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Weaving Practice Into History: An Interview with Professor of Music, Leta Miller
No full textThe Regional History Project conducted this oral history with Leta Miller, Professor of Music, as part of its University History Series. After earning a B.A. from Stanford University in music, an M.M in music history from the Hartt College of Music, and a PhD from Stanford University in musicology, Miller arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1978. She began as a part-time lecturer, teaching a course in chamber music literature at College Eight and offering flute lessons in a tiny room with no window in the old music building. After several years teaching various classes for UCSC, including a music history survey course, in 1987 Miller applied for and was hired for a tenure-track position in the UCSC Music Department [then called the Music Board]. Miller is passionate about teaching, research, and performance. For many years she was a dedicated professional player of Baroque, Renaissance, and modern flute. Her classes at UCSC range from general education courses in music appreciation (which she confided are still her favorite courses to teach), to advanced seminars in the compositions of Lou Harrison and Renaissance performance practice. In her narration Miller also reflects on the unique aspects of UC Santa Cruz she has experienced over the past four decades: the Narrative Evaluation System, the boards of studies, the college system, the focus on undergraduate education, and the emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. She discusses the design of UCSC’s state-of-the-art Music Building, which opened in 1997. She also explores the evolution of UCSC’s Music Department, including the unique backgrounds and strengths of many of her colleagues, the birth of the MA, PhD, and DMA in music at UCSC, and the development of the UCSC Orchestra, the UCSC Opera Program, and various student ensembles. Miller found a true home in the UC Santa Cruz Music Department, which is dedicated to what Miller called “this balance between the practical and theoretical.” Miller’s scholarly interests are also diverse, ranging from Renaissance French chansons and madrigals; to music and politics in San Francisco from 1906 until World War II; to the Jewish American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. But she is perhaps best known for her scholarship on world-renowned composer Lou Harrison, who resided in the mountains near Santa Cruz from 1953 until his death in 2003. An extensive portion of this oral history is devoted to a discussion of Miller’s deep connection with Lou Harrison. This part of the oral history illuminates Miller’s writings on this extraordinary composer, whose archive is also housed at the UCSC Library’s Special Collections Department
An Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones
No full textAn Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones conducted by Gerardo Con DiazThis oral history interview is sponsored by NSF 2202484, “Mining a Usable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy,” at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. The interview is with Meg Leta Jones, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown University. Jones discusses her upbringing in rural Illinois, her education in engineering, law, and communication studies, and her path to interdisciplinary privacy scholarship. She reflects on her work on the right to be forgotten, data deletion, and comparative privacy regimes. Then she discusses her engagement with design, infrastructure, and information ethics, as well as her roles as author, mentor, and public scholar.National Science FoundationLeta Jones, Meg. (2025). An Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/274361
China's 'Leftover' Women and the End of the One-Child Policy
No full textVideo of full lecture with presentation slides edited into the video.Professor Leta Hong Fincher, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asia Languages and Culture, Columbia University. Author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China.
Leta Hong Fincher critiques the vulgar state media representations of highly educated, urban single women in China and its effects on gender roles and discrimination.Cornell East Asia Program, the Society for the Humanities, and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies.1_3o3ip4e
The criteria for republishing LETA crime news in the leading Latvian news portals
No full textBakalaura darba „Kritēriji aģentūras LETA kriminālziņu pārpublicēšanai vadošajos Latvijas ziņu portālos” mērķis ir noskaidrot, pēc kādiem principiem portāli „Delfi”, „Tvnet” un „Apollo” izvēlas aģentūras LETA kriminālziņas, kuras pārpublicēt. Šo kritēriju apzināšana ļaus aģentūrai LETA strādāt produktīvāk, netērējot resursus nepieprasītu ziņu rakstīšanai.
Autors veicis apjomīgu kriminālziņu kontentanalīzi un intervijas ar portālu redaktoriem. Darbs sastāv no teorētiskās daļas, metodoloģiskās daļas, empīriskās daļas un secinājumiem.
Noslēgumā secināts, kādām īpašībām jāpiemīt aģentūras LETA kriminālziņām, lai tās tiktu pārpublicētas Latvijas vadošajos ziņu portālos. Šie kritēriji saistīti ar ziņu vērtībām, avotiem, auditoriju un redaktoru subjektīvajām izjūtām.
Atslēgvārdi: LETA, Delfi, Tvnet, Apollo, kriminālziņas, atlase, kritērijiThe purpose of the diploma paper “The criteria for republishing LETA crime news in the leading Latvian news portals” is to ascertain by what parameters do portals “Delfi”, “Tvnet” and “Apollo” choose which crime news to republish. The study of these reasons will let agency LETA to work in a more efficient manner and not publish unnecessary stories.
The author has done a voluminous content analysis of crime news and interviews with portal editors. The paper consists of a theoretical part, a methodological part, an empirical part and conclusions.
It is deduced what characteristics the crime news must possess in order to be republished in the main news portals. The criteria are related to news values, sources, audience and the subjective view of the editors.
