Paul C. Gutjahr
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199740420
- eISBN:
- 9780199894703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740420.003.0058
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The Epilogue examines Hodge’s theological legacy after his death. Hodge may be a largely forgotten figure, but his thinking has had a wide influence on American Protestantism over the past century. ...
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The Epilogue examines Hodge’s theological legacy after his death. Hodge may be a largely forgotten figure, but his thinking has had a wide influence on American Protestantism over the past century. His thinking on the inspiration of Scripture, as well as his commitment to Augustinian Calvinism and Scottish Common Sense Realism has had a profound impact on American Fundamentalism and American Evangelicalism.Less
The Epilogue examines Hodge’s theological legacy after his death. Hodge may be a largely forgotten figure, but his thinking has had a wide influence on American Protestantism over the past century. His thinking on the inspiration of Scripture, as well as his commitment to Augustinian Calvinism and Scottish Common Sense Realism has had a profound impact on American Fundamentalism and American Evangelicalism.
Sean P. Cunningham
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125763
- eISBN:
- 9780813135441
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125763.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This book is about political change as it evolved in one of America's largest and most important states during the tumultuous seventeen-year period between John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas ...
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This book is about political change as it evolved in one of America's largest and most important states during the tumultuous seventeen-year period between John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas and Ronald Reagan's ascension to the presidency in 1980. Partisan realignment is the most obvious aspect of that change. Texas was once as solidly Democratic as any state in the nation. By the end of the twentieth century, it was among the most solidly Republican. A simplistic analysis of this transformation based in large part on the perception that Texas has always been a conservative place, might suggest that—as Ronald Reagan, the preeminent icon of modern conservatism, once similarly quipped—Texas didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left Texas. However, the political changes that gripped Texas during the last decades of the twentieth century resulted from a more complex mélange. This book analyses this in detail.Less
This book is about political change as it evolved in one of America's largest and most important states during the tumultuous seventeen-year period between John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas and Ronald Reagan's ascension to the presidency in 1980. Partisan realignment is the most obvious aspect of that change. Texas was once as solidly Democratic as any state in the nation. By the end of the twentieth century, it was among the most solidly Republican. A simplistic analysis of this transformation based in large part on the perception that Texas has always been a conservative place, might suggest that—as Ronald Reagan, the preeminent icon of modern conservatism, once similarly quipped—Texas didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left Texas. However, the political changes that gripped Texas during the last decades of the twentieth century resulted from a more complex mélange. This book analyses this in detail.
Roger G. Kennedy
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195140552
- eISBN:
- 9780199848775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140552.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
As soon as it became known on the streets of New York that Alexander Hamilton had been killed by Aaron Burr in their duel, the latter's political enemies raised a great clamor. Leading the pious pack ...
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As soon as it became known on the streets of New York that Alexander Hamilton had been killed by Aaron Burr in their duel, the latter's political enemies raised a great clamor. Leading the pious pack were the Clintons, with some of the Livingstons close behind, professing to be appalled at dueling and suddenly full of admiration for the fallen hero. Though there was much noise from preachers and the minions of the Clintons, Thomas Jefferson did not quickly show his hand, and the dueling gentry south and west of New England were slow to execrate Burr for dueling. The Federalists among them felt the loss of Hamilton, but they did not blame Burr for the manner of his death. Depressed, Burr decided to retreat southward. Along the way, he met Commodore and Mrs. Thomas Truxton, US Attorney (later Secretary of the Treasury) Alexander Dallas, perhaps General Victor Marie Moreau, and finally Clement Biddle and Nicholas Biddle.Less
As soon as it became known on the streets of New York that Alexander Hamilton had been killed by Aaron Burr in their duel, the latter's political enemies raised a great clamor. Leading the pious pack were the Clintons, with some of the Livingstons close behind, professing to be appalled at dueling and suddenly full of admiration for the fallen hero. Though there was much noise from preachers and the minions of the Clintons, Thomas Jefferson did not quickly show his hand, and the dueling gentry south and west of New England were slow to execrate Burr for dueling. The Federalists among them felt the loss of Hamilton, but they did not blame Burr for the manner of his death. Depressed, Burr decided to retreat southward. Along the way, he met Commodore and Mrs. Thomas Truxton, US Attorney (later Secretary of the Treasury) Alexander Dallas, perhaps General Victor Marie Moreau, and finally Clement Biddle and Nicholas Biddle.
