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Doctoral thesis recital (composition)
No full textEtude no. 1 (Jordan Walsh, marimba ; Ryan Laney, piano) -- City captured : 5-channel mixed media -- On the beach at night / text by Walt Whitman (Samantha Leibowitz, soprano ; Ryan Laney, piano) -- Reversal processes : piano and live electronics (Ryan Laney, piano).Musi
Many Mountains, Many Musics, Many Movements
No full textThe roundtable focuses broadly on hip hop within Appalachia. Presenters will interact with the audience, but focus briefly on the following:Forrest Yerman will discuss the evolution of spirituals, to blues, to jazz, to rhythm and blues to, funk, to hip hop in a large American context, and apply that discussion to Appalachia. Willard Watson will discuss the publication and distribution of Hip Hop/Rap in the region, differentiating between mainstream artists and mixtape culture within the region and conclude by sharing an online resource for finding Appalachian Hip Hop. Nate May will be speaking to the West Virginia rap scene and his research as a music scholar. Moderator, Jordan Laney, will organize questions and frame the discussion as an exploration of race, aesthetics, and possibilities in the region
Michael Jordan
No full textPhotograph of a very young Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan (1963-) was born in Brooklyn, New York but moved with his family to Wilmington, NC as a toddler. He played three sports in high school but was considered too small (5'11") as a sophomore to start on the basketball team. After growing four inches that summer, Jordan was # 23 at E. A. Laney High School in Wilmington. He was a McDonald's All-American in high school, and the ACC Freshman of the Year at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he also helped the Tarheels win the National Championship in 1982. He went on to play for the Chicago Bulls in 1984, were he became a league star known for his prolific scoring. He helped popularize the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s
Time to rewrite your autobiography?
No full textAutobiographical memory is the “diary that we all carry about” said Oscar Wilde.
Autobiographical memory defines us. And because autobiographical memory is the
foundation on which we build our identity, we like to believe that our memories are
accurate, comprehensive and robust. Anything else would challenge our sense of self. But
over the previous decade, psychological scientists have shown that autobiographical
memory can be inexact, sketchy and frail. Various suggestive techniques can encourage
people to generate memories of whole events that never happened. And these illusory
memories are often held with great confidence, emotion, clarity, and vividness—but they
are not real. In this article, we discuss research showing that suggestion can create false
memories and change our autobiography
Spectra
No full textHannah Arendt has hardly ever been recognized as a source for sociological research. She herself has criticized the discipline for its alleged complicity with totalitarianism. Her analysis of society in The Human Condition, however, has found much acclaim in other disciplines. Following Seyla Benhabibs characterization of Arendts thought as a phenomenological essentialism, the author suggests that Arendts conceptual framework can still inspire sociological thinking if applied cautiously. Using excerpts from an extended field study of a German multi-level marketing financial planning company, the author demonstrates that Arendts distinction of practical human activities into "labor," "work," and "action" can still guide interpretative sociological research. The category of "labor" fits the way clients feature as statistically determinable beings within the representations produced by financial planners. The sales process as a whole, in turn, appears as "work" to the financial planners. Following Italian philosopher Paolo Virno, the author argues that this specific type of communicative work in a post-Fordist company is marked by an instability and precariousness that Arendt did not predict. With reference to the distinction between "fear" and "anxiety," the author explores ways in which this "industry of means of communication" (Virno) structurally undermines the stability of this social relation. A series of structural features, as well as the importance of story-telling and the "cultivation of the self" (Foucault) lead the author to conclude that forms of "action" have infiltrated the way this particular practice is organized. Through this exercise the author hopes to convince the reader that the topography of Arendts phenomenological essentialism can be turned into a more sociologically fruitful topology when we are ready to relate her concepts in a new fashion.Published versio
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No full textOne consequence of American slavery was the de-gendering of female slaves, divesting them of a traditional feminine gender identity that their White mistresses were encouraged to assume, thus rendering female slaves sexed yet genderless females. The female slaves are constructed as "breeder" rather than "mother" and promiscuous rather than chaste. While Angela Davis states in Women, Race & Class that, from the perspective of slaveholders, female slaves were no more than "breeders", Eugene D. Genovese records in Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made that Europeans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were appalled by the sexual traditions of West Africans and were persuaded that West Africans lacked morals and sexual restraints. The slavery system also fostered the later constructions of Black women as "mammies", "matriarchs", and the most recent stereotypes of "welfare mothers", and "hoochies". Such constructions revealed the dominant group's concern that Black women maintain a subordinate position. In this paper, I argue that Morrison in Sula draws on the tradition of other-mothering and community other-mothering, notions adapted from West African societies, as well as the practice of biological mothering in ways that successfully disrupt negative stereotypes about Black womanhood originating from slavery.Published versio
Journey: Artist's Statement
No full textThe painting presented here is named "Journey" and it tells the story of an emotional journey...Published versio
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