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Nationalist Transformations: Music, Ritual, And The Work Of Memory In Cambodia And Thailand, Jeffrey M. Dyer

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Cambodia and its diaspora since 2004, this article explores tensions that arise when individuals and institutions impose nation-state ideologies on music and ritual that predate the nation-state concept and transcend official state boundaries. In numerous contexts, musicians and dancers in Cambodia and Thailand perform offerings and blessings that honor their teachers and initiate artistic lineages. Due to broad influence from India and centuries of conflict and borrowing, these rituals—though not necessarily their musical content—have proliferated in these two countries. I describe these nearly identical rituals—called thvāy grū in Khmer and wai khruu in Thai—and their …

The Acoustics Of Justice: Music And Myth In Afro-Brazilian Congado, Genevieve E. Dempsey

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

For the Afro-Brazilian musicians of popular Catholicism, or Congadeiros, who live precariously on the urban and rural margins of Brazil, ritual undergirds their struggles for subsistence, spiritual fulfillment, and racial equality. When Congadeiros create ritual, they enter into a tradition begun in the seventeenth century in Brazil by their enslaved African and Afro-descendant ancestors who intoned songs of redemption. In keeping with their ancestors’ evocations of dignity during slavery, worshipers in the present day embed multiple kinds of vested interests within ritual festivity to achieve racial equality. This article explores Congado, the ceremonies of these disenfranchised musicians, to …

2017 Annual Dinner Program, The O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Annual Dinner Program

Seventeenth annual dinner sponsored by The O'Callahan Society. The keynote speaker is the Honorable Jeh C. Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security and General Counsel of the Department of Defense. This year celebrates the women of the Naval ROTC program at the College of the Holy Cross.

Urwa Ibn Udayna... The Poet And Jurist, The Ordeal Of Lost Authenticity, Hassan Hadi Nour

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The poet Aroaa bin Authena (he was died around 130 A.H.) is considered to be one of the virgin courtship poets in the town during Ammoi age.He is from Kannana tribe and his ancestry returns to Mudhar bin Nazar.He was unique among the modern jurists and he was one of Immam of AL-Hijra house Sheikhs (Anas bin Malik), he collected singing with jurisprudence, Hadith, novel and poetry where he composed some melodies and sang them himself. This poet is considered as one of specialized in fields of sciences and arts, as well as he joined pride of himself and his …

Desire, Curiosity, And The Search For Truth In Proust, Moreno, And Bechdel, Santiago Parga Linares

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Marcel Proust’s influence on twentieth century literature is broad and has been well documented. This dissertation attempts a comparative reading of À la recherche du temps perdu that places it in contrast with Colombian writer Marvel Moreno’s 1987 novel, En diciembre llegaban las brisas, and Alison Bechdel’s 2006 comic memoir, Fun Home. Starting from a Deleuzian reading of the Recherche, this dissertation proposes the notion of the “proustian truth seeker”, a thematic and stylistic phenomenon which can be traced in all three writers. The characteristics of the truth seeker can be used to understand the ways in …

Worlds Of If: Analyses Of The Composed And Improvised Works Of Robert Dick, Melissa Keeling

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Considered one of the most important publications in twentieth-century flute pedagogy, Robert Dick’s seminal method book, The Other Flute (1975),[1] is an extensive catalogue of multiphonic fingerings, microtonal fingerings, glissandi, circular breathing, and other extended techniques. The Other Flute and a handful of his published solos are widely studied, but these works only represent a fraction of Dick’s creative energies.

Equally comfortable in classical, jazz, rock, electronic, and world music, Dick’s oeuvre demonstrates a sophisticated, musical use of contemporary techniques and his pieces have become standard repertoire. Though Dick was not the first flutist to use or notate these …

Clemence Of Barking And Valdes Of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples Of Innovation In The Twelfth Century, Lisa Murray

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The Twelfth Century in Western Europe was a remarkable time in history. Scholars have noted that Roman law was being revived, Aristotelian theory was being studied, Romanesque and Gothic art was being produced, scholasticism was being cultivated, and economic growth was being fostered by the rise of towns. These are just some of the developments that help give this era the well-known term “twelfth-century renaissance.” Despite the flourishing of creativity that this label suggests, there are few surviving, specific examples of innovation from this time that have been passed down to us. In AD 1175 the Benedictine nun Clemence of …

