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Experiences in Early Graduate Student Research: The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, 2019 versus 2024
Full text linkThis short, blog-style piece details the author’s first experience doing archival research for an undergraduate thesis at the University of New Mexico, and how that experience shaped future graduate research in the same archive and others. Most importantly, this article points to the importance of “failure” on the journey to becoming a professional historian
\u3ci\u3eNadia Boulanger: War Years in America and Her Last Decades\u3c/i\u3e, by James Whipple Miller
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Shadow Games: Russian Disinformation, Criminal Networks, and Strategic Encroachment in the Central Andes
Full text linkThis report examines Russia’s increasing influence in the Central Andes, specifically in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, and highlights the adverse outcomes associated with this influence. Russia has significantly expanded its regional presence through security, diplomatic, and disinformation channels, taking advantage of geopolitical instability and economic vulnerabilities. Key developments include Russia’s involvement in Bolivia’s energy sector, particularly oil and lithium, mainly through its giant state-controlled companies Gazprom and Rosatom.
Russian disinformation has also significantly amplified propaganda, mainly through Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government. It has also used media manipulation to limit dissent and silence opposition, using its leverage and connections to increase its gray zone footprint in the region. Although Russian influence is most pronounced in Bolivia, changing electoral and geopolitical dynamics in Peru and Ecuador could potentially contribute to expanding it in those two countries.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/jgi_research/1070/thumbnail.jp
In Black and White, or Gray? Two World War I Settings of Walt Whitman’s Poem “Reconciliation”: by Helen Hopekirk (1915), and by Ivor Gurney (1919)
Full text linkMusical settings of Walt Whitman’s poems have proliferated ever since the turn of the twentieth century. Many of these settings were by British composers reacting to the effects of World War I in Europe: the two settings of Whitman’s short poem “Reconciliation” (1865–66) discussed here are those by the Scottish-American composer and concert pianist Helen Hopekirk (1856–1945) and the English composer and poet Ivor Gurney (1890–1937). Both settings reflect the immediate emotions aroused by the poem in the different situations in which the two composers found themselves: the immigrant Hopekirk teaching at the New England Conservatory but concerned about enlisted relatives in Europe, Gurney attempting to re-enter civilian life after horrendous experiences as a soldier in the trenches of Flanders. The settings also show an attempt to explore unusual tonal horizons: Hopekirk influenced by exposure to Debussy’s piano works and the traditional melody of the Scottish Highlands, Gurney reaching back to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and English forerunners such as Campion or Dowland. Both settings are valuable for their immediacy of response to the war, and for their emotional authenticity
\u3ci\u3eThe Lied at the Crossroads of Performance and Musicology\u3c/i\u3e, edited by Benjamin Binder and Jennifer Ronyak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 [review].
Full text link“Good for You!”: Remembering Richard Taruskin
Full text linkRichard Taruskin was a major promoter of Eastern European music. His interest was also shaped by his personal contacts, particularly in Hungary, where he visited more frequently in his later years, presenting at conferences. He developed close relations with several representatives of Hungarian musicology, among them Katalin Komlós, László Somfai, László Vikárius, and Tibor Tallián. In addition to presenting conference keynote lectures, and later courses at the Doctoral School of the Liszt Academy of Music, Taruskin also participated in the advisory board of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition, and became an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Moreover, he encouraged his students in the USA to work on Hungarian topics and urged Hungarian musicologists to publish their findings in English. As Editor-in-Chief at the University of California Press (California Studies in 20th-Century Music) he enabled the publication of monographs on such significant figures of the Hungarian music history such as Ernst von Dohnányi and Zoltán Kodály. My highly personal reminiscence of Richard Taruskin emphasizes his consistent support for Hungarian musicology and musicologists while also illustrating some endearingly traits of his personality
Political Investments: An Interview with Thomas Ferguson
No full textAn interview with Thomas Ferguson regarding the 2024 election by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod and Tim Barker - this piece was originally published in December, 2024 in Phenomenal World