The Requiem Mass and Sacred Jazz: A Study of catholic Liturgical Forms in the Genre of Sacred Jazz

<p>This exegesis examines the role of religious and spiritual influence on works by jazz composers as related to my composition, Requiem: a Suite of Jazz Orchestra, a jazz suite based on the Requiem Mass. The exegesis details the Catholic origins of the Requiem and the Mass as musical forms and traces their lineages into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as concert works and memorials not bound by liturgical function. These forms and their lineages frame the development of both religious and religion-inspired musical works in the cultural climate of 1960s America. In particular, I focus on two composers, Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington, both of whom composed large-scale sacred works related to the jazz idiom. This project situates religion, primarily Catholicism, and spirituality in the context of jazz composition, and discusses music composed in this vein, including my own work influenced by the Catholic liturgical tradition.</p>

The Requiem Mass and Sacred Jazz: A Study of catholic Liturgical Forms in the Genre of Sacred Jazz

<p>This exegesis examines the role of religious and spiritual influence on works by jazz composers as related to my composition, Requiem: a Suite of Jazz Orchestra, a jazz suite based on the Requiem Mass. The exegesis details the Catholic origins of the Requiem and the Mass as musical forms and traces their lineages into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as concert works and memorials not bound by liturgical function. These forms and their lineages frame the development of both religious and religion-inspired musical works in the cultural climate of 1960s America. In particular, I focus on two composers, Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington, both of whom composed large-scale sacred works related to the jazz idiom. This project situates religion, primarily Catholicism, and spirituality in the context of jazz composition, and discusses music composed in this vein, including my own work influenced by the Catholic liturgical tradition.</p>

Positive School Leadership Behaviors

To introduce and define the core behaviors of positive school leadership (PSL), we explore six positively anchored sets of work (supporting, developing relationships, establishing values, acting authentically, modeling, and enabling or empowering) that move us beyond the deeply ingrained negative and deficit roots that have defined schooling for over a century. The exploration of research primarily on positive organizational scholarship (POS) accomplishes this, showing that POS attends to the growth of others and helps grow and reinforce relationships that focus on personalization, trust, and caring. Additionally, PSL produces important outcomes, enhancing the cultural climate in schools in particular; however, it is also important to note that the current structure and culture of schooling create significant barriers to the implementation of PSL.

Beastly Modernisms: The Question of Animal Speech and Psychology in James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

This essay analyses the ways in which James Joyce and Virginia Woolf addressed from a very early stage key issues related to contemporary posthumanist theories such as the question of animal speech and psychology. Both Joyce’s description of human-animal encounters in Ulysses and Woolf’s depiction of a sentient animal subject in Flush: A Biography at first present, and then subvert, the idea of the use of language as evidence of a human surpassing of the animal. By challenging preconceived notions of species distinctions, these authors ultimately decenter the human to focus instead on the centrality of animal subjectivity and sensory experience. While the question of a sharp divide between human and nonhuman animals along the axis of speech can be traceable to the anthropocentric tradition of western humanism and not least to such a possible source as Cervantes (whose novella “The Dialogue of the Dogs” is listed as part of both Joyce’s Trieste library and the library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf), the idea of expanding the typically modernist focus on inner life by also including other forms of subjectivity may have derived from the coeval, burgeoning fields of zoology, ethology and comparative psychology. Drawing from these sources and popular areas of knowledge which formed part of the cultural climate of the time, both Joyce and Woolf explore cross-species intersubjectivity in ways that shift the terms of representation away from anthropocentric views in order to affirm, blur and deny the boundaries between the human and the non-human.

Uma prosa através: “Minha classe gosta / Logo, é uma bosta.”, um nuvô romã de Paulo Leminski / A word about: “My class likes/So, it’s a crap.”, a nouveau roman by Paulo Leminski

