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The Russian school of violin playing produced many of the twentieth
century's leading violinists - from the famed disciples of Leopold
Auer such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, and Mischa Elman to
masters of the Soviet years such as David Oistrakh and Leonid
Kogan. Though descendants of this school of playing are found today
in every major orchestra and university, little is known about the
pedagogical traditions of the Russian, and later Soviet, violin
school. Following the revolution of 1917, the center of Russian
violin playing and teaching shifted from St. Petersburg to Moscow,
where violinists such as Lev Tseitlin, Konstantin Mostras, and
Abraham Yampolsky established an influential pedagogical tradition.
Founded on principles of scientific inquiry and physiology, this
tradition became known as the Soviet Violin School, a component of
the larger Russian Violin School. Yuri Yankelevich (1909 - 1973), a
student and assistant of Abraham Yampolsky, was greatly influenced
by the teachers of the Soviet School and in turn he became one of
the most important pedagogues of his generation. Yankelevich taught
at the Moscow Conservatory from 1936 to 1973 and produced a
remarkable array of superb violinists, including forty prizewinners
in international competitions. Extremely interested in the
methodology of violin playing and teaching, Yankelevich contributed
significant texts to the pedagogical literature. Despite its
importance, Yankelevich's scholarly work has been little known
outside of Russia. This book includes two original texts by
Yankelevich: his essay on positioning the hands and arms and his
extensive research into every detail of shifting positions.
Additional essays and commentaries by those close to him examine
further details of his pedagogy, including tone production,
intonation, vibrato, fingerings and bowings, and his general
approach to methodology and selecting repertoire. An invaluable
resource for any professional violinist, Yankelevich's work reveals
an extremely sophisticated approach to understanding the
interconnectivity of all components in playing the violin and is
complete with detailed practical suggestions and broad historical
context.
Research in neuroscience and brain imaging show that exposure of
learners to multi-semiotic problems enhance cognitive control of
inter-hemispheric attentional processing in the lateral brain and
increase higher-order thinking. Multi-semiotic representations of
conceptual meaning are found in most knowledge domains where issues
of quantity, structure, space, and change play important roles,
including applied sciences and social science. Teaching courses in
History and Theory of Architecture to young architecture students
with pedagogy for conceptual thinking allows them to connect
analysis of historic artifact, identify pattern of design ideas
extracted from the precedent, and transfer concepts of good design
into their creative design process. Pedagogy for Conceptual
Thinking and Meaning Equivalence: Emerging Research and
Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that demonstrates an
instructional and assessment methodology that enhances higher-order
thinking, deepens comprehension of conceptual content, and improves
learning outcomes. Based on the rich literature on word meaning and
concept formation in linguistics and semiotics, and in
developmental and cognitive psychology, it shows how independent
studies in these disciplines converge on the necessary clues for
constructing a procedure for the demonstration of mastery of
knowledge with equivalence-of-meaning across multiple
representations. Featuring a wide range of topics such as
curriculum design, learning outcomes, and STEM education, this book
is essential for curriculum developers, instructional designers,
teachers, administrators, education professionals, academicians,
policymakers, and researchers.
Text analysis tools aid in extracting meaning from digital content.
As digital text becomes more and more complex, new techniques are
needed to understand conceptual structure. Concept Parsing
Algorithms (CPA) for Textual Analysis and Discovery: Emerging
Research and Opportunities provides an innovative perspective on
the application of algorithmic tools to study unstructured digital
content. Highlighting pertinent topics such as semantic tools,
semiotic systems, and pattern detection, this book is ideally
designed for researchers, academics, students, professionals, and
practitioners interested in developing a better understanding of
digital text analysis.
A rich, sweeping memoir by David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands proceeds
from the premise that Yiddish culture is spread out among many
different people and geographic areas and transmitted through
story, song, study, and the family. Roskies leads readers through
Yiddishlands old and new by revisiting his personal and
professional experiences and retelling his remarkable family saga
in a series of lively, irreverent, and interwoven stories.
Beginning with a flashback to his grandmother's storybook wedding
in 1878, Yiddishlands brings to life the major debates, struggles,
and triumphs of the modern Yiddish experience, and provides readers
with memorable portraits of its great writers, cultural leaders,
and educators. Roskies's story centers around Vilna, Lithuania,
where his mother, Masha, was born in 1906 and where her mother,
Fradl Matz, ran the legendary Matz Press, a publishing house that
distributed prayer books, Bibles, and popular Yiddish literature.
