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Award-winning historian of the American Southwest James F. Brooks discusses public history.
No full textJames F. Brooks is an award-winning historian of the American Southwest and former president of the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Listen to Dr. Brooks discuss his long and distinguished career as an author, professor, and head of a world-class research institute that bridges the gap between the public and the academy every day.
Interviewers Eric Zimmer and Katherine Massot
Conference 2014 speaker series: an interview with Eric Newton
No full textEric Newton is senior adviser to the president at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which funds ideas that promote quality journalism and media innovation, based on a principle that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. A former managing editor of the Oakland Tribune, he is also author of the innovative digital educational book on the history and future of news, Searchlights and Sunglasses
Note by James Osamu Saito
No full textA copied note written by James Osamu Saito. He comments on the letter from Daniel K. Inouye, United States Senator to his brother, Minoru Frank Saito, which is found in item: csudh_sai_0191
Eric Voegelin's thought and its significance for political theology
Get PDFThe philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901-85) held that at the
heart of an adequate political philosophy must be a
philosophy of consciousness. This study discusses
Voegelin's thought in its significance for "political
theology", by which is understood that mode of theological
thinking which focuses on the relationship of
Christian faith to the pursuit of social justice.
The study falls into two parts. Part One is an exposition
of Voegelin's thought with the perspective of political theology continuously in mind. Chapter One justifies the choice of this perspective. There follow chapters an the symbol of the metaxy, which Voegelin takes from Plato and which is fundamental to his thought, and on the rational structure of symbols and their articulation. Then the modes of symbolic discourse most important for Voegelin are considered in turn: myth, classical philosophy, Christian theology, history, and politics. Part One finishes with a discussion of Voegelin's work on the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures.
Part Two concentrates on three topics central to the
concerns of Voegelin and political theologians alike.
Besides being intrinsically important, these topics
permit one to estimate how valuable is Voegelin's work as
a resource for political theology. The topics are the
relationship between individual and societal transformation;
the scope and limits of Christian hope for the attainment of a just social order within history; and the nature of political responsibility and irresponsibility in the light of faith. The thesis ends with a summary of its conclusions.
It is argued that Voegelin's thought offers a powerful
and constructive challenge to political theologians, but
that political theology in turn provides a vantage point
which reveals certain serious shortcomings in Voegelin's
powerful thought. In particular, it is argued that
Voegelin fails to articulate adequately the social
implications of his own philosophical principles
Meditation and awakening: An exploration of the wind music of Eric Guinivan
Get PDFAmerican composer and percussionist Eric Guinivan is a rising star in the world of composition. He is the recipient of several major awards including the Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the BMI Student Composer’s Award, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance for his work with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet. His work Meditation and Awakening was hailed by the New York Times as “engaging,” and commented on the work’s “shimmering colors” and “frenetic energy.” His pieces for wind band have been performed around the country, including at national and regional conferences of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA). The purpose of this document is to explore and elucidate the current compositions for wind band by the composer. Three works will be studied in depth: Fractured Light (2012), Vicious Cycle (2014), and Meditation and Awakening (originally composed in 2010 but transcribed for wind band in 2016 by the author). Biographical information, theoretical analyses, performance considerations, and information regarding the transcription process will be discussed
James Gourdine Interview
No full textIn this 2016 interview, Dr. Eric Crawford, Coastal Carolina University faculty researcher, interviews James Raymond Gourdine, a genealogist, historian, and author of African Americans in the Civil War in South Carolina . Gourdine details how Major General David Hunter unofficially organized the first black regiment in the Union army in 1862, despite President Lincoln\u27s objections. This force consisted of freedmen and runaway slaves from South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. They also discuss how education levels varied amongst the slaves held in Florida and South Carolina, leading to the Floridian freedmen to be considered of better stock . In 1863, the rest of the Union followed suit, raising several exclusively African-American regiments of their own, following in Hunter\u27s example. Gourdine and Crawford discuss General Potter, who followed in Sherman\u27s March to the Sea, burning and looting Confederate land and homes. He then describes the creation of the 54th Massachusetts regiment by General Andrews and the taking of Georgetown in February 1865. James Gourdine was interviewed in his home outside of Florence, South Carolina.https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/at-low-tide-oral-histories/1019/thumbnail.jp
Newspaper serials in Tanzania: the case of Eric James Shigongo (with an interview)
Get PDFNewspaper serials have a long history in Tanzania. Since the privatisation of media in the 1990s, the number of newspapers and tabloids has multiplied, and serials have become abundant. I would dare to say that they are the most popular form of fiction at the moment in terms of quantity of readers. They are especially prevalent in the tabloids, where there often are more than three stories being serialised at a time. Some authors publish serials only occasionally, while there are also established serial writers such as Sultan Tamba, Faki A. Faki and Hamees M. Suba.However, the most prominent writer specialising in newspaper serials is Eric James Shigongo, who probably is also the most prolific author of popular literature of the last decade in Tanzania altogether. In his case, novel writing has reached a new quality as a well organised, apparently successful, self-owned business
The invisible artist: Arrangers in popular music (1950-2000): Their contribution and techniques
Get PDFThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is based on the research conducted by the author for the series,
Richard Niles' History of Pop Arranging, seven thirty-minute documentary
programmes for BBC Radio 2, researched, written and presented by the author and
broadcast in 2003. It also draws on interviews conducted by the author (and other
research) between 2002 and 2007 both for the radio series and for this thesis and on
the author's experience as a professional arranger in popular music working with
many of the genre's significant recording artists including Paul McCartney, Ray
Charles, Cher, Tina Turner, Westlife, Tears For Fears, Dusty Springfield, James
Brown, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue and producers including Trevor Hom, Steve
Lipson, Steve Mac and Steve Anderson.
