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Alan Lomax Collection
American Folklife Center Home Page Lib. of Congress
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American Folklife Center - Collections Available Online
Archives of African American Music & Culture
Archive of Maori and Pacific Music at the University of Auckland
Archive of World Music Harvard University
Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie ADEM
Australian Institute of Eastern music
British Forum for Ethnomusicology
British Library Sound Archive -World and Traditional Music Section
Boston College: John J. Burns Library-Irish Music Center
Center for Music of the Americas Florida State University
Center for Popular Music Middle Tennessee State University
Centro de Etnomusicología Andina Archivo de Música Tradicional Andina (Peru)
Ethnomusikolgie-Volksmusik: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Max Peter Baumann
European Seminar in Ethnomusicology
The Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology (Suomen etnomusikologinen seura ry)
The Global Music Archive Vanderbilt University
Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
Institut du Monde Arab
International Council for Traditional Music
International Native American Flute Association
Irish Traditional Music Archive
The Irish World Music Center
Jewish Music Research Center
Latin America Music Center Indiana Univ.
Latvian Ethnomusicology
Maailman musiikin keskus (Global Music Centre) in English!
Museum of Popular Instruments Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, Hellenic Ministry of Culture
New York Folklore Society
The Open University Musics and Cultures Research Group
Northwest Folklife Homepage
School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London, Dept. of Music
Singhini Research Centre
Sociedad de Ethnomusicologia
Société française d'ethnomusicologiey
Society for Asian Music
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Svenskt visarkiv Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research
Ethnomusicology at SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
University of Washington Ethnomusicology Home Page
Ethnomusicology Recording Archives
Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection
University of Cyprus Ethnomusicology Research Program
World Music Institute
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Bibliography, Periodicals & Online Publications
Current Bibliography, Discography, Filmography, and Videography from SEM
Alan Lomax Archive - Catalog
Asian Music
British Library Sound Archive "International Music Connection" FULL TEXT
British Journal of Ethnomusicology contents
Cahiers des musiques traditionnelles
Descarga Journal FULL TEXT
Dirty Linen The Magazine Of Folk, Electric Folk, Traditional and World Music
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology Online formerly EF/hm FULL TEXT
Ethnomusicology Research Digest ERD
European Meetings in Ethnomusicology Romanian Society for Ethnomusicology
FolkLib Index: A Library of Folk Music Links
Folk Music
Melomag: creative art from around the world
Music & Anthropology FULL TEXT
The Music Magazine India
Musical TraditionsThe Magazine for Traditional Music throughout the world. FULL TEXT
NTAMA-Journal of African Music and Popular Culture
Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology
portail ethnomusicologie
RPM Online: The Review of Popular Music International Association for the Study of Popular Music
RootsWorld an online magazine of world music Reviews, interviews, audio and articles covering the world's creative and folk music.
A Selection of Ethnic Music Styles from the collections of the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Smithsonian Global Sound
Trans: transcultural music review = revista transcultural de música
Univ. of Chicago Press: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Verlag Ernst Kuhn ethno antiquariat
The World of Music bibliography: vols. 19-41, 1977-1999(3)
World Music Central
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Recordings & Videos
The Listening Post Robert Garfias. "mini-reviews" and recommended listening not confined to ethnomusicological recordings
Robert Garfias - Films and Field Recordings
Current Bibliography, Discography, Filmography, and Videography from SEM
Early Sound Recordings in the Field Steven E. Schoenherr
Labels and Distributers
Record Company Addresses links from Dirty Linen
AIMP (Archives internationales de musique populaire) Collection of Geneva Ethnographic Museum from ADEM
Afropop Worldwide
Allegro Imports World music catalog
Alula records
Ara-music: Arabic Music Cds
ARC Music
Arhoolie
Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie CD, disques
Bear Family
beatofindia.com
barraka el farnatshi recordings from Morroco
Bishop Museum
calabash music
Canyon Records
celestial harmonies
Center Records
Descarga Latin recordings, books
Deep Down Productions
Ellipsis Arts
eworldsrecords
Felmay Italy
Globestyle
HumanSongs.com Folkloric and WorldBeat Music
Indian House
Kereshmeh Records Persian music
Khazana: India Arts Online- Music Recordings & Instruments
American Folklife Center. Library of Congress
Lyrichord World Music
Music of Mongolia - discography
Maison des Cultures du Monde
Multicultural Media Home Page
Mhumbi records
Mundo Etnico Anthology of Pacific Music
Naxos World
Oliver Sudden Productions
Onzou Records West Africa
Putumayo World Music
RomSky.com music from romania
Rootsworld
Rounder Records Catalogue By label from the Rounder Record Group
Music of Siberia - discography
Smithsonian/Folkways
Smithsonian Global Sound
Sonic Safari Music
Sublimefrequencies
SWP Records Hugh Tracey, ILAM, Compact Discs
Temple Records
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Tradisom Portugal
Traditional Crossroads
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UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World
Village Pulse
World Music Store/Multicultural Media
World Music Central
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British/Irish/American Folk Music
English folk and traditional music on th Internet
Richard Robinson's Tunebook (Anglo tunes in gif format)
English folk and traditional music on the Internet A guide to resources
Folk stuff
folkmusic.org
Ceolas celtic music archive
Celtic Lyrics
Ancient Music of Ireland
Music Making in Belfast
Turlough O'Carolan: Carolan Tunes
Irish World Music Centre
The Celtic World from RootsWorld Folk Music Site Search
The Virtual Tunebook
Henrik Norbeck's Tune Index
An ABC Library of Morris Tunes
Eric Foxley's Music Database
Child Ballads
Sacred Harp Singing
Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources
The Folk Music Webring
California Gold from L.C. American Memory Project
America Music Resources on the Web Eric Charry
The Phonograph Turntable and Performance Practice in Hip Hop Music Miles White
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Native American
Native American Music
The Infography about Native American Music
Great Lakes Powwows Virtual Tour
Gathering of Nations Pow wow
Center Records (Lakota)
Native American Sites
Ohwejagehka Iriquois earth songs
Inuit Throat Singing
Omaha Indian Music
American Indian Radio
WOJB Ojibway
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Asia
The Asian Free Reed Robert Garfias
The Bamboo Origins of Far Eastern Bridged Zithers Robert Garfias
Some Thoughts on the Origins of Gagaku Robert Garfias
Hula Halau in Japan: A Case Study of Hula Schools in Tokyo Yoko Kurokawa
Music and Dance of the Bukidnon-s of Mindanao Hans Brandeis
A Kiosk of Information Related to Okinawan Music Robert Garfias
Throat Singing
Discography of recorded Tuvan, Mongolian, and Siberian Music
Music of Tuva
Australian Institue of Eastern Music
on blending North & South Indian Vocal Styles Sumathi Krishan (Newsletter, Oct. 1995)
on Raga John Napier (Newsletter, Oct. 1995)
A Short Guide to Indian Music (Newsletter, April 1997)
The Violin in Indian Music John Napier (Newsletter, May 1997)
Understanding an Indian music Performance (Newsletter, June 1997)
Techniques of Classical Indian Dance: Bharatanatyam Malathi Nagarajan (Newsletter, Aug. 1997)
Professional Weeping: Music, Affect, and Hierarchy in a South Indian Folk Performance Art Paul D. Greene
Koshur Mausiquee Kashmiri music
Foundation of India Art
Sarod.com Amjad Ali Khan
On Musicians' Speech About Music: Musico-Linguistic Discourse of Tabla Players Lowell Lybarger
Shakuhachi Main Menu
Sound of Bamboo
John Thompson and the Guqin Silk String Zither
Cambodian Performing Arts Sam-Ang Sam
Bhangra: Punjabi Beats Go Global
The Music Magazine India
Beatofindia.com
Music from Korea
Chinese Music by Organized Groups in Victoria between 1949-1995 Wang Zheng Ting
Huê and Tài Tú Music of Viet Nam: The Concept of Music and Social Organisation of Musicians Lê Tuân Hùng
Quan H? Singing in Ritual-festivals in B?c Ninh Region (Vietnam) Lê Ng?c Chân
Vietnamse Music in Australia: A General Survey Le Tuan Hung
The Infography about Music -- Laos
The Infography about Music -- Thailand
The Infography about Music -- Vietnam
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Middle East and North Africa
Music, Myth, and History in the Mediterranean: Diaspora and the Return to Modernity Philp Bohlman
Links to Middle Eastern Music Sites
Middle East Studies Association
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Made in America: Historical and Contemporary Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States Anne K. Rasmussen, The College of William and Mary
Listening to Umm Kulthûm Virginia Danielson, Harvard University
Recent Recordings of Traditional Music from the Arabian Gulf and Saudi Arabia Kay Hardy Campbell, Boston, MA
Arab Music - Part One Ali Jihad Racy and Jack Logan
Arab Music - Part Two Ali Jihad Racy and Jack Logan
Arab Music - Part Three Ali Jihad Racy and Jack Logan
Arab Music - Part Four Ali Jihad Racy and Jack Logan
TURATH.org
Introduction to Sufi Music and Ritual in Turkey Irene Markoff, York University
Music of Algeria: Selected Recordings Dwight Reynolds, University of California-Santa Barbara
New Recordings of Turkish Classical Music Walter Feldman, University of Pennsylvania
Introduction to Traditional Iranian Dastgâh Music Margaret Caton, Los Angeles CA
The Qur'ân Recited Mahmoud Ayoub, Temple University
Solo Improvisation (Taqâsîm) in Arab Music Scott L. Marcus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discography of Arab and Turkish Classical Music
Iranian/Persian Music
Persian Classical Music
The Kurdish Music articles on the Kurdish Music are written by Kendal NEZAN
The Ethnic Musical Instruments Co.
A Master Percussionist: Vince Delgado
Egyptian Music-Seven Millennia of Performance
Playing a Middle Eastern Percussion Instrument
Lebanon2000.com
Music, song, and dance from Al Mashriq
Turkish music.org
Setar
Ancient Sound of Anatolia:the Baglama
Different tunes for Dastgah e Mahoor
Iranian Classical Music
Afgani rebab, east/west fusion
Music in the Afghan North 1967-1972 Mark Slobin
Saramusik: Histoire musique arabe et orientale
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Eastern Europe and Russia
The Infography about Music -- East-European Folk
The Hungarian Music Page
The Romanian Doina Robert Garfias
Romica Puceanu: Romanian Gypsy Singer Robert Garfias
They Call Themselves Roma Michal Shapiro from Rootsworld
Lost Trails
Albamuzika Albania
The role of movement in Russian panpipe playing Olga Velitchkina
German and Klavdia Khatylaev : The art of magnificent duet from the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
The Infography about Music -- Bulgarian
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Europe
Finland from Rootsworld
Digital archive of Finnish Folk Tunes
Cultural dynamics and minority identity in music: An Ethnomusicological Case Study of the Swedish-Finnish Popular Music in the Dancehalls of Gothenburg Pekka Suutari
Swedish Traditional Music
Flamenco Page gromco
The Launeddas Sardinia
Musique traditionnelle de France
Joik and the theory of knowledge (Saami chant) Ánde Somby
The Pontic Music Home Page
Kavals and Dzamares: End-blown Flutes of Greece and Macedonia Anthony Tammer
Oud Greece
Musicians of the Mediterranean (from EOL)
Music, Myth, and History in the Mediterranean: Diaspora and the Return to Modernity Philp Bohlman
Repertories and identities of a musician from Crete Tullia Magrini
The Croats and the question of their Mediterranean musical identity Svanibor Pettan
On Jewish and Muslim musicians of the Mediterranean Amnon Shiloah
American Nyckelharpa Association
The Dissemination of the Nyckelharpa Gunnar Ternhag & Mathias Boström,
Nyckelharpa
What is a Nyckelharpa
Swedish bagpipe music
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Africa
African Music and Drumming Resources on the Web
African Music Archive University of Mainz
RootsWorld's African Music Resources
Ghana Music
West African djembe, dun dun drumming
Latin America, the Caribbean, South America
Latin American Resources from Univ. of Texas
LatinoWeb: Art and Music
Music in Dominica
Merengue: The Music (extracted from "Teaching & Salsa" by Loo Yeo)
Salsa Stories" A community history Virtual Tour
Salsa: The Music (from "Teaching & Salsa" by Loo Yeo)
Salsaweb
WNUR Roots Music Info Source-Continental Drift
SKA! SKA! SKA!
Reggae- 3 FAQs
Ernesto's Tango Page
Cybertango
World-Wide Samba Home Page
Bienvenidos a la primera página de folklore cordobés Argentina
Candombe=The Drumming of Uraguay
Candombe
Andean Musical Instruments
Descarga.comLatin music
The Infography about Brazil -- Popular Music
Brazilian Music
Timba, Salsa from Cuba
THE BERIMBAU; Heart of Capoeira
The Brazilian Sound
Holy Week in Campanha
Salsa2salsa
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Oceania
The Infography about Music -- Oceania (Pacific Islands)
Mundo Etnico
Folk Australia online resource form Australian folk music
iDIDJ Australia-Australian didgeridoo cultural hub
Research in New Zealand Performing Arts Open-access peer reviewed journal
The Didgeridoo Page
Music Archive for Australia
Australian Bush Music & Dance: Wongawilli style
Collaborative Music Making Anne Norman
Manikay.com Traditional Aboriginal Arnhem Land Music
Archive of Maori and Pacific Music Univ. of Auckland
Music Archive of New Zealand
New Zealand - The Music of the Maori
Music Samples of New Zealand
The Glorius Gamelan Virtual Tour
Music Archive for Papua New Guinea
Traditional Music of the Ethnic Minorities on the Philippine Islands
Kwayas, Kandas, Kiosks Tanzanian Popular Choir Music Gregory Barz
Sarawak Sape Borneo
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Dancing and Dance Music
Country Dance and Song Society
English Folk Dance Project
Ernesto's Tango Page ( 7-Mar-1995)
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esFlamenco.com
Folkedance and folkmusic in Denmark
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society
Joshua Su-Ya Wu
Committee on International Relations (CIR)
East Asia: Society, Politics, and Economy Workshop October 10, 2007
“Triple Threat: Triangulating the Impact of the Taiwanese Business Community in the Taiwan Strait”
PRESENTATION ABSTRACT
Since the Republic of China government relocated to Taiwan in 1949, following its defeat to the Chinese communists, the Taiwan Strait dilemma has been characterized by a conflict of two opposing state actors. The dominant neorealist tradition portrays the Taiwan Strait as a classic example of the security dilemma, where Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are locked in a vicious cycle of mistrust that leads to a continuous deterioration of each state’s security environment. From a political economy perspective, the Taiwan Strait dilemma can be described as a balancing act between economics and security, as both Taiwan and the PRC must balance national economic priorities with the priority of national security. Though such analysis has yielded significant insights into the study of the Taiwan Strait, they share a common shortcoming, namely the focus on the state as the primary analytical actor. A state-centric view, however, fails to capture the dynamic nature of domestic politics, and the significant impact that sub-state actors play in cross-Strait relations.
