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DH+BH: An Interdisciplinary Collection on Digital Humanities and Book History
Get PDFDigital humanities and book history are both potentially expansive tools for advocacy, activism, and recovery work in our current moment. This collection extends an invitation to readers to reflect on power, privilege, and potential in the wider fields of digital humanities and history of the book. Contributions from an international community of scholars explore the limitations of digital collections, the potential of digital methodologies to enrich bibliographic research, and the pleasures and challenges of interdisciplinary approaches to book history scholarship
The Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays
No full text…The Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays challenges and expands existing denotations and representations of Black Motherhood, as it provides an interdisciplinary aesthetic/theoretical framework through which to realistically re-present and, with cultural empathy, interpret the complexities of Black Motherhood, Black mother’s love, and Black women’s maternal herstories….This work compels the reader to reconsider their own perceptions and misperceptions of motherhood.”
Ladrica C. Menson-Furr, University of Memphis
This collection introduces the "Black female Motherhood Aesthetic," a theory revealing the complexities of Black motherhood in contemporary America. Through an interpretation of plays written by Black female playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks, Cheryl West, Aishah Rahman, Dael Orlandersmith, and Velina Hasu Houston, the authors define the aesthetic to showcase the full humanity of Black women, exploring Black women\u27s self-determination, trauma, bravery, and joy. These playwrights engage in "response writing," allowing their characters to address their lived experiences. Issues like skin-color marginalization, intersectional identity, and family dislocation are reexamined. This aesthetic challenges past portrayals of the idealized Black family, presenting diverse and realistic representations of motherhood. It affirms that Black families are not homogenous, but multifaceted, reflecting the varied realities of Black women\u27s lives.
This title was peer reviewed with a single-blind process by the AFRO-PWW editorial board.
Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/pww.29
Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Companion
No full textIn 1990 Hans-Joachim Schulze, preeminent worldwide authority on the music of JS Bach, began a weekly series of radio broadcasts on all the cantatas by Bach then known to be extant. The series was quite popular, was repeated several times, and in 2006 Schulze published his scripts as a volume on all the Bach cantatas. In this digital edition hosted by IOPN, a companion to a printed volume of selected commentaries published by University of Illinois Press, James A. Brokaw II provides English translations of all of the essays on the Scalar platform with tools for searching, sorting and bundling the essays by date of composition, position within the liturgical church year sequence, secular patron and occasion, librettist and other parameters.Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Companion is copublished by the University of Illinois Press (print and e-book) and Windsor & Downs Press (online digital edition, https://doi.org/10.21900/wd.21).
Funding Acknowledgment
Sponsored by the Ruth and Noel Monte Fund of the American Bach Society
Ruth and Noel Monte were deeply devoted to Bach and his music, sensing its great impact on the human brain and culture throughout the world. To them, Bach represents a bright planet appearing in the sky only once, requiring centuries for the human mind to observe and fully comprehend. The Monte Fund has the goal of supporting and promoting this living musical treasure for present and future generations
Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Companion
No full textIn 1990 Hans-Joachim Schulze, preeminent worldwide authority on the music of JS Bach, began a weekly series of radio broadcasts on all the cantatas by Bach then known to be extant. The series was quite popular, was repeated several times, and in 2006 Schulze published his scripts as a volume on all the Bach cantatas. In this digital edition hosted by IOPN, a companion to a printed volume of selected commentaries published by University of Illinois Press, James A. Brokaw II provides English translations of all of the essays on the Scalar platform with tools for searching, sorting and bundling the essays by date of composition, position within the liturgical church year sequence, secular patron and occasion, librettist and other parameters.Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: An Interactive Companion is copublished by the University of Illinois Press (print and e-book) and Windsor & Downs Press (online digital edition, https://doi.org/10.21900/wd.21).
Funding Acknowledgment
Sponsored by the Ruth and Noel Monte Fund of the American Bach Society
Ruth and Noel Monte were deeply devoted to Bach and his music, sensing its great impact on the human brain and culture throughout the world. To them, Bach represents a bright planet appearing in the sky only once, requiring centuries for the human mind to observe and fully comprehend. The Monte Fund has the goal of supporting and promoting this living musical treasure for present and future generations
Reading Social Science Methods
Get PDFScience has great potential to benefit society, but this potential comes with risks as well. Directed at introductory level social science and humanities majors, this textbook teaches the rules and limits of social science methods. Reisner starts from the assumption that it is not necessary to be able to do research to read and judge the soundness of research publications. The chapters guide students through an explicit set of rules for reading research articles developed from three common research methods: content analysis, survey research, and experimental method.
