Gunfire and London’s Media Reality

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-87
Author(s):  
Gavin Williams
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sheet Music ◽  
Breaking News ◽  
Printed Music ◽  
At Home

Williams’s chapter discusses the pervasive representation of gunfire across different media forms (piano sheet music, newspapers, theater) in London in late 1854, in response to breaking news of the Battle of Alma. It argues that theaters, newspapers, and printed music were mutually inflecting domains in wartime London: areas of sonic knowledge and experience that gave particular significance to musical and sonic simulations of the battlefield both at home and in the larger urban public sphere. The chapter considers the implications of this historical mediation of wartime sound, and attempts to show that the macabre fascination produced by gunfire was linked to the invisibility of low-ranking soldiers.

Deconstructing female conventions

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria E. Rodríguez-Gil
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
At Home

Summary This paper examines Ann Fisher’s (1719–1778) most important and influential work, A New Grammar (1745?). In this grammar, the author did not follow the trend of making English grammar fit the Latin pattern, a common practice still in the eighteenth century. Instead, she wrote an English grammar based on the nature and observation of her mother tongue. Besides, she scattered throughout her grammar a wide set of teaching devices, the ‘examples of bad English’ being her most important contribution. Her innovations and her new approach to the description of English grammar were indeed welcomed by contemporary readers, since her grammar saw almost forty editions and reprints, it influenced other grammarians, for instance Thomas Spence (1750–1814), and it reached other markets, such as London. In order to understand more clearly the value of this grammar and of its author, this grammar has to be seen in the context of her life. For this reason, we will also discuss some details of her unconventional lifestyle: unconventional in the sense that she led her life in the public sphere, not happy with the prevailing idea that women should be educated for a life at home.

scholarly journals Altering Cooking and Eating Habits during the Romanian Communist Regime by Using Cookbooks

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 141-162
Author(s):  
Ina Irina Ghita
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
At Home

This digital project examines the role of a cook book, Sanda Marin’s Carte de Bucate, first published in 1936,  as a vehicle for social education in Communist Romania. The book was censored and transformed during the Communist regime as two interconnected phenomena were taking place: the reinforcing of the ideology of the Communist model and an increasing economic crisis that led to scarcity of food. The paper also pays attention to how the language and tone used in the book changed depending on the understanding of gender roles in different decades. In spite of Communist claims of an equal division of responsibilities, procuring of food and cooking was considered a woman’s task.   By addressing equal responsibility in the public sphere, not at home, the progress toward gender equity reached after the War was completely erased during communism since women had to work and also be responsible for all domestic duties at home, a situation that has been similar in other eastern European countries to this day.  

Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719–1778)

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-38
Author(s):  
Maria E. Rodríguez-Gil
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
At Home

This paper examines Ann Fisher’s (1719–1778) most important and influential work, A New Grammar (1745?). In this grammar, the author did not follow the trend of making English grammar fit the Latin pattern, a common practice still in the eighteenth century. Instead, she wrote an English grammar based on the nature and observation of her mother tongue. Besides, she scattered throughout her grammar a wide set of teaching devices, the ‘examples of bad English’ being her most important contribution. Her innovations and her new approach to the description of English grammar were indeed welcomed by contemporary readers, since her grammar saw almost forty editions and reprints, it influenced other grammarians, for instance Thomas Spence (1750–1814), and it reached other markets, such as London. In order to understand more clearly the value of this grammar and of its author, this grammar has to be seen in the context of her life. For this reason, we will also discuss some details of her unconventional lifestyle: unconventional in the sense that she led her life in the public sphere, not happy with the prevailing idea that women should be educated for a life at home.

Evaluation of Web access to historical sheet music collections and music–related iconography

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Wheeler ◽  
Mary Venetis
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Music Information Retrieval ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Internet Search ◽  
Sheet Music ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Web Access ◽  
Printed Music ◽  
Music Information

Previous research within Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has examined audio and textual facets in attempts to retrieve information about the music itself, including humming melodies, encoding of audio for transmission, extracting bibliographic data as well as melodies and harmonies. An area lacking within MIR relates to the retrieval of images and illustrations that often accompany printed music. Addressing that deficiency, this paper will briefly discuss historical American sheet music and report results from research indicating whether researchers can retrieve sheet music imagery from digital music collections, using basic Internet search engines. The findings are expected to advance our understanding of the complexities of retrieving digital music collections and music–related iconography.

