[audiobook] Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (Big Issues in Music) by Kirin Narayan in Arts-Photography

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Who was Mark Antony? Popular culture remembers him as a deeply flawed character whose excessive appetites cost him an empire. From Shakespeare to the silver screen; Mark Antonyrsquo;s notoriety for drunkenness and decadence have survived and flourished in contemporary pop culture representations. But drunkenness and decadence were gendered concepts in Roman political discourse; and their use in constructing Mark Antony is not as straightforward as it might appear. In this fascinating account of a classical figure and his reception in popular culture; Rachael Kelly traces the evolution of the Mark Antony myth in Hollywood historical epic film and television. Examining the recurring tropes behind Richard Burtonrsquo;s Byronic dilettante and James Purefoyrsquo;s amoral; impulsive bully-boy; Kelly deftly reveals the part these representations have to play in transmitting and interrogating a discourse of hegemonic masculinity that stretches all the way from Plutarch to the present day. Diplomacy.