Four Key Concepts for Studying Context-based Compositions

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Anette Vandsø
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Hurricane Floyd ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Ruhr District ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

This theoretical article investigates context-based compositions where we cannot identify the real-world context from the sounds alone. Examples include Stephen Vitiello’sWorld Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd, Jana Winderen’sThe Noisiest Guys on the Planet, Jacob Kirkegaard’s4 Rooms, Christina Kubisch’s compositions based on observations of the Ruhr district, Anne Niemetz and Andrew Pelling’sThe Dark Side of the Cell(2004) as well as Andrea Polli’sHeat and Heartbeat of the City(2004) based on weather data from New York. The article asks how these compositions establish their relation to a specific context. How do they invite the listener to include his or her knowledge of specific contexts? The article suggests four relevant terms that are useful when studying this relation between text and context:paratext,intermediality,enunciationandmediality.

Book Reviews

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Urban America ◽  
Code Of The Streets ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

Books reviewed in this article: Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin (eds.), After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York Jennifer Lee, Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America Patrick Le Galès, European Cities: Social Conflicts and Governance Chris Carlsson (ed.), Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration Gregory Squires (ed.), Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses Elijah Anderson, Code of the Streets Reuben A. Buford May, Talking at Trena's: Everyday Conversations in an African American Tavern

September 11 as Heist

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAMILTON CARROLL
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Representational Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Genre Conventions ◽  
The City

This article examines two films, James Marsh's Man on Wire and Spike Lee's Inside Man in relation to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It looks at both films as examples of the heist genre and explores the ways in which genre conventions enable the production of meaning about the terrorist attacks. The conventions of the heist film, it argues, help make sense of September 11 by producing a different set of relations to time and space that draw on the uncanny, rather than the traumatic, nature of the events. Narrating stories of transgression, both films place the horrors of September 11 in another context. Through the genre conventions of the heist, each film offers a view of New York in which the events of September 11 and the destruction of the World Trade Center stand as the center. Not yet complete in one, already destroyed in the other, the Twin Towers haunt these films. As Man on Wire and Inside Man each attempt to make sense of the world in which the city of New York is marked most powerfully by a profound absence, it is in their uses of the heist genre that they find a representational space in which to mourn the World Trade Center and the victims of the attacks.

scholarly journals Mortality among Fire Department of the City of New York Rescue and Recovery Workers Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster, 2001–2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6266
Author(s):  
Hilary L. Colbeth ◽  
Rachel Zeig-Owens ◽  
Charles B. Hall ◽  
Mayris P. Webber ◽  
Theresa M. Schwartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Smoking History ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

The World Trade Center (WTC) attacks on 9/11/2001 have consistently been associated with elevated rates of physical and mental health morbidities, while evidence about mortality has been limited. We examined mortality between 9/12/2001 and 12/31/2017 among 15,431 WTC-exposed Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) firefighters and emergency medical service providers (EMS), specifically assessing associations between intensity of WTC-exposure and mortality risk. Standardized mortality ratios (SMR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) compared FDNY cohort mortality with the US general population using life table analysis. Deaths were identified via linkage to the National Death Index. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to identify associations between intensity of WTC-exposure and mortality, accounting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, smoking history, and other relevant confounders. We identified 546 deaths and a lower than expected all-cause mortality rate (SMR = 0.22; 95% CI, 0.20–0.24). No cause-specific SMRs were meaningfully elevated. Mortality hazard ratios showed no association or linear trend with level of WTC-exposure. Our results provide evidence of the healthy worker effect, despite exposure to the World Trade Center. More follow-up time may be needed to assess the full impact of WTC-exposure on mortality in this occupational population.

scholarly journals The World Trade Center attack: mental health needs and treatment implications

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Herman ◽  
Ezra S. Susser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Trade Center Attack ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

On 11 September 2001, the United States suffered the worst terrorist attacks in its history. In New York City, approximately 3000 persons were killed at the World Trade Center, while many thousands fled for their lives. Millions of other city residents observed the burning towers and breathed the acrid smoke that blanketed the city. Compounding the massive physical destruction and loss of life, the psychological impact of these terrifying events on the populace was profound – there were significant increases in mental distress and symptoms of disorder.

scholarly journals Clinical Characteristics of Sarcoidosis in World Trade Center (WTC) Exposed Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) Firefighters

CHEST Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. 514A ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Hena ◽  
Jennifer Yip ◽  
Nadia Jaber ◽  
David Goldfarb ◽  
Kelly Fullam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

The Resilient City

2005 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Oklahoma City Bombing ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire. Thirty-five years later, San Francisco lay in smoldering ruins after the catastrophic earthquake of 1906. Or consider the case of the Jerusalem, the greatest site of physical destruction and renewal in history, which, over three millennia, has suffered wars, earthquakes, fires, twenty sieges, eighteen reconstructions, and at least eleven transitions from one religious faith to another. Yet this ancient city has regenerated itself time and again, and still endures. Throughout history, cities have been sacked, burned, torched, bombed, flooded, besieged, and leveled. And yet they almost always rise from the ashes to rebuild. Viewing a wide array of urban disasters in global historical perspective, The Resilient City traces the aftermath of such cataclysms as: --the British invasion of Washington in 1814 --the devastation wrought on Berlin, Warsaw, and Tokyo during World War II --the late-20th century earthquakes that shattered Mexico City and the Chinese city of Tangshan --Los Angeles after the 1992 riots --the Oklahoma City bombing --the destruction of the World Trade Center Revealing how traumatized city-dwellers consistently develop narratives of resilience and how the pragmatic process of urban recovery is always fueled by highly symbolic actions, The Resilient City offers a deeply informative and unsentimental tribute to the dogged persistence of the city, and indeed of the human spirit.

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