Keywords: LETA, Delfi, Tvnet, Apollo, crime news, selection, criteri
Jugoslovanski federalizem in ustavni zakon leta 1953
No full textOn the basis of archive sources and professional literature, the author deals with the 1953 Constitutional Law from the viewpoint of Yugoslav federalism and the national question. Special attention is dedicated to the abolition of the Council of Nationalities, as an independent chamber in the Federal Assembly, and the introduction, in its stead, of the Producers\u27 Council which was class rather than nationality based. The author concludes that the Constitutional Law drastically limited the rights of individual nationalities and federal units, which had been, at least formally, guaranteed by the 1946 Constitution.Avtorica na podlagi arhivskih virov in strokovne literature obravnava ustavni zakon iz leta 1953 s stališča jugoslovanskega federalizma in nacionalnega vprašanja. V ospredje postavlja ukinitev zbora narodov kot samostojnega doma zvezne skupščine in uvedbo zbora proizvajalcev, katerega podlaga ni bil nacionalni, temveč razredni element. Avtorica ugotavlja, da so bile z ustavnim zakonom močno omejene pravice posameznih narodov oziroma federalnih enot, ki jim jih je vsaj formalno zagotavljala že ustava iz leta 1946
Vpliv okupacije na življenje Slovencev leta 1941
No full textThe author concludes that the 1941 occupation was the greatest turning point in the hitherto history of Slovenia. The occupation radically changed people\u27s lives in all spheres of their activity, especially on the German occupied territory. For most Slovenes, whose ethnic identity was destined for annihilation by the occupiers, the period of struggle for mere survival began.Avtor ugotavlja, da je okupacija leta 1941 pomenila največjo prelomnico v dotedanji slovenski zgodovini. Življenje ljudi se je do temeljev spremenilo na vseh področjih njihovega delovanja. Za večino slovenskega prebivalstva, ki so ga okupatorji obsodili na smrt, se je pričelo obdobje gole borbe za obstanek
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El Colegio de San Miguel de Belem: Mexico's First Female Music Conservatory
No full textThe Colegio de San Miguel de Belem was the home of the first female music conservatory in Mexico. Founded in 1683 as a recogimiento (a place where women withdrew from society), the school accepted criollas (girls of European heritage who had been born in the Americas). The girls were trained in skills deemed appropriate for their sex, social class, and ethnic group. Belem’s escoleta de música (school of music) employed an Italianate pedagogy with the primary purpose of enabling its alumnae to profess as nuns who offered their skills as musicians in lieu of a dowry paid to a convent. This study discusses women’s education and social positions in colonial Mexico and considers the social impact and importance of Belem’s school of music. Archival documents and musical scores collected from the Archivo Histórico del Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola, Vizcaínas, in Mexico City provide examples of women who trained at Belem and the music that they studied and performed. Interwoven with the story of Belem’s escoleta de música is the musically influential Jerusalem family. A biography of María Micaela Jerusalem illustrates one Belem alumna’s career path and enduring legacy.Volume II presents music studied and performed at Belem. Complete editions of two pedagogical manuscripts—the student-copied “Manuscrito de Lecciones ‘J.M.J.’ del Colegio de Belem” and “Vezerro de Lecciones” by Francesco Feo, Leonardo Leo, and Ignacio Jerusalem—illustrate the Italian pedagogy employed in Belem’s escoleta de música and are presented in treble and bass clefs for use by today’s scholars, educators, and students. Editions of music intended for performance in Belem’s religious services include Ignacio Jerusalem’s “Non fecit taliter à dos voces y Bajo,” Guadalupe Ortuño’s “Gradual á la Santísima Virgen de Guadalupe á Duo, con acompañamiento de Órgano,” and Marcos Vega’s “Versos para el organo para tocarlos en visperas o maytines.
Pogledi slovenskih revolucionarno usmerjenih marksistov na črnogorsko vprašanje leta 1923
No full textThe author presents the position of the Slovene communists with regards to the so-called Montenegrin question in 1923. In the context of a public political discussion on the national question, from May to December that year, the Yugoslav Communist Party (Komunistična stranka Yugoslavije) devised its multi-national, federal program. The author points out that it was the Slovene communists who first called for the recognition of Montenegro as a legal state entity and its inclusion in the Party\u27s federal program. He concludes that the political process, which eventually resulted in the formation of the Republic of ontenegro within the second, federal Yugoslav state, had actually been started as early as 1923 by the Slovene members of the YCP.Avtor predstavlja gledanje slovenskih komunistov na črnogorsko vprašanje leta 1923, t.j. v času, ko je Komunistična stranka Jugoslavije - od maja do decembra 1923 - v okviru javne teoretsko-politične razprave o nacionalnem vprašanju oblikovala svoj federativni narodni program. Opozarja, da so bili slovenski komunisti prvi, ki so v okviru KSJ zahtevali, naj komunistična stranka kot posebno državnopravno enoto vključi tudi Črno goro v svoj federativni narodno-državni načrt. Na tej osnovi ugotavlja, da je bil politični proces, ki je privedel do oblikovanja posebne črnogorske republike v drugi (federativni) jugoslovanski državi, sprožen že leta 1923 v slovenskem delu KSJ
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