scholarly journals Tunes of Glory

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
Brian James MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Upper Echelons ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Political Economic

The late-16th through to the early-17th century was a period of unprecedented upheaval and conflict throughout the British Isles. This article explores the transformative rise in social status of pipers in Highland society during this period of social, political, economic, and cultural change. Bagpipes, traditionally assigned a low-caste role in society in Ireland and Scotland, were transformed into a vehicle for a highly developed form of musical composition, ceòl mòr (‘great music’). The article examines the factors which allowed the families of hereditary pipers to achieve this significant change in fortune, whilst the highlighting the unique compositional form of pipe music which enabled their entry into the upper echelons of Gaelic society in Scotland.

Anti-Catholicism in Germany, Britain, and the United States: A Review and Critique of Recent Scholarship

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjule Anne Drury
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Irish Question ◽  
Political Economic

The past two decades have seen an efflorescence of works exploring cultural anti-Catholicism in a variety of national contexts. But so far, historians have engaged in little comparative analysis. This article is a first step, examining recent historical literature on modern British and American anti-Catholicism, in order to trace the similarities and distinctiveness of the turn-of-the-century German case. Historians are most likely to be acquainted with American nativism, the German Kulturkampf, continental anticlericalism, and the problems of Catholic Emancipation and the Irish Question in Britain. Many of the themes and functions of anti-Catholic discourse in the West transcended national and temporal boundaries. In each case, the conceptualization of a Catholic ‘other’ is a testament to the tenacity of confessionalism in an age formerly characterized as one of inexorable secularization. Contemporary observers often agreed that religious culture—like history, race, ethnicity, geography, and local custom—played a role in the self-evident distinctiveness of peoples and nations, in their political forms, economic performance, and intellectual and artistic contributions. We will see how confessionalism remained a lens through which intellectuals and ordinary citizens, whether attached or estranged from religious commitments, viewed political, economic, and cultural change.

Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Original Narrative ◽  
General Record ◽  
Printed Word ◽  
Political Economic

Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century is a volume of fourteen essays each of which explores the production, distribution and consumption of both private and public texts during the Enlightenment from a variety of historical, theoretical and critical perspectives.  During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered bother personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides and original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.

scholarly journals Wooden finial in the shape of a ram head from the Property “C” of the Troitsky site

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
N. Eniosova ◽  
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V. Singkh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
Wooden Structures ◽  
High Social Status

The paper presents a study of the wooden finial in the form of a ram head that was found in Novgorod the Great on the Troitsky XII site. The ornament of fragmentarily preserved object combines elements of Mammen, Borre and Winchester styles that are characteristic for the Viking Age applied art of Scandinavia and the British Isles. Possible attribution of the detail as the skillfully carved wooden chair-throne finial testifies for the high social status of the Prop- erty owner. It indicates to Scandinavians among the first settlers of the Property and reflects their pagan cult practices. The dendrochronological dating obtained for the wooden structures fits well with the dates (950–1050 A. D.) proposed for the Mammen style within Scandinavia and the British Isles.

"Stability, in Whatever Guise"

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Status ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
Democratic Movement ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter examines the rhetoric of the March crisis as well as the ideals proferred and the programs espoused by both sides. In the wake of the March crisis, the Command Council of the Revolution (CCR) announced steps to end the period of transitional rule and facilitate the return of parliamentary life. It also proclaimed an end to all press censorship. The chapter first considers the debates over issues confronting the CCR, including the constituent assembly that would work on a new constitution, the idea of limiting the number of political parties in Egypt, and the political, economic, and social status of women. It also discusses the impact of the March crisis on the Democratic Movement for National Liberation (DMNL) and other communist movements, along with the notion that the liberal intelligentsia failed to support the revolution.

“So that Every Subject Knows How to Behave”: Social Disciplining in Early Modern Bohemia

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheilagh Ogilvie
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Political Economic

“Social disciplining” is the name that has been given to attempts by the authorities throughout early modern Europe to regulate people's private lives.1 In explicit contrast to “social control,” the informal mechanisms by which people have always sought to put pressure on one another in traditional societies, “social disciplining” was a set of formal, legislative strategies through which the emerging early modern state sought to “civilize” and “rationalize” its subjects' behavior in order to facilitate well-ordered government and a capitalist modernization of the economy.2 Whether viewed favorably as an essential stage in a beneficent “civilizing process” or more critically as an arbitrary coercion of popular culture in the interests of elites, social disciplining is increasingly regarded as central to most aspects of political, economic, religious, social, and cultural change in Europe between the medieval and the modern periods.3

CULTURAL CHANGE IN PROVINCIAL SCOTTISH TOWNS, c. 1700–1820

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
BOB HARRIS
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century

