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La Boite Theatre: A Brief History
No full textThis brief history was requested by La Boite Theatre Company and completed in February 2007. As a series of printed panels with accompanying photographs this history is available to the public in the foyer area of The Roundhouse Theatre, Kelvin Grove, home to La Boite. The author, Dr Christine Comans, is the Company’s official historian
"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
Talking about a Christine Borland sculpture: effective empathy in contemporary anatomy art (and an emerging counterpart in medical training?)
Full text linkThis Introduction and interview discusses the poetical and empathic insights that are a key to the effectiveness of contemporary artist Christine Borland's practice and its relevance to the medical humanities, visual art research and medical students’ training. It takes place in a context of intensive interest in reciprocity and conversation as well as expert exchange between the fields of Medicine and Contemporary Arts. The interview develops an understanding of medical research and the application of its historical resources and contemporary practice-based research in contemporary art gallery exhibitions. Artists tend not to follow prescriptive programmes towards new historical knowledge, however, a desire to form productive relationships between history and contemporary art practice does reveal practical advantages. Borland's research also includes investigations in anatomy, medical practices and conservatio
List of witnesses at the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians public hearings
No full textHandwritten list of the seventeen testimonies recorded at the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians public hearings held at the Golden Gate University Auditorium in San Francisco, California from 12:00 Noon to 9:00 P.M on August 12, 1981.The testimonies were taped by Christine Asoo Umeda on a Sony Walkman recorder. Most of the witnesses were from Sacramento, California. Ms. Umeda was four years old when her family was incarcerated at Tule Lake and later transferred to Topaz, Utah. By the time of the hearings, Christine and Mary Tsukamoto were already involved in town hall meetings to advocate, educate, and help people prepare for the hearings
List of witnesses and cassette tape numbers from the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians public hearings in San Francisco
No full textHandwritten list of seventeen testimonies from the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians public hearings in San Francisco and the identification number of their recordings.The testimonies were taped by Christine Asoo Umeda on a Sony Walkman recorder. Most of the witnesses were from Sacramento, California. Ms. Umeda was four years old when her family was incarcerated at Tule Lake and later transferred to Topaz, Utah. By the time of the hearings, Christine and Mary Tsukamoto were already involved in town hall meetings to advocate, educate, and help people prepare for the hearings
Watson Leads Holocaust Genocide Exhibit Tour in Library
No full textDr. Robert Watson leads a tour of the Holocaust and Genocide exhibit from A World Without Genocide, displayed in the Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Library.
The exhibit debuted in conjunction with the 6th Annual Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Program With Speaker Rabbi David Wolpe, held in the Wold Performing Arts Center on April 3 and then remained on display from April 3-22, 2025 in the Lynn Library.
Video recorded by: Miguel Ángel Garcíahttps://spiral.lynn.edu/holocaust-genocide-annual-events/1002/thumbnail.jp
Christine de Pizan and Biblical Wisdom: A Feminist-Theological Point of View
No full textFifteenth-century author Christine de Pizan is admired for the extensiveness and the diversity of her writing, and is best known for her insightful defense of women. She, like many medieval writers, often used literary personification as a vehicle for conveying her thought. It has been noticed by many commentators that a number of the female literary figures Christine created had an unmistakably deified aura about them. A close engagement with her work reveals that when the need arose to affirm the inherent worth of women, or to herald the outstanding achievements of women, or to argue for the placement of women and men in the created order as equal partners in a common humanity, or to validate herself as a person of sound wisdom and learning, Christine added a theological dimension to her writing which included an affirming and wisdom-inspiring female symbol for deity. This current study, drawing upon the insights of today\u27s feminist scholars in religion, has attempted to demonstrate that the female literary theological figures she developed for the purpose of feminist authentication were inspired to a significant extent by the female figure of biblical Wisdom. Moreover, it has been shown that the scriptural Wisdom text that Christine used most extensively was the book of the Wisdom of Solomon. Scholars have long noted that in the three works under discussion here - L\u27epistre Othea la deesse, L\u27advision Cristine, and Le livre de la cite des dames - Christine utilized, borrowed from, and often revised many traditional examples of female empowerment. The recognition of her poetic as well as didactic use of the imposing female figure of biblical Wisdom adds another intriguing interpretative element to an understanding of the feminist dimension of Christine\u27s thought
Informed learning: a narration
No full textIn this salon conversation, Christine Bruce, author of ‘Informed Learning’ will read the narratives underpinning the book's chapters. The intention is to reveal the narrative thread which reflects a journey of the scholarship of learning and teaching. In the course of that journey, two new academics engage in learning and teaching innovation, securing their own professional development, and creating unexpected opportunities for colleagues and the wider university in the process. Informed learning is a way of thinking about the educational process in terms of using information to learn. Information is often the hidden element in curriculum...present, critical, not always explicitly recognised. Thinking in terms of informed learning provides a language and an approach that highlights the role of information in the learning process, encouraging all members of the learning community to be aware of that role, and benefit from it. The narratives will serve as openers to discussion about the experience of learning and teaching with attention to information environments.\ud
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Christine Bruce (2008) <i>Informed Learning</i>. Chicago, American College and Research Libraries.\ud
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<a href="http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Bruce,_Christine.html">Christine Bruce QUT ePrints profile</a
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