Sean P. Cunningham
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125763
- eISBN:
- 9780813135441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125763.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This book is all about political change as it evolved in one of the nation's largest and most important states during the tumultuous seventeen-year period between John F. Kennedy's assassination in ...
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This book is all about political change as it evolved in one of the nation's largest and most important states during the tumultuous seventeen-year period between John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas and Ronald Reagan's ascension to the presidency in 1980. A simplistic analysis of this transformation, based in large part on the perception that Texas has always been a conservative place, might suggest that—as Ronald Reagan, the preeminent icon of modern conservatism, once similarly quipped—Texas did not leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left Texas. Yet the political changes that gripped Texas during the last decades of the twentieth century resulted from a far more complex mélange.Less
This book is all about political change as it evolved in one of the nation's largest and most important states during the tumultuous seventeen-year period between John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas and Ronald Reagan's ascension to the presidency in 1980. A simplistic analysis of this transformation, based in large part on the perception that Texas has always been a conservative place, might suggest that—as Ronald Reagan, the preeminent icon of modern conservatism, once similarly quipped—Texas did not leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left Texas. Yet the political changes that gripped Texas during the last decades of the twentieth century resulted from a far more complex mélange.
Britta Sweers
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195174786
- eISBN:
- 9780199864348
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195174786.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
A hybrid revival genre like electric folk illustrates the difficulty of a strict separation of art, folk, and popular music. This is also corroborated by a deeper analysis of the relationship between ...
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A hybrid revival genre like electric folk illustrates the difficulty of a strict separation of art, folk, and popular music. This is also corroborated by a deeper analysis of the relationship between electric folk and traditional English music. This chapter starts out with a picture of traditional music as depicted by the collectors of the First Revival, Cecil Sharp in particular, whose definition was also adapted by the International Folk Music Council in 1954. Issues discussed here include: the ideal of a “pure” English folk music tradition, the separation of traditional music from popular/commercial music, the disappearance of the tradition, exclusiveness of oral transmission, the ideal of unaccompanied singing, editorial changes and notational aspects. Discussing several modern controversial perspectives on the relationship of traditional and popular music, including Dave Harker, Karl Dallas, Alan Lomax, and Simon Frith, the chapter argues for more a flexible application of the various concepts.Less
A hybrid revival genre like electric folk illustrates the difficulty of a strict separation of art, folk, and popular music. This is also corroborated by a deeper analysis of the relationship between electric folk and traditional English music. This chapter starts out with a picture of traditional music as depicted by the collectors of the First Revival, Cecil Sharp in particular, whose definition was also adapted by the International Folk Music Council in 1954. Issues discussed here include: the ideal of a “pure” English folk music tradition, the separation of traditional music from popular/commercial music, the disappearance of the tradition, exclusiveness of oral transmission, the ideal of unaccompanied singing, editorial changes and notational aspects. Discussing several modern controversial perspectives on the relationship of traditional and popular music, including Dave Harker, Karl Dallas, Alan Lomax, and Simon Frith, the chapter argues for more a flexible application of the various concepts.
Max Krochmal
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037950
- eISBN:
- 9780813043111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037950.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Focusing on two ordinary Chicano workers who became prominent labor, civil rights, and political organizers, this chapter demonstrates that workplace struggles and multiracial alliances with whites ...