After falling in love with Vilna's cabaret culture, an older man,
and finally a fellow student with elbow patches on his jacket,
Masha and her young family are forced to flee Europe for Montreal,
via Lisbon and New York. It is in Montreal that Roskies, Masha's
youngest child, comes of age, entranced by the larger-than-life
stories of his mother and the writers, artists, and performers of
her social circle. Roskies recalls his own intellectual odyssey as
a Yiddish scholar; his life in the original Havurah religious
commune in Somerville, Massachusetts, in the 1970s; his struggle
with the notion of aliyah while studying in Israel; his visit to
Russia at the height of the Soviet Jewry movement; and his
confrontation with his parents' memories in a bittersweet
pilgrimage to Poland. Along the way, readers of Yiddishlands meet
such prominent figures as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Melekh Ravitch,
Itsik Manger, Avrom Sutzkever, Esther Markish, and Rachel Korn.
With Yiddishlands, readers take a whirlwind tour of modern Yiddish
culture, from its cabarets and literary salons to its fierce
ideological rivalries and colorful personalities. Roskies's memoir
will be essential reading for students of the recent Jewish past
and of the living Yiddish present.
'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking'
Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a
small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's
largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroy years
of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and
to the world? Masha Gessen shows that when Vladimir Putin, an
unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a
group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Yet
within a few brief years, he had dismantled Russia's media, wrested
control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class,
and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every
opposing voice was silenced, with political rivals and critics
driven into exile or to the grave. Drawing on information and
sources no other writer has tapped, Masha Gessen's fearless account
charts Putin's rise from the boy who had scrapped his way through
post-war Leningrad schoolyards. Now the 'faceless' man who
manoeuvred his way into absolute - and absolutely corrupt - power,
has become a threat to the stability of the world, and this
important book is more relevant than ever. Now with a new preface
by the author. 'A clear, brave book... Gessen offers intriguing
details of the scratching, biting, hair-tearing, undersized,
brawling boy Putin, refusing to be bullied in the grubby back yards
of Leningrad' James Meek, Observer 'Gessen's engaging prose
combines a native's passion with a mordant wit and caustic
understatement that are characteristically Russian' AD Miller,
Daily Telegraph
Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she
chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By
helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words
of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities
where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her
intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the
limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not
returned, the bookmobile will not return.
But, encumbered by her Western values, Fi does not understand
the people she seeks to help. And in the impoverished small
community of Mididima, she finds herself caught in the middle of a
volatile local struggle when the bookmobile's presence sparks a
dangerous feud between the proponents of modernization and those
who fear the loss of traditional ways.
The annexation of Eastern Europe to the Soviet sphere after World
War II dramatically reshaped popular understandings of the natural
environment. With an eco-critical approach, Cinema and the
Environment in Eastern Europe breaks new ground in documenting how
filmmakers increasingly saw cinema as a tool to critique the social
and environmental damage of large-scale projects from socialist
regimes and newly forming capitalist presences. New and established
scholars with backgrounds across Europe, the United States, and
Australia come together to reflect on how the cultural sphere has,
and can still, play a role in redefining our relationship to
nature.
For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal
Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate
depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on
Russian politics, Masha Karp – Russian Features Editor at the BBC
World Service for over a decade – explores how Orwell's work was
received in Russia, when it percolated into the country even under
censorship. Suggesting a new approach to the controversial
‘Orwell’s list’ of 1949, Karp puts into context the articles
and letters written by Orwell at the time. She sheds light on how
the ideas of totalitarianism exposed in Orwell’s writing took
root in Russia and, in doing so, helps us to understand the
contemporary political reality. As Vladimir Putin's actions
continue to shock the West, it is clear we are witnessing the next
transformation of totalitarianism, as predicted and described by
Orwell. Now, over 70 years after Orwell's death, his writing, at
least as far as Russia is concerned, remains as timely and urgent
as it has ever been.
Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Trump's latest astonishing policy or declaration, and the overwhelming sense we have is one of confusion and incredulity - how could this be happening?
As the 2020 US Presidential race takes shape, Surviving Autocracy provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years. Drawing on her Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, acclaimed New Yorker journalist and prize-winning author Masha Gessen links together seemingly disparate elements of Trump's regime to offer a roadmap for understanding Trump's approach, policies and ultimate aims. Highlighting an inventory of ravages to liberal democracy, including the corrosion of the media, the justice system and cultural norms, she posits that America is in the throws of an autocratic attempt.
