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The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for
American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking
Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same
time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both
among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish
language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of
klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and the
early years of the twenty-first saw a steady stream of new songbook
publications and recordings in Yiddish - newly composed songs,
well-known singers performing nostalgic favourites, American
popular songs translated into Yiddish, theatre songs, and even a
couple of forays into Yiddish hip hop; musicians meanwhile engaged
with discourses of musical revival, post-Holocaust cultural
politics, the transformation of language use, radical alterity and
a new generation of American Jewish identities. This book explores
how Yiddish song became such a potent medium for musical and
ideological creativity at the twilight of the twentieth century,
presenting an episode in the flowing timeline of a musical
repertory - New York at the dawn of the twenty-first century - and
outlining some of the trajectories that Yiddish song and its
singers have taken to, and beyond, this point.
The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for
American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking
Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same
time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both
among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish
language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of
klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and the
early years of the twenty-first saw a steady stream of new songbook
publications and recordings in Yiddish - newly composed songs,
well-known singers performing nostalgic favourites, American
popular songs translated into Yiddish, theatre songs, and even a
couple of forays into Yiddish hip hop; musicians meanwhile engaged
with discourses of musical revival, post-Holocaust cultural
politics, the transformation of language use, radical alterity and
a new generation of American Jewish identities. This book explores
how Yiddish song became such a potent medium for musical and
ideological creativity at the twilight of the twentieth century,
presenting an episode in the flowing timeline of a musical
repertory - New York at the dawn of the twenty-first century - and
outlining some of the trajectories that Yiddish song and its
singers have taken to, and beyond, this point.
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the
world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become
attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human
health? And why, in the epidemic of 2001, did the government's
control strategy still rely upon Victorian trade restrictions and
mass slaughter? This groundbreaking and well-researched book shows
that, for over a century, FMD has brought fear, tragedy and sorrow-
damaging businesses and affecting international relations. Yet
these effects were neither inevitable nor caused by FMD itself but
were, rather, the product of the legislation used to control it,
and in this sense FMD is a 'manufactured' plague rather than a
natural one. A Manufactured Plague turns the spotlight on this
process of manufacture, revealing a rich history beset by
controversy, in which party politics, class relations, veterinary
ambitions, agricultural practices, the priorities of farming and
the meat trade, fears for national security and scientific progress
all made FMD what it is today.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book
breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the
very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical
significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers
important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we
think of as 'human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each
chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and
were changed by medicine. Ranging across the animal inhabitants of
Britain's zoos, sick sheep on Scottish farms, unproductive
livestock in developing countries, and the tapeworms of California
and Beirut, they illuminate the multi-species dimensions of modern
medicine and its rich historical connections with biology, zoology,
agriculture and veterinary medicine. The modern movement for One
Health - whose history is also analyzed - is therefore revealed as
just the latest attempt to improve health by working across species
and disciplines. This book will appeal to historians of animals,
science and medicine, to those involved in the promotion and
practice of One Health today.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book
breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the
very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical
significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers
important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we
think of as 'human' medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each
chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and
were changed by medicine. Ranging across the animal inhabitants of
Britain's zoos, sick sheep on Scottish farms, unproductive
livestock in developing countries, and the tapeworms of California
and Beirut, they illuminate the multi-species dimensions of modern
medicine and its rich historical connections with biology, zoology,
agriculture and veterinary medicine. The modern movement for One
Health - whose history is also analyzed - is therefore revealed as
just the latest attempt to improve health by working across species
and disciplines. This book will appeal to historians of animals,
science and medicine, to those involved in the promotion and
practice of One Health today.
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