One such sub-state actor is the Taiwanese business community (TBC). Since 1979, the TBC is estimated to have invested over $100 billion in the PRC despite governmental bans and restrictions on cross-Strait trade and investment. More than simply economic capital, growing Taiwanese has also led to a large-scale relocation of the TBC to the PRC; it is estimated that 2 million Taiwanese citizens live in the PRC, at least for parts of the year, and 200,000 reside in Shanghai alone. Existing studies on the TBC have focused on its impact on the economic development of the PRC. While important, the TBC also has significant social and political effects. Such effects can be differentiated based on the size of the Taiwanese firm operating in the PRC, but in aggregate, it is undeniable that collectively, the TBC has emerged as a significant economic, social, and political actor in the Taiwan Strait.
To fully describe the impact of the TBC on cross-Strait dynamics, it is analyzed in three different contexts, namely its effects on Taiwan’s cross-Strait policies, on the PRC’s cross-Strait policies, and on the overall state of cross-Strait relations. First, I examine the impact that the TBC has on Taiwanese politics, and whether the TBC has emerged as a cohesive and important lobby that influences Taiwanese domestic politics. By contextualizing the roles and domestic views of the TBC within a context of growing Taiwanese nationalism, I highlight how differing perceptions reflect growing domestic trends in Taiwan. Next, I analyze how the TBC’s presence in the PRC has paradoxically both facilitated and hindered the PRC’s goal of unification. On the local level, I examine the role of the TBC in changing the Chinese social landscape and the state-local relationship. Thirdly, I examine the TBC in the macro environment, the Taiwan Strait, and how the TBC has changed the dynamics of cross-Strait relations. After analyzing the economic, social, and political consequences of the TBC in each of these three contexts, I draw three conclusions on how the TBC is transforming the relational dynamics of the Taiwan Strait and challenging the conventional wisdom of focusing on the Taiwan Strait dilemma as state conflict as it undermines state sovereignty in governing international relations, complicates the autonomy of domestic politics, and diminishes the internalization of distinctive national identities on both sides of the Strait.
Committee on International Relations (CIR)
East Asia: Society, Politics, and Economy Workshop October 10, 2007
“Triple Threat: Triangulating the Impact of the Taiwanese Business Community in the Taiwan Strait”
PRESENTATION ABSTRACT
Since the Republic of China government relocated to Taiwan in 1949, following its defeat to the Chinese communists, the Taiwan Strait dilemma has been characterized by a conflict of two opposing state actors. The dominant neorealist tradition portrays the Taiwan Strait as a classic example of the security dilemma, where Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are locked in a vicious cycle of mistrust that leads to a continuous deterioration of each state’s security environment. From a political economy perspective, the Taiwan Strait dilemma can be described as a balancing act between economics and security, as both Taiwan and the PRC must balance national economic priorities with the priority of national security. Though such analysis has yielded significant insights into the study of the Taiwan Strait, they share a common shortcoming, namely the focus on the state as the primary analytical actor. A state-centric view, however, fails to capture the dynamic nature of domestic politics, and the significant impact that sub-state actors play in cross-Strait relations.
One such sub-state actor is the Taiwanese business community (TBC). Since 1979, the TBC is estimated to have invested over $100 billion in the PRC despite governmental bans and restrictions on cross-Strait trade and investment. More than simply economic capital, growing Taiwanese has also led to a large-scale relocation of the TBC to the PRC; it is estimated that 2 million Taiwanese citizens live in the PRC, at least for parts of the year, and 200,000 reside in Shanghai alone. Existing studies on the TBC have focused on its impact on the economic development of the PRC. While important, the TBC also has significant social and political effects. Such effects can be differentiated based on the size of the Taiwanese firm operating in the PRC, but in aggregate, it is undeniable that collectively, the TBC has emerged as a significant economic, social, and political actor in the Taiwan Strait.
To fully describe the impact of the TBC on cross-Strait dynamics, it is analyzed in three different contexts, namely its effects on Taiwan’s cross-Strait policies, on the PRC’s cross-Strait policies, and on the overall state of cross-Strait relations. First, I examine the impact that the TBC has on Taiwanese politics, and whether the TBC has emerged as a cohesive and important lobby that influences Taiwanese domestic politics. By contextualizing the roles and domestic views of the TBC within a context of growing Taiwanese nationalism, I highlight how differing perceptions reflect growing domestic trends in Taiwan. Next, I analyze how the TBC’s presence in the PRC has paradoxically both facilitated and hindered the PRC’s goal of unification. On the local level, I examine the role of the TBC in changing the Chinese social landscape and the state-local relationship. Thirdly, I examine the TBC in the macro environment, the Taiwan Strait, and how the TBC has changed the dynamics of cross-Strait relations. After analyzing the economic, social, and political consequences of the TBC in each of these three contexts, I draw three conclusions on how the TBC is transforming the relational dynamics of the Taiwan Strait and challenging the conventional wisdom of focusing on the Taiwan Strait dilemma as state conflict as it undermines state sovereignty in governing international relations, complicates the autonomy of domestic politics, and diminishes the internalization of distinctive national identities on both sides of the Strait.
Early Modern European Nations and Empire
Faith, Nation and Empire in Modern East-Central Europe
Dr Jim Bjork
This module will be examining three broad ways in which East-Central Europe has been organized and re-organized over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first and most familiar of these organising principles is the nation-state. We will be exploring why this model has had such a powerful appeal, as well as the problems that have arisen out of attempts to create neatly delineated nation-states out of the region’s linguistic ‘crazy quilt’. A second model that we will consider is that of supranational or imperial systems. Included here are not only pre-national dynastic states like the Habsburg Monarchy, but also a wide range of more self- consciously forward-looking attempts to transcend national divisions: the hierarchical racial order of the Nazi era; the one-party states of the Soviet bloc; and, most recently, the market integration of the European Union. Finally, we will be looking at the role that religious communities have played in the life of East-Central Europe., at the level of both subnational regional bonds and transnational ‘civilizational’ systems.
Assessment is by one three hour examination.
Themes in Early Modern Cultural History
Dr Anne Goldgar
This module will explore, through specific themes and examples, the way people in early modern Europe (including England) conceived of their world, and how these conceptions manifested themselves in practice. It will use both primary and secondary sources, as well as theoretical works, particularly anthropology, to consider the question of what culture was, what forms allowed for the expression of cultural values, what values were being expressed, and how the transmission and control of those values was accomplished. Defining these themes will entail close attention to both social and political structures, as well as to change in these structures over the course of the period. The main themes to be considered in this module will be: the definition of community, the articulation of conflict, the uses of culture, the transmission of culture, the control of culture, and relations between elite and popular. Some of the specific topics under these headings will be: the culture of work, carnival and popular protest, oral culture, popular self-fashioning, the civilising process, civic culture and the body social, culture and power, material culture and consumption, defining the other, and museums and the transmission of culture.
Students will generally have completed one main module in early modern European history. A reading knowledge of French would be helpful but is not required. The module will be examined by one three-hour paper and 4 essays.
Dr Jim Bjork
This module will be examining three broad ways in which East-Central Europe has been organized and re-organized over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first and most familiar of these organising principles is the nation-state. We will be exploring why this model has had such a powerful appeal, as well as the problems that have arisen out of attempts to create neatly delineated nation-states out of the region’s linguistic ‘crazy quilt’. A second model that we will consider is that of supranational or imperial systems. Included here are not only pre-national dynastic states like the Habsburg Monarchy, but also a wide range of more self- consciously forward-looking attempts to transcend national divisions: the hierarchical racial order of the Nazi era; the one-party states of the Soviet bloc; and, most recently, the market integration of the European Union. Finally, we will be looking at the role that religious communities have played in the life of East-Central Europe., at the level of both subnational regional bonds and transnational ‘civilizational’ systems.
Assessment is by one three hour examination.
Themes in Early Modern Cultural History
Dr Anne Goldgar
This module will explore, through specific themes and examples, the way people in early modern Europe (including England) conceived of their world, and how these conceptions manifested themselves in practice. It will use both primary and secondary sources, as well as theoretical works, particularly anthropology, to consider the question of what culture was, what forms allowed for the expression of cultural values, what values were being expressed, and how the transmission and control of those values was accomplished. Defining these themes will entail close attention to both social and political structures, as well as to change in these structures over the course of the period. The main themes to be considered in this module will be: the definition of community, the articulation of conflict, the uses of culture, the transmission of culture, the control of culture, and relations between elite and popular. Some of the specific topics under these headings will be: the culture of work, carnival and popular protest, oral culture, popular self-fashioning, the civilising process, civic culture and the body social, culture and power, material culture and consumption, defining the other, and museums and the transmission of culture.
Students will generally have completed one main module in early modern European history. A reading knowledge of French would be helpful but is not required. The module will be examined by one three-hour paper and 4 essays.
Continental Philosophy
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WELCOME TO CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY ONLINE
This site is a collection of links to and content about Continental Philosophy and related topics. The links are grouped by area (detailed below) and selected to offer the most reliable information on a given philosopher or topic, or the most reliable connection to a given text. At the bottom of each page, you can find links to each of the other pages on the site. I think that's it for now.
If you dont see something you want or need, refer to the LINKS or COLLECTIONS pages for other general resources you might find helpful, or check back in later. I am adding material (links and content) on a weekly basis.
LINKS collects general philosophical resources on the web.
TEXTS lists specific texts, grouped by author or topic. These texts are for the most part in HTML format, viewable and often searchable online.
PHILOSOPHERS selects the best sites available pertaining to specific philosophers.
COLLECTIONS each contain groups of texts, useful if you are looking for a particular text not found here.
JOURNALS links to journals with full or partial online content
GALLERY collects a few images of philosophers of interest.
ARCHIVE lists complete major works in text format, on site, available to read or download
ARCHIVESITE MAP:
LINKS
TEXTS
PHILOSOPHERS
COLLECTIONS
JOURNALS
GALLERY
ARCHIVE
WELCOME TO CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY ONLINE
This site is a collection of links to and content about Continental Philosophy and related topics. The links are grouped by area (detailed below) and selected to offer the most reliable information on a given philosopher or topic, or the most reliable connection to a given text. At the bottom of each page, you can find links to each of the other pages on the site. I think that's it for now.
If you dont see something you want or need, refer to the LINKS or COLLECTIONS pages for other general resources you might find helpful, or check back in later. I am adding material (links and content) on a weekly basis.
LINKS collects general philosophical resources on the web.
TEXTS lists specific texts, grouped by author or topic. These texts are for the most part in HTML format, viewable and often searchable online.
PHILOSOPHERS selects the best sites available pertaining to specific philosophers.
COLLECTIONS each contain groups of texts, useful if you are looking for a particular text not found here.
JOURNALS links to journals with full or partial online content
GALLERY collects a few images of philosophers of interest.
ARCHIVE lists complete major works in text format, on site, available to read or download
Contemporary Philosophy
Ron Yezzi
Philosophy Department
Minnesota State U., Mankato
©2001 by Ron Yezzi
(May be downloaded for per-
sonal, non-commercial use)
Philosophy 437 Lecture Notes
Contemporary Philosophy: Course Introduction
I. What Is Contemporary Philosophy?
A. Presumably, contemporary philosophy deals with what philosophers are considering now rather than what they considered in the past. But what does "now" include?
1. Now, according to the Undergraduate Bulletin: Philosophers and Philosophies of the Twentieth Century
2. Now, as "cutting edge" philosophy - what is startlingly new and original among this year's philosophy books and journal articles
3. Now, as whatever the philosophy instructor is interested in doing
4. Now, as whatever philosophy students are interested in doing
5. Now, as some issue(s) as dealt with by a number of living philosophers that happens to interest the course instructor
6. Now, as major philosophical issues and works of the last 20-30 years
B. Strange Irony (Probable Statement): A hundred years from now, about 95-99% of the work of presently living philosophers (contemporary philosophy?) will be wholly ignored while 95-99% of the work in the history of philosophy (past philosophy through the nineteenth century that is covered in history of philosophy courses?) will still be studied.
1. So there is a sense in which the history of philosophy always is and always will be contemporary, whereas the vast majority of what people "consider" to be contemporary philosophy is destined for the trash bin of history.
2.. It would seem then that contemporary philosophy is largely a waste of time compared with study of the history of philosophy—except for the fact that it is unclear now precisely what portions of contemporary philosophy will be discarded.
3. So a student has to take contemporary philosophy with "a grain of salt," maintain a sense of perspective on contemporary philosophy, and not merely presume that consideration of past philosophy is a waste of time.
II. Movements, Systems, Specialization, and Analytic Philosophy
A. Perennial Tasks of Philosophy
1. Dealing with Long-Standing Central Problems of Philosophy - free will vs. determinism, mind-body, the physical and mental, the nature of knowledge, logic, God, ethics, justice, etc.
2. Providing Philosophical Interpretation of New Advances in Human Knowledge and Actions
3. Developing Methods of Philosophical Analysis - usually based on reasoning and accumulated over long periods of time
B. Philosophical Movements
1. Philosophical movements mark a commitment to a somewhat different approach to philosophical problems that adherents view as significant progress over what was being done before.
a. The idea of progress, rather than final answers or a utopia, is necessary for a movement.
2. Movements tend to start and develop with a heady optimism regarding what they can accomplish; and they may depart somewhat from the perennial tasks of philosophy. Eventually though, this optimism tends to be lost either because unforeseen problems arise or the initially promising channels of investigation reach points of diminishing returns.
3. When movements lose momentum, there usually is a return to the perennial problems of philosophy—although these problems may well now be enriched through the movement’s efforts.
