Barry Stephenson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199732753
- eISBN:
- 9780199777310
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732753.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity, Religion and Society
Wittenberg’s Luther festivals are important tools in dealing with economic, social, and cultural problems in the era of a reunified Germany. This chapter examines the civic dimensions of Luther ...
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Wittenberg’s Luther festivals are important tools in dealing with economic, social, and cultural problems in the era of a reunified Germany. This chapter examines the civic dimensions of Luther festivity, arguing that the festivals have played a role in revitalizing the public sphere in Wittenberg.Less
Wittenberg’s Luther festivals are important tools in dealing with economic, social, and cultural problems in the era of a reunified Germany. This chapter examines the civic dimensions of Luther festivity, arguing that the festivals have played a role in revitalizing the public sphere in Wittenberg.
Sara Haslam
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719060557
- eISBN:
- 9781781700099
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719060557.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This book is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because, as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and ...
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This book is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because, as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the English Review and author of The Good Soldier, he shaped the development of literary modernism. But, as the grandson of Ford Madox Brown and son of a German music critic, he also manifested formative links with mainland European culture and the visual arts. In Ford there is the chance to explore continuity in artistic life at the turn of the last century, as well as the more commonly identified pattern of crisis in the time. The argument throughout the book is that modernism possesses more than one face. Setting Ford in his cultural and historical context, the opening chapter debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism; later chapters discuss the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing. Ford's literary technique is studied comparatively and plot summaries of his major books (The Good Soldier and Parade's End) are provided, as is a brief biography.Less
This book is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because, as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the English Review and author of The Good Soldier, he shaped the development of literary modernism. But, as the grandson of Ford Madox Brown and son of a German music critic, he also manifested formative links with mainland European culture and the visual arts. In Ford there is the chance to explore continuity in artistic life at the turn of the last century, as well as the more commonly identified pattern of crisis in the time. The argument throughout the book is that modernism possesses more than one face. Setting Ford in his cultural and historical context, the opening chapter debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism; later chapters discuss the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing. Ford's literary technique is studied comparatively and plot summaries of his major books (The Good Soldier and Parade's End) are provided, as is a brief biography.
John Wilson Foster
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199232833
- eISBN:
- 9780191716454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232833.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter analyzes depictions of sectarianism in Irish novels. Topics discussed include Dark Rosaleen by M. E. Francis, the Twelfth of July Orange parade, and the fictional image of Belfast.
This chapter analyzes depictions of sectarianism in Irish novels. Topics discussed include Dark Rosaleen by M. E. Francis, the Twelfth of July Orange parade, and the fictional image of Belfast.
Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780748694266
- eISBN:
- 9781474412391
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694266.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism, and Psychology is a long-overdue examination of Ford’s First World War modernist masterpiece from the point of view of psychology and the ...
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War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism, and Psychology is a long-overdue examination of Ford’s First World War modernist masterpiece from the point of view of psychology and the effects of the war on the minds of those who fought and those at home. It adds to writing about First World War writers, war trauma and trauma theory, modernism, and literary Impressionism, and contributes to the burgeoning field of medical humanities by reconsidering Parade’s End in terms of the various mental and psychological disorders represented within its pages. War and the Mind is the first multi-authored study of Parade’s End that focuses on the psychological effects of the war, both upon Ford himself and upon his novel: its characters, its themes, and its form. The volume comprises ten chapters by experts on Ford, modernism, the First World War, and psychology. Issues discussed include Ford’s pioneering analysis of war trauma, trauma theory, shell shock, memory and repression, insomnia, empathy, therapy, literary Impressionism, and literary style. Other writers discussed include Conrad, Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Freud, William James, W. H. R. Rivers, Sassoon, May Sinclair, and Rebecca West.Less
War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism, and Psychology is a long-overdue examination of Ford’s First World War modernist masterpiece from the point of view of psychology and the effects of the war on the minds of those who fought and those at home. It adds to writing about First World War writers, war trauma and trauma theory, modernism, and literary Impressionism, and contributes to the burgeoning field of medical humanities by reconsidering Parade’s End in terms of the various mental and psychological disorders represented within its pages. War and the Mind is the first multi-authored study of Parade’s End that focuses on the psychological effects of the war, both upon Ford himself and upon his novel: its characters, its themes, and its form. The volume comprises ten chapters by experts on Ford, modernism, the First World War, and psychology. Issues discussed include Ford’s pioneering analysis of war trauma, trauma theory, shell shock, memory and repression, insomnia, empathy, therapy, literary Impressionism, and literary style. Other writers discussed include Conrad, Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Freud, William James, W. H. R. Rivers, Sassoon, May Sinclair, and Rebecca West.
