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Whose Blues? Black Bluesism, Blues Universalism, and the Postmodern Paradoxes of America\u27s Global Music (pre-recorded discussion)
No full text“Whose Blues? Black Bluesism, Blues Universalism, and the Postmodern Paradoxes of America’s Global Music” with Adam Gussow, Ken “Sugar Brown” Kawashima
In this recording Adam Gussow and Ken Kawashima discuss Gussow\u27s recently published book Whose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music. The book challenges us to think freshly about the blues in a postmodern moment, more than a century removed from the music’s rural southern origins. If “blues is Black music,” as some contemporary claimants insist, what should we make of the International Blues Challenge held annually in Memphis, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? If there’s “no Black, no white, just the blues,” as another familiar meme would have us believe, why do some Black blues people hear that proclamation not as a call to transracial fellowship, but as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and the erasure of traumatic racial histories sounded by the music?
Adam Gussow is a professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and a professional blues harmonica player. He is the author of five books on the blues, including Mister Satan’s Apprentice and Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition. Satan and Adam, a documentary about his decades-long partnership with guitarist Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, is currently screening on Netflix.
Ken Kawashima is a professor of modern Japanese history and Marxist theory in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. He is author of The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan, co-editor of Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader, and the English translator of Uno Kozo’s Theory of Crisis. He is also a blues musician, singer, and composer known as Sugar Brown. He has released three albums of original blues music: Sugar Brown’s Sad Day, Poor Lazarus, and It’s a Blues World . . . Calling All Blues.
On Thursday, October 29 at 3 p.m. CT, Adam Gussow and Ken Kawashima will be joined by B. Brian Foster for a conversation and Q&A about Gussow\u27s new book. Dr. B. Brian Foster is an assistant professor of sociology and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Bitter Southerner, and Oxford Magazine. His first book, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life, which focuses on race and community life in the Mississippi Delta, will be out December 2020.
To learn more about the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the SouthTalks series, please visit the Center\u27s website
Histories of science fiction: The Challenge of Periodization in "The History of Science Fiction", by Adam Roberts
No full textO autor e crítico britânico Adam Roberts, em seu livro A verdadeira história da Ficção Científica, projeta o início da ficção científica (FC) para a Antiguidade Clássica. Esta resenha crítica pretende analisar a premissa histórica do autor tendo em vista o desafio da periodização essa espécie literária, contrastando com ideias críticas de Brian Aldiss, Gary Westfahl, James Gunn, Mark Bould e Sherryl Vint, sem esquecer de autorias brasileiras, como André Carneiro, Braulio Tavares, Raul Fiker e Roberto Causo, entre outras autorias. Ainda se analisará a premissa anglocêntrica de Roberts, ao não visibilizar contribuições científicas de civilizações árabes e ibéricas, entre outras, embora se frise a validade da obra para ampliar as perguntas críticas no estudo contemporâneo.The History of Science Fiction, by the British author and critic Adam Roberts, traces the beginnings of Science Fiction (SF) to Classical Antiquity. This critical review aims to analyze the author\u27s historical premise given the challenge of periodization of this literary genre, contrasting Robert’s ideas with critical thoughts by Brian Aldiss, Gary Westfahl, James Gunn, Mark Bould, and Sherryl Vint, without forgetting Brazilian contribution in this matter by André Carneiro, Braulio Tavares, Raul Fiker and Roberto Causo, among others. Roberts\u27 Anglocentric premise will also be analyzed, as he does not make visible the scientific contributions of Arab and Iberian civilizations, among others, although the importance of his work will be stressed in contemporary studies
Do unique mechanisms underlie the expression of attention problems in anxious and inattentive-impulsive youth?: implications for differential diagnosis and treatment
