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The Political Impact of Migrants in Ecuador
Authors: Jiménez Luis F.
Published: January 2019

Chapter 6 uses the theory developed in chapter 2 to test the Ecuadorian case. It begins by detailing Ecuadorian migration and how it contrasts with Mexican and Colombian migration, particularly the reasons behind it and the preferred destinations. The chapter find that communities with a larger number of migrants were both more likely to have increased electoral competitiveness at the local level and crucial in the first election of Rafael Correa, but they were also were less likely to vote in favor of a government body aimed at censorship of the media.
Shifting Territories
Authors: Bragadir Nathalie
Published: January 2019

Chapter 1 examines mapping practices in colonial Hispaniola, focusing specifically on how historical actors manipulated allegiance to one European power or the other, playing Saint-Domingue off Santo Domingo. The chapter uses border theory and studies of frontier relations to argue that shifting allegiances along the colonial border meant that the border could never be consolidated or represent the hegemony of European control over the region.
To Cap-Haïtien, with My Family
Authors: Eller Anne
Published: January 2019

Chapter 3 is a collection of passport petitions from the Dominican Republic that open a window into the history of familial, friendship, and communal networks that bound island populations together and explore mobility in the country.
“The Tam-Tam of Drums from the West”
Authors: Russ Elizabeth C.
Published: January 2019

Chapter 5 argues that although Haiti's presence is relatively absent in much of Aída Cartagena Portalatín’s work, when Haiti is visible, it signals an important transformation in Cartagena's thinking about Dominican national identity; Russ shows that Cartagena eventually breaks loose from the discursive structures that define Dominican nationalism in twentieth-century Dominican literature and twentieth-century Dominican poetry as fundamentally anti-black and anti-Haitian.
Transnational Romances and Sex Tourism in Chochueca’s Strategy, by Rita Indiana Hernández; “Emoticons,” by Aurora Arias; and “Heading South,” by Dany Laferrière
Authors: Valdez Elena
Published: January 2019

Elena Valdez analyzes transactional, heterosexual romance as an allegory of national and transnational formations in her chapter on contemporary Dominican literature and Haitian literature. Rita Indiana, Aurora Arias, and Dany Laferrière write about sex-worker protagonists who, Valdez argues, find inclusion within the nation through the sexual economy provided by tourism. These works explore sex tourism and representations thereof, along with gender relations.
Developing an Economy of Sex
Authors: Manley Elizabeth S.
Published: January 2019

This chapter connects the social and economic history of tourism in the Dominican Republic and Haiti with its impact on masculinity, gender identity, and heterosexual performance. Elizabeth Manley's analysis builds on recent research in anthropology that views sex work as contributing substantially to conflicts of gender relations and changing gender norms. Manley analyzes how these relate to the political economy and development.
Interview with Paul Austerlitz
Authors: Austerlitz Paul , Mayes April J.
Published: January 2019

This chapter tells the story of roots music in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and also examines the shared traditions that unite music across Hispaniola. Paul Austerlitz uses ethnomusicology to argue that music performance, dance (such as merengue), and ritual remain liberatory practices, connected to a history of spirituality and resistance that began in maroon communities during the island’s early history.
Conclusion
Authors: Dalton David S.
Published: January 2019

My focus on the body has uncovered numerous strategies that postrevolutionary state actors employed to assimilate indigenous peoples. Modernity became, at its core, an embodied condition. Racial, genetic, cultural, and technological hybridity represented different incarnations of an official mestizaje that understood race to mean something more than a characteristic inherited at birth. Officialist thinkers ranging from letrados like Vasconcelos and Gamio to artists and filmmakers like Emilio Fernández and the muralists held that people could modernize their bodies and assimilate to the state through technological hybridity. Given the prominence of the diverse voices that championed state-sanctioned racial doctrines—and particularly since their work permeated the nation’s intellectual, artistic, and popular sectors—it is of no surprise that twentieth-century representations of racial and technological hybridity remain very much alive in the popular imaginary.
Introduction
Authors: Lindskoog Carl
Published: January 2019

This chapter introduces the problem of immigration detention and reviews its history, noting that the policy of detention was discontinued in 1954 but then began to re-emerge in the 1970s and was formally reinstituted in 1981. What led to the return of immigration detention in the United States and how did the detention system become the behemoth that it is today, the introduction asks. It then lays out the main arguments and framework of the book, emphasizing the central role that Haitians have played in the history of immigration detention and making connections to the broader history and scholarly literature of immigrant and refugee resistance, race and citizenship, and mass incarceration. The introduction concludes with a chapter-by-chapter overview of the book.
Making a Path for the Return of Immigrant Detention, 1973–1980
Authors: Lindskoog Carl
Published: January 2019

