Leonard Linsky. Preface. Semantics and the philosophy of language, A collection of readings, edited by Leonard Linsky, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana1952, pp. vii–viii. - Leonard Linsky. Introduction. Semantics and the philosophy of language, A collection of readings, edited by Leonard Linsky, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana1952, pp. 3–10.

This report highlights some of the major developments in the area of speech anatomy and physiology drawing from the author's own research experience during his years at the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois. He has benefited greatly from mentors including Professors James Curtis, Kenneth Moll, and Hughlett Morris at the University of Iowa and Professor Paul Lauterbur at the University of Illinois. Many colleagues have contributed to the author's work, especially Professors Jerald Moon at the University of Iowa, Bradley Sutton at the University of Illinois, Jamie Perry at East Carolina University, and Youkyung Bae at the Ohio State University. The strength of these researchers and their students bodes well for future advances in knowledge in this important area of speech science.

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University Geographies and Folk Music Landscapes

Journal of Musicology ◽

10.1525/jm.2016.33.1.92 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 92-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David K. Blake

Keyword(s):

Mass Culture ◽

Folk Music ◽

Traditional Music ◽

Rural Landscape ◽

Power Structures ◽

Distant Object ◽

University Of Illinois ◽

Liberal Politics ◽

Cultural Form ◽

The University

By examining folk music activities connecting students and local musicians during the early 1960s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this article demonstrates how university geographies and musical landscapes influence musical activities in college towns. The geography of the University of Illinois, a rural Midwestern location with a mostly urban, middle-class student population, created an unusual combination of privileged students in a primarily working-class area. This combination of geography and landscape framed interactions between students and local musicians in Urbana-Champaign, stimulating and complicating the traversal of sociocultural differences through traditional music. Members of the University of Illinois Campus Folksong Club considered traditional music as a high cultural form distinct from mass-culture artists, aligning their interests with then-dominant scholarly approaches in folklore and film studies departments. Yet students also interrogated the impropriety of folksong presentation on campus, and community folksingers projected their own discomfort with students’ liberal politics. In hosting concerts by rural musicians such as Frank Proffitt and producing a record of local Urbana-Champaign folksingers called Green Fields of Illinois (1963), the folksong club attempted to suture these differences by highlighting the aesthetic, domestic, historical, and educational aspects of local folk music, while avoiding contemporary socioeconomic, commercial, and political concerns. This depoliticized conception of folk music bridged students and local folksingers, but also represented local music via a nineteenth-century rural landscape that converted contemporaneous lived practice into a temporally distant object of aesthetic study. Students’ study of folk music thus reinforced the power structures of university culture—but engaging local folksinging as an educational subject remained for them the most ethical solution for questioning, and potentially traversing, larger problems of inequality and difference.

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The Early Years of the Jewish Presence at the University of Illinois

Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation ◽

10.1525/rac.1992.2.2.03a00040 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 215-245

Author(s):

Winton U. Solberg

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

The United States ◽

Early Years ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Characteristic Form ◽

University Of Illinois ◽

American Higher Education ◽

Jewish Students ◽

The University ◽

The Church

For over two centuries, the College was the characteristic form of higher education in the United States, and the College was closely allied to the church in a predominantly Protestant land. The university became the characteristic form of American higher education starting in the late nineteenth Century, and universities long continued to reflect the nation's Protestant culture. By about 1900, however, Catholics and Jews began to enter universities in increasing numbers. What was the experience of Jewish students in these institutions, and how did authorities respond to their appearance? These questions will be addressed in this article by focusing on the Jewish presence at the University of Illinois in the early twentieth Century. Religion, like a red thread, is interwoven throughout the entire fabric of this story.

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