Emily Greenwood
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199575244
- eISBN:
- 9780191722189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575244.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter proposes that one of the ways in which Caribbean Classics has been liberated from the colonial curriculum is through the rejection of the idea of a continuous transmission of empire from ...
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This chapter proposes that one of the ways in which Caribbean Classics has been liberated from the colonial curriculum is through the rejection of the idea of a continuous transmission of empire from Rome's empire to the British Empire. Starting with Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe (2002), the chapter traces variations on this theme in V. S. Naipaul (The Mimic Men (1967), and A Bend in the River (1979) ), and the poetry of Derek Walcott. These writers each play with the misquotation and mistranslation of Latin in modern Caribbean literature in order to expose gaps and elisions in British colonial appropriations of Classics. It transpires that the misquotation of Latin in these texts is not a simple matter. Particularly in Clarke and Naipaul, misquotation shows up a miscarriage in the process of translation and, correspondingly, a miscarriage in the succession of empire. If the classical texts quoted in colonial contexts mean something else, or are misquoted, then the narrative of imperial continuity (the translatio studii et imperii) loses cogency.Less
This chapter proposes that one of the ways in which Caribbean Classics has been liberated from the colonial curriculum is through the rejection of the idea of a continuous transmission of empire from Rome's empire to the British Empire. Starting with Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe (2002), the chapter traces variations on this theme in V. S. Naipaul (The Mimic Men (1967), and A Bend in the River (1979) ), and the poetry of Derek Walcott. These writers each play with the misquotation and mistranslation of Latin in modern Caribbean literature in order to expose gaps and elisions in British colonial appropriations of Classics. It transpires that the misquotation of Latin in these texts is not a simple matter. Particularly in Clarke and Naipaul, misquotation shows up a miscarriage in the process of translation and, correspondingly, a miscarriage in the succession of empire. If the classical texts quoted in colonial contexts mean something else, or are misquoted, then the narrative of imperial continuity (the translatio studii et imperii) loses cogency.
Charlotte Greenspan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195111101
- eISBN:
- 9780199865703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195111101.003.0018
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter begins by detailing the personal losses experienced by Dorothy in 1958, namely the death of Michael Todd in a plane crash on March 22; the death of her brother and collaborator, Herb ...
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This chapter begins by detailing the personal losses experienced by Dorothy in 1958, namely the death of Michael Todd in a plane crash on March 22; the death of her brother and collaborator, Herb Fields on March 24, due to a heart attack at age sixty; and the death of her husband just a few months later. It then describes her return to Broadway via the musical Sweet Charity in 1966.Less
This chapter begins by detailing the personal losses experienced by Dorothy in 1958, namely the death of Michael Todd in a plane crash on March 22; the death of her brother and collaborator, Herb Fields on March 24, due to a heart attack at age sixty; and the death of her husband just a few months later. It then describes her return to Broadway via the musical Sweet Charity in 1966.
Tony Whitehead
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719072369
- eISBN:
- 9781781703298
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719072369.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the ...
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Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, it challenges the critical privileging of realism in histories of British cinema, placing the emphasis instead on the importance of comedy and humour: of jokes and their functions; of laughter as a survival mechanism; and of characterisations and situations that disrupt our preconceptions of ‘realism’. Striving for the all-important quality of truth in everything he does, Leigh has consistently shown how ordinary lives are too complex to fit snugly into the conventions of narrative art. From the bittersweet observation of Life is Sweet or Secrets and Lies, to the blistering satire of Naked and the manifest compassion of Vera Drake, he has demonstrated a matchless ability to perceive life's funny side as well as its tragedies.Less
Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, it challenges the critical privileging of realism in histories of British cinema, placing the emphasis instead on the importance of comedy and humour: of jokes and their functions; of laughter as a survival mechanism; and of characterisations and situations that disrupt our preconceptions of ‘realism’. Striving for the all-important quality of truth in everything he does, Leigh has consistently shown how ordinary lives are too complex to fit snugly into the conventions of narrative art. From the bittersweet observation of Life is Sweet or Secrets and Lies, to the blistering satire of Naked and the manifest compassion of Vera Drake, he has demonstrated a matchless ability to perceive life's funny side as well as its tragedies.
