An Italian Professor's Perspective on an American Consumer Organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianni Nicolini
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Organization ◽  
American Consumer

Chestnut Grove: An Early 19th-Century Lime Burning Industry in the Connecticut Western Reserve

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald F. Kingsley
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Lake Erie ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Wood Supply ◽  
Virgin Land ◽  
Ohio Country ◽  
American Consumer ◽  
Bay Islands ◽  
Western Reserve

Information is limited regarding the development of early industries along Lake Erie's northeastern shore of the Connecticut Western Reserve. With the opening of the Ohio Country, farmers and pioneer industrialists found the virgin land abundant with natural resources and ready to be exploited. Evidence derived from a rescue excavation of a stone structure at the outlet of the Cowles Creek together with documents established the presence of a lime burning industry. Early settlers found a plentiful wood supply located on the mainland which provided the necessary fuel for burning limestone mined on Cunningham (Kelleys) Island and permitted the construction of shops for use on Lake Erie. Some of the ships that were constructed locally were used to transport lime for the industry. The Sandusky Bay Islands eventually became a rich source of limestone for the expanding American consumer market.

Reimagined Old-Time Music Cultures in the Trainhopping Punk Rock South

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Margolies
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Alternative Fuel ◽  
Punk Rock ◽  
Fuel Production ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
American Consumer

This chapter presents the first consideration of a little known network of radical musicians which has coalesced in the last decade into a vibrant new subculture within the broader (but still obscure) “old time music” scene. Since the late 1990s, old time music has been adopted and repurposed via the language of liberation and autonomy with great seriousness and complete novelty by a fluid group of alternative minded DIY anarcho-punks, many of whom are originally from outside of the region. These young musicians have relocated from around the country to the contemporary South in search of deeply authentic old time forms of music, life, and economy standing in opposition to dominant capitalist consumer culture. These “trainhoppers” search for community and authenticity among alternative-minded people and construct a unique old time musical ecology embedded within related pursuits like radical environmental politics, squatting, off-the-grid homesteading, alternative fuel production, and other aspects of the radical quest for hand-crafted experience conceived of as oppositional to dominant, contemporary American consumer culture.

“The world’s greatest center of … propaganda”

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Lisa Nanney
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
American Consumer ◽  
Short Term Contract ◽  
Repressive Regime ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Josef Von Sternberg ◽  
The Devil

The years 1934-37, during which Dos Passos undertook three film projects, were critical in Dos Passos’s literary career and political thought. He believed that capitalism was another of the monolithic forces of the machine age, like the military, that could eradicate individual self-determination. But he saw increasing danger in Stalin’s repressive regime and what he considered American Communists’ subordination of workers’ interests to Party ideology. His nascent political ambivalence emerges in the first two volumes of U.S.A., The 42nd Parallel (1930) and 1919 (1932). By 1934, when he accepted a short-term contract as screenwriter for Paramount, he was engaged in work on the third volume, The Big Money (1936), and his experiences while working on a film vehicle for Marlene Dietrich, The Devil Is a Woman (1935, dir. Josef von Sternberg), solidified his conviction of the complicity between the Hollywood “dreamfactory” and capitalism to stoke American consumer culture. While the manuscript of the Paramount film shows signs of Dos Passos’s aesthetics, it is The Big Money’s film-inflected narrative representation of the corruption of the industry that articulates the impact of both the formal and the cultural dynamics of film on his work.

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