Monument Eternal

Author : Franya J. Berkman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780819571069

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Monument Eternal by Franya J. Berkman Pdf

Long-awaited biography of an African American avant-garde composer Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm-and-blues, bebop, free jazz, Indian devotional song, and Western art music. Her childhood experiences playing for African-American congregations in Detroit, the ecstatic and avant-garde improvisations she performed on the bandstand with her husband John Coltrane, and her religious pilgrimages to India reveal themselves on more than twenty albums of original music for the Impulse and Warner Brothers labels. In the late 1970s Alice Coltrane became a swami, directing an alternative spiritual community in Southern California. Exploring her transformation from Alice McLeod, Detroit church pianist and bebopper, to guru Swami Turiya Sangitananda, Monument Eternal illuminates her music and, in turn, reveals the exceptional fluidity of American religious practices in the second half of the twentieth century. Most of all, this book celebrates the hybrid music of an exceptional, boundary-crossing African-American artist.

Author : Samuel Swett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UCSD:31822009494394

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Original Planning and Construction of Bunker Hill Monument by Samuel Swett Pdf

Author : David Lowe,Tony Joel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317912583

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Remembering the Cold War by David Lowe,Tony Joel Pdf

Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and shaping international relations around the globe. Given the Cold War’s blurred definition – it has neither a widely accepted commencement date nor unanimous conclusion - what is to be remembered? This book illustrates that there is, in fact, a huge body of ‘remembrance,’ and that it is more pertinent to ask: what should be included and what can be overlooked? Over five sections, this richly illustrated volume considers case studies of Cold War remembering from different parts of the world, and engages with growing theorisation in the field of memory studies, specifically in relation to war. David Lowe and Tony Joel afford careful consideration to agencies that identify with being ‘victims’ of the Cold War. In addition, the concept of arenas of articulation, which envelops the myriad spaces in which the remembering, commemorating, memorialising, and even revising of Cold War history takes place, is given prominence.

Author : Siobhan Kattago
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1409436373

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Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe by Siobhan Kattago Pdf

Through reflecting on the legacy of totalitarianism and the revolutions of 1989, it becomes clear that the issue is less of whether one should remember, but rather how to internalize the various lessons of the past for the future of Europe. Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe thus offers the reader occasions upon which to take stock of different but overlapping contours of past and present in contemporary Europe.

Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780806163888

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Pioneer Mother Monuments by Cynthia Culver Prescott Pdf

For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.

Author : Moraitis Konstantinos,Rassia Stamatina Th
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813141957

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Urban Ethics Under Conditions Of Crisis: Politics, Architecture, Landscape Sustainability And Multidisciplinary Engineering by Moraitis Konstantinos,Rassia Stamatina Th Pdf

Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation with social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally in conditions of crisis. The theme of the book emphasizes the need to acknowledge the controversial character of contemporary social life under critical social conditions, in correlation with urban space. It concerns the evaluation of critical issues such as:

Author : Richard Brent Turner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479800360

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Soundtrack to a Movement by Richard Brent Turner Pdf

**FINALIST for the 2022 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts** **Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz, given by the 2022 Association for Recorded Sounds Collection Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research** Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation Amid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements, the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm X’s emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later, the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepp’s sentiment, recognizing that Coltrane’s music represented the very passion, rage, rebellion, and love that Malcolm X preached. Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the post-WWII generation and jazz music. It argues that from the late 1940s and ’50s though the 1970s, Islam rose in prominence among African Americans in part because of the embrace of the religion among jazz musicians. The book demonstrates that the values that Islam and jazz shared—Black affirmation, freedom, and self-determination—were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a Black Atlantic “cool” that shaped both Black religion and jazz styles. Soundtrack to a Movement demonstrates how by expressing their values through the rejection of systemic racism, the construction of Black notions of masculinity and femininity, and the development of an African American religious internationalism, both jazz musicians and Black Muslims engaged with a global Black consciousness and interconnected resistance movements in the African diaspora and Africa.