R. Allen Lott
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195148831
- eISBN:
- 9780199869695
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148831.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Sigismund Thalberg (1812-71) was the one pianist to rival Liszt in the 1830s. Bernard Ullman, with a decade of managerial experience, masterminded Thalberg's two-year American tour (1856-8) that ...
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Sigismund Thalberg (1812-71) was the one pianist to rival Liszt in the 1830s. Bernard Ullman, with a decade of managerial experience, masterminded Thalberg's two-year American tour (1856-8) that included almost nightly concerts and totaled at least 340 concerts in seventy-eight cities. Thalberg found devoted audiences that returned over and over again to hear flawless performances of his celebrated virtuoso showpieces. While in the US, he also wrote variations on “The Last Rose of Summer” and “Home, Sweet Home”, the latter extremely successful. Ullman arranged a continuously changing roster of assisting artists that included singers and the American pianists Louis Moreau Gottschalk and William Mason. His performances of Beethoven concertos were a significant departure for a visiting virtuoso and were well received.Less
Sigismund Thalberg (1812-71) was the one pianist to rival Liszt in the 1830s. Bernard Ullman, with a decade of managerial experience, masterminded Thalberg's two-year American tour (1856-8) that included almost nightly concerts and totaled at least 340 concerts in seventy-eight cities. Thalberg found devoted audiences that returned over and over again to hear flawless performances of his celebrated virtuoso showpieces. While in the US, he also wrote variations on “The Last Rose of Summer” and “Home, Sweet Home”, the latter extremely successful. Ullman arranged a continuously changing roster of assisting artists that included singers and the American pianists Louis Moreau Gottschalk and William Mason. His performances of Beethoven concertos were a significant departure for a visiting virtuoso and were well received.
Lewis V. Baldwin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195380316
- eISBN:
- 9780199869299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380316.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Martin Luther King, Jr.s upbringing in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1930s and ’40s is treated, with some focus on how “the Ebenezer tradition” and the larger African ...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.s upbringing in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1930s and ’40s is treated, with some focus on how “the Ebenezer tradition” and the larger African American church culture in Atlanta and the South impacted his growing understanding of and vision for the Christian church as a whole, from his childhood to his adult years. As the son and grandson of Ebenezer pastors and of pious women who were an active presence in that congregation for generations, King is pictured as one who always attached great significance to the church and church-related concerns. His early sense of the church as “a second home,” as extended family, as the fountainhead of culture, as a refuge, as educational center, as custodian of a deep and vital spirituality, and as a benchmark for congregational activism is underscored. The chapter concludes with attention to King’s struggle to negotiate the boundaries between the Christian fundamentalism to which he was exposed at Ebenezer and the theological liberalism he studied as a student at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University.Less
Martin Luther King, Jr.s upbringing in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1930s and ’40s is treated, with some focus on how “the Ebenezer tradition” and the larger African American church culture in Atlanta and the South impacted his growing understanding of and vision for the Christian church as a whole, from his childhood to his adult years. As the son and grandson of Ebenezer pastors and of pious women who were an active presence in that congregation for generations, King is pictured as one who always attached great significance to the church and church-related concerns. His early sense of the church as “a second home,” as extended family, as the fountainhead of culture, as a refuge, as educational center, as custodian of a deep and vital spirituality, and as a benchmark for congregational activism is underscored. The chapter concludes with attention to King’s struggle to negotiate the boundaries between the Christian fundamentalism to which he was exposed at Ebenezer and the theological liberalism he studied as a student at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University.
John Wigger
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195387803
- eISBN:
- 9780199866410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387803.003.0025
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
The novel The Damnation of Theron Ware captures the shift to respectability among nineteenth‐century Methodists that Asbury had feared and many nineteenth‐century “croakers” decried. Through the ...
