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As a noted composer and critic, and later an editor and composition teacher, Paul Dukas (1865-1935) was a major figure in fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century French music. Although his catalogue of published scores was relatively modest in quantity, he was internationally recognised as an artist and intellectual of distinction who contributed significantly to Parisian musical cultures and critical debates as they evolved from the 1890s until the 1930s. Moving in the same circles as Debussy and Fauré, as well as networking with trailblazers such as the Ballets Russes director Sergei Diaghilev and the conductor Serge Koussevitzky, Dukas created works that reflect French sensibilities but also resonate with transnational audiences. L'Apprenti sorcier is still his best-known work, while the opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue has been revived and remains relevant for the twenty-first century. Works such as the Piano Sonata and the ballet La Péri respectively exemplify the twin attractions of tradition and progress for the composer. Intensely self-critical, however, he ended up destroying many of his scores. This book is the first full-length Anglophone study of Dukas. It perceives his critical essays as a form of creative, philosophical thought that synthesised the riches of the Parisian music scene yet also represented the formation and development of his own artistic voice. Investigating Dukas's interrelated identities as composer and critic, it seeks to explain his broad aesthetic motivations and artistic agenda.
Musical criticism --- Composition (Music) --- Composers --- Music critics --- History. --- Dukas, Paul, --- Dukas, Paul, ǂd 1865-1935 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critics --- Musicians --- Music journalists --- Composing (Music) --- Music --- Music composing --- Music composition --- Musical composition --- Concertante style --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Music criticism --- Journalism --- Composition --- History and criticism --- Di︠u︡ka, Polʹ, --- Dukas, Paul Abraham, --- French music. --- L'Apprenti sorcier. --- Parisian musical culture. --- Paul Dukas. --- artistic agenda. --- composer. --- critic. --- early twentieth century. --- fin-de-siècle. --- intellectual. --- MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical.
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Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre. Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographical focus-point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of the book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism (at Glastonbury especially) and on the reception of Wagner's ideas as a point of emulation and resistance. No less significant is the discussion of Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque - one of the primary sources for re-imagining an English dramatic tradition - and the more familiar images of the May festival, the Mummers' play and the pageant play, which are tellingly re-contextualised. The book also looks at the associations between Vaughan Williams, the theatre artist Edward Gordon Craig and the impresario Serge Diaghilev. The sequence is framed by the image of the pilgrim-vagabond Vaughan Williams's setting of the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson as a metaphor and paradigm for his creative career and personal progress. The book not only sheds light on the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice: one especially concerned with calling on aspects of the past to help to secure a worthwhile future. Notions of Englishness turn out to be less insular than sometimes thought and the idea of a 'musical renaissance' more complex when the case-studies are understood in their proper historical context. Scholars and students of twentieth-century English music, theatre and opera will find this volume indispensable. Roger Savage is Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books.
Music --- Music theater --- History and criticism. --- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, --- Dramatic music --- Mixed media (Music) --- Uilʹi︠a︡ms, Ralʹf Voan, --- Vaughan-William, R. --- Vaughan Williams, R. --- Vaughn Williams, Ralph, --- Voan Uilʹi︠a︡ms, R. --- Voan Uilʹi︠a︡ms, Ralʹf, --- Vōn-Wiriamuzu, Reifu, --- William, R. Vaughan --- -Williams, Ralph Vaughan, --- Williams, Vaughan, --- Wiriamuzu, Reifu Vōn-, --- Williams, Ralph Vaughan --- Williams, R. Vaughan --- 1900 - 1999 --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Edward Gordon Craig. --- English music-theatre. --- Englishness. --- May festival. --- Mummers' play. --- Purcell. --- Serge Diaghilev. --- Vaughan Williams. --- Wagnerism. --- early twentieth-century. --- musical practice. --- musical renaissance. --- pageant play. --- theatre artist.