Gessen's penetrating analysis offers a new political discourse to replace that which has been so thoroughly degraded, and with it, a clearer path to action. Manifesto-like, Surviving Autocracy is threaded with solutions to the current situation, such as developing a political language that encompasses autocratic impulses, a more agile and honest media, and a visionary moral politics to counter Trump's extraordinary on-going assault.
Presented here are some 750 fiction and nonfiction books--from
folklore to poetry--focusing on separation and loss themes for
young people. Highly selective, the guide profiles only classic and
recommended titles from School Library Journal, Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, The Horn
Book, The Bookfinder, and other publications. Arranged by topic,
each annotated entry provides a review of plot and theme,
interest/reading level, suggestions for use, and full bibliographic
information. Issues include Homelessness, Economic Loss/Parents Out
of Work, and Race Relations. This is the ideal reference guide for
those who have the opportunity to help children facing tough
personal roadblocks, ranging from going away to camp to the death
of a sibling.
Engine of modernity examines the connection between public
transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris
through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban
transport. The omnibus generated innovations in social practices by
compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds to interact within the
vehicle's close confines. The arrival of the omnibus in the streets
of Paris and in the pages of popular literature acted as a motor
for a fundamental cultural shift in how people thought about the
city, its social life, and its artistic representations. At the
intersection of literary criticism and cultural history, Engine of
modernity argues that the omnibus was a metaphor through which
writers and artists explored evolving social dynamics of class and
gender, meditated on the meaning of progress and change, and
reflected on one's own literary and artistic practices. -- .
Knowing when children and young people are struggling, and
identifying the best ways of supporting them is vital. This is all
the more important when working with children with varying learning
difficulties who may not always be able to communicate their
feelings. By demystifying terms such as mental health, wellbeing,
learning difficulties and the sensitivities surrounding labels,
this practical and evidence-based guide helps you achieve an
in-depth understanding of the children and young people you work
with. It provides you with skills and knowledge for supporting
their mental health and wellbeing in educational settings - from
nursery to secondary school in both mainstream and specialist
environments with talking and non-verbal communication approaches
to accommodate varying needs. Most importantly its holistic
approach explores the interaction between the child's learning
difficulties and the psychological, social and environmental
factors which influence how they manage their ups and downs in
life. This lets you think beyond the child and the classroom.
'This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the
cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The
Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its
range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and
evidence. Here, fifty years after that iconic "1968," Western
Europe and North America are finally de-centered, if not
provincialized, and we have the basis for a complete remapping, a
thorough reinterpretation of the "Sixties."' -Jean Allman, J.H.
Hexter Professor in the Humanities; Director, Center for the
Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis 'This is a landmark
achievement. It represents the most comprehensive effort to date to
map out the myriad constitutive elements of the "Global Sixties" as
a field of knowledge and inquiry. Richly illustrated and
meticulously curated, this collection purposefully "provincializes"
the United States and Western Europe while shifting the loci of
interpretation to Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.
It will become both a benchmark reference text for instructors and
a gateway to future historical research.' -Eric Zolov, Associate
Professor of History; Director, Latin American & Caribbean
Studies, Stony Brook University 'This important and wide-ranging
volume de-centers West-focused histories of the 1960s. It opens up
fresh and vital ground for research and teaching on Third, Second,
and First World transnationalism(s), and the many complex
connections, tensions, and histories involved.' -John Chalcraft,
Professor of Middle East History and Politics, Department of
Government, London School of Economics and Political Science 'This
book globalizes the study of the 1960s better than any other
publication. The authors stretch the standard narrative to include
regions and actors long neglected. This new geography of the 1960s
changes how we understand the broader transformations surrounding
protest, war, race, feminism, and other themes. The global 1960s
described by the authors is more inclusive and relevant for our
current day. This book will influence all future research and
teaching about the postwar world.' -Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown
Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs; Professor of
Public Affairs and History, The University of Texas at Austin As
the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, this book reassesses
the global causes, themes, forms, and legacies of that tumultuous
period. While existing scholarship continues to largely concentrate
on the US and Western Europe, this volume will focus on Asia,
Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. International scholars
from diverse disciplinary backgrounds explore the global sixties
through the prism of topics that range from the economy,
decolonization, and higher education, to forms of protest,
transnational relations, and the politics of memory.
In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four
Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be
the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented
expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very
architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of
their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers and writers,
sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths not only
against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush
them all (censorship, intimidation, violence) but also against the
war it waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed
emergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying
and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. The Future is History is a
powerful and urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most
fearless inquisitor.
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