468 research outputs found
On Music’s Subtle Expressiveness
No full textI suggest that emotions are not the primary affective attitude towards music. If we are to explain music’s expressiveness according to the Resemblance Theory, that theory should be extended to include feelings. Because of the lack of intentionality in music and the dearth of universal emotional gestures to explain the subtlety of music’s expressive power, explaining this expressiveness by making recourse to music’s relationships with emotions is bound to face challenges. I will argue that, even though the movements in music associated with musical expressiveness might not necessarily be associated with emotions, they might very well be associated with certain feelings of the movement itself
[Chachalaca Review] - Meet Myriam Gurba | Spring 2020 Special Feature
No full textMeet Myriam Gurba, a featured artist from Volume 7: Metamorphosis Issue!
Myriam Gurba is a Mexican-American writer and visual artist from Santa Maria, California. She is known for her true-crime memoir Mean named a New York editors’ choice. Her memoir also ranked as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time by O, The Oprah Magazine. She is also the author of Painting Their Portraits in Winter which explores Mexican stories and traditions from the feminist perspective. She has graduated from UC Berkley and her writings have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Erotica (St. Martin’s) and Tough Girls (Black Books). Gurba is currently residing in Long Beach, California.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utrgvmedia/1012/thumbnail.jp
Substance use behaviors among a nationally representative sample of college students with disabilities
No full textBackground: A significant number of students enrolled in postsecondary institutions have a disability. Like many young adults, college students with disabilities have an elevated risk of substance use. However, research on substance use in this population is limited. Objectives: This dissertation aims to: 1) Examine the prevalence of disability in U.S. college students by student characteristics, including disability status; 2) Present associations between disability status, sociodemographic characteristics, and substance use among college students; and 3) Explore the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and public policy factors affecting service utilization by college students with disabilities.Methods: A mixed methods design was employed in this study. Data from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) public use data file was analyzed. Purposeful sampling was employed for in-depth interviews with key informants at Rutgers University who provide services to students with disabilities. Results: An estimated 2.6 million (12.6%) college students had a disability. The most common type of disability was cognitive impairment (7.3%). College students with any disability had higher odds of current tobacco use (AOR = 1.31; 95% CI 1.01-1.69) and reported more ever use, past year use, and current use of illicit drugs (p<.001) than their nondisabled peers. Personal barriers emerged as dominant themes for service utilization by students with disabilities. Conclusions: This dissertation documents the high prevalence of substance use among college students with disabilities. It also highlights the many barriers to service utilization for this population. Understanding the risk factors for substance use and strategies for prevention and treatment are important to people with disabilities, disability service providers, and public health policymakers. Hence, there is a need for the development of health improvement plans for college students that integrate inclusive policy, systems, and environmental strategies.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Myriam Casseu
Fondale
No full textThis essay aims to investigate the meaning of the word "fondale" in Giorgio Caproni's poetic works. Starting with the analysis of two poems included in "Il Conte di Kevenhüller (1986) - in which the author uses the word with two meanings: "scenic backdrop" and "seabed" - the paper offers an overview that traces the roots of these meanings in the previous poetic work. The verses of the poem "Fondale della storia" ("L'acciaio. / Il ghiacciaio"), in particular, prompt reflections on the issues of evil, war and nothingness as developed in most of Caproni's work
The sacred choral music of Francis Poulenc: a contextual and analytical study
