bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Hollywood
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

Hopkins arrives in Hollywood and moves in with her estranged husband, Austin Parker, but waits five weeks before Paramount casts her in her first Hollywood film, 24 Hours. Hopkins has an affair with assistant director, Dudley Murphy, but Billy is also dating other women, so they decide to officially separate. Hopkins’s interest in psychics, astrologers, and numerologists becomes important to her. The next film, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starts her longtime friendship with director Rouben Mamoulian and costar Fredric March.
“An Expensive Leading Woman”
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

Hopkins is cast in Two Kinds of Women, William C. de Mille’s final film. She has a brief affair with actor John Gilbert. She does Dancing in the Dark with George Raft, with whom she battles on the set. Hopkins is given a two-month leave. On the way to New York, she adopts a baby boy in Chicago. Hopkins returns to Paramount, where Emanuel Cohen has replaced B. P. Schulberg as production chief. She argues with Cohen over assignments until she is assigned to Lubitsch’s iconic Trouble in Paradise. She’s scheduled to do No Man of Her Own with Clark Gable, but script problems cause a rift and she walks out. Hopkins agrees to do an adaptation of William Faulkner’s sordid novel Sanctuary, renamed The Story of Temple Drake. Battles between Paramount and the Hays office over how to bring the novel to the screen make this film a key reason the Production Code is enforced.
Tola
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

On her return to the United States, Hopkins meets Russian-born director Anatole Litvak. They become close, and she stars in his first American film, The Woman I Love. Her costar Paul Muni is bothered by Hopkins’s interference, and fights ensue. Hopkins buys the former estate of John Gilbert. Warner Bros. plans to make Jezebel, a part Hopkins wants, however, she is tricked into selling her rights and the role is given to Bette Davis. Discouraged, Hopkins returns to Goldwyn and makes Woman Chases Man. Polls claim that Hopkins is the number one choice to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, but David O. Selznick has other plans. Hopkins moves into her new Tower Grove home. She elopes with Anatole Litvak and appears in Wine of Choice for the Theatre Guild, but it fails to meet her standards. She is devastated at the death of her ex-husband “Billy” Parker. After the funeral, she collapses and is admitted to the hospital.
All This, Jack Warner, and Bette Davis, Too
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

Jack Warner cancels All This, and Heaven Too, a decision that Hopkins doesn’t take well. They agree that when the film is produced, Hopkins will do it. When her divorce is granted, she returns to Hollywood and is blackmailed by Jack Warner. At an impasse, Hopkins relinquishes All This, and Heaven Too and accepts a role opposite Errol Flynn. On Virginia City, Hopkins battles with Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. Zuckmayer returns to Vermont; Hopkins is devastated. Warner Bros. produces All This, and Heaven Too with Bette Davis. Hopkins is almost broke. She appears in The Guardsman for Bela Blau, but her political differences with Fascist costar Tullio Carminati postpones production and Blau sues Hopkins. Once resolved, Hopkins agrees to do a play by a new writer, Tennessee Williams, but not until she makes her next film, Lady with Red Hair. Hopkins’s battles continue at the studio. She reunites with ex-husband Anatole Litvak, until a scandal ends their relationship.
Angels Battle in Boston
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

Hopkins goes to New York for rehearsals in Battle with Angels, a play by first-time playwright Tennessee Williams. The play, however, is a failure, and the experience erodes Hopkins’s self-confidence, professionally and personally. She is offered several films before finally accepting the lead in A Gentleman after Dark. Hopkins accepts a role opposite Bette Davis in Old Acquaintance, a part that will bring Davis no end of problems.
“This Is Pure Hopkins”
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

This chapter details the making of Hopkins’s second and last role opposite Bette Davis, Old Acquaintance. Warner Bros. deem Hopkins to be the only actress suited for the role of a successful romance novelist, but Hopkins’s and Davis’s hatred for each other is evident in the day-to-day making of the film, which leads up to the climatic ending wherein Davis demonstrates her frustrations with Hopkins.
To New York and Back
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