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Focusing on two ordinary Chicano workers who became prominent labor, civil rights, and political organizers, this chapter demonstrates that workplace struggles and multiracial alliances with whites and African Americans stood at the center of the broader Mexican American and Chicano movements. The two union organizers, Francisco F. “Pancho” Medrano of Dallas and Arnold Flores of San Antonio, fought discrimination at work and in their unions as well as in the cities in which they lived. They joined and transformed local chapters of well-known ethnic Mexican civil rights organizations, actively supported the African American freedom struggle, and became driving forces in building powerful multiracial coalitions. Their life stories transcend the whiteness arguments and generational framework that have dominated Chicano historiography.Less
Focusing on two ordinary Chicano workers who became prominent labor, civil rights, and political organizers, this chapter demonstrates that workplace struggles and multiracial alliances with whites and African Americans stood at the center of the broader Mexican American and Chicano movements. The two union organizers, Francisco F. “Pancho” Medrano of Dallas and Arnold Flores of San Antonio, fought discrimination at work and in their unions as well as in the cities in which they lived. They joined and transformed local chapters of well-known ethnic Mexican civil rights organizations, actively supported the African American freedom struggle, and became driving forces in building powerful multiracial coalitions. Their life stories transcend the whiteness arguments and generational framework that have dominated Chicano historiography.
Dale Maharidge
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520262478
- eISBN:
- 9780520948792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520262478.003.0017
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter introduces Bonnie Alexander. When Bonnie got an office job near the house her husband James was building, they began living there full time. Their son Matthew was a senior in high school ...
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This chapter introduces Bonnie Alexander. When Bonnie got an office job near the house her husband James was building, they began living there full time. Their son Matthew was a senior in high school by then, and he went on to graduate with a degree in theology from Christ for the Nations Bible Institute in Dallas, Texas. To pay his way through school, Matthew Alexander worked as a doorman at the Hyatt Regency. After graduation, he came back to Michigan and got a job at a church. Other companies use the pellets to make tire additives, roller blade wheels, and plastic windows in mailing envelopes. It had been a long journey from that tent in Texas to this wall on which the Alexanders could attach a nameplate that signifies what a home is supposed to be—not an investment, not something to use like a cash machine, not something to be chopped up and “securitized” on Wall Street.Less
This chapter introduces Bonnie Alexander. When Bonnie got an office job near the house her husband James was building, they began living there full time. Their son Matthew was a senior in high school by then, and he went on to graduate with a degree in theology from Christ for the Nations Bible Institute in Dallas, Texas. To pay his way through school, Matthew Alexander worked as a doorman at the Hyatt Regency. After graduation, he came back to Michigan and got a job at a church. Other companies use the pellets to make tire additives, roller blade wheels, and plastic windows in mailing envelopes. It had been a long journey from that tent in Texas to this wall on which the Alexanders could attach a nameplate that signifies what a home is supposed to be—not an investment, not something to use like a cash machine, not something to be chopped up and “securitized” on Wall Street.
Corinna Nicolaou
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231173940
- eISBN:
- 9780231541251
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231173940.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The author visits her childhood hometown of Dallas, stays with her grandmother at a "retirement community" and sets out to worship in a handful of the city's burgeoning number of Mosques. She ...
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The author visits her childhood hometown of Dallas, stays with her grandmother at a "retirement community" and sets out to worship in a handful of the city's burgeoning number of Mosques. She struggles with the simple core message of Islam against the backdrop of ostentatious displays of wealth common in Dallas as she explores versions of the faith including Sunni, Shiite, Sufi and even Nation of Islam. Finally, she returns for the first time in 10 years to DC, where she worships jummah prayers at the Pentagon and comes to terms with the impulse that initiated this journey.Less
The author visits her childhood hometown of Dallas, stays with her grandmother at a "retirement community" and sets out to worship in a handful of the city's burgeoning number of Mosques. She struggles with the simple core message of Islam against the backdrop of ostentatious displays of wealth common in Dallas as she explores versions of the faith including Sunni, Shiite, Sufi and even Nation of Islam. Finally, she returns for the first time in 10 years to DC, where she worships jummah prayers at the Pentagon and comes to terms with the impulse that initiated this journey.
Philipp Erchinger
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474438957
- eISBN:
- 9781474453790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438957.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter seeks to elucidate nineteenth-century conceptions of art as fine art. Taking its cue from Raymond Williams’s account of a divorce of (fine) art from (technical) work, the chapter pursues ...
