18 research outputs found
The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East
No full textIn the early nineteenth century, the term “avant-garde” began to capture greater semantic territory. Once purely a military phrase used to distinguish crack troops, it then assumed a high-ranking position within cultural expression, marking out art work that forged ahead and broke new ground. What can it mean to conjoin this French phrase with the word “Arab”? French forces, along with other imperial intruders, are no strangers to Arab terrain. The colonisation of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Greater Syria followed in the wake of the brief Napoleonic “mission” to Egypt between 1798 and 1801. It was during this military foray that some of modern Europe’s most expansive data on Egyptian music was collected, information that comprised two whole volumes of Guillaume André Villoteau’s Description de l’Egypte. The Napoleonic campaign gathered not only military, but also cultural intelligence, if the two can be so easily separated
A Review of Dr. Wilson\u27s Swastika
No full textReview of: The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol & Its Migrations With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times, by Thomas Wilson. The article also provides a profile of the author
Late Neogene motion of the Pacific plate
No full textOceanic crust between 38°S and 65°S along the Pacific-Antarctic ridge records a complete history of Neogene Pacific-Antarctic motion. Our analysis shows that a change in Pacific-Antarctic relative motion occurred between chron 2A, 3.40 Ma, and the beginning of chron 3 time, 3.86 Ma. We used 203 estimates of Pacific-Antarctic spreading velocity to calculate a 0-3.4 Ma and 3.86-10.3 Ma Euler pole. Combined with tracks of seamounts that record the passage of the Pacific plate over mantle plumes our data show that this change in relative motion corresponds to a change in the absolute motion of the Pacific plate with respect to the hotspot frame of reference. Using these Euler poles to calculate Pacific-Antarctic-Africa-North America circuit Euler poles show that this recent change in Pacific plate absolute motion corresponds to a change from strike-slip to transpressive motion along the coastal California Pacific-North America plate boundary. Interestingly, this age of increased tectonism agrees in time with deformation in New Zealand and northern Japan. -from Author
The “Almanacks” of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition
No full textBorn in Concord, Massachusetts, on the eve of the American Revolution, Mary Moody Emerson (1774–1863) is most widely known today as the brilliant aunt of American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). She was, however, an exciting figure in her own right: a scholar, a theologian, a proto-feminist, and an author whose writings offer a rare and prolific example of early American women’s intellectual production. In 1804, when she was thirty, and again in her seventies, Emerson published a handful of periodical essays. 1 But her most significant literary accomplishment is an unpublished series of manuscript “Almanacks” (c. 1804–1855), a miscellany spanning over one thousand pages and fifty years, and whose generic form derives from the commonplace book, devotional diary, and epistolary essay. Constructed from loose sheets of letter paper bound with thread, individual Almanacks were circulated among friends and correspondents, as single sheets with letters or as multiple-leaved gifts. These writings reflect Emerson’s immersion in Eastern and Western as well as classical, Enlightenment, and Romantic thought, and they offer perhaps the most complete literary example documenting a single, intellectual woman’s life during the antebellum era. Yet the complete text of these manuscripts has never been readily available
Plate motions recorded in tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Franciscan Complex and evolution of the Mendocino triple junction, northwestern California
No full textThe Mendocino triple junction area of northern California is underlain by the Coastal belt of the Franciscan complex, flanked on the east by the Central and Eastern belts of the Franciscan Complex. The coastal belt is further divided into three tectonostratigraphic terranes. Upper Cretaceous through middle Miocene rocks included in these terranes were accreted to the North American plate margin partly during normal convergence with the Farallon plate between 49 and 25 Ma at poleward rates of 2 to 5cm /yr, and partly during translation with the Pacific plate between 14 and 2 Ma at poleward rates of 3 to 6cm/yr. The evolution of the triple junction is discussed. -from Author
Vegetative stabilization of spent oil shales: final report, phase II-A, to the Colorado Department of Natural Resources
No full textDecember 31, 1974
Reusable Platinum-Deposited Anatase/Hexa-Titanate Nanotubes: Roles of Reduced and Oxidized Platinum on Enhanced Solar-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Activity