No full textAccumulating evidence suggests that unique mechanisms may underlie the expression of attention problems in youth Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) and anxiety disorders (e.g., AD/HD-Inattentive Type and Generalized Anxiety Disorder). Kendall (2000) proposed that anxiety may be associated predominantly with emotion-based “distortions” in cognitive processing (e.g., misappraisal of the social/interpersonal environment, attentional bias toward perceived threat/danger), while inattention in AD/HD youth may be linked to more global cognitive “deficiencies” (e.g., selective/sustained attention, inhibitory control; Barkley, 1997). The current study compared performance of anxious (ANX; n=21; 8-17 years), inattentive-impulsive (I-I; n=22, 9-16 years), and typically developing children (NC; n=22; 8-13 years) on neurocognitive tests of both general (Stroop Color-Word Test, SCW; Conners’ Continuous Performance Test, CPT) and emotion-based attentional processes (Emotional Stroop, ES; Faces Dot Probe Task, FDP). As hypothesized, I-I demonstrated poorer sustained attention and inhibitory control, as evidenced by lower CPT commission error raw scores, relative to ANX and NC, and a non-significant trend toward higher CPT omission error T-scores, relative to ANX. In addition, ANX demonstrated superior selective attention, relative to I-I, as indicated by higher SCW raw scores (i.e., more items completed in 45 seconds), higher SCW T-scores, and fewer SCW errors. As predicted, ANX demonstrated greater attentional bias toward threat cues, relative to I-I, as indicated by greater FDP bias scores in response to angry faces. No significant group differences were found in bias scores on happy or sad trials. In addition, ANX showed a trend toward significant “absolute bias” scores (i.e., relative to zero) in response to angry faces alone, suggesting a potential emotion-specific attentional bias toward threat cues in anxious youth; I-I exhibited an “absolute bias” toward sad faces, alone. ES bias scores were not significant and did not distinguish between groups. The findings provide initial evidence for the neuropsychological differentiation of attention problems in anxious (i.e., threat-related attentional bias) and inattentive-impulsive children (i.e., general selective/sustained attention), suggesting the potential utility of cognitive assessment as an aid for differential diagnosis and subsequent treatment of youth anxiety and AD/HD.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-66)by Adam Scott Weissma
The Lilac Forest by Adam Szafraniec – a little story about a grand idea
No full textThis article is an attempt to discuss and analyse a fairy tale The Lilac Forest (Liliowy Bór, Krakow 2009) by Adam Szafraniec – a writer, poet, composer, founder of the artistic group The Fairy Band (Baśniowa Kapela) and the Publishing house White Boat (Biała Łódka). This multidimensional story for the youngest readers was presented in the article in the context of other achievements of the author, whose work is characterized by an explicit syncretism of the epics, poetry, and drama. The inspiration to write The Lilac Forest was found in the history of Brian Chlebowski (1998–2005) – a six-year-old boy, who had saved his father and tens residents of one house in Lodz from death in flames. The educational significance of the book is emphasized by the complementary music album by Adam Szafraniec, Friends of the Lilac Forest (Przyjaciele z Liliowego Boru), which contains the author’s project for the activities for children in the field of prevention and promotion of security. The Lilac Forest has received an honorary patronage of the World for Kids Foundation and Polish Resuscitation Council
Three essays in labor economics in developing countries
Get PDFThis dissertation focuses on three topics that pertain or are tightly related to the labor market in developing countries. After presenting an introduction to this dissertation, chapter 2 studies the way in which labor regulations and their enforcement by the government affects workers and their families, by taking advantage of a reform that took place in Argentina that reformed the labor regulations of domestic workers. The results of this study suggest that the analysis of labor regulations should also take into account how the affect other members of the worker's household to avoid underestimating their entire impact.
In chapter 3 we study how workers value different job amenities and the most appropriate way to estimate these valuations using survey data. This was done by fielding a survey to job seekers in Egypt where respondents are randomly assigned to a different method to elicit their valuation for several non-wage job attributes. We find large difference across elicitation methods in the value assigned to the job attributes we consider. Moreover, some of these elicitation methods present various shortcomings that should be considered before being used in surveys, even leading to estimates for certain attributes having the opposite sign that would be expected by economic theory.
