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A Musical Legacy: Adam Cunningham Oral History, January 28, 2025
No full textAdam Cunningham, the Carbon High Band Director, shares his life and musical journey in this oral history. Growing up in Taylorsville with parents from Carbon County who were heavily involved in the Carbon High Band Program, he was introduced to music early, starting piano at age five and clarinet in fifth grade. His parents made musical participation a firm requirement, which led to him and all his siblings receiving college scholarships. Although he initially considered a career in Electrical or Robotics Engineering, a powerful experience in the All-State Band and a realization that he enjoyed working with people more than tedious math led him to pursue music education. His mentors included Paul Brown, who instilled a love for music theory, and Wayne Erickson, who gave him free private clarinet lessons and later recruited him to the music program at UVSC (now UVU). Cunningham\u27s teaching career has included positions at Union High and Helper Middle School, and he discusses his current role building the successful Carbon High Marching Band and Archery programs, emphasizing the lasting musical heritage of the county as a key motivation for his return
ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
Get PDFAdam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
Get PDFAdam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.
ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
Get PDFThe conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,
Creative industries around the world
No full textThis chapter asks what distinctive variations on creative industries concepts and claims can be seen around the world, and what implications this may have for a comparative research agenda. There is, as we have seen, major country-by-country comparative research on creative industries performance, but this tends to be narrowly financial in nature. Cunningham and Swift’s granular attention to political, social, cultural and economic dynamics of creative industries policy in a series of compact country case studies raises fundamental questions about how flexible creative industries policy settings can be, and what might be the irreducible elements that differentiate such policy from its near neighbours. The chapter’s emphasis on the global South partially rebalances the book’s de facto global North bias
MAP Screen: The Anthropology Effect Group Exhibition
No full textThis new season of film and video selected by Karen Cunningham opens with Ravi Govender, ‘Localized’, 2013 and Adam Chodzko, ‘The Pickers’, 200
Wayne E. Erickson: Oral History Quote from Adam Cunningham
No full textWayne E. Erickson (1946-2019), known as Butch, was a long-time, admired music educator who was raised in Wellington, Utah, and participated in the renowned band programs at Carbon High School. Erickson taught at multiple institutions, including Monticello High School, Emery High School, Provo High School, Snow College, Utah Valley State College (UVSC), Utah Valley University (UVU), and Brigham Young University. While at UVSC, he built the music program from the ground floor, with his goal being to see the first official Music Education degree programs graduate from UVU before he retired. Erickson, a clarinetist, was a frequent adjudicator and guest conductor who earned accolades such as the Superior Accomplishment Award from the Utah Music Educators Association (1994) and induction into the Utah Bandmasters Hall of Fame. Adam Cunningham, a former student who is also from Carbon County, recounts that Erickson, as the Director of Bands at UVSC, was influential in directing his path. Since Cunningham\u27s parents knew Erickson, Erickson offered him free, long clarinet lessons every other week for two years during Cunningham\u27s junior and senior years in high school. Cunningham ended up attending UVSC (later UVU) because of Erickson\u27s influence
Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes
Get PDFThis essay is a preprint of an article that appeared at: Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57.This essay discusses Adam Smith historical jurisprudence and his use of Roman law materials in his Lectures on Jurisprudence. It argues that Smith found it difficult to maintain his theory of legal development in the face of a highly developed body of Roman law literature
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