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Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were
dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the
collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by
conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the
future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a
fear of losing the past.
Fresh and innovative takes on the dissemination of music in
manuscript, print, and, now, electronic formats, revealing how the
world has experienced music from the sixteenth century to the
present. This collection of essays examines the diverse ways in
which music and ideas about music have been disseminated in print
and other media from the sixteenth century onward. Contributors
look afresh at unfamiliar facets of the sixteenth-century book
trade and the circulation of manuscript and printed music in the
seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. They also analyze and critique
new media forms, showing how a dizzying array of changing
technologies has influenced what we hear, whom we hear, and how we
hear. The repertoires considered include Western art music -- from
medieval to contemporary -- as well as popular music and jazz.
Assembling contributions from experts in a wide range of fields,
such as musicology, music theory, music history, and jazz and
popular music studies, Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard von
Bingen to The Beatles sets new standards for the discussion of
music's place in Western cultural life. Contributors: Joseph Auner,
Bonnie J. Blackburn, Gabriela Cruz, Bonnie Gordon, Ellen T. Harris,
Lewis Lockwood, Paul S. Machlin, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Honey
Meconi, Craig A. Monson, Kate van Orden, Sousan L. Youens. Roberta
Montemorra Marvin teaches at the University of Iowa and is the
author of Verdi the Student -- Verdi the Teacher (Istituto
Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 2010) and editor of The Cambridge
Verdi Encyclopedia (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Craig A.
Monson is Professor of Musicology at Washington University (St
Louis, Missouri) and is the author of Divas in the Convent: Nuns,
Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy (University of
Chicago Press, 2012).
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature explores the idea of strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in major literary works of the 20th century. Looking at work by Hansberry, Morrison, Bambara, West, Gaines, Reed, and others, Trudier Harris shows how writers draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what they believe to be safe literary representations. She argues forcefully that the portrayal of women characters as strong is problematic in African American literature, and this pattern has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.
To prosper and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable national and
global environment, U.S. higher education will need to adapt,
innovate, and evolve once again, as it has during every major
societal change over the past four centuries. The purpose of this
new edition, published a turbulent decade after the first, is to
provide institutional leaders -- from department chairs to trustees
-- with a broad understanding of the academic enterprise, strategic
guidance, and key principles, to assist them in navigating the
future and drive the success of their institutions as they confront
the unimagined. Recognizing that the hallmark of higher education
in the U.S. is the diversity of institution types, each of which is
affected differently by external and internal influences, the
authors provide examples and ideas drawn from the spectrum of
colleges and universities in the not-for-profit sector. This book
covers the major functions and constituent departments and units
within institutions; the stakeholders from students and faculty
through the echelons of administration; the external environment of
elected officials, foundations, philanthropists, and the new
changing media; and innovations in teaching, technology, data
analytics, legal frameworks, as well as economic, demographic, and
political pressures. The book is informed by the proposition that
adhering to four principles, that the authors identify as having
enabled institutions of higher education to successfully navigate
ever-changing and volatile pasts, will enable them to flourish in
the coming decades. The four principles are: 1. Be mission centric
by making all key decisions based on a core mission and set of
values. 2. Be able to adapt to environmental change in alignment
with the mission and core values. 3. Be committed to democratic
ideals by seeking to promote them and modeling democratic practices
on and off campus. 4. Be models for inclusion, equity, and positive
social change.
To prosper and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable national and
global environment, U.S. higher education will need to adapt,
innovate, and evolve once again, as it has during every major
societal change over the past four centuries. The purpose of this
new edition, published a turbulent decade after the first, is to
provide institutional leaders -- from department chairs to trustees
-- with a broad understanding of the academic enterprise, strategic
guidance, and key principles, to assist them in navigating the
future and drive the success of their institutions as they confront
the unimagined. Recognizing that the hallmark of higher education
in the U.S. is the diversity of institution types, each of which is
affected differently by external and internal influences, the
authors provide examples and ideas drawn from the spectrum of
colleges and universities in the not-for-profit sector. This book
covers the major functions and constituent departments and units
within institutions; the stakeholders from students and faculty
through the echelons of administration; the external environment of
elected officials, foundations, philanthropists, and the new
changing media; and innovations in teaching, technology, data
analytics, legal frameworks, as well as economic, demographic, and
political pressures. The book is informed by the proposition that
adhering to four principles, that the authors identify as having
enabled institutions of higher education to successfully navigate
ever-changing and volatile pasts, will enable them to flourish in
the coming decades. The four principles are: 1. Be mission centric
by making all key decisions based on a core mission and set of
values. 2. Be able to adapt to environmental change in alignment
with the mission and core values. 3. Be committed to democratic
ideals by seeking to promote them and modeling democratic practices
on and off campus. 4. Be models for inclusion, equity, and positive
social change.
The entire gang from the original movie is back in breakin' action, and this time they're up against a greedy developer who wants to turn their community center into a shopping mall.
Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were
dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the
collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by
conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the
future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a
fear of losing the past.
The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the
intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture,
honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated
how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential
to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century
English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts
transformed one another, both enriching and complicating generic
distinctions. Artists were alive to the power of the arts to
reflect and shape reality, and their audience was quick to turn to
the arts as performative pleasures and critical lenses through
which to understand a changing world. This collection's eminent
authors discuss estate design, musicalized theater, the visual
spectacle of musical performance, stage machinery and set designs,
the social uses of painting and singing, drama’s reflection of a
transformed military infrastructure, and the arts of memory and of
laughter.