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This chapter seeks to elucidate nineteenth-century conceptions of art as fine art. Taking its cue from Raymond Williams’s account of a divorce of (fine) art from (technical) work, the chapter pursues various attempts to define the aesthetic specificity of the fine arts, including literature in the narrow sense, in relation to other ways of exercising skill, including the use of experimental methods in the sciences. In this way, it seeks to show that the idea of the aesthetic, despite all attempts to purify it, remained deeply entangled in a net of work, in which experiences of pleasure (or beauty) and playfulness had not yet been separated from material practices of making useful things. As is further explained, the idea of a mutual inclusiveness of pleasure and use was pivotal to the arts and crafts movement, especially to the creative practice of William Morris. Finally, the chapter pursues Morris’s concept of “work-pleasure”, as derived from his News from Nowhere, through a wider debate about the complex relations between the sciences and the (fine) arts.Less
This chapter seeks to elucidate nineteenth-century conceptions of art as fine art. Taking its cue from Raymond Williams’s account of a divorce of (fine) art from (technical) work, the chapter pursues various attempts to define the aesthetic specificity of the fine arts, including literature in the narrow sense, in relation to other ways of exercising skill, including the use of experimental methods in the sciences. In this way, it seeks to show that the idea of the aesthetic, despite all attempts to purify it, remained deeply entangled in a net of work, in which experiences of pleasure (or beauty) and playfulness had not yet been separated from material practices of making useful things. As is further explained, the idea of a mutual inclusiveness of pleasure and use was pivotal to the arts and crafts movement, especially to the creative practice of William Morris. Finally, the chapter pursues Morris’s concept of “work-pleasure”, as derived from his News from Nowhere, through a wider debate about the complex relations between the sciences and the (fine) arts.
Angela Ndalianis
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748619009
- eISBN:
- 9780748671168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748619009.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
The Colbys (1985–1987) was a television series whose narrative premise centred on the exploits, loves, hates and intrigues of the wealthy Colby family and other characters that entered their story ...
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The Colbys (1985–1987) was a television series whose narrative premise centred on the exploits, loves, hates and intrigues of the wealthy Colby family and other characters that entered their story space. The show was a spin-off of the other popular ABC series Dynasty (1981–1989), which had itself copied the successful CBS series Dallas (1978–1991). If anything, the narrative scenarios of these shows reveal the extent to which television series since the 1950s have increasingly favoured an open narrative form that not only weaves into and between multiple story formations that traverse episode and series time, but that also cross over distinct television series into other spin-off shows. The television series and the television serial have increasingly collapsed into one another, so much so that, in more recent times, it has become difficult to distinguish one form from another. This chapter examines the neo-baroque aesthetics inherent within the television series as serial.Less
The Colbys (1985–1987) was a television series whose narrative premise centred on the exploits, loves, hates and intrigues of the wealthy Colby family and other characters that entered their story space. The show was a spin-off of the other popular ABC series Dynasty (1981–1989), which had itself copied the successful CBS series Dallas (1978–1991). If anything, the narrative scenarios of these shows reveal the extent to which television series since the 1950s have increasingly favoured an open narrative form that not only weaves into and between multiple story formations that traverse episode and series time, but that also cross over distinct television series into other spin-off shows. The television series and the television serial have increasingly collapsed into one another, so much so that, in more recent times, it has become difficult to distinguish one form from another. This chapter examines the neo-baroque aesthetics inherent within the television series as serial.
Kristyn Gorton
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624171
- eISBN:
- 9780748670956
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624171.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter considers how the mediation of meaning occurs on a global scale. More specifically, it considers how the global exchange of televisual texts affects citizenship, notions of individualism ...
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This chapter considers how the mediation of meaning occurs on a global scale. More specifically, it considers how the global exchange of televisual texts affects citizenship, notions of individualism and choice and the concept of emotion. This chapter refers to debates on cultural imperialism and media imperialism and makes reference to the extensive research that has been done on the popular US television series Dallas. This chapter also discusses convergence in order to consider how new media technologies will influence/change viewer's engagements with television.Less
This chapter considers how the mediation of meaning occurs on a global scale. More specifically, it considers how the global exchange of televisual texts affects citizenship, notions of individualism and choice and the concept of emotion. This chapter refers to debates on cultural imperialism and media imperialism and makes reference to the extensive research that has been done on the popular US television series Dallas. This chapter also discusses convergence in order to consider how new media technologies will influence/change viewer's engagements with television.