Henry Phelps Brown
- Published in print:
- 1988
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198286486
- eISBN:
- 9780191596773
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198286481.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
Discusses how best to display distributions of income and wealth so that comparisons can be made between different periods or countries. The various different kinds of distribution curve that have ...
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Discusses how best to display distributions of income and wealth so that comparisons can be made between different periods or countries. The various different kinds of distribution curve that have been used are described and their disadvantages noted. The account starts with the frequency distribution curve, which is shown to have several drawbacks, and goes on to the Gini coefficient, which is based on the Lorenz curve, the indices proposed by Henri Theil and A. B. Atkinson, and the Pen parade (or Pen profile). The second section of the chapter provides a definition of income and discusses the choice of unit. The last section is a statistical appendix, and gives further details of the methods of distribution display discussed at the beginning of the chapter, and introduces some other indices––the Phelps Brown–Hopkins index, the Schumpeter–Gilboy index, and the Rousseau index.Less
Discusses how best to display distributions of income and wealth so that comparisons can be made between different periods or countries. The various different kinds of distribution curve that have been used are described and their disadvantages noted. The account starts with the frequency distribution curve, which is shown to have several drawbacks, and goes on to the Gini coefficient, which is based on the Lorenz curve, the indices proposed by Henri Theil and A. B. Atkinson, and the Pen parade (or Pen profile). The second section of the chapter provides a definition of income and discusses the choice of unit. The last section is a statistical appendix, and gives further details of the methods of distribution display discussed at the beginning of the chapter, and introduces some other indices––the Phelps Brown–Hopkins index, the Schumpeter–Gilboy index, and the Rousseau index.
Henry Phelps Brown
- Published in print:
- 1988
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198286486
- eISBN:
- 9780191596773
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198286481.003.0011
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
The last chapter contained illustrations of the distribution of income in the UK displayed as a Pen parade; this one asks whether the form that was shown there is peculiar to a particular time or ...
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The last chapter contained illustrations of the distribution of income in the UK displayed as a Pen parade; this one asks whether the form that was shown there is peculiar to a particular time or place, or is found in other countries, and in earlier as well as later years. The first section gives examples of distributions in various Western countries and discusses them; it also introduces the Pareto distribution, which gives a straight line (the Pareto line) rather than the curve given by the Pen parade, and discusses the social implications of the smoothness and steadiness of this linear gradation. The next section makes some further international comparisons between developed countries; these, like the earlier ones, show similar Pen parades. The third section demonstrates the differences in Pen parades exhibited by developed and developing countries; the latter show greater inequalities and spreads of relative income, and sharper changes over different ranges. The last section looks at the distribution of income in Soviet‐type economies; these show quite distinctive and similar Pen profiles in comparison with the Western type.Less
The last chapter contained illustrations of the distribution of income in the UK displayed as a Pen parade; this one asks whether the form that was shown there is peculiar to a particular time or place, or is found in other countries, and in earlier as well as later years. The first section gives examples of distributions in various Western countries and discusses them; it also introduces the Pareto distribution, which gives a straight line (the Pareto line) rather than the curve given by the Pen parade, and discusses the social implications of the smoothness and steadiness of this linear gradation. The next section makes some further international comparisons between developed countries; these, like the earlier ones, show similar Pen parades. The third section demonstrates the differences in Pen parades exhibited by developed and developing countries; the latter show greater inequalities and spreads of relative income, and sharper changes over different ranges. The last section looks at the distribution of income in Soviet‐type economies; these show quite distinctive and similar Pen profiles in comparison with the Western type.
M. Cynthia Oliver
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732429
- eISBN:
- 9781604733488
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732429.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty ...
