BERGER Chapter Two Theory as Practice: Some Dialectics of Generality and Specificity in Folklore Scholarship 23(20) HARRIS M. BERGER Part Two: Self, Reflexivity, and Identity Chapter Three Horizons of Melody and the Problem of the Self 43(46) HARRIS M. BERGER Chapter Four The Role of Reflexivity in the Aesthetics of Performance: Verbal Art, Public Display, and Popular Music 89(35) HARRIS M. BERGER AND GIOVANNA P. DEL NEGRO Chapter Five Identity Reconsidered, the World Doubled 124(35) GIOVANNA P. DEL NEGRO AND HARRIS M. BERGER Notes 159(12) Works Cited 171(10) Index 181