Federalizing the Muse: United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965-1980

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The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. In Federalizing the Muse, Donna Binkiewicz assesses the leadership and goals of Presidents Kennedy through Carter, as well as Congress and the National Council on the Arts, drawing a picture of the major players who created national arts policy. Using presidential papers, NEA and National Archives materials, and numerous interviews with policy makers, Binkiewicz refutes persisting beliefs in arts funding as part of a liberal agenda by arguing that the NEA's origins in the Cold War era colored arts policy with a distinctly moderate undertone.

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The French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The exclusion of women at the birth of modern democracy required considerable justification, and by tracing the course of this reasoning through early nineteenth-century texts, Genevieve Fraisse maps a moment of crisis in the history of sexual difference.

Through an analysis of literary, religious, legal, philosophical, and medical texts, Fraisse links a range of positions on women's proper role in society to specific historical and rhetorical circumstances. She shows how the Revolution marked a sharp break in the way women were represented in language, as traditional bantering about the "war of the sexes" gave way to serious discussions of the political and social meanings of sexual difference. Following this discussion on three different planes—the economical, the political, and the biological—Fraisse looks at the exclusion of women against the backdrop of democracy's inevitable lie: the affirmation of an equality so abstract it was impossible to concretely apply.

This study of the place of sexual equality in the founding moment of democracy offers insight into a persistent question: whether female emancipation is to be found through the achievement of equality with men or in the celebration of female difference.

The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity And the Colonial Pacific (A Mclellan Book)

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The Actual Reality of the Pacific Woman

The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity And the Colonial Pacific (A Mclellan Book)
Patty O'Brien
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0295986093

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The Pacific Muse offers a fresh perspective on a seductively familiar topic: the colonial stereotype of the exotic Pacific island woman. By tracing the evolution of female primitivism from Western antiquity to twentieth-century Hollywood images, the book sheds new light on our understanding of how and why this ideal has persisted and the major role it has played in the colonization of Pacific peoples.

While examining colonial culture in its many manifestations, from art, literature, and film to the journals of explorers and missionaries, O'Brien rereads not only the canonical texts of Pacific imperialism, but also lesser-known remnants of this cultural heritage with an eye to what they reveal about gender, sexuality, race, and femininity. Over its long history - from the famous (and much romanticized) settlement of Tahitian women and mutineers from the Bounty on Pitcairn Island in 1789 to the South Seas romantic tradition, Gauguin, and beach culture - notions of female primitivism changed in response to the ideological watersheds of Christianity, Enlightenment science, and race theories, as well as the development of democratic nation-states, modernity, and colonialism. The Pacific Muse shows the continuities and differences in representing colonized women across geographical regions and historical epochs and highlights the importance of sexualization and feminization in imperial enterprises.

Including 37 illustrations of Pacific women from early etchings by shipboard artists to recent photographs, this panoramic view of gendered Pacific history is enlightening reading for cultural anthropologists, women's and gender studies scholars, and historians of colonialism and the Pacific.

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Beautiful book, brilliant thesis.......2006-12-11

This is one of those rare academic books that has much to say to the general reader as well. The images are both beautiful and disturbing. I never before realized just how outsiders viewed women of the Pacific regions... once you see it, though, you'll always be aware of it. Dr. O'Brien has written a powerful and important book.

The Actual Reality of the Pacific Woman.......2006-08-02

The general reader with an interest in women's studies, history or anthropology will find O'Brien's book, as I did, a well researched and thoroughly intriguing study of Pacific women's lives since the earliest voyages of discovery. The colonial stereotypes of the exotic Pacific woman are analyzed in a contemporary perspective from the viewpoints of art, literature, film and journals of the explorers and missionaries. This book opened my eyes to the facts that since the 1500's women of the Pacific have been romanticized, educated by missionaries, used, abused and sexually exploited for the advantage of the colonial powers.This is a "must read" for understanding the myth of "The Pacific Muse". It opens another window for understanding women's lives for those of us lacking background of Pacific history during this period.

The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown: A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity (Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics)

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The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown: A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity (Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics)
Erika A. Muse
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0415974062

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The purpose of this book is to provide valuable anthropological data on the identity construction of a rapidly growing Chinese Christian population in the United States. As more and more Chinese of different generations and varying cultural backgrounds practice evangelical Christianity, the meaning of Chinese American will change accordingly. The book provides significant linguistic data for a nascent but important area of anthropological research. The scope of the book encompasses Asian American homiletics, discourse analysis and prosody, types of sermons and roles of men and women in a diverse, multilingual church. Parallels between Confucianism and Christianity and the role of "gradual evangelism" in identity construction are discussed. These elements are contextualized within current sociocultural and economic spheres and address the implications of the "model minority" and Asian patriarchy. The book provides original linguistic data of sermons in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. The book posits that the Chinese of the Boston church have developed an ethno-Christian identity and this identity demonstrated through ethnically marked prosodic cues, unites the congregation in the ethnic church. This position challenges some current approaches to identity construction and the role of religion in immigrant communities.