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Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women with opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory’s social mores. This book is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. It maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or “queen show.” For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region’s understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, the author reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, she shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. The book examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen, and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.Less
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women with opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory’s social mores. This book is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. It maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or “queen show.” For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region’s understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, the author reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, she shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. The book examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen, and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.
Katherine McFarland Bruce
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479803613
- eISBN:
- 9781479817788
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479803613.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Pride Parades tells the story of Pride in two parts. In Part I, the author explores how gays and lesbians established the event in the early 1970s as a parade to affirm gay identities. Situating this ...
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Pride Parades tells the story of Pride in two parts. In Part I, the author explores how gays and lesbians established the event in the early 1970s as a parade to affirm gay identities. Situating this story at its beginning in mid-1970, the book outlines the scene where approximately 5,000 gays and lesbians (and surely a handful of straight allies) marched through the streets of Manhattan, West Hollywood, and downtown Chicago in the first ever Pride events. The events were a curious mix of protest march and parade - more festive than a typical angry march but with more contention than a typical parade – and were the largest ever public gatherings of out gays and lesbians in history; moreover, these marches were so successful that immediately afterward participants started planning for the following year, thus heralding the beginning of the colorful tradition of Pride. In Part II, the text leaps to 2010 and examines contemporary Pride parades. Pride today communicates messages about queer sexuality and gender that run counter to the heteronormative code of meaning that privileges heterosexuality as natural and moral.Less
Pride Parades tells the story of Pride in two parts. In Part I, the author explores how gays and lesbians established the event in the early 1970s as a parade to affirm gay identities. Situating this story at its beginning in mid-1970, the book outlines the scene where approximately 5,000 gays and lesbians (and surely a handful of straight allies) marched through the streets of Manhattan, West Hollywood, and downtown Chicago in the first ever Pride events. The events were a curious mix of protest march and parade - more festive than a typical angry march but with more contention than a typical parade – and were the largest ever public gatherings of out gays and lesbians in history; moreover, these marches were so successful that immediately afterward participants started planning for the following year, thus heralding the beginning of the colorful tradition of Pride. In Part II, the text leaps to 2010 and examines contemporary Pride parades. Pride today communicates messages about queer sexuality and gender that run counter to the heteronormative code of meaning that privileges heterosexuality as natural and moral.
Avner Ben-Amos
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203285
- eISBN:
- 9780191675836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203285.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
During the third phase of the funeral, the deceased was incorporated into the world of the dead. The great man moved gradually back from the public to the private sphere, ready to join the other ...
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During the third phase of the funeral, the deceased was incorporated into the world of the dead. The great man moved gradually back from the public to the private sphere, ready to join the other illustrious ancestors who had already undergone the same process of consecration. The first step in that direction took place in a closed farewell ceremony at a church or another civil monument. The farewell ceremony — except the one at the Panthéon — had three parts: religious, civil, and military. After the religious ritual inside the church, the coffin was brought out to the square in front of it, where the participants listened to a funeral oration and watched an army parade saluting the body. After the parade, the coffin was either brought back into the church for a burial or taken to a burial at a cemetery. This chapter focuses on the burial and the resonance of the funeral and how state funerals provide a rare moment in which politics disappeared and uncovered the basic unity of France.Less
During the third phase of the funeral, the deceased was incorporated into the world of the dead. The great man moved gradually back from the public to the private sphere, ready to join the other illustrious ancestors who had already undergone the same process of consecration. The first step in that direction took place in a closed farewell ceremony at a church or another civil monument. The farewell ceremony — except the one at the Panthéon — had three parts: religious, civil, and military. After the religious ritual inside the church, the coffin was brought out to the square in front of it, where the participants listened to a funeral oration and watched an army parade saluting the body. After the parade, the coffin was either brought back into the church for a burial or taken to a burial at a cemetery. This chapter focuses on the burial and the resonance of the funeral and how state funerals provide a rare moment in which politics disappeared and uncovered the basic unity of France.
Xiaoyu Pu
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781503606838
- eISBN:
- 9781503607866
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503606838.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter opens with a conceptual analysis of how China signals a higher status through conspicuous consumption in international relations. It then turns to the importance of domestic audience and ...