Get PDFPoulenc is perhaps best known for his instrumental works, for his adherence to the aesthetics of Neo-classicism, and his place among the Parisian intellectual circles in tJie 1920s and 1930s in which his friend, Jean Cocteau, played a central role. This essentially secular side of Poulenc's creativity was, after the composer's return to Roman Catholicism in 1936, challenged by a need to express a newly-found religious conviction in sacred music. Consequently Poulenc, who had been accustomed to the secular aesthetics of Neo-classicism of Parisian artistic life and the French capital's concert halls, found it necessary to 'rediscover' and assimilate the language of French church music and its history (notably through the filter of the Cecilian Movement, Niedermeyer and the pkinchant of Solesmes) in order to create for himself an appropriate 'sacred style’ that could also incorporate those essential elements of his characteristically playful and sensual, 'secular' language. This study aims to explore this confrontation of styles and how Poulenc successfully forged a cohesive and congruent language for his sacred works. The opening chapters have several distinct perspectives: chapter one outlines the tortuous history of the Church's relationship with the State in France dating back to the pivotal effects of the 1789 Revolution, in an attempt to provide a necessary context for the importance that Poulenc and his predecessors and contemporaries (most significantly Debussy) attached to the past; chapter two, by contrast, discusses some of the principal issues at the heart of Parisian artistic society in the early decades of the twentieth century and focuses on the lively artistic community which existed in Paris with the influx of large numbers of foreign musicians (particularly Americans and Russians) and artists, the emergence of 'Les Six' (of which Poulenc was a member) and the artistic leadership and inspiration given by figures such as Jean Cocteau, Serge Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky. Cocteau and Stravinsky, indeed, had a huge impact on the young Poulenc. The second part of the thesis is an analytical study of Poulenc's sacred works (putting aside the Gloria, Stabat Mater and Sept Repais de Tetibres which are unmistakably concert works) and connects these analyses with the issues presented in the earlier chapters, beginning with the emotionally powerful Litanies a la vierge noire for women’s voices, composed soon after his Catholic faith returned in 1936, and ending with the decidedly hard-edged, Stravinskian Neo-classicism, yet relative placidity, of the Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue for men's voices, completed in Cannes in 1959. Central to the analytical discussion are the well known eclectic Mass in G (1937), the dramatic Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence (1939) and the stylistically distilled Quatre petite prieres de Saint Francois d'Assise which display the greatest variety of style and form and which combine to present significant examples of Poulenc's skilful unification of sacred and secular, ancient and modem sound worlds
A ocupação do território Xokleng pelos imigrantes italianos no sul catarinense (1875-1925): resistência e extermínio
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-graduação em HistóriaO presente trabalho analisa os conflitos envolvendo os Xokleng e os imigrantes italianos no Sul Catarinense nas últimas décadas do século XIX e nas primeiras do século XX, no contexto da grande imigração européia para o Brasil e na expansão das áreas coloniais como forma de expansão da fronteira agrícola em locais considerados #vazios demográficos# pelo governo brasileiro. Entretanto, o #vazio demográfico# era uma ficção, pois no Sul Catarinense, nas áreas de mata atlântica e mata e araucária vivia o grupo indígena Xokleng sem contato com a sociedade nacional # entendida aqui como o conjunto da população que vivia sob as esferas administrativas da sociedade brasileira e a ela sentindo-se pertencentes. Vivendo com base em um nomadismo estacional, este grupo fazia da caça e da coleta nestas florestas as atividades principais para obter os alimentos suficientes para o seu sustento. A decisão do governo imperial de implantar colônias em locais onde havia uma população indígena contribuiu para que um clima de conflito se estabelecesse na região, pois duas populações com culturas distintas colocadas em um mesmo espaço levariam a uma disputa pelo controle do território e dos recursos nele disponíveis para a sobrevivência de ambos os grupos. O presente trabalho analisa estes conflitos envolvendo os Xokleng e os imigrantes, demonstrando que as representações construídas pelos últimos sobre os primeiros foram importantes para justificar a morte imposta a estes. Entendendo representação como as construções que um determinado grupo humano elabora para explicar a si próprio suas escolhas e condutas mediante uma determinada realidade, um grupo humano localiza outro grupo dentro de seu esquema de referências para classificá-lo de acordo com suas crenças e práticas