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
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Modernization
Music
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Romanticism
Songs
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