First a Trickle, Then a Flood: Jazz Musicians Perform in China from All Over

Jazz in China ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 102-117
Author(s):  
Eugene Marlow
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Transportation Technologies

This chapter discusses the arrival of foreign jazz musicians in China. Mao's demise in 1976, which led to the reemergence of China as part of the world community in the last quarter of the twentieth century, together with the influence of electronic and transportation technologies in the second half of the twentieth century, had a direct impact on the rejuvenation of jazz in China, especially in Shanghai and Beijing. It provided opportunities for jazz musicians from all over the world to perform in China. The locus of this activity, at least in the beginning, was Shanghai and the opportunity fell to African American bassist and horn player Willie Ruff.

scholarly journals A. P. Platonov and children’s reading in the beginning of the 20th century: Sources, genres, names, themes

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-319
Author(s):  
Aleksey O. Kostylev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early Reading ◽  
The World ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Children’S Reading

The article examines the reading of a child at the beginning of the twentieth century in connection with the question of its influence on the world of childhood in the work of A. Platonov. The study of the pre-revolutionary reading of children is of historical and literary interest, it can help in identifying specific texts from the early reading of the writer, in defining traditions that influenced the world of childhood in Platonov’s prose and shaped it, the genesis of children’s images, and the search for allusions.

The Ternus Effect

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Hein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eye Movements ◽  
Visual System ◽  
Apparent Motion ◽  
Perceptual Grouping ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Motion Display ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Insight Into

The Ternus effect refers to an ambiguous apparent motion display in which two or three elements presented in succession and shifted horizontally by one position can be perceived as either a group of elements moving together or as one element jumping across the other(s). This chapter introduces the phenomenon and describes observations made by Pikler and Ternus in the beginning of the twentieth century. Next, reasons for continued interest in the Ternus effect are discussed and an overview of factors that influence it offered, including low-level image-based factors, for example luminance, as well as higher-level scene-based factors, for example perceptual grouping. The chapter ends with a discussion of theories regarding the mechanisms underlying the Ternus effect, providing insight into how the visual system is able to perceive coherent objects in the world despite discontinuities in the input (e.g., as a consequence of eye movements or object occlusion).

scholarly journals Sociology of ecumenism: non-theological factors of emergence and development of ecumenical relations

2008 ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Oleh S. Kyselov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
World Community ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
Christian History

Characteristic features of Christianity of the twentieth century were the consolidation of his denominations around social problems and holding inter-Christian theological and missionary conferences. These components of Christian history of the last century are connected with ecumenism. Ecumenism, in turn, influenced the initiation of a dialogue between Christianity and other religions, most notably Judaism and Islam. Thus, a comprehensive study of ecumenism will not only enable us to better understand contemporary Christianity and try to predict further ways of its development, but also on the basis of it to understand the inter-religious dialogue, which largely depends on the future of the world community.

Her Standing in Poughkeepsie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Law School ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Wellesley College ◽  
Vassar College ◽  
American Students ◽  
The World

This chapter traces the Bolins' lineage and legacy and Jane Bolin's place in it as a biracial child coming of age in early twentieth-century Poughkeepsie, New York. It examines her relationship with her siblings—Anna, Ivy, and Gaius Jr.—and with her father, who became the family's primary caregiver upon their mother's death. This very special relationship between father and youngest daughter was tested and strengthened as Jane Bolin ventured out into the world beyond Poughkeepsie for college and law school. Jane chose to attend Wellesley College in Massachusetts over Vassar College; she could not have attended Vassar either way since the school's unofficial policies barred the admission of African American students.

The African Continuum: A Focus for Outreach

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Robert J. Cummings ◽  
Theresa A. Ware
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
International Community ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World

One of the most critical paradoxes of the last quarter of the twentieth century is the declining support for area studies, especially at this time when the global community has entered such a notable phase of interdependence. The continent of Africa and its people are as important in this interdependency as any others of the world community. Indeed, no other continent in the world’s history has provided to the international community so many new and independent nations. Concomitantly, this world area has among its assets unknown quantities of potential wealth in natural resources.

The Harlem Renaissance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Hill ◽  
Sophie Meridien ◽  
Keith Holt ◽  
Daniel Boyle ◽  
Paul Ardoin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
African American Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Breaking Work ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing of artistic, intellectual, musical, and literary accomplishments by African Americans between the World Wars. The movement took its name from Harlem, a neighborhood on the northern section of Manhattan Island. Harlem became the de facto center of the African American community in New York City, and many of the most important figures of the Renaissance called it home. During the Renaissance, intellectuals published ground-breaking work that explored philosophical questions and political possibilities for African Americans that would be explored throughout the twentieth century.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Khary Oronde Polk
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Military Conscription ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Key Terms

This introduction provides a framework for considering America’s military conscription of gender, racial, and sexual difference in the early to mid-twentieth century, and the unique role Black military workers played in the extension of U.S. empire. Beginning with the definition of militarism as conceived by Alfred Vagts, the author makes an appeal for both conservative and progressive scholars to focus on the study of the military. Immunity and contagion are introduced as key terms used to analyze the movement of African American soldiers around the world, and to show how their quests for citizenship rights was burdened by antiblack racism. A chapter breakdown demonstrates how race, nation, masculinity, and sexuality are important subjects in the archive of American militarism, and argues that a new chapter of African American life was brought into being through the imperial conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference.

Rabbit's Blues

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Con Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
The World ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Jazz History ◽  
Romantic Music ◽  
African American Tradition ◽  
Rock N Roll

The book explores the career of Johnny Hodges, at one time one of the most famous saxophone players in the world. He was closely identified with Duke Ellington’s orchestra, playing with that seminal jazz group for nearly four decades, with only a four-year break in the early 1950s, when he led a band of his own. Just a few years after his death, however, he would be largely forgotten and his style considered passé. The book details why Hodges deserves reconsideration: he helped codify the vocabulary and syntax of his instrument in a jazz context, drawing inspiration from Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, but adding stylistic touches of his own and keeping the Ellington band anchored in the African American tradition of the blues. He recorded with the giants of his day—Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton, Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, and John Coltrane. With Wild Bill Davis, he invented the organ-sax combo. Hodges was one of Ellington’s leading composing lieutenants, serving as an inexhaustible source of riffs that Ellington frequently fashioned into longer works. He may even have a partial claim to the first rock ‘n’ roll song, as his group’s “Castle Rock” was recorded the same day as the earliest recording date for “Rocket 88.” Johnny Hodges’s story is an atypical jazz history; a taciturn and undemonstrative man who lived a quiet life, never succumbing to drink or drugs, he nonetheless created some of the most romantic music of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Ben Ammi’s Adaptation of Veganism in the Theology of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Michael T. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
New Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Exclusive Property ◽  
Core Part

Abstract This article will look at the ideology of veganism in the AHIJ. Since the early 1970s their diet has been a core part of their ideology and of their message to the world. Acknowledging that a black/Jewish meat-free diet is far from the exclusive property of the group, let alone a new development on their part, I will argue that it is an expression of the syncretic “bricoleur” nature of Black Israelite thought (Dorman 2013), reflecting, drawing on, and transforming traditions existing in both African American and Jewish thought in and before the twentieth century – principally articulated as a concern for health in the former and a messianic return to the peaceful Edenic existence in the latter. However, Ben Ammi skillfully intertwines it into their theology by arguing that a return to the veganism of the Garden of Eden is part of the community’s redemption of humanity from primordial sin and ultimate overcoming of the curse of death.

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