A New Approach To The Analysis Of Timbre, Megan L. Lavengood

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Two distinct approaches to timbre analysis exist, each with complementary strengths and limitations. First, music theorists from the 1980s adopt a positivist mindset and look for ways to quantify timbral phenomena, often using spectrograms, while avoiding any cultural dimensions in their work. Second, writings of the past five years focus on the cultural aspects of timbre but make no use of spectrograms. This dissertation builds upon these two approaches by synthesizing them: discussion is grounded in spectrogram analysis, but situated within a broad cultural context, through interactions with listener experience and ethnographic study of music periodicals and other published interviews. …

Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics: A Program For The Naturalization Of Metaphysics, Amanda Bryant

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

There has been much recent work calling for the naturalization of metaphysics, including most famously James Ladyman and Don Ross’ polemic, Every Thing Must Go. But much work remains to adequately articulate and motivate the call to naturalize metaphysics. My dissertation contributes to that work. Its central questions are: What relationship should metaphysics have to current science? Must good metaphysics be responsive to current science, and if so, how? Why should metaphysics be naturalized and what should its naturalization consist in?

I argue, first, that for that for epistemic purposes, as opposed to heuristic or pragmatic purposes, theories should …

Musicalization: Early Childhood Music Access, Discourse, And Praxis In Nyc Charter Schools, 2014-2015, Andrew Aprile

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Over the past two decades, charter schools have become a hallmark of education reform in the United States. Concurrent with this movement is the increasing prominence of high stakes testing. While much research has sought to compare the effectiveness of charter schools and traditional public schools in terms of standardized assessments, scant attention has been paid to the role of arts and music in charter schools, and little has been done to distinguish the distinct strands of the charter school movement. Given what we know about the importance of music education and the growth of charter schools, it was the …

Leftist Militant Songs And War Of Position In Lebanon (1975-1977), Mohamad J. Hodeib

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This essay looks at the emergence of a generation of leftist militant songwriters against the backdrop of a revolutionary moment that influenced political and cultural landscapes in Beirut during the 1970s. After the Arab military defeat against Israel in 1967, the conjuncture of the Lebanese and Palestinian revolutionary movements in Lebanon fostered a revolutionary moment that manifested itself on different levels, including art and cultural expression. I look at the development of leftist militant songs, a genre, attitude, and approach to song production and performance that came to be at the intersection of radical theatre, poetry, and music. Productions by …

Syntax And Semantics Of Perceptual Representation, James K. Quilty-Dunn

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation is a defense of perceptual pluralism, the thesis that perceptual systems deliver multiple types of representations including those used in thought. In particular, it argues that perceptual systems output iconic (i.e., image-like, analog) representations as well as discursive (i.e., language-like, digital) states. A central thesis is that perceptual representations of objects are propositional and composed of concepts. It also develops a compositional syntax of iconic representation called the coordination model, according to which icons are sets of primitive parts, each of which determines values along multiple analog feature dimensions simultaneously. The dissertation supports the conclusion that perceptual …

Shame, Darwin, And Other Victorian Writers, Aaron Khai Han Ho

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The dissertation explores shame and how shame shapes identities in the nineteenth century. While many scholars examine Darwin in terms of narrativity, how he attempts to counter the theological language in Victorian evolutionary discourses, and the influences he has on his contemporary writers, I argue that his writing on shame, which is part of his long argument on evolution, secularizes the concept of shame, opposing the notions of many Victorians that shame is God-given. Both God-given shame and secular shame are rooted in sexuality, as this dissertation will show, and thus shame, sexuality, and identity are interconnected. Using Darwin as …

Semantic Transformation And Stability In Light Of The Presence And Absence Of The Cause: A Study (Theoretical - Applied), Manar Khaled Badi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research explained a number of results, which I can summarize as follows:

A Stylistic Analysis Of The Psychological Conflict In Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', Hello Abbas Mahmoud, Hibbe Moussadak Muslim

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Portraying meaning is of more importance than using the right words only. This is what Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was very well aware of. Within the short story The Tell-Tale Heart that consists of about four pages, Poe used 489 punctuation marks, a very significant number. This paper attempts to stylistically analyze the meaning behind such punctuations, and how they represent the psychological conflict of the main character, thus using Freud’s, along with a thorough theoretical evaluation on both the linguistic and literary dimension.

