Two artists and two mélodies

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-398
Author(s):  
Clare Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Compositional Language ◽  
Poetic Imagery ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Musical Character

André Caplet (1878-1925) set just two of Baudelaire’s poems: La Cloche fêlée [‘The Cracked Bell’] and La Mort des pauvres [‘The Death of the Poor’]. These mélodies were composed in 1922, just three years before the artist’s death. For a composer with a tendency to shy away from setting poetry of the French giants of literature, the questions of how and why Caplet chose to translate Baudelaire’s poetry into the mélodie are intriguing. This exploration of La Cloche fêlée and La Mort des pauvres considers the ways in which Caplet reflects the poetic imagery of Baudelaire’s texts within musical structures. Caplet’s compositional language is distinctive, and his artistic approach to musically illuminating poetic meaning is perceptive and sensitive. Through viewing the creative intersection of these two artists, this article offers an interpretation that presents a perspective on Caplet’s musical character and reveals insight into his connection to Baudelaire’s poetic language.

scholarly journals The Materiality of English Suicide Letters, c. 1700 – c. 1850

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Ella Sbaraini
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Scholars have explored eighteenth-century suicide letters from a literary perspective, examining issues of performativity and reception. However, it is fruitful to see these letters as material as well as textual objects, which were utterly embedded in people's social lives. Using thirty manuscript letters, in conjunction with other sources, this article explores the contexts in which suicide letters were written and left for others. It looks at how authors used space and other materials to convey meaning, and argues that these letters were epistolary documents usually meant for specific, known persons, rather than the press. Generally written by members of the ‘lower orders’, these letters also provide insight into the emotional writing practices of the poor, and their experiences of emotional distress. Overall, this article proposes that these neglected documents should be used to investigate the emotional and material contexts for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century suicide. It also argues that, at a time when the history of emotions has reached considerable prominence, historians must be more attentive to the experiences of the suicidal.

scholarly journals ‘And I still see their faces…’: Wilhelm von Blandowski’s photographs from the collection of Museum in Gliwice

2009 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Leszek Jodliński
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Early Photography ◽  
Insight Into

Wilhelm von Blandowski (1822-1878) was born in Gleiwitz, Prussia (now Gliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland). From 1862 through 1868, Wilhelm von Blandowski may have taken up to 10, 000 photographs. Though only a portion of his photographic accomplishment has been preserved, the existing photographs provide an insight into their content and character, as well as providing us with the better understanding of the work of their author. The main emphasis in the paper will be on Blandowski’s photographs presently in the collections of Museum in Gliwice. It will focus on his portraits with reference to some of the formal experiments Blandowski carried out, such as photomontage and narrative photography. Attention will be also drawn to his creation of documentary-like and realistic photographs. Both the commercial nature of the photographic business run by Blandowski, as well as his personal interest in picturing the human condition, had a strong influence on his photography. He put the person at the center of his interest. This was reflected in Blandowski’s attempts to capture the natural world of the Prussian borderlands in the 1860s. Blandowski depicted a place inhabited by Germans, Jews and Poles ‘the promised land’ of early industrialization. Witnesses of these days, the known and anonymous characters look at us from the hundreds of prints taken by Blandowski. Among them one can see wealthy industrialists, priests and doctors, workers and peasants, children and women, the rich and the poor, persons of different professions, nationalities and confessions. The article concludes with a discussion of the influences that Blandowski has had on his contemporaries and also of his place in the history of early photography in Poland.

Role of Institutional Governance in Protecting the Natural Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 359-375
Author(s):  
K. K. Yadav ◽  
Kumud Dhanwantri
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
State Governments ◽  
National Capital Region ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
The Poor ◽  
National Capital ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Insight Into

In the present age of industrialization and unregulated urbanization, the Aravali ranges in India are facing deforestation and degradation. The major reasons behind this are the needs of the poor, and greed of the rich. Therefore, part of the Aravalli Ranges falling in different sub-regions of the National Capital Region, has been taken as case study. The chapter intends to provide an insight into the scenario of forests and wildlife in the sub-regions; the challenges, responses, and immediate initiatives taken up by the constituent state governments. It also discusses ways forward to engage the governments and local communities in the protection of forests and wildlife. The conclusion strives to provide probable strategies that can be adopted to transform the transitions of Aravalli into a positive one and ways for engaging government machinery for better governance to escape the grim future we foresee.

