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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Riddim Method: Aesthetics, Practice, And Ownership In Jamaican Dancehall, Peter L. Manuel, Wayne Marshall
The Riddim Method: Aesthetics, Practice, And Ownership In Jamaican Dancehall, Peter L. Manuel, Wayne Marshall
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The Jamaican system of recording and performance, from the 1950s to the present, constitutes a distinctive approach to notions of composition, originality and ownership. Emerging from a tradition of live performance practice mediated by (and informing) sound recordings, the relative autonomy of riddims and voicings in the Jamaican system challenges conventional ideas about the integrity of a song and the degree to which international copyright law applies to local conceptions, as enshrined in decades of practice, of musical materials as public domain. With the spread of the ‘riddim method’ to the sites of Jamaican mass migration, as evidenced by similar …
Review Of The Website Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records: A Genealogy Guide, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Website Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records: A Genealogy Guide, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the website Online searchable death indexes & records: A genealogy guide.
Young Activists And The New 'No Wave': Two Anthologies For A Feminist Future, Alycia Sellie
Young Activists And The New 'No Wave': Two Anthologies For A Feminist Future, Alycia Sellie
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No abstract provided.
The Sacred Performative: Holy Wednesday And Colonial Ritual/Theatre, Christopher B. Swift
The Sacred Performative: Holy Wednesday And Colonial Ritual/Theatre, Christopher B. Swift
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"Holy Wednesday" is a late sixteenth century adaptation of a Spanish auto sacramental (sacred play) written in alphabetized Nahuatl, the predominant pre-Columbian language spoken on the High Central Plateau of Mexico. The author remains unknown, however he was likely a Nahua amanuensis educated by Franciscans at Colegio de Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco. Religious drama was one of the important evangelizing tools of the Catholic brotherhoods in colonial Mexico and although a record of performance of Holy Wednesday does not exist, this dramatic depiction of the final meeting of Christ and Mary prior to the crucifixion was almost certainly performed as …
Playing And Eating Democracy: The Case Of Puerto Rico's Land Distribution Program, 1940s-1960s, Ismael Garcia-Colon
Playing And Eating Democracy: The Case Of Puerto Rico's Land Distribution Program, 1940s-1960s, Ismael Garcia-Colon
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In the early 1940s, the colonial government of Puerto Rico with the consent of the U.S. federal government began to elaborate a land reform. Under Title V of the Land Law of 1941, the government established resettlement communities for landless families. One of their goals was to transform landless agricultural workers into an industrial and urban labor force by teaching them “democratic, industrial, and modern” habits. Government officials distributed land to landless families through lotteries, portraying the ceremonies as acts of democracy. Community education programs produced literature, films, and posters aimed at fostering development and political participation. The colonial state …
Abroad At Home: Xenomania And Voluntary Exile In The Middle Passage, Salt, And Tide Running, Kevin Frank
Abroad At Home: Xenomania And Voluntary Exile In The Middle Passage, Salt, And Tide Running, Kevin Frank
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This essay re-examines the causes and consequences of Caribbean alienation, with implications for understanding alienation in other postcolonial societies. The author argues that while externalization does follow colonial incursions or international travel by the colonized, exile and alienation also result from emotional or psychological migrations within the mind, a consequence of neocolonial mechanisms tied to globalization.
Review Of The Database Testaments To The Holocaust, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Database Testaments To The Holocaust, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the database Testaments to the Holocaust.
Structural Analysis Or Cultural Analysis? Competing Perspectives On The "Standard Pattern" Of West African Rhythm, Kofi Agawu
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Polyrhythmic dance compositions from West Africa typically feature an ostinato bell pattern known as a time line. Timbrally distinct, asymmetrical in structure, and aurally prominent, time lines have drawn comment from scholars as keys to understanding African rhythm. This article focuses on the best known and most widely distributed of these, the so-called standard pattern, a seven-stroke figure spanning twelve eighth notes and disposed durationally as <2212221>. Observations about structure (including its internal dynamic, metrical potential, and rotational properties) are juxtaposed with a putative African-cultural understanding (inferred from the firm place of dance in the culture, patterns of verbal discourse, …2212221>
A Nonfiction Fictitious Remembrance Of Wendy Wasserstein, Marleen S. Barr
A Nonfiction Fictitious Remembrance Of Wendy Wasserstein, Marleen S. Barr
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This is a short story.
Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, And Queer Archive Activism, Alexandra Juhasz
Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, And Queer Archive Activism, Alexandra Juhasz
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No abstract provided.
The Saga Of A Song: Authorship And Ownership In The Case Of ‘Guantanamera’, Peter L. Manuel
The Saga Of A Song: Authorship And Ownership In The Case Of ‘Guantanamera’, Peter L. Manuel
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No abstract provided.
A Country That Ain’T Really Belong To Me’: Dominicanyorks, Identity And Popular Music, Angelina Tallaj
A Country That Ain’T Really Belong To Me’: Dominicanyorks, Identity And Popular Music, Angelina Tallaj
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No abstract provided.