culturais, justificando as ações empreendidas em relação aos mesmos. Trabalhamos representação como meio para atingir o conhecimento sobre o conflito pela posse do território entre imigrantes europeus e os Xokleng no final do século XIX e início do século XX no Sul Catarinense. Trabalhamos a idéia de representação associada ao conceito de invenção da etnicidade, pois compreendemos que os conflitos entre os Xokleng e os imigrantes também se inserem na esfera da etnicidade, que foi por vezes mobilizada entre os imigrantes para justificar suas posições, marcando a diferença entre seu grupo e o grupo indígena e colocando entre os dois uma fronteira que acabou por tornar-se intransponível. Assim, demonstramos como a luta pela posse do território, mediante a implantação de colônias com imigrantes, associada à ação dos bugreiros contribuiu para a desintegração do modo de vida Xokleng no Sul Catarinense. O trabalho discute a exploração do território Sul Catarinense visando a implantação de colônias por parte do governo imperial e como esta exploração preparou as bases para a espoliação das terras indígenas na região, com base na legislação da época. Nesta perspectiva, a fundação de colônias representou uma modificação na paisagem do Sul Catarinense, uma vez que o modo de vida dos imigrantes levou a uma contínua diminuição da floresta reduzindo as condições de sobrevivência do grupo Xokleng, desarticulando seu modo de vida. Demonstra-se que o extermínio do grupo Xokleng no Sul Catarinense e a conseqüente espoliação de suas terras foi possível devido à política indigenista do século XIX que previa #guerra# os botocudos, entre os quais estão incluídos os Xokleng. Esta #guerra# serviu de terreno para a construção de representações sobre este grupo indígena que será apropriada pelos imigrantes e externado por meio do termo #bugre#, que classificava os indígenas como incapazes de convívio com a sociedade da qual os imigrantes faziam parte. Surge, portanto, as justificativas para as ações que foram desenvolvidas visando a garantia de segurança nas colônias, ou seja, o trabalho dos bugreiros, que consistia no extermínio dos Xokleng, com aval das autoridades constituídas. The present work analyses the conflicts involving the Xokleng and the Italian immigrants in the south of Santa Catarina in the last decades of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century in the context of the great European immigration to Brazil and in the expansion of the colonization areas as a way of expansion of the agricultural frontier in places considerate #demographical empties# by the Brazilian government. However, the #demographical empties# was a fiction, because in the south of Santa Catarina, in the areas of Atlântica and Araucária forests, there was the indigenous group Xokleng without contact with the national society - which is understood here as the conjunct of population who lived under the administrative sphere of the Brazilian society and who felt pertaining to it. Living based in a stationary nomadism, this group used the hunting and the levy in these forests as their main activities to get the sufficient food for their maintenance. The decision of the imperial government of establishing colonies in places where there were indigenous population contributed to create a conflict climate in the region, because two populations with distinct cultures placed in the same space would lean to fight for the control of the territory and for the available resources for survival of both of the groups found in it. The present work analysis these conflicts between the Xokleng and the immigrants and it shows that the representations made by the last over the first ones were important to justify the death enforced to them. Understanding representation as the constructions that a determinate human group creates to explain its choices and conducts in front of determined reality, a human group places another group in its reference schemes to classify it according to its beliefs and cultural usages, justifying the actions attempted to this other one. We use the representation as a way to reach the knowledge about the conflict for the ownership of the territory between the European immigrants and the Xokleng by the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in the South of Santa Catarina. We use the idea of representation associated with the concept of the ethnical approach invention, since we understand that the conflicts between the Xokleng and the immigrants are also inserted in the sphere of the etnicidade, which was used many times by the immigrants to justify their positions, marking the difference between their group and the indigenous group and putting between the two ones a frontier that became insurmountable. That way, we show how the fight for the ownership of the