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature explores the idea of strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in major literary works of the 20th century. Looking at work by Hansberry, Morrison, Bambara, West, Gaines, Reed, and others, Trudier Harris shows how writers draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what they believe to be safe literary representations. She argues forcefully that the portrayal of women's character as strong is problematic in African American literature, and this pattern has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.
Seventeen studies by noted experts that demonstrate recent
approaches toward the creative interpretation of primary sources
regarding Renaissance and Baroque music, Mozart, Beethoven,
Mendelssohn, Verdi, Debussy, and beyond. How do we know what notes
a composer intended in a given piece? -- how those notes should be
played and sung? -- the nature of musical life in Bach's Leipzig,
Schubert's Vienna? -- how music related to literature and other
arts and social currents in different times and places? -- what
attitudes musicians and music lovers had toward the music that they
heard and made? We know all this from musical manuscripts and
prints, opera libretti, composers'letters, reviews in newspapers
and magazines, archival data, contemporary pedagogical writings,
essays on aesthetics, and much else. Some of these categories of
sources are the bedrock of music history and musicology. Others
havebegun to be examined only in recent years. Furthermore,
musicologists -- including biographers of famous composers -- now
explore these various kinds of sources in a variety of ways, some
of them richly traditional and others exciting and novel. These
seventeen essays, all newly written, use a wide array of source
materials to probe issues pertaining to a cross section of musical
works and musical life from the sixteenth through the twentieth
centuries. The resulting, pluralistic profile of current musicology
will prove welcome to anyone fascinated by the problems of
reconstructing -- reimagining, sometimes -- the evanescent musical
art of the past and pondering its implications for musical life
today and in the future. Roberta Montemorra Marvin is a Research
Fellow at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the
University of Iowa where she is also Director of the Institute for
Italian Opera Studies; Stephen A. Crist is associate professor and
chair of the Music Department at Emory University.
The first half of this book provides an outline of the structure
and function of a voice clinic, a review of the structure and
function of the vocal tract and an outline of the most common forms
of voice disorder likely to be encountered in a clinic. It also
provides brief descriptions of the various forms of therapy
available for the treatment of non-cancerous voice disorder and
suggests appropriate treatment modalities.
The second half of the book is based in science and contains an
overview of the instrumentation available for the investigation and
documentation of voicing.
During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel s music reached from
court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns.
But the man himself known to most as the composer of Messiah is a
bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical
manuscripts and provided for their preservation in his will, very
little of an intimate nature survives. In search of the private man
behind the public persona, Ellen T. Harris has tracked down the
letters, diaries, financial accounts, court cases, and other
documents connected with the composer s closest friends. The result
is a tightly woven tapestry of London life in the first half of the
eighteenth century, one that weaves together vibrant descriptions
of Handel s music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal.
With this wholly new approach, Harris introduces us to an
ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man."
Applies the notion of musical "voice" to diverse repertoires,
ranging from the operas and cantatas of Handel to the autograph
albums of nineteenth-century collector Charlotte de Rothschild. The
concept of musical voice has been a subject of controversy in
recent decades, as the primacy of the composer's place in the
creation of the work has been called into question. The essays in
Word, Image, and Song: Essays onMusical Voices take the notion of
musical voice as a starting point, and apply it in varying ways to
diverse repertoires and music-historical circumstances, ranging
from the operas and cantatas of Handel to the autograph albums of
nineteenth-century collector Charlotte de Rothschild. Rather than
attributing interpretive control to the composer, performer, or
audience alone, these essays present a range of interpretive
strategies with respect to the various voices that one might hear
and understand as emerging from a musical work: the composer's
voice, the performer's voice, the patron's voice, the collector's
voice, and the social or receptive voice. Contributors: Bathia
Churgin, Rebecca Cypess, Roger Freitas, Philip Gossett, Ellen T.
Harris, Joseph Kerman, Nathan Link, Daniel R. Melamed, Giovanni
Morelli, Kristina Muxfeldt, Ruth Smith, Ruth A. Solie. Rebecca
Cypess is Assistant Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of
the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Beth L.
Glixon is instructor in musicology at the University of Kentucky
School of Music. Nathan Link is NEH Associate Professor of Music at
Centre College.
The only comprehensive reference work of its kind, this book provides complete coverage of everything that a fund raiser must know when preparing for an international fund-raising campaign. Offers an overview of a country's tax and regulatory system, an examination of its not-for-profit sector, what sources of funding are available, and what fund-raising methods are considered acceptable by the culture and the government.
Additional Contributing Authors Include Norman A. Graebner And
David M. Potter. Foreword By U. S. Grant, III.
The transition to adulthood is a complex process, and college is
pivotal to this experience. The Science of College aids entering
college students-and the people who support them-in navigating
college successfully, with up-to-date recommendations based upon
real student situations, sound social science research, and the
collective experiences of faculty, lecturers, advisors, and student
support staff. The stories captured in this book highlight how the
challenges that college students encounter vary in important ways
based on demographics and social backgrounds. Despite these varied
backgrounds, all students are more likely to have successful
college experiences if they invest in their communities.
Universities have many resources available, but as this book will
show, students need to learn when to access which resources and how
best to engage with people serving students. This includes having a
better awareness of the different roles held by university faculty
and staff, and navigating who to go to for what, based upon
understanding their distinct sets of expertise and approaches to
support. There is no single template for student success. Yet, this
book highlights common issues that many students face and provides
science-based advice for how to navigate college. Each topic
covered is geared towards the life stage that most college students
are in: emerging adulthood. In addition to the student-focused
chapters, the book includes appendixes with activities for
students, tips for parents, and methods information for faculty.
Supplemental website materials suggest classroom activities for
instructors who adopt this book within first-year seminars and
general education courses. This is an open access title available
under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is
free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF
download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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