Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy ...Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.
To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the
West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American
opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined
blank slate ...on which the country's future would be written. From
the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the Great Depression's end,
from the Mississippi to the Pacific, policymakers at various levels
and large-scale corporate investors, along with those living in the
West and its borderlands, struggled over who would define
modernity, who would participate in the modern American West, and
who would be excluded. In Making a Modern U.S. West Sarah
Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940.
Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of
the region-the flows of people, capital, and ideas across
borders-Deutsch attends to the region's role in constructing U.S.
racial formations and argues that the West as a region was as
important as the South in constructing the United States as a
"white man's country." While this racial formation was linked to
claims of modernity and progress by powerful players, Deutsch shows
that visions of what constituted modernity were deeply contested by
others. This expansive volume presents the most thorough
examination to date of the American West from the late 1890s to the
eve of World War II.
Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched itsfu-gocampaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and ...high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift to the west coast of North America. After reaching the mainland, these fu-go, the Japanese hoped, would terrorize American citizens and ignite devastating forest fires across the western states, ultimately causing the United States to divert wartime resources to deal with the domestic crisis. While the fu-go offensive proved to be a complete tactical failure, six Americans lost their lives when a discovered balloon exploded.
Ross Coen provides a fascinating look into the obscure history of the fu-go campaign, from the Japanese schoolgirls who manufactured the balloons by hand to the generals in the U.S. War Department who developed defense procedures. The book delves into panic, propaganda, and media censorship in wartime.Fu-gois a compelling story of a little-known episode in our national history that unfolded virtually unseen.
T
here is a renewed interest
in writing about the First Republic among Austrian historians. As always, it is political: how to frame the collapse of the empire, how to address the political divides ...of the era, whether to attribute “fascism” to the
Ständestaat
, what constitutes history, and what is mere description. The following essay takes into account five new and large additions to the canon.
By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper ...interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the frontier West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.
Malevolent Muse Hilmes, Oliver; Arthur, Donald
2015, 2015-04-22
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Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more polarity than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879–1964), mistress to a long ...succession of brilliant men and wife of three of the best known: composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel. To her admirers Alma was a self-sacrificing socialite who inspired many great artists. Her detractors found her a self-aggrandizing social climber and an alcoholic, bigoted, vengeful harlot—as one contemporary put it, “a cross between a grande dame and a cesspool.”
So who was she really? When historian Oliver Hilmes discovered a treasure-trove of unpublished material, much of it in Alma’s own words, he used it as the basis for his first biography, setting the record straight while evoking the atmosphere of intellectual life in Europe and then in émigré communities on both coasts of the United States after the Nazi takeover of their home territories. First published in German in 2004, the book was hailed as a rare combination of meticulously researched scholarship and entertaining writing, making it a runaway bestseller and advancing Oliver Hilmes to his position as a household name in contemporary literature.
Alma Mahler was one of the twentieth century’s rare originals, worthy of her immortalization in song. Oliver Hilmes has provided us with an even-handed yet tantalizingly detailed account of her life, bringing Alma’s singular story to a whole new audience.
German imperialism in Europe evokes images of military aggression and ethnic cleansing. Yet, even under the Third Reich, Germans deployed more subtle forms of influence that can be called soft power ...or informal imperialism. Stephen G. Gross examines how, between 1918 and 1941, German businessmen and academics turned their nation - an economic wreck after World War I - into the single largest trading partner with the Balkan states, their primary source for development aid and their diplomatic patron. Building on traditions from the 1890s and working through transnational trade fairs, chambers of commerce, educational exchange programmes and development projects, Germans collaborated with Croatians, Serbians and Romanians to create a continental bloc, and to exclude Jews from commerce. By gaining access to critical resources during a global depression, the proponents of soft power enabled Hitler to militarise the German economy and helped make the Third Reich's territorial conquests after 1939 economically possible.
En este artículo se exponen y analizan las dos traducciones al castellano de la obra Juarez und Maximilian, del escritor austriaco Franz Werfel, publicadas en México. El análisis se realiza desde la ...semiótica cultural, a partir de la teoría de la comunicación expuesta por Göran Sonesson y el proceso de negociación de Umberto Eco. La complejidad de estas traducciones radica en dos aspectos: primero, se trata de una obra que transitó del alemán al inglés y de ahí al español, pero también del alemán al español; y segundo, la necesidad de tener conocimientos de la historia de México para su comprensión. Como resultado, se logra distinguir entre los discursos de cada uno de los textos meta y el texto base, así como su relación con las características biográficas de los traductores y sus competencias culturales, y la utilización de los textos de llegada.
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