Margolin, Anna (1887–1952)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul Noam Zaritt
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Literary Journals ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Yiddish Press ◽  
Own Name ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

Anna Margolin is a Yiddish poet of the first half of the twentieth century, and though she produced only a single volume of poetry, Margolin is often considered one of the most important and influential Yiddish modernists. Born Rosa Lebensboym in the Lithuanian town of Brisk, she travelled widely and restlessly between eastern and western Europe, Palestine and the USA, before settling in New York in 1913. While reporting on women’s issues for the Yiddish press, including the urgent issue of women’s suffrage, she began contributing to Yiddish literary journals of the time under the pseudonym Anna Margolin, which she would later adopt as her own name. Her poetry, at times impressionist, symbolist and post-symbolist, imagist and expressionist was difficult to categorize for the critics of the period and as a result she was both praised and harshly criticized by her contemporaries.

scholarly journals Words that Burn: On the Manners and Implications of Oath-Taking Practices in Ethiopian Amhara Customary Law, Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries

Aethiopica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Éloi Ficquet
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Additional Layer ◽  
Ritual Action ◽  
History Of ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

Between the spoken word, ritual action, and legal processes, the studies of oath-taking practices have developed a broad literature. This article provides an additional layer of materials and analysis on speech acts and ritual procedures involved in the manners of taking an oath in the Christian societies of Ethiopia, as recorded from the midnineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Some samples of Amharic discourse specific to the manners of oath-taking in the customary legal system of Christian Ethiopia are presented here through extracts from unpublished field notes recorded in the 1840s by the French traveller Arnauld d’Abbadie. This source is then compared to other ethnographic observations of oath-taking statements and rituals in the context of Ethiopian Christian societies. The implications of swearing an oath in Ethiopian customary law lead to the critical re-examination of the history of Ethiopian law in a comparative outlook, particularly with the canonical laws of Eastern and Western Europe.

Improvising Sabor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Miller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Music History ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Latin Music ◽  
The Rich

The term ‘salsa’ has come to stand for a particular standardized set of performance practices and the dominant narrative of its origins, particularly through the lens of the Fania Records story, has tended to over-simplify Latin music history in the USA. This book documents an understudied period of Latin music history across the divide of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 to demonstrate a wider narrative which includes the history of the influential charanga orquestas of 1960s New York. A típico aesthetic is shown to be an important one with the combination of charanga and conjunto stylings giving rise to a plurality of ensemble types, each with a distinctive sabor and varying degrees of cubanía. In this book Miller thus examines the New York contexts for Cuban dance music performance in the first part of the twentieth century before considering the mid twentieth-century developments. The text makes its argument for a distinctive New York sabor through interviews with performers and through the sensitive transcription and analysis of recordings by Orquesta Broadway, Pacheco y su Charanga, Charlie Palmieri’s Charanga Duboney, Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta, and Ray Barretto’s Charanga Moderna, amongst others. Analytical transcriptions of improvisations, in dialogue with musicians’ own perspectives, highlight a specific Latin music performance aesthetic or sabor that is rooted in both Cuban dance music forms and the rich performance culture of Latin New York.

scholarly journals Specificity of M. Novak's Activity in the Context of the Development of Ukrainian Film Production in the Countries of North America

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesya Turchak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
North America ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The Usa

The article examines the film production activities of one of the leading figures of socio-political and cultural life of the Ukrainian community in New York and Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century. The activity of M. Novak in the context of the attempt to develop the Ukrainian film industry in order to outline the national identity is studied. The peculiarities of M. Novak’s professional and public activity in the context of the specifics of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the USA are revealed and his contribution to the Ukrainian film industry abroad is clarified. The study found that the common semantic and stylistic basis of films of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the United States in the 20-60's of the twentieth century. became the baggage of Ukrainian culture of their creators, the traditions of domestic cinema, in which they worked before emigrating, as well as the general attitude to the preservation of traditions of Ukrainian culture of the diaspora in North America, typical of the second wave of emigration in general. Through his own activities in the field of film production and distribution of documentary and feature films, M. Novak contributed to the nation-building dialogue and the actualization of the communicative efficiency of world Ukrainians.

Measuring consumers’ perceptions of business ethicality on price, product, and service domains

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tsalikis ◽  
Michelle Van Solt ◽  
Bruce Seaton
Keyword(s):  
Purchasing Power Parity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
National Income ◽  
Consumer Perceptions ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Consumer Trust ◽  
Power Parity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine consumer perceptions across various countries, and uses content analysis in order to compare individual countries’ perceptions of ethicality over three business domains: price, product and service. Design/methodology/approach The data encompasses measurements from 18 countries including the USA and countries in Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the gross national income purchasing power parity were explored to explain the differences in focus between countries. Findings The results indicate that Mexico and Argentina place a higher focus on price, while Russia, China and India place a greater focus on the product element. In terms of ethical perceptions of service, only Brazil places high focus on this domain. The results indicated that uncertainty avoidance was significant for five of the six countries focusing on price, suggesting that price provides a level of certainty and therefore less ambiguity. Originality/value The importance of this study is based on the idea that consumer trust is vital to the efficient running of economic activity.

Ragtime in the work of composers of academic tradition

2017 ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
T. V. Polyanskyi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
American Academic ◽  
Academic Tradition

The twentieth century can be called a century of universal synthesis, and the specific feature of musical creativity is synthetic nature of creative thinking. The expansion of intonation sphere, free dialogue of various genres, styles are becoming more obvious, and in this process an extraordinary role is given to mass music and jazz. The twentieth century created the opportunity not only to take paints from the richest palette, but also to mix them boldly. More often there are compositions in which the effects of various expressive systems are pronounced. So these effects absorb the elements of jazz idiomatics. It means all kinds of symbioses with jazz, which are called hybrid genres: jazz opera, jazz ballet, jazz symphony, jazz oratorio, etc. The interaction of academic and jazz music took place at different stages of the evolution of the world musical culture, and the formation of this trend is associated with the creativity of composers of the academic tradition of the USA and Western Europe in the late 19 – early 20 century. The subject of this work is the aspect of the penetration of jazz idioms, precisely, the methods of ragtime into the music of the academic tradition of the early twentieth century. The main focus is on the work of the most significative European composers, primarily members of the famous French “Six”, as well as outstanding masters of American academic music. All this is supported by musical examples (notes), which give a holistic view of the subject of research.

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