Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Celeste Fraser Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
Saturday Night ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

It appears to be a ritual among salsa dance scholars to open by sharing a personal salsa experience. I will follow their lead: My introduction to Los Angeles–style salsa came on a Saturday night in the spring of 1999, when I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the city's salsa scene with dance scholar Juliet McMains. Already an established professional ballroom dancer, McMains was just beginning her graduate studies at the University of California–Riverside where I was visiting faculty, having recently co-edited a collection on Latin/o American social dance. Lucky for me, McMains was among the many brilliant students who enrolled in my class on race and dance. The night of our tour, she invited a handsome friend and fellow ballroom dancer to partner first one of us, then the other, throughout the night. He drove us around the city as we stopped at a cramped restaurant-turned-nightclub in a strip mall, at a glamorous ballroom in Beverly Hills, then ended the night downtown at a massive disco in a former movie palace, the Mayan nightclub.

A Note on Gesualdo's “Sacrae Cantiones” And on Gesualdo and Strawinsky

Tempo ◽  
1957 ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Robert Craft
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Don Giovanni ◽  
The University ◽  
Sacred Songs

Illumina nos is the final “sacred song” in a book of twenty printed in Naples by Constantino Vitali and published there in 1603 by Don Giovanni Pietro Cappuccio. It is the only piece in the book requiring seven voices: the others are six-part polyphony. In the same year the same printer and publisher brought out a volume of nineteen five-voice “sacrae cantiones” by Gesualdo. Both of these volumes were marked “Liber Primus,” but if other books were published no copies are known to survive. Then in 1611, Giovanni Jacomo Carlino printed in Naples a book of twenty-six six-voice “Responses” by Gesualdo. These three volumes contain all that is known of Gesualdo's sacred music, and the only known copies of these volumes are in the library of the “Oratorio dei Filippini” at Naples. In 1934 Guido Pannain included fourteen of the five-voice sacred songs in a collection of “La polifonia cinquecentesca ed i primordi del secolo XVII di Napoli.” At this time Pannain discovered that the sextus and bassus parts of the six-voice volume were missing (a catalogue of the “archivio dell” oratorio Filippini” listing all three volumes had been published in Parma in 1918, but apparently no one before Pannain had examined the music). Not until 1955 were photo copies obtainable of the other “sacred songs” and of the “Responses.” Since then Mrs. Ruth Adams of the University of California in Los Angeles has transcribed the five five-voice pieces not published by Pannain, and the whole book of “Responses“ which includes a psalm setting and part of a Tenebrae Service.

Comparison of the Comrey Personality Scales and the California Life Goals Evaluation Schedules

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Backer ◽  
Andrew L. Comrey ◽  
Milton E. Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Life Goals ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Social Conformity ◽  
Educational Counseling ◽  
Objective Tests ◽  
The University

In an initial investigation of the content relationships between the Comrey Personality Scales and the California Life Goals Evaluation Schedules, these two objective tests were administered to 212 volunteer students at the University of California, Los Angeles. Raw scores on the two tests were intercorrelated, and two sets of multiple regression analyses were performed relating the scales of one instrument to each scale of the other. The results indicate a number of substantial content relationships between the two instruments; in particular, the Comrey measure of Social Conformity is significantly related to most of the Life Goals. It is suggested that these relationships may be usefully employed in various vocational guidance, educational counseling, and industrial assessment settings.

News Notes

1935 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 322-323
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
College Algebra ◽  
Junior Colleges ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Analytic Geometry ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
The University

Professor Earle R. Hedrick of the University of California at Los Angeles will give two courses in mathematics this summer at Teachers College, Columbia University. One course will deal with professionalized subject matter in algebra and geometry. It will treat those topics in elementary algebra and geometry that offer peculiar difficulty to teachers. The other course will deal with the teaching of mathematics in junior colleges and in lower divisions of colleges and universities. Here an attempt will be made to study the pedagogical questions that arise in instruction in college algebra, trigonometry, analytic geometry, and the calculus.

Squaring the Circle: Comparing the Fortune and the Globe

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-218
Author(s):  
Andrew Gurr
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Academic Advisor ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
The North ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In the many discussions of the different shapes and capacities of the playhouses of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, insufficient attention has been paid to the impact of differing theatre forms upon the spectators. In this article, Andrew Gurr points out that the first Globe on Bankside, built from the timbers of the Theatre in Shoreditch, and the Fortune, erected for Henslowe's company on the other side of the river, just to the north of the City, were both the work of the same builder, Peter Street. He discusses the differences the shapes of the two playhouses – the Globe polygonal, the Fortune square – had on their construction and the spectators’ reception. Because the audience capacity had to be similar, this meant that spectators at the Fortune, especially latecomers, would need to squeeze into corners of the building, with their ability to see and hear what was happening on stage much restricted. In addition to his many books, among them the now classic study, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642 (1992), Andrew Gurr was chief academic advisor in the ‘rebuilding’ of Shakespeare's Globe on the South Bank. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading.

scholarly journals Notes from the Editors

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. iii-x
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Senior Editor ◽  
The Us ◽  
Worldwide Web ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

On July 1 of last year, someone in North Andover, Massachusetts flipped a switch, and the APSR, which had used the US mail to communicate with authors and referees for its first hundred and one years, hit the worldwide web. Simultaneously, the official term of duty began for an excited if slightly apprehensive group of nine new co-editors at the University of California in Los Angeles. Since then, the APSR has been located in a fourth floor office behind the imposing façade of Bunche Hall, where our new senior editor, Joseph Riser, freshly poached from Sage Publications, has been overseeing the many details of the new operation, ably supported by our two editorial assistants, Sarah Leary and Rebekah Sterling.

An Introduction to Gilbreath Numbers

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Vallin
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
The University

This chapter mathematically analyzes the behavior of a card trick described by an undergraduate math major at the University of California, Los Angeles, named Norman Gilbreath. Stated succinctly, this trick can be performed by handing an audience member a deck of cards, letting them cut the deck several times, and then having them deal a number of cards from the top into a pile. The audience member takes the two piles (the cards in hand and the set now piled on the table) and riffle-shuffles them together. The magician now hides the deck (under a cloth, perhaps, or behind the back) and proceeds to produce one pair of cards after another in which one card is black and the other is red.

Dialogues

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Spain ◽  
American Art ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
State Building ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Political Space ◽  
California Missions ◽  
The University

The California missions, whose original church spaces and visual programs were produced by Iberian, Mexican, and Native artisans between 1769 and 1823, occupy an ambiguous chronological, geographical, and political space. They occupy lands that have pertained to conflicting territorialities: from Native nations, to New Spain, to Mexico, to the modern multicultural California. The physical and visual landscapes of the missions have been sites of complex and often incongruous religious experiences; historical trauma and romantic vision; Indigenous genocide, exploitation, resistance, and survivance; state building and global enterprise. This Dialogues section brings together critical voices, including especially the voices of California Indian scholars, to interrogate received models for thinking about the art historical legacies of the California missions. Together, the contributing authors move beyond and across borders and promote new decolonial strategies that strive to be responsive to the experience of California Indian communities and nations. This conversation emerges from cross-disciplinary relationships established at a two-day conference, “‘American’ Art and the Legacy of Conquest: Art at California’s Missions in the Global 18th–20th Centuries,” sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art and held at the University of California, Los Angeles, in November 2019.

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