Author: Sidney M. Bolkosky Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814319338 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 560
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Analyzing one of the most vital and significant Jewish populations in the United States, Harmony and Dissonance chronicles the intellectual, cultural, and social history of the Jews of Detroit from 1914 to 1967. Sidney Bolkosky has drawn upon resources from religious and secular Jewish institutions in Detroit and supplemented them with information and interpretations from numerous oral testimonies to place this material in the context of the city of Detroit and its unique economic and social history. Thus the book includes discussions of the effects of Detroit events on the Jewish population, from Henry Ford's promise of a five dollar per day wage to the Detroit riots of 1943 and 1967. The author contends that the peculiar history of Detroit plays a determining role in the history of its Jews. Organized chronologically, Harmony and Dissonance examines the historically shifting dynamics among Jewish groups and individuals, addressing such controversial topics as assimilation, intermarriage, religious conflicts, anti-Semitism, and East European versus German Jewish identities. In pursuing the central thesis of the problematic search for Jewish identity, which runs throughout the book and ties the work together, the author has also explored the multifaceted nature of the Jewish population of Detroit, its landsmanshaften, German Jews, "establishment" organizations and their antagonists, cultural forces, and numerous Yiddish groups. This focus on identity is sharpened as the author perceives two events increasingly directing Jewish life and thought--the Holocaust and its aftermath and the founding of the state of Israel. How those events influenced the attitudes and behavior of Detroit's Jews contributes to what one Detroit patriarch called "the Detroit difference."
Author: Thomas Harrison Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520200432 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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"1910 stands out as a model of interdisciplinary and comparative study. . . . It brilliantly illustrates the complexity of a crucial period in European culture . . . focusing in particular on the intellectual intricacies of Mitteleuropa on the eve of World War I and of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire."—Lucia Re "Compellingly original. . . . In Harrison's work, Michelstaedter and his confreres (Campana, Slataper, Kokoschke, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lukàcs, Trakl, et al.) turn out to be considerably more fascinating and more emblematic of their time than anyone has been able to perceive before."—Gregory Lucente, University of Michigan
Author: Stephan Kuttner Publisher: ISBN: 9780990685548 Category : Languages : en Pages : 60
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Stephan Kuttner, the historian of canon law, gave the Wimmer Memorial Lecture at Saint Vincent in 1956. His talk, Harmony From Dissonance: An Interpretation of Medieval Canon Law, was published four years later. At the time of his lecture, and certainly at the time of his death, on August 12, 1996, in Berkeley, he was internationally recognized as one of the world's greatest authorities on canon and civil law. Kuttner, a native of Bonn, Germany, received his law degree from Berlin University in 1931. He worked as a research fellow at the Vatican Library and taught at the Lateran University in Rome after fleeing Nazi Germany for Italy. He was a professor at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., which has a chair named in his honor. He held the T. Lawrason Riggs Chair of Catholic Studies at Yale, then became the first director of the Robbins Collection in Roman and Canon Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He taught there for 18 years (1970-1988), and continued as professor emeritus until his death.The Institute of Research and Study in Medieval Canon Law was established in Washington, D.C. Its headquarters were transferred to Yale in 1964, and later to Berkeley in 1970. The Institute was relocated to the University of Munich in 1991. Yale now hosts the Kuttner Institute Library. The Institute was named after Kuttner in 1996, who served as the its board president from 1955 to 1991; as chairman of the board from 1991 until 1996; and as editor, then editor emeritus of the Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law and as chief editor of the Monumenta Iuris Canonici.
Author: Erica O'Rourke Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442460245 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 496
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From the author of the Torn trilogy comes an inventive romantic thriller. Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world is spun off the existing one and Del's job is to keep the dimensions in harmony.
Author: Harald Krebs Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195169468 Category : Musical meter and rhythm Languages : en Pages : 305
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This book presents a theory of metrical conflict and applies it to the music of Schumann, thereby placing the composer's distinctive metrical style in full focus. It describes the various categories of metrical conflict that characterize Schumann's work, investigates how states of conflict are introduced and then manipulated and resolved in his compositions, and studies the interaction of such metrical conflict with form, pitch structure, and text. Throughout the text, Krebs intersperses his own theoretical assertions with Schumannesque dialogues between Florestan and Eusebius, who comment on the theory at hand while also discussing and illustrating relevant aspects of "their" metrical practices.
Author: Ross W. Duffin Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393075648 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 197
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"A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical Music What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, "we may soon be able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven really meant when he called B minor 'black'" (Wall Street Journal).In this "comprehensive plea for more variety in tuning methods" (Kirkus Reviews), Ross W. Duffin presents "a serious and well-argued case" (Goldberg Magazine) that "should make any contemporary musician think differently about tuning" (Saturday Guardian). Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.
Author: Paul B. Armstrong Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421410036 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 240
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An original interdisciplinary study positioned at the intersection of literary theory and neuroscience. "Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. His central argument is that literature plays with the brain through experiences of harmony and dissonance which set in motion oppositions that are fundamental to the neurobiology of mental functioning. These oppositions negotiate basic tensions in the operation of the brain between the drive for pattern, synthesis, and constancy and the need for flexibility, adaptability, and openness to change. The challenge, Armstrong argues, is to account for the ability of readers to find incommensurable meanings in the same text, for example, or to take pleasure in art that is harmonious or dissonant, symmetrical or distorted, unified or discontinuous and disruptive. How Literature Plays with the Brain is the first book to use the resources of neuroscience and phenomenology to analyze aesthetic experience. For the neuroscientific community, the study suggests that different areas of research—the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions—may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. For critics and students of literature, the study engages fundamental questions within the humanities: What is aesthetic experience? What happens when we read a literary work? How does the interpretation of literature relate to other ways of knowing?
Author: Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 1476863121 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 130
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(Jazz Book). A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists.
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