C. Some Quasi-Philosophical Movements in the Twentieth Century
1. General Semantics – an attempt to improve human life through a scientific analysis of language that was held to be more accurate and more open than the two-valued logic embedded in our traditional language through the philosophy of Aristotle
a. Leading Proponents – Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) and S.I. Hayakawa (1906-1992)
b. Major Works – Korzybski (Science and Sanity), Hayakawa (Language in Thought and Action)
c. Result – A brief flurry of interest at one time, but no major followers now
2. Behaviorism - an attempt to improve human life through a scientific study of human behavior that turned away from explanation of human actions in terms of internal mental states.
a. Major Proponents – John B. Watson (1878-1958) and B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)
b. Major Works – Watson (Behaviorism), Skinner (Science and Human Behavior, Verbal Behavior, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Walden Two)
c. Result – A major movement in 20th century psychology most influential from the 1930s to the 1960s, but still influential today—although the more extreme claims about the absence of internal states have lost much of their force and interest
3. Design and Progress - an attempt to improve human life through scientific design, that is, by "reforming the living environment through design on all levels rather than by reforming people through economics and/or politics."
a. Major Proponent – R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1980s)
b. Result - Probably a curiosity rather than a major movement
D. Major Philosophical Movements of the Twentieth Century
1. Pragmatism
2. Process Philosophy
3. Logical Positivism
4. Analytic Philosophy
5. Existentialism (Phenomenology)
6. Postmodernism
7. Feminism
8. Social Constructivism
E. Philosophical Systems
1. A philosophical system possesses a relatively well-organized set of solutions to the major perennial problems of philosophy as well as a distinctive method of approach to philosophical problems.
a. Classic Examples: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel
2. A philosophical movement may or may not produce a system.
3. During most of the twentieth century, philosophical movements have strongly tended to be anti-systemic (pragmatism for the most part, existentialism, postmodernism, feminism, social constructivism) or non-systemic (logical positivism and analytic philosophy.)
a. Some of the turning away from systems is attributable to a reaction against Hegelian Absolute Idealism.
4. Major Perennial Problems of Philosophy
a. What exists?—things, events, ideas, percepts, symbols
b. What is the status of God?—nature, existence or non-existence, significance
c. What is the status of the mental and the physical?
d. Are the universe and human actions deterministic?
e. What is human nature and what is its significance?
f. What are the standards, if any, by which we successfully claim to know anything?
g. What method(s) most advances philosophical inquiry?
h. What is the nature of value and the good life?
i. What is the proper relation of the individual to society?
F. Specialization and Analytic Philosophy
1. The stress on specialization in twentieth century philosophy encourages a non-systemic approach
2. Analytic philosophy tends to proceed "piecemeal," with the writing of journal articles and subsequent books that often are mainly collections of journal articles.
3. The academic requirements for publishing in higher education push philosophers toward specialization and writing of journal articles—articles that often are commentaries upon other articles.
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Philosophy 437 Lecture Notes
Contemporary Philosophy: Course Introduction
I. What Is Contemporary Philosophy?
A. Presumably, contemporary philosophy deals with what philosophers are considering now rather than what they considered in the past. But what does "now" include?
1. Now, according to the Undergraduate Bulletin: Philosophers and Philosophies of the Twentieth Century
2. Now, as "cutting edge" philosophy - what is startlingly new and original among this year's philosophy books and journal articles
3. Now, as whatever the philosophy instructor is interested in doing
4. Now, as whatever philosophy students are interested in doing
5. Now, as some issue(s) as dealt with by a number of living philosophers that happens to interest the course instructor
6. Now, as major philosophical issues and works of the last 20-30 years
B. Strange Irony (Probable Statement): A hundred years from now, about 95-99% of the work of presently living philosophers (contemporary philosophy?) will be wholly ignored while 95-99% of the work in the history of philosophy (past philosophy through the nineteenth century that is covered in history of philosophy courses?) will still be studied.
1. So there is a sense in which the history of philosophy always is and always will be contemporary, whereas the vast majority of what people "consider" to be contemporary philosophy is destined for the trash bin of history.
2.. It would seem then that contemporary philosophy is largely a waste of time compared with study of the history of philosophy—except for the fact that it is unclear now precisely what portions of contemporary philosophy will be discarded.
3. So a student has to take contemporary philosophy with "a grain of salt," maintain a sense of perspective on contemporary philosophy, and not merely presume that consideration of past philosophy is a waste of time.
II. Movements, Systems, Specialization, and Analytic Philosophy
A. Perennial Tasks of Philosophy
1. Dealing with Long-Standing Central Problems of Philosophy - free will vs. determinism, mind-body, the physical and mental, the nature of knowledge, logic, God, ethics, justice, etc.
2. Providing Philosophical Interpretation of New Advances in Human Knowledge and Actions
3. Developing Methods of Philosophical Analysis - usually based on reasoning and accumulated over long periods of time
B. Philosophical Movements
1. Philosophical movements mark a commitment to a somewhat different approach to philosophical problems that adherents view as significant progress over what was being done before.
a. The idea of progress, rather than final answers or a utopia, is necessary for a movement.
2. Movements tend to start and develop with a heady optimism regarding what they can accomplish; and they may depart somewhat from the perennial tasks of philosophy. Eventually though, this optimism tends to be lost either because unforeseen problems arise or the initially promising channels of investigation reach points of diminishing returns.
3. When movements lose momentum, there usually is a return to the perennial problems of philosophy—although these problems may well now be enriched through the movement’s efforts.
C. Some Quasi-Philosophical Movements in the Twentieth Century
1. General Semantics – an attempt to improve human life through a scientific analysis of language that was held to be more accurate and more open than the two-valued logic embedded in our traditional language through the philosophy of Aristotle
a. Leading Proponents – Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) and S.I. Hayakawa (1906-1992)
b. Major Works – Korzybski (Science and Sanity), Hayakawa (Language in Thought and Action)
c. Result – A brief flurry of interest at one time, but no major followers now
2. Behaviorism - an attempt to improve human life through a scientific study of human behavior that turned away from explanation of human actions in terms of internal mental states.
a. Major Proponents – John B. Watson (1878-1958) and B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)
b. Major Works – Watson (Behaviorism), Skinner (Science and Human Behavior, Verbal Behavior, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Walden Two)
c. Result – A major movement in 20th century psychology most influential from the 1930s to the 1960s, but still influential today—although the more extreme claims about the absence of internal states have lost much of their force and interest
3. Design and Progress - an attempt to improve human life through scientific design, that is, by "reforming the living environment through design on all levels rather than by reforming people through economics and/or politics."
a. Major Proponent – R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1980s)
b. Result - Probably a curiosity rather than a major movement
D. Major Philosophical Movements of the Twentieth Century
1. Pragmatism
2. Process Philosophy
3. Logical Positivism
4. Analytic Philosophy
5. Existentialism (Phenomenology)
6. Postmodernism
7. Feminism
8. Social Constructivism
E. Philosophical Systems
1. A philosophical system possesses a relatively well-organized set of solutions to the major perennial problems of philosophy as well as a distinctive method of approach to philosophical problems.
a. Classic Examples: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel
2. A philosophical movement may or may not produce a system.
3. During most of the twentieth century, philosophical movements have strongly tended to be anti-systemic (pragmatism for the most part, existentialism, postmodernism, feminism, social constructivism) or non-systemic (logical positivism and analytic philosophy.)
a. Some of the turning away from systems is attributable to a reaction against Hegelian Absolute Idealism.
4. Major Perennial Problems of Philosophy
a. What exists?—things, events, ideas, percepts, symbols
b. What is the status of God?—nature, existence or non-existence, significance
c. What is the status of the mental and the physical?
d. Are the universe and human actions deterministic?
e. What is human nature and what is its significance?
f. What are the standards, if any, by which we successfully claim to know anything?
g. What method(s) most advances philosophical inquiry?
h. What is the nature of value and the good life?
i. What is the proper relation of the individual to society?
F. Specialization and Analytic Philosophy
1. The stress on specialization in twentieth century philosophy encourages a non-systemic approach
2. Analytic philosophy tends to proceed "piecemeal," with the writing of journal articles and subsequent books that often are mainly collections of journal articles.
3. The academic requirements for publishing in higher education push philosophers toward specialization and writing of journal articles—articles that often are commentaries upon other articles.
British and Romantic Victorian Cultures
A Brief History of London
The outpost which would become London first appears in history as a small military storage depot employed by the Romans during their invasion of Britain, which began in A.D. 43. It was ideally located as a trading center with the continent and soon developed into an important port. It had already become the headquarters of the Procurator, the official in charge of the finances of Roman Britain, when Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni, a native British tribe inhabiting East Anglia, burnt it to the ground in A.D. 61 in the course of her bloody revolt against Roman rule. It was rebuilt by the year 100, and first appears as "Londinium" in Tacitus's Annals. It rapidly became both the provincial capital and the administrative, commercial, and financial center of Roman Britain. Its population by the middle of the third century numbered perhaps 30,000 people, a number which grew in fifty years to nearly twice that number. They lived in a city with paved streets, temples, public baths, offices, shops, brick-fields, potteries, glass-works, modest homes and elaborate villas, surrounded by three miles of stone walls (portions of which still remain) which were eight feet thick at their base and up to twenty feet in height.
During the course of the fourth century, however, as the Roman Empire began to collapse, Roman Londinium fell into obscurity as its protective Legions withdrew; history records no trace of it between 457 and 600. During that time, however, it gradually became a Saxon trading town, eventually one of considerable size. In the same century Christianity was introduced to the city (St. Augustine appointed a bishop, and a cathedral was built), but the inhabitants resisted and eventually drove the bishop from the city. It was sacked and burned by the Danes in the ninth century, but was resettled by Alfred in 883, when the Danes were driven out, the city walls were rebuilt, a citizen army was established, and Ethelred, Alfred's son-in-law, was appointed governor. It continued to grow steadily thereafter, though because most of its buildings were constructed of wood, large fires took place with unsettling regularity.
Lunduntown (as it was now called) retained its preeminence after the Norman Conquest, which began in 1066. Though William the Conqueror had himself crowned at Westminster Abbey, he distrusted the Saxon populace of the city, and constructed a number of fortresses within the city walls, including still extant portions of Westminster Hall and the Tower of London. In 1176 work began on a new stone bridge to replace the wooden one which the Romans had built a thousand years before. The new bridge (which, in its turn, acquired the name of Old London Bridge) was completed in 1209, and would be in existence until 1832, remaining the only bridge across the Thames until 1750.
The city became a true capital under Edward III, who placed the royal administrative center at Westminster during his reign in the fourteenth century. London was the only British city in mediaeval times which was comparable in size to the great cities of Europe. Between 1500 and 1800 it grew steadily in size and prominence, though during the middle ages its population never reached the levels it had attained in Roman times. Its population increased, however, from perhaps 50,000 in 1500, to 300,000 in 1700, 750,000 when George II assumed the throne in 1760, and 900,000 in 1800, in spite of living conditions which, over the centuries, were so unhealthy that the rapid increase in population could be sustained, in the face of an enormously high death rate, only by a steady influx of immigrants from other parts of Britain. [The death rate in the city, well into the eighteenth century, was twice the birth rate. The average life span of an Englishman, during the early eighteenth century, was 29 years, and in London the average was considerably lower.] The streets, since medieval times, had always been filthy, filled with mud, excrement, and offal; the water was polluted, rats were omnipresent. The Black Death of 1348-49 killed two-thirds of the inhabitants of the city proper and its surrounding areas (at least 60,000 people), and there were three subsequent serious outbreaks of the bubonic plague between 1603 and 1636, but the city (and the slums) continued to increase in size. The last major outbreak of the plague occurred in 1665; during the summer of that year perhaps 70,000 persons died. There were large-scale outbreaks of cholera in London proper well into the nineteenth century.
The urbanization of London (and of other English cities) continued and intensified during the Industrial Revolution, and on through the nineteenth century. In 1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, at the time the American consul at Liverpool, recorded this melancholy entry in one of his English notebooks: "The following is a legend inscribed on the inner margin of a curious old box:‹'From Birkenhead into Hillbree/ A squirrel might leap from tree to tree.' I do not know where Hillbree is; but all round Birkenhead a squirrel would scarcely find a single tree to climb upon. All is pavement and brick buildings now." It was this sort of nostalgia for a rapidly disappearing rural past which led William Morris to found the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings, and led him, as well, to begin his The Earthly Paradise with the following lines:
Forget six counties overhung with smoke,
Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,
Forget the spreading of the hideous town;
Think rather of the pack-horse on the down,
And dream of London, small, and white, and clean,
The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. . .
While nigh the thronged wharf Geoffrey Chaucer's pen
Moves over bills of lading. . .
From the middle ages on, and well into the nineteenth century, much of London was violent and squalid. During the eighteenth century, the poor and the unemployed frequently occupied themselves, as Hogarth demonstrated, by drinking themselves into insensibility; one doctor reported that one of every eight Londoners drank themselves to death. In 1742 London had one gin-shop for every seventy-five inhabitants. During the 1740s the English consumed 7 million gallons of gin, as opposed to 1 million gallons during the 1780s, when it was heavily taxed.
London epitomized the process of social stratification which took place in Great Britain. As the city grew in size, the poor became increasingly crowded into the filthy slums in the eastern part of the city while the merchant and the professional classes and the gentry established themselves in the fashionable suburbs in the west. The Gordon Riots of 1780, for example, (which Charles Dickens made the focus of Barnaby Rudge) were ostensibly motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment, but were a manifestation of the deep hostility which the poor felt for the wealthy. Homes were attacked, looted, and burned, Newgate and Fleet Prisons were attacked and their prisoners released, and troops were required to restore order.
By 1750 one tenth of the population of England resided in London, and it was the undisputed cultural, economic, religious, educational, and political center of the nation. Population growth continued unabated through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. By the time Dickens died in 1871 the population of London was well over 3,000,000, and the spread of the prosperous middle classes into suburban areas surrounding the city proper was well underway. Less than a century later, the population of metropolitan London would be over 8,000,000.
London was, of course, also Britain's artistic and literary capital. For centuries, with its publishers, newspapers, journals and weeklies, Coffee-Houses, taverns, and literary salons, the city played an important (and frequently crucial) role in the life, development, and work of virtually every English literary figure of any significance. Hogarth and Rowlandson portrayed it in their work as the great eighteenth-century authors did in theirs.
London lies at the center of the lives of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Many British authors were either born there, as Blake or Lamb were; made their reputations there, as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Carlyle, Dickens, and Kipling did; or died there, as Thomson would. But London was a city, too, as Swift, Blake, Dickens, Morris, and Thomson all tell us, of warehouses, docks, factories, prisons, palaces and slums, of beggars, labourers, shopkeepers, and bankers. Of the World-city which was Dickens's London, Hippolyte Taine wrote that
Nothing here is natural: everything is transformed, violently changed, from the earth and man himself, to the very light and air. But the hugeness of this accumulation of man-made things takes off the attention from this deformity and this artifice; in default of a wholesome and noble beauty, there is life, teeming and grandiose.