Estienne Roger and his agent Adam Christoph Sellius: new light on Italian and French music in Bach’s world

Early Music ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-370
Author(s):  
Tomasz Górny
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Johann Sebastian Bach ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
Sheet Music ◽  
French Music ◽  
Instrumental Works ◽  
Printed Music

Abstract The article opens with a discussion of the Italian and Italianate concertos that Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed for the organ and harpsichord (bwv592–96, bwv972–87). Hans-Joachim Schulze has suggested that Bach encountered these Italian instrumental works as a result of a trip by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar to the Netherlands. This article suggests an alternative route for Bach to have gained copies of Italian concertos, namely via the Halle and Leipzig bookseller Adam Christoph Sellius. He traded in sheet music published by Estienne Roger in Amsterdam and also in French printed music, probably imported through his contacts in the Netherlands.

scholarly journals HAK DAN AKTIVITAS POLITIK WANITA PERSPEKTIF ABŪ AL-A‘LĀ AL-MAUDŪDĪ

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-211
Author(s):  
Putri Adelia
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Muslim Scholars ◽  
At Home

There is an assumption that develops in society that according to religion women have no place in social life and women's role is limited only in the domestic sphere. The implication is that women are not allowed to take roles in the public sphere, such as being educated as equals to men, working outside the home, even taking part in political territory. One of the modern-day Muslim scholars who interpreted the verse as a limitation on women leaving the house was Abū al-A‘lā al-Maudūdī. The author is interested in further examining his interpretation because it is classified into modern commentators but some interpretations related to women seem to be gender biased. This paper will discuss al-Maudūdī's interpretation of the QS. Al-Aḥzāb: 33 this verse is said to be the initial foothold regarding perceptions of restrictions on the movement of women in the public sphere resulting from an understanding of the results of the interpretation of orders for women to always remain at home. Then examine how this interpretation affects women's political activities.

‘Truth is not European’

Keshab ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 55-83
Author(s):  
John A. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Global History ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
High Degree ◽  
At Home

This chapter explores the arguments Keshab Chandra Sen presented to British audiences during his visit to Britain in 1870. It argues that Keshab articulated a distinctive version of liberalism, and was able to attain a high degree of visibility in the British public sphere. Keshab’s ideas concerning British rule in India and his observations of Britons in London are considered in detail. The chapter analyses Keshab’s views of global history and his ideas concerning gender, reform and civilization. The chapter goes on to discuss Keshab’s personal experiences of imperial Britain and considers the extent to which he felt ‘at home’ in the imperial metropole.

“Airing Our Dirty Linen in Public”: Lidiia Chukovskaia, Nadezhda Mandeľshtam, and Competing Visions for a Liberal Soviet Counterpublic

Slavic Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 778-799
Author(s):  
Lusia Zaitseva
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Conservative Attitude ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Dirty Linen ◽  
At Home

This article contributes to the study of gender and dissidence in the Soviet Union by examining the feud between two significant authors of cultural samizdat and tamizdat—Nadezhda Mandeľshtam and Lidiia Chukovskaia—through an updated feminist lens. It draws on prose unpublished in their lifetimes and presents previously undiscovered writing by Mandeľshtam in order to examine the origins and substance of their feud. I argue that their distinctive modes of authorship date to their relationship with Anna Akhmatova and subsequent differing approaches to her legacy. These approaches reveal their shared conservative attitude regarding gender and moral authority in the nascent liberal Soviet counterpublic as well as their diverging understandings of how the transnational public sphere could help bring about much-needed changes at home. These attitudes shaped how they regarded each other and continue to have salience for our understanding of women's participation in the public sphere in Russia today.

The Origins and Contents of the Magdalene College Partbooks

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 47-95
Author(s):  
Rebecca Herissone
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Sheet Music ◽  
Printed Music

In March 1916 a short entry in the magazine of Magdalene College Cambridge announced the discovery of ‘a set of five manuscript part books containing English instrumental music of the late seventeenth century’. These had been held in the Old Library of the college and their origin was something of a mystery; for there was no other holding of the library with which they could positively be linked. They were deposited by the Master of the college in the Fitzwilliam Museum where they remained until they were returned to the Old Library in 1969. In 1974 Dr Richard Luckett was asked to catalogue some loose sheet music which was thought to belong to the Pepys Library. It soon became clear to him that the printed music in question could not have been part of Pepys' collection, since the majority of the pieces dated from, and had been printed well after, Pepys' death in 1703, when the library had been closed. However, like the set of manuscript partbooks, this music could not at that time be connected to other music or books belonging to the college.

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