This is a brief introduction to the vast and complex ethnomusicological work of Ghizela/Gisela Suliţeanu. Extraordinary fieldworker, meticulous transcriber, pioneer in cognitive ethnomusicology, ...expert in several ethnic musics, Suliţeanu left behind an immense archive of tapes, transcriptions, manuscripts, and essays. She published primarily in Romanian and that work is accessible to Romanian researchers; the scale of her work in English, French, and German is less well recognized, and so this account listed these latter items to give a wider sense of her work as an ethnomusicologist.
Orson Welles’s lifelong enthusiasm for the exotic was founded on a thoughtful and humanistic embrace of the foreign: languages, social rituals, food, music, and literature. Few other prominent ...Americans of the time gave such energy to the promotion of a cosmopolitan sensibility. To be cosmopolitan was to be inclusive, open-minded, committed to social justice, and orientated to an internationalist future. Nevertheless, many of Welles’s cosmopolitan enthusiasms were steeped in the same romantic nostalgia for pre-industrial society he had invested in the vanished America ofCitizen KaneandThe Magnificent Ambersons. Welles continued to combine the political and the romantic within
Biobibliographies James E. Montgomery
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books,
11/2013
Book Chapter
Anumber of questions arise from the foregoing examination of the contours of this disagreement. Why were al-Jāḥiẓ’s books rejected in this manner? What was the point of the critique? What exactly was ...attacked — the form, the content, the ambition, or the fact of the book — that is, the fact that it was even written? Was it the style of thinking (Kalam) or did the work unsettle the attacker, resolutely determined not to be fashioned as an ideal reader? Who was the attacker? Why is he unnamed? And what did al-Jāḥiẓ hope to achieve by rehearsing his arguments and refuting them
The exponential law of increase has been described by Professor D. J. de Solla Price as
“the fundamental law of any analysis of science”, and considered to hold over long periods of
time 1. The same ...writer suggested that low-grade work doubled in about ten years, but that
the period taken was about twice as long for very high quality activity. It is useful to
remember that a doubling every fifteen years corresponds to a multiplication by about a
million in three centuries, or an annual increase of nearly five per cent.
The Ismaili works published by Arif Tamir under the titles Kitāb al-īḍāḥ and Kitāb shajarat al-yaqīn, respectively, are both taken from or, perhaps, actually once constituted the second part of a ...previously unidentified tenth-century treatise called Kitāb al-shajara by an obscure dāʿī from Khurasan named Abū Tammām. Recovery of part one of this same work now makes that clear. Abū Tammām, who also wrote a Kitāb al-burhān, was an important disciple of the famous Muḥammad al-Nasafī and was himself a major witness to the flowering of the Khurasani school.