John Ruskin, in the 1860s, referred to it as "That great foul city of London, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking — ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore. . . ." Earlier, Shelley had written "Hell is a city much like London — A Populous and smoky city" (the famous nineteenth-century London fogs were the result of the air pollution brought about by the burning of coal on an enormous scale). On the other hand, Dr. Johnson once wrote
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
The outpost which would become London first appears in history as a small military storage depot employed by the Romans during their invasion of Britain, which began in A.D. 43. It was ideally located as a trading center with the continent and soon developed into an important port. It had already become the headquarters of the Procurator, the official in charge of the finances of Roman Britain, when Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni, a native British tribe inhabiting East Anglia, burnt it to the ground in A.D. 61 in the course of her bloody revolt against Roman rule. It was rebuilt by the year 100, and first appears as "Londinium" in Tacitus's Annals. It rapidly became both the provincial capital and the administrative, commercial, and financial center of Roman Britain. Its population by the middle of the third century numbered perhaps 30,000 people, a number which grew in fifty years to nearly twice that number. They lived in a city with paved streets, temples, public baths, offices, shops, brick-fields, potteries, glass-works, modest homes and elaborate villas, surrounded by three miles of stone walls (portions of which still remain) which were eight feet thick at their base and up to twenty feet in height.
During the course of the fourth century, however, as the Roman Empire began to collapse, Roman Londinium fell into obscurity as its protective Legions withdrew; history records no trace of it between 457 and 600. During that time, however, it gradually became a Saxon trading town, eventually one of considerable size. In the same century Christianity was introduced to the city (St. Augustine appointed a bishop, and a cathedral was built), but the inhabitants resisted and eventually drove the bishop from the city. It was sacked and burned by the Danes in the ninth century, but was resettled by Alfred in 883, when the Danes were driven out, the city walls were rebuilt, a citizen army was established, and Ethelred, Alfred's son-in-law, was appointed governor. It continued to grow steadily thereafter, though because most of its buildings were constructed of wood, large fires took place with unsettling regularity.
Lunduntown (as it was now called) retained its preeminence after the Norman Conquest, which began in 1066. Though William the Conqueror had himself crowned at Westminster Abbey, he distrusted the Saxon populace of the city, and constructed a number of fortresses within the city walls, including still extant portions of Westminster Hall and the Tower of London. In 1176 work began on a new stone bridge to replace the wooden one which the Romans had built a thousand years before. The new bridge (which, in its turn, acquired the name of Old London Bridge) was completed in 1209, and would be in existence until 1832, remaining the only bridge across the Thames until 1750.
The city became a true capital under Edward III, who placed the royal administrative center at Westminster during his reign in the fourteenth century. London was the only British city in mediaeval times which was comparable in size to the great cities of Europe. Between 1500 and 1800 it grew steadily in size and prominence, though during the middle ages its population never reached the levels it had attained in Roman times. Its population increased, however, from perhaps 50,000 in 1500, to 300,000 in 1700, 750,000 when George II assumed the throne in 1760, and 900,000 in 1800, in spite of living conditions which, over the centuries, were so unhealthy that the rapid increase in population could be sustained, in the face of an enormously high death rate, only by a steady influx of immigrants from other parts of Britain. [The death rate in the city, well into the eighteenth century, was twice the birth rate. The average life span of an Englishman, during the early eighteenth century, was 29 years, and in London the average was considerably lower.] The streets, since medieval times, had always been filthy, filled with mud, excrement, and offal; the water was polluted, rats were omnipresent. The Black Death of 1348-49 killed two-thirds of the inhabitants of the city proper and its surrounding areas (at least 60,000 people), and there were three subsequent serious outbreaks of the bubonic plague between 1603 and 1636, but the city (and the slums) continued to increase in size. The last major outbreak of the plague occurred in 1665; during the summer of that year perhaps 70,000 persons died. There were large-scale outbreaks of cholera in London proper well into the nineteenth century.
The urbanization of London (and of other English cities) continued and intensified during the Industrial Revolution, and on through the nineteenth century. In 1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, at the time the American consul at Liverpool, recorded this melancholy entry in one of his English notebooks: "The following is a legend inscribed on the inner margin of a curious old box:‹'From Birkenhead into Hillbree/ A squirrel might leap from tree to tree.' I do not know where Hillbree is; but all round Birkenhead a squirrel would scarcely find a single tree to climb upon. All is pavement and brick buildings now." It was this sort of nostalgia for a rapidly disappearing rural past which led William Morris to found the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings, and led him, as well, to begin his The Earthly Paradise with the following lines:
Forget six counties overhung with smoke,
Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,
Forget the spreading of the hideous town;
Think rather of the pack-horse on the down,
And dream of London, small, and white, and clean,
The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. . .
While nigh the thronged wharf Geoffrey Chaucer's pen
Moves over bills of lading. . .
From the middle ages on, and well into the nineteenth century, much of London was violent and squalid. During the eighteenth century, the poor and the unemployed frequently occupied themselves, as Hogarth demonstrated, by drinking themselves into insensibility; one doctor reported that one of every eight Londoners drank themselves to death. In 1742 London had one gin-shop for every seventy-five inhabitants. During the 1740s the English consumed 7 million gallons of gin, as opposed to 1 million gallons during the 1780s, when it was heavily taxed.
London epitomized the process of social stratification which took place in Great Britain. As the city grew in size, the poor became increasingly crowded into the filthy slums in the eastern part of the city while the merchant and the professional classes and the gentry established themselves in the fashionable suburbs in the west. The Gordon Riots of 1780, for example, (which Charles Dickens made the focus of Barnaby Rudge) were ostensibly motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment, but were a manifestation of the deep hostility which the poor felt for the wealthy. Homes were attacked, looted, and burned, Newgate and Fleet Prisons were attacked and their prisoners released, and troops were required to restore order.
By 1750 one tenth of the population of England resided in London, and it was the undisputed cultural, economic, religious, educational, and political center of the nation. Population growth continued unabated through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. By the time Dickens died in 1871 the population of London was well over 3,000,000, and the spread of the prosperous middle classes into suburban areas surrounding the city proper was well underway. Less than a century later, the population of metropolitan London would be over 8,000,000.
London was, of course, also Britain's artistic and literary capital. For centuries, with its publishers, newspapers, journals and weeklies, Coffee-Houses, taverns, and literary salons, the city played an important (and frequently crucial) role in the life, development, and work of virtually every English literary figure of any significance. Hogarth and Rowlandson portrayed it in their work as the great eighteenth-century authors did in theirs.
London lies at the center of the lives of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Many British authors were either born there, as Blake or Lamb were; made their reputations there, as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Carlyle, Dickens, and Kipling did; or died there, as Thomson would. But London was a city, too, as Swift, Blake, Dickens, Morris, and Thomson all tell us, of warehouses, docks, factories, prisons, palaces and slums, of beggars, labourers, shopkeepers, and bankers. Of the World-city which was Dickens's London, Hippolyte Taine wrote that
Nothing here is natural: everything is transformed, violently changed, from the earth and man himself, to the very light and air. But the hugeness of this accumulation of man-made things takes off the attention from this deformity and this artifice; in default of a wholesome and noble beauty, there is life, teeming and grandiose.
John Ruskin, in the 1860s, referred to it as "That great foul city of London, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking — ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore. . . ." Earlier, Shelley had written "Hell is a city much like London — A Populous and smoky city" (the famous nineteenth-century London fogs were the result of the air pollution brought about by the burning of coal on an enormous scale). On the other hand, Dr. Johnson once wrote
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
African Studies
About Columbia University Libraries'
African Studies Internet Resources
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Columbia University's collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries. Electronic resources from Africa are organized by region and country. All materials are arranged to encourage an awareness of authorship, type of information, and subject. The scope of the collection is research-oriented, but it also provides access to other web sites with different or broader missions. Beginning in early 1999, the site became the "official" African Studies web site for the World Wide Web Virtual Library.
Among the many selected resources on these pages are:
On-line catalogs of the world's top libraries with large Africana collections.
Bibliographies from Columbia University Libraries and other research institutions around the world.
An annotated archive of links to African Studies Electronic Journals and Newspapers.
The International Directory of African Studies Scholars (IDASS) = Répertoire international des spécialistes de l'Afrique.
Electronic news archives that specialize in African affairs.
Abstracts and full-length reports on Africa from US, African, and international organizations.
Information on African studies programs around the world, scholarly organizations, and conferences.
Electronic African art exhibits, plus other texts, images, and sound files reflecting upon Africa's history and contemporary cultures.
Maps, flags, and geographical data.
Links to other Africa-related gophers and web servers.
This collection is always under construction. Please feel free to contact the author, Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso. You can do so via e-mail by clicking on his name which appears at the bottom of every menu screen and sending him a message. Suggestions and questions about what is on these pages and what is not would be greatly appreciated.
African Studies Internet Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Columbia University's collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries. Electronic resources from Africa are organized by region and country. All materials are arranged to encourage an awareness of authorship, type of information, and subject. The scope of the collection is research-oriented, but it also provides access to other web sites with different or broader missions. Beginning in early 1999, the site became the "official" African Studies web site for the World Wide Web Virtual Library.
Among the many selected resources on these pages are:
On-line catalogs of the world's top libraries with large Africana collections.
Bibliographies from Columbia University Libraries and other research institutions around the world.
An annotated archive of links to African Studies Electronic Journals and Newspapers.
The International Directory of African Studies Scholars (IDASS) = Répertoire international des spécialistes de l'Afrique.
Electronic news archives that specialize in African affairs.
Abstracts and full-length reports on Africa from US, African, and international organizations.
Information on African studies programs around the world, scholarly organizations, and conferences.
Electronic African art exhibits, plus other texts, images, and sound files reflecting upon Africa's history and contemporary cultures.
Maps, flags, and geographical data.
Links to other Africa-related gophers and web servers.
This collection is always under construction. Please feel free to contact the author, Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso. You can do so via e-mail by clicking on his name which appears at the bottom of every menu screen and sending him a message. Suggestions and questions about what is on these pages and what is not would be greatly appreciated.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Ethnomusicology
UCLA
Fall 2008
Day/Date
Time
Location
Type/Cost
Event
Friday/Nov 14
3-5pm
Room B544
Lecture/Free
"Defining the Boundaries of Pow-wow Song Performance: Appropriation, Borrowing, Simulation, and Appreciation." Lecture by Tara Browner, Professor, UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Thurs/Nov 20
2-4pm
Band Room
Concert/Free
All-female Jazz Vocal Group "INZHU" (Pearl) from the Kazakh National Music Academy. Student jazz vocal group from the Kazakh National Academy of Music, based in Astana, Kazakhstan. Co-sponsored with the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Friday/Nov 21
12 noon
Choral Room
Lect-dem/Free
Hungarian folk music ensemble, Muzsikás with vocalist Marta Sebestyén. Co-sponsored with the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. The group is performing in Royce Hall later that evening. Website
Friday/Nov 21
3-5pm
Room B544
Lecture/Free
"Advertising and the Conquest of Culture." Lecture by Timothy Taylor, Professor, UCLA Departments of Ethnomusicology and Musicology
Monday/Dec 1
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Jazz Showcase Concert featuring the UCLA Jazz Combos directed by Kenny Burrell, George Bohanon, Clayton Cameron, Charles Owens, Michele Weir, and Charley Harrison
Tues/Dec 2
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Holiday Jazz Concert featuring the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA LatinJazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Bobby Rodriguez; and the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell and James Newton
Winter 2009
Day/Date Time Location Type/Cost Event
Monday/March 9
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Jazz Showcase Concert featuring the UCLA Jazz Combos directed by Kenny Burrell, George Bohanon, Clayton Cameron, Charles Owens, Michele Weir, and Charley Harrison
Tues/March 10
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Big Band Jazz Concert featuring the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA LatinJazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Bobby Rodriguez; and the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell and James Newton
Spring 2009
Day/Date Time Location Type/Cost Event
Thurs-Sunday/ May 14-17
7pm
Schoenerg Hall
Concert/Free
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz
Thurs-Sunday/May 28-31
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz
Monday/June 1
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz featuring the UCLA Jazz Combos directed by Kenny Burrell, George Bohanon, Clayton Cameron, Charles Owens, Michele Weir, and Charley Harrison
Tues/ June 2
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz featuring the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA LatinJazz Ensemble, directed byDr. Bobby Rodriguez; and the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell and James Newton
Event Locations Schoenberg Parking
Schoenberg Hall - 1100 Schoenberg Music Building
$9 in Lot 2 (corner of Hilgard Avenue and Westholme Avenue).
Jan Popper Theater - 1200 Schoenberg Music Building
Green Room - 1230 Schoenberg Music Building
Click Contact Us and scroll down for map and directions to Schoenberg Music Building.
Choral Room - 1325 Schoenberg Music Building
Orchestra Room - 1343 Schoenberg Music Building
Band Room - 1345 Schoenberg Music Building
Gamelan Room - 1659 Schoenberg Music Building
Ethnomusicology Archive - 1630 Schoenberg Music Building
Schoenberg Courtyard - just outside of the Archive
Hammer Museum - 10899 Wilshire Blvd at Westwood
Fowler Museum - Sunset at Westwood
Sunset Canyon Recreation Center - Enter the UCLA campus at Sunset Blvd and Bellagio Drive, proceed to the T, turn left on DeNeve Drive and proceed to the Rec Center, first road to the right, where there is a parking structure and parking attendant.
Fall 2008
Day/Date
Time
Location
Type/Cost
Event
Friday/Nov 14
3-5pm
Room B544
Lecture/Free
"Defining the Boundaries of Pow-wow Song Performance: Appropriation, Borrowing, Simulation, and Appreciation." Lecture by Tara Browner, Professor, UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Thurs/Nov 20
2-4pm
Band Room
Concert/Free
All-female Jazz Vocal Group "INZHU" (Pearl) from the Kazakh National Music Academy. Student jazz vocal group from the Kazakh National Academy of Music, based in Astana, Kazakhstan. Co-sponsored with the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Friday/Nov 21
12 noon
Choral Room
Lect-dem/Free
Hungarian folk music ensemble, Muzsikás with vocalist Marta Sebestyén. Co-sponsored with the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. The group is performing in Royce Hall later that evening. Website
Friday/Nov 21
3-5pm
Room B544
Lecture/Free
"Advertising and the Conquest of Culture." Lecture by Timothy Taylor, Professor, UCLA Departments of Ethnomusicology and Musicology
Monday/Dec 1
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Jazz Showcase Concert featuring the UCLA Jazz Combos directed by Kenny Burrell, George Bohanon, Clayton Cameron, Charles Owens, Michele Weir, and Charley Harrison
Tues/Dec 2
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Holiday Jazz Concert featuring the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA LatinJazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Bobby Rodriguez; and the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell and James Newton
Winter 2009
Day/Date Time Location Type/Cost Event
Monday/March 9
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Jazz Showcase Concert featuring the UCLA Jazz Combos directed by Kenny Burrell, George Bohanon, Clayton Cameron, Charles Owens, Michele Weir, and Charley Harrison
Tues/March 10
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Big Band Jazz Concert featuring the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA LatinJazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Bobby Rodriguez; and the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell and James Newton
Spring 2009
Day/Date Time Location Type/Cost Event
Thurs-Sunday/ May 14-17
7pm
Schoenerg Hall
Concert/Free
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz
Thurs-Sunday/May 28-31
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz
Monday/June 1
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz featuring the UCLA Jazz Combos directed by Kenny Burrell, George Bohanon, Clayton Cameron, Charles Owens, Michele Weir, and Charley Harrison
Tues/ June 2
7pm
Schoenberg Hall
Concert/Free
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz featuring the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA LatinJazz Ensemble, directed byDr. Bobby Rodriguez; and the UCLA Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell and James Newton
Event Locations Schoenberg Parking
Schoenberg Hall - 1100 Schoenberg Music Building
$9 in Lot 2 (corner of Hilgard Avenue and Westholme Avenue).
