Folk Music and the Modern State

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Harris
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Ritual Music ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
And Control

This chapter examines the changes in Sibe folk music during modern times in China. It traces the brief history of musical reforms and the use of music in social reforms in Çabçal in the twentieth century from the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution to the contemporary soundscape. The chapter considers Sibe shamanic ritual music on the national stage and the state of contemporary shamanic ritual in Çabçal. It argues that although a great deal of energy has been devoted to the reform and control of Sibe folk music in the twentieth century, wider issues of social change brought about by the Chinese Community Party (CCP) have played the decisive role in the changing patterns of musical behaviour and the impoverishment of Sibe folk music over the past few decades.

scholarly journals Comparative variationism for the study of language change: five centuries of competition amongst Spanish deontic periphrases

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Blas Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Auxiliary Verbs ◽  
Complementary Distribution ◽  
Modal Verb ◽  
History Of

AbstractBased on a corpus composed entirely of texts close to the pole of communicative immediacy, mainly private letters from the sixteenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries (c. 1960), this paper analyses the results of a variationist study on the historical evolution undergone by the Spanish modal periphrases with three distinct auxiliary verbs (haber, tener, deber). Using the heuristic tools of the comparative method, the data show that variation has been constrained by a handful of common factor groups over almost five centuries. Nonetheless, with the odd exception, these factors have conditioned each verb in a different way. Moreover, the sense of this variation changes as time goes by, with especially relevant reorganisation in the first part of the twentieth century. Furthermore, there is a notable association between these constraints and the degree of markedness and the frequency of the conditioning contexts, giving support to a usage-based approach to language change in which cognitive processes such as entrenchment play a decisive role. These data also allow a particular profile to be traced for each modal verb in the history of Spanish, in which tener and haber finally undergo a complementary distribution, whereas deber follows a different pattern. After several centuries of stagnation, tener becomes the star in the deontic firmament of spontaneous communication, diffusing abruptly as a change from below in the twentieth century, and replacing haber, which had been the unmarked variant for centuries.

Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe Reloaded?

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ◽  
Kathrin Kollmeier ◽  
Willibald Steinmetz ◽  
Philipp Sarasin ◽  
Alf Lüdtke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Basic Concepts

Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe Reloaded? Writing the Conceptual History of the Twentieth Century Guest editors: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann and Kathrin KollmeierIntroduction Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann and Kathrin KollmeierSome Thoughts on the History of Twentieth-Century German Basic Concepts Willibald SteinmetzIs a “History of Basic Concepts of the Twentieth Century“ Possible? A Polemic Philipp SarasinHistory of Concepts, New Edition: Suitable for a Better Understanding of Modern Times? Alf LüdtkeReply Christian Geulen

scholarly journals Soviet Modernity: Stephen Kotkin and the Bolshevik Predicament

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA KRYLOVA
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Master Narratives ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Collective Property ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

‘Modernity’ has long been a working category of historical analysis in Russian and Soviet studies. Like any established category, it bears a history of its own characterised by founding assumptions, conceptual possibilities and lasting interpretive habits. Stephen Kotkin's work has played a special role in framing the kind of scholarship this category has enabled and the kind of modernity it has assigned to twentieth-century Russia. Kotkin's 1995Magnetic Mountainintroduced the concept of ‘socialist modernity’. His continued work with the concept in his 2001Kritikaarticle ‘Modern Times’ and his 2001Armageddon Avertedmarked crucial moments in the history of the discipline and have positioned the author as a pioneering and dominant voice on the subject for nearly two decades. Given the defining nature of Kotkin's work, a critical discussion of its impact on the way the discipline conceives of Soviet modernisation and presents it to non-Russian fields is perhaps overdue. Here, I approach Kotkin's work on modernity as the field's collective property in need of a critical, deconstructive reading for its underlying assumptions, prescribed master narratives, and resultant paradoxes.

scholarly journals DO BERÇO DO CONSTITUCIONALISMO À SUA DIMENSÃO MODERNA: EUROPA E BRASIL/THE BITH OF CONSTITUTIONALISM TO ITS MODERN DIMENSION: EUROPE AND BRAZIL

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Fábio De Souza de Paula ◽  
João Emílio de Assis Reis
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Geographic Diversity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Trajectory

RESUMO                                       Este estudo descreve o constitucionalismo, do berço à sua dimensão moderna com alguns momentos relevantes para a compreensão na atualidade, com evidência na Europa e no Brasil. Uma trajetória histórica com diversidade geográfica, cultural, social e política tem marcado a evolução do constitucionalismo em diferentes épocas da existência humana desde o período da barbárie, do despotismo marcado pela monarquia até chegar ao surgimento do Estado Moderno e do Neoconstitucionalismo nos dias atuais.Palavras-chave: História do Constitucionalismo. Brasil. Europa. ABSTRACTThis study describes the constitutionalism, the cradle of the scale with some modern times relevant to understanding today, with evidence in Europe and Brazil. A historical trajectory with geographic diversity, cultural, social and political has marked the evolution of constitutionalism in different epochs of human existence from the terror periods, marked by monarch despotism until the emergence of the modern state and neoconstitutionalism today.Keywords: History of Constitucionalism. Brazil. Europe.