The Muse Of History And The Science Of Culture

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The Case for Cultural Evolutionism

The Muse Of History And The Science Of Culture
Robert L. Carneiro
Manufacturer: Plenum Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0306462729

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Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers answers to these questions? These issues, which have intrigued -and bedeviled - historians for centuries, are explored in this thoughtful book.

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The Case for Cultural Evolutionism.......2001-10-30

Written by an eminent anthropologist possessed of a deep love of history, this book assesses history's halting and controversial struggle to become a science, and argues convincingly that anthropology provides the key for this transformation. The historian's traditional assumption of free will is rejected as fruitless (chapter 3), and various outmoded explanatory schemes are exposed as exercises in futility--racial and supernatural determinism (chapter 4) as well as Great Man and idealist causation (chapter 5). Needed instead, Carneiro maintains, is an approach that is both evolutionist (chapter 6) and materialist (chapter 7). Individual people and particular events must be transcended through conceptualization not as inherently unique entities but rather as recurrent phenomena (chapter 8). Although the "laws" so far proposed by historians have proven unimpressive (chapter 8), anthropology by now can boast a handful of interesting tentative laws that do not differ, in kind, from those characteristic of the more advanced natural sciences (Chapter 9). This beautifully structured book glows with its author's characteristic clarity and urbanity. It will be of interest and value not only to social scientists, but to anyone who has pondered the relationship between science and history.

The Muses, the Masses, and the Massey Commission

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The Muses, the Masses, and the Massey Commission
Paul Litt
Manufacturer: Univ of Toronto Pr
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From games to grunge: popular culture research collections at Bowling Green State University. (Sound Recordings Archives and the Popular Culture Library): An article from: Notes

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From games to grunge: popular culture research collections at Bowling Green State University. (Sound Recordings Archives and the Popular Culture Library): An article from: Notes
Bonna J. Boettcher , and William L. Schurk
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4157 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Popular Culture Library and the Sound Recording Archives was not taken seriously during their inception in 1967 in Bowling Green State University although they did attract media attention until the early 1970s. Despite this initial drawback, both the Popular Culture Library and the Sound Recording Archives continued with their collection and preservation of materials associated with popular culture in the US. To date, the Library contains 120,000 volumes and 100,000 periodicals and the Archives boasts of a collection of 650,000 recordings in various formats and 16,000 sheets of music among other materials.

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Title: From games to grunge: popular culture research collections at Bowling Green State University. (Sound Recordings Archives and the Popular Culture Library)
Author: Bonna J. Boettcher
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1998
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v54 Issue: n4 Page: p849(11)

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Human adaptability: an introduction to ecological anthropology, second edition & The muse of history and the science of culture.(Review): An article from: American Antiquity

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Human adaptability: an introduction to ecological anthropology, second edition & The muse of history and the science of culture.(Review): An article from: American Antiquity
George M. Crothers
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Title: Human adaptability: an introduction to ecological anthropology, second edition & The muse of history and the science of culture.(Review)
Author: George M. Crothers
Publication: American Antiquity (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Volume: 66 Issue: 4 Page: 752(1)

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The Muse of History and the Science of Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review): An article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics

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The Muse of History and the Science of Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review): An article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Martin H. Levinson
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This digital document is an article from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, published by International Society for General Semantics on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 324 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Muse of History and the Science of Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Author: Martin H. Levinson
Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: International Society for General Semantics
Volume: 62 Issue: 1 Page: 105(1)

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Music and Culture of West Africa: the Straus Expedition.: An article from: Notes

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Music and Culture of West Africa: the Straus Expedition.: An article from: Notes
Eric Charry
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1524 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Music and Culture of West Africa: the Straus Expedition.
Author: Eric Charry
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 60 Issue: 2 Page: 508(3)

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Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (3rd Edition)
Michael Adas , Peter Stearns , and Stuart Schwartz
Manufacturer: Longman
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With a strong emphasis on social and cultural history, this book focuses on the major international themes and historical processes that shaped the 20th century.

Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century to 1945

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Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century to 1945

Manufacturer: Pearson Custom Publishing
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ASIN: 0536809712

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Turbulent Passage : A Global History of the Twentieth Century
Peter N. Stearns
Manufacturer: Longman Publishing Group
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ASIN: B000OF80ZI

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Turbulent Passage:A Global History of the Twentieth Century
Michael/ Stearns, Peter N./ Schwartz, Stuart B. Adas
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