The Trend Towards Extremism And Its Relationship To The Behavior Of Self-Assertion At Basra University Students, Abdul Sajad Abd Abdul Sadah

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The current research targeted to know the trend toward extremism, the behavior of self-assertion, the relationship between them and included a sample of (300) students the researcher seek help by the levels of the trend of extremism this prepared by (Mohammed-Abo Dawaya) and the behavior of self-assertion prepared by the researcher (Bushra Othman Ahmed) the results were not found feelings towards extremism. Versus that the absence of behavior self- assertion at sample search-college sample with a weak relationship between them.

The Humorous Addition Of The Discourse Of Faith In The Holy Quran, Ali Farhan Jawad

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The researcher addressed a phenomenon that was raised in the rhetorical critical discourse of the Arabs, and tried to find it in the Qur’anic discourse that opened up to a miraculous expressive system. He is found in the sayings of scholars - such as Al-Jahiz (d. 255 AH), Al-Hatimi (d. 388 AH), Ibn Sinan Al-Khafaji (d. 466 AH), Al-Muzaffar bin Al-Fadl Al-Alawi (d. 656 AH), Ibn Rasheeq Al-Qayrawani (d. 463 AH) and others - a broad application on the discourse of faith and the attributes of believers in the Wise Remembrance, and the effect of substitution in choosing words. The …

Reference In Hamid Al Rawi's Poetry, Lama Abdel Qader Khanyab, Adnan Hussein Madloul

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research aims to describe the coherent referential structure in Hamed Al-Rawi's poetry, and to explain its function in creating and constructing the text/discourse, in addition to examining the efficiency of this methodological tool in analyzing the poetic text. The research attempts to achieve this by methodically answering a set of questions related to the types of referential means that appeared in Al-Rawi's poetry, and the nature of the referential structure in the language of contemporary poetry and the forms it takes, and how does the referral contribute to the consistency of the poetic text that is dominated by external …

The Psychological Perspective Of Repetition In The Sensual Poetic Image Until The End Of The Umayyad Era, Hazem Karim Abbas, Riyadh Abdallah Saad

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research is a study for repetitions motivation in the Arabic Poetry until the end of Amway era. poetry which help him to overcome his bitter reality, then the repetition is one of these means where poets employees in their office of poetry which reflects the bitter reality that the poets feels when lovers die or on of relatives. In the praise poetries some of poets deliberate to repeat these means of praised ones and uphold them, and this is what will be clear during this research.

The Concept Of Civilization And The Quranic Nature Of The Term From The Lexical Meaning To The Quranic Meaning - A Hermeneutic Reading, Abbas Amir Maarez

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

- According to the Qur’anic text, the concept of civilization has various aspects. It is a village, city, nation, country and people. Therefore, it seems important to consider each one of these terms to construct the concept of civilization and its Islamic cultural project.

Celebrating The Human Being In The Novels Of Zayd The Martyr, Dear Hussein Ali Al-Moussawi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This is a research in modern Arabic literature, a critical study of the contemporary Iraqi novel, the text of which is the novels of Zaid Al-Shaheed, which he wrote in celebration of his city of Samawah, and the people in it, and they are four novels, in which he devoted his tendency in literature, which is humanity and the celebration of man, and the novels shared their time, place and common cultural system, which calls for a comprehensive study of them, according to a single critical method, to reveal their cultural and aesthetic systems. The novel text was subjected to …

Imamate According To Sayyid Al-Murtada In His Book Al-Shafi And His Response To The Statements Of Judge Abdul Jabbar Al-Mu’Tazili, Karim Shati Alsiraji

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Al-Shafi'i fi al-Imamah by Sayyid al-Murtada is one of the important books in proving the Imamate of the Imams, peace be upon them, as he presented in it the most important doubts and problems of the common people in the issue of Imamate and Caliphate, and through the most prominent scholars and theologians of the common people, namely Judge Abdul Jabbar al-Mu'tazili, who collected all the doubts and problems that came to his mind about Imamate and Caliphate in his book Al-Mughni fi al-Imamah. The importance of this book comes from the fact that no other book like it has …

The Modern Interpretation Method Of Muhammad Abduh As A Model, Najm Alfahaam

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The explanation Mohammed Abdah build on a principle which says that the Qur’an aimed to guide people and accept them in both lives. And the Sayers of this Doctrine depend on that, the Koran depicts an integrable social approach, thus they based the explanation on this concept and try to reveal the Koranic approach in their explanation in building the Islamic community from all its era.

