scholarly journals Articulating Race and Nation in Brazilian Popular Song

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McNally
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
A Site

This article presents a cultural history of Brazilian popular song (canção popular) and the many musical genres that fall under its umbrella. From the early days of samba to contemporary popular styles, popular song in Brazil has long represented a site for negotiating complex questions of race, nation, and politics.

A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Essential Resource ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
The Many

The twentieth century brought profound and far-reaching changes to education systems globally in response to significant social, economic, and political transformation. This volume draws together work from leading historians of education to present a tapestry of seminal and enduring themes that characterize the many educational developments since 1920. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education, A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

Puccini's La Bohème

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
La Boheme ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

La bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? Drawing on an extremely broad range of sources, Alexandra Wilson traces the opera’s rise to global fame. Although the work has been subjected to many hostile critiques, it swiftly achieved popular success through stage performances, recordings, and filmed versions. Wilson demonstrates how La bohème acquired even greater cultural influence as its music and dramatic themes began to be incorporated into pop songs, film soundtracks, musicals, and more. In this cultural history of Puccini’s opera, Wilson offers a fresh reading of a familiar work. La bohème was strikingly modern for the 1890s, she argues, in its approach to musical and dramatic realism and in flouting many of the conventions of the Italian operatic tradition. Considering the work within the context of the aesthetic, social, and political debates of its time, Wilson explores Puccini’s treatment of themes including gender, poverty, and nostalgia. She pays particular attention to La bohème’s representation of Paris, arguing that the opera was not only influenced by romantic mythologies surrounding the city but also helped shape them. Wilson concludes with a consideration of the many and varied approaches directors have taken to the staging of Puccini’s opera, including some that have reinvented the opera for a new age. This book is essential reading for anyone who has seen La bohème and wants to know more about its music, drama, and cultural contexts.

Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hawraa Al-Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
The State ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Material Form

The book examines the trajectory of the state sponsored novel in Iraq and considers the ways in which explicitly political and/or ideological texts functioned as resistive counter narratives. It argues that both the novel and ‘progressive’ discourses on women were used as markers of Iraq’s cultural revival under the Ba‘th and were a key element in the state’s propaganda campaign within Iraq and abroad. In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba‘th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among women. As Iraq was metaphorically transformed into a ‘female’, through its nationalist trope, women writers simultaneously found opportunities and faced obstacles from the state, as the ‘Woman Question’ became a site of contention between those who would advocate the progressiveness of the Ba‘th and those who would stress its repressiveness and immorality. By exploring discourses on gender in both propaganda and high art fictional writings by Iraqis, this book offers an alternative narrative of the literary and cultural history of Iraq. It ultimately expands the idea of cultural resistance beyond the modern/traditional, progressive/backward paradigms that characterise discourses on Arab women and the state, and argues that resistance is embedded in the material form of texts as much as their content or ideological message.

scholarly journals Plastic (in) Paradise: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-40
Author(s):  
Michaela Keck
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site

This contribution examines the magic-realist metaphor of the Matacão in Karen Tei Yamashita’s (1990) debut novel Through the Arc of the Rain Forest as a trope that invites us to imagine, reflect on, and explore plastic’s cross-cultural meanings, aesthetic experiences, and materialist implications. I contend that through the Matacão, Yamashita engenders a narrative about, as well as an aesthetic experience of, plastic that is inherently ambivalent and paradoxical. While it provides societies with material wealth and sensual pleasures, it poses at the same time a profound threat to life – human and nonhuman. The main part of the article is divided into two major sections: in the first part, I read Yamashita’s story about the Matacão as historiographic metafiction that parodies the socio-cultural history of plastic and its utopian promises and failures. In the second part, I draw on Catherine Malabou’s philosophical concept of plasticity to explore the Matacão’s material agency, as well as the social mobility and economic connectivity of Yamashita’s human protagonists in their plastic environments. The theoretical perspective of Malabou’s concept of plasticity shifts the focus to the agentic forces of the waste material and allows us to read Yamashita’s Matacão as both a site and material that, notwithstanding its devastating impacts, also holds potentialities for resilience and repair, and even the possibility for an, at least temporary, utopia.

scholarly journals Efektifitas pembelajaran sejarah kebudayaan Islam melalui google classroom ditinjau dari hasil belajar siswa

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ossi Marga Ramadhan ◽  
Tarsono Tarsono
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
T Test ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Paired Sample ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

