Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Will Friedwald
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
Black Music ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Elvis Presley ◽  
Basic Facts

The introduction starts with the basic facts and statistics of Nat King Cole’s career, his rather overwhelming string of chart hits that established him as the most popular of all popular singers between Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley, and as one of the greatest pianists in all of jazz. It also talks about how remarkable it is that a pop culture figure who died more than fifty-five years ago is still so relevant as to be referenced in contemporary works like the current Broadway musical Hamilton. As a way of easing readers into Cole’s musical world, two of his most popular numbers are discussed in some detail here: the 1955 hit “A Blossom Fell,” a song that originated in England, and the 1943 “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” which Cole recorded early in his career for Capitol Records, which included it on his first album; it became a career-long perennial and signature song. A further “prelude” talks about the state of jazz and black music in 1930, the year before Cole made his debut and gave his first notable public performance, by focusing on the orchestra of Noble Sissle, then playing Paris, whose orchestra included Nat’s big brother, Eddie Coles, on bass.

History Has Its Eyes on You

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Maslon
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Personal Preference ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Consumer Habits

A generational change at the beginning of the twenty-first century intersected with the technological advance of the Internet to provide a renaissance of Broadway music in popular culture. Downloading playlists allowed the home listener to become, in essence, his/her own record producer; length, narrative, performer were now all in the hands of the consumer’s personal preference. Following in the footsteps of Rent (as a favorite of a younger demographic), Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton emerged as the greatest pop culture/Broadway musical phenomenon of the twenty-first century; its cast album and cover recording shot up near the top of music’s pop charts. A rediscovery of the power of Broadway’s music to transform listening and consumer habits seems imminent with the addition of Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen to a devoted fan base—and beyond.

scholarly journals Stage excitement as individual psychological state of the vocalist

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
N. K. Korneev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
The State ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Behavior

The state and behavior of a singer on the stage has not been fully explored and studied. This article is an attempt to understand the causes of such a phenomenon as the excitement of a vocalist who goes on stage and performs in front of an audience. The unusual psychological state that an artist develops on the stage during a public performance brings many unexpected «discoveries» to the performer and requires detailed study. Unlike ordinary excitement, the author designated it as «stage excitement» and pointed out the factors that lead to the occurrence of such a state. The ways of neutralizing the negative sides of the artist’s state on the stage are analyzed. A great emphasis in the work is placed on the study of the psychological portrait of the performer and the psycho-emotional component of his personality as well as the characteristic moments associated with the individual characteristics of the vocalist.

Freedom

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-163
Author(s):  
Neil Richards
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Power Dynamic ◽  
Private Party ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Big Brother

Privacy can nurture our ability to develop political beliefs, identities, and expression, and is thus an essential source of political power for citizens against the state. Privacy enables political freedom, letting us act as self-governing citizens, and it is hard to envision a functioning democracy without privacy. Many discussions of privacy and political freedom rely on Orwell’s metaphor of Big Brother, but that image is incomplete because it fails to include private-party surveillance. Surveillance of any kind, whether government or private, raises two particular dangers. First, surveillance threatens the intellectual privacy we need to make up our minds about political and social issues; being watched when we think, read, and communicate can cause us not to experiment with new, controversial, or deviant ideas. Second, surveillance changes the power dynamic between the watcher and the watched; the power surveillance gives to watchers creates risks of blackmail, discrimination, and coercive persuasion.

Attracting Attention

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Lupia
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
True Relationship

Educators seek to convey information that increases knowledge and competence. A necessary condition for accomplishing these goals is to attract attention to their information. Attracting attention can be difficult. Other people, nature, and many variations of consumer society and pop culture compete for a prospective learner’s attention. People can also pay attention to things that are not “in the room” when an educator is presenting potentially important information. Prospective learners can think about events that happened in the past or events that could happen in the future. At any moment, there are many things to which people can pay attention. In this chapter, we will review basic facts about how people direct their attention. To this end, I establish simple principles that educators can use to make their presentations more memorable to more people. Individually and collectively, these principles are not an automatic recipe for success, but they can help educators avoid common mistakes in how they convey information to others. . . . The chapter’s main lessons are as follows: Learning requires attention. Human attentive capacity is extraordinarily limited. For an educator to get a prospective learner’s attention, the prospective learner must perceive the information as something they can use to achieve highly valued aspirations. These aspirations can include making bad things go away. A phenomenon called motivated reasoning sometimes leads people to pay attention to information because of how it makes them feel, rather than basing their attention on the information’s true relationship to their aspirations. Educators can benefit from considering the concept of motivated reasoning when choosing how to convey information. Many educators overestimate the amount of information to which prospective learners are willing or able to pay. Correcting these estimates can help educators increase knowledge and competence more effectively. . . The chapter reaches these conclusions in the following way. Section 7A offers basic definitions that clarify attention’s role in learning. Section 7B shows how challenging earning attention can be. Section 7C explains how to make information more memorable for more people. Section 7D concludes.