Chapter 1 examines the U.S. government’s response to the Haitian “boat people” from 1973 to 1980, finding that the government immediately met them with a policy of denial of asylum, implementing a set of practices, including detention, meant to deter Haitians from seeking asylum on American shores. This first chapter also chronicles the earliest resistance to detention by detained refugees and their allies and the advocacy campaign for Haitian refugees that developed in the 1970s that included political mobilization and legal resistance. The most notable achievement of the resistance came in the landmark case Haitian Refugee v. Civiletti, striking a lethal blow to the government’s Haitian Program which involved the detention and expedited removal of Haitians. Despite this victory for the refugees, the government’s efforts to exclude and deter Haitian asylum seekers during the 1970s cleared the way for the return of immigrant detention in the following years.
Immigration Detention Reborn, 1981–1982
Authors: Lindskoog Carl
Published: January 2019

Immigration detention was formally reborn in the United States when the Reagan administration reinstituted a policy of detention in 1981. And at that moment, the new detention policy applied exclusively to Haitians. Chapter 3 documents how and why Haitian asylum seekers were the first targets of the revived detention program; it considers how the Reagan administration’s concerns about surging numbers of asylum seekers and anxiety over mass migration to the United States also influenced its decision to redeploy immigration detention. Finally, this third chapter documents the government’s early efforts to construct its new detention system and the movement that emerged to resist it.
Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings
Authors: Green Alexandra
Published: January 2019

This volume draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to delineate the structures and details of late Burmese wall paintings and elucidate the religious, political, and social concepts driving the creation of this art form. The combination of architecture, paintings, sculpture, and literary traditions created a complete space in which devotees could interact with the Buddha through his biography. Through the standardization of a repertoire of specific forms, codes, and themes, the murals were themselves activating agents, spurring devotees to merit-making, worship, and other ritual practices, partially by establishing normative religious behavior and partly through visual incentives. Much of this was accomplished through the manipulation of space, and the volume contributes to the analysis of visual narratives by examining how the relationships between word and image, layouts, story and scene selection, and narrative themes both demonstrate and confirm social structures and changes, economic activities, and religious practices of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century Burma. The visual material of the wall painting sites worked together with the sculpture and the architecture to create unified spaces in which devotees could interact with the Buddha. This analysis takes the narrative field beyond the concept that pictures are to be “read” and shows the multifarious and holistic ways in which they can be viewed. To enter temples of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries was to enter a coherent space created by a visually articulated Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotee belonged by performing ritual activities within it.
Art as Action
Authors: Green Alexandra
Published: January 2019

Chapter Three addresses how the structure of the murals created a performative ritual space. The murals presented paths of action for the viewer, ranging from scenes of homage to the installation of protective devices within the temple. The murals also represented and encoded models to encourage viewers to participate in particular religious activities, and specifically demonstrated the potential future benefits of giving to sustain the sāsana. Yet, they moved beyond representing religious ideas by commemorating the Buddha and exhorting specific forms of ritual action. The wall paintings and the buildings in which they were housed addressed the devotee’s body, not just his or her mind. Entering and being enclosed within the Buddha’s life stories and hence his community, as well as being surrounded by luxury goods and potential benefits, protective diagrams and chants, and normative religious activities was part of the process of devotion and reification of the concepts expressed by the structure as a whole. The envelopment was a performative action, ritually invoking and honoring the Buddha and pulling practitioners into these multiple potential experiences.
Deaconesses in the South China Missions of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), 1922–1951
Authors: Cunich Peter
Published: January 2019

The ancient Christian order of deaconess, reintroduced into the northern European churches from the 1830s, had grown to include nearly 60,000 women around the world by the 1950s. The Church of England set aside its first deaconess in 1862, but the potential benefits of deploying deaconesses in the southern China missions was not appreciated so quickly by the Church Missionary Society. The Fukien mission ordained the first six deaconesses for southern China in 1922, and another three were ordained in the Kwangsi-Hunan diocese in 1932, but these were all European women. Seven Chinese deaconesses were ultimately ordained in Fukien before 1942, but the only other mission field where the female diaconate rose to prominence was Hong Kong, where Florence Li Tim-oi’s ordination as a deaconess in 1941 led to her controversial ordination to the priesthood in 1944. This essay examines the slow growth of the deaconess movement in the CMS south China missions up to 1950 and evaluates the achievements of these women before the closure of China to Western missionaries. It also suggests some reasons why the widespread hopes that the female diaconate would provide an ‘enlarged sphere of service’ for women missionaries in south China ultimately proved elusive.
The Ordination and Ministry of Li Tim Oi
Authors: Wickeri Philip L.
Published: January 2019

