The Problem Of Blackness In America: Becoming When The Being Never Comes To Be,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Problem Of Blackness In America: Becoming When The Being Never Comes To Be, Nkiru Anyaegbunam
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The problem of Blackness in America is a consequence of the historical reality and continued legacies of colonialism, the triangular trade and chattel slavery that have been facilitated through violence and capitalism. This thesis will argue that this problem that is pronounced through racialized institutional systems of violence such as mass incarceration and housing inequality, which disproportionately negatively impacts Black Americans is part of a larger discourse on the human and (mis)recognition. This violence has created a quintessential incompleteness for Black Americans who neither are recognized as citizens nor human. The problem of Blackness will be continuously grounded in ...
Negative Dialectics In Elliott Carter: Toward An Adornian Aesthetics Of Carter's Music,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Negative Dialectics In Elliott Carter: Toward An Adornian Aesthetics Of Carter's Music, Gregory J. Menillo
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is an attempt to lay the groundwork for an Adornian aesthetics of Elliott Carter’s music. The first chapter suggests that Theodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectics is the most appropriate paradigm for understanding the material antagonisms that characterize Carter’s music over a quasi-Hegelian “unity of opposites” as suggested in the Carter scholarship. Chapter Two demonstrates this through an Adornian reading of key aspects of the first movement of Carter’s 1948 Sonata for Cello and Piano, the watershed work for Carter’s mature style. The third chapter addresses the issue of musical time in Carter from ...
An Overview And Assessment Of The Editorial Assistant Position At Women’S Studies Quarterly,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
An Overview And Assessment Of The Editorial Assistant Position At Women’S Studies Quarterly, Amy M. Iafrate
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This paper represents the culmination of my internship at Women’s Studies Quarterly, and documents my experience of working from September 2020, to June 2021. I will begin with a discussion of the journal’s historical importance; from its origin in 1972, to its more contemporary issues. This background will segue into a critical analysis of my role at the journal, supported by anecdotes and ideas of critical feminist theorists.
Brujas Of Yesterday, Their Legacy Today,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Brujas Of Yesterday, Their Legacy Today, Maggi Delgado
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Brujas of Yesterday, their Legacy Today explores the impact of witch narratives on the lives of Latin American women. This bilingual interactive space collects both myths passed down through generations, ones still taught today, and stories of real women who bear the consequences of the legendary bruja character. Like witch hunts of women who did not fit the model of a “good woman,” the now correctly named femicides are examples of the prevailing misogynistic and anti-feminist rhetoric plaguing Latin American cultures diasporas. With a digital interactive map and timeline, the project aims to breathe new life into these old tales ...
When The Children Touched The Paintings: The Afterlives Of The New German Cinema And The Red Army Faction,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
When The Children Touched The Paintings: The Afterlives Of The New German Cinema And The Red Army Faction, Rudy R. Martinez
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The 1960s provided us with some of the most iconic protest images of the late-20th century. This was the result of worldwide unrest and the proliferation of filmmaking equipment, which led to a flood of photos and films depicting war and activism. Many of these images and films played a pivotal role in shaping the ever-evolving discussions surrounding the ‘60s. However, too often, radical imagery finds itself subsumed by consumer culture, a degradation that flattens radical imagery and turns it into consumer products. With this in mind, the work that follows is an analysis of one of the little-discussed ...
North Of The Grid: The Black Experience Of 17th -19th Century Rural New York City,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
North Of The Grid: The Black Experience Of 17th -19th Century Rural New York City, Stephanie E. Barnes
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In the United States, transatlantic slavery was a racial project and template for race-making which created a country that relied on institutions that were organized and performed through social stratification. Today, the nation still operates on systemically racist institutions that have benefited whites while disadvantaging ‘others.’ The narratives presented in American history are rooted in whiteness and benefit the white community while marginalizing nonwhites. Over two hundred years of slavery history in this country has been purposely manipulated and left out. My research focuses on using an historical archaeological framework to research and share the lives of free and enslaved ...
Covert Determiners In Appalachian English Narrative Declarative Sentences,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Covert Determiners In Appalachian English Narrative Declarative Sentences, William Oliver
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In this thesis, I explore the syntax and semantics of covert determiners (Ds) in matrix subject determiner phrases (DPs) with definite specific interpretations. To conduct my investigation, I used the Audio-Aligned and Parsed Corpus of Appalachian English (AAPCAppE), a million-word Penn Treebank corpus, and the software CorpusSearch, a Java program that searches Penn Treebank corpora. My research shows that Appalachian English contains a linguistic phenomenon where speakers drop the D, replacing overt Ds with covert Ds, in definite specific DPs. For example, where Standard English speakers say The doctor came by horseback, Appalachian speakers may use a covert D in ...