Carrie M. Lane
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449642
- eISBN:
- 9780801460791
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449642.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This chapter provides a history of high-technology industries in Dallas, from their postwar origins in manufacturing, through the boom and bust of the computing, telecommunications, and dot-com ...
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This chapter provides a history of high-technology industries in Dallas, from their postwar origins in manufacturing, through the boom and bust of the computing, telecommunications, and dot-com industries, and into the post-9/11 recession and jobless recovery. It focuses on Infomart, a $97 million, 1.6 million-square-foot facility that was built to showcase the technological innovations of a new information age. Opened in January 1985, Infomart was designed as a trade mart for computers, a “high-tech bazaar” with seven floors of showrooms, exhibition space, lecture halls, and meeting rooms, all equipped with cutting-edge computing and telecommunications equipment. Over the next two decades, Infomart's prospects, and public perception thereof, waxed and waned. Although the space never achieved its intended goal—the computer mart concept was scrapped after only a few years—the story of how (and how much of) Infomart's space was in use at a given time intertwines with the broader history of Dallas' high-tech industries and the region's efforts to establish itself as a high-tech region on par with California's famed Silicon Valley.Less
This chapter provides a history of high-technology industries in Dallas, from their postwar origins in manufacturing, through the boom and bust of the computing, telecommunications, and dot-com industries, and into the post-9/11 recession and jobless recovery. It focuses on Infomart, a $97 million, 1.6 million-square-foot facility that was built to showcase the technological innovations of a new information age. Opened in January 1985, Infomart was designed as a trade mart for computers, a “high-tech bazaar” with seven floors of showrooms, exhibition space, lecture halls, and meeting rooms, all equipped with cutting-edge computing and telecommunications equipment. Over the next two decades, Infomart's prospects, and public perception thereof, waxed and waned. Although the space never achieved its intended goal—the computer mart concept was scrapped after only a few years—the story of how (and how much of) Infomart's space was in use at a given time intertwines with the broader history of Dallas' high-tech industries and the region's efforts to establish itself as a high-tech region on par with California's famed Silicon Valley.
Carrie M. Lane
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449642
- eISBN:
- 9780801460791
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449642.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This chapter follows Dallas-area job seekers through their layoffs and into the early stages of their job search, examining what appeared to be a surprising lack of anger and anxiety about their new ...
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This chapter follows Dallas-area job seekers through their layoffs and into the early stages of their job search, examining what appeared to be a surprising lack of anger and anxiety about their new predicament. It outlines the ideology of career management, which represents a historic cultural shift in the mindset of white-collar U.S. workers toward employment, dependency, and security. Perhaps best described as neoliberalism for the organization man set, career management builds on a long history of management theory and American mythologies of meritocratic individualism and masculine agency. It naturalizes the absence of secure, long-term employment, casts the resulting insecurity as an empowering alternative to dependence on a single employer, and prescribes explicitly individualistic, apolitical, pro-market means by which one can best position oneself to succeed in an increasingly global and competitive world.Less
This chapter follows Dallas-area job seekers through their layoffs and into the early stages of their job search, examining what appeared to be a surprising lack of anger and anxiety about their new predicament. It outlines the ideology of career management, which represents a historic cultural shift in the mindset of white-collar U.S. workers toward employment, dependency, and security. Perhaps best described as neoliberalism for the organization man set, career management builds on a long history of management theory and American mythologies of meritocratic individualism and masculine agency. It naturalizes the absence of secure, long-term employment, casts the resulting insecurity as an empowering alternative to dependence on a single employer, and prescribes explicitly individualistic, apolitical, pro-market means by which one can best position oneself to succeed in an increasingly global and competitive world.
Klaus van den Berg
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226595962
- eISBN:
- 9780226596150
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226596150.003.0015
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
The early twentieth-century critical theorist, Walter Benjamin, developed a pioneering analysis of buildings as constellations of historical forces and contemporary perceptions unfolded in space. ...