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This chapter opens with a conceptual analysis of how China signals a higher status through conspicuous consumption in international relations. It then turns to the importance of domestic audience and nationalism. The chapter discusses China’s aircraft carrier project and 2015 military parade, examining the underlying motivations and comparing the status signaling argument with competing approaches.Less
This chapter opens with a conceptual analysis of how China signals a higher status through conspicuous consumption in international relations. It then turns to the importance of domestic audience and nationalism. The chapter discusses China’s aircraft carrier project and 2015 military parade, examining the underlying motivations and comparing the status signaling argument with competing approaches.
Lee A. Smithey
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195395877
- eISBN:
- 9780199914470
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395877.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Orange Order parades provide another opportunity to observe the slow reinterpretation of collective identities through the incremental modification of collective activities. The leadership of the ...
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Orange Order parades provide another opportunity to observe the slow reinterpretation of collective identities through the incremental modification of collective activities. The leadership of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has developed a range of public relations programs designed to build its cultural and political capital. Public engagement and persuasion have come to replace the order’s reliance on majoritarian politics and British privilege, reflecting the broader transformation of Northern Ireland’s conflict. The chapter uses the emerging Orange strategy and other initiatives developed by unionists and loyalists to adapt and expand Todd’s classification of types of change in collective identity categories. The author’s scheme captures strategies of identification and dissonance that may emerge as new cultural practices are developed in response to new social and political circumstances.Less
Orange Order parades provide another opportunity to observe the slow reinterpretation of collective identities through the incremental modification of collective activities. The leadership of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has developed a range of public relations programs designed to build its cultural and political capital. Public engagement and persuasion have come to replace the order’s reliance on majoritarian politics and British privilege, reflecting the broader transformation of Northern Ireland’s conflict. The chapter uses the emerging Orange strategy and other initiatives developed by unionists and loyalists to adapt and expand Todd’s classification of types of change in collective identity categories. The author’s scheme captures strategies of identification and dissonance that may emerge as new cultural practices are developed in response to new social and political circumstances.
Charlotte Jones
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780748694266
- eISBN:
- 9781474412391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694266.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines Ford’s Parade’s End in comparison to Rebecca’s West’s earlier novella, The Return of the Soldier, exploring the different ways in which their respective protagonists ‘work ...
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This chapter examines Ford’s Parade’s End in comparison to Rebecca’s West’s earlier novella, The Return of the Soldier, exploring the different ways in which their respective protagonists ‘work through’ the psychological and emotional legacy of war. Opening with an initial survey of contemporary responses to the newly-emergent condition ‘shell shock’ – medical definitions, military classifications and the emerging field of psychoanalysis as theorised by Freud and W. H. R. Rivers – the chapter goes on to discuss Ford and West’s engagement with these discourses in their fiction as both attempt to imagine the possibilities for the reintegration of the mind after the return from war. It concludes by exploring the ways in which this paradigm of psychological trauma contributes to the authors’ literary modernism.Less
This chapter examines Ford’s Parade’s End in comparison to Rebecca’s West’s earlier novella, The Return of the Soldier, exploring the different ways in which their respective protagonists ‘work through’ the psychological and emotional legacy of war. Opening with an initial survey of contemporary responses to the newly-emergent condition ‘shell shock’ – medical definitions, military classifications and the emerging field of psychoanalysis as theorised by Freud and W. H. R. Rivers – the chapter goes on to discuss Ford and West’s engagement with these discourses in their fiction as both attempt to imagine the possibilities for the reintegration of the mind after the return from war. It concludes by exploring the ways in which this paradigm of psychological trauma contributes to the authors’ literary modernism.
Leslie de Bont
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780748694266
- eISBN:
- 9781474412391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694266.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses the complex representations of war heroism in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End and in May Sinclair’s four war novels: Tasker Jevons: The Real Story (1916), The Tree of Heaven ...