The ordination to the priesthood of Florence Li Tim Oi (1907–1992) in 1944 was an extraordinary event. She became the first woman priest in the Anglican communion but from the very beginning her ordination was full of controversy. This chapter is a detailed historical reconstruction of her ordination and related events, drawing on letters and other documents written by Li Tim Oi and others that have not been used before.The ordination of Li Tim Oi helped start the process leading up to the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion. Her license to the priesthood was withdrawn, but four decades later wasrestored. She has been rightly hailed as a forerunner in the movement for women’s ordination.
A Study of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Women’s Missionary Service League in the 1930s and 1940s
Authors: Qi Duan
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines the beginning and expansion of Anglican women’s ministry under the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui against the backdrop of rapid social and political change in China. It discusses the work of the Women’s Missionary Service League (WMSL) and the Mother’s Union from the 1920s to 1940s in different provinces, and their contribution to building the Chinese Anglican church. It explores in great detail the activities the WMSL and Mother’s Union organised, which covered the areas of spiritual formation, social service, evangelism, literacy education, religious education and war relief work. The significant role of Christian mothers in their children’s religious education was particularly highlighted in the promotion of Christian family as foundation of the church.
On Interpreting Historical Texts and Contributing to Current Philosophy
Authors: van Ackeren Marcel
Published: January 2019

The chapter discusses four aspects of the question of how we have to interpret historical text in order to make a contribution to current philosophy. It first argues against the dialogue approach, according to which philosophers of the past can be our interlocutors and our interpretations of their texts are dialogues with them. Second, it criticises the Rorschach approach for claiming that our interpretations of the historical texts do not have to be faithful representations of the texts. Third, it is possible that historical text and our current debates concern identical questions but that we should not presuppose transhistorical identity, for there is too much change. Fourth, three types of contexts are distinguished and it is argued that referring to them might enhance the interpretation of the arguments in the texts.
The History of Philosophy Reveals that ‘Great’ Philosophy is Disguised Moral Advocacy: A Nietzschean Case against the Socratic Canon in Philosophy
Authors: Leiter Brian
Published: January 2019

Instrumentalists think the history of philosophy is as relevant to philosophy as the history of physics is to physics: if past philosophical or physical theories are true, or help us get to the truth, then we should know about them, otherwise not. Sceptical instrumentalists (such as Carnap and Quine) think history fails on these counts, optimistic instrumentalists think it does not. By contrast ‘anti-philosophical’ instrumentalists—such as Marx, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein—are not simply sceptics, because the sceptics still believe there is something for philosophy to do, some knowledge it can produce, some truths it can reveal. The anti-philosophical philosophers think we should give up philosophy as traditionally conceived: the real lesson from the history of philosophy in the Socratic canon is that philosophy is ‘garbage’, or, as Nietzsche thought, disguised moral advocacy. For Nietzsche, this is the real lesson of the history of philosophy.
History as an Interdisciplinary Dialogue: The Case of Philosophy and Economics
Authors: Herzog Lisa
Published: January 2019

This chapter explores the history of philosophy as a resource for interdisciplinary research, drawing on the author’s work on Smith and Hegel for illustration. It briefly sketches some aspects of the relation between political philosophy and economics, and then describes a ‘post-Skinnerian’ approach to the history of philosophy that enters into a dialogue with historical thinkers, taking seriously their historical context but ultimately aiming at answering systematic questions. This approach allows us to garner the insights of thinkers who reflected in an integrated way about questions that today belong to different disciplines. It can help us to uncover implicit assumptions or theoretical gaps in contemporary approaches that are made invisible by the separation of research into different disciplinary fields. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the history of philosophy can inspire us to question the boundaries of disciplines and explore new avenues of research.
Die deutsche Version des Musculoskeletal Pain Intensity and Interference Questionnaire for Musicians (MPIIQM-G): Übersetzung und Validierung bei professionellen Orchestermusikern
Authors: Möller Dirk , Ballenberger Nikolaus , Zalpour Christoff
Published: January 2019

Viele Musiker leiden an spielbedingten muskuloskelettalen Beschwerden (playing-related disorder, PRMD). Eine Vielzahl epidemiologischer Untersuchungen hinsichtlich spielbedingter Beschwerden bei Musikern setzen keine Selbstbeurteilungsinstrumente ein, insbesondere zur Beurteilung muskuloskelettaler Schmerzintensität und -beeinträchtigung im Kontext von Funktion und psychosozialen Parametern. Ziel dieser Studie war es, den englischsprachigen Fragebogen „Muskuloskeletal Pain Intensity and Interference Questionnaire for Musiciance“ (MPIIQM) in eine deutschsprachige Version (MPIIQM-G) zu übersetzen, kulturübergreifend anzupassen und an einer Population von professionellen Orchestermusikern zu validieren. Die übersetzte und kulturelle adaptierte deutsche Version des Fragebogens wurde an eine Gesamtstichprobe von 367 professionellen Orchestermusikern in Deutschland gesendet, welche die Einschlusskriterien erfüllten. Von dieser Stichprobe beantworteten 124 den Fragebogen. Die psychometrische Analyse zeigte eine klare Zweidimensionalität „Schmerzintensität“ und „Schmerzbeeinträchtigung“. Die interne Konsistenz war sowohl für die Dimensionen „Schmerzintensität“ und „Schmerzbeeinträchtigung“ als für die gesamte Skala sehr hoch. Die Werte des Intraklassen-Korrelationskoeffizienten für die Test-Retest Reliabilität wiesen eine gute bis exzellente Reliabilität auf. Die Subskalen des MPIIQM-G zeigten eine starke Korrelation mit dem „Brief Pain Inventory“ (BPI) und der Kurzversion des „Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand“ (QuickDash) sowie eine schwache Korrelation mit der „Fatique Severity Scale“ (FSS). Diese Ergebnisse bestätigten die gute Konstruktvalidität des MPIIQM-G. Sowohl die original englische wie auch die deutsche Version des MPIIQM besitzen ähnlich hohe Gütekriterien. Somit ist der MPIIQM-G ein nützliches Selbsteinschätzungsinstrument für die Messung und Evaluation von muskuloskelettaler Schmerzintensität und -beeinträchtigung bei professionellen Orchestermusikern.
A Contribution to the phono-kinetic approach: An architectural experimentation to design a public shelter
Authors: Chelkoff Gregoire
Published: January 2019

