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Forging Romanitas: The Intersection Of Urbanization And Identity In Mérida, Raymond Puentes May 2024

Forging Romanitas: The Intersection Of Urbanization And Identity In Mérida, Raymond Puentes

FIU Undergraduate Research Journal

This paper aims to explore the role of urbanization in the formation of a shared Roman identity during the time of the Roman Empire. By examining the physical features of urban settlements and the economic opportunities that arose from them, it seeks to understand how these factors contributed to the development of a cohesive identity across the empire’s vast and diverse territory. This paper will use examples from cities in the western regions of the empire, such as Pompeii and Mérida, to demonstrate how urbanization and the economic opportunities it brought forth helped create a sense of Romanness among diverse …


“The Way To Dusty Death”: The Feminist Revision Of The Western In Nomadland (2021), Lucas Cicarelli Vieira May 2024

“The Way To Dusty Death”: The Feminist Revision Of The Western In Nomadland (2021), Lucas Cicarelli Vieira

FIU Undergraduate Research Journal

The Western film genre is founded upon patriarchal and capitalist conditions embedded deeply within structuralist analyses. The portrayal of the solitary, white male cowboy—with its themes of rugged individualism and phallocentric mannerisms—has affected the depiction of women, people of color, and other marginalized groups across media. These prejudicial structures, though applied throughout the genre, has seen revision in recent productions, most notably by feminist directors of the modern era. In Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland, Western narrative elements and cinematic techniques have been amended to favor genuine testimonials from affected individuals of economic collapse caused by the hubris of industrialists and the …


Of Race, Racism And Racially Motivated Offences: A Review Of The Hate Crime And Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, Olufemi O. Ilesanmi, Danielle Mckandie Apr 2024

Of Race, Racism And Racially Motivated Offences: A Review Of The Hate Crime And Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, Olufemi O. Ilesanmi, Danielle Mckandie

Class, Race and Corporate Power

A relationship of social and legal significance seems to exist between the prohibition of expressions or manifestations of racism and the society’s preservation of racial diversity. To discourage racial prejudice and thereby protect each race, the state must manage its diversity well by legislating against racist hate offences. In Scotland, for example, the government boldly accepted that hate crimes, including racially motivated offences, are a serious problem requiring closer attention. Through its Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, the state resolves to tackle related criminality.

Focusing on the Act, this review examines whether or how race within the …


The Music For “Victory At Sea”: Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, And The Making Of A Tv Masterpiece, By George J. Ferencz. Rochester: University Of Rochester Press, 2023 [Review]., Elizabeth A. Wells Mar 2024

The Music For “Victory At Sea”: Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, And The Making Of A Tv Masterpiece, By George J. Ferencz. Rochester: University Of Rochester Press, 2023 [Review]., Elizabeth A. Wells

Music & Musical Performance

No abstract provided.


Beethoven The European, Edited By Malcolm Miller And William Kinderman. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023 [Review, German]., Jürgen Thym Mar 2024

Beethoven The European, Edited By Malcolm Miller And William Kinderman. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023 [Review, German]., Jürgen Thym

Music & Musical Performance

No abstract provided.


Beethoven The European, Edited By Malcolm Miller And William Kinderman. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023 [Review]., Jürgen Thym Mar 2024

Beethoven The European, Edited By Malcolm Miller And William Kinderman. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023 [Review]., Jürgen Thym

Music & Musical Performance

No abstract provided.


Maestro, Directed By Bradley Cooper. 2023., Elizabeth A. Wells Mar 2024

Maestro, Directed By Bradley Cooper. 2023., Elizabeth A. Wells

Music & Musical Performance

No abstract provided.


Orthography, Jeremy Gill Mar 2024

Orthography, Jeremy Gill

Music & Musical Performance

The myth of Pope Gregory I taking melodic dictation from a magical singing bird is the imaginative starting point of Western musicʼs love-hate relationship with the music notation systems it later developed. This essay traces that development through Thomas Tallis and J. S. Bach to the dichotomous modern examples of Brian Ferneyhough and Arvo Pärt. In it, I suggest that Western musicʼs eventual development hinged upon that earliest desire to document and codify melodies, answering Gregoryʼs contemporary Isidore of Seville, who lamented that “unless sounds are held by the memory of man, they perish, because they cannot be written down.”