It will be argued that the role of the arranger in popular music has often been
undervalued and that during a critical period of popular music history (1950-2000)
arrangers played a significant part in the evolution of musical content. This thesis is,
to the best of the author's knowledge, the first time (apart from the above mentioned
documentary) the subject has ever been examined. The arranger is "invisible" because musical arrangers are often un-credited on
record liner notes or in books or articles concerning popular music. A considerable
amount of research has been necessary to determine who wrote many of the
arrangements considered herein. Motown's Berry Gordy purposely kept the names of
musicians and arrangers off the records because he feared others might 'poach' the
trademark 'Motown Sound'. Other record labels considered the job of the arranger to
be reminiscent of an earlier era, diluting the Rock 'n' Roll image of emotion and
spontanaeity they wished to promote. Some producers and recording artists disliked
sharing credit for their work. Motown arranger David Van dePitte told the author that
arranging was "thankless and anonymous - a very service-oriented profession where
others often take credit for what you've done." Arranging has therefore remained an
intrinsically unseen art created by 'invisible' artists. By analyzing many recordings,
revealing the techniques and concepts they have used in their work to create popular
records, arrangers and their art will be made more 'visible'
An analysis of a broad selection of the poetry and philosophical prose of James Beattie within its eighteenth-century context.
Get PDFThis study explores the significance and relevant contexts of the collected poems of James Beattie, within a detailed study of his own prose works and wider eighteenth-century intellectual debates. His position on the periphery of the literary canon means that this thesis deals largely with primary material, which permits a more thorough and objective analysis than has been conducted before. The first half of this study deals with Beattie’s poetic output. Chapter 1 focuses on Beattie’s first volume of poetry, Original Poems and Translations. In this chapter I analyse the poems within the context of other eighteenth-century poets, and explore Beattie’s engagement with patronage, the eighteenth-century conventions for success as a new poet, and poetic genius. Chapter 2 deals with Beattie's second volume, Poems on Several Subjects, to illustrate the evolution in his ideas concerning the usefti๒ess of poetry as a vehicle for philosophical investigation, and his engagement with eighteenth-century social and political issues. Chapter 3 explores his best known poem, The Minstrel: Or, the Progress of Genius. This chapter discusses the poem in its entirety and within the context of Beattie’s career as a poet and philosopher. Chapter 5 focuses on Beattie's final volumes of poetry, which represent his desire to control his poetic legacy. The second half of the study deals with selected critical and philosophical works, which provide insight into the development of Beattie’s poetry and express in prose many of the subjects in lus poetry. The most detailed attention in this section is given to the Essay on Truth, although there are also chapters examining other relevant critical works including Dissertations Moral and Critical. On Poetry and Music and On Laughter and Ludicrous Composition, and Beattie's collection of "Scoticisms." There are few modem critical studies of Beattie, and many of them are limited to The Minstrel and to specific areas of interest within this work. This study's comparative and interdisciplinary approach to Beattie’s poetry and selected prose aims to justify Beattie’s inclusion in our study of the eighteenth century. It is also intended to raise awareness of Beattie’s importance in the eighteenth-century and to illustrate his influence on three first- generation Romantic poets of generally recognised importance, namely Scott, Coleridge, and Wordsworth
Letter from James G. Lindley, Project Director, Granada Relocation Center, War Relocation Authority to Sumiko Dorothy Saito, July 30, 1943
No full textLetter from James G. Lindley, Project Director, Granada Relocation Center, War Relocation Authority to Sumiko Dorothy Saito. It informs her that her leave clearance was issued and she "may be referred for immediate employment in Maryland, Virginia or Delaware.
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