The Presence Of The Poet In Al-Shanfara’S Lamiyat Al-Arab - A Study Of Objective Phenomena, Dhofar Najm Abdul Abdali

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Lamiyat Al-Arab for Al-Shinfra recognize one of the most important poems in the Jahili's Era where carry in its folds features for intellectual and physical sides about Al-Saaleek life, also represent the live incarnation for Al-Shinfra personality, where the poet express his mental disposition in it and Emotional.

Diwaniyah District Governors: A Study Of Their Job Biographies 1945-1958 Ad, Sami Nazim Hussein Al Mansouri, Ban Rawi Shaltagh Al-Hamidawi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research deals with the personal and administrative case study of a number of governors for Diwaniya Liwa, between 1945 - 1958, in the first year the law of the Iraqi brigades administration No. (16) for the year 1945 in the District of Diwaniya in the era governor Tawfiq Al Naeeb, until the revolution of July 14 in 1958 that ended the Royal rule in Iraq. He assumed the post of acting Liwa of Diwaniya between 1945 - 1958 m eight governors on variation for survival in office according to the method of their management and administrative record.

Characteristics Of The Economy Of The City Of Fustat In The Early Days Of Islam, Abbas Obaid Dawood

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The city of Fustat is one of the most beautiful cities located on the banks of the Nile River, which branches into two branches. It is characterized by a hot climate during the day and a cold climate at night. It has a beautiful architectural style represented by its market, mosque, and residents. The geographical location is one of the most factors that gave the city of Fustat great economic importance in the first century AH, due to the advantages it enjoys that prominently qualified it to be an economic center. The Holy Quran has drawn the foundations of the …

The First Rumaitha Uprising 1935.. Its Causes And Results, Ghanem Naguib Abbas, Alaa Abbas Kazem Al-Qasir

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This studying focused on one of the local revolutions in Iraq against Yasseen Al Hashinyś government in 1935. There were mang reasons for this revolution and the most important reason was the relationship between the leaders and the politicians who were always difficult. As a result the people refused the government and carried weapons. The government faced this refusal by using plans and other weapons as well as forced them to pay their interests.

The Impact Of Climate Change On Biodiversity In Iraq, Abdul Hassan Madfun Abu Rahil, Mansour Ghadhban Yazaa

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The study aims at detecting climate change on Iraq's biological diversity. Climate change affects the various vital sectors, including biodiversity, which have been highlighted in this study. The evidence of the importance and vitality of this subject and the rationale for its study are of interest to the world, especially the United Nations which is held annually at the World Climate Conferences and the large number of bodies and institutions to study climate change in Iraq One ​​of the most important findings of the study was the existence of climate change, especially during the last two decades in many species …

Friedrich Ratzel's Scientific Efforts In Political Geography, Adnan Kazim Jabbar Al-Shaibani

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Friedrich Ratzel is considered the true father of political geography, which before him was nothing but scattered ideas in books. His role was to lay the scientific foundations for political geography and geopolitics. Given the importance of his role in this, this research came to shed light on his legacy and the most prominent of what was included in it. He concluded that the political environment that Germany was experiencing before 1871 played a role in his orientation towards political geography and making it an applied science that serves decision-makers at the time. His work as a journalist also had …

The Natural And Health Importance Of The Book Al-Kamil Fi Al-Tarikh By Ibn Al-Athir (D. 630 Ah/1232 Ad), Salam Jabaar Munshid, Samah Habib Hussein

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This study gains its importance in the field of historical studies that it is based on a statement of that importance invested in the current curriculum followed by Ibn al-Atheer in his book, and how to deal with the texts on this subject and the accuracy in his talking about it, This study revealed the natural and health dimension of the book (Al-Kamel) of Ibn al-Atheer, Through careful readings in the texts that were related to this subject, as it was difficult to study; Because it is based on tracking the historical texts of the natural aspects and health and …