Metric Expressivity: An Introduction, Felipe Avellar De Aquino Mar 2024

Metric Expressivity: An Introduction, Felipe Avellar De Aquino

Music & Musical Performance

This article discusses how meter and musical impulses can generate distinct character traits in music according to a performer’s interpretation of the metric notation. It is part of an ongoing research project focused on interpretative elements and using analytical as well as auto-ethnographical methods. This article includes analysis and comparisons of historical recordings contiguous to performance-focused analysis. It is based on the study of metric components, organizational structures, and metric-structuring elements and concepts developed by Edward T. Cone (1968), David Epstein (1995a, 1995b), Roy Howat (1995), Mine Doğantan-Dack (2012, 2014), and Nicholas Cook (2001). These writers’ thoughts are placed in …


Mozart’S Jewish Librettist: A Brief History Of A Poorly Kept Secret, Robert L. Marshall Mar 2024

Mozart’S Jewish Librettist: A Brief History Of A Poorly Kept Secret, Robert L. Marshall

Music & Musical Performance

Lorenzo da Ponte, the librettist of Mozart’s three greatest Italian operas, was born a Jew, a fact rumored about during his lifetime but not definitively established until 1900. The treatment (or not) of Da Ponte’s Jewish origins as documented from his time to the present constitutes a history of concealment, rumor, discovery, denigration, and exploitation. Its nadir was reached during the Nazi period, its zenith most recently, as the poet, hitherto a secondary player in the Mozart biographies, has emerged as the colorful protagonist in substantial biographies of his own.


In Praise Of Simplicity: Marie Hinrichs’S Op. 1, Neun Gesänge, Stephen Rodgers Mar 2024

In Praise Of Simplicity: Marie Hinrichs’S Op. 1, Neun Gesänge, Stephen Rodgers

Music & Musical Performance

In a chapter from German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century (1996), Jürgen Thym describes the historiography of the German Lied as “a hike through the high-peak area of a mountain landscape where the trail along the ridge leads from one glorious peak to the next.” Beneath the high peaks of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf, he notes, are smaller peaks not reachable by trail. Thym clears paths through this unexplored landscape by surveying the Lieder of Carl Loewe, Fanny Hensel, Franz Liszt, Robert Franz, Clara Schumann, and Peter Cornelius. My essay extends one of these paths, exploring the songs of …


The Art Of The Mug Shot, Juliana Triana Mar 2024

The Art Of The Mug Shot, Juliana Triana

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


Ilisa Rosal: A Lifetime In Flamenco, Raymond Elman, Izzy Canizares Mar 2024

Ilisa Rosal: A Lifetime In Flamenco, Raymond Elman, Izzy Canizares

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


Bill Littlefield: It’S Not Just A Game, Raymond Elman, Gabriela Fuentes Mar 2024

Bill Littlefield: It’S Not Just A Game, Raymond Elman, Gabriela Fuentes

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


Barbara Hulanicki: The Queen Of Biba, Raymond Elman, Adrienne Bon Haes, Lee Skye Mar 2024

Barbara Hulanicki: The Queen Of Biba, Raymond Elman, Adrienne Bon Haes, Lee Skye

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


3x U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’S Autobiography: “Jersey Breaks”, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye Mar 2024

3x U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’S Autobiography: “Jersey Breaks”, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


Operatic Soprano: Cecilia Violetta López, Raymond Elman, Cindy Sadler, Gabriella Fuentes Mar 2024

Operatic Soprano: Cecilia Violetta López, Raymond Elman, Cindy Sadler, Gabriella Fuentes

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


Stéphane Denève: The Second Artistic Director Of The New World Symphony, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye Mar 2024

Stéphane Denève: The Second Artistic Director Of The New World Symphony, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


Richard Milstein: A Lifetime Of Embracing The Arts, Raymond Elman, Daniela Thoelke, Lee Skye Mar 2024

Richard Milstein: A Lifetime Of Embracing The Arts, Raymond Elman, Daniela Thoelke, Lee Skye

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


Lawrence Wright: Master Storyteller, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye Mar 2024

Lawrence Wright: Master Storyteller, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.


Leonor Anthony: Arctic Queen, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye Mar 2024

Leonor Anthony: Arctic Queen, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye

ArtSpeak

No abstract provided.