Despite the current evolution of several tools that help understanding, representing and constructing a better awareness of sound and more generally the sensory qualities of the built environment, the integration of sonic dimension in the ordinary architectural production remains difficult. Sonic dimension is still undervalued considered as an accessory or as a second dimension of the space. Till now, the sonic quality doesn’t have its legitimacy in the architectural and urban thinking except in specific situations where designer should solve certain problems of noise and propagation. Therefore, we should find the appropriate qualitative criteria of the architectural elements that don’t only integrate the perceptive aspects but also the action. In this sense, we shall present an experimentation that has been elaborated to clarify the relationship between sound and movement or sound and action in order to design spatial architectural elements. How can we identify the sonic role during the spatial experiment and explore the different corporal and movement modalities that emerge by hearing? We postulate that the actions potentials that emerge in a sonic context must be considered as an alternative that can modulate the environment in space and time[1]. [1] This paper is based on another article : Approche écologique de kinesthèses sonores : expérimentation d'un prototype d'abri public et ergonomie acoustique, Acoustique et techniques, n° 41, 2005, pp. 24-31
Introduction
Authors: Have Iben , Jensen Erik Granly , Pedersen Birgitte Stougaard
Published: January 2019

Introduction to SoundEffects. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience Vol. 1 No. 1.
Thinking the city through sound
Authors: Kreutzfeldt Jacob
Published: January 2019

Book review of Brandon LaBelle, Acoustic Territories. Sound Culture and Everyday Life.
AN ELUCIDATION OF PUBLIC SOUND ART THROUGH A NON-SONOROUS TRADITION
Authors: Andueza Olmedo María
Published: January 2019

The origins of sound art are usually traced to previous sonorous artistic manifestations such as futurism or fluxus (see Labelle, 2006; Kahn, 1999). However, in non-sonorous manifestations it is also possible to appreciate some features of sound art that go beyond the dominant role that sound plays. By adding to the topic of sound art essential notions of temporality, spatial construction and social recognition, the emergence of a sonorous artistic practice which goes beyond the mere use of sound is revealed. In this sense, research in public sound art, which is the primary topic of this paper, provides three issues to which it is important to pay attention in order to pose new sound art theories and ideas: First, the viewer-listener, considered simply as a citizen; second, the city, understood as a sculptural space and a social space, and finally, derived from the previous two, the transformation of the concept of ‘space’ in the practices concerning the public sphere of art. The implementation of these concepts, which took place naturally in different artistic domains, represented the beginning of the creative use of sound and, specifically, the awakening of public sound art. For this reason, based on sound art studies, as mentioned above, the projection of the article goes beyond these writings in an attempt to connect sound art with the public space. Literature on sound art has described its origins through music, poetry, architecture and other disciplines. However, this article addresses its origin in connection with the specific area of the city. The sound installation’s pioneer, Max Neuhaus, will act as a guide towards this aim. This process allows a rereading of some of the most evocative examples of sound art and, at the same time, provides other references that will be valuable for assessing the growing interest in the creation of sound interventions in public space. The prolific career of Max Neuhaus, which covered a broad range of topics, will establish a connection between public sound art and artists and thinkers who are rarely linked to this medium. These connections will, however, offer new perspectives onto the most widely discussed topics of the discipline: temporality and spatiality. This inquiry into the roots of sound art is an attempt to make a contribution to its history, not only by way of evidence, but also through suggestions provided by works of art that are far removed from the medium of sound and by other contributions from different fields of studies.(1)
Investigating the threshold of VOICE
Authors: Pedersen Birgitte Stougaard
Published: January 2019

Neumark, N., Gibson, R., & van Leeuwen, T. (Eds.) (2010). VOICE – Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media.
Hearing things in music for films: music, fiction and engagement
Authors: Langkjær Birger
Published: January 2019