Shostakovich's Second Symphony

Tempo ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lawson
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Communist Manifesto ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The World

The appearance of Shostakovich's Second Symphony on a gramophone record some time ago, and its public performance at a BBC symphony concert in London last October, marked its emergence from a period of over forty years of almost total neglect. Bearing the subtitle ‘To October: A symphonic Dedication’, it was composed in 1927 (two years after the highly successful First Symphony, which had established the composer's international reputation) in response to a commission from the State for a work to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution. But while the score bears as its heading words from the Communist Manifesto, ‘Workers (Proletarians) of the World, Unite’, and the composer's avowed intention is ‘proletarian’, the musical idiom is often far removed from this. The symphony was given its first performance in Leningrad on the 6 November 1927, and as Dmitri Rabinovich, Shostakovich's Russian biographer, says in his book, “got a fairly good press but after a few performances disappeared from the repertoire”.

scholarly journals Inwentarz rzeczy pozostałych po stolniku przemyskim Jerzym Wołodyjowskim z 1674 roku

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 211-228
Author(s):  
Józef Kus
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Real ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Real Estates

W księgach grodzkich grabowieckich, przechowywanych w Archiwum Państwowym w Lublinie, znajduje się rejestr rzeczy pozostałych po stolniku przemyskim Jerzym Wołodyjowskim, który był pierwowzorem Sienkiewiczowskiego „Małego Rycerza” – obrońcy Kamieńca Podolskiego w 1672 r. W artykule przedstawiono tradycję związaną z legendą pułkownika Wołodyjowskiego, podstawowe fakty z jego życia oraz okoliczności powstania inwentarza pośmiertnego, wykorzystanego w trakcie procesu przeciwko osobom, które bezprawnie zagarnęły nieruchomości zmarłego. Autor artykułu stwierdza w konkluzji, że autentyczny Wołodyjowski tylko pod pewnymi względami przypominał swój literacki, Sienkiewiczowski, portret. Był istotnie świetnym zagończykiem i zginął w Kamieńcu Podolskim, tak jak „pan Michał”, chociaż jego śmierć była przypadkowa. Był również pułkownikiem, lecz nie dowodził chorągwią laudańską. Nie był też najprawdopodobniej nigdy na Litwie, gdzie region etnograficzno-historyczny Lauda się znajdował. Artykuł zawiera edycję inwentarza sporządzonego po śmierci Jerzego Wołodyjowskiego. The 1674 Inventory the Belongings Left by Przemyśl Pantler Jerzy Wołodyjowski The register of things left by Przemyśl Pantler (Steward) Jerzy Wołodyjowski, who was a model for Sienkiewicz’s “Small Knight” – the defender of Kamieniec Podolski in 1672 – can be found in the Grabowiec municipal records, which are kept in the State Archives in Lublin. The article presents the tradition connected with the legend of Colonel Wołodyjowski, basic facts from his life, and the circumstances of the compilation of the posthumous inventory used during the lawsuit against persons who illegally seized the real estates of the deceased. The author of the article concludes that the real Wołodyjowski resembled his literary, Sienkiewicz-created image only in some respects. He was indeed an excellent soldier and was killed in Kamieniec Podolski (like Michał Wołodyjowski, his book counterpart) but his death was an accidental one. He also was a colonel but he was not in charge of the Lauda cavalry company. He had probably never been to Lithuania, where this ethnographic-historical region Lauda (Liaude) was situated. The article contains the edition of the inventory made after the death of Jerzy Wołodyjowski.

Questioning the Revival

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-33
Author(s):  
Douglas M. Gildow
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Buddhist Monasticism ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

A common narrative of Buddhist monasticism in modern China is that monastic institutions were virtually eliminated during the Cultural Revolution period (1966–1976) but have undergone continuous revival since that time. This simplistic narrative highlights differences in state-monastic relations between the Maoist and post-Maoist eras, even as it oversimplifies various developments. In this article, I analyze the notion of revival and assess the state of Han Buddhist monasticism in the prc. My focus is on clarifying the “basic facts” of monasticism, including the numbers and types of monastics and monastic institutions. I draw on studies published since Holmes Welch’s works as well as on my own fieldwork conducted in China since 2006. This article questions the revival metaphor and shows that it is misleading. First, as Welch noted for the Republican period, recent developments are characterized by innovations as much as by revivals. Second, evidence for the growth of monasticism from around the year 2000 is weak. Yet in two aspects, monasticism today revives characteristics of Republican-period monasticism: ritual performance is central to the monastic economy, and Buddhist seminaries are important for monastic doctrinal education.

Big Brother is Watching and Controlling You

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Rob Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
Credit Scoring ◽  
The State ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Social Credit ◽  
System P ◽  
Automated Surveillance ◽  
Guilt By Association ◽  
Digital Transactions ◽  
The One ◽  
Mass Surveillance

This chapter examines how data-driven technologies are deployed as mass surveillance and social credit scoring in China and their threat to democracy. Over the last decade, China has put in place a state-sponsored system of mass automated surveillance. It has successfully managed to limit the Internet to state-approved websites, apps, and social media, corralling users into a monitored, non-anonymous environment and preventing access to overseas media and information. From December of 2019, all mobile phone users registering new SIM cards must agree to a facial recognition scan to prove their identity. The state has also facilitated the transition from anonymous cash to traceable digital transactions. Most significantly, the state has created a social credit scoring system that pulls together various forms of data into a historical archive and uses it to assign each citizen and company a set of scores that affects their lifestyles and ability to trade. On the one hand, this is about making the credit information publicly accessible, so that those who are deemed untrustworthy are publicly shamed and lose their reputation. On the other hand, it is about guilt-by-association and administering collective punishment. This sociality works to minimize protest and unrest and reinforce the logic of the system.

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