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Lutz Weltmann Correspondence Collection. 1923-1969 Bulk dates: 1930-1955
No full textThe Lutz Weltmann Correspondence Collection largely holds professional correspondence from others to Lutz Weltmann, a critic, publisher, author and teacher. Such correspondence often references various literary projects of Weltmann's or of the correspondents. One letter by him includes a brief curriculum vitae.Lutz Weltmann was born on February 15, 1901 in Elbing (now Elblag, Poland). He attended the universities of Berlin and Freiburg, receiving his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Freiburg in 1924. From 1924-1933 he was the theater and literature critic of Rudolf Mosse newspapers in Berlin, including the Berliner Volkszeitung, but also contributed as a freelance writer for the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger and the Kölnische Zeitung, among others. From 1927-1933 he was co-editor of the monthly Die Literatur (later titled Das literarische Echo). In 1934 he authored some articles for the Jüdisches Jahrbuch on Spinoza and in 1936 he lectured on Samuel Cooper for the Jüdischer Kulturbund and produced Jizchok Leib Perez's Die goldene Kette for the Kulturbund's theater. In the course of his work he came to know many other authors, critics and others in the field of literature and theater.After emigrating to England in 1939, he served in the British Pioneer Corps from 1940-1943. The following year he earned his teaching diploma in London in 1944 and then taught at various schools in Kent, London and Essex. He also wrote from England for West German newspapers after the war. During this time he was assistant editor of the series The Goethe Year 1749-1949- Das Goethe-Jahr 1749-1949, celebrating the bi-centenary of the birth of Goethe, and wrote a book on Kasimir Edschmid. He also wrote three unpublished works on Christopher Fry, T.S. Eliot, and on Shakespeare.All letters on the list "Briefe on Lutz Weltmann" not previously digitized were consolidated into this collectionProcesseddigitize
"Y'all come and have fun": discovering a New Jersey country and western music scene in a box of postcards
No full textSeveral years ago, Rutgers University's Special Collections and University Archives was given a checkbox containing fifty-six postcards advertising country and western music shows at venues around New Jersey. The postcards, primarily from the 1960s, promoted shows featuring Grand Ole Opry stars like Wanda Jackson, Hank Thompson, and Elton Britt. Preliminary research revealed that the postcards touted performances by regional and local musicians, as well. A closer look at the cards began to expose how a small, hyper-local ephemeral collection could bring to light and contribute to a larger history; in this case, a once thriving but little explored New Jersey country and western music scene. The research that forms this article focuses on one venue, the Copa Club in the city of Secaucus, and its owners, brothers and musicians Shorty and Smokey Warren, as a specific case study. This collection of postcards, like so much ephemeral material in archives, could have remained undervalued and under-researched. In this case, a close consideration set forth a journey that included research in local archives and interviews with scene participants. As a result, this article explores the past of an important musical genre that evolved along with social changes in the United States. This piece contributes to the scholarship around uses and value of ephemera, as well as scholarship that continues to challenge the southern origin story of country music and examine vital locales of country music outside the South.Peer reviewe
Cabin in the Pines: Albert Music Hall and constructions of a Pine Barrens musical tradition
No full textAlbert Music Hall is an outpost of bluegrass, folk, and country music in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, offering hours of live music every Saturday night. It has formally been in existence since the 1970s under the auspices of the Pinelands Cultural Society, but it traces its roots back to the 1950s, when brothers Joe and George Albert started hosting informal musical gatherings at their Pines fox hunting cabin, known in the area as the Homeplace. What started as locals playing old-time and country music at a rustic cabin deep in the woods has evolved into a more formal venue that features musicians from around New Jersey and beyond. Albert Music Hall has persisted as an island of an older, more rural, and isolated Pines in an industrialized, urbanized state. Through an examination of the language, material culture, and music of the venue, this paper considers questions and constructions of authenticity in relation to notions of what a true Pine Barrens musical experience might be for Albert Music Hall audiences and musicians.Peer reviewe
Going against the archival grain: case studies of pop culture archives of a music scene, regional zines, and local beer
No full textPopular culture collecting in academic special collections and archives is sometimes still viewed within the institution as a challenge to traditional collection development, which has tended to emphasize the mainstream and enshrine privilege and hegemonic structures. This is especially the case when the cultures and media emphasized in such collecting might be categorized as being counter-cultural, DIY, or somehow ‘other.’ This article consists of three case studies that emphasize recently developed popular culture-based collections at Rutgers University’s Special Collections and University Archives that focus on voices and communities outside archival norms of collecting: the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive, the New Jersey Regional Zine Collection, and the New Jersey Beer Collection. An emphasis on how faculty and staff have developed these collections by working with participants and creators outside mainstream popular culture leads to examples of how faculty and staff have engaged in critical pedagogy and outreach, particularly among students. Woven throughout are examples of challenges faculty and staff have faced around institutional acceptance, inclusivity, and cultural sensitivities along with work to overcome the challenges. The article concludes by considering future popular culture collection-building endeavors and engagement among students and community members.Peer reviewe
Introduction
No full textThis chapter introduces the volume, beginning with a short description of the importance of the Bantu language family, followed by an outline of the context in which the book has been put together, i.e. the research tradition and existing scholarship, as well as the intended readership. It then highlights the importance of reflecting the diversity of scholarship in Bantu linguistics in the authorship of the chapters of the volume, provides a short description of the parts and chapters in the volume, and explains editorial choices and policies adopted. It concludes with a section on the current state of research in the field of Bantu languages and linguistics
Eastern Europe's experience with banking reform : is there a role for banks in the transition?
