Tracks of My Tears: Smokey Robinson and the Art of Loving

This piece written for Valentine’s Day 2014 links the love songs of Smokey Robinson with writing on romantic love from classical theorists to feminist writers like Mary Evans and bell hooks. Through a discussion of Smokey Robinson’s biography it argues that the political and affective key of his son...

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Published in:Theory, culture & society culture & society, 2014-12, Vol.31 (7-8), p.337-341
Main Author: Back, Les
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biographies
Ethics
Feminism
Feminist Theory
Love
Modernization
Music
Robinson, Smokey
Romanticism
Songs
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Summary:This piece written for Valentine’s Day 2014 links the love songs of Smokey Robinson with writing on romantic love from classical theorists to feminist writers like Mary Evans and bell hooks. Through a discussion of Smokey Robinson’s biography it argues that the political and affective key of his songs is similar to the arguments provided by feminist theory. It makes a case for holding to a ‘love ethic’ that is a doing, not confined to one person alone but rather circulated and routed within wider communities.
ISSN:0263-2764
1460-3616
DOI:10.1177/0263276414546382