ABSTRACTIn the decades which immediately followed the union of 1707, most Scottish towns saw limited economic and cultural change. The middle of the eighteenth century, however, marked the beginnings of a new provincial urban dynamism in Scotland, which, from the 1780s or so onwards, was accompanied by far-reaching and rapid cultural change. This article seeks first to establish the scope, nature, and geography of this cultural transformation before discussing its wider historical significance, not only for our view of modern Scottish urbanization but in terms of patterns of urban change within the British Isles in the long eighteenth century. It is a story in part of convergence on Anglo-British cultural norms, but more saliently of the emergence of an increasingly British cultural synthesis, albeit one with distinctively Scottish elements. Another underlying purpose of the article is to re-direct views of Scottish urbanization away from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen and on to a group of towns which hitherto have barely featured in discussions of British urbanization in this period.

scholarly journals Kajian Akulturasi Pada Aspek Intramusikal Dalam Komposisi Musik Program “Watu Pinawetengan”

SELONDING ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yudi Novrian Komalig
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
String Quartet ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Acculturation Process ◽  
The Third ◽  
Music Program ◽  
Percussion Instrument ◽  
Agricultural Areas

Music as part of culture is always changing. These changes can occur due to several things, one of them through acculturation. Acculturation is the intercultural contact of culturally intercultural groups that leads to cultural change for the group.Acculturation can be seen in a musical genre that combines two cultural idioms. One of them is the musical composition of Watu Pinawetengan program which will be described in this article. The composition of Watu Pinawetengan music program is a music program with string quartet format and instrument of tambur (percussion instrument of Minahasa). This musical composition consists of three movements, where each movement is inspired from Minahasa folklore about the origin of the division of agricultural areas. The first movement tells the story of the daily life of the Minahasan people. The second move tells the story of the conflict that occurred in the fight over agricultural land. While the third movement tells about negotiations to resolve conflicts in the division of agricultural areas.The musical composition of the program combines the ethical idioms of Minahasa music and western music. These idioms are manifested in the intramusic aspect, whether they are realized as melodies or harmonies. The merging of these two idioms will result in an acculturation. This acculturation process will be described in this article. What intramusical aspects are acculturated, the extent to which acculturation causes change, and which culture is stronger in its influence on other cultures. Keywords: Music, Composition.

The Dalton-Zamoranos

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-73
Author(s):  
Erika Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mixed Family ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Political Economic

Relying on the experiences of the Dalton-Zamorano family of Rancho Azusa in Southern California, this article examines how a Californio family fared socially and economically from the mid-nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century, a period undergoing rapid social, political, economic, and cultural change. It focuses on the social and geographic borders that the Dalton-Zamoranos crossed culturally, racially, and spatially to pursue upward mobility and social integration. I argue that the Dalton-Zamoranos are a representative case study of biethnic families in Southern California and of the adaptations these families made following the geopolitical regime change. Outlined here is a story not only about struggle and misfortune but also of negotiation and survival by a once-prominent, ethnically mixed family whose trials and tribulations reflected rapid societal changes ushered by a new emergent industrial and capitalist order in the Southwest.

XVIII.—The Geology of the Highland Border: Stonehaven to Arran

1947 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. C. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Zone ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Boundary Fault ◽  
Complex Fracture ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Dividing Line

(a) Scope of Paper.—The distinction between Highlands and Lowlands is a most striking feature of the topography of Scotland and has for long played an important part in the political, economic and social life of the country. Although the dividing line between the two regions, in a purely geographical sense, is ill-defined in some districts, on the whole it coincides fairly closely with a powerful geological dislocation which can be traced across Scotland from Stonehaven to Arran (fig. 1), a distance of 160 miles. This dislocation has for long been termed the Highland Boundary Fault. On detailed study it is found to be only one of several faults making up a complex fracture-zone, one of the most important in the British Isles, within which movements on a considerable scale have taken place from Ordovician to Carboniferous times.

scholarly journals Media Sosial dan Prospek Muslim Kosmopolitan: Konstruksi & Peran Masyarakat Siber pada Aksi Bela Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Iswandi Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

This article discusses Indonesian cyber society active­ties and its configuration on social media which considered being able to encourage social movements, for instance Defen­ding Islam Action, subsequently well known as ‘Defending Islam Action 212’. This article argues that netizens' activities on social media turned out to involve various class variants and social status and are able to encourage the ' Defending Islam Action’. Moreover, the social formation and activities of netizens on the social media constitute the prospects for the social construction of the cosmopolitan Muslim community in Indonesia. The portrait of Indonesian cosmopolitan Muslim is seen as a cong­re­gation of citizens compelled by their religious awareness, regardless of social, political, economic boundaries and even inter-religiosity which reveres universal principles of humanity.

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