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This chapter discusses the complex representations of war heroism in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End and in May Sinclair’s four war novels: Tasker Jevons: The Real Story (1916), The Tree of Heaven (1917), The Romantic (1920), and Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922). It argues that Ford and Sinclair, albeit differently, helped forge a new type of literary war heroism through their specific use of Freudian psychoanalysis. With Ford and Sinclair, heroism is transferred from the expected war records to the many intellectual and psychological battles fought by the soldiers’ minds. The antecedents, thoughts, feelings, impressions, and unconscious mind of the soldiers are the main focus of Ford and Sinclair’s construction of war heroism. This chapter argues that the experience of fragmentation, the struggle for continuity through culture, and the impossibility of a return to civilian life are three of the key dynamics in Ford and Sinclair’s portrayal of their modernist heroes.Less
This chapter discusses the complex representations of war heroism in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End and in May Sinclair’s four war novels: Tasker Jevons: The Real Story (1916), The Tree of Heaven (1917), The Romantic (1920), and Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922). It argues that Ford and Sinclair, albeit differently, helped forge a new type of literary war heroism through their specific use of Freudian psychoanalysis. With Ford and Sinclair, heroism is transferred from the expected war records to the many intellectual and psychological battles fought by the soldiers’ minds. The antecedents, thoughts, feelings, impressions, and unconscious mind of the soldiers are the main focus of Ford and Sinclair’s construction of war heroism. This chapter argues that the experience of fragmentation, the struggle for continuity through culture, and the impossibility of a return to civilian life are three of the key dynamics in Ford and Sinclair’s portrayal of their modernist heroes.
Richard Lischer
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195111323
- eISBN:
- 9780199853298
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195111323.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
From the start of 1955, King's leadership of the Movement was a precise act of interpretation executed in the reflection of the Bible's imagery, stories, and characters: the morning star of freedom ...
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From the start of 1955, King's leadership of the Movement was a precise act of interpretation executed in the reflection of the Bible's imagery, stories, and characters: the morning star of freedom reflected the darkness of a normal Southern city. Baptist and Methodist Rotarians were tagged and assumed the role of “the pharaohs of the South.” A festive parade of a thousand supporters along a state highway represented the Exodus from Egypt. Blood-stained Negros enacted the mystery of unmerited pain. All of this was presided over by the black Moses who was willing to do anything for his people.Less
From the start of 1955, King's leadership of the Movement was a precise act of interpretation executed in the reflection of the Bible's imagery, stories, and characters: the morning star of freedom reflected the darkness of a normal Southern city. Baptist and Methodist Rotarians were tagged and assumed the role of “the pharaohs of the South.” A festive parade of a thousand supporters along a state highway represented the Exodus from Egypt. Blood-stained Negros enacted the mystery of unmerited pain. All of this was presided over by the black Moses who was willing to do anything for his people.
Stacy Wolf
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195378238
- eISBN:
- 9780199897018
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195378238.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
Chapter 5 discusses a group of musicals produced around 2000 that foreground race / ethnicity as well as gender: Parade, Caroline, or Change, The Color Purple, and In the Heights. By studying key ...
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Chapter 5 discusses a group of musicals produced around 2000 that foreground race / ethnicity as well as gender: Parade, Caroline, or Change, The Color Purple, and In the Heights. By studying key conventional moments in each musical—the female protagonist’s first and last numbers—this chapter maps out the interdependence of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Broadway musicals. By the 1990s and the millennium, with “multiculturalism,” “diversity,” and Third Wave feminism in the air, the slightly-behind-the-times Broadway musical stage made a concerted effort to represent people of color. A number of musicals opened in a variety of forms and formats and told stories that centrally featured women of color. These musicals used the tools that had been around since the 1950s—the opening declarative solo number and powerful 11 o’clock number—and affirmed African American, Latina, and Jewish women as self-determining, self-assertive individuals and Broadway’s stars.Less
Chapter 5 discusses a group of musicals produced around 2000 that foreground race / ethnicity as well as gender: Parade, Caroline, or Change, The Color Purple, and In the Heights. By studying key conventional moments in each musical—the female protagonist’s first and last numbers—this chapter maps out the interdependence of race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Broadway musicals. By the 1990s and the millennium, with “multiculturalism,” “diversity,” and Third Wave feminism in the air, the slightly-behind-the-times Broadway musical stage made a concerted effort to represent people of color. A number of musicals opened in a variety of forms and formats and told stories that centrally featured women of color. These musicals used the tools that had been around since the 1950s—the opening declarative solo number and powerful 11 o’clock number—and affirmed African American, Latina, and Jewish women as self-determining, self-assertive individuals and Broadway’s stars.