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The early twentieth-century critical theorist, Walter Benjamin, developed a pioneering analysis of buildings as constellations of historical forces and contemporary perceptions unfolded in space. Although Benjamin did not address opera directly, his ideas help us understand how opera has reshaped its cultural identity over the past half century. New opera-house projects need to create a visual scenography in order to establish opera’s urban cultural significance. This chapter addresses the site dramaturgy of three paradigmatic buildings and opera-house locations: New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Paris’ Bastille Opera, and Dallas’ Winspear Opera. Focusing on the insertion of opera buildings into these cities’ block structures, I argue that the buildings have become scenographic models of cultural identity. Unable to find a location in the existing block system, the Met (completed in 1966) became an exemplary urban renewal project, replacing an entire neighborhood. In contrast, the Bastille opera emerged in 1989 as one element of Francois Mitterand’s Grands Travaux. Finally, the Dallas Opera (2009) is located in the Dallas Arts District, one of the densest accumulations of architectural projects in the world, in which the opera is constructed as part of both an art exhibition and a movie set that travellers or audience members traverse.Less
The early twentieth-century critical theorist, Walter Benjamin, developed a pioneering analysis of buildings as constellations of historical forces and contemporary perceptions unfolded in space. Although Benjamin did not address opera directly, his ideas help us understand how opera has reshaped its cultural identity over the past half century. New opera-house projects need to create a visual scenography in order to establish opera’s urban cultural significance. This chapter addresses the site dramaturgy of three paradigmatic buildings and opera-house locations: New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Paris’ Bastille Opera, and Dallas’ Winspear Opera. Focusing on the insertion of opera buildings into these cities’ block structures, I argue that the buildings have become scenographic models of cultural identity. Unable to find a location in the existing block system, the Met (completed in 1966) became an exemplary urban renewal project, replacing an entire neighborhood. In contrast, the Bastille opera emerged in 1989 as one element of Francois Mitterand’s Grands Travaux. Finally, the Dallas Opera (2009) is located in the Dallas Arts District, one of the densest accumulations of architectural projects in the world, in which the opera is constructed as part of both an art exhibition and a movie set that travellers or audience members traverse.
Ann Wolverton
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804780612
- eISBN:
- 9780804782692
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804780612.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter presents a significant methodological advance on earlier environmental justice literature, looking at census tracts or other geographic entities as units of analysis for explaining the ...
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This chapter presents a significant methodological advance on earlier environmental justice literature, looking at census tracts or other geographic entities as units of analysis for explaining the locational decision-making process. It compares results from two of the largest cities in Texas–Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston-Galveston. In particular, it directly models the behavior of firms, looking at their choice of where site a polluting facility. Given a firm's decision to establish a facility somewhere, it models the firm's choice of location among all the possible locations. The analysis choice patterns as a function of demographics, prices, transportation options, and so forth. It offers evidence that these choices are driven more by profits than by pure discrimination.Less
This chapter presents a significant methodological advance on earlier environmental justice literature, looking at census tracts or other geographic entities as units of analysis for explaining the locational decision-making process. It compares results from two of the largest cities in Texas–Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston-Galveston. In particular, it directly models the behavior of firms, looking at their choice of where site a polluting facility. Given a firm's decision to establish a facility somewhere, it models the firm's choice of location among all the possible locations. The analysis choice patterns as a function of demographics, prices, transportation options, and so forth. It offers evidence that these choices are driven more by profits than by pure discrimination.
Tracy K. Betsinger
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813062235
- eISBN:
- 9780813051901
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062235.003.0012
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Methodology and Techniques
Late prehistoric eastern Tennessee polities provide a setting to examine relationships between biological stress and increasing emphasis on intensive maize agriculture, sedentism, population size, ...
