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The British ‘Bluesman’ Paul Oliver and the Nature of Transatlantic Blues Scholarship
No full textRecent revisionist studies have argued that much of what is known about music known as the blues’ has been 'invented' by the writing of enthusiasts far removed from the African American culture that created the music. Elijah Wald and Marybeth Hamilton in particular have attempted to sift through the clouds of romanticism, and tried to unveil more empirical histories that were previously obscured by the fallacious genre distinctions conjured up during the 1960s blues revival. While this revisionist scholarship has shed light on some previously ignored historical facts, writers have tended to concentrate on the romanticism of blues writing strictly from an American perspective, failing to acknowledge the genesis and influence of transatlantic scholarship, and therefore ignoring the work of the most prolific and influential blues scholar of the twentieth century, British writer Paul Oliver. By examining the core of Oliver’s research and writing during the 1950s and 1960s, this study aims to place Oliver in his rightful place at the centre of blues historiography. His scholarship allows a more detailed appreciation of the manner in which the blues was studied, through lyrics, recordings, oral histories, photography and African American literature. These historical sources were interpreted in accordance with the author’s attitudes to the commercial popular music, which allowed the ‘reconstruction’ of an African American ‘folk’ culture in which the blues became the antithesis of pop. Importantly, this study seeks to transcend dominant discourses of national cultural ownership or ethnocentrism, and demonstrate that representations of African American music and culture were constructed within a transatlantic context. The blues is music with roots in the African American experience within the United States; however, as Paul Oliver’s writing shows, its reception and representation were not limited by the same national, cultural or racial boundaries
A Reading By Poet Mary Oliver
Full text linkMary Oliver\u27s poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world, has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery. As poet Stanley Kunitz has said, Mary Oliver\u27s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations. Please join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver as she shares her joyous, accessible, and intimate observations of the natural world.
Mary Oliver is the celebrated author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose. With her lyrical connection to the natural world, Oliver\u27s poetry has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. Oliver has been honored with the National Book Award for Poetry, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, among others
"Hi, fellas. come on in." Norman Carlson, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Rise of Prison Fellowship
Full text linkThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in the Journal of Church and State following peer review. The version of record - Kendrick Oliver; “Hi, Fellas. Come on in.” Norman Carlson, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Rise of Prison Fellowship, Journal of Church and State, Volume 55, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 740–757 - is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/css05
Biography of Mary Jane Oliver
No full textTypescript of a sketch biography about Mary Jane (Oliver) Barlow, who came came from England around 1851 and with her husband, Oswald Barlow, helped to settle Saint George. Author unknown, but copied on January 13, 1937 by Virginia M. Lee of the Federal Writers Project, WPA, at Ogden, Uta
A conversation between Sandy Oliver of Isleboro, cookery author and columnist, a
No full textA conversation between Sandy Oliver of Isleboro, cookery author and columnist, and Melissa Kelly, author, chef, and founder of Primo restaurants in Rockland, Tucson, and Orlando. Oliver is updating Marjorie Mosser\u27s Good Maine Food, and Kelly is updating Marjorie Standish\u27s Cooking Down East . They share their thoughts on traditional Maine food, vegetable gardening, using local and seasonal food, and raising livestock for food
Rehearsing the Mirror: The Gaze as Thought in “Capadocia”, by Mariana Oliver
Full text linkEl ensayo “Capadocia”, de Mariana Oliver, propone una reflexión sobre la mirada como forma de pensamiento. A partir de una poética de la observación, Oliver convierte la imagen en un dispositivo de conocimiento que vincula percepción y lenguaje. Este artículo examina cómo, en Aves migratorias, la autora desarrolla una escritura híbrida que conjuga elementos narrativos, cronísticos y reflexivos para explorar la tensión entre superficie y profundidad, tanto en el plano espacial como en el epistemológico. La mirada, entendida no solo como acto físico sino como proceso intelectual, permite a Oliver contrastar la visión del pasado con la del presente y articular una crítica a la superficialidad de la mirada contemporánea, representada por el turismo performativo y la fotografía como simulacro. En este marco, “Capadocia” se configura como un ensayo que piensa desde lo visible, donde la observación se convierte en un modo de conocimiento y en una ética del mirar.
