Introduction: music, the city and the modern experience

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-605
Author(s):  
MARKIAN PROKOPOVYCH
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Black Music ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
World War ◽  
Modern Experience ◽  
The City

It is somewhat surprising that music has only recently become a serious subject for urban historians. Musicologists and music historians, urban geographers, planners and all others who deal with diverse aspects of local development, cultural industry and the built environment have fared much better in tackling the fundamental social implications of music in a particular locality. It is not an accident that, for example, the recent volume ofBuilt Environment, ‘Music and the city’, edited by an economic geographer, Robert C. Kloosterman, deals with urban spaces of creativity and the role of black music today, some of which have by now an ascribed ‘urban’ adjective in North America.1It is also only natural, however, that Kloosterman's enquiry should concentrate on music in the city of the present and rarely venture into the time periods before World War II.

When Tenants Claimed the City

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Gold
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
World War ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The City

In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban communities held a right to remain in place—a right that outweighed owners' rights to raise rents, redevelop properties, or exclude tenants of color. Further, the activists asserted that women could participate fully in the political arenas where these matters were decided. Grounded in archival research and oral history, this book shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. The book emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war, the prominent role of women within the tenant movement, and their fostering of a concept of “urban community rights” grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods.

The kids on Oberlin Street: place, space and Jewish community in late interwar Strasbourg

Urban History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIN CORBER
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Controlled Environment ◽  
French History ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
World War ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
The City ◽  
Youth Centre

ABSTRACT:In the spring of 1938, Strasbourg's Jewish youth organizations inaugurated the Merkaz Ha’Noar, the community's first Jewish youth centre, which aimed to provide a safe, healthy and controlled environment for the development of young Jews in a rapidly transforming city on the border between France and Germany. The centre offered a unique location from which to reimagine Jewish and French history on the eve of World War II, and illustrates the power of the built environment of the city and its physical structures to forge new kinds of communities, identities and politics.

scholarly journals Silent hero. The metaphorical role of the ruins of Warsaw in Polish fiction films from 1949 to 1960

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (31) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Barbara Giza
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Strong Tendency ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
World War ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The City

The article is an analysis of the image of ruins of Warsaw in Polish feature films after World War II. There is a strong tendency to connect this image with the current political (and psychological) situation, from the enthusiasm of rebuilding Warsaw just after the war to the depressive moods of the late fifties and sixties. The ruins of the city are depicted as a symbol of political and social changes in Poland in this article.

The border as pain and remedy: commemorating the Polish – Ukrainian conflict of 1918-1919 in Lviv and Przemyśl

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
World War ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
War Memorials ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

The fight for Lwów/Lviv in 1918 was the first military conflict in the difficult twentieth-century history of Polish–Ukrainian relations. In the inter-war period, an impressive military memorial, the Eaglets Cemetery, was constructed in Lwów to honor the young defenders of the city. A monument to the Eaglets was also erected in the neighboring Przemyśl. In inter-war Poland, the Ukrainians, who had lost their cause for state independence, created their own cult of national heroes, the Sich Riflemen. Their graves in Lwów and Przemyśl, as well as in many smaller towns, became sites of public commemoration and national mobilization. This article traces the emergence, the development and the post-World War II decay of both competing memorial cults, focusing on their revival and political uses after 1989. It examines the trans-border aspects of memory politics in Lviv and Przemyśl and analyses the role of war memorials in (re-)establishing the link between ethnic communities and their homelands.

scholarly journals MILANO E LE ESPOSIZIONI UNIVERSALI: TRA LAVORO, TECNICA E CONSUMI

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuela Scarpellini
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
International Exhibitions ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City ◽  
International Fair

The paper analyzes the reasons that made Milan the “City of Fairs” for over a century. The hypothesis is that the city has been able to interpret and disseminate the cultural paradigms linked to the idea of development that have led the growth of the city itself and the entire country. It deals primarily with the cultural factors underlying the creation of large international exhibitions, starting with the London Fair in1951 and the Paris Fair in 1889, showing their presence in the International Fair of Milan in 1906. Particularly strong are the aspects linked to nationalistic affirmation, faith in science and work, and the use of new forms of spectacle. The essay then analyzes the fracture caused by World War II and the many changes following it, both regarding the places of fairs and the underlying cultural messages. It emerges a new awareness about the role of consumption and, over time, different forms of spectacle trying to adapt to the new media. In this context also the Milan Fair in 2015 seems to be fully representative of the actual cultural change.

