Some One Else
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Someone Else
In SOMEONE ELSE award-winning essayist John Hughes pays homage to twenty one artists, writers and musicians who have had a formative influence on his imagination. From Chekhov and Borges and Beckett, to Proust, Rothko and Cage - each essay brings its subject to life in unexpected ways. Kafka rewrites the parable of Abraham and Isaac, with no one to stay Abraham's knife. Wittgenstein considers the relationship between turtles and time. Bob Dylan stars in a fantasy of travellers and deserts and women with knives and silver earrings. Just around the corner from where Hughes works, Dostoyevsky fries kidneys in the kitchen of his Stanley Street terrace... Like THE IDEA OF HOME, SOMEONE ELSE uses the essay as a form of autobiography. Here, however, the essays are fictions. Or are they? Hughes tells the stories of the figures who live in his mind by making them tell his stories - and in doing so engages in an art of literary ventriloquism.
Someone Else
As in the work of David Lynch, SOMEONE ELSE exposes the underbelly of small town America for all its charm and tragedy. At its core, this novel is a page turner luring the reader into the mind of Sally Tallman whose existential crisis blinds her to the real crises in her midst. Suicide may be the catalyst for change and discovery in SOMEONE ELSE but this is a book that never traffics in easy answers.
Someone Else's Music
Author: Alexandra Wilson
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2025-07-02
In Britain today, opera is routinely called elitist. But things were not always so. Examining shifting cultural attitudes over the century from 1920 to 2020, Someone Else's Music reveals a hidden history of popular opera-going in Britain, which defies the opera-elitism stereotype. At the same time, the book traces how, when, and why that stereotype arose. It uses opera as a lens through which to examine the broader history of changing cultural values in the UK, from 1920s Reithian ideals about art's civilising qualities to contemporary culture wars. The controversies opera has prompted over the last century reveal a great deal about national identity — who Britons think they are and who they want to be. The book ranges widely across topics including education, public broadcasting, arts policy, and attitudes towards subsidy, and traces opera's surprisingly close relationship with popular culture. We meet a diverse cast of characters, including working-class East-End opera fans, opera-singing Welsh miners, soldiers discovering opera in wartime Italy, and holidaymakers watching it at Butlin's. The book is as much about the secretary camping out in the queue for gallery tickets as it is about the duchess in the stalls. But at what point did people start calling opera elitist and why? Analysing lasting stereotypes around opera, Wilson reveals them to be politically motivated, founded in deep-seated British anxieties about class, education, and national identity. Someone Else's Music is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the debates we are having today about arts funding, accessibility and who opera is 'for'. It reveals that opera used to be for everyone - and shows us how it could be again.