territory when there is the implantation of colonies with immigrants, associated with the action of the bugreiros, contributed for the disintegration of the Xokleng way of life in the south of Santa Catarina. The work discusses the explorations of the south of Santa Catarina territory aiming the implantation of colonies by the imperial government and how this exploration prepared the bases for the spoliation of the indigenous lands in the region based on the epoch legislation. In this perspective, the colony foundation represented a modification in the south of Santa Catarina landscape, since the way of life of the immigrants caused a continuing decrease of the forest, decreasing the survival conditions of the Xokleng and disarticulating their way of life. It is shown that the Xokleng group extermination in the south of Santa Catarina and the consequent spoliation of its lands were possible due to the indigenista politics of the 19th century which foresaw #war# against the botocudos, among them the Xokleng. This #war# supplied the creation of representations against this indigenous group that was appropriated by the immigrants and uttered by the term #bugre#, which classifies the Indians as incapables of cohabiting in the society of the immigrants. So it comes the justifying for the actions that were developed to guarantee the security in the colonies, in other words, the work of the bugreiros, which was the Xokleng extermination, with the surety of the constituted authorities
Myriam Moscona and the renewal of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
No full textO judeu espanhol, ou ladino, idioma dos judeus sefarditas fixados no antigo Império Otomano, após a expulsão dos judeus da Espanha. O idioma, hoje popularizado pela Internet, que confere visibilidade à atuação de seus falantes e pesquisadores, com realização de eventos que contam com a presença de especialistas e herdeiros da cultura judaica provenientes da Ibéria. Ao mesmo tempo, surgem textos que retomam a tradição do ladino em prosa e verso. A poeta mexicana Myriam Moscona é uma das autoras que se destacam nesse movimento de memória e renovação cultural verificado em diversos países.The Judeu Espanhol or ladino, language of the Sephardic Jews settled in the old Ottoman Empire, after the expulsion from Spain (1492). The language, popularized today by the Internet, givers visibility to the actions of its speakers, with events held with the presence of experts and heirs of Jewish culture from Iberia. Até the same time, texts emerge that take up the tradition of the Ladino in prose and verse. The Mexican poetess Myriam Moscona is one of the author who stand out in this movement of memory and cultural renewal verified in several countries
“Vamos fazer a virilha completa e perianal?”: a força ambivalente dos espaços femininos
Get PDFIn this article, a chapter translated from a book by French philosopher and eco-feminist activist Myriam Bahaffou, the author explores a detailed and sensitive account of a hair removal session to address the questions and ambivalences associated with the beauty injunctions imposed by patriarchy. A dialogue between feminist, anti-racist and decolonial perspectives brings to light the power of cosmetic spaces and practices, in which the intertwining of femininity and feminism can be glimpsed, when the waxing booth is shown to be an “experimental laboratory for post-colonial dialogue” of racialized bodies and women’s stories.En este artículo, un capítulo traducido de un libro de la filósofa francesa y activista ecofeminista Myriam Bahaffou, la autora explora un relato detallado y sensible de una sesión de depilación con cera para abordar las preguntas y ambivalencias asociadas a los mandatos de belleza impuestos por el patriarcado. Un diálogo entre perspectivas feministas, antirracistas y decoloniales saca a la luz el poder de los espacios y prácticas cosméticos, en los que puede vislumbrarse el entrelazamiento de feminidad y feminismo, cuando la cabina de depilación se muestra como un “laboratorio experimental para el diálogo poscolonial” de cuerpos racializados e historias de mujeres.Neste artigo, capítulo traduzido de um livro da filósofa e ativista ecofeminista francesa Myriam Bahaffou, a autora explora um relato minucioso e sensível de uma sessão de depilação para pautar as interrogações e as ambivalências associadas às injunções de beleza impostas pelo patriarcado. Um diálogo entre as perspectivas feministas, antirracistas e decoloniais traz à tona a potência dos espaços e práticas da cosmética, nos quais se vislumbra o entrelaçamento da feminilidade e do feminismo, quando a cabine de depilação se mostra como “laboratório experimental de diálogo pós-colonial” de corpos racializados e histórias de mulheres
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