Finally, in chapter 4 we focus on a topic that is directly connected to the labor market by studying how migration affects both the incidence of crime and its media coverage. We find that, even though the number of crimes covered by newspapers increase in areas that receive larger influxes of migrants, the likelihood that a person is victim of a crime actually decreases. This finding could provide an insight on why public perceptions of the effects of migration systematically differ from the empirical evidence.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Brian Feld, accepted the attached license on 2020-04-27 at 10:29.The student, Brian Feld, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-04-27 at 10:32.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-04-27 at 16:33.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15076 on 2020-08-25 at 17:28:16Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-26T23:57:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Spatiotemporal changes of China's carbon emissions
Get PDFSpatiotemporal changes in China's carbon emissions during the 11th and 12th Five‐Year Plan periods are quantified for the first time through a reconstructed nationwide high‐resolution gridded data set. The hot spots of carbon emissions in China have expanded by 28.5% (toward the west) in the north and shrunk by 18.7% in the south; meanwhile, the emission densities in North and South China have increased by 15.7% and 49.9%, respectively. This suggests a clear transition to a more intensive economic growth model in South China as a result of the energy conservation and emission reduction policies, while the expanded carbon hot spots in North China are mainly dominated by the Grand Western Development Program. The results also show that China's carbon emissions exhibit a typical spatially intensive, high‐emission pattern, which has undergone a slight relaxation (up to 3%) from 2007 to 2012 due to a typical urbanization process
'Nicely Boiled and Scraped': Medicine, Radicalism, and the "Useful Body" in a Lloyd Penny Blood
No full textThe publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in waysthat have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloydshaped the modern popular press: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other ’penny dreadfuls’, which became bestsellers. Lloyd’s publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens’s novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music
The shattered world of Nabokov's Bend sinister
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Vladimir Nabokov's 1947 novel Bend Sinister has long been considered problematic and over-ambitious. This thesis attempts to resolve some of those perceived difficulties through an intense consideration of its detail and structure.
On the surface, Bend Sinister is predominantly a critique of totalitarianism, but the novel's great surprise is the intervention of its author in the final chapter, driving his creature Adam Krug insane but rescuing him from a world of pain. Krug had previously probed the nature of the afterlife, formulating the possibility of a human spirit (specifically his wife Olga) continuing beyond death as "infinite consciousness;" its alternative as "infinite nothingness." When Krug's creator reduces him to the level of a "mere whim," this seems to favour the latter option, but throughout the novel certain details point towards a secondary Presence beyond Adam's world.
In facto, Nabokov has carefully balanced the supernatural dimension of the work associated with the god-like author with another supernatural dimension, inhabited by Olga. By appearing in the form of a hawkmoth in the world of her husband's author, however, Olga seems to have trumped her creator, and subtly manipulates the author into inadvertently answering in the affirmative krug's question about survival beyond death.
This "solution" to the novel is itself problematic and paradoxical, as the author-figure that appears in the final scene is clearly intended to represent Valadimir Nabokov, the actual author, and is thus unlikely to have been duped by a figment of his own imagination. On closer inspection, however, the figure of Nabokov presented within the novel is not entirely consistent with his original. Although establishing this schism allows space for Olga to work her particular magic, it fails to tip up several of the novel's loose ends.
It is my contention that Nabokov employs the crackpot theories of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, a proponent of the theory that Francis Bacon composed the works of William Shakespeare, as an outlandish tool for reconciling the novel's contradictions, a makeshift mechanism for incorporating the deistic narrator, ghostly Olga and Vladimir Nabokov, the true author, into a metaphor for an otherworld that, Nabokov insisted, was unimaginable
Democracy, traditional leadership and the International Economy in South Africa
Get PDFThe paper argues that in order to adequately analyse the development of postcolonial democracy - in this case South Africa - a theoretical model has to take into account the context within which that democratic experiment finds itself in. This context is shaped by the international political economy, the circulation of a democracy discourse at both the level of global and local political culture, and the history of state-formation. The paper explores what might explain the resurgence of purportedly 'traditional' modes of governance, symbolised by the 'chief' across several rural landscapes. It argues that the inability of the state to affect fundamental changes in the social, political and economic conditions of the rural hinterlands has created a situation in which local power holders are able to redefine traditional cultural values. In the process of doing so, these local power holders both shape and are shaped by a global discourse of what democracy might be and mean. The paper highlights the debate concerning notions of 'African' forms of democracy, embodied most starkly by some of Nelson Mandela’s writings, which hold that village level deliberation and chieftaincy based upon community consensus may be more appropriate models of democracy than western versions based upon the notions of electoral contestation. This argument stands in sharp contrast to conventional approaches to democracy which would suggest that traditional leadership is an anachronism of lesser developed countries and stands in contrast to western democratic norms and values.
The Hidden Dimension of the Transformation of Communism
Get PDFThis is critical review of book by Maria Łoś and Andrzej Zybertowicz, "Privatizing of Police State. The Case of Poland". New York/London 2000. The author criticizes Brian Chapman's category of police state applied to the late phase of communism in Poland by authors of the book
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