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The novel The Damnation of Theron Ware captures the shift to respectability among nineteenth‐century Methodists that Asbury had feared and many nineteenth‐century “croakers” decried. Through the nineteenth century, observers, including Ezekiel Cooper, Nathan Bangs, Abel Stevens, and Edward Drinkhouse, bent Asbury’s legacy to serve their own purposes. Twentieth‐century writers, most prominently William Warren Sweet, also used Asbury’s legacy to promote their own vision for the church, as did the backers of a bronze monument of Asbury on horseback dedicated in Washington, D.C., in October 1924. Asbury’s image was treated with far less respect by writers such as Herbert Asbury, who published a cynical and mostly fictional biography of Asbury in 1927. Asbury is better understood through an appreciation of his piety, his ability to connect with others, his cultural sensitivity, and his administrative abilities.Less
The novel The Damnation of Theron Ware captures the shift to respectability among nineteenth‐century Methodists that Asbury had feared and many nineteenth‐century “croakers” decried. Through the nineteenth century, observers, including Ezekiel Cooper, Nathan Bangs, Abel Stevens, and Edward Drinkhouse, bent Asbury’s legacy to serve their own purposes. Twentieth‐century writers, most prominently William Warren Sweet, also used Asbury’s legacy to promote their own vision for the church, as did the backers of a bronze monument of Asbury on horseback dedicated in Washington, D.C., in October 1924. Asbury’s image was treated with far less respect by writers such as Herbert Asbury, who published a cynical and mostly fictional biography of Asbury in 1927. Asbury is better understood through an appreciation of his piety, his ability to connect with others, his cultural sensitivity, and his administrative abilities.
Robert Wyatt and John Andrew Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195327113
- eISBN:
- 9780199851249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327113.003.0019
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
This chapter presents an excerpt from Alec Wilder's 1972 book titled American Popular Song: The Great Innovators. This book is about the successful opening the musical Tip-Toes in December 1925, ...
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This chapter presents an excerpt from Alec Wilder's 1972 book titled American Popular Song: The Great Innovators. This book is about the successful opening the musical Tip-Toes in December 1925, which was written by George and Ira Gershwin. Wilder compares the show to other musicals and suggestes that it had the most excellent opening number in the song The Certain Feeling and the most number of memorable hit songs including Looking for a Boy, Sweet and Low-Down, and Nice Baby!. He also describes the uniqueness of George's compositions.Less
This chapter presents an excerpt from Alec Wilder's 1972 book titled American Popular Song: The Great Innovators. This book is about the successful opening the musical Tip-Toes in December 1925, which was written by George and Ira Gershwin. Wilder compares the show to other musicals and suggestes that it had the most excellent opening number in the song The Certain Feeling and the most number of memorable hit songs including Looking for a Boy, Sweet and Low-Down, and Nice Baby!. He also describes the uniqueness of George's compositions.
April Merleaux
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469622514
- eISBN:
- 9781469622538
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469622514.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the ...
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In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations prominently featured candy and other sweets, Americans saw sugar as the reward for their global ambitions. This book demonstrates that trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic interventions. As America's sweet tooth grew, people debated tariffs, immigration, and empire, all of which hastened the nation's rise as an international power. These dynamics played out in the bureaucracies of Washington, D.C., in the pages of local newspapers, and at local candy counters. This book argues that ideas about race and civilization shaped sugar markets since government policies and business practices hinged on the racial characteristics of the people who worked the land and consumed its products. Connecting the history of sugarto its producers, consumers, and policy makers, the text shows that the modern American sugar habit took shape in the shadow of a growing empire.Less
In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations prominently featured candy and other sweets, Americans saw sugar as the reward for their global ambitions. This book demonstrates that trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic interventions. As America's sweet tooth grew, people debated tariffs, immigration, and empire, all of which hastened the nation's rise as an international power. These dynamics played out in the bureaucracies of Washington, D.C., in the pages of local newspapers, and at local candy counters. This book argues that ideas about race and civilization shaped sugar markets since government policies and business practices hinged on the racial characteristics of the people who worked the land and consumed its products. Connecting the history of sugarto its producers, consumers, and policy makers, the text shows that the modern American sugar habit took shape in the shadow of a growing empire.
Greg Walker
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199283330
- eISBN:
- 9780191712630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199283330.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter focuses on two of Elyot’s later dialogues: his translation of a sermon of St. Cyprian counselling the faithful in times of persecution and his collection of adagia, The Banquet of ...