New York Times
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814757437
- eISBN:
- 9780814763469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814757437.003.0041
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter describes a parade honoring the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution. It shows a gathering of around 5,000 to 6,000 Polish, Romanian, German, and Russian Jews at Rutgers Square in East ...
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This chapter describes a parade honoring the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution. It shows a gathering of around 5,000 to 6,000 Polish, Romanian, German, and Russian Jews at Rutgers Square in East Broadway on the first anniversary of Red Sunday. They marched through the lower east side up to Union Square, where they assembled to hear half a dozen speeches denunciatory of the Czar and to adopt resolutions calling for Russian freedom. Notable figures in the socialist and activist world came forward to deliver speeches expressing sympathy for the Jews in Russia and demanding socialist reforms in the United States, among others.Less
This chapter describes a parade honoring the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution. It shows a gathering of around 5,000 to 6,000 Polish, Romanian, German, and Russian Jews at Rutgers Square in East Broadway on the first anniversary of Red Sunday. They marched through the lower east side up to Union Square, where they assembled to hear half a dozen speeches denunciatory of the Czar and to adopt resolutions calling for Russian freedom. Notable figures in the socialist and activist world came forward to deliver speeches expressing sympathy for the Jews in Russia and demanding socialist reforms in the United States, among others.
Balmiki Prasad Singh
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198060635
- eISBN:
- 9780199080250
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198060635.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter begins by discussing the British approach to culture which was shaped by their policies of laissez-faire and paternalism. Subsequently leaders of the new republic approached the cultural ...
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This chapter begins by discussing the British approach to culture which was shaped by their policies of laissez-faire and paternalism. Subsequently leaders of the new republic approached the cultural issues with considerable sensitivity. It is a faithful portrait of dialogues between officials and leaders about the Republic Day parade which conveys the military and cultural strength of a vibrant nation. The aim is to present an insight into the cultural climate of the early years of the Indian Republic. The chapter mentions how Nehru's purchased paintings of Sass Brunner and Elizabeth Brunner and a series of letters written to Abul Kalam Azad which created the contour of government art purchase schemes. It is necessary in the realm of culture and the arts to consciously work towards revival of the spirit of the freedom struggle and the transparency with which the leaders and cultural personalities worked in the early years of the Indian Republic.Less
This chapter begins by discussing the British approach to culture which was shaped by their policies of laissez-faire and paternalism. Subsequently leaders of the new republic approached the cultural issues with considerable sensitivity. It is a faithful portrait of dialogues between officials and leaders about the Republic Day parade which conveys the military and cultural strength of a vibrant nation. The aim is to present an insight into the cultural climate of the early years of the Indian Republic. The chapter mentions how Nehru's purchased paintings of Sass Brunner and Elizabeth Brunner and a series of letters written to Abul Kalam Azad which created the contour of government art purchase schemes. It is necessary in the realm of culture and the arts to consciously work towards revival of the spirit of the freedom struggle and the transparency with which the leaders and cultural personalities worked in the early years of the Indian Republic.
James Bohn
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812148
- eISBN:
- 9781496812186
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812148.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
Dumbo and Bambi both feature young animal protagonists who become separated from their mothers. Despite these similarities, the two movies are quite different in tone, imagery, narrative, character, ...
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Dumbo and Bambi both feature young animal protagonists who become separated from their mothers. Despite these similarities, the two movies are quite different in tone, imagery, narrative, character, and approach to dialog. Accordingly, the scores to these films are quite unique, with Dumbo focusing more on songs, while Bambi features underscoring that is much more in character with Classical music. The chapter features an analysis of “Pink Elephants on Parade” highlighting tune’s oddities. Racial references in “When I See an Elephant Fly” are identified. Several leitmotifs and themes from Edward Plumb’s score to Bambi are also investigated.Less
Dumbo and Bambi both feature young animal protagonists who become separated from their mothers. Despite these similarities, the two movies are quite different in tone, imagery, narrative, character, and approach to dialog. Accordingly, the scores to these films are quite unique, with Dumbo focusing more on songs, while Bambi features underscoring that is much more in character with Classical music. The chapter features an analysis of “Pink Elephants on Parade” highlighting tune’s oddities. Racial references in “When I See an Elephant Fly” are identified. Several leitmotifs and themes from Edward Plumb’s score to Bambi are also investigated.
