Introductions and Acknowledgments

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
W. Anthony Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Film Scores ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Musical Works

Over the course of the past century and a half, numerous composers, musicians, and audiences in the United States have imagined Japan through works created and experienced in every musical genre and medium. Some of these popular songs, film scores, and Broadway musicals reached large audiences over an extended period. The vast majority of these works proved more ephemeral, but nevertheless were culturally significant through their collective impact. This book investigates the reciprocal relationships among this diverse body of musical works, the ever protean political dynamic between the United States and Japan, and the evolving American social climate in which this music was created and experienced. To what extent was music employed to shape American perceptions of the Japanese, and to what extent was American music itself shaped in the process?...

Edward MacDowell: Musical Nationalism and an American Tone Poet

1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Crawford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Edward Macdowell

After American-born, European-trained Edward MacDowell returned to the United States in 1888 and settled in Boston, he was welcomed as the composer American music had been awaiting. Enhanced by a professorship at Columbia University (1896-1904), his fame drew him into the current debate over musical nationalism. MacDowell relished the role of American composer, using national elements to approach artistic universality. "To a Wild Rose" for piano links post-Wagnerian tonality with programmatic suggestion in a style echoed by later popular songs. And "Dirge" from the Indian Suite evokes Native American experience to ground America's independent spirit in an idealized primeval past.

The Reintegration Academy for parolees

2020 ◽  
pp. 147797142095908
Author(s):  
Renford Reese
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
California Department ◽  
Gainful Employment ◽  
Academic Orientation ◽  
Reflective Essay

The Reintegration Academy was founded in 2009. It was the first program of its kind in the United States to bring a group of parolees to a college campus for an extended period for academic programming. Since its inception, the Reintegration Academy has collaborated with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Division of Adult Parole Operations to host nine cohorts and served 251 parolees. Division of Adult Parole Operations assists in recruiting, screening, and giving participants referrals to the program. The program immerses 35 participants in Academic Orientation, Life Skills, and Career Development modules for eight weeks. The Reintegration Academy has an 85% success rate of enrolling participants in college and/or placing them in gainful employment. This article is a reflective essay that concisely discusses the genesis of the program, integrates a review of literature on the challenges in re-entry, the program’s anatomy, and the outcomes of the program.

What Kills Our Kids?

Pained ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Michael D. Stein ◽  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Chromosomal Abnormalities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Motor Vehicle Accidents ◽  
Childhood Mortality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Vehicle Accidents ◽  
Vision Zero

This chapter asks what kills children and what people can do about it. One of the greatest triumphs in health over the past century has been the dramatic decrease in childhood mortality, yet children still die. In 2016, there were, in the United States, about 38,000 deaths of children under the age of 19. Roughly half of deaths occur in early childhood due to genetic conditions, chromosomal abnormalities, and other perinatal conditions, many of which people do not know how to treat. However, we should be able to prevent most of the other half. The leading causes of injury deaths are motor vehicle deaths and gun-related deaths. Understanding how to prevent them can provide a template for stopping other childhood deaths. The chapter then considers the Vision Zero initiative, passed by the Swedish parliament 20 years ago, which aims to reduce traffic fatalities to zero. Just like motor vehicle accidents, childhood deaths from guns will not end until people work to create a safer environment by reducing the availability of firearms.

Uncle Sam versus Uncle Usama

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-173
Author(s):  
Charles Kurzman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Counterterrorism Policy

Shifts in American foreign policy have had little effect on Muslim attitudes toward the United States—even the shift from the administration of Barack Obama to that of Donald Trump barely changed Muslims’ survey responses or the prevalence of revolutionary violence. So why should the United States bother to take Muslim sensibilities into account? Following the lead of Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and remarkable American humanitarians of the past century, this chapter proposes that the United States reorganize its counterterrorism policy around the interests of its liberal Muslim allies, rather than expose them to the dangers of militarism and authoritarianism.

Challenges of COVID-19 During 2020 and Opportunities for FinTech in 2021 for Digital Transformation of Business and Financial Institutions in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 282-299
Author(s):  
Narinder Kumar Bhasin ◽  
Kamal Gulati
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The World ◽  
Technology Trends

Fintech/TechFin/financial and banking sector achieved the new digital disruptions and transformation milestones in India, underlining the various opportunities in the last year, 2020, when the world was struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, an extended period of lockdown, job loss, and unemployment. India has emerged as the fastest-growing second largest leading fintech hub in the world after the United States. This chapter will explain the various challenges faced in the year 2020 and opportunities for fintech in 2021. The chapter also explains the emerging technology trends and growth of finechs in India during the COVID pandemic.

Swiss-German Music Books in the Mason-McConathy Collection: Accounts from Europe to the United States

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Sondra Wieland Howe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Music Education ◽  
School System ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Music Books

This article describes an examination of the Swiss-German music books in the Luther Whiting Mason—Osbourne McConathy Collection, undertaken to learn about music education in nineteenth-century Switzerland and its influence on American music education. Pfeiffer and Nägeli introduced Pestalozzi's ideas to Swiss schools, teaching the elements of music separately and introducing sounds before symbols. Swiss educators in the mid-1800s published numerous songbooks and teachers' manuals for an expanding school system. Foreign travelers praised the teaching of Schäublin in Basel. In Zurich, a cultural center with choruses for men and women, music directors continued to produce materials for schools and community choruses in the 1800s. Because travelers like Luther Whiting Mason purchased these books, Swiss ideas on music education spread to other European countries and the United States.

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