scholarly journals African bureaucracy and public administration: Analysing the normative impediments and prospects

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinyeake J. Igbokwe-Ibeto
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Insight Into

Background: Public perception of bureaucracy and public administration is key to determining how much they can accomplish in a given environment. The pejorative view of bureaucrats and public administrators is not restricted to Africa. Although they are sometimes seen as one and the same, analytically they can be divorced.Aim: Within the framework of system theory, this article analysed the interface between African bureaucracy and public administration with the aim of identifying its impediments and prospects.Setting: Relevant sources of this research were fairly and professionally scrutinised, understood and tested with the available literature for the research purpose. Inter alia, it included scan-reading, comprehensive and critical reading and writing down ideas. Authoritative scholarly sources were reviewed during a desktop study. The purpose was to identify the relevant publications and apply them in the research.Methods: This article utilised qualitative research design and descriptive methods to gain an insight into the nature and character of African bureaucracy and public administration. It is also exploratory because the article attempts to explore the nexus between African bureaucracy and public administration.Result: This article argues that African bureaucracy is losing its potency and ability to give intellectual leadership to public administrators. Bureaucrats in the field rely too much on discretion that often does not sit well with the people and result in poor service delivery.Conclusion: It therefore concludes that the poor state of affairs in African bureaucracy could change if the bureaucracy opens up to administrative reforms, particularly those that add value to their activities and actions. In this era of globalisation, international best practices should be domesticated.

A “Radical” Problem: The Poor and the English Reformers in the Mid-Seventeenth Century

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte Mulligan ◽  
Judith Richards
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Insight Into

Debates about poverty in mid-seventeenth-century England have, for some years, been a staple of historical studies. In our own time, where the numbers of the dispossessed continue to challenge the success of current modes of social and economic organization, such an interest is understandable and to be welcomed. But the relevance of studies of past problems and solutions and their applicability to present purposes is more complex than is usually recognized.The immediate benefit of studying discussions for change in mid-seventeenth-century England is that they provide an unusual insight into how members of that society conceived of it. In particular, their observations about the problems of poverty and the role of the poor offer us an understanding of the perceived social structure, the ethical bases for social differentiation, and the degree to which the future could be envisioned as differing from the past or present. Such understandings of proposed social change are invaluable for historians wishing to grasp the underlying assumptions on which past thought and action was predicated.Past proposals for social reform, however, have also been the focus of a significantly different enquiry by historians. In order to render those past programs more comprehensible (and more directly “relevant”) to modern readers, they are often placed on a “conservative” versus “radical” continuum, one end of which has sometimes been marked “extreme left wing.” This article argues that any such classification inevitably leads to misunderstandings of the authors and of their programs and, consequently, misrepresents both to the present.

scholarly journals THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE „JAPANESE TRACE“ IN THE WORK OF NIKOLAY STOYKOV

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-93
Author(s):  
Nikolina KROTEVA
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
Compositional Style ◽  
Male Voice ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
Compositional Language ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Voice And Piano

e contemporary Bulgarian composer Nikolay Stoykov is extremely attached to the image world of the Bulgarian musical folklore. Colorful as an author, he reconsiders and liberates authentic folk material with modern compositional language and thus breaks the traditional boundaries of musical structures. The subject of my monograph1 was the questions related to the artistic imagery in the choir work of Nikolay Stoykov and the original composer techniques usedby the author. While I was researching and writing about the rich heritage of the composer – about 100 opuses, I encountered various unique and turning points of his life. Stoykov was taught composition by the unsurpassed Pancho Vladigerov. I thought this was the most important fact that largely influenced and shaped his compositional style. In one of the chapters of themonographic survey „Vocal Landscapes“ (Кroteva 2017, pp. 20 – 27), I point to a little-known fact – the meeting of Nikolay Stoykov with the Japanese lyrical art. Back in 1966 he wrote four exquisite pieces of „Tanka“ for a male voice and piano on poems by Ishikawa Takuboku. Nikolay Stoykov has various creative appearances. In addition to musical works, he has published three books with haiku poetry and poetic messages in which he has expressed himself „without notation“. The question of the influence of the short Japanese poetic forms on the composer’s creative invention was not in the focus of my work, and remained unexplored in depth. The theme of the International Science Forum „The East – So Far, So Close“ provoked me to trace the creative predisposition of Nikolay Stoykov to the Eastern cultures and to add extra touches to the portrait of this extremely interesting composer.