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Late prehistoric eastern Tennessee polities provide a setting to examine relationships between biological stress and increasing emphasis on intensive maize agriculture, sedentism, population size, and differential access to protein-based dietary resources. This chapter compares bioarchaeological patterns between two Mississippian palisaded sites in Eastern Tennessee during the local Dallas Phase, A.D. 1300–1500. Toqua was a multi-mound center likely home to the main chief or chiefs of the region, while Citico was a smaller, palisaded locale with a single mound. Statistically significant patterns demonstrate that non-elites from Toqua possessed higher prevalence of all stress markers. Sex-based divisions are also noted in their mortuary program, with males typically interred in mounds and women in the village; Betsinger attributes this to simultaneous heterarchical expressions of different activity spheres. Further, there are few biological disparities between elite and non-elite females, which is considered the result of elite-sponsored, male-centered feasting that drove expressions of inequality during the twilight of the Mississippian era.Less
Late prehistoric eastern Tennessee polities provide a setting to examine relationships between biological stress and increasing emphasis on intensive maize agriculture, sedentism, population size, and differential access to protein-based dietary resources. This chapter compares bioarchaeological patterns between two Mississippian palisaded sites in Eastern Tennessee during the local Dallas Phase, A.D. 1300–1500. Toqua was a multi-mound center likely home to the main chief or chiefs of the region, while Citico was a smaller, palisaded locale with a single mound. Statistically significant patterns demonstrate that non-elites from Toqua possessed higher prevalence of all stress markers. Sex-based divisions are also noted in their mortuary program, with males typically interred in mounds and women in the village; Betsinger attributes this to simultaneous heterarchical expressions of different activity spheres. Further, there are few biological disparities between elite and non-elite females, which is considered the result of elite-sponsored, male-centered feasting that drove expressions of inequality during the twilight of the Mississippian era.
Mary O’Connell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781381335
- eISBN:
- 9781781384916
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381335.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter provides a comprehensive account of how Byron became one of John Murray’s authors. It describes the crucial role played by Byron’s distant relation and self-appointed literary agent ...
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This chapter provides a comprehensive account of how Byron became one of John Murray’s authors. It describes the crucial role played by Byron’s distant relation and self-appointed literary agent Robert Charles Dallas, and demonstrates the difficulty Byron faced in choosing whether to persist with the publication of satirical works with James Cawthorn, or to switch publishers and move to John Murray.Less
This chapter provides a comprehensive account of how Byron became one of John Murray’s authors. It describes the crucial role played by Byron’s distant relation and self-appointed literary agent Robert Charles Dallas, and demonstrates the difficulty Byron faced in choosing whether to persist with the publication of satirical works with James Cawthorn, or to switch publishers and move to John Murray.
Earl J. Hess
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469643427
- eISBN:
- 9781469643441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643427.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Military History
When Sherman crossed the Etowah River on May 23 the character of the Atlanta campaign changed. He had used long and high ridges north of the river to conduct flanking movements. Now he entered a ...
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When Sherman crossed the Etowah River on May 23 the character of the Atlanta campaign changed. He had used long and high ridges north of the river to conduct flanking movements. Now he entered a piedmont zone of generally level land choked by thick forests which offered many defensive advantages to Johnston. Union progress slowed as the Federals groped along ill-mapped roads while engaged in a wide flanking movement. Johnston effectively stymied their efforts by careful placement of his units to block Union advances. For the first time in the campaign, both sides dug deep and extensive fieldwork systems to hold their positions. One sees the onset of intense skirmishing, sniping, and close range artillery fire. Constant firing from static positions caused a great deal of damage to the environment. Soldier life in the trenches became more stressful and uncomfortable as the campaign bogged down in the wilds of Georgia. This two week phase of the campaign was punctuated by battles at New Hope Church on May 25, Pickett’s Mill on May 27, and Dallas on May 28, until Sherman moved to his left and regained contact with his railroad by the end of the first week in June.Less
When Sherman crossed the Etowah River on May 23 the character of the Atlanta campaign changed. He had used long and high ridges north of the river to conduct flanking movements. Now he entered a piedmont zone of generally level land choked by thick forests which offered many defensive advantages to Johnston. Union progress slowed as the Federals groped along ill-mapped roads while engaged in a wide flanking movement. Johnston effectively stymied their efforts by careful placement of his units to block Union advances. For the first time in the campaign, both sides dug deep and extensive fieldwork systems to hold their positions. One sees the onset of intense skirmishing, sniping, and close range artillery fire. Constant firing from static positions caused a great deal of damage to the environment. Soldier life in the trenches became more stressful and uncomfortable as the campaign bogged down in the wilds of Georgia. This two week phase of the campaign was punctuated by battles at New Hope Church on May 25, Pickett’s Mill on May 27, and Dallas on May 28, until Sherman moved to his left and regained contact with his railroad by the end of the first week in June.
