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The writings of Sulzer and Koch represent a significant confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch creatively adapted many of Sulzer's abstract philosophical ideas to concrete questions of musical pedagogy, showing how they could be usefully applied to the teaching and analysis of musical composition. This collaborative study and translation of the texts will be of interest to all historians of music, music theory, and historians of eighteenth-century German aesthetic thought.
Musquon must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish
sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and
peace of her surroundings speak to her, and she gathers sweetgrass
as her ancestors have done for centuries, leaving the first blade
she sees to grow for future generations. This sweet, authentic
story from a Maliseet mother and her Passamaquoddy husband includes
backmatter about traditional basket making and a Wabanaki glossary.
Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value
to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style?
The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch
showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes.
Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss
encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt
Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to
concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this
collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have
translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch
respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of
philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment.
Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music
represents an important development in the evolution of Western
musical thought.
The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More
is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto
Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and
original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and
temperament-as a loving wife, mother, and daughter; a proud Texan;
a teacher and scholar with graduate degrees in English literature
and religion; and the founder of a residency program for
environmental writers and artists at a ranch in the Texas Hill
Country-permeate every word she wrote. She had a unique combination
of empathetic imagination, profound spirituality, cosmic
sensibility, and an ability to laugh-gently-at her fellow creatures
and, especially, herself.Heather Kohout's essays and poems are
thoughtful, profound, and generous, shifting constantly between the
specific and the universal and carrying throughout a message of
stewardship. She was an environmentalist at heart, but her writing
explores so much more: nature, art, theology, science, food, and
family. She wrote about Mexican teenagers who dress as angels in an
attempt to halt drug-related violence; the perils of industrial
agriculture; the pleasure of letting the chickens out of their coop
in the morning; and the battle to save the Georgetown salamander.
Always, she wrote about what it means to try to live an ethical
life and to be fully human as a part of, not in opposition to,
nature. These essays and poems exemplify the best of Texas
womanhood: stubborn independence, fierce conviction, good humor,
and instinctive generosity and kindness.
When Nikki R. Van Hightower stepped into the position of Women's
Advocate for the City of Houston in 1976, she quickly discovered
that she had very little real power. And when the all-male city
council cut her salary to $1 a year after she spoke at a women's
rights rally, she gained full appreciation for just what she was up
against.Nonetheless, before the job was abolished altogether two
years later, Van Hightower went on to help orchestrate the
enormously successful 1975 US National Women's Conference in
Houston as part of the International Woman's Year, to help found
the Houston Area Women's Center and establish its rape crisis and
shelter programs, and to host a radio show where she publicly
discussed issues of gender, race, and human rights. This
eye-opening memoir offers a window into the world of Texas history
and politics in the 1970s, where sexual harassment was not
considered discrimination, where women's shelters did not exist,
where no women were elected to city government, where women in the
parks department were prohibited from working outdoors, and where
women paid to use airport toilets while men did not. That world
that may seem distant and slightly unreal today, so all the more
reason to read Van Hightower's journey as a feminist. Her story
will remind us that while much has been achieved in gender
relations and women's rights, there is much that remains to be
done.
This collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta-poet, historian, author,
and activist-spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through
2018. The collection is divided into four parts: poems, essays, a
children's story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural,
historical, political, and gender realities that she experienced
from her childhood to the present.The plays, set in the Central
Texas Blackland Prairies where Acosta was raised, provide a unique
Latina vision of memory, identity, and experience and are a vital
contribution to Chicana feminist thought. The essays focus on
Acosta's literary heroes Jovita GonzAlez de Mireles, Sara Estela
RamIrez, and Elena Zamora O'Shea, important writers who contributed
significantly to Tejana literature and to Texas letters. The
children's story, "Colchas, Colchitas," is based on Acosta's most
notable poem, "My Mother Pieced Quilts," which pays homage to her
mother and the many women of her generation who employed needles
and thread, creating both practical and symbolic artifacts. This
collection is a creative and, indeed, essential expansion of
boundaries for what we think of as history, offering a unique and
compelling look into the lived experiences and interior
contemplations of a Texas artist well worth knowing. Readers will
increase their understanding of Tejana experience in the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Tejanaland promises to
become an important addition to the cultural record, informing
historical perspectives on the experiences of Tejana women and
contributing significantly to the existing body of work from Tejana
writers.
The Art of the Woman explores the life of GermanbornElisabet Ney, a
flamboyant sculptor who transfixed the philosopher Arthur
Schopenhauer and left the court of the half-mad Ludwig of Bavaria
SAILING TIMES AT Mfor America to put down new roots in Texas.Born
in 1833, Ney gained notoriety in Europe by sculpting the busts of
such figures as Ludwig II, Schopenhauer, Garibaldi, and Bismarck.
In 1871 she abruptly emigrated to America and becamesomething of a
recluse until resuming her sculptingcareer two decades later. In
Texas, she was knownfor stormy relationships with officials,
patrons,and women's organizations. Her works includedsculptures of
Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austinand are exhibited in the state and
US capitols as wellas the Smithsonian. Emily Fourmy Cutrer's
biography of Ney makesextensive use of primary sources and was the
firstto appraise both Ney's legend and individual worksof art.
Cutrer argues that Ney was an accomplishedsculptor coming out of a
neglected Germanneoclassical tradition and that, whatever her
failuresand eccentricities, she was an important catalyst
tocultural activity in Texas.
In "The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism,"
some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the
origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade
preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial
factors that began moving Texas to the far right, even before the
arrival of the New Deal.
By demonstrating that Texas politics foreshadowed the partisan
realignment of the erstwhile Solid South, the studies in this book
challenge the traditional narrative that emphasizes the right-wing
critique of modern America voiced by, among others, radical
conservatives of the state's Democratic Party, beginning in the
1930s. As the contributors show, it is impossible to understand the
Jeffersonian Democrats of 1936, the Texas Regular movement of 1944,
the Dixiecrat Party of 1948, the Shivercrats of the 1950s, state
members of the John Birch Society, Texas members of Young Americans
for Freedom, Reagan Democrats, and most recently, even, the Tea
Party movement without first understanding the underlying impulses
that produced their formation.
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