409 research outputs found
Alan Seeger: medievalism as an alternative ideology
No full textThe American poet Alan Seeger imagined the First World War as an opportunity to realize medieval values, which were embodied for him in Sir Philip Sidney. Sidney epitomized Seeger’s three ideals: “Love and Arms and Song,” which contrasted with the materialism and sophistication of modernity. His embrace of “Arms” and the desire for intense, authentic experience led Seeger, who was living in Paris in August 1914, to enlist in the French Foreign Legion, in which he served until his death in combat in July 1916. As an infantryman Seeger had extensive experience of the Western front. This concrete experience of the war, of the indignities of life in the trenched and the
dominance of technology, contrasted in significant ways with war as constructed in
Seeger’s medievalist imagination.
Seeger, however, reconciled this contradiction by seeing the war as part of the elemental Strife of nature. By this means, Seeger avoided the potentially unsettling consequences of confronting the profoundly modern nature of the war. Interpreting the war as a form of “Strife” and as an assertion of medieval values allowed Seeger to imagine himself and his comrades to be living outside the world of industrial capitalist modernity. Seeger shared with others involved in the war this medievalism and the belief that the war offered relief from the values of modernity, even if Seeger’s medievalism was more intense, more thoroughgoing, than was common. However, Seeger’s death as a result of wounds received from machine gun fire vividly displays the contradiction between his imagination and the reality of industrialized warfare.
The example of Seeger thus suggests that the American effort in the First World War was underwritten in part by an ideology through which a modern, industrialized war was embraced in terms derived from the imagined medieval past. Insofar as this is true medievalism functioned to provide an ideology that constructed, in the terminology of Raymond Williams, an alternative to the industrial capitalist modernity from which the war emerged, an alternative ideology that allowed the war to be imagined differently from what it was, but which posed no substantive challenge to the war’s social and economic realities
The Red Menace in the Cellar: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Enduring Power of the Old Left to Subvert Young Minds
No full textArt holds an unparalleled power to encapsulate and carry political aspirations forward in time. Perhaps no art form does this as effectively as music. This essay explores how one particular work created at the height of the Red Scare—Pete Seeger\u27s 1953 album, Folksongs and Ballads: A Pete Seeger Concert—preserved and then transmitted the Popular Front ideology of the Communist Party of the United States to the author in 1990. Through a mix of personal reflection and critical analysis, this essay examines the album\u27s meaning at the time it was created, when the author encountered it in 1990, and within the context of our current political moment and beyond.</p
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School Shootings: Conceptual Framework and International Empirical Trends
No full textBöckler N, Seeger T, Sitzer P, Heitmeyer W. School Shootings: Conceptual Framework and International Empirical Trends. In: Böckler N, Seeger T, Sitzer P, Heitmeyer W, eds. School Shootings. International Research, Case Studies, and Concepts for Prevention. New York, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London: Springer; 2013: 1-24.An exploration of the phenomenology and global prevalence of school shootings, also serving as an introduction outlining the conceptual framework of the volume. The central approaches and terminology of school rampage research are introduced. An empirical survey of global prevalence reveals international trends and fundamental characteristics of perpetrators and attacks. The findings show that school shootings are a historically growing phenomenon occurring predominantly in modern Western societies, committed overwhelmingly by male adolescents at secondary schools. The chapter concludes with an overview of the contributions in the volume outlining the specific perspectives of each author
Are adrenaline autoinjectors fit for purpose? A pilot study of the mechanical and injection performance characteristics of a cartridge- versus a syringe-based autoinjector