Film music is often thought of as something that adds to the visuals. Yet, this truism somehow obscures the complexity of how film music works. First, music has no single and fixed meaning that can be added to the visuals in the first place. Second, experiencing audiovisual meaning can be accounted for on several levels. For that reason this article proposes eight different but complementary ways of listening to music along the lines of ecological theories of musical perception in which it is argued that we hear things, that is, referential matters in music. The validity of this is demonstrated through the discussion of a series of scholarly interpretations of John Williams’ music for the opening scene of Jaws (1975). Second, it is argued that music may add meaning on different levels and a three level model of film music analysis is suggested in which the music as an expressive device, the fiction world as a dramatic space and kinds of audience engagement are conceived as three separate, yet interacting, levels of the filmic experience.
Photophonics
Authors: Connor Steven
Published: January 2019

Friedrich Kittler has described the discourse network of the later nineteenth century as effecting a conspicuous separation of the different sensory and mediatic channels, splitting apart the spontaneous cross-sensory concourse of eye, hand and ear at the beginning of the century. But he also shows that the later years of the nineteenth century are also characterised by a kind of conversion mania, as inventors and engineers sought more and more ways in which different kinds of energy and sensory form could be translated into each other. That one of the most important imaginary diseases of the fin-de-siècle was the condition known as ‘conversion hysteria’ is perhaps a sign of how far-reaching this enthusiasm was for the idea of translated energies and outputs. This essay considers the nature and significance of conversions between sound and vision from the late nineteenth century onwards, first, in the rendering of sound in visible forms, and then in the more contemporary enthusiasm for the ‘sonification’ of various kinds of phenomena.
Conceptual overlays for urban soundscape design emerging from a transversal analysis of Lefebvre, Deleuze and Guattari, and Arendt
Authors: Lacey Jordan
Published: January 2019

This paper describes theoretical developments that have emerged alongside the author’s urban soundscape design practice. The theory, which emerged from a transversal analysis of Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Hannah Arendt, particularly their philosophical investigations of space, rhythm and nature, is presented as four conceptual overlays to aid soundscape design practices in urban spaces. The first conceptual overlay, Radiating Striations of Centralities, synthesises spatial discussions of Deleuze and Guattari and Lefebvre into soundscape design approaches that simultaneously respond to centralized controls and the peripheries of urban spaces. The second conceptual overlay, The Isorhythimc Refrain, convolves Deleuze and Guattari’s refrain and Lefebvre’s isorhythms into identifiable socially controlling rhythms that unfold as captured sonic and gestural forms throughout urban spaces. The third conceptual overlay, Altered Soundscapes as Emergent Ecologies, investigates Guattari’s a-signifying rupture and the potential of soundscape design as rupture to affect the emergence of Lefebvre’s new nature(s) in urban spaces. The fourth conceptual overlay, Disassembling the Collective Assemblage of Enunciation, discusses Arendt’s reflections on social rhythms subsuming society into automated behaviour, and the challenges that can be presented to such automated behaviour through the act of soundscape design. The four conceptual overlays provide sociopolitical and ecological understandings of the urban that contribute to a soundscape design practice from which public soundscape installations are created to subvert controlling spatiotemporal rhythms of the urban for the emergence of new nature(s). The article concludes by suggesting that due to the amorphous characteristics of sound the soundscape designer is in a unique position to affect immediate sociopolitical and experiential transformations of urban spaces.
Urban sound ecologies
Authors: Groth Sanne Krogh , Samson Kristine
Published: January 2019

Within recent years, there has been a renewed focus on sound in urban environments. From sound installations in public space to sound festivals in alternative settings, we find a common interest in sound art relating to the urban environment. Artworks or interventions presented in such contexts share the characteristics of site specificity. However, this article will consider the artwork in a broader context by re-examining how sound installations relate to the urban environment. For that purpose, this article brings together ecology terms from acoustic ecology of the sound theories of the 1970s while developing them into recent definitions of ecology in urban studies. Finally, we unfold our framing of urban sound ecologies with three case analyses: a sound intervention in Berlin, a symphony for wind instruments in Copenhagen and a video walk in a former railway station in Kassel. The article concludes that the ways in which recent sound installations work with urban ecologies vary. While two of the examples blend into the urban environment, the other transfers the concert format and its mode of listening to urban space. Last, and in accordance with recent soundscape research, we point to how artists working with new information and media technologies create inventive ways of inserting sound and image into urban environments.
Literary experience and the book trailer as intermedial paratext
Authors: Grøn Rasmus
Published: January 2019

The article explores the characteristics and variations of the book trailer genre in light of the different ways in which book trailers stage the literary experience of their source texts. The book trailer’s intermedial character as audiovisual representation of linguistic texts raises a ‘question of representation’ that poses a significant artistic challenge and potentially violates the virtual quality of the literary reading experience. On the basis of an extensive sample, a number of book trailers are analysed and a tentative book trailer typology is established based on different modes of addressing the genre’s inherent ‘question of representation’.
Turning movement into music: Issues and applications of the MotionComposer, a therapeutic device for persons with different abilities
Authors: Bergsland Andreas , Wechsler Robert
Published: January 2019

