Settling Chattanooga

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Courtney Elizabeth Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
People Today

Chapter 1 charts the historical relationship between Native dispossession and early city planning and development in downtown Chattanooga, to understand more deeply the complex relationship that many contemporary Chattanoogans have with the legacies of Cherokee dispossession that took place within their hometown’s borders. The chapter focuses on the construction of historical narratives of people and place during the pre-removal and Removal periods, and argues that a paternalistic, yet quasi-reverent and nostalgic, popular framing of Native culture and removal has profoundly impacted how many people today relate to, and represent, Chattanooga’s early history. Tracing the genealogy of race, property, and Native removal in the context of early city-building prepares the ground for later discussions of contemporary Native American placemaking activities along the Tennessee riverfront.

Rewriting the Narrative

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-77
Author(s):  
Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
The 1960S

A vibrant American Indian art scene developed in California from the 1960s to the 1980s, with links to a broader indigenous arts movement. Native American artists working in the state produced and exhibited paintings, prints, sculptures, mixed media, and other art forms that validated and documented their cultures, interpreted their history, asserted their survival, and explored their experiences in modern society. Building on recent scholarship that examines American Indian migration, urbanization, and activism in the twentieth century, this article charts these developments and argues that American Indian artists in California challenged and rewrote dominant historical narratives by foregrounding Native American perspectives in their work.

The “Almost Broadcasting Company” and the Birth of ABC Sports

ABC Sports ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 9-32
Author(s):  
Travis Vogan
Keyword(s):  
College Football ◽  
Early History ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Sports Programs ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Sports Programming ◽  
The 1950S

During the 1950s, industry insiders jokingly referred to the unsuccessful American Broadcasting Company as the “Almost Broadcasting Company.” ABC turned to sports to forge an identity in network television and build a stable audience. It initially contracted its sports programming to Edgar Scherick’s Sports Programs Inc., which it purchased in 1961 and renamed ABC Sports. Scherick hired NBC producer Roone Arledge to oversee his college football broadcasts. Arledge developed a dramatized approach to sports television that would “take viewers to the game” and offer what he called an “up close and personal” perspective. Chapter 1 outlines ABC’s early history and turn to sports programming to build a niche in the television industry. It then discusses Arledge’s hiring, the development of his aesthetic, and the first ABC productions that embodied his effort to “add show business to sports” and set in motion the subsidiary’s main practices.

A History of Road Vehicles

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
David J. N. Limebeer ◽  
Matteo Massaro
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Road Vehicles ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wheeled Vehicles

Chapter 1 is almost entirely discursive and covers the early history of road vehicles, outlining some of the important technological achievements that underpin the development of modern road vehicular transport. The focus is on bicycles, motorcycles, and cars; the history of steering mechanisms for four-wheeled vehicles is considered early on. Several early engine, suspension, and tyre developments are also discussed.

On Becoming Vietnamese

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonán Ó Briain
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Early History ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
Creative Artists

Chapter 1 examines the mythologization of the Hmong and other minorities by mainstream performing artists to show how those minorities have been inscribed into Vietnam’s national consciousness through popular music. The chapter traces the early history and migrations of the Hmong into the mountains of Southeast Asia to their formal identification as an ethnic group in French Indochina. From revolutionary songs (ca khúc cách mạnh) in the 1950s and 1960s to independent creative artists in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the multivalent superculture that comprises the Vietnamese mediascape has perpetuated a series of stereotypes about the minorities. Songs, artists, and composers are linked to historically situated political developments to illustrate the gradual assimilation of Hmong and other minorities into Vietnamese culture and society.

History Repeating Itself. The function of turning points and continuity in three historical narratives on operetta

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Mikael Strömberg
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The article’s primary aim is to discuss the function of turning points and continuity within historiography. That a historical narrative, produced at a certain time and place, influence the way the historian shapes and develops the argument is problematized by an emphasis on the complex relationship between turning points and continuity as colligatory concepts within an argumentative framework. Aided by a number of examples from three historical narratives on operetta, the article stresses the importance of creating new narratives about the past. Two specific examples from the history of operetta, the birth of the genre and the role of music, are used to illustrate the need to revise not only the use of source material and the narrative strategy used, but also how the argument proposed by the historian gathers strength. The interpretation of turning points and continuity as colligatory concepts illustrate the need to revise earlier historical narratives when trying to counteract the repetitiveness of history.

scholarly journals Resuming Gynocratic Principles: Cultural Reterritorialization of Native Traditions in Linda Hogan’s Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Xiaofang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
White Male ◽  
Cultural Assimilation ◽  
Linda Hogan ◽  
Native Community ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Early Colonial

Native Americans’ cultural system has been utterly undermined in the early colonial conquest and the later neo-colonial expansion. Cultural annihilation is primarily caused by the forced cultural assimilation, especially by the white government’s practice of eradicating native traditions and beliefs. To rebuild the native culture system, Native American writer Linda Hogan attempts to employ the pre-colonial gynocratic principles in her literary creation, thus reterritorializing their cultural identity among the modern natives. This paper reveals how Hogan effectively resumes the ancient gynocratic principles by portraying a series of typical female images in the woman-centered native community, with an aim to fight against cultural assimilation guided by the white male-dominated western metaphysical epistemology.

A Region on the Divide

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-36
Author(s):  
Brooks Blevins
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
The Impact

Chapter 1 provides the backdrop to disunion and warfare. It chronicles slave life and the impact of slavery on Ozarks society in the tense decade preceding the outbreak of war. Using the nomenclature introduced by historian Ira Berlin, the chapter argues that the Ozark region as a whole was a “society with slaves,” but that pockets of “slave society” existed within it. The chapter also illustrates the conflicted nature of both white and Native American Ozarks society as it related to the slavery issue.

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