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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
Learning user modelling strategies for adaptive referring expression generation in spoken dialogue systems
Full text linkWe address the problem of dynamic user modelling for referring expression generation in spoken dialogue systems, i.e how a spoken dialogue system should choose
referring expressions to refer to domain entities to users with different levels of domain
expertise, whose domain knowledge is initially unknown to the system. We approach
this problem using a statistical planning framework: Reinforcement Learning techniques in Markov Decision Processes (MDP).
We present a new reinforcement learning framework to learn user modelling strategies for adaptive referring expression generation (REG) in resource scarce domains
(i.e. where no large corpus exists for learning). As a part of the framework, we present
novel user simulation models that are sensitive to the referring expressions used by
the system and are able to simulate users with different levels of domain knowledge.
Such models are shown to simulate real user behaviour more closely than baseline user
simulation models.
In contrast to previous approaches to user adaptive systems, we do not assume that
the user’s domain knowledge is available to the system before the conversation starts.
We show that using a small corpus of non-adaptive dialogues it is possible to learn an
adaptive user modelling policy in resource scarce domains using our framework. We
also show that the learned user modelling strategies performed better in terms of adaptation than hand-coded baselines policies on both simulated and real users. With real
users, the learned policy produced around 20% increase in adaptation in comparison
to the best performing hand-coded adaptive baseline. We also show that adaptation to
user’s domain knowledge results in improving task success (99.47% for learned policy vs 84.7% for hand-coded baseline) and reducing dialogue time of the conversation
(11% relative difference). This is because users found it easier to identify domain
objects when the system used adaptive referring expressions during the conversations
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
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