Category: Arts

  • Dreams of a Life The Arts Desk 2011-12-14 Nick Hasted Carol Morley’s moving documentary brings a dead woman lost in London back to life The decontamination squad scraped the remains of 38-year-old ex-City professional Joyce Vincent from her seat, in front of a TV which had flickered unseen for three years. They took her wrapped…

  • An art history mystery at Worcester Art Museum Metrowest Daily News Framingham, Massachusetts 2011-12-12 Chris Bergeron, Daily News Staff WORCESTER—Forget the da Vinci Code. There’s no Knight Templars or murderous albinos, but the life and death of Julien Hudson and the whereabouts of his paintings is a fascinating “art historical mystery’’ waiting to be solved.…

  • Sewing Ourselves Together: Clothing, Decorative Arts and the Expression of Métis and Half Breed Identity University of Manitoba 2004 450 pages Sherry Farrell Racette, Professor of Native Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies University of Manitoba A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of…

  • Anglo-Indian Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Western Ballroom Music in Lucknow The Drama Review Volume 48, Number 4 (Winter 2004) Pages 167-182 DOI: 10.1162/1054204042442053 Dr. Bradley Shope, Assistant Professor of Music Texas A&M Universtity, Corpus Christi From the 1920s to the 1940s, Anglo-Indians relished Western popular music. For this marginalized group, this music was a way…

  • Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany University Press of Colorado 2007 320 9 b&w photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87081-869-1 Timothy L. Schroer, Associate Professor of History University of West Georgia Historian Timothy L. Schroer’s Recasting Race after World War II explores the renegotiation of race by Germans and African…

  • Racial, Religious, and Civic Creole Identity in Colonial Spanish America The Journal of American History Volume 17, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 420-437 DOI: 10.1093/alh/aji024 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Patrocinio de la Virgen de Guadalupe sobre el Reino de Nueva España (“Auspices of Our Lady of Guadalupe…

  • Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 Gresham College 2007-07-02 Mike Phillips, Professor of Music Gresham College George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave, was hailed as a musical prodigy in the eighteenth century. Taught by Haydn, his appearance at the court in Windsor to play in front of George III…

  • The 2012 Lorraine W. Frank Lecture & Humanities Awards: Featuring Rita Dove Arizona Humanities Council Tempe Mission Palms 60E. 5th Street Tempe, Arizona 85281 2012-04-12 Free & Open to the Public In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Arizona Humanities Council is proud to present Rita Dove as the keynote speaker for the 2012 Lorraine…

  • NEA grant and UW book contract awarded for War Baby/Love Child Laura Kina 2011-11-22 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University  A National Endowment for the Arts – 2012 Art Works Grant has been awarded to a project for which I am the primary investigator (aka project…

  • Lectures delivered by John Powell under the auspices of the lectureship in Music The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 10, Number 3 (July 1923) pages 107-163 Lectures delivered by John Powell Palace Theatre of Houston 1923-04-05 through 1923-04-06 John Powell Table of Contents I. Music and the Individual (20 pages) II. Music and the Nation (38…