Non-Tonal Pitch Hierarchies And Dramatic Narratives In Oliver Knussen’S Variations, Op. 24,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Non-Tonal Pitch Hierarchies And Dramatic Narratives In Oliver Knussen’S Variations, Op. 24, Joseph Prestamo
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Musical analysts have often commented on the lingering echoes of tonality present within the otherwise non-centered (and remarkably complex) harmonic world of Oliver Knussen’s music. Using his piece Variations, Op. 24 as a model, this project hypothesizes that the compositional techniques Knussen employs serve to create non-tonal pitch hierarchies. Although Knussen does not use functional tonal harmony in this piece, he finds a variety of ways to elevate the pitch A to a place of prominence, both on the musical surface and in the background structural operations. These techniques naturally result in pitch spaces that are rich with tonal ...
The Feminine Harp As Feminist Tool: Early Professional Footing For Women In Mid-Twentieth-Century America,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Feminine Harp As Feminist Tool: Early Professional Footing For Women In Mid-Twentieth-Century America, Chelsea Lane
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In 1930s North America, women—for the first time—were accorded permanent principal positions in significant American orchestras. Edna Phillips, Alice Chalifoux, and Sylvia Meyer, all students of the legendary harp pedagogue Carlos Salzedo, have been celebrated as pioneers for the prestigious employment they obtained in the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra, respectively, between 1930 and 1933. Despite the impressiveness of these accomplishments, however, the narrative of their “firstness” is not wholly accurate. In actuality, female harpists have occupied orchestral posts as acting principals, substitutes, and second harpists since the very inception of orchestras. The cause for ...
Disposizione Scenica Per L’Opera Simon Boccanegra: An Insight Into Verdi’S Sense Of Drama And A Valuable Tool For Contemporary Performance,
2022
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Disposizione Scenica Per L’Opera Simon Boccanegra: An Insight Into Verdi’S Sense Of Drama And A Valuable Tool For Contemporary Performance, Giordana Rubria Fiori
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The purpose of this dissertation is twofold: while it aims to provide a valuable tool for performers and all artists involved in a production of Simon Boccanegra, it also simultaneously explores and outlines several instances in which Verdi’s all-encompassing idea of drama shapes and directs this opera.
Throughout this process, the disposizione scenica to Simon Boccanegra constitutes the central document that connects the practical and the aesthetic perspective of this dissertation. Each chapter is dedicated to a different character of Simon Boccanegra, allowing the reader to follow each character on a journey through the opera as it is presented ...
Front Matter,
2022
Brigham Young University
The Apache Wars And The Swiss Sergeant, John Spring,
2022
Utah Valley University
The Apache Wars And The Swiss Sergeant, John Spring, Albert Winkler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Apache Wars were a series of conflicts that comprised the longest sequence of confrontations between a Native American Nation and the white Americans of the United States. These largely took place starting with the first US military incursions into the American Southwest in 1846 during the War with Mexico and lasted until Geronimo’s final surrender in 1886. While most of the fighting occurred in the modern US states of Arizona and New Mexico, yet much of the warfare was between the Mexicans and the Apaches dating back to the seventeenth century. Those wars were very costly in lives ...
Obituary For Herbert Dwight Page,
2022
Brigham Young University
Obituary For Herbert Dwight Page, Albert Winkler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Obituary For Rosa Lechner Schupbach,
2022
Brigham Young University
Obituary For Rosa Lechner Schupbach, Albert Winkler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Reports Of The Swiss American Historical Society,
2022
Georgia Military College
Reports Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Robert Sherwood
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Death Notice For Leo Schelbert,
2022
Brigham Young University
Death Notice For Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Obituary pending.
End Matter,
2022
Brigham Young University
Full Issue,
2022
Utah Valley University
Full Issue, Albert Winkler, Robert Sherwood
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Full Issue of Volume 58 issue 2 of the Swiss American Historical Society Journal
Ensayo: El Vallenato Forma La Estructura Familiar,
2022
Southern Methodist University
Ensayo: El Vallenato Forma La Estructura Familiar, Callie Jacob
Tertulia. SMU Undergraduate Spanish Journal
Ensayo sobre el género musical del Vallenato.
El Idioma Sin Palabras,
2022
Southern Methodist University
El Idioma Sin Palabras, Jake Payne
Tertulia. SMU Undergraduate Spanish Journal
Cuento.