No full textA new class of photocatalysts,
referred to as Pt(0)- or Pt(IV)-deposited
anatase/hexa-titanate nanotubes (Pt(0)-TNTs-600 and Pt(IV)-TNTs-600),
were prepared through a three-step process: hydrothermal conversion
of commercial TiO2 to titanate nanotubes and subsequent
deposition of Pt and calcination. At the optimal Pt dosage (0.1 wt
%) and calcination temperature (600 °C), Pt(0)-TNTs-600 showed
the highest photocatalytic activity for degrading phenanthrene. The
apparent pseudo-first order rate constant (k1) was determined to be 0.12 h–1, which was
∼2 and 3 times of that for Pt(IV)-TNTs-600 and P25. TEM, XRD,
FTIR, and XPS analyses indicate that Pt(0)-TNTs-600 is a composite
of anatase and hexa-titanate with metallic Pt deposited, where Pt
facilitates transport of photogenerated electrons, thus inhibiting
recombination of the electron–hole pairs. Moreover, DRS UV–vis
analysis revealed a narrower optical energy gap of materials, resulting
in enhanced absorbance in the visible region. The new photocatalyst
could also produce more reactive oxygen species, i.e. ·OH, than
the P25 and pristine TNTs. The material can be reused in multiple
cycles of water treatment operations (with almost no activity loss
after six consecutive cycles). The new photocatalyst appears promising
for efficient photodegradation of a host of organic pollutants in
water under solar light
“I Just Told Them Like It Was”: Performance and History at Colonial Williamsburg
No full textThis article was originally published in Journal of the Society for American Music. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752196323000470. Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American MusicSince its organization in the mid-twentieth century, Colonial Williamsburg (CW) has been an important site for the consolidation of powerful narratives of American exceptionalism, patriotism, and the so-called consensus history of the American Revolution. This article looks at the role that music and performance has played in this historiography, taking as its primary texts two films produced by CW: The Story of a Patriot (1957) and The Music of Williamsburg (1960). With musical contributions by Bernard Herrmann and Alan Lomax, respectively, these films offer an opportunity to analyze the relationship between history and politics in the early Cold War era. Although The Story of a Patriot reflects a static and essentially conservative portrayal of American exceptionalism, the more liberal inclusiveness of The Music of Williamsburg showcases the fraught power dynamics of attempting to showcase historical Black music making in a patriotic context.Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the conference “The Past, the Present, and the Future of Public Musicology,” organized by Eric Hung at Westminster Choir College, and at a Society for American Music seminar session on “Music and Cultural Memory” lead by Elissa Harbert and Tom Kernan. I'm very grateful for the generosity of Carol Oja in sharing her seminar materials with me, as well as some important suggestions from Elizabeth Morgan, Eric Hung, and Gayle Murchison, and to my student Benjamin McGonagle for his assistance with transcriptions
Fenomena Representasi Simbolik Komunitas Mobil Toyota Fortuner Internasional Indonesia
No full textThe study aims to examine more deeply the symbolic representation of the community of Toyota Fortuner International Indonesia car lovers Bengkulu Chapter. This research departs from the author's interest in researching this FOIIN community in depth, focusing on knowing the symbolic representation of the Toyota Fortuner International Indonesia car community and the motivations and goals of members to be interested in joining FOIIN members, while many other communities can be followed, whether only limited to having a Fortuner or because of other goals with the subject studied being a member of the FOIIN chapter community Bengkulu. In addition, the author also wants to know the views and perceptions of the public regarding the existence of the FOIIN car community in the Bengkulu chapter with the subject, namely people who know the existence of the FOIIN car community in the Bengkulu chapter. This research uses qualitative methods with a phenomenological approach and is analyzed using the Theory of Symbolic Interactionism proposed by George Harbert Mead using three basic assumptions, namely mind, self and society. Determination of informants in this study using purposive sampling techniques. Data collection techniques are carried out by observation, interviews, literature studies and documentation. The results obtained from this study show that it can be identified in the FOIIN Chapter Bengkulu community where some of these behaviors do not involve a thought process because they are only limited to responses to external challenges. Then an outward action was born where the community considered that the FOIIN Chapter Bengkulu community was a community with a luxurious member lifestyle.
 