Jan Popper Theater - 1200 Schoenberg Music Building
Green Room - 1230 Schoenberg Music Building
Click Contact Us and scroll down for map and directions to Schoenberg Music Building.
Choral Room - 1325 Schoenberg Music Building
Orchestra Room - 1343 Schoenberg Music Building
Band Room - 1345 Schoenberg Music Building
Gamelan Room - 1659 Schoenberg Music Building
Ethnomusicology Archive - 1630 Schoenberg Music Building
Schoenberg Courtyard - just outside of the Archive
Hammer Museum - 10899 Wilshire Blvd at Westwood
Fowler Museum - Sunset at Westwood
Sunset Canyon Recreation Center - Enter the UCLA campus at Sunset Blvd and Bellagio Drive, proceed to the T, turn left on DeNeve Drive and proceed to the Rec Center, first road to the right, where there is a parking structure and parking attendant.
East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society
POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is one of the leading centres of multi-disciplinary research into the politics, economics and societies of the Middle East and Islamic World. Academics within the Institute have backgrounds in the disciplines of Economics, Politics and Social Anthropology. They work in their respective disciplinary areas as well as in the fields of political economy, socio-politics and a wide range of issues and questions in the Social Sciences. In addition, the Institute benefits from collaborating with specialists in other departments within Exeter's School of Humanities and Social Sciences, including the departments of Politics, Sociology and Philosophy, and History, and from outside the School, in Business and Economics, and Geography.
Dr Hashem Ahmadzadeh's research interests include Nation building, Nationalism, Democratisation, Diaspora and migration, the question of identity and its construction in the literary discourse, Modernity and its consequences in the post-colonial condition – in addition to Sociolinguistics, Literature, Comparative literature, Novels, and Narrative discourse. He has a particular interest in the case of Kurdistan, and is Director of the Centre for Kurdish Studies.
Dr Omar Ashour's research interests are Islamist movements/ideologies, democratization, ethnic/civil conflicts and violent non-state actors. His regional interests range across the Middle East (Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia), Central Asia (Tajikistan and Afghanistan) and the Caucasus (Russian North Caucasus, particularly Chechnya, and Georgia). His current research is focused on the de-radicalization processes and programs of armed Islamist movements in the Middle East and Central Asia; on the causes of radicalization/de-radicalization in the developed world (particularly United Kingdom and Canada); and democratization and persistence of authoritarianism in the Middle East.
Michael Axworthy is director of the Centre for Persian & Iranian Studies, and a historian of Iran who, following an early career in the Foreign & Commonwealth office (where he headed the Iran desk), also maintains a close interest in current Iranian politics and international relations.
Dr Kamil Mahdi specialises in the economics and political economy of the Middle East and focuses on the Gulf and Iraq including the politics and economics of sanctions and US occupation; political economy of oil; the state and economic reform; trade and development; and the socio-economics of agriculture and water.
Dr Klejda Mulaj specialises on ethnopolitics and has published widely on ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, including the cases of Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia. Her research interests include the causes of war, nationalism, state-formation, reconciliation, and post-conflict rebuilding. Currently she is working on a project entitled Violent Non-State Actors in Contemporary World Politics.
Professor Tim Niblock, Emeritus Professor of Middle East Politics (and founding director of the IAIS). Specializes in the Gulf Arab States, Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, and Libya, focusing on: political economy, state and religion, liberalisation / democratisation, citizenship, civil society, and international relations.
Prof. Gerd Nonneman, Director of the IAIS, and Professor of International Relations & Middle East Politics; Al-Qasimi Chair of Arab Gulf Studies (2007-present). Specializes in the domestic, regional and international politics of the Gulf and the wider Middle East (including the three Gulf wars). Thematically, his main research interests include international relations and foreign policy, GCC-EU (and Middle East-European) relations, political economy, and political reform. Geographically he has focused particularly on Saudi Arabia and the smaller Arab Gulf States, Iraq and Yemen.
Dr James Onley specializes in 19th and 20th century Gulf Arab history, focusing on: politics; society; culture; transnationalism; British hegemony (1820-1971); expatriates in the Gulf Arab States (1800-present); and the historical connections between the Gulf Arab States, Iran, and India.
Dr Ruba Salih is a social anthropologist with research interests in women's movements; gender and civil society, political culture, political mobilization of diasporas; transnational migration; and identity constructions.
Dr Clémence Scalbert-Yücel has conducted research on the relationships between language and nationalism in the Turkish and Kurdish cases. She is more broadly interested in the field of minority cultural production in Turkey, focusing on the relationships between minority/majority fields of cultural production and on the process of integration of the minority cultural field within the national field of culture. She is currently also working on the formation and organization of trans-border territories, focusing on the Kurdish region.
Dr Gareth Stansfield specializes in contemporary Iraqi and Kurdish politics; Gulf security and geopolitics; boundary disputes in the Arabian Peninsula; political development in traumatized societies; the role of military forces in Middle East states; and the application of international relations theory to the Middle East. He has supervised PhD students across a range of subjects including the political development of the UAE, Gulf security, and Iraqi political development.
Dr Marc Valeri, PhD (IEP Paris, 2005). Specializes in modern and contemporary Oman; economic, social and political transformations in the Gulf Arab States; legitimacy, authoritarianism and democratization in the Middle East.
The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is one of the leading centres of multi-disciplinary research into the politics, economics and societies of the Middle East and Islamic World. Academics within the Institute have backgrounds in the disciplines of Economics, Politics and Social Anthropology. They work in their respective disciplinary areas as well as in the fields of political economy, socio-politics and a wide range of issues and questions in the Social Sciences. In addition, the Institute benefits from collaborating with specialists in other departments within Exeter's School of Humanities and Social Sciences, including the departments of Politics, Sociology and Philosophy, and History, and from outside the School, in Business and Economics, and Geography.
Dr Hashem Ahmadzadeh's research interests include Nation building, Nationalism, Democratisation, Diaspora and migration, the question of identity and its construction in the literary discourse, Modernity and its consequences in the post-colonial condition – in addition to Sociolinguistics, Literature, Comparative literature, Novels, and Narrative discourse. He has a particular interest in the case of Kurdistan, and is Director of the Centre for Kurdish Studies.
Dr Omar Ashour's research interests are Islamist movements/ideologies, democratization, ethnic/civil conflicts and violent non-state actors. His regional interests range across the Middle East (Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia), Central Asia (Tajikistan and Afghanistan) and the Caucasus (Russian North Caucasus, particularly Chechnya, and Georgia). His current research is focused on the de-radicalization processes and programs of armed Islamist movements in the Middle East and Central Asia; on the causes of radicalization/de-radicalization in the developed world (particularly United Kingdom and Canada); and democratization and persistence of authoritarianism in the Middle East.
Michael Axworthy is director of the Centre for Persian & Iranian Studies, and a historian of Iran who, following an early career in the Foreign & Commonwealth office (where he headed the Iran desk), also maintains a close interest in current Iranian politics and international relations.
Dr Kamil Mahdi specialises in the economics and political economy of the Middle East and focuses on the Gulf and Iraq including the politics and economics of sanctions and US occupation; political economy of oil; the state and economic reform; trade and development; and the socio-economics of agriculture and water.
Dr Klejda Mulaj specialises on ethnopolitics and has published widely on ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, including the cases of Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia. Her research interests include the causes of war, nationalism, state-formation, reconciliation, and post-conflict rebuilding. Currently she is working on a project entitled Violent Non-State Actors in Contemporary World Politics.
Professor Tim Niblock, Emeritus Professor of Middle East Politics (and founding director of the IAIS). Specializes in the Gulf Arab States, Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, and Libya, focusing on: political economy, state and religion, liberalisation / democratisation, citizenship, civil society, and international relations.
Prof. Gerd Nonneman, Director of the IAIS, and Professor of International Relations & Middle East Politics; Al-Qasimi Chair of Arab Gulf Studies (2007-present). Specializes in the domestic, regional and international politics of the Gulf and the wider Middle East (including the three Gulf wars). Thematically, his main research interests include international relations and foreign policy, GCC-EU (and Middle East-European) relations, political economy, and political reform. Geographically he has focused particularly on Saudi Arabia and the smaller Arab Gulf States, Iraq and Yemen.
Dr James Onley specializes in 19th and 20th century Gulf Arab history, focusing on: politics; society; culture; transnationalism; British hegemony (1820-1971); expatriates in the Gulf Arab States (1800-present); and the historical connections between the Gulf Arab States, Iran, and India.
Dr Ruba Salih is a social anthropologist with research interests in women's movements; gender and civil society, political culture, political mobilization of diasporas; transnational migration; and identity constructions.
Dr Clémence Scalbert-Yücel has conducted research on the relationships between language and nationalism in the Turkish and Kurdish cases. She is more broadly interested in the field of minority cultural production in Turkey, focusing on the relationships between minority/majority fields of cultural production and on the process of integration of the minority cultural field within the national field of culture. She is currently also working on the formation and organization of trans-border territories, focusing on the Kurdish region.
Dr Gareth Stansfield specializes in contemporary Iraqi and Kurdish politics; Gulf security and geopolitics; boundary disputes in the Arabian Peninsula; political development in traumatized societies; the role of military forces in Middle East states; and the application of international relations theory to the Middle East. He has supervised PhD students across a range of subjects including the political development of the UAE, Gulf security, and Iraqi political development.
Dr Marc Valeri, PhD (IEP Paris, 2005). Specializes in modern and contemporary Oman; economic, social and political transformations in the Gulf Arab States; legitimacy, authoritarianism and democratization in the Middle East.
Early Modern European Nations and Empire
The trauma of empire in Shakespeare and early modern culture.(Book review)
Publication: College Literature
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Author: DiMatteo, Anthony
When she did ill what empires could have pleased? (Sir Walter Ralegh, "The Ocean to Cynthia" (qtd. by Montrose 2006, 91) I press'd me none but good householders, yeoman's sons ... Such a commodity of warm slaves. (Falstaff, Henry IV, Part One, 4.2.14- 17) King and commander of our commonweal, The wide world's emperor, do I consecrate My sword, my chariot and my prisoners. (Titus, Titus Andronicus 1.1.247- 49)
Anderson, Thomas P. 2006. Performing Early
Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton. Aldershot: Ashgate. $94.95 hc. viii + 225 pp.
Doring, Tobias. 2006. Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theater and Early Modern Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $74.95 hc. viii + 223 pp.
Elliott, J. H. 2006. Empires of the Atlantic Worlds: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. New Haven: Yale University Press. $50.00 hc. $22.00 sc. xxi + 546 pp.
Jordan, Constance, and Karen Cunningham, eds. 2007. The Law in Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $74.95 hc. x + 286 pp.
Montrose, Louis. 2006. The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $64.00 hc. $25.00 sc. xii + 341 pp.
Shuger, Debora. 2006. Censorship and Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $59.95 hc. 346 pp.
These six books present a breath-taking, largely revisionist view of the early modern period. (1) Before identifying the contribution to scholarship each of these fine books makes amidst an on-going flood of studies of the early-modern period, I'd first like to offer a brief overview of the perhaps familiar major turn of events that brought early modernity into being.
In the sixteenth century, the loss of at least the theoretical legal and religious unity of Church and State that had formally characterized Medieval culture was exploited and reviled, celebrated and mourned by Reformationists and Counter-Reformationists. Violence and trauma spread across Europe and wherever Europeans brought their divisive and self-serving claims to sovereignty across the globe. Rampant sectarianism and division led to wars of religion and conquest at home and abroad that inflicted suffering often under the Machiavellian guise of sacrifice to some allegedly higher or spiritual good. The Pope's loss of power to nationalist and reformationist forces as well as the post-Columbus scramble for newly discovered lands helped enable the rise of monarchical empires and various forms of absolutism in Portugal, Spain, France and England. This rise threatened the traditional, allegedly ancient constitutions of European government that functioned as a composite monarchy or even a monarchical republic where the sovereign only in parliament makes law (Elliott 1992; Collinson 1987). This is what the fifteenth-century English Chief Justice Sir John Fortescue referred to when he described England as "dominium politicum et regale," that is, a composite sovereign power to make law, thus a dominion or state shared by king and those people who also are constitutionally part of the legislative and political process (Fortescue 1997, 83). There was thus significant judicial and tradition-based resistance to the rise of absolutism though it was largely ineffectual in the sixteenth century, having to hide in the shadows, as it were. Resistance paled before the opportunistic, monopoly-seeking support for the imperial schemes of the nations' sovereigns. Besides, the legal balance was already strongly tilted in the monarch's favor. Even in traditional composite monarchies, monarchs legally considered themselves emperors within their own realms, and with Pope AlexanderVI's bulls of 1493-94 donating the New World to Portugal and Spain, these realms became increasingly global in terms of the subsequent struggle for European dominion over non-European soil.
It would be hard to overstress the relevance of this early-modern imperialism to all phases of life and culture both on native and non-native soil. Shakespeare too explored its roots and consequences across all the dramatic and literary genres in which he wrote. Many of his works can be considered not mirrors of human nature but of what sovereignty is and how it functions or performs, activating the ages-old realization that the way a ruler gains and/or performs office effects people of all degrees. Traditionally, the acts of a king must accord with natural and divine law, but what recourse does a nation have if they do not? This question is the dramatic focus in many a work by Shakespeare.
No wonder, given the political crisis of his time. What Louis Montrose identifies in his study of Elizabeth as "the manifest collective process of cultural imperialism" (2006, 95)--and what Virgil as, "a monstrous lust of empire" (dira cupido regnandi, Georgics 1.37) in reference to Augustus whose power early modern monarchs typically emulated--resulted in horrific suffering and change for virtually the world at large during early modernity.
A chief factor driving the perilous passage of the early-modern towards the modern as we have come to know it in the Americas was the whole complex European legal and cultural heritage that centered upon the Christian and classical Roman concept of dominion and how it differed from royal claims to imperial rule. (2) There were endless questions and assumptions about what God's granting Adam and Eve dominion over the earth meant, about what this divine gift allowed a Christian nation in terms of assigning the relative rights and duties of rulers and subjects within an individual European nation and how it entitled or did not entitle a European nation to treat non-European, non-Christian people and their lands. Claiming the divine right to civilize, conquer or drive out uncooperative indigenous people of newly discovered lands in order to take possession of them, the monarch as "dominus mundi" or "imperator mundi" (the Latin title used by or ascribed to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I of England, Francis I of France, and Charles V and his son Philip II of Spain) sent out sailor-soldiers or sea-dogs in the sixteenth-century basically to "discover," claim, conquer, plunder, trade and/or settle in his (or her) name and to the honor and glory of the competing Catholic or Protestant God. (3)
In terms of the vast consequences of these legal and religious assumptions and voyages of discovery and conquest, Elliott's great book will, I hope, immensely forward a necessary project that is not just another project, just as this Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Oxford University reminds us, quoting Adam Smith, that there is no empire, only the process of empire (2006, 407). His efforts will help to put not just the politics back into history, as the early-modern historian Patrick Collinson has called for, but the suffering inflicted upon mankind by, in Elliott's own words, "the trauma of European conquest and occupation" in the pursuit of national empire (410). In helping to stitch together the fragmented histories of the Americas, Elliott has not only shown how to do comparative history on a large scale. He also has exposed the disparate processes by which the modern world has been brought into existence kicking and screaming along the way as so much human blood was shed--and mingled--on a global scale partly under the stimulus of a European quest for empire and world rule. Human progress and annihilation glare out at us from an aporia-inducing space they share in Elliott's book that shows human nature at its best and worst on nearly every page.
Shakespeare too, as Tobias Doring, Thomas Anderson and many contributors to the Jordan and Cunningham collective argue, helped to bring recognition to the horrors and dignities of human suffering, repeatedly having performed on stage the injustices often caused by those in authority over the government. To those at the top, alas, as Shakespeare has Falstaff observe with technical precision, common men are often nothing more than a "commodity of warm slaves." Very often the legal and cultural focus of Shakespeare's works is upon the effects such institutionalized hubris and indifference of those in power has not only on deeds done (res gesta) but on what is said, felt and thought throughout the society represented. The plays perform and expose power and violence, Doring and Anderson argue, rendering them in terms of human causes and effects. In this way, Shakespeare directs attention towards the historical and the real and at the same implies--for what else could he do?--an incommensurable experience of suffering and loss beyond historization that disfigures representation, marking it with traces of occlusion and denial. Doring and Anderson persuasively contend that in many of his works, Shakespeare explores a collective trauma and mourning haunting and motivating diverse national and religious agendas in the early modern period.
Indeed, these six studies forward awareness of a general trauma caused in Old World Europe by the collective efforts and imaginings directed towards the founding of empire and dominion both in the metropolitan center and on the colonial periphery, be it Ireland and North America with respect to London or the Netherlands and the Americas to Madrid. (4) To extend Doring's inquiry into the performative powers of mourning in early-modern culture, one may ask, how does one do things with suffering, as in playing the martyr for a lost cause or legally inflicting pain upon others to "civilize" them? This disturbing question partly implies what in...
Publication: College Literature
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Author: DiMatteo, Anthony
When she did ill what empires could have pleased? (Sir Walter Ralegh, "The Ocean to Cynthia" (qtd. by Montrose 2006, 91) I press'd me none but good householders, yeoman's sons ... Such a commodity of warm slaves. (Falstaff, Henry IV, Part One, 4.2.14- 17) King and commander of our commonweal, The wide world's emperor, do I consecrate My sword, my chariot and my prisoners. (Titus, Titus Andronicus 1.1.247- 49)
Anderson, Thomas P. 2006. Performing Early
Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton. Aldershot: Ashgate. $94.95 hc. viii + 225 pp.
Doring, Tobias. 2006. Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theater and Early Modern Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $74.95 hc. viii + 223 pp.
Elliott, J. H. 2006. Empires of the Atlantic Worlds: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. New Haven: Yale University Press. $50.00 hc. $22.00 sc. xxi + 546 pp.
Jordan, Constance, and Karen Cunningham, eds. 2007. The Law in Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $74.95 hc. x + 286 pp.
Montrose, Louis. 2006. The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $64.00 hc. $25.00 sc. xii + 341 pp.
Shuger, Debora. 2006. Censorship and Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $59.95 hc. 346 pp.
These six books present a breath-taking, largely revisionist view of the early modern period. (1) Before identifying the contribution to scholarship each of these fine books makes amidst an on-going flood of studies of the early-modern period, I'd first like to offer a brief overview of the perhaps familiar major turn of events that brought early modernity into being.
In the sixteenth century, the loss of at least the theoretical legal and religious unity of Church and State that had formally characterized Medieval culture was exploited and reviled, celebrated and mourned by Reformationists and Counter-Reformationists. Violence and trauma spread across Europe and wherever Europeans brought their divisive and self-serving claims to sovereignty across the globe. Rampant sectarianism and division led to wars of religion and conquest at home and abroad that inflicted suffering often under the Machiavellian guise of sacrifice to some allegedly higher or spiritual good. The Pope's loss of power to nationalist and reformationist forces as well as the post-Columbus scramble for newly discovered lands helped enable the rise of monarchical empires and various forms of absolutism in Portugal, Spain, France and England. This rise threatened the traditional, allegedly ancient constitutions of European government that functioned as a composite monarchy or even a monarchical republic where the sovereign only in parliament makes law (Elliott 1992; Collinson 1987). This is what the fifteenth-century English Chief Justice Sir John Fortescue referred to when he described England as "dominium politicum et regale," that is, a composite sovereign power to make law, thus a dominion or state shared by king and those people who also are constitutionally part of the legislative and political process (Fortescue 1997, 83). There was thus significant judicial and tradition-based resistance to the rise of absolutism though it was largely ineffectual in the sixteenth century, having to hide in the shadows, as it were. Resistance paled before the opportunistic, monopoly-seeking support for the imperial schemes of the nations' sovereigns. Besides, the legal balance was already strongly tilted in the monarch's favor. Even in traditional composite monarchies, monarchs legally considered themselves emperors within their own realms, and with Pope AlexanderVI's bulls of 1493-94 donating the New World to Portugal and Spain, these realms became increasingly global in terms of the subsequent struggle for European dominion over non-European soil.
It would be hard to overstress the relevance of this early-modern imperialism to all phases of life and culture both on native and non-native soil. Shakespeare too explored its roots and consequences across all the dramatic and literary genres in which he wrote. Many of his works can be considered not mirrors of human nature but of what sovereignty is and how it functions or performs, activating the ages-old realization that the way a ruler gains and/or performs office effects people of all degrees. Traditionally, the acts of a king must accord with natural and divine law, but what recourse does a nation have if they do not? This question is the dramatic focus in many a work by Shakespeare.
No wonder, given the political crisis of his time. What Louis Montrose identifies in his study of Elizabeth as "the manifest collective process of cultural imperialism" (2006, 95)--and what Virgil as, "a monstrous lust of empire" (dira cupido regnandi, Georgics 1.37) in reference to Augustus whose power early modern monarchs typically emulated--resulted in horrific suffering and change for virtually the world at large during early modernity.
A chief factor driving the perilous passage of the early-modern towards the modern as we have come to know it in the Americas was the whole complex European legal and cultural heritage that centered upon the Christian and classical Roman concept of dominion and how it differed from royal claims to imperial rule. (2) There were endless questions and assumptions about what God's granting Adam and Eve dominion over the earth meant, about what this divine gift allowed a Christian nation in terms of assigning the relative rights and duties of rulers and subjects within an individual European nation and how it entitled or did not entitle a European nation to treat non-European, non-Christian people and their lands. Claiming the divine right to civilize, conquer or drive out uncooperative indigenous people of newly discovered lands in order to take possession of them, the monarch as "dominus mundi" or "imperator mundi" (the Latin title used by or ascribed to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I of England, Francis I of France, and Charles V and his son Philip II of Spain) sent out sailor-soldiers or sea-dogs in the sixteenth-century basically to "discover," claim, conquer, plunder, trade and/or settle in his (or her) name and to the honor and glory of the competing Catholic or Protestant God. (3)
In terms of the vast consequences of these legal and religious assumptions and voyages of discovery and conquest, Elliott's great book will, I hope, immensely forward a necessary project that is not just another project, just as this Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Oxford University reminds us, quoting Adam Smith, that there is no empire, only the process of empire (2006, 407). His efforts will help to put not just the politics back into history, as the early-modern historian Patrick Collinson has called for, but the suffering inflicted upon mankind by, in Elliott's own words, "the trauma of European conquest and occupation" in the pursuit of national empire (410). In helping to stitch together the fragmented histories of the Americas, Elliott has not only shown how to do comparative history on a large scale. He also has exposed the disparate processes by which the modern world has been brought into existence kicking and screaming along the way as so much human blood was shed--and mingled--on a global scale partly under the stimulus of a European quest for empire and world rule. Human progress and annihilation glare out at us from an aporia-inducing space they share in Elliott's book that shows human nature at its best and worst on nearly every page.
Shakespeare too, as Tobias Doring, Thomas Anderson and many contributors to the Jordan and Cunningham collective argue, helped to bring recognition to the horrors and dignities of human suffering, repeatedly having performed on stage the injustices often caused by those in authority over the government. To those at the top, alas, as Shakespeare has Falstaff observe with technical precision, common men are often nothing more than a "commodity of warm slaves." Very often the legal and cultural focus of Shakespeare's works is upon the effects such institutionalized hubris and indifference of those in power has not only on deeds done (res gesta) but on what is said, felt and thought throughout the society represented. The plays perform and expose power and violence, Doring and Anderson argue, rendering them in terms of human causes and effects. In this way, Shakespeare directs attention towards the historical and the real and at the same implies--for what else could he do?--an incommensurable experience of suffering and loss beyond historization that disfigures representation, marking it with traces of occlusion and denial. Doring and Anderson persuasively contend that in many of his works, Shakespeare explores a collective trauma and mourning haunting and motivating diverse national and religious agendas in the early modern period.
Indeed, these six studies forward awareness of a general trauma caused in Old World Europe by the collective efforts and imaginings directed towards the founding of empire and dominion both in the metropolitan center and on the colonial periphery, be it Ireland and North America with respect to London or the Netherlands and the Americas to Madrid. (4) To extend Doring's inquiry into the performative powers of mourning in early-modern culture, one may ask, how does one do things with suffering, as in playing the martyr for a lost cause or legally inflicting pain upon others to "civilize" them? This disturbing question partly implies what in...
Continental Philosophy
19th Century American
Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies
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Contemporary Philosophy
History of Western Philosophy
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Early Modern Philosophy
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Beginnings: Logic and Mathematics ]|[ Phenomenology
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Aristotle: Logic and Physics ]|[ Reality and Knowledge ]|[ Ethics ]|[ Politics
Hellenistic Thought: Cosmos and Morality
Philosophy and Religion: Augustine ]|[ Scholasticism ]|[ Arab and Jewish Thought
Late Scholasticism: Bonaventure and Aquinas ]|[ Scotus and Ockham
Early Modern Philosophy
The Renaissance: Humanism and Science ]|[ Machiavelli ]|[ Hobbes
Descartes: Method ]|[ Doubt and Existence ]|[ Mind and Body ]|[ Cartesianism
Variations: Spinoza and Unity ]|[ Leibniz and Plurality
Locke: Origin of Ideas ]|[ Human Knowledge ]|[ Government
Extensions: Moralists and Bayle ]|[ Berkeley and Immaterialism
Hume: Mitigated Skepticism ]|[ Self and Morality ]|[ Religion
Recent Modern Philosophy
The Enlightenment: British ]|[ Continental
Kant: Synthetic A Priori ]|[ Experience and Reality ]|[ The Moral Law
Absolute Idealism: Fichte and Hegel ]|[ Later Idealists
Social Concerns: Bentham and Mill ]|[ Marx and Engels
Other Reactions: Kierkegaard ]|[ Nietzsche
Pragmatism: Peirce ]|[ James ]|[ Dewey, Mead, & Addams
Contemporary Philosophy
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Alternatives: Realism ]|[ Logical Positivism
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British and Romantic Victorian Cultures
Victorian Studies Centre
MA in Victorian Studies
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
Course Structure
The taught element consists of two core modules, one on Approaches to Victorian Literature and Culture, and one on Victorian Society. These are combined with two optional modules chosen from the following:
Victorian Cities
Nineteenth Century Women's Writing
Evolution and Entropy: Representations of the Sciences in Victorian Literature
Charles Dickens
Victorian Lives: Life-writing in the Victorian Period
Modern Regional Cultures: Approaches and Skills
Modern Regional Societies
Pre-Raphaelites in Context
English Drama in Transition 1890-1914
Editing and Textual Criticism
The English Country House in Literature
MA in Victorian Studies
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
Course Structure
The taught element consists of two core modules, one on Approaches to Victorian Literature and Culture, and one on Victorian Society. These are combined with two optional modules chosen from the following:
Victorian Cities
Nineteenth Century Women's Writing
Evolution and Entropy: Representations of the Sciences in Victorian Literature
Charles Dickens
Victorian Lives: Life-writing in the Victorian Period
Modern Regional Cultures: Approaches and Skills
Modern Regional Societies
Pre-Raphaelites in Context
English Drama in Transition 1890-1914
Editing and Textual Criticism
The English Country House in Literature
African Studies
A Question of Intervention: American Policymaking in Sierra Leone and the Power of Institutional Agenda Setting
This article is an examination of American foreign policy towards Sierra Leone in 1999 and 2000. Hopefully it will contribute to the literature of Sierra Leone while shedding theoretical light on types of humanitarian intervention. It seeks to answer two questions about American policy: First, why did the Clinton White House become involved in this particular West African civil war? Secondly, what factors led the U.S. to give financial and logistical help but not military aid? These types of limited interventions have usually been ignored by American foreign policy scholars. To understand Sierra Leonean decision making, it examines four key policy decisions using primary interviews with Clinton officials and looking at internal documents from the White House, Defense and State Departments. I contend that a theory of international institutional agenda setting can best describe American policy. This argument explores how constructivist norms (i.e. human rights and sovereignty) are transmitted, magnified or mitigated by international institutions. By bringing neo-liberal institutional literature back into constructivism we can show how ‘institutional identity’ influences and shapes state policy preferences-- not only in decisions to intervene but in shaping the size and scope of UN peacekeeping mandates.