Typography Behind The Arabetic Calligraphy Veil, Saad D. Abulhab
Typography Behind The Arabetic Calligraphy Veil, Saad D. Abulhab
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In the change from scriptural writing systems to textual mechanical systems and most recently to digital, computer generated text, some languages and their typographic representations have suffered. One such language, along with its visible language representation, that has not made a smooth transition is Arabic. The author argues that misinterpreting language tradition prevents what he calls Arabetic typography from embracing an appropriate technological adaptation. Putting forth an evolutionary argument, he critiques the notion that calligraphic styles must prevail and that legibility and readability of Arabic characters is objective. He further states that the resulting typefaces when abandoning the so called …
Mccarthyism And Libraries: Intellectual Freedom Under Fire, 1947-1954, Stephen Francoeur
Mccarthyism And Libraries: Intellectual Freedom Under Fire, 1947-1954, Stephen Francoeur
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This essay will analyze how library organizations, such as the American Library Association, and individual librarians responded to the pressure placed on libraries during the McCarthy era to deal with alleged subversion. Although libraries have always been the target of censors, it was during the first decade of the Cold War that those Americans most fearful of Communist subversion swept up large numbers of their fellow citizens in a crusade to rid libraries of Communist influence. That effort by the self-proclaimed “loyal Americans” to save libraries put more than just library collections under the microscope. The librarians themselves were scrutinized …
Review Of Macbeth, Michael Adams
Review Of Macbeth, Michael Adams
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Review of Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2007/12/macbeth-2006.html
Review Of Petulia, Michael Adams
Review Of Petulia, Michael Adams
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Review of Richard Lester's Petulia: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/06/petulia.html
Rousseau's Gift To Geneva, Helena Rosenblatt
Rousseau's Gift To Geneva, Helena Rosenblatt
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People often seem to forget that Rousseau dedicated his Second Discourse to “The Republic of Geneva.” This is a shame because, in doing so, they miss precious clues not only about the meaning of the Discourse itself, but also about its place in Rousseau’s political thought as a whole.
It is no accident that Rousseau dedicated the Discourse on Inequality, his most radical work of all, to his hometown of Geneva; but it requires some research into the historical context to understand why. In Geneva a patrician ruling elite was using social contract theory to subvert the democratic principles …
Learning Communities And The Future Of The Humanities, Phyllis E. Vanslyck
Learning Communities And The Future Of The Humanities, Phyllis E. Vanslyck
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According to Profession's 2005 Presidential Forum, one reason for dwindling enrollment in the Humanities is lack of interdisciplinarity. Learning communities, courses clustered around a common theme and taught to the same group of students are a powerful example of a kind of interdisciplinarity that is flourishing on more than five-hundred campuses in the United States.This essay looks closely at the expanding learning community movement and its relevance to revitalizing the Humanities.
Spanish In Brazil: Language Policy, Business, And Cultural Propaganda, José Del Valle
Spanish In Brazil: Language Policy, Business, And Cultural Propaganda, José Del Valle
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The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the language policies designed and implemented since the early nineties by Spanish government agencies in order to promote Spanish as a valuable international language. In particular, we focus on its promotion in Brazil and on the strategies used to legitimize not only the presence of the language in various domains (e.g. the educational system) but also the active participation of Spanish institutions in its spread. Through a detailed analysis of a corpus of relevant texts, (a) we critically examine the cultural, economic, and political roots of these policies, as well …
Participation, Claire Bishop
Participation, Claire Bishop
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An anthology of key writings on the topic of participation in art, from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Review Of The Conformist, Michael Adams
Review Of The Conformist, Michael Adams
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Review of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2007/01/the-conformist.html
Review Of Elevator To The Gallows, Michael Adams
Review Of Elevator To The Gallows, Michael Adams
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Review of Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/06/elevator-to-the-gallows.html
Review Of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, Michael Adams
Review Of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, Michael Adams
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Review of Taylor Hackford's Chuck Berry documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n'Roll: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/08/chuck-berry-hail-hail-rock-n-roll.html
Review Of I Wake Up Screaming, Michael Adams
Review Of I Wake Up Screaming, Michael Adams
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Review of H. Bruce Humberstone's I Wake Up Screaming: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/07/i-wake-up-screaming.html
Review Of The River's Edge, Michael Adams
Review Of The River's Edge, Michael Adams
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Review of Allan Dwan's The River's Edge: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/07/the-rivers-edge-1957.html
Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus
Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus
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The emerging interdisciplinary field of disability studies takes as its subject matter the historical, social, and cultural construction of disability. After a brief introduction to disability studies, this article explores the interconnected histories of disability and music as they are manifested in three theoretical approaches to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Western art music (the musical Formenlehre and the tonal theories of Schoenberg and Schenker) and in three works by Beethoven and Schubert. Around the turn of the nineteenth century in Western Europe, disability began to be understood not as something natural and permanent but rather as a deviation from …
Steven Palmer From Popular Medicine To Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, And Public Power In Costa Rica, 1800-1940. (Book Review), Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Steven Palmer From Popular Medicine To Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, And Public Power In Costa Rica, 1800-1940. (Book Review), Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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No abstract provided.
Steven Palmer From Popular Medicine To Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, And Public Power In Costa Rica, 1800-1940. (Book Review), Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Steven Palmer From Popular Medicine To Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, And Public Power In Costa Rica, 1800-1940. (Book Review), Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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No abstract provided.
Orientalisms In The Interpretation Of Islamic Philosophy, Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Orientalisms In The Interpretation Of Islamic Philosophy, Muhammad Ali Khalidi
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The recent death of Edward Said has reignited the debate as to whether his landmark work Orientalism still has something to teach us about the study of Arab-Islamic civilization. In this article, I will argue that Saidʼs central thesis in Orientalism has a direct explanatory role to play in our understanding of the work produced in at least one area of scholarship about the Arab and Islamic worlds, namely Arab-Islamic philosophy from the classical or medieval period. Moreover, I will claim that it continues to play this role not only for scholarship produced in the West by Western scholars but …
Review Of Yellow Sky, Michael Adams
Review Of Yellow Sky, Michael Adams
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Review of William Wellman's 1948 Western, inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest.