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Representing African Music, Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Of all the currents of change that have swept the humanities during the last half-century, the most far-reaching revolve around language. Philosophy, history, and literary criticism, among other language-based disciplines, have developed what is often presented as a largely unprecedented self-consciousness about representation. The message to scholars in nonlanguage-based disciplines is clear: to be taken seriously, one can no longer view language as a transparent window to an objective reality but must confront the foundational political and ideological baggage of the medium itself, as well as its constant slippage in the hands of the producer.

The Graduate Student Advocate, December 1991-January 1992, Vol. 3, No. 4, Gc Advocate

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Editorial: Cuomo Plays the Tune for CUNY’s Dance Macabre. Andrew Long, Tara McGann, Michael Waldron (p. 1)

CUNY Budget Faces Cuts: Another Tuition Increase Expected. Tara McGann (p. 1)

CPI Bombs at Lehman. Granville Ganter (p.1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

CUNY Board Prepares to Enact New Anti-Protest By-Laws. Ronald B. McGuire (p. 2)

City Council Calls on State to Pick Up CUNY Funding. Ian McGowan (p. 2)

Around & About The Center (p. 3)

A Scene from the Multi-Cultural Battlefield: Curriculum Politics in History. Michael Scott Weinstein.

Join the PSC! A Part Timers Update. Ron Hayduk. …

The Graduate Student Advocate, November 1991, Vol. 3, No. 3, Gc Advocate

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Editorial: Trustees to the Community: Guns before Butter. Andrew Long (p. 1)

Art History Students Serve Notice to CUNY Administration. Andrew Long (p. 1)

CUNY Moves to Centralize Security; Committee Recommends Peace Officer Status. Ian McGowan (p. 1)

The Human Cost: Guards React to CUNY’s New Security Policy. Ian McGowan (p. 2)

Editorial: City Council Ponders CUNY/SUNY (p. 2)

CUNY Hires Anti-Terrorist Specialist as New Directory of University Security. Ian McGowan (p. 2)

SUNY Graduate Students Gain Union. Eric F. Coppolino (p. 3)

Graduate Workers of the World Unite (p. 3)

Notes from Your Student Government (p. …

The Graduate Student Advocate, October 1991, Vol. 3, No. 2, Gc Advocate

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Maybe They Wrote You a Letter. Pamela Donovan (p. 1)

The Facts and Fictions: USS Spending Allegations. Tara McGann (p. 1)

Reynolds Redux: There She Goes Again. G. Gantor (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Editorial: A Call for Action (p. 2)

Around & About The Center (p. 3)

Art History Interviews 4 Finalists for Nochlin Post.

Art in Public Places: Two Exhibitions open at the Graduate School.

DSC Steering Committee Protests Status Letter. Steering Committee, DSC.

Masthead (p. 4)

Letters & Commentary

Congratulations, “Sister” Clare. Kim Edel (p. 4)

My Heart in my Throat. …

Disabled Does Not Mean "Not Able": A List Of Books On People Who Triumphed Over Their Illnesses And Disabilities, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

This annotated booklist offers guidance on locating biographical information about people who overcame, adapted to, or triumphed over illnesses and/or disabilities.

The Graduate Student Advocate, September 1991, Vol. 3, No. 1, Gc Advocate

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Graduate School Administration Threatens Status of Over 1600 Students. Thomas Smith (p. 1)

Meet the President: An interview with Frances Degen Horowitz. Andrew Long, Thomas Smith, Jonathan Lang (p. 1)

Distinguished Psychologist Sylvia Scribner Dies at 67 (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Automated System to Speed Book Checkout. Susan Newman (p. 2)

Commentary. Thomas Smith (p. 2)

Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the DSC. Michael Glassman (p. 3)

An Advocate Announcement: CUNY Grad Students Must Be Given CUNY Adjunct Positions (p. 3)

If You Can’t Strike, Stay Out of the …

How To Find Biographical Information, John A. Drobnicki

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Finding biographical information can sometimes be a challenge, especially if there is no full-length book about the person. This pathfinder offers guidance on locating information in collective biographies, periodicals, and local history sources.

Aids Information In Periodical Indexes: A Problem Of Exclusion, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

The lack of attention afforded the gay, lesbian, and alternative press in mainstream periodical indexes has a serious, detrimental impact on the nature of AIDS information available to students of the epidemic. Indexers and database search services must end their policy of excluding the gay/lesbian and other community-based periodicals in order to provide adequate coverage of AIDS information.

The Graduate Student Advocate, May 1991, Vol. 2, No. 6, Gc Advocate

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Editorial: No More Lip Service. Andrew Long, Tara McGann, Michael Waldron (p. 1)

Dr. Frances Degen Horowitz is Named the President of The Graduate School (p. 1)

Planned Shrinkage of the CUNY System. Tom Smith (p. 1)

Advocate Congratulates [Dr. Horowitz] (p. 1)

Photograph: April 1991: Student controlled NAC Building at CCNY (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Student Action Halts Granting of Degree to Bush’s Secretary of Education: No Honors for Lamar Alexander. Tom Smith (p. 2)

Bartlett Speaks! The PTU, CUNY Crisis, and Student Activism. Ron Hayduk (p. 2) …

The Graduate Student Advocate, March 1991, Vol. Ii, No. 5, Gc Advocate

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Harold M. Proshansky 1920-1990. Eric K. Glunt (p. 1)

Welcome to the Occupation (p. 1)

The Pursuit of Understanding: An Intellectual History. Harold M. Proshansky (p. 1)

Off the Record with President Proshansky. George McClintock III (p. 15)

More Bad CUNY Budget News. Thomas Smith (p. 1)

Inside (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

CUNY Chancellor Reynolds Meets with Students (p. 2)

Graduate School Prepares Anti-Bias Pamphlet. Andrew Long (p. 2)

What the Bias Pamphlet Has to Say. Office of the Dean for Student Affairs (p. 2)

Table of Contents (p. 2)

Top 10 Demonstration Sites …

"It's Our Church, Too!": Women's Position In The Roman Catholic Church Today, Susan A. Farrell

Publications and Research

This chapter from The Social Construction of Gender (eds J. Lorber and S. Farrell) explores the ways in which gender, particular women's roles are inscribed in the bureaucracy and institutional practices of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

An introduction to the history and radical practice of New York City's Lesbian Herstory Archives with discussion of the period-specific situation of the archive housed in, but outgrowing, private quarters.

The Graduate Student Advocate, October 1990, Vol. Ii, No. 2, Gc Advocate

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Slanderous Inferences: Environmental Psychology Faculty Defends Decision to Terminate Student. S. Saegert, D. Chapin, K. Christensen, R. Hart, C. Katz, J. Kubran, S. Low, L. Rivlin, G. Winkel, M. Wolfe (p. 1)

Rallying Against U.S. Aggression in the Middle East. Mohamed Aly and Kim Ives (p. 1)

Where Have All The Books Gone? Faculty Abuse of Library Borrowing Privileges. Andrew Long (p. 1)

Inside (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Part-Timers United: New Adjunct Group Forming. Thomas Smith (p. 2)

Proposed Destruction of Cree and Inuit Homelands. Julia Scalcione (p. 2)

Doctoral Students’ Council Report. Michael …

The Graduate Student Advocate, May-September 1990, Vol. 1, No. 7, Advocate

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Wither the PTU? Vincent Tirelli (p. 1)

Victim of Protest? (p. 1)

CUNY Students Strike; Police Brutality Alleged. Andrew Long & Christine Hutchins (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

An Open Letter to all Cultural Anthropology Students and Faculty (p. 2)

Correction (p. 2)

Intensive and Beyond: The Foreign Language Institute & The Latin/Greek Institute. Caroline Pari (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

Responding to the Mystery Homophobe (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 4)

Editorials & Letters

Whose Rhetoric? (p. 4)

Sexual Politics (p. 4)

A Professorial Sampler (p. 4)

Michael …

The Graduate Student Advocate, April 23, 1990, Vol. 1, No. 6, Advocate

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Behind the Bookshelves: CUNY Libraries & the Budget Crisis. Caroline Pari (p. 1)

CUNY Professor’s Opinions Denounced: Graduate School Philosopher Accused of Racism. Christine Hutchins (p. 1)

Photograph: Students on Strike at John Jay College, Spring 1989 (p. 1)

Heaviest Element Discovered. Department of Biology, University of Utah (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

An Open Letter from Art History Students (p. 2)

Distinguished Professor Linda Nochlin Bids Adieu. Linda Nochlin (p. 2)

C.C.S. $ (p. 2)

Correction (p. 2)

Women in War and Peace: The Space of Female Heroism. Margaret …

The Graduate Student Advocate, March 21, 1990, Vol. I, No. 5, Advocate

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English Program Moves to Change Requirements (p. 1)

Art History Students Protest Plans to Expand Program. George McClintock III (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Poetry New York: Readings at the Gas Station (p. 2)

Wanted: Volunteers for Census (p. 2)

Oyez! Oyez! Carina Yervasi (p. 2)

Mystery Homophobe in West Hall (p. 2)

Committee for Cultural Studies Redefines the First Person Pronoun Plural (p. 2)

Cartoon: I cannot comment on the canon, it would jeopardize my neutrality. Joel [illegible] (p. 2)

Students Influence Promotion Decision (p. 3)

CUNY Budget Proposal …

The Graduate Student Advocate, Feburary 1990, Vol. I, No. 4, Advocate

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DSC Restructures Student Newspaper. Jeanne A. Marre (p. 1)

CUNY Audits 1987-1988 Doctoral Students’ Council: “Serious Shortcomings” or Gross Mismanagement? Al Cofribas (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

The Doctoral Students’ Council: A Report (p. 2)

Photograph: Hallway to Heaven (p. 2)

Illustration: Wishful Thinking (p. 2)

What’s in a Name, anyway? Carina Yervasi (p. 2)

Dining With Inka: The Croissant Craze (p. 3)

MLA Memories: Student Talk Out of School. Cheryl Fish, ed. (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

International Woman’s Day (p. 3)

Presidential Search Committee Announced (p. …

The Infusion Of Teachers From Eastern Indonesia Into West Kalimantan, Jay H. Bernstein

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No abstract provided.

Representation, Liberation, And The Queer Press, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

Lesbian and gay people lay special claim to the power of the printed word. It is through the printed word, consumed privately and anonymously, that we often first call ourselves queer. Coming out stories are thick with accounts of self-discovery through reading and exploration in libraries.

Variation Procedures In Northern Ewe Song, V. Kofi Agawu

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The major organizational principle of Northern Ewe song is one shared by numerous African, Oriental, and European musical traditions: a small number of models (variously described as "basic shapes," "archetypes," "background structures," "basic designs," "core patterns," "deep structures") is transformed in a wide variety of ways during performance. Variation takes place on different hierarchic levels both within and between songs and includes practically all of a song's dimensions (rhythm, interval, register, contour, harmony, and so on). This principle, although widely demonstrated in the literature on African song (see, among others, Jones 1976; Kauffman 1984; Schmidt 1984; and Erlmann 1985), is …

The Graduate Student Advocate, December 15, 1989, Vol. 1, No. 3, Advocate

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CUNY Chancellor Will Resign (p. 1)

Committee for Cultural Studies Plans Doctoral Program: Student Involvement Encouraged (p. 1)

A Veiled Affair. Binita Mehta (p. 1)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Around and About The Center

The Doctoral Students’ Council: A Report (p. 2)

Illustration: Post-Modernism (p. 2)

Enhancement Funds for Students with Disabilities (p. 2)

Photograph: International Students Association (p. 2)

In Search of the Missing Rib. Ed Marx (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

More Rooms Available in West Hall (p. 3)

Masthead (p. 4)

Editorials & Letters

Voted In or Out of Business? (p. …

To Tell The Truth: The Lesbian Herstory Archives: Chronicling A People And Fighting Invisibility Since 1974, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

A portrait of the Lesbian Herstory Archives by a volunteer, describing the archive in its original home in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side New York City apartment that she shared with Mabel Hampton. Originally published in Out/Week Magazine.

The Graduate Student Advocate, September 1989, Vol. 1, No. 1, Advocate

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International Students: A Quality Resource (p.1)

Doctoral Student Council Elects New Officials (p. 1)

Michael Harrington: The Last Humanist? (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Remembering Michael Harrington: Being a Socialist. Will Petrie (p. 2)

Carina Yervasi of the Doctoral Students' Council Welcomes New Students (p. 2)

Cartoon. Brian Biggs (p. 2)

Arbitrary Judgements (p. 2)

Services for Disabled Students (p. 2)

The Deskilling of an Ancient Honorable Craft. Brooklyn Slim (p. 3)

Dining with Inka (p. 3)

Dear Mr. Update (p. 3)

Editorials & Letter (p. 4)

Miracle on 42nd Street

Soldiers of Misfortune: CUNY, …

Music In The Funeral Traditions Of The Akpafu, V. Kofi Agawu

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"Nna lo senu kuwe, fie oresire somoloo?" ("Who laid a mat for him, so that he slept so deeply?") With this rhetorical question, the Akpafu of Southeastern Ghana initiate a period of public mourning occasioned by the death of one of their number.1 The philosophic significance of death in Akpafu culture is twofold. First, it marks the completion of the earthly cycle of existence, birth-circumcision-puberty-marriage-death. Second, it opens the door to a higher, spiritual realm in which the deceased, as an ancestor, takes his place alongside the lesser gods and the Supreme Being in the higher reaches of the hierarchy …

The Perils Of Laura Watson Benedict: A Forgotten Pioneer In Anthropology, Jay H. Bernstein

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No abstract provided.

A Methodology For The Study Of Children's Environmental Knowledge In Other Cultures, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

This paper presents a methodology which I used to study the content and acquisition of children's environmental knowledge as central to the social reproduction of a rural agricultural economy in the Sudan. My approach was forged drawing on methods of geography, linguistics and anthropology to provide information on (1) how children learn to interact productively with their environment, (2) the nature of their interactions and (3) their knowledge of environmental processes and resources. In this paper I will describe first the methodology adopted including participant observation, ethnosemantic interviews, child-led walks, environmental modeling and "geo-dramas". I will then discuss its use …