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Christopher R. Cook is an assistant professor of political science in Pennsylvania State University at Erie (The Behrend College), whose research focuses on American foreign policy and humanitarian intervention. His current interests involve American support for the intervention of other nations and international organizations to stop gross human rights abuses and dealing with complex human emergencies.
Acknowledgement: The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions; particularly the link between constructivism and liberal institutionalism.
Reference Style: The following is the suggested format for referencing this article: Christopher R. Cook, "A Question of Intervention: American Policymaking in Sierra Leone and the Power of Institutional Agenda Setting," African Studies Quarterly 10, no.1: (2008) [online] URL: http://africa.ufl.edu/asq/v10/v10i1a1.htm
This article is an examination of American foreign policy towards Sierra Leone in 1999 and 2000. Hopefully it will contribute to the literature of Sierra Leone while shedding theoretical light on types of humanitarian intervention. It seeks to answer two questions about American policy: First, why did the Clinton White House become involved in this particular West African civil war? Secondly, what factors led the U.S. to give financial and logistical help but not military aid? These types of limited interventions have usually been ignored by American foreign policy scholars. To understand Sierra Leonean decision making, it examines four key policy decisions using primary interviews with Clinton officials and looking at internal documents from the White House, Defense and State Departments. I contend that a theory of international institutional agenda setting can best describe American policy. This argument explores how constructivist norms (i.e. human rights and sovereignty) are transmitted, magnified or mitigated by international institutions. By bringing neo-liberal institutional literature back into constructivism we can show how ‘institutional identity’ influences and shapes state policy preferences-- not only in decisions to intervene but in shaping the size and scope of UN peacekeeping mandates.
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Christopher R. Cook is an assistant professor of political science in Pennsylvania State University at Erie (The Behrend College), whose research focuses on American foreign policy and humanitarian intervention. His current interests involve American support for the intervention of other nations and international organizations to stop gross human rights abuses and dealing with complex human emergencies.
Acknowledgement: The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions; particularly the link between constructivism and liberal institutionalism.
Reference Style: The following is the suggested format for referencing this article: Christopher R. Cook, "A Question of Intervention: American Policymaking in Sierra Leone and the Power of Institutional Agenda Setting," African Studies Quarterly 10, no.1: (2008) [online] URL: http://africa.ufl.edu/asq/v10/v10i1a1.htm
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Ethnomusicology
The Ethnomusicology Society
The Society for Ethnomusicology is an association devoted to the support of ethnomusicology and to the study of music-making all over the world. You can find more information about the Society and about ethnomusicology by exploring the links below.
What is Ethnomusicology?
The field of ethnomusicology explores human music-making activities all over the world, in all styles, from the immediate present to the distant past. We study music, the people who make it, the instruments they use, and the complex of ideas, behaviors, and processes that are involved in the production of music.
Classical musics of Europe and China, Cajun dance, Cuban son, Hip-Hop, Nigerian Juju, Javanese gamelan, Navajo ritual healing, and Hawaiian chant are just a few of the areas in which ethnomusicologists work. Ethnomusicology is interdisciplinary by nature and so ethnomusicologists may also be trained as anthropologists, musicologists, folklorists, educators, performers, composers, dancers, archivists, librarians, historians, linguists, cultural analysts, cognitive psychologists, and in other disciplines.
Many ethnomusicologists utilize the tools of ethnography in their research. They spend extended periods of time with people making music, observing what happens, asking people questions, helping individuals and communities document and promote their musical practices, and sometimes learning to perform in the style they are studying. Ethnomusicologists may also rely on archives, libraries, and museums for documentation from the past on musical sounds, practices, instruments, and the people who created them.
Most ethnomusicologists work as college professors in academic institutions, but a significant number also work with museums, festivals, record labels, archives, libraries, schools, and other institutions in roles that have a greater focus on educating and presenting to the general public.
A large number of colleges and university have programs in ethnomusicology. To see a list, visit our Guide to Programs in Ethnomusicology.
The Society for Ethnomusicology is an association devoted to the support of ethnomusicology and to the study of music-making all over the world. You can find more information about the Society and about ethnomusicology by exploring the links below.
What is Ethnomusicology?
The field of ethnomusicology explores human music-making activities all over the world, in all styles, from the immediate present to the distant past. We study music, the people who make it, the instruments they use, and the complex of ideas, behaviors, and processes that are involved in the production of music.
Classical musics of Europe and China, Cajun dance, Cuban son, Hip-Hop, Nigerian Juju, Javanese gamelan, Navajo ritual healing, and Hawaiian chant are just a few of the areas in which ethnomusicologists work. Ethnomusicology is interdisciplinary by nature and so ethnomusicologists may also be trained as anthropologists, musicologists, folklorists, educators, performers, composers, dancers, archivists, librarians, historians, linguists, cultural analysts, cognitive psychologists, and in other disciplines.
Many ethnomusicologists utilize the tools of ethnography in their research. They spend extended periods of time with people making music, observing what happens, asking people questions, helping individuals and communities document and promote their musical practices, and sometimes learning to perform in the style they are studying. Ethnomusicologists may also rely on archives, libraries, and museums for documentation from the past on musical sounds, practices, instruments, and the people who created them.
Most ethnomusicologists work as college professors in academic institutions, but a significant number also work with museums, festivals, record labels, archives, libraries, schools, and other institutions in roles that have a greater focus on educating and presenting to the general public.
A large number of colleges and university have programs in ethnomusicology. To see a list, visit our Guide to Programs in Ethnomusicology.
East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EAST ASIA
The University of Mississippi
COURSE OVERVIEW
This course is an introduction to the political economy of East Asia. In the past decades the economies of East Asia (broadly defined to include all the Asian countries east of Myanmar) have generally performed well compared with the rest of the world. Political scientists and economists, among others, have offered various and often opposing explanations for East Asia's high growth, as well as for the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 - 1998. A large part of the debates center on the role of the state in the economic development of East Asia. Therefore, starting with an overview of the performance of East Asian economies, this course shall examine the development strategies and policies of the major economies in the region. Conflicting arguments shall be discussed and analyzed and by the end of the semester students are expected to have developed sufficiently sophisticated skills and understanding for their further study of the political economy of East Asia.
This course has a heavy reading load and links to the readings will be posted and updated on this web page throughout the semester, so students should visit the course web site regularly. It is essential for students to read (often critically) the required materials before class and attend all class sessions. Class participation accounts for 16% of the course grade.
There will be three essay assignments, one scheduled mid-term exam, and one final exam for the course. The essay assignments will be posted on BlackBoard and account for 24% of the grade. The mid-term exam in class on Thursday, October 4 accounts for 20% of the course grade. The final exam will start at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, December 4. It accounts for 40% of the course grade.
Note
Beginning in Fall 2006, grades lower than C in political science courses will not be counted toward the political science major.
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The University of Mississippi
COURSE OVERVIEW
This course is an introduction to the political economy of East Asia. In the past decades the economies of East Asia (broadly defined to include all the Asian countries east of Myanmar) have generally performed well compared with the rest of the world. Political scientists and economists, among others, have offered various and often opposing explanations for East Asia's high growth, as well as for the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 - 1998. A large part of the debates center on the role of the state in the economic development of East Asia. Therefore, starting with an overview of the performance of East Asian economies, this course shall examine the development strategies and policies of the major economies in the region. Conflicting arguments shall be discussed and analyzed and by the end of the semester students are expected to have developed sufficiently sophisticated skills and understanding for their further study of the political economy of East Asia.
This course has a heavy reading load and links to the readings will be posted and updated on this web page throughout the semester, so students should visit the course web site regularly. It is essential for students to read (often critically) the required materials before class and attend all class sessions. Class participation accounts for 16% of the course grade.
There will be three essay assignments, one scheduled mid-term exam, and one final exam for the course. The essay assignments will be posted on BlackBoard and account for 24% of the grade. The mid-term exam in class on Thursday, October 4 accounts for 20% of the course grade. The final exam will start at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, December 4. It accounts for 40% of the course grade.
Note
Beginning in Fall 2006, grades lower than C in political science courses will not be counted toward the political science major.
If you can not open the PDF files you may need to download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you can not open the PowerPoint files you may need to download and install the free PowerPoint Viewer.
Early Modern European Nations and Empire
Early Modern European Nations and Empire
The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the restoration of Israel in the "Judeo-centric" strand of Puritan millenarianism (1).
From: Church History | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Cogley, Richard W. | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
For the American Puritan minister Increase Mather, the battle of Armageddon would be "the most terrible day of battel that ever was." "Asia is like to be in a flame of war between Israelites and Turks," he wrote in The Mystery of Israel's Salvation, "[and] Europe between the followers of the Lamb and the followers of the beast." In the Asian and European spheres of action, or so Mather anticipated, God's Israelite and Protestant armies would "overthrow great Kingdoms, and make Nations desolate, and bring defenced Cities into ruinous heaps." The inevitable victory would reshape ...
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Continental Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
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CFP: Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference
Posted by Farhang Erfani on November 4th, 2008
Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference
University of Texas-Pan American
March 27-28, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roger T. Ames, University of Hawaii at Manoa
-The Society for Student Philosophers (SSP) invites the submission of papers for possible presentation at their Annual Conference, hosted this year by University of Texas-Pan American in tropical south Texas.
-Papers should be philosophical in the broad sense of the term, showcasing student research and critical thinking at its best.
-Authors must be of student status (e.g., graduate or undergraduate status, not holding a Ph.D. and still pursuing their philosophical education) and papers must not be published or accepted for publication. Papers previously presented at SSP events are excluded from submission. Authors are allowed to simultaneously submit only one paper to each SSP event, and are not allowed to submit the same paper to two or more SSP events at once. Papers should be around 15 pages in length, and suitable for a 25 minute presentation.
-Leave identifying references to the author out of the submitted paper, and include author information (address, institution, etc.) in the text of your email.
-Unreadable or virus infected files will not be considered.
-For more details on the conference, check out the SSP website: http://www.societyforstudentphilosophers.org/
-Please send your paper as an email attachment (Word or PDF file) to Dr. Scott R. Stroud, SSP Director, at: ssp_conference@hotmail.com
Deadline for Paper Submission: November 7, 2008
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University of Texas-Pan American
March 27-28, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roger T. Ames, University of Hawaii at Manoa
-The Society for Student Philosophers (SSP) invites the submission of papers for possible presentation at their Annual Conference, hosted this year by University of Texas-Pan American in tropical south Texas.
-Papers should be philosophical in the broad sense of the term, showcasing student research and critical thinking at its best.
-Authors must be of student status (e.g., graduate or undergraduate status, not holding a Ph.D. and still pursuing their philosophical education) and papers must not be published or accepted for publication. Papers previously presented at SSP events are excluded from submission. Authors are allowed to simultaneously submit only one paper to each SSP event, and are not allowed to submit the same paper to two or more SSP events at once. Papers should be around 15 pages in length, and suitable for a 25 minute presentation.
-Leave identifying references to the author out of the submitted paper, and include author information (address, institution, etc.) in the text of your email.
-Unreadable or virus infected files will not be considered.
-For more details on the conference, check out the SSP website: http://www.societyforstudentphilosophers.org/
-Please send your paper as an email attachment (Word or PDF file) to Dr. Scott R. Stroud, SSP Director, at: ssp_conference@hotmail.com
Deadline for Paper Submission: November 7, 2008
Contemporary Philosophy
Journal for contemporary philosophy
The second issue of Krisis in its new form is here. Again, this issue deals with a wide range of subjects.
In Rereading Rorty Albrecht Wellmer looks back at the oeuvre of Richard Rorty, indicating the important contributions Rorty has made. He admires the way Rorty has fashioned new orientations in philosophy, but is also puzzled by the way he has developed his brand of liberalism.
Hamers and Tennekes ask what effects housing estates have on the relationship between the private and the public domain. They show that there are involved a number of relevant perspectives and arrive at a balanced answer.
In this issue you will also find an interview with Simon Critchley. Gijs van Oenen, Irena Rosenthal and Ruth Sonderegger talked to Critchley about the problems of liberal democracy, new forms of politics, resistance, civil society and Gramsci. In addition to a number of other book reviews Gijs van Oenen reviews Infinitely Demanding by Critchley, in which his thinking on the relation between politics and ethics is elaborated upon.
Finally, Murat Aydemir responds to the debate between Mieke Bal and Joseph Früchtl, which received attention in the previous issue of Krisis. If anyone would like to respond to this debate, the reaction by Aydemir, or any of the other articles, Krisis will gladly receive them (info@krisis.eu).
The second issue of Krisis in its new form is here. Again, this issue deals with a wide range of subjects.
In Rereading Rorty Albrecht Wellmer looks back at the oeuvre of Richard Rorty, indicating the important contributions Rorty has made. He admires the way Rorty has fashioned new orientations in philosophy, but is also puzzled by the way he has developed his brand of liberalism.
Hamers and Tennekes ask what effects housing estates have on the relationship between the private and the public domain. They show that there are involved a number of relevant perspectives and arrive at a balanced answer.
In this issue you will also find an interview with Simon Critchley. Gijs van Oenen, Irena Rosenthal and Ruth Sonderegger talked to Critchley about the problems of liberal democracy, new forms of politics, resistance, civil society and Gramsci. In addition to a number of other book reviews Gijs van Oenen reviews Infinitely Demanding by Critchley, in which his thinking on the relation between politics and ethics is elaborated upon.
Finally, Murat Aydemir responds to the debate between Mieke Bal and Joseph Früchtl, which received attention in the previous issue of Krisis. If anyone would like to respond to this debate, the reaction by Aydemir, or any of the other articles, Krisis will gladly receive them (info@krisis.eu).
British and Romantic Victorian Cultures
Related WWW Sites
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Journals
Essential Starting Points
Electronic Text Projects
19th century American literature
Women's Studies
Societies
Syllabi
Other
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Journals
Brontë Studies. A Journal of the Brontë Society.
Journal of Victorian Culture
Nineteenth Century Contexts
Nineteenth Century Feminisms
Nineteenth Century Literature
Nineteenth Century Studies
Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Review
Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies Bulletin
Victorians Institute Journal
19th Century British Journals
British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early Nineteenth Century
The Germ: A Hypermedia Edition
Internet Library of Early Journals Home Page. (Oxford) The aim of this project is to offer expanded access over the Internet to digitised page images of substantial runs of 18th- and 19th-century journals.
