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2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cherry ◽  
Jennifer Craik ◽  
Paul B. Thompson ◽  
Justin O’Hearn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Queen's University

Making Taste Public: Ethnographies of Food and the Senses, Carole Counihan and Susanne Højlund (eds) (2018) London: Bloomsbury Academic, 232 pp., ISBN 978-1-35005-268-0, h/bk, £85European Fashion: The Creation of a Global Industry, Regina Lee Blaszczyk and Vèronique Pouillard (eds) (2018) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 344 pp., ISBN 978-1-52612-209-4/978-1-52612-210-0, p/bk, £20Food Justice and Narrative Ethics: Reading Stories for Ethical Awareness and Activism, Beth A. Dixon (2018) New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 175 + viii pp., ISBN 978-1-35005-456-1, h/bk, $102.60The Thorny Path: Pornography in Early Twentieth Century Britain, Jamie Stoops (2018) Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 300 pp., ISBN 978-0-77355-468-9, h/bk, $39.95 CAD/$34.95 USD

Shaping Jazz

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damon J. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recording Industry ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Long Run

There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs—and not others—get re-recorded by many musicians? This book answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and markets—in particular, organizations and geography—in the development of early twentieth-century jazz. The book considers why places like New York played more important roles as engines of diffusion than as the sources of standards. It demonstrates why and when certain geographical references in tune and group titles were considered more desirable. It also explains why a place like Berlin, which produced jazz abundantly from the 1920s to early 1930s, is now on jazz's historical sidelines. The book shows the key influences of firms in the recording industry, including how record labels and their executives affected what music was recorded, and why major companies would re-release recordings under artistic pseudonyms. It indicates how a recording's appeal was related to the narrative around its creation, and how the identities of its firm and musicians influenced the tune's long-run popularity. Applying fascinating ideas about market emergence to a music's commercialization, the book offers a unique look at the origins of a groundbreaking art form.

Incentivizing Safety and Discrimination: Employment Risks under Workmen’s Compensation in the Early Twentieth Century United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-67
Author(s):  
Nate Holdren
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Employment Discrimination ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Workmen's Compensation

This article takes criticisms of employment discrimination in the aftermath of the creation of workmen’s compensation legislation as a point of entry for arguing that compensation laws created new incentives for employment discrimination. Compensation laws turned the costs of employees’ workplace accidents into a risk that many employers sought to manage by screening job applicants in a manner analogous to how insurance companies screened policy applicants. While numerous critics blamed insurers for discrimination, I argue that the problem was lack of insurance. The less that companies pooled their compensation risks via insurance, the greater the incentives for employers to stop employing people they would have previously been willing to hire.

scholarly journals Jeanette Bernard And American Amateur Photography Contests In The Early Twentieth Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jami Guthrie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This thesis analyzes a collection of 101 photographs by American amateur photographer Jeanette Bernard held at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (GEH). Bernard lived in Long Island, New York, and produced photographs from 1904 to 1924 and actively participated in amateur photography competitions in newspapers those years. The first part of the paper analyzes Bernard's work within the broader context of amateur photograph competitions through a detailed examination of Leslie's Weekly, the newspaper she most regularly submitted her work, with an emphasis on the year 1907. The second part of the paper outlines the steps taken to make this material available and searchable within the GEH's database, The Museum System (TMS), and includes an appendix which compares the fully illustrated catalogue.

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