The article discusses the ways in which the MotionComposer (MC), a newly developed device that turns movement into music, engages users with different abilities, so as to provide positive psychological and somatic effects. It begins with a case study – the story of one application of the device involving a young man with cerebral palsy. His experiences are typical of many others and provide some useful generalisations. The article then discusses a number of goals and related design principles that have been important in the development of the device, including a discussion of two conflicting strategies which must be reconciled: On the one hand, there is a need for clear causality. On the other hand, for such a device to remain interesting over time, there is a need for variation. A technical description of the hardware and software is given, followed by a discussion of general mapping issues pertaining to the different sound environments or interaction modes of the MC.
Sound and music interventions in psychiatry at Aalborg University Hospital
Authors: Lund Helle Nystrup , Bertelsen Lars Rye , Bonde Lars Ole
Published: January 2019

This article reports on the ongoing project development and research study ‘A New Sound and Music Milieu at Aalborg University Hospital’. Based on a number of pilot studies in AUH-Psychiatry on how special playlists and sound equipment (sound pillows and portable players) can be used by hospital patients and administered by hospital staff supervised by music therapists, the new project aims to prepare the ground for a systematic application of sound and music in the hospital environment. A number of playlists have been developed, based on theoretical and empirical research in music medicine and music therapy. A special software and hardware design – ‘The Music Star’– has been developed, and installed in combination with a directional line array speaker in patient rooms in two ICUs at the AUH–Psychiatry. The aim of the project is to empower patients to choose music suited to their needs here and now. In the study we focus on how self-selected music may lead to a decrease in anxiety and pain or improved relaxation/sleep. The article describes and discusses the theory-driven development of the sound/music milieu, relevant empirical studies, the novel method of data collection, preliminary results of the project and implications for the future implementation of the model.
German sound poetry from the neo-avant-garde to the digital age
Authors: Benthien Claudia , Vorrath Wiebke
Published: January 2019

This article gives insight into German-language sound poetry since the 1950s. The first section provides a brief historical introduction to the inventions of and theoretical reflections on sound poetry within the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century. The second section presents works by Ernst Jandl and Gerhard Rühm as examples of verbal poetry of the post-war neo-avant-garde. The following two sections investigate contemporary sound poetry relating to avant-garde achievements. Section three deals with two examples that may be classified as sound poetry in a broader sense: Thomas Kling’s poem broaches the issue of sound in its content and vocal performance, and Albert Ostermaier’s work offers an example of verbal poetry featured with music. The fourth section presents recent sound poetry by Nora Gomringer, Elke Schipper and Jörg Piringer, which are more distinctive examples relating to avant-garde poetry genres and use recording devices experimentally.
The Poetry Reading
Authors: Serup Martin Glaz
Published: January 2019

What is a poetry reading, how does the performed poem differ from the poem published on the page, and first and foremost: how do we read it? This article understands the poetry reading as an independent form of expression, which neither ranks above nor below the written poem, but can be placed alongside it. Contrary to the printed poem, the audience often only has access to the performed poem once – while it is being performed – and is subsequently forced to rely on the memory of the specific reading and situation. Similarly, the body, the voice, the place, the time – and, in the case of recorded readings, also the remediation – are vital to how the poetry reading creates meaning. The article methodologically investigates: How do we approach the poetry reading from an analytical and a theoretical perspective, and includes readings of three poetry readings by Vanessa Place, Pia Juul and Jacques Roubaud.
Violence and post-hegemony - Theorising affective resonances between voice and habit memory
Authors: Szarecki Artur
Published: January 2019

The prevailing accounts of voice within cultural studies often centre on issues of political representation and authority, bypassing the material aspects of voice and ensuing political effects thereof. By analysing a violent incident during a hip hop concert in Poland, this paper attempts to provide a post-hegemonic account of the politics of voice. It traces the circulation of sonic intensities comprising the event – including the sonority of voice, its electric amplification and the rhythmic organisation of verbal interactions – arguing that they directly modulated the behaviour patterns of the audience via affective transmission. Furthermore, the concept of habit memory is employed to indicate the limits of contagion. The paper thus rereads the outbreak of violence in terms of resonances that occur beneath the level of discourse, immanently restructuring the encounters between bodies.
Archival Silences as Historical Sources. Reconsidering Sound Recordings of Prisoners of War (1915-1918) from the Berlin Lautarchiv
Authors: Lange Britta
Published: January 2019