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This chapter focuses on two of Elyot’s later dialogues: his translation of a sermon of St. Cyprian counselling the faithful in times of persecution and his collection of adagia, The Banquet of Sapience, each of which seems designed to reflect upon the increasing pressures placed upon the regular religious and critics of the royal supremacy and break with Rome in these years.Less
This chapter focuses on two of Elyot’s later dialogues: his translation of a sermon of St. Cyprian counselling the faithful in times of persecution and his collection of adagia, The Banquet of Sapience, each of which seems designed to reflect upon the increasing pressures placed upon the regular religious and critics of the royal supremacy and break with Rome in these years.
Suellen Hoy
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195111286
- eISBN:
- 9780199854011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195111286.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter tackles the aftermath of war where crusades for cleanliness reappeared as lack of hygiene posed new threats to the health and well-being of the nation and its citizenry posed an even ...
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This chapter tackles the aftermath of war where crusades for cleanliness reappeared as lack of hygiene posed new threats to the health and well-being of the nation and its citizenry posed an even great danger. Recognizing that the country's welfare and health depended on cleanliness, sanitarians once again urged Americans to observe sanitation. Citing experience gained from the war, there were steps made to curtail diseases but public apathy hindered reforms and public health recommendations. The chapter also discusses the adverse effect on cleanliness of the fast-rising industrialization of American cities that brought in multitudes of new people. Although not a cause of the cholera epidemic, crowded cities combined with the filthy surroundings of the metropolis accelerated the dispersion of disease. The terrifying cause of disease, especially cholera, prompted officials to create water sewers and impose rationing of clean water. It also prompted the involvement of various people and groups to upholding a level of cleanliness. Significant were Waring whose drainage expertise helped several American cities, Ada Sweet who headed the war against the filthy streets of Chicago, and Bartlett who adapted the methods of Waring.Less
This chapter tackles the aftermath of war where crusades for cleanliness reappeared as lack of hygiene posed new threats to the health and well-being of the nation and its citizenry posed an even great danger. Recognizing that the country's welfare and health depended on cleanliness, sanitarians once again urged Americans to observe sanitation. Citing experience gained from the war, there were steps made to curtail diseases but public apathy hindered reforms and public health recommendations. The chapter also discusses the adverse effect on cleanliness of the fast-rising industrialization of American cities that brought in multitudes of new people. Although not a cause of the cholera epidemic, crowded cities combined with the filthy surroundings of the metropolis accelerated the dispersion of disease. The terrifying cause of disease, especially cholera, prompted officials to create water sewers and impose rationing of clean water. It also prompted the involvement of various people and groups to upholding a level of cleanliness. Significant were Waring whose drainage expertise helped several American cities, Ada Sweet who headed the war against the filthy streets of Chicago, and Bartlett who adapted the methods of Waring.
Robert C. Solomon
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- November 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780195145502
- eISBN:
- 9780199834969
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019514550X.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Finally, I return to the theme of sentimentality with a particular focus on art and what is often called “kitsch” I ask, as I did for sentimentality in general, What's wrong with kitsch? And I defend ...
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Finally, I return to the theme of sentimentality with a particular focus on art and what is often called “kitsch” I ask, as I did for sentimentality in general, What's wrong with kitsch? And I defend it, as I did for sentimentality, by suggesting that the attacks on kitsch are often not what they seem to be.Less
Finally, I return to the theme of sentimentality with a particular focus on art and what is often called “kitsch” I ask, as I did for sentimentality in general, What's wrong with kitsch? And I defend it, as I did for sentimentality, by suggesting that the attacks on kitsch are often not what they seem to be.
Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469646862
- eISBN:
- 9781469646886
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646862.003.0004
- Subject:
- Education, Higher and Further Education
Strategy is about being different and about making hard choices but a university community is governed by consensus and therefore resists direction from the top and has difficulty choosing between ...