Author : Jayna Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021230

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Black Utopias by Jayna Brown Pdf

In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human, radically refusing liberal humanist ideas of subjectivity and species. Brown demonstrates that engaging in utopian practices Black subjects imagine and manifest new genres of existence and forms of collectivity. For Brown, utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when those excluded from the category human jump into other onto-epistemological realms. Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate themselves as elements in a cosmic effluvium.

Author : Larry G. Murphy,J. Gordon Melton,Gary L. Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1005 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135513382

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Encyclopedia of African American Religions by Larry G. Murphy,J. Gordon Melton,Gary L. Ward Pdf

Preceded by three introductory essays and a chronology of major events in black religious history from 1618 to 1991, this A-Z encyclopedia includes three types of entries: * Biographical sketches of 773 African American religious leaders * 341 entries on African American denominations and religious organizations (including white churches with significant black memberships and educational institutions) * Topical articles on important aspects of African American religious life (e.g., African American Christians during the Colonial Era, Music in the African American Church)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Home economics
ISBN : OSU:32435027058841

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Good Housekeeping by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Machin,Gill Abousnnouga
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781623568214

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The Language of War Monuments by David Machin,Gill Abousnnouga Pdf

This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the book's chapters offer a way of analysing the way that monument designers have used specific semiotic choices in terms of things like iconography, objects, shape, form, angularity, height, materials and surface realisation to place representations of war in public places across Britain. This social-semiotic approach to the study of war monuments serves three innovative purposes. First, it provides a contribution to the work on the ideological representations of war in Media and Cultural Studies and in Critical Discourse Analysis applied specifically to more banal realisations of discourse. Second, it responds to calls by historians for innovative ways to study war commemoration by providing an approach that offers both specific analysis of the objects and attends to matters of design. Thirdly, following in the relatively recent tradition of multimodal analysis, the arguments draw on the ideas of Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2001), adapting and extending their theories and models to the analysis of British commemorative war monuments, in order to develop a multimodal framework for the analysis of three dimensional objects.

Author : Democratic China
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640122949

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The Journey of Liu Xiaobo by Democratic China Pdf

As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People’s Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation’s prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to support for Tibet and beyond. Liu undertook perhaps his bravest act when he helped draft and gather support for Charter 08, a democratic vision for China that included free elections and the end of the Communist Party’s monopoly on power. While imprisoned for “inciting subversion of state power,” Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. He was granted medical parole just weeks before dying of cancer in 2017. The Journey of Liu Xiaobo draws together essays and reflections on the “Nelson Mandela of China.” The Dalai Lama, artist and activist Ai Weiwei, and a distinguished list of leading Chinese writers and intellectuals, including Zhang Zuhua, the main drafter of Charter 08, and Liu Xia, the wife of Liu Xiaobo, and noted China scholars, journalists, and political leaders from around the globe, including Yu Ying-shih, Perry Link, Andrew J. Nathan, Marco Rubio, and Chris Smith illuminate Liu’s journey from his youth and student years, through his indispensable activism, and to his defiant last days. Many of the pieces were written immediately after Liu’s death, adding to the emotions stirred by his loss. Original and powerful, The Journey of Liu Xiaobo combines memory with insightful analysis to evaluate Liu’s impact on his era, nation, and the cause of human freedom.

Author : Polley, J. Patrick
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Gettysburg (Pa.)
ISBN : 1455609137

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My Trip to Gettysburg by Polley, J. Patrick Pdf

A keepsake to memorialize a child's trip to Gettysburg.This combination travel guide and journal, filled with fun activities such as word searches and crossword puzzles, encourages young visitors to record their personal accounts of their visit to Gettysburg. Site-specific questions along with built-in pockets to hold memorabilia help youngsters get the most from their visits to the Gettysburg National Military Park, Eisenhower National Historic Sight, and Schriver House Museum, among many others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : PRNC:32101076460326

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The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star by Anonim Pdf

Author : john henry smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555009179

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THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' MILLENNIAL STAR. by john henry smith Pdf