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Beyond Encounters: Religion, Ethnicity, And Violence In The Early Modern Atlantic World, 1450-1700, Brian Sandberg Mar 2006

Beyond Encounters: Religion, Ethnicity, And Violence In The Early Modern Atlantic World, 1450-1700, Brian Sandberg

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Richard Nixon, Détente, And The Conservative Movement, 1969-1974, Eric Patrick Gilliland Jan 2006

Richard Nixon, Détente, And The Conservative Movement, 1969-1974, Eric Patrick Gilliland

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This work examines the relationship between President Richard Nixon and the American conservative movement, 1969-1974. Nixon's anti-communist persona proved pivotal in winning the 1968 Republican nomination, with support from the party's consevative base. The foreign policies orcherstrated by Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, however, which sought to reduce tensions with China and the Soviet Union, infuriated the conservatives. In 1971-1972, they suspended their support of the administration and even drafted their own candidate, the Ohio congressman, John Ashbrook, to challenge Nixon in the 1972 primary campaign. Although the Ashbrook campaign had a minimal impact, it set a …


Sacred Swing: The Sacralization Of Jazz In The American Bahá'Í Community, E. Taylor Atkins Jan 2006

Sacred Swing: The Sacralization Of Jazz In The American Bahá'Í Community, E. Taylor Atkins

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Much modern jazz performance is imbued with religious significance or “sacred intentionality”, as revealed in the Bahá’í conceptions of jazz as a vehicle for worship and spiritual transcendence. Although earlier generations of believers objected to jazz because of its presumed moral and aesthetic poverty, jazz has become a staple in Bahá’í public culture and proclamation activities, partially due to the influence of prominent jazz musicians who became Bahá’ís, such as Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Flora Purim, and Tierney Sutton. Oral history and textual research are used to explore the dialectic between jazz and Bahá’í spiritual teachings and practices, the impact …


Inventing Jazztowns And Internationalizing Local Identities In Japan, E. Taylor Atkins Jan 2004

Inventing Jazztowns And Internationalizing Local Identities In Japan, E. Taylor Atkins

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Describes the respective claims of port cities Yokohama and Kobe to be the points of entry for jazz in Japan.


Edifying Tones: Using Music To Teach Asian History And Culture, E. Taylor Atkins Jan 2003

Edifying Tones: Using Music To Teach Asian History And Culture, E. Taylor Atkins

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Discusses the ways that music and musical aesthetics can be used to illustrate cultural characteristics and philosophies in Asian history curriculum.


Korean P’Ansori And The Blues: Art For Communal Healing, E. Taylor Atkins Jan 2002

Korean P’Ansori And The Blues: Art For Communal Healing, E. Taylor Atkins

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Jammin’ On The Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community In Interwar Shanghai, E. Taylor Atkins May 1999

Jammin’ On The Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community In Interwar Shanghai, E. Taylor Atkins

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Examines the community of expatriate Japanese musicians playing jazz in interwar Shanghai, and the symbolic meaning of Shanghai as a "frontier" where musicians could develop their chops.


The War On Jazz, Or Jazz Goes To War: Toward A New Cultural Order In Wartime Japan, E. Taylor Atkins Jan 1998

The War On Jazz, Or Jazz Goes To War: Toward A New Cultural Order In Wartime Japan, E. Taylor Atkins

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Discusses the fate of jazz in wartime Japan, emphasizing not just the official ban on the music, but the ways that jazz musicians found ways to make the idiom serve national policy.


The Inkwell, Armstrong State College Sep 1994

The Inkwell, Armstrong State College

The Inkwell

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Announcement Graduate And Undergraduate - The School Year 1965-67, Prairie View A&M College Jan 1967

Announcement Graduate And Undergraduate - The School Year 1965-67, Prairie View A&M College

Annual Catalog

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The Inkwell, Armstrong State University Nov 1963

The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

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Letter From Grace Rose, Wellesley, Massachusetts, To Mrs. A.G. Rose, Martinsville, Indiana, 1930 March 1-1930 March 3, Grace Rose, Wellesley College Archives Mar 1930

Letter From Grace Rose, Wellesley, Massachusetts, To Mrs. A.G. Rose, Martinsville, Indiana, 1930 March 1-1930 March 3, Grace Rose, Wellesley College Archives

Grace Rose letters (6C1930)

Letter to her mother describing a party in Betty's room, work for the History Department contest, dinner with a former professor, and her regular fatigue; and asking about potential jobs at home.


Letter From Grace Rose, Wellesley, Massachusetts, To Mrs. A.G. Rose, Martinsville, Indiana, 1920 February 21, Grace Rose, Wellesley College Archives Feb 1930

Letter From Grace Rose, Wellesley, Massachusetts, To Mrs. A.G. Rose, Martinsville, Indiana, 1920 February 21, Grace Rose, Wellesley College Archives

Grace Rose letters (6C1930)

Letter to her mother describing her difficulty sending a package, a new dress, and Prom weekend in Tower Court, her plan to enter a History Department contest, and her schoolwork.