The Littlehampton Libels

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hilliard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
Police Detective ◽  
The Relationship

This book reconsiders the workings of literacy and law in everyday life in early twentieth-century Britain. It does so through an analysis of an extraordinary criminal case from the 1920s—a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice and four criminal trials. The case, which unfolded in the coastal Sussex town of Littlehampton, proved as difficult to the police and the lawyers involved as any capital crime. Yet the offence in question was not murder, but libel, a crime involving words. So when a leading Metropolitan Police detective was tasked with solving the case, he questioned the residents of Littlehampton about their neighbours’ vocabularies, how often they wrote letters, what their handwriting was like, whether they swore. He assembled an ethnographic archive of working-class literacy. This book uses the materials generated by the investigation and the legal proceedings to examine, first, the variety of language used in working-class communities, and, second, the ways working-class people engaged with the legal system and vice versa. The four trials illustrate questions of access to justice; the relationship between respectability and credibility as a witness; and the largely forgotten history of criminal libel in modern times.

scholarly journals Political theology; revising the relation of theology and the political issue with the emphasis on the narratives of Karl Schmidt

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-146
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Secular Theology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theological Concept

In this paper, three commonly used concepts of political theology in different periods of the history of Western thoughts are briefly reviewd. The golden age of political thought in the west called most of the politics functions for theology as political theology. The political issue is considered as an autonomous and independent subject, which reserves the ability for itself to change theology. With the advent of Christianity and its influence on the political and governance pillars, this equation was reversed for centuries, and politics,as the theology servant,was identified as an ancestral affair. It is only in the modern times that Weber, by stating that science should be away from value, created a bedrock for political theology, in which it was not necessary to be a theologist to reach theology. In this context, Schmidt serves the concept of political theology in a sociological sense to serving to depict that the modern state, alongside with its preceding times, is a theological concept that has survived by omitting secular theology.

scholarly journals Stanyslav Lyudkevych’s Contribution to the History of Ukrainian Folk Music Research at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-200
Author(s):  
Oleg S. Smoliak ◽  
Anatoliy M. Bankovskyi ◽  
Oksana Z. Dovhan ◽  
Halyna S. Misko ◽  
Natalia M. Ovod
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Music Research

The article explores and analyzes the activities of the famous Ukrainian composer, musical folklore collector and researcher Stanyslav Lyudkevych in the early twentieth century. The article presents an analysis of the ethnographic collection Halytsko-ruski narodni melodii (Galician-Rus Folk Melodies), which contributed to the emergence of a new direction in Ukrainian folk music ethnographic research – comparative musicology. In particular, this analysis explores structural and typological characteristics of Ukranian folk music.

Variants of Frontier Mimesis

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Tappe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Asian History ◽  
And Control ◽  
Alternative Reading

At the turn of the twentieth century, the French colonial administration adopted various strategies and tactics to ‘pacify’ and control the culturally heterogeneous regions dividing the lowland realms of the Lao and Vietnamese courts, while upland powerbrokers aimed to forge strategic alliances with the new colonial power. This article takes the concept of mimesis as a means to explore the interplay of alterity and identity. With reference to the work of Michael Taussig, along with other theories of imitation, I will discuss processes of mutual appropriation and differentiation within the precarious relationship between colonizers and colonized. Mimesis here provides an alternative reading of upland Southeast Asian history beyond the binaries of dominance and resistance prevalent in James C. Scott’s recent work on the anarchist history of zomia.

Mapping, Registering, and Ordering

2021 ◽  
pp. 288-317
Author(s):  
Laura Hostetler
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
State Building ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The West ◽  
Mapping Space ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
Coordinate Mapping ◽  
And Control

This chapter examines imperial initiatives in mapping space, registering people, and ordering knowledge. The author draws a distinction between the mapping practices of pre-modern or tributary empires and those of early modern and modern imperial formations. In the latter case, authority was increasingly derived from the production and accumulation of knowledge via scientific techniques that relied on abstraction and quantification, whether at home or abroad. The author shows that modern imperial practices based on measurement were not limited to the West, but were also employed in the Ottoman Empire, Qing China, and parts of Mughal India. The chapter’s focus is the emergence of coordinate mapping as a tool of imperial expansion and control from the Renaissance through the mid-twentieth century. Similar techniques of legibility and quantification were applied to registering people and ordering knowledge. James C. Scott’s work on legibility in modern state building is foundational to this chapter.

‘STEALING THE WAY’ TO MECCA: WEST AFRICAN PILGRIMS AND ILLICIT RED SEA PASSAGES, 1920s–50s

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONATHAN MIRAN
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
West African ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional History ◽  
And Control

AbstractWest African participation in the pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) grew considerably throughout the first half of the twentieth century. This article examines the causes and consequences of failed British and Saudi efforts to channel, regulate, and control the trans-Sahelian flow of pilgrims and enforce a regime of mobility along the Sahel and across the Red Sea. Focusing specifically on Red Sea ‘illicit’ passages, the study recovers the rampant and often harrowing crossings of dozens of thousands of West African pilgrims from the Eritrean to the Arabian coasts. It examines multiple factors that drove the circumvention of channeling and control measures and inscribes the experiences of West African historical actors on multiple historiographic fields that are seldom organically tied to West Africa: Northeast African regional history, the colonial history of Italian Eritrea, and the Red Sea as a maritime space connecting Africa with Arabia.

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