Robert S. Carr
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042060
- eISBN:
- 9780813043463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042060.003.0013
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter examines the history of the Seminole Wars (1836-1858) in southeast Florida. After the attack on the Cape Florida lighthouse in 1836 and Indian Key in 1840, most of South Florida became ...
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This chapter examines the history of the Seminole Wars (1836-1858) in southeast Florida. After the attack on the Cape Florida lighthouse in 1836 and Indian Key in 1840, most of South Florida became depopulated of settlers. The arrival of the military, including the army, navy, and cutter marines, led to the establishment of two principal forts: Fort Dallas on the Miami River and Fort Bankhead on Key Biscayne. At least four temporary forts or camps also were established: Fort Miami, Fort Kemble, Fort Henry, and “Fort Desolation.” Archaeological evidence of military life in South Florida is examined from fort sites and from military camps into the Everglades. Associated artifacts and documentation of soldiers’ graves are discussed. The most enduring evidence of the area's military presence, the military road built between Fort Dallas and Fort Lauderdale, is discussed and surviving segments of the road are identified.Less
This chapter examines the history of the Seminole Wars (1836-1858) in southeast Florida. After the attack on the Cape Florida lighthouse in 1836 and Indian Key in 1840, most of South Florida became depopulated of settlers. The arrival of the military, including the army, navy, and cutter marines, led to the establishment of two principal forts: Fort Dallas on the Miami River and Fort Bankhead on Key Biscayne. At least four temporary forts or camps also were established: Fort Miami, Fort Kemble, Fort Henry, and “Fort Desolation.” Archaeological evidence of military life in South Florida is examined from fort sites and from military camps into the Everglades. Associated artifacts and documentation of soldiers’ graves are discussed. The most enduring evidence of the area's military presence, the military road built between Fort Dallas and Fort Lauderdale, is discussed and surviving segments of the road are identified.
Benjamin Morgan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226442112
- eISBN:
- 9780226457468
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226457468.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter traces the activities of a cohort of Edinburgh physiologists, interior designers, and literary critics who sought to develop scientific models of beauty, first by using classical Greek ...
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This chapter traces the activities of a cohort of Edinburgh physiologists, interior designers, and literary critics who sought to develop scientific models of beauty, first by using classical Greek mathematical ideals of proportion and then by turning to recent findings in neurophysiology. The chapter begins with an analysis of David Ramsay Hay and George Field, who, contesting John Ruskin’s historicism, sought to transform design and color theory into an empirical science. It then shows how their thought was taken up by important figures in Victorian intellectual culture including the physiologists Thomas Laycock, William Carpenter, and John Addington Symonds Sr., and the literary critic Eneas Sweetland Dallas. By contrast with today’s formalisms, which tend to understand form as a structure, these writers worked at the intersection of science and aesthetics to develop an idea of “form” as embodied, dynamic, and ambient.Less
This chapter traces the activities of a cohort of Edinburgh physiologists, interior designers, and literary critics who sought to develop scientific models of beauty, first by using classical Greek mathematical ideals of proportion and then by turning to recent findings in neurophysiology. The chapter begins with an analysis of David Ramsay Hay and George Field, who, contesting John Ruskin’s historicism, sought to transform design and color theory into an empirical science. It then shows how their thought was taken up by important figures in Victorian intellectual culture including the physiologists Thomas Laycock, William Carpenter, and John Addington Symonds Sr., and the literary critic Eneas Sweetland Dallas. By contrast with today’s formalisms, which tend to understand form as a structure, these writers worked at the intersection of science and aesthetics to develop an idea of “form” as embodied, dynamic, and ambient.