Mariana Oliver’s essay “Capadocia” offers a reflection on vision as a form of thought. Through a poetics of observation, Oliver transforms the image into a cognitive device that links perception and language. This article analyzes how, in Aves migratorias, the author develops a hybrid form of writing that combines narrative, chronicle, and reflective elements to explore the tension between surface and depth, both spatially and epistemologically. Vision, understood not only as a physical act but also as an intellectual process, enables Oliver to contrast past and present ways of seeing, articulating a critique of contemporary superficiality embodied in performative tourism and photography as simulacrum. Within this framework, “Capadocia” emerges as an essay that thinks through the visible, where observation becomes both a mode of knowledge and an ethics of seeing
Socially Engaged: The Author\u27s Guide to Social Media
No full textToday\u27s successful author needs a strong online presence, but how do you choose which social media platforms work best for your books while building your readership?
Marketing professor Tyra Burton and international bestselling author Jana Oliver tackle tough Social Media questions with real-world examples and insights to help you build your brand and expand your fanbase.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/facbooks2014/1009/thumbnail.jp
Punk rock as popular theatre
Full text linkPunk rock performance consciously draws on popular theatre forms like music hall and
stand-up comedy, as exemplified by the occasion when Max Wall appeared with Ian Dury
at the Hammersmith Odeon. Oliver Double traces the historical and stylistic connections
between punk, music hall and stand-up, and argues that punk shows can be considered a
form of popular theatre in their own right. He examines a wide range of punk bands and
performers- including Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Devo, Spizz, The Ramones, The Clash, and
Dead Kennedys- and considers how they use costume, staging, persona,
characterisation, and audience-performer relationships, arguing that these are as
important and carefully considered as the music they play. Art movements like Dada and
Futurism were important influences on the early punk scene, and Double shows how, as
with early 20th Century cabaret, punk performance manages to include avant garde
elements within popular theatre forms. Oliver Double started his career performing a
comedy act alongside anarchist punk bands in Exeter, going on to spend ten years on the
alternative comedy circuit. Currently, he lectures in Drama at the University of Kent, and
he is the author of Stand-Up! On Being a Comedian (Methuen, 1997) and Getting the
Joke: The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy (Methuen, 2005)
Oliver, A. J. (1)
No full textA. J. Oliver, Lawyer, Author, and Orator. Roanoke, VA.https://dh.howard.edu/jp_men/1008/thumbnail.jp
"Introduction to 'Walter Scott: New Interpretations'"
Full text linkThe Yearbook of English Studies for 2017 is dedicated to new interpretations of Walter Scott. Edited by Susan Oliver, the volume brings together fifteen essays by scholars from Australia, Europe and the Americas. These contributions represent vital and diverse directions in Scott studies, two hundred years after the celebrated ‘author of Waverley’ followed his early career as an antiquarian and poet with best-selling novels, verse dramas and a variety of prose non-fiction. The collection aims to extend our understanding of Scott’s literary works, public persona, home, onward influence as an authorial presence, and circle of associates. A conceptual framework that incorporates materialist, theoretical, textual, literary-historical and editorial approaches asks how critical enquiry into this globally influential author can most constructively move forward.
The essays are grouped in five themed sections. Beginning the volume, Section I looks into the transmission and afterlives of Scott’s writing, his persona as an author, and his home at Abbotsford. Section II is concerned with contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to Scott. The third group of essays focuses on his poetry, an area in which there is still relatively little published scholarship. In Section IV, it is Scott’s treatment of history and social conflict that provides the framework of enquiry. The concluding group of essays takes Scott criticism into the contemporary critical fields of literary geographies, island and Northern studies, antipodean studies, environmental justice and ecocriticism.
Contributors’ individual enquiries include life writing and archival research; theatre and performance; translation studies; disability studies; theories including ontology and problems relating to materialism and spirituality; the practical considerations of editing a new edition of Scott’s poetry; Scott’s representation of law; a postcolonial exploration of silence and absence; and matters relating to place, space and the natural world
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