18 research outputs found
Letter dated 15 May 1909 from Ella (Carter) P to Susan Tallmon
No full textLetter from Ella (Carter) Pickard (Mrs. Elmer T. Pickard) of Grinnell, Iowa, to Susan Tallmon, in response to letter, expressing interest in the missionary work and sending money; includes a note from Susan Tallmon to sister Angie, to whom she sent this lette
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC
Author Correction:DNA methylation predicts age and provides insight into exceptional longevity of bats
Get PDFCorrection to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21900-2, published online 12 March 2021.The original version of this Article omitted from the author list the 34th author L. Gerardo Herrera M., who is from the ‘Estación de Biología de Chamela, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 48980 San Patricio, Mexico’ and the 35th author José J. Flores-Martínez, who is from the ‘Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico’. Additionally, the following was added to the Author Contributions: ‘L.G.H.M., J.J.F.M., M.N., B.P., M.L.P., R.D.R., E.C.T., S.C.V., G.S.W., and D.Z. provided or prepared samples’ in place of ‘M.N., B.P., M.L.P., R.D.R., E.C.T., S.C.V., G.S.W., and D.Z. provided or prepared samples.’The original version of the Supplementary Information associated with this Article contained an error in p. 4, which incorrectly read ‘Bat capture and handling were conducted under permits #7668-15 and 2492-17 from Dirección General de Vida Silvestre, and permits #17-16 and 21-17 from Secretaría de Gobernación.’ The correct version states ‘#7668-15, 2492-17 and 5409-18’ in place of ‘#7668-15, 2492-17’ and ‘#17-16, 21-17 and 20-18’ in place of ‘#17-16 and 21-17.’ The HTML has been updated to include a corrected version of the Supplementary Information.The original version of this Article contained an error in the email address of the corresponding author Steve Horvath, which was missing the terminal edu and should be [email protected] have been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
Body, time, and the others: African-American anthropology and the rewriting of ethnographic conventions in the ethnographies by Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham
Get PDFThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This research looks at the ethnographies Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938) by Zora Neale Hurston focusing on representations of Time and the anthropologist’s body. Hurston was an African-American anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist who conducted research particularly between the end of the 1920s and the mid-1930s. At first, her fieldwork and writings dealt with African-American communities in Florida and Hoodoo practice in Louisiana, but she consequently expanded her field of anthropological interests to Jamaica and Haiti, which she visited between 1936 and 1937. The temporal and bodily factors in Hurston’s works are taken into consideration as coordinates of differentiation between the ethnographer and the objects of her research. In her ethnographies, the representation of the anthropologist’s body is analysed as an attempt at reducing temporal distance in ethnographical writings paralleled by the performative experience of fieldwork exemplified by Hurston’s storytelling: body, voice, and the dialogic representation of fieldwork relationships do not guarantee a portrayal of the anthropological subject on more egalitarian terms, but cast light on the influence of the anthropologist both in the practice and writing of ethnography. These elements are analysed in reference to the visualistic tradition of American anthropology as ways of organising difference and ascribing the anthropological ‘Others’ to a temporal frame characterised by bodily and cultural features perceived as ‘primitive’ and, therefore, distant from modernity. Representations and definitions of ‘primitiveness’ and ‘modernity’ not only shaped both twentieth-century American anthropology and the modernist arts (Harlem Renaissance), but also were pivotal for the creation of a modern African-American identity in its relation to African history and other black people involved in the African diaspora. In the same years in which Hurston visited Jamaica and Haiti, another African-American woman anthropologist and dancer, Katherine Dunham, conducted fieldwork in the Caribbean and started to look at it as a source of inspiration for the emerging African-American dance as recorded in her ethnographical and autobiographical account Island Possessed (1969). Therefore, Hurston’s and Dunham’s representations of Haiti are examined as points of intersection for the different discourses which both widened and complicated their understanding of what being ‘African’ and ‘American’ could mean.Isambard Research Scholarship from Brunel University and grant from Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
Diversity in leadership: Australian women, past and present
Get PDFThis book provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts.
Overview
While leadership is an over-used term today, how it is defined for women and the contexts in which it emerges remains elusive. Moreover, women are exhorted to exercise leadership, but occupying leadership positions has its challenges. Issues of access, acceptable behaviour and the development of skills to be successful leaders are just some of them.
Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts. It brings interdisciplinary expertise to the topic from leading scholars in a range of fields and diverse backgrounds. The aims of the essays in the collection document the extent and diverse nature of women’s social and political leadership across various pursuits and endeavours within democratic political structures
Public bodies, private moments : method acting and American cinema in the 1950s
Get PDFThe thesis deals with two central issues:
a) the construction of a framework for the study of film acting which places
performance in a cultural context
b) the cultural significance of Method acting during the 1950s with specific
reference to American cinema of the period
The first chapter considers the ways in which the voice and body in film acting are made
meaningful in the context of beliefs about acting and personal identity. The chapter also
proposes ways for situating the practical activity of film acting in a context of cultural
production.
The remaining chapters study the cultural significance of Method acting through
separate analyses of the Method technique, style, representation of gender, and image of
star performance. Readings of the Method technique and style are placed in the context of
a `culture of personality', in which the significance of the Method was produced in the
ways that acting signified beliefs about personal identity. The discussion of the Method
style is then developed in the analysis of the ways in which the style was used in film
melodramas to represent the gendered anxieties of the rebel hero. Finally, Marlon
Brando's image and performances are studied for how the actor personified the meaning
of the Method. Together, technique, style, gender representation, and stardom, are
studied as various aspects of what is called the Method discourse
Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
Author Correction: DNA methylation predicts age and provides insight into exceptional longevity of bats:DNA methylation predicts age and provides insight into exceptional longevity of bats
No full textCorrection to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21900-2, published online 12 March 2021The previous version of the Supplementary Information associated with this Article omitted Supplementary Figures 1–6. The HTML has been updated to include a corrected version of the Supplementary Information