Mary Ryan
- Published in print:
- 1989
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520064287
- eISBN:
- 9780520908925
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520064287.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
This chapter shows how critical a historical understanding of ritual can be by demonstrating how parading changed in function over time. It also discusses the role of gender in these constructions of ...
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This chapter shows how critical a historical understanding of ritual can be by demonstrating how parading changed in function over time. It also discusses the role of gender in these constructions of civic identity. It then reveals that gender was one of the most critical lines of differentiation in culture and society. The parade constitutes the public, ceremonial language whereby nineteenth-century Americans made order out of an urban universe that teemed with diversity and change. The American parades of 1825 to 1880 document the development of such concepts as class, ethnicity, and gender, all in forms that were legible to contemporaries. The parade was an exercise in self-discipline as well as social discipline. Parades continue to this day, providing a ceremonial method of forging and asserting the diverse social identities that compose American culture.Less
This chapter shows how critical a historical understanding of ritual can be by demonstrating how parading changed in function over time. It also discusses the role of gender in these constructions of civic identity. It then reveals that gender was one of the most critical lines of differentiation in culture and society. The parade constitutes the public, ceremonial language whereby nineteenth-century Americans made order out of an urban universe that teemed with diversity and change. The American parades of 1825 to 1880 document the development of such concepts as class, ethnicity, and gender, all in forms that were legible to contemporaries. The parade was an exercise in self-discipline as well as social discipline. Parades continue to this day, providing a ceremonial method of forging and asserting the diverse social identities that compose American culture.
Jonathan S. Blake
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190915582
- eISBN:
- 9780190915612
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190915582.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change, Sociology of Religion
Why do people participate in controversial symbolic events that drive wedges between groups and occasionally spark violence? This book examines this question through an in-depth case study of ...
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Why do people participate in controversial symbolic events that drive wedges between groups and occasionally spark violence? This book examines this question through an in-depth case study of Northern Ireland. Protestant organizations perform over 2,500 parades across Northern Ireland each year. Protestants tend to see the parades as festive occasions that celebrate Protestant history and culture. Catholics, however, tend to see them as hateful, intimidating, and triumphalist. As a result, parades have been a major source of conflict in the years since the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This book examines why, given the often negative consequences, people choose to participate in these parades. Drawing on theories from the study of contentious politics and the study of ritual, the book argues that paraders are more interested in the benefits intrinsic to participation in a communal ritual than the external consequences of their action. The book presents analysis of original quantitative and qualitative data to support this argument and to test it against prominent alternative explanations. Interview, survey, and ethnographic data are also used to explore issues central to parade participation, including identity expression, commemoration, tradition, the pleasures of participation, and communicating a message to outside audiences. The book additionally examines a paradox at the center of parading: while most observers see parades as political events, the participants do not. Altogether, the book offers a new perspective on politics and culture in the aftermath of ethnic violence.Less
Why do people participate in controversial symbolic events that drive wedges between groups and occasionally spark violence? This book examines this question through an in-depth case study of Northern Ireland. Protestant organizations perform over 2,500 parades across Northern Ireland each year. Protestants tend to see the parades as festive occasions that celebrate Protestant history and culture. Catholics, however, tend to see them as hateful, intimidating, and triumphalist. As a result, parades have been a major source of conflict in the years since the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This book examines why, given the often negative consequences, people choose to participate in these parades. Drawing on theories from the study of contentious politics and the study of ritual, the book argues that paraders are more interested in the benefits intrinsic to participation in a communal ritual than the external consequences of their action. The book presents analysis of original quantitative and qualitative data to support this argument and to test it against prominent alternative explanations. Interview, survey, and ethnographic data are also used to explore issues central to parade participation, including identity expression, commemoration, tradition, the pleasures of participation, and communicating a message to outside audiences. The book additionally examines a paradox at the center of parading: while most observers see parades as political events, the participants do not. Altogether, the book offers a new perspective on politics and culture in the aftermath of ethnic violence.