scholarly journals Zbrodnia i kara jako rytuał. Gdański proces stutthofskich zbrodniarzy

2015 ◽  
pp. 49-87
Author(s):  
Sylwia Bykowska
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Execution ◽  
The City

This article attempts to analyse the trials held against the guards of the Stutthof concentration camp and the public execution of eleven criminals sentenced to death. The proceedings were held before the Special Criminal Court in Gdansk from 25 April to 31 May 1946. The sentence was carried out on a hill called Biskupia Górka (Stolzenberg) on 4 July of that year, in the presence of a crowd numbering in the tens of thousands of people. These events are shown as a ritual, which did not only punish Nazi perpetrators, but also fulfilled important social and political functions. Attention is also paid to the role of the city of Gdansk, which was undergoing another transformation in its history after the end of World War II, in the process of the settlement of the Nazi crimes.

Historical role of the PCIA during the Great Patriotic War: Battle of Stalingrad

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (01) ◽  
pp. 254-259
Author(s):  
Alexander Ulyanin ◽  
Olga Ulyanina
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
The City

The article updates the role of the PCIA during the Great Patriotic War. It highlights the heroic feat of the 10th division of the PCIA under the leadership of A. A. Saraev in the Battle of Stalingrad. It is noted the courage and perseverance of police officers, whose tasks in the defense of the city were associated with fighting, participation in the organization of the partisan movement, protection, evacuation of citizens, and the fight against saboteurs. The historical significance of the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II is emphasized. It tells about the traditions of the Hero City of Volgograd and the continuity of generations, about the eternal memory and gratitude for the feat of compatriots. Through the prism of the events of the war years, the issues of information and psychological protection of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War and countering the falsification of history are raised.

John Cranko's Antigone (1959): A Ballet Lost and Found

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Henrietta Bannerman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jean Racine ◽  
World War ◽  
Martha Graham ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Lost And Found ◽  
The Many ◽  
Tragic Drama ◽  
The Relationship

John Cranko's dramatic and theatrically powerful Antigone (1959) disappeared from the ballet repertory in 1966 and this essay calls for a reappraisal and restaging of the work for 21st century audiences. Created in a post-World War II environment, and in the wake of appearances in London by the Martha Graham Company and Jerome Robbins’ Ballets USA, I point to American influences in Cranko's choreography. However, the discussion of the Greek-themed Antigone involves detailed consideration of the relationship between the ballet and the ancient dramas which inspired it, especially as the programme notes accompanying performances emphasised its Sophoclean source but failed to recognise that Cranko mainly based his ballet on an early play by Jean Racine. As Antigone derives from tragic drama, the essay investigates catharsis, one of the many principles that Aristotle delineated in the Poetics. This well-known effect is produced by Greek tragedies but the critics of the era complained about its lack in Cranko's ballet – views which I challenge. There is also an investigation of the role of Antigone, both in the play and in the ballet, and since Cranko created the role for Svetlana Beriosova, I reflect on memories of Beriosova's interpretation supported by more recent viewings of Edmée Wood's 1959 film.

Painted Memories

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
mayer kirshenblatt ◽  
barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Daily Diet ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Yom Kippur ◽  
Root Vegetables

Mayer Kirshenblatt remembers in words and paintings the daily diet of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust. Born in 1916 in Opatóów (Apt in Yiddish), a small Polish city, this self-taught artist describes and paints how women bought chickens from the peasants and brought them to the shoykhet (ritual slaughterer), where they plucked the feathers; the custom of shlogn kapores (transferring one's sins to a chicken) before Yom Kippur; and the role of herring and root vegetables in the diet, especially during the winter. Mayer describes how his family planted and harvested potatoes on leased land, stored them in a root cellar, and the variety of dishes prepared from this important staple, as well as how to make a kratsborsht or scratch borsht from the milt (semen sack) of a herring. In the course of a forty-year conversation with his daughter, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, who also interviewed Mayer's mother, a picture emerges of the daily, weekly, seasonal, and holiday cuisine of Jews who lived in southeastern Poland before World War II.

THE ROLE AND ROLE OF OIL POLICY IN SAUDI ARABIA IN POST WORLD WAR II ECONOMIC LIFE

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Maftuna Sanoqulova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oil Policy

This article consists of the politics which connected with oil in Saudi Arabia after the World war II , the relations of economical cooperations on this matter and the place of oil in the history of world economics

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