Funding Statement
Work on this textbook was partially funded by the 2021 Faculty OER Incentive Program, funded by the University Library, Office of the Provost, and University of Illinois Student Government
Writing for Inquiry and Research
Get PDFWriting for Inquiry and Research guides students through the composition process of writing a research paper. The book divides this process into four chapters that each focus on a genre connected to research writing: the annotated bibliography, proposal, literature review, and research essay. Each chapter provides significant guidance with reading, writing, and research strategies, along with significant examples and links to external resources. This book serves to help students and instructors with a writing-project-based approach, transforming the research process into an accessible series of smaller, more attainable steps for a semester-long course in research writing. Additional resources throughout the book, as well as in three appendices, allow for students and instructors to explore the many facets of the writing process together
A Person-Centered Guide to Demystifying Technology, 2nd Edition: Working together to observe, question, design, prototype, and implement/reject technology in support of people\u27s valued beings and doings
No full textDigital technologies old and new are not objects that can be packed inside a box. They are a seamless, indivisible combination of people, organizations, policies, economies, histories, cultures, knowledge, and material things that are continuously shaped and reshaped. Every one of us innovates-in-use our everyday technologies; we just do not always know it. We are shaped by the networked information tools in our midst, and we shape them and thereby shape others. While many of the chapters in this book can be approached as standalone explorations, as many around the world have done, its full potential comes when collaboratively taken as a journey through twelve sessions. Each session in this second, revised edition includes two thematically linked chapters, one more socially oriented and one more technically oriented. Sessions are brought together into three larger generative themes that are built from three decades of participatory design in and with community, and from the teaching of these concepts and practices in courses and workshops. Approached within a community of practice, learning outcomes include discovering ways to advance power, both power within and power with others; advancing our technical skills, but also and even more, our progressive community engagement skills, our critical sociotechnical skills, and our cognitive, information, and social-emotional skills; and progressing our culturally competent collective leadership through social justice storytelling within a framing of reciprocity. In so doing, this textbook seeks to address the call placed by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – to rapidly shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society
A Bicentennial Crossroads: 200 Years of Continuity and Change in Rural Illinois
No full textThe Illinois tour of Crossroads: Change in Rural America, a Museum on Main Street exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Illinois Humanities, coincided with the Bicentennial of Illinois statehood. The intersection of those two events elicited contemplation and celebration of the significance of rural life over the 200-year history of Illinois as a state, as well as discussion of its ongoing evolution and the roles of individuals, institutions, and communities in shaping it. The six small-town organizations that hosted Crossroads created companion exhibitions and public programs illustrating how their local histories and cultures reflect themes addressed by the Smithsonian-produced exhibition and contribute to trends that it describes. Taken together, the contents of those locally focused exhibitions and programs form a remarkable survey of continuity and change over two centuries of rural Illinois’s existence. Additionally, the ways in which the host organizations conducted their work reflected and responded to ongoing change in rural Illinois, contributing to their communities’ and regions’ efforts to sustain and enhance their cultural vitality. A Bicentennial Crossroads examines what we can learn about rural Illinois’s past, present, and potential future(s) from what they produced and how they produced it
Writing for Inquiry and Research
Get PDFWriting for Inquiry and Research guides students through the composition process of writing a research paper. The book divides this process into four chapters that each focus on a genre connected to research writing: the annotated bibliography, proposal, literature review, and research essay. Each chapter provides significant guidance with reading, writing, and research strategies, along with significant examples and links to external resources. This book serves to help students and instructors with a writing-project-based approach, transforming the research process into an accessible series of smaller, more attainable steps for a semester-long course in research writing. Additional resources throughout the book, as well as in three appendices, allow for students and instructors to explore the many facets of the writing process together
A Bicentennial Crossroads: 200 Years of Continuity and Change in Rural Illinois
No full textThe Illinois tour of Crossroads: Change in Rural America, a Museum on Main Street exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Illinois Humanities, coincided with the Bicentennial of Illinois statehood. The intersection of those two events elicited contemplation and celebration of the significance of rural life over the 200-year history of Illinois as a state, as well as discussion of its ongoing evolution and the roles of individuals, institutions, and communities in shaping it. The six small-town organizations that hosted Crossroads created companion exhibitions and public programs illustrating how their local histories and cultures reflect themes addressed by the Smithsonian-produced exhibition and contribute to trends that it describes. Taken together, the contents of those locally focused exhibitions and programs form a remarkable survey of continuity and change over two centuries of rural Illinois’s existence. Additionally, the ways in which the host organizations conducted their work reflected and responded to ongoing change in rural Illinois, contributing to their communities’ and regions’ efforts to sustain and enhance their cultural vitality. A Bicentennial Crossroads examines what we can learn about rural Illinois’s past, present, and potential future(s) from what they produced and how they produced it