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This book looks at the textual attempts to construct a national cuisine made in Spain at the turn of the last century. At the same time that attempts to unify the country were being made in law and narrated in fiction, Mariano Pardo de Figueroa (1828-1918) and José Castro y Serrano (1829-96), Angel Muro Goiri (1839 - 1897), Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) and Dionisio Pérez (1872-1935) all tried to find ways of bringing Spaniards together through a common language about food. In line with this nationalist goal, all of the texts examined in this book contain strategies and rhetoric typical of nineteenth-century nation-building projects. The nationalist agenda of these culinary texts comes as little surprise when we consider the importance of nation building to Spanish cultural and political life at the time of their publication. At this time Spaniards were forced to confront many questions relating to their national identity, such as the state's lackluster nationalizing policies, the loss of empire, national degeneration and regeneration and their country's cultural dependence on France. In their discussions about how to nationalize Spanish food, all of the authors under consideration here tap into these wider political and cultural issues about what it meant to be Spanish at this time. Lara Anderson is Lecturer in Spanish Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Cooking, Spanish --- Cookery, Spanish --- Spanish cooking --- History --- Food writing --- Cooking --- Cookbooks --- Thebussem, --- Muro, Angel. --- Pardo Bazán, Emilia, --- Perez, Dionisio, --- Cook-books --- Cookery --- Recipe books --- Books --- Cuisine --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Cooking writing --- Food journalism --- Authorship --- Muro, Angel --- Muro Carratalá, Angel --- Doctor Thebussem, --- Figueroa, Mariano Pardo de, --- Pardo de Figueroa, Mariano, --- Culinary Nationalization. --- Culinary Texts. --- Cultural Dependence. --- Cultural Identity. --- Early Twentieth Century. --- Identity. --- Late Nineteenth Century. --- National Building. --- Nationalism. --- Politics. --- Social Change. --- Spanish Cuisine. --- Spanish Food. --- Tradition.
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Chinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Working with materials previously left in the margins of grand narratives of history, Kim K. Fahlstedt uncovers the complexity of a local entertainment culture that offered spaces where marginalized Chinese Americans experienced and participated in local iterations of modernity. At the same time, this space also fostered a powerful Orientalist aesthetic that would eventually be exported to Hollywood by San Francisco showmen such as Sid Grauman. Instead of primarily focusing on the screen-spectator relationship, Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street to inside the movie theater. By highlighting San Francisco and Chinatown as featured participants rather than bit players, Chinatown Film Culture provides an historical account from the margins, alternative to the more dominant narratives of U.S. film history.
Chinese in motion pictures. --- Chinese --- Motion picture audiences --- Motion picture theaters --- Motion pictures --- PERFORMING ARTS / General. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Cinemas --- Movie theaters --- Moving-picture theaters --- Theaters, Motion picture --- Theaters --- Film audiences --- Filmgoers --- Moviegoers --- Moving-picture audiences --- Ethnology --- Social life and customs. --- History. --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Audiences --- Chinatown, Film, Culture, Chinese, San Francisco, Chinese Americans, early twentieth century, Kim K. Fahlstedt, History, Hollywood, Entertainment, historical, emergence, Revolutions, Movie, Theaters, Chinatown Audiences, Chinatown Spectators, Post-Quake, Media Studies, United States, American Studies, Communications, Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Social Science, Performing, Arts, Video, Crititism.
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Gurus of Modern Yoga explores the contributions that individual gurus have made to the formation of the practices and discourses of yoga in today's world. The focus is not limited to India, but also extends to the teachings of yoga gurus in the modern, transnational world, and within the Hindu diaspora. Each of the sections deals with a different aspect of the guru within modern yoga. Included are extensive considerations of the transnational tantric guru; the teachings of modern yoga's best-known guru, T. Krishnamacharya, and those of his principal disciples; the place of technology, business, and politics in the work of global yoga gurus; and the role of science and medicine. Although the principal emphasis is on the current situation, some of the essays demonstrate the continuing influence of gurus from generations past. As a whole, the book represents an extensive and diverse picture of the place of the guru in contemporary yoga practice
Gurus --- Yoga --- early twentieth-century yoga --- Swami Vivekananda --- Sri Aurobindo --- the Mother --- the lineage of integral yoga --- Shri Yogendra --- magic --- modernity --- the middle-class yogi --- T. Krishnamacharya --- modern yoga --- Sri K. Pattabhi Jois --- Parampara --- Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga --- B.K.S. Iyengar --- yoga guru --- the institutionalization of the yoga tradition --- Yogini Sunita --- Britain --- tantra --- Swami Krpalvananda --- Kripalu Yoga --- Muktananda --- the sacred --- John Friend --- Anusara Yoga --- Bhaktiyoga --- Svaminarayana --- the Aksarabrahman guru --- Sathya Sai Baba --- technology --- Jaggi Vasudev --- Isha Yoga --- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar --- Art of Living --- Bhakti --- Eknath Ranade --- Jivanvratis --- Vivekananda Kendra --- the 'Yoga Way of Life' --- Swami Ramdev