ABSTRAKImbas Covid-19 dalam dunia pendidikan memaksa pendidik untuk berinovasi dalam mengembangkan dan mengalihkan proses pembelajaran konvensional ke pembelajaran jarak jauh. Salah satu platform pembelajaran jarak jauh adalah google classroom. Tujuan penelitian ini mendeskripsikan keefektifan pembelajaran daring melalui google classroom yang ditinjau dari hasil belajar siswa. Penelitian ini berjenis quasi experiment yang dirancang memakai one group pretest-postest design. Sampel penelitian ini menggunakan seluruh siswa di kelas 11 yang berjumlah 31 orang pada salah satu sekolah di Kabupaten Purwakarta, kemudian data diolah dengan uji paired sample t test serta N-Gain. Hasil penelitian menggambarkan bahwa pembelajaran jarak jauh menggunakan google classroom apabila ditinjau dari hasil belajar siswa mencapai persentase 58.3% (cukup efektif menurut tafsiran N-Gain). Hal ini berkaitan dengan pelaksanaan pembelajaran dibandingkan sebelum menggunakan google classroom mengalami peningkatan rata-rata hasil belajar sebesar 22.6%. Namun, di sisi lain ditemukan beberapa kelemahan dalam pembelajaran tersebut seperti penguasaan fitur, siswa tidak memiliki paket data, serta jangkauan sinyal yang tidak merata. Kesimpulan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan Google classroom cukup efektif dalam pembelajaran sejarah kebudayaan Islam ditinjau dari hasil belajar siswa. Kata kunci: google classroom, hasil belajar, sejarah kebudayaan Islam. ABSTRACTThe impact of current covid-19 has succeeded in changing various educational aspect, thus forcing educators to develop and diverting conventional learning processes into distance learning. One of the distance learning platforms is google classroom. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this application became of its own urgency because of the many features presented to support learning. This research employed a quasi-type experiment design by using a one-group pretest-postest design, which aims to determine the google classroom's effectiveness on Islamic Cultural History learning from the perspective of student learning outcomes. This research employed all students in grade 11 with total of 31 people at one of the Madrasah Aliyah in Purwakarta Regency. The the data were processed by using the paired-sample t-test and N-Gain. The results of the research illustrate that distance learning by using google classroom when viewed from student learning outcomes, reaches a percentage of 58.3% (quite effective according to the interpretation of N-Gain). The result related to the implementation of learning compared to before using Google Classroom, showed an increase in average learning outcomes of 22.6%. However, several weaknesses were found in the learning process, such as mastery of features, students not having data packages, and uneven signal coverage. The conclusion of this research showed that the use of Google classroom is quite effective in learning the history of Islamic culture in terms of student learning outcomes. Keywords: google classroom, history of Islamic culture, learning outcomes

scholarly journals The Monobloc Chair: Democratising the Practice of Sitting

Res Mobilis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Carsten Kullmann
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article examines the cultural history of chairs to understand the many meanings the Monobloc can acquire. The history of chairs is traced from post nomadic culture through the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment period and the French Revolution. Subsequently, I will examine the Monobloc from a Cultural Studies perspective and demonstrate how its unique characteristics allow multiple meanings, which are always dependent on context and discourse. Thus, the Monobloc becomes an utterly democratic symbol of popular culture that can be appropriated for any use.

A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Remote Past

The ancient world is a paradigm for the memory scholar. Without an awareness that collective memories are not only different from individual memories (or even the sum thereof) but also highly constructed, ancient research will be fundamentally flawed. Many networks of memories are beautifully represented in the written and material remains of antiquity, and it is precisely the ways in which they are fashioned, distorted, preserved or erased through which we can learn about the historical process as such. Our evidence is deeply characterized by the fact that ancient ‘identity’ and ‘memory’ appear exceptionally strong. Responsible for this is a continuing desire to link the present to the remote past, which creates many contexts in which memories were constructed. The ancient historian therefore has the right tools with which to work: places and objects from the past, monuments and iconography, and textual narratives with a primary purpose to memorize and commemorate. This is paired with our desire to understand the ancient world through its own self-perception. With the opportunity of tapping into this world by way of oral history, personal testimonies are a desideratum in all respects. Memory of the past, however, is profoundly about ‘self-understanding’. This volume surveys and builds on the many insights we have gained from vibrant research in the field since Maurice Halbwachs’ and Jan Assmann’s seminal studies on the idea and definition of ‘cultural memory’. While focusing on specific themes all chapters address the concepts and expressions of memory, and their historical impact and utilization by groups and individuals at specific times and for specific reasons.

The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B Nann ◽  
Morris L Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Authority ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians. An attorney arguing a case today may need to cite cases that are decades or even centuries old, and historians studying political or cultural history often encounter legal issues that affect their main subjects. Both groups need to understand the laws and legal practices of past eras. Law plays an important part in the political and social history of the United States. As such, researchers interested in almost every aspect of American life will have occasion to use legal materials. The book provides an overview of legal history research, describing the U.S. legal system and legal authority. It is essential reference is intended for the many nonspecialists who need to enter this arcane and often tricky area of research.

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