This article aims to consider not only sound recordings of speech samples as historical sources, but also the absence of words and the content hereof: silences in speech. Its focus are sound recordings made by prisoners in German camps during World War I, today kept in the Lautarchiv (Sound Archive) of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (http://www.lautarchiv.hu-berlin.de/). The World War I recordings comprise one of the archive’s three founding collections. The fi rst contains voice portraits of illustrious fi gures such as Kaiser Wilhelm II and Paul von Hindenburg, the recordings of which began during the war in connection with the autograph collection of Ludwig Darmstaedter. The second collection is made up of voice portraits of people who were not well-known or prominent individuals, but exemplary speakers of particular languages and dialects. Between 1915 and 1918, in German prisoner of war camps, the state-funded Königlich Preußische Phonographische Kommission (Royal Prussian Phonographic Commission) produced sound recordings of a range of languages, dialects and ethnic groups for the purposes of linguistic and musicological research.
Lou Reed: “In the Beginning Was the Word”
Authors: Kane Daniel
Published: January 2019

This chapter analyzes the ways in which Lou Reed’s vision of himself as a writer informed his music and lyrics for the Velvet Underground and his solo career. I track how Reed’s engagement with Andy Warhol and the New York School of poets complicated and troubled his otherwise relatively traditional views of the Poet as oracular figure. The chapter pays special attention to Reed’s stories and poems published in his collegiate-era mimeographed journal Lonely Woman Quarterly, analyzing how these works ultimately fed into Reed’s music and lyrics in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Mixing a world-weary, vernacular tone with bursts of inspired disjunction, or interrupting a straightforward narrative with Joycean free-association, Reed used the journal to sketch the personae that were to prove obstinate presences throughout his career. Reed’s porn-freaks, alcoholics, suburbanite wannabees, drag queens, hustlers, and junkies all got their start at Syracuse University, accompanying Reed on his journey from Lewis to Louis to Luis and, ultimately, Lou.
“I Just Got Different Theories” Patti Smith and the New York School of Poetry
Authors: Kane Daniel
Published: January 2019

This chapter analyzes how, from her time as a young performance poet in New York in the late 1960s to her current position as punk rock’s éminence grise, Patti Smith foregrounded the image of the poet as privileged seer. Simultaneously, Smith rejected stereotypically “feminine” personae emphatically both in terms of the content of her writing and in her very style when performing on stage. Much like Richard Hell’s response to the St. Mark’s scene, Smith developed vatic postures and made gender trouble within the context of her relationship to the Poetry Project. The Poetry Project proved a site in which Smith negotiated friendship literally and metaphorically as a way to establish herself in New York’s downtown scene, from which she launched herself into the world of corporate record labels and rock ‘n’ roll concert arenas. Smith’s friendship with Project-affiliated poets was equal parts target-based ingratiation and strategic distantiation verging at times into overt disrespect. This distantiation, performed fairly consistently in interviews during the early 1970s and re-invoked (if in a much-tempered version) in her memoir Just Kids (2010), successfully kept Smith from becoming fully absorbed into the Poetry Project scene.
Photogénie from Renoir to Gance to Renoir
Authors: Matz Jesse
Published: January 2019

French Impressionist Cinema, explained as fetishized version of the way filmic meaning was expected to “emerge” from moving photography, focusing on Abel Gance's 1922 film La Roue as well as works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jean Renoir.
Conclusion
Authors: Matz Jesse
Published: January 2019

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time takes us a long way from Monet or Conrad—a long way from the styles and sensibilities that originally characterized impressionism. What a stretch, really, to attribute impressionism to the very different subjectivity of this kind of contemporary novel, in which flat and comically mathematical observations, so much of our moment, seem to entail the opposite of the vivid, sophisticated perceptiveness so important to impressionism historically. Of course, the argument about ...
Domesticity Beyond Sentiment
Authors: Fraiman Susan
Published: January 2019

Analyzes Edith Wharton’s late-century guide to interior design, The Decoration of Houses (1897), as a vision of home extricated from and opposed to sentimental conceptions of marriage and family. Takes its photographs of pristine and depopulated rooms as antidotes to the emotional mess of Wharton’s doomed cohabitation with Teddy Wharton. Contrasts these images to the conventionally warm and fuzzy ones featured in Clarence Cook’s rival design manual, The House Beautiful (1877). Citing Wharton’s guide, contests the tendency in American Studies today to treat domesticity and sentimentality as necessarily interchangeable terms.
Conclusion
Authors: Fraiman Susan
Published: January 2019

Cites James Cliffords’s notion of traveling-in-dwelling and dwelling-in-traveling to describe a liminal space where the sheltered and unsheltered meet. Reads Samuel R. Delany’s graphic memoir, Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (1999), for its love story between a professor and a homeless man. Concludes with comments on an emblematic image from Catherine Opie’s “Domestic” series: a lesbian couple and their daughter that both invokes and revises traditional notions of home as a place of everyday comfort and routine.
The Paleoconservative Critique of Global Capitalism
Authors: Kolozi Peter
Published: January 2019