Resumo: No início dos anos 1980, surgiu em Curitiba uma revista que teria vida curta e que veicularia, em três de suas primeiras edições, novela inédita e incompleta de Paulo Leminski. “Minha classe gosta/Logo, é uma bosta.” não figura em nenhum dos livros de Leminski; ficou, assim, circunscrita àqueles três números da Raposa magazine – revista de cultura que, desde a capa, prometia vincular “humor e rumor”. O clima contracultural da Curitiba – e do Brasil – dos anos 1980 se vê refletido não só na idealização da revista, como também de maneira especial na novela leminskiana, que opera uma releitura da década anterior sem obliterar as questões políticas que estavam no centro das discussões. Com vistas a alinhar as questões éticas levantadas pela narrativa em pauta ao apuro estético de um poeta muito atento às revoluções formais do século XX, esta análise se acerca do texto de Leminski municiada das considerações de Theodor Adorno (1982; 2003) sobre a importância da forma como conteúdo sedimentado – que medeia e incorpora a barbárie do mundo –, com apoio nas leituras feitas por Jaime Ginzburg (2012) e Verlaine Freitas (2008); além disso, ensaios de Roberto Schwarz (1978), Carlos Alberto Messeder Pereira (1993), Elio Gaspari (2000; 2014) e Bernardo Kucinski (2001) ajudarão a compor o cenário histórico brasileiro dos anos 1960 aos 1980.Palavras-chave: Paulo Leminski; “Minha classe gosta/Logo, é uma bosta.”; Theodor Adorno; estética e política.Abstract: In the early 1980s, there appeared in Curitiba a magazine which would have a short life and would bring, in three of its first editions, an unpublished and incomplete novel by Paulo Leminski. “My class likes/So, it’s a crap.” is not in any of Leminski’s books; it was limited to those three issues of Raposa magazine – a culture magazine that, from its cover, promised to link “humor and rumor”. The counter-cultural climate of Curitiba – and of Brazil – in the 1980s is reflected not only in the magazine’s idealization, but also, in a special way, in the Leminskian narrative, which does a rereading of the previous decade without obliterating the political issues that were at the center of the discussions. In order to align the ethical issues raised by the narrative with the aesthetic accuracy of a poet who was very attentive to the formal revolutions of the 20th century, this analysis approaches Leminski’s text, armed with Theodor Adorno’s considerations (1982; 2003) about the importance of form as a sedimented content – which mediates and incorporates the barbarity of the world – and also with the support of by Jaime Ginzburg’s (2012) and Verlaine Freitas’s readings (2008). In addition, essays by Roberto Schwarz (1978), Carlos Alberto Messeder Pereira (1993), Elio Gaspari (2000; 2014) and Bernardo Kucinski (2001) will help to set the Brazilian historical scenario from the 1960s to the 1980s.Keywords: Paulo Leminski; “My class likes/So, it’s a crap.”; Theodor Adorno; aesthetics and politics.

Health Promotion, Collaboration, and Outreach: Creating Space for Health Literacy at a Specialized, Academic Research Library

In the current cultural climate, the ability to engage with and understand health resources is more important than ever. Health literacy, broadly, describes an individual’s ability to process health information and use it to make sound medical choices. In relation, health promotion adapts health literacy to focus on people’s ability to lead healthy lives. While many public librarians are actively engaged in health literacy services to their patrons, far fewer academic librarians report such engagement. This paper aims to demystify health literacy and health promotion for a library audience, along with providing real world examples of collaborating with health experts and turning a library into a built environment that encourages the growth of health literacy skills.

Marae-opoly: supporting localised Māori climate adaptation decisions with serious games in Aotearoa New Zealand

Far from being passive and/or static victims of climate change, indigenous peoples are hybridizing knowledge systems, and challenging and negotiating new environmental and social realities to develop their own adaptation options within their own registers of what is place and culture appropriate. Our paper seeks to demonstrate how we, as guests on Māori land, were able to develop a partnership with a Māori community facing difficult adaptation decisions regarding climate change hazards through the pragmatic navigation of multi-disciplinary research and practice. In particular, we co-developed and tested the potential of a serious game (Marae-opoly) approach as a platform which assembles cross-cultural climate change knowledge to learn, safely experiment and inform adaptation decisions. Marae-opoly was developed bespoke to its intended context—to support the creation of mutually agreeable dynamic adaptive policy pathways (DAPP) for localized flood adaptation. Game material was generated by drawing together detailed local knowledge (i.e. hydrology, climate data, mātauranga hapū) and situated adaptation options and accurate contextual data to create a credible gaming experience for the hapū of Tangoio Marae. We argue that the in-situ co-development process used to co-create Marae-opoly was fundamental in its success in achieving outcomes for the hapū. It also provided important lessons for the research team regarding how to enter as respectful guests and work together effectively to provide a resource to support our partners' adaptation decisions. The paper discusses the steps taken to establish research partnerships and develop the serious game and its subsequent playing, albeit we do not evaluate our indigenous research partners' adaptation decisions. Our contribution with this paper is in sharing an approach which cultivated the ground to enter as respectful guests and work together effectively to provide a resource for our partners' adaptation decisions.

Atene, 1940-1943: italiani e greci nei Quaderni di Ghiorgos Theotokàs

Born and raised in Constantinople, in 1922 Ghiorgos Theotokàs moves to Athens to study Law. After his graduation, he spends two years between Paris and London to complete his education. Afterwards, he returns to Greece and leads a group of young intellectuals who try to renovate the cultural environment in Greece during the years after the Asia Minor campaign and the defeat of Greece after the Greco-Turkish war (1922). Theotokàs writes essays, articles and novels, but his diaries are very important sources not only about Theotokàs’ personal life, but also about the political and cultural climate of those times. Reading through the Τετράδια Ημερολογίου (1939-1953) we can learn a lot of information about the social, political, and cultural aspects of Greece and about the relations between Greeks and Italians after the fascist invasion.

Epic Tradition and Sophistic Innovation in the ‘Shame Culture’ of Thucydides’ Dialogue of the Melii and the Athenians

This paper aims at adding new pieces to the complex patchwork of knowledge on ‘shame’ in the ancient Greek world by analysing the meanings and the cultural framework of the terms αἰσχύνη and αἰσχρός in the Dialogue of the Melians of Thucydides. The contribution sheds light on the role played by the traditional concept of shame, mostly witnessed by the Homeric poems, in the elaboration of the concept made by the Athenians in accordance with the sophistic cultural climate of the second half of the fifth century BCE.