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19th Century American Journals (from Electronic Historical Publications)
Godey's Lady's Book Online Home Page
Parker's Natural and Experimental Philosophy
Penny Magazine Online Home Page
19th Century Scientific American Home Page
Youth's Educator For Home And Society - 1896
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Some Essential Starting Points
"Babbage's Children: Victorian Studies Resources on the Internet". Patrick Leary, Indiana University
The Victoria Research Web. (Indiana University) Includes an index to the VICTORIA electronic discussion group, guides to research in Victorian Studies, information on planning research trips to Great Britian, and more.
Victorian Web. (Brown University) A hypertext encyclopedia to all aspects of the Victorian era.
Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature. (UC Santa Barbara)
Voice of the Shuttle: 19th Century British Art
Victorian Web Sites. (Nagoya University, Japan)
NVSA--Links to Victorian Web Sites. (Northeast Victorian Studies Association)
Literary Resources: Victorian Period. (Jack Lynch, Rutgers University)
New Books in 19th-Century Studies (University of Southern California)
Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA)
Victorians on the Web (Vassar)
A Celebration of Women Writers
Aspects of the Victorian Book. An exhibition at the British Library.
Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology. University of Minnesota. Includes periodical articles by Mona Caird, Marie Corelli, Dame Millicent Fawcett, and E. Lynn Linton.
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Projects
The Emanicipation of Women 1860-1920
The Victorian Census Project
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1815-1914
Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 (Univ of Minnesota)
The Victorian Canon
The Munster Women Writers Project. This project will compile a detailed scholarly bibliography of writings by women from Munster, Ireland from 1800 to the present.
Designing an Epistolary Corpus of Victorian Women Writers' Letters. Katherine Patterson, Simon Fraser University.
The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project. Katherine Patterson, Simon Fraser University.
Victorian Popular Fiction.
Women Writers Project 1350-1850 (Brown University)
Women of the Romantic Period (Univ of Texas)
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (UC Davis)
British Women Playwrights around 1800
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
Romantic Circles
The Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project
The Corvey Project
19th Century American Women Writers Project
19th Century London Stage
Letters from a Victorian Governess/Companion to Royal families written during the period 1883-1894 from India/Prussia/Greece
Clara Collet website
The Elizabeth Robins website.
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Contemporary Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelites From 1849-1900.
The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles
The Camelot Project. Contains transcriptions of medieval Arthurian legends, with poems by Matthew Arnold, William Morris, Swinburne and Tennyson on Arthurian themes.
Victoriana Library
A 19th Century Woman's Place...
The Swinburne Project. A searchable electronic edition of the works of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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19th century American literature
American Women's Dime Novel Project. Dime Novels for Women 1870-1920.
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875. A searchable, comprehensive collection of American novels published between 1851-1875.
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Women's Studies
Women's Studies (MIT)
Voice of the Shuttle: Women's Studies, Gender Studies, and Queer Theory
A Celebration of Women Writers
The Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, 1650-1920. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Women's studies reference guide. From the British Library
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Societies
The 1890s Society
10th annual British Women Writers Conference. Madison, Wisconsin, April 19-21, 2002.
The Victorian Institute
The Victorian Society in America
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
Northeast Victorian Studies Association Home Page. Includes a good collection of links to conference announcements.
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
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Syllabi
Syllabi from The Victoria Research Web.
Syllabi from The Voice of the Shuttle
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Other
Some Recent Books:
Chapman, Alison, ed. Victorian Women Poets. Rochester, NY; Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2003.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: a Study of her Life and Work. Hastings: Sensation Press, 2000.
Federico, Annette. The Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late Victorian Literary Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000.
The Victorians: an Anthology of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Valentine Cunningham. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999.
A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Edited by Herbert Tucker. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999.
Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question. Edited by Nicola Diane Thompson. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Gilbert, Pamela. Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels.. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Edited by Joseph Bristow. New York: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Nineteenth Century Literature from Pickering and Chatto.
Monuments and Dust: the Culture of Victorian Britain. (Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia) Includes a virtual reality 3-D tour of the Crystal Palace.
The Railway Children (PBS website).
Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (PBS website)
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard.
The Victorian Turkish Bath: its origins, development, and gradual decline.
History of Science Society Web Page
Some Victorian Art in London
Victorian Authorship
Beeton's Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book
Charles Booth's 1889 descriptive map of London poverty
Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics
A Victorian Dictionary.
Annotated Bibliography of Chartism. (Ursula Stange)
The Bawnboy Workhouse. "The best preserved Victorian workhouse in Ireland."
"She is More to be Pitied than Censured". Women, sexuality and murder in 19th Century America. An exhibit from the collections at Brown University.
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To the VWWP Home Page
To the VWWP Library
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Journals
Essential Starting Points
Electronic Text Projects
19th century American literature
Women's Studies
Societies
Syllabi
Other
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Journals
Brontë Studies. A Journal of the Brontë Society.
Journal of Victorian Culture
Nineteenth Century Contexts
Nineteenth Century Feminisms
Nineteenth Century Literature
Nineteenth Century Studies
Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Review
Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies Bulletin
Victorians Institute Journal
19th Century British Journals
British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early Nineteenth Century
The Germ: A Hypermedia Edition
Internet Library of Early Journals Home Page. (Oxford) The aim of this project is to offer expanded access over the Internet to digitised page images of substantial runs of 18th- and 19th-century journals.
Return to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
19th Century American Journals (from Electronic Historical Publications)
Godey's Lady's Book Online Home Page
Parker's Natural and Experimental Philosophy
Penny Magazine Online Home Page
19th Century Scientific American Home Page
Youth's Educator For Home And Society - 1896
Return to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some Essential Starting Points
"Babbage's Children: Victorian Studies Resources on the Internet". Patrick Leary, Indiana University
The Victoria Research Web. (Indiana University) Includes an index to the VICTORIA electronic discussion group, guides to research in Victorian Studies, information on planning research trips to Great Britian, and more.
Victorian Web. (Brown University) A hypertext encyclopedia to all aspects of the Victorian era.
Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature. (UC Santa Barbara)
Voice of the Shuttle: 19th Century British Art
Victorian Web Sites. (Nagoya University, Japan)
NVSA--Links to Victorian Web Sites. (Northeast Victorian Studies Association)
Literary Resources: Victorian Period. (Jack Lynch, Rutgers University)
New Books in 19th-Century Studies (University of Southern California)
Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA)
Victorians on the Web (Vassar)
A Celebration of Women Writers
Aspects of the Victorian Book. An exhibition at the British Library.
Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology. University of Minnesota. Includes periodical articles by Mona Caird, Marie Corelli, Dame Millicent Fawcett, and E. Lynn Linton.
Return to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Projects
The Emanicipation of Women 1860-1920
The Victorian Census Project
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1815-1914
Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 (Univ of Minnesota)
The Victorian Canon
The Munster Women Writers Project. This project will compile a detailed scholarly bibliography of writings by women from Munster, Ireland from 1800 to the present.
Designing an Epistolary Corpus of Victorian Women Writers' Letters. Katherine Patterson, Simon Fraser University.
The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project. Katherine Patterson, Simon Fraser University.
Victorian Popular Fiction.
Women Writers Project 1350-1850 (Brown University)
Women of the Romantic Period (Univ of Texas)
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (UC Davis)
British Women Playwrights around 1800
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
Romantic Circles
The Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project
The Corvey Project
19th Century American Women Writers Project
19th Century London Stage
Letters from a Victorian Governess/Companion to Royal families written during the period 1883-1894 from India/Prussia/Greece
Clara Collet website
The Elizabeth Robins website.
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Contemporary Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelites From 1849-1900.
The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles
The Camelot Project. Contains transcriptions of medieval Arthurian legends, with poems by Matthew Arnold, William Morris, Swinburne and Tennyson on Arthurian themes.
Victoriana Library
A 19th Century Woman's Place...
The Swinburne Project. A searchable electronic edition of the works of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Return to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
19th century American literature
American Women's Dime Novel Project. Dime Novels for Women 1870-1920.
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875. A searchable, comprehensive collection of American novels published between 1851-1875.
Return to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Women's Studies
Women's Studies (MIT)
Voice of the Shuttle: Women's Studies, Gender Studies, and Queer Theory
A Celebration of Women Writers
The Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, 1650-1920. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Women's studies reference guide. From the British Library
Return to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Societies
The 1890s Society
10th annual British Women Writers Conference. Madison, Wisconsin, April 19-21, 2002.
The Victorian Institute
The Victorian Society in America
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
Northeast Victorian Studies Association Home Page. Includes a good collection of links to conference announcements.
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Return to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Syllabi
Syllabi from The Victoria Research Web.
Syllabi from The Voice of the Shuttle
Return to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Other
Some Recent Books:
Chapman, Alison, ed. Victorian Women Poets. Rochester, NY; Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2003.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: a Study of her Life and Work. Hastings: Sensation Press, 2000.
Federico, Annette. The Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late Victorian Literary Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000.
The Victorians: an Anthology of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Valentine Cunningham. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999.
A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Edited by Herbert Tucker. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999.
Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question. Edited by Nicola Diane Thompson. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Gilbert, Pamela. Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels.. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Edited by Joseph Bristow. New York: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Nineteenth Century Literature from Pickering and Chatto.
Monuments and Dust: the Culture of Victorian Britain. (Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia) Includes a virtual reality 3-D tour of the Crystal Palace.
The Railway Children (PBS website).
Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (PBS website)
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard.
The Victorian Turkish Bath: its origins, development, and gradual decline.
History of Science Society Web Page
Some Victorian Art in London
Victorian Authorship
Beeton's Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book
Charles Booth's 1889 descriptive map of London poverty
Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics
A Victorian Dictionary.
Annotated Bibliography of Chartism. (Ursula Stange)
The Bawnboy Workhouse. "The best preserved Victorian workhouse in Ireland."
"She is More to be Pitied than Censured". Women, sexuality and murder in 19th Century America. An exhibit from the collections at Brown University.
Return to top
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To the VWWP Home Page
To the VWWP Library
African Studies
Harvard
Welcome to the Committee on African Studies website, a central resource for African Studies at Harvard. Harvard's interest in Africa dates from the 19th century and now includes teaching and research on Africa throughout the University. This site provides information and links to the many Harvard people, programs, and activities that focus on Africa.
Events
Nov. 17th, 4:00pm
Comm. on African Studies
Du Bois Institute
Dept. of Afr. & Afr. Am. Studies
2008 Distinguished African Studies Lecture
"From the Kingdom of Childhood"
Chinua Achebe
Professor, Bard College
Author of "Things Fall Apart"
Room 010, 1730 Cambridge St.
Tickets at Harvard Box Office,
617 496-2222
PADAME performing at the inauguration of President Faust. Photo Harvard University News Office
The Harvard Committee on African Studies is a multidisciplinary group of faculty charged by Harvard with the coordination of teaching and research on Africa and the planned development of African Studies across the University. Since its goal is to advance knowledge and understanding of Africa, it also sponsors the Harvard African Seminar, research projects, lectures, conferences, and African musical performances. Its annual Distinguished African Studies Lecture provides an African perspective on world events and contemporary African issues. For more information on Committee activities visit our events calendar.
Teaching on Africa is not limited to a specific Harvard department or school. Harvard offers over 115 courses each year on topics as diverse as African religions, politics and business. Students interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree or PhD in African Studies should contact the Department of African and African American Studies. Graduate students wishing to specialize in Africa in other departments and schools should contact the registrar of the relevant Harvard school for information on admissions and financial aid.
2008-09 African Studies Courses
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March 27-29, 2009
HAA South African Conference
The Harvard Alumni Association will hold its first African conference in South Africa in March. President Faust is expected to attend. All Harvard alumni are invited. Info at Harvard Alumni Association Global Series website.
Welcome to the Committee on African Studies website, a central resource for African Studies at Harvard. Harvard's interest in Africa dates from the 19th century and now includes teaching and research on Africa throughout the University. This site provides information and links to the many Harvard people, programs, and activities that focus on Africa.
Events
Nov. 17th, 4:00pm
Comm. on African Studies
Du Bois Institute
Dept. of Afr. & Afr. Am. Studies
2008 Distinguished African Studies Lecture
"From the Kingdom of Childhood"
Chinua Achebe
Professor, Bard College
Author of "Things Fall Apart"
Room 010, 1730 Cambridge St.
Tickets at Harvard Box Office,
617 496-2222
PADAME performing at the inauguration of President Faust. Photo Harvard University News Office
The Harvard Committee on African Studies is a multidisciplinary group of faculty charged by Harvard with the coordination of teaching and research on Africa and the planned development of African Studies across the University. Since its goal is to advance knowledge and understanding of Africa, it also sponsors the Harvard African Seminar, research projects, lectures, conferences, and African musical performances. Its annual Distinguished African Studies Lecture provides an African perspective on world events and contemporary African issues. For more information on Committee activities visit our events calendar.
Teaching on Africa is not limited to a specific Harvard department or school. Harvard offers over 115 courses each year on topics as diverse as African religions, politics and business. Students interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree or PhD in African Studies should contact the Department of African and African American Studies. Graduate students wishing to specialize in Africa in other departments and schools should contact the registrar of the relevant Harvard school for information on admissions and financial aid.
2008-09 African Studies Courses
_____________________________________________
March 27-29, 2009
HAA South African Conference
The Harvard Alumni Association will hold its first African conference in South Africa in March. President Faust is expected to attend. All Harvard alumni are invited. Info at Harvard Alumni Association Global Series website.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology
Cuba has a unique musical and cultural foundation. With it's blend of African and European culture, music is a fusion of the rythmic concepts of Africa and the harmonic concepts of Europe.
Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its cultural context and inside these pages you will discover the world of Cuban music and instruments. Unlike the usual information you may find elsewhere, these pages will emphasize both the cultural and practical. Many myths and misinformation will be discussed as well as examples and practical usage of Cuban musical instruments, Cuban musical styles and Cuban cultural issues that affect Cuban Music.
Cuba has a unique musical and cultural foundation. With it's blend of African and European culture, music is a fusion of the rythmic concepts of Africa and the harmonic concepts of Europe.
Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its cultural context and inside these pages you will discover the world of Cuban music and instruments. Unlike the usual information you may find elsewhere, these pages will emphasize both the cultural and practical. Many myths and misinformation will be discussed as well as examples and practical usage of Cuban musical instruments, Cuban musical styles and Cuban cultural issues that affect Cuban Music.
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