The paleoconservative critique of capitalism offered by Patrick Buchanan and Samuel Francis focuses on the threat to national independence and the nation’s culture and values by free trade. For paleoconservatives, the United States’ independence is undermined by a business class that prioritizes corporate profits over national interests. Likewise, the global capitalist economy has opened the U.S. to an immigrant population that has gradually eroded the values of white “middle Americans,” the population that is the repository of a unique American culture.
Assessing Health-Care System Performance against the Four Core Aims of Health-Care Policy
Authors: Almgren Gunnar
Published: January 2019

Previous chapters have provided the historical context and the justification for a set of four core aims of health care policy in light of the requisites of citizenship in a democratic society, and then the basic structure of a reformed national health care system designed to achieve those core aims. Briefly stated, the four core policy aims include: comprehensive health insurance coverage with adequate and equal risk protection, the amelioration of disparities in health care access and quality, equitable comprehensive care and public health investments, and compensatory investments in health care services and public health infrastructure for groups adversely affected by health disparities. This chapter illuminates the major dimensions of health care system performance that are most closely linked to these core policy aims, the range of health care system measures specific to each dimension of performance, and those that appear optimal in light of validity and the pragmatics of data system design and sustainability. The chapter then concludes with a discussion of the criteria for health care policy “success”.
The Missing “M Word”
Authors: Randles Jennifer M.
Published: January 2019

This chapter shows how the Thriving Families program sought to reconcile the tension between parents’ views of marriage as something they could not afford and the policy’s goal of promoting marriage as a route to greater economic and family stability. As street-level bureaucrats who shape healthy marriage policy implementation, Thriving Families instructors deliberately avoided talk of marriage and instead emphasized committed co-parenting as the primary resource parents had to support their children’s life chances. In doing so, staff and instructors emphasized the value of something parents presumably had within their control—the quality of their relationships and parenting—over the jobs and money they did not.
Conclusion
Authors: Randles Jennifer M.
Published: January 2019

In this concluding chapter, I describe the benefits and limitations of healthy marriage programs for low-income families. Publicly sponsored relationship education could be a valuable social service in a highly unequal society where stable, happy marriages are increasingly becoming a privilege of the most economically advantaged couples. The classes I studied focused on teaching low-income couples to emulate the relationship experiences and behaviors more typical of middle-class couples. Low-income parents’ experiences suggest that relationship policies would be more useful if they addressed the economic stresses that take an emotional toll on romantic relationships and less on promoting the dubious message that marriage improves the economic circumstances of poor families. In highlighting their perspectives, this book makes a case for relationship policies and programs that reflect how intimate inequalities lead to curtailed commitments.
Conceptual Detox
Authors: Gilbert Scott
Published: January 2019

Using the notion that we need “defense against the dark arts,” this chapter seeks to give the reader tools that will enable us to rationally consider the information about who we are and how we came to be. It looks at how science is described, and how those descriptions can alter the way we view the topic. Language and images can make us accept the mistaken beliefs that our DNA is our souls, that fertilization is a contest, and that fetuses are independent organisms.
Introduction
Authors: Davis Joshua Clark
Published: January 2019

The introduction introduces progressive and radical activists who established small businesses in the 1960s and ‘70s to advance the goals of social justice and political transformation through the examples of the Psychedelic Shop, Drum and Spear Bookstore, Diana Press, and SaferWay. These businesses grew out of the New Left and the era’s “movement of movements” that included civil rights, Black Power, feminism, pacifism, environmentalism, and the hippie counterculture. With their small, politically informed, and often struggling shops, activist entrepreneurs offered alternatives to what they saw as the homogenous, discriminatory, and spiritually bankrupt consumer culture of chain stores, modern industrial production, and multinational corporations. Activist entrepreneurs re-envisioned the products, places, and processes of American business.
Introduction
Authors: Callahan Ann M.
Published: January 2019

THE DYING PROCESS MAY BE considered a stage of life that is unique to each person. The process of dying is shaped by a collective of biopsychosocial and spiritual factors that change over time (Hospice Foundation of America, 2005; Lamers, 2014; Nuland, 1995; Reese, 2013...
Spiritual Competence
Authors: Callahan Ann M.
Published: January 2019

Chapter 8 suggests that social workers can evaluate spiritually-sensitive hospice social work by drawing from models of spiritual competence. Evaluation in the practice setting is essential to ensure that patients experience hospice social work as being spiritually sensitive, rather than spiritually insensitive or, even worse, spiritually destructive. This chapter presents several models of spiritual competence with a focus on Hodge (2011) and associates (Hodge & Bushfield, 2006; Hodge et al., 2006) to evaluate spiritually-sensitive hospice social work. Such evaluation not only reflects the importance of understanding the spiritual quality of hospice social work, but the need to ensure that hospice social workers have the necessary spiritual competence. This includes assuming leadership in sensitizing interdisciplinary team members to patient spirituality.