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Strategy is about being different and about making hard choices but a university community is governed by consensus and therefore resists direction from the top and has difficulty choosing between competing priorities generated from below that create winners and losers. Nevertheless, external forces such as changing demographics, financial realities and emerging technology will force rapid change either voluntarily or involuntarily. The schools that survive will be those who develop an effective strategy and stick to it.Less
Strategy is about being different and about making hard choices but a university community is governed by consensus and therefore resists direction from the top and has difficulty choosing between competing priorities generated from below that create winners and losers. Nevertheless, external forces such as changing demographics, financial realities and emerging technology will force rapid change either voluntarily or involuntarily. The schools that survive will be those who develop an effective strategy and stick to it.
Anne Dufourmantelle
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823279586
- eISBN:
- 9780823281459
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823279586.003.0024
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Joy is one of the names of gentleness. Gentleness is not a quality of being, but pure presence. The sweet taste of sugar is gentleness’s universal metaphor. Gentleness opposes passion and the game of ...
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Joy is one of the names of gentleness. Gentleness is not a quality of being, but pure presence. The sweet taste of sugar is gentleness’s universal metaphor. Gentleness opposes passion and the game of narcissistic mirrors that which passion encourages. There can be gentleness in fear.Less
Joy is one of the names of gentleness. Gentleness is not a quality of being, but pure presence. The sweet taste of sugar is gentleness’s universal metaphor. Gentleness opposes passion and the game of narcissistic mirrors that which passion encourages. There can be gentleness in fear.
John Franceschina
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199754298
- eISBN:
- 9780199949878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199754298.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, Popular
After Hermes Pan completed work on Betty Grable’s Sweet Rosie O’Grady he was invited by Cole Porter to choreograph Mexican Hayride on Broadway but refused, preferring to continue his career on the ...
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After Hermes Pan completed work on Betty Grable’s Sweet Rosie O’Grady he was invited by Cole Porter to choreograph Mexican Hayride on Broadway but refused, preferring to continue his career on the West Coast. Following the production of Pin Up Girl, however, Pan grew dissatisfied with Hollywood and entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani with the view of becoming a monk. Realizing that monastic life was not to his taste, he returned to the West Coast only to be introduced to muralist Diego Rivera who invited Pan to Mexico and painted his portrait. Back at Fox Pan continues turning out musical films including Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair before he is lent out to Paramount to choreograph Irving Berlin’s Blue Skies starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby and featuring “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” After the completion of That Lady in Ermine, Fox drops Pan’s option.Less
After Hermes Pan completed work on Betty Grable’s Sweet Rosie O’Grady he was invited by Cole Porter to choreograph Mexican Hayride on Broadway but refused, preferring to continue his career on the West Coast. Following the production of Pin Up Girl, however, Pan grew dissatisfied with Hollywood and entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani with the view of becoming a monk. Realizing that monastic life was not to his taste, he returned to the West Coast only to be introduced to muralist Diego Rivera who invited Pan to Mexico and painted his portrait. Back at Fox Pan continues turning out musical films including Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair before he is lent out to Paramount to choreograph Irving Berlin’s Blue Skies starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby and featuring “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” After the completion of That Lady in Ermine, Fox drops Pan’s option.
April Merleaux
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469622514
- eISBN:
- 9781469622538
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469622514.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter focuses on the emergence of a mass market for inexpensive sweets during the 1920s that catered mostly to working-and middle-class consumers. It examines the role played by government ...
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This chapter focuses on the emergence of a mass market for inexpensive sweets during the 1920s that catered mostly to working-and middle-class consumers. It examines the role played by government agencies, candy producers' trade organizations, and urban and rural workers in shaping candy sales. It considers how the confectionery industry, in creating and differentiating markets for various grades of candy, relied on older racial stereotypes about working-class consumers' preferences for less-refined sweets. It also looks at the rise of new forms of labor and consumer culture that contributed to the remarkable increase in sugar production and consumption during the period. The chapter argues that southern candy makers tailored their final products according to the race of the target consumers, and that work in southern candy factories was segregated to reflect what it calls the Jim Crow candy hierarchy.Less
This chapter focuses on the emergence of a mass market for inexpensive sweets during the 1920s that catered mostly to working-and middle-class consumers. It examines the role played by government agencies, candy producers' trade organizations, and urban and rural workers in shaping candy sales. It considers how the confectionery industry, in creating and differentiating markets for various grades of candy, relied on older racial stereotypes about working-class consumers' preferences for less-refined sweets. It also looks at the rise of new forms of labor and consumer culture that contributed to the remarkable increase in sugar production and consumption during the period. The chapter argues that southern candy makers tailored their final products according to the race of the target consumers, and that work in southern candy factories was segregated to reflect what it calls the Jim Crow candy hierarchy.