No full textAndreas Schwirtz, Harald SeegerPharma Consult GmbH, Vienna, AustriaBackground: Adrenaline autoinjectors (AAIs) are prescribed to facilitate the intramuscular administration of adrenaline in patients diagnosed with life-threatening anaphylaxis. This pilot study investigated the injection and functional properties of two AAIs (deploying different delivery systems) under standard conditions, after dynamic and mechanical stresses, and in the presence of denim.Methods: The differences between a cartridge-based AAI (EpiPen&reg; Junior) and a syringe-based AAI (Anapen&reg; Junior) were assessed using three sets of tests. Test 1: under standard conditions, the injection depth and dose were measured in ballistic gelatine (a validated tissue simulant). Test 2: before the safety cap removal and activation forces were measured, AAIs were subjected to either of two preconditioning tests: 1) free-fall drop test; or 2) static load (ie, 400 N, equivalent to 40 kg weight) test; or 3) no preconditioning. Test 3: under standard conditions, injection properties into ballistic gelatine in the presence and absence of denim were investigated. Statistical analyses were performed using the Student&rsquo;s t-test or Welch&rsquo;s test.Results: The maximum depth of delivery was significantly greater with cartridge AAI (n = 4, mean 21.09 &plusmn; 2.54 mm) than with syringe AAI (n = 5; mean 11.64 &plusmn; 0.80 mm; P = 0.003). After 2.5 seconds, cartridge AAI (n = 4) discharged significantly more dose than syringe AAI (n = 3; 74.3% versus 25.7% of total dose; P = 0.001). Both cartridge and syringe AAI withstood the free-fall drop test, but almost all devices failed to activate following the static load test. Under standard conditions, significantly less force was required to remove the safety cap of cartridge AAI than syringe AAI (both n = 15; mean 9.56 &plusmn; 2.36 N versus 20.23 &plusmn; 6.61 N, respectively; P &lt; 0.001), but a significantly greater activation force was required for cartridge AAI than syringe AAI (mean 23.01 &plusmn; 3.96 N versus 8.06 &plusmn; 0.51 N, respectively; P &lt; 0.001). The presence of denim did not alter the activation force or effective needle length of either of the AAIs.Conclusion: Cartridge AAI appears significantly more capable of consistently and rapidly delivering a clinically relevant dose of intramuscular adrenaline than syringe AAI. However, both devices showed shortcomings in their ability to sustain mechanical stress similar to that which is likely over their shelf life, and as such, may not be fit for life-saving purpose.Keywords: anaphylaxis, intramuscular, delivery system, devic
Measurement of particle emission during brake dynamometer tests
No full textAerosol emissions from brake pads are evolving into the focus of industrie and regulation. Many institutes are extending their dynamometer test stands with aerosol measurement equipement. While this is in general a good developement, the details of aerosol measurement and the special problems in the case of brake pad emissions need some special attention. The instrumentation can not be used out of the box and the important parameters will be highlighted in this presentation
Anthony Seeger’s Contribution to Ethnomusicology: A Bio-Bibliography of the Why Suyá Sing’s (1987) Author
No full textThis research is a bio-bibliographical study of an American ethnomusicologist, Anthony Seeger. Issues discussed include seeking information about Seeger as an important figure, his contribution to scientific development, music education, music history, and basic knowledge of ethnomusicology. Since the data are in the form of written sources that not only come from his works but also the works of others who cite his works so that literature review is used as a research method to obtain answers to the problems raised. This study concluded that the anthropological approach greatly influenced the characteristics of Seeger’s field research in studying the Suyá’s music in the interior part of Brazil. The report from the research turned out to be an essential source for the development of Seeger’s theories of musical anthropology. From the success of Seeger, we could learn how important fieldwork is in ethnomusicology. Kontribusi Anthony Seeger Terhadap Etnomusikologi: Sebuah Bio-Bibliografi Pengarang The Why Suya’ Sing (1987). Penelitian ini adalah studi bio-bibliografi seorang etnomusikolog Amerika, Anthony Seeger. Masalah yang dibahas termasuk mencari informasi tentang Seeger sebagai tokoh penting, kontribusinya terhadap pengembangan ilmiah, pendidikan musik, sejarah musik, dan pengetahuan dasar tentang etnomusikologi. Karena semua data tersebut dalam bentuk sumber tertulis yang tidak hanya berasal dari karya-karyanya tetapi juga karya-karya orang lain yang mengutip karya-karyanya, sehingga tinjauan pustaka digunakan sebagai metode penelitian untuk mendapatkan jawaban atas masalah yang diajukan. Studi ini menyimpulkan bahwa pendekatan antropologis sangat mempengaruhi karakteristik penelitian lapangan Seeger dalam mempelajari musik Suyá di bagian interior Brasil. Laporan dari penelitian ini ternyata menjadi sumber penting untuk pengembangan teori antropologi musikal Seeger. Dari keberhasilan Seeger, kita bisa belajar betapa pentingnya kerja lapangan dalam etnomusikologi.Kata kunci: etnomusikologi; kerja lapangan; antropologi musikal; Seeger; Suyá
X-Ray Spectrometry under Grazing Incidence fpr the characterization of Nanoparticles deposited on Flat Surfaces
No full textCorrelation between degree of cure and fracture behaviour of electro installation parts made from urea formaldehyde resin
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