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Eugenics --- Mental illness --- Prevention --- Government policy --- Eugénisme --- What would bring a physician to conclude that sterilization is appropriate treatment for the mentally ill and mentally handicapped? Using archival sources, Ian Robert Dowbiggin documents the involvement of both American and Canadian psychiatrists in the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century. He explains why professional men and women committed to helping those less fortunate than themselves arrived at such morally and intellectually dubious conclusions. --- eugenetica (eugenese, eugenetiek) --- eugénisme (eugénique) --- sterilisation --- Eugénisme --- Maladies mentales --- Prévention --- Politique gouvernementale --- United States --- Canada --- Mental illness - Prevention - Government policy - United States. --- Mental illness - Prevention - Government policy - Canada. --- Eugenics - Canada. --- psychiatrie --- sterilisatie --- gedwongen behandeling (dwangbehandeling) --- traitement forcé --- What would bring a physician to conclude that sterilization is appropriate treatment for the mentally ill and mentally handicapped? Using archival sources, Ian Robert Dowbiggin documents the involvement of both American and Canadian psychiatrists in the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century. He explains why professional men and women committed to helping those less fortunate than themselves arrived at such morally and intellectually dubious conclusions
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In contrast to histories of twentieth century public health that focus exclusively on the local, national, or international levels, 'Shifting Boundaries' explores the connections or 'zones of contact' between the three levels. The interpretive essays, written by distinguished historians of public health and medicine, focus on four topics: the oscillation between governmental and non-governmental (public) agencies as sites of responsibility for addressing public health problems; the harmonization of nation states' agendas with those of international agencies; the development by public health experts of knowledge that is both placeless and respectful of place; and the transportability of model solutions across borders. The volume breaks new ground in its treatment of public health as a political endeavor by highlighting strategies to prevent or alleviate disease as a matter not simply of medical techniques, but of political values and commitments. Contributors: Peter Baldwin, Iris Borowy, James A. Gillespie, Graham Mooney, Lion Murard, Dorothy Porter, Sabine Schleiermacher, Susan Gross Solomon, Paul Weindling, and Patrick Zylberman. Susan Gross Solomon is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman are both senior researchers at CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-EHESS-INSERM, Paris.
History, 20th Century --- Public Health --- Public health --- Santé publique --- history --- History --- Histoire --- #SBIB:316.334.3M50 --- #SBIB:35H436 --- Organisatie van de gezondheidszorg: algemeen, beleid --- Beleidssectoren: welzijn, volksgezondheid en cultuur --- Santé publique --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Europa --- Europe. --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Northern Europe --- Southern Europe --- Western Europe --- Abendland --- Okzident --- Europäer --- Bacteriologist. --- Biomedical ideas. --- Biomedical research. --- Biomedical sciences. --- Charles Nicolle. --- Colonial medicine. --- Cross-national standardization. --- Early twentieth century. --- French history. --- French imperial ideology. --- International agencies. --- Kim Pelis. --- Local-level institutions. --- Medical history. --- Medicine history. --- Nation-states. --- National Institutes of Health. --- National boundaries. --- Original initiatives. --- Pasteur Institute of Tunis. --- Policymaking prerogatives. --- Public Health. --- Sociocultural context. --- Twentieth century.
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In this first full-length study of the symphony in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century France, Andrew Deruchie provides extended critical discussion of seven of the most influential and frequently performed works of the era, by Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Édouard Lalo, Vincent d'Indy, and Paul Dukas. The volume explores how French symphonists reconciled Beethoven's legacy with the musical culture, intellectual environment, and political milieu of fin-de-siècle France, pursuing issues of musical form and also moving beyond the notes to consider questions of meaning. Andrew Deruchie is a lecturer in musicology at the University of Otago (New Zealand), specializing in French music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Symphony. --- Music. --- Composers. --- muziekgeschiedenis. --- Composers --- Music --- Symphony --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Sinfonietta --- Symphonies --- Symphonietta --- Musical form --- History and criticism --- Saint-Saens, Camille. --- Dukas, Paul. --- Franck, Cesar. --- Lalo, Edouard. --- Indy, d', Vincent. --- Chausson, Ernest. --- France. --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- History and criticism. --- Beethoven's Symphonic Legacy. --- Camille Saint-Saëns. --- Cultural History. --- César Franck. --- Early Twentieth Century. --- Fin-de-siècle France. --- French Symphony. --- Intellectual Environment. --- Late Nineteenth Century. --- Music Form. --- Musical Technique. --- Paul Dukas. --- Political Milieu. --- Vincent d'Indy. --- Édouard Lalo.
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