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/9780195378238.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
In the 1960s, the book musical still dominated; the story’s structure took precedence and songs enhanced the emotional aspect of the story. Different kinds of stories also appeared and more musicals ...
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In the 1960s, the book musical still dominated; the story’s structure took precedence and songs enhanced the emotional aspect of the story. Different kinds of stories also appeared and more musicals featured a woman as a central character rather than only as part of a heterosexual couple. This chapter focuses on 1960s musicals that featured women on stage alone in song and dance, but that weren’t sure whether to celebrate them or to punish them. It is organized around the social phenomenon of the 1960s Single Girl in Sweet Charity, Cabaret, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Oliver!, and Man of La Mancha represent that figure (or a middle-aged version of her) on the Broadway musical stage. This chapter focuses on the convention of dance and movement and asks how those elements at once express anxiety about the single woman and greatly empower her.Less
In the 1960s, the book musical still dominated; the story’s structure took precedence and songs enhanced the emotional aspect of the story. Different kinds of stories also appeared and more musicals featured a woman as a central character rather than only as part of a heterosexual couple. This chapter focuses on 1960s musicals that featured women on stage alone in song and dance, but that weren’t sure whether to celebrate them or to punish them. It is organized around the social phenomenon of the 1960s Single Girl in Sweet Charity, Cabaret, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Oliver!, and Man of La Mancha represent that figure (or a middle-aged version of her) on the Broadway musical stage. This chapter focuses on the convention of dance and movement and asks how those elements at once express anxiety about the single woman and greatly empower her.
David Clarke
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748678891
- eISBN:
- 9780748689286
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748678891.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
This chapter completes the Glasgow story covering the huge expansion of teaching and research in astronomy locally, nationally and internationally from the 1950s. Following Smart's retirement, Peter ...
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This chapter completes the Glasgow story covering the huge expansion of teaching and research in astronomy locally, nationally and internationally from the 1950s. Following Smart's retirement, Peter Sweet was appointed as Chair holder; he had international acclaim through the headings of ‘Eddington-Sweet circulation’ and ‘Sweet-Parker magnetic recombination’. His research into solar matters led to the analyses of data from satellite platforms advanced by his student John Brown who later became 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the first not to have direct connection with Edinburgh University, and then 10th holder of the Glasgow Regius Chair. Solar space-based studies now form the main research themes of the group. Another strong research theme has been in astrodynamics under the lead of Professor Archie Roy. New observatories at Acre Road and Cochno are described. Optical polarimetry both from observational and theoretical standpoints has also been a successful theme. Instruments developed in Glasgow have been taken to observatories in Arizona and South Africa. In 1986, the independence of a separate Astronomy Department ended by amalgamation with Natural Philosophy to form the Department of Physics and Astronomy, this reflecting the changes of the general scene of developing associations of cosmology and particle physics.Less
This chapter completes the Glasgow story covering the huge expansion of teaching and research in astronomy locally, nationally and internationally from the 1950s. Following Smart's retirement, Peter Sweet was appointed as Chair holder; he had international acclaim through the headings of ‘Eddington-Sweet circulation’ and ‘Sweet-Parker magnetic recombination’. His research into solar matters led to the analyses of data from satellite platforms advanced by his student John Brown who later became 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the first not to have direct connection with Edinburgh University, and then 10th holder of the Glasgow Regius Chair. Solar space-based studies now form the main research themes of the group. Another strong research theme has been in astrodynamics under the lead of Professor Archie Roy. New observatories at Acre Road and Cochno are described. Optical polarimetry both from observational and theoretical standpoints has also been a successful theme. Instruments developed in Glasgow have been taken to observatories in Arizona and South Africa. In 1986, the independence of a separate Astronomy Department ended by amalgamation with Natural Philosophy to form the Department of Physics and Astronomy, this reflecting the changes of the general scene of developing associations of cosmology and particle physics.