scholarly journals Charity and Conflict: Poor Relief in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Dundee

2016 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McCallum
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Town ◽  
Insight Into

This article addresses the poor relief provided in Dundee during the 1640s and 1650s, years of particular upheaval in the burgh. Contrary to some assumptions, some unusually rich archival evidence on this subject survives and offers rich insight into the collection and distribution of welfare by the kirk treasurers. The article argues that significant fundraising activities took place and survived the disasters of the late 1640s and early 1650s, pointing to the resilience of the town and its charitable structures. This relief was effectively administered and carefully recorded, and drew on a variety of additional sources such as voluntary gifts, as well as regular church-door collections. The article also analyses the recipients of regular and exceptional relief payments and considers the much more limited care provided by Dundee's hospital. As well as suggesting further opportunities for the study of poor relief in pre-modern Scotland, the article also helps to shed new light on the seventeenth-century experiences of one of the less well-studied of Scotland's leading early modern burghs.

scholarly journals Differences in Household Characteristics by Income Distribution in Pakistan

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 657-669
Author(s):  
Shahnaz Kazi ◽  
Zeba A. Sathar
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Household Characteristics ◽  
Income Disparities ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Empirical Insight

The main purpose of this paper is to identify variations in demographic and economic characteristics of households by income groups. For almost two decades now development planners have been concerned with the issue of income disparities and poverty. Whereas previous studies in this area for Pakistan [2; 9] have focused mainly on quantifying the extent of poverty in the country, the present work investigates the qualitative aspects of poorer households. It aims at providing some empirical insight into the distinctive socio-economic and demographic circumstances of the poor.

scholarly journals Sea Slugs—“Rare in Space and Time”—But Not Always

Diversity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 423
Author(s):  
Julie Schubert ◽  
Stephen D. A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Spatial And Temporal Patterns ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Sea Slugs ◽  
Subtropical Estuary ◽  
Intuitive Method ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Insight Into

The term “rare in space and time” is often used to typify the spatial and temporal patterns of occurrence of heterobranch sea slugs. However, “rare” in this context has not been clearly defined. In an attempt to provide more insight into the concept of rarity in sea slug assemblages, we analysed abundance data from 209 individual surveys conducted over a 5-year period in a subtropical estuary and a 7-year period on a shallow coastal reef, on the Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia. Using an ‘intuitive’ method (<10 individuals recorded over the study), and the ‘quartile’ method we assessed numerical rarity (number of individuals of a species seen over the study period) and temporal rarity (frequency of observation). We also assessed numerical rarity using octaves based on log2 abundance bins. The quartile method did not effectively capture either measure of rarity. The octave method, however, fitted closely to subjective classifications of abundance and defined a similar number of species as rare when compared to the intuitive method. Using the octave method, 66% of species in both the estuary and on the reef, were considered as rare. Consequently, we recommend the octave method to allocate abundance classifications. To address the poor fit for temporal classifications based on quartiles, we propose the following as a working model for wider testing: rare ≤25% of surveys; uncommon 26−50%, common 51−75%; and abundant >75%.

Representing the Disadvantaged

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina F. McNally
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Disadvantaged Group ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

The limited attention Congress gives to disadvantaged or marginalized groups, including Black Americans, LGBTQ, Latinx, women, and the poor, is well known and often remarked upon. This is the first full-length study to focus instead on those members who do advocate for these groups and when and why they do so. Katrina F. McNally develops the concept of an 'advocacy window' that develops as members of Congress consider incorporating disadvantaged group advocacy into their legislative portfolios. Using new data, she analyzes the impact of constituency factors, personal demographics, and institutional characteristics on the likelihood that members of the Senate or House of Representatives will decide to cultivate a reputation as a disadvantaged group advocate. By comparing legislative activism across different disadvantaged groups rather than focusing on one group in isolation, this study provides fresh insight into the tradeoffs members face as they consider taking up issues important to different groups.

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