Get PDFAre there lessons to be learned about how Eastern European countries have dealt with problems in their banking systems? What role have these countries assigned to banks during the transition? How have they used banks in dealing with the enterprise problem? The author addresses these questions by analyzing experience in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. Most of these countries have made substantial progress in restructuring their banking systems, but few have used their banking systems to improve the allocation of credit and hence stimulate the supply response. The author finds the following. The problem is not whether banks hold nonperforming loans but how banks can avoid accumulating more nonperforming loans. The underlying problem is how to close loss-making and nonviable enterprises. The countries that have encouraged the establishment of new private banks, that have introduced regulation and supervision, and that have tried to make banks more competitive have been more successful at improving the allocation of credit and achieving more control over loss-making enterprises. Banks must focus on assessing risk - and for this, capital, private ownership, and adequate regulation are crucial. How quickly banks achieve independence in credit decisions depends on how fast new governance structures can be introduced. In this, the five countries have been less successful. The objectives of bank recapitulation should be to prevent banks from accumulating more nonperforming loans (that is, dealing with the enterprise problem) and to give them the governance structure that would prevent them from incurring new nonperforming loans. This requires introducing a system of risk and reward - by making banks comply with capital adequacy requirements, by privatizing a critical number of banks, and by introducing strong regulation and supervision. Government should see that banks provide efficient payment systems, the basis for trust in banking systems. Introducing adequate regulation and supervision has been difficult as it requires knowing what the banks'role should be. Evidence strongly supports the need to recapitalize and privatize a critical number of banks. Authorities cannot rely on banks to exert control on enterprises early in the transition. In the early stages, control over state-owned enterprises should be exercised by a semipublic institution.Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Municipal Financial Management,Banking Law
Institutions, Trade, and Social Cohesion in Fragile States
Get PDFThis paper examines the contribution of institutions, social cohesion, and trade to development (per-capita income) with emphasis on fragile states in Africa. Results from GMM estimations suggest that political institutions, openness to trade, and social cohesion affect growth in fragile states via direct and indirect mechanisms. The results indicate that, beyond a certain level, openness to trade may actually be harmful to economic performance in fragile states, particularly in countries with high export concentration. Improvements in institutional quality, or more specifically in democratization, also may be harmful in the short run. On the other hand, social cohesion has a positive effect once a threshold level is reached. The results associated with the effects of political institutions and openness to trade seem to suggest the possibility of a ‘catch-22’, at least in the short run. If a fragile state tries to improve its political institutions or its openness to trade it may wind up with lower per-capita income. According to the formula used to allocate World Bank-IDA funds get more money, such country would get more aid. However, while obtaining more aid may be a good outcome lower income implies more poverty (assuming no changes in income distribution). Thus, aid may not lead to significant poverty reduction.fragile states, aid effectiveness, institutions, social cohesion
Morphology
No full textMorphology is a key feature of Bantu languages, and extensive morphological marking is found in all areas of Bantu grammar. This includes the noun class system and the complex agreement systems based on it, verbal derivation such as applicatives, causatives, or passives, verbal inflection such as tense, aspect, mood, polarity, subject and object agreement—and even information structure can be marked by verb morphology. The chapter presents an overview of, and the wider background to, different aspects of Bantu morphology, and introduces different conceptual and theoretical approaches which have been developed to derive a better understanding of it. The chapter shows that Bantu morphology is at the heart of Bantu linguistic research and makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the language family and to linguistic theory
Author Disambiguation in PubMed: Evidence on the Precision and Recall of Author-ity among NIH-Funded Scientists.
Get PDFWe examined the usefulness (precision) and completeness (recall) of the Author-ity author disambiguation for PubMed articles by associating articles with scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In doing so, we exploited established unique identifiers-Principal Investigator (PI) IDs-that the NIH assigns to funded scientists. Analyzing a set of 36,987 NIH scientists who received their first R01 grant between 1985 and 2009, we identified 355,921 articles appearing in PubMed that would allow us to evaluate the precision and recall of the Author-ity disambiguation. We found that Author-ity identified the NIH scientists with 99.51% precision across the articles. It had a corresponding recall of 99.64%. Precision and recall, moreover, appeared stable across common and uncommon last names, across ethnic backgrounds, and across levels of scientist productivity
Lutz Seiler und das „Territorium der Müdigkeit“
No full textInternational audienceThe article focuses on two essays from Sonntags dachte ich an Gott (2004) by Lutz Seiler, in particular on two excerpts both establishing a special bond between tiredness, radioactivity of Seiler’s birthplace and his literary creativity. Far from merely being a paradoxical praise of the atom, the author describes the very origin of the act of writing in drawing upon his early years in eastern Thuringia: his receptiveness and awareness of the physical world and matter, which may have been fostered by his childhood spent in an uranium mining district.L’article est consacré à deux essais de Lutz Seiler parus dans le recueil Sonntags dachte ich an Gott (2004) et plus particulièrement aux sections respectives de ces essais qui établissent une relation singulière entre la fatigue, la radioactivité de la région de RDA natale de l’auteur et sa créativité littéraire. Il tente de montrer que, loin de se livrer seulement à un éloge paradoxal de l’atome, l’auteur décrit la source même de l’acte d’écriture, remontant à son enfance : une porosité et une attention face au monde physique et à la matière, qui pourraient précisément avoir été favorisées par son enfance passée près des mines d’uranium
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