Bernard L. Herman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469653471
- eISBN:
- 9781469653495
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653471.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter explores the idea of terroir through the sweet potato, in particular the heirloom cultivar of the Hayman sweet potato. Terroir is about much more than the taste of place as an expression ...
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This chapter explores the idea of terroir through the sweet potato, in particular the heirloom cultivar of the Hayman sweet potato. Terroir is about much more than the taste of place as an expression of soil, climate, varietal, and process. Terroir, as an idea, encapsulates particular forms of memory and knowledge. It's a connoisseur's word that speaks to the passion and possession of knowledge as a means of understanding the essence of a place and its people through historical narratives, recipes, and oral histories.Less
This chapter explores the idea of terroir through the sweet potato, in particular the heirloom cultivar of the Hayman sweet potato. Terroir is about much more than the taste of place as an expression of soil, climate, varietal, and process. Terroir, as an idea, encapsulates particular forms of memory and knowledge. It's a connoisseur's word that speaks to the passion and possession of knowledge as a means of understanding the essence of a place and its people through historical narratives, recipes, and oral histories.
Gayle Magee
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042706
- eISBN:
- 9780252051562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042706.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The sinking of the Lusitania and the subsequent shift in the United States from neutrality toward participation in World War I affected Charles Ives in both his music and his business as a life ...
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The sinking of the Lusitania and the subsequent shift in the United States from neutrality toward participation in World War I affected Charles Ives in both his music and his business as a life insurance executive. The tragedy’s effect on the insurance industry was far-reaching, and government proposals to supply insurance to soldiers were initially resisted. As an artist, Ives sided with the soldier as “everyman” in his war songs and in his use of the hymn “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” in “From Hanover Square North” and “The Things Our Fathers Loved.” Ives’s insurance firm suffered financial losses initially but then supported engagement, participating fully and generously in public initiatives like the Liberty Loan campaigns.Less
The sinking of the Lusitania and the subsequent shift in the United States from neutrality toward participation in World War I affected Charles Ives in both his music and his business as a life insurance executive. The tragedy’s effect on the insurance industry was far-reaching, and government proposals to supply insurance to soldiers were initially resisted. As an artist, Ives sided with the soldier as “everyman” in his war songs and in his use of the hymn “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” in “From Hanover Square North” and “The Things Our Fathers Loved.” Ives’s insurance firm suffered financial losses initially but then supported engagement, participating fully and generously in public initiatives like the Liberty Loan campaigns.
Rachelle H. Saltzman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496810847
- eISBN:
- 9781496810892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496810847.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Both savory and sweet puddings have enjoyed a long history in Britain and throughout the former empire, where they are numerous, diverse, and widely spread. Despite or because of their ubiquity, ...
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Both savory and sweet puddings have enjoyed a long history in Britain and throughout the former empire, where they are numerous, diverse, and widely spread. Despite or because of their ubiquity, puddings as a food group have generally been neglected by scholars. Yet they are one of the UK’s most storied foods. Puddings appear in historical texts, in folk poetry and tale, on menus from the most modest café to the fanciest of dining establishments. While the ingredients, for both savory and sweet, are simple, few, and modest, the very name pudding conjures up nostalgic memories and stories of childhood that transcend age and class boundaries. As such, puddings are the quintessential comfort food in Britain and function as an implicit category for an essentialized English identity.Less
Both savory and sweet puddings have enjoyed a long history in Britain and throughout the former empire, where they are numerous, diverse, and widely spread. Despite or because of their ubiquity, puddings as a food group have generally been neglected by scholars. Yet they are one of the UK’s most storied foods. Puddings appear in historical texts, in folk poetry and tale, on menus from the most modest café to the fanciest of dining establishments. While the ingredients, for both savory and sweet, are simple, few, and modest, the very name pudding conjures up nostalgic memories and stories of childhood that transcend age and class boundaries. As such, puddings are the quintessential comfort food in Britain and function as an implicit category for an essentialized English identity.