After the stress of Old Acquaintance, Hopkins returns to Sutton Place for a rest. She is asked to replace Tallulah Bankhead in the smash Broadway hit The Skin of Our Teeth and begins an affair with writer John Gunther. Shortly after the play ends, she goes into rehearsals for the play The Perfect Marriage, which is a financial but not a critical success, and costar Joyce Van Patten shares her memories of working with Hopkins. Her relationship with Gunther cools as she begins another one with war correspondent Ray Brock. After a brief romance, they marry in Virginia. Hopkins then appears in two plays, St. Lazare’s Pharmacy and Laura, based on the hit film starring Gene Tierney; neither play makes it to Broadway. After a five-day run on her next play, Message for Margaret, Hopkins goes on a successful ten-week road tour with There’s Always Juliet.
The Final Years
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

Hopkins loses money on an investment and is forced to sell her art collection and her Sutton Place townhouse. Her friend Ward Morehouse dies and, from that, Hopkins is reacquainted with his wife, Becky, and they become best friends. Morehouse recounts her first visit to Hollywood, going to parties and Hopkins’s denial of having a Southern accent. Michael is transferred to March Air Force (now Reserve) Base, sixty miles from Los Angeles. Michael’s regrets, Hopkins’s sometimes stormy relationship with her daughter-in-law, and her affection for her grandson, Tom, are explored. Hopkins’s famous parties, as well as her obsession with psychics, her views on African Americans, and her fear of being forgotten are discussed. Hopkins appears on television and in films, including The Savage Intruder, playing a drunken, aging movie star. With her health waning, she’s given up on love and confines herself to her West Hollywood apartment, drinking champagne and calling friends in the middle of the night.
Welcome to the Balkans
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

A bomb blast in front of the author’s apartment in Turkey and a diplomatic dinner in Washington illustrate the dangers and colorful history of the Balkan region of Europe. No area has experienced the ebb and flow of great powers important to the history of Western civilization more than the Balkans. The victorious nations in Paris created Yugoslavia after World War I. But decades later, when the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe disintegrated after 1989, Yugoslavia began to split apart in a sequence of ethnic independence movements.
Genocide
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

UNPROFOR fails to prevent genocide. The slaughter of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in the summer of 1995 forces US action. The United States is going to Bosnia one way or the other as the Europeans prepare to withdraw. The Clinton Administration appoints Holbrooke to launch a major diplomatic effort to find a peaceful solution in Bosnia. Holbrooke grabs the opportunity to lead US negotiations to find peace in Bosnia.
A President’s Commitment
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

Pardew moves to the State Department to take over the most controversial element of the US effort in Bosnia—President Clinton’s commitment to provide military assistance to the Federation, consisting of Muslims and Croats in Bosnia. Pardew leads an interagency team with a charter from the Deputies Committee to implement the Train and Equip (T&E) project. Breaking the relationship between the Sarajevo government and Iran and other Islamic extremist groups is one condition for implementation of the T&E Program in Bosnia.
Two Conditions
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

A Department of Defense study identifies the weaknesses of the Federation forces. With training as the primary requirement, Federation authorities select a commercial company, MPRI Corporation, to help them with training. Intelligence shows that Sarajevo continues its relationship with Islamic extremists, and Pardew informs the White House that the program lacks the funding required to meet its commitment.
No Easy Prey
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

MPRI, hired to assist the Federation Army with training, encounters considerable interference from the US military and NATO as the company deploys to Bosnia. Turkey, Germany, and others agree to help with training.
Impact
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

The T&E Program fulfills President Clinton’s commitment to provide military assistance to the victims of aggression. In so doing, it removes Iranian influence and hundreds of extremist foreign fighters from Bosnia and orients the Sarajevo Government to NATO and Europe. Strained relations continue between Croats and Bosniaks in the Federation, but T&E gives the Federation the means to defend Muslim and Croatian populations in Bosnia if peace breaks down. Ultimately, the program sets the stage for the consolidation of the Bosnian Serb Army into a single national defense structure.
A Land of Violence and Fear
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

Pardew shifts to the State Department effort to respond to growing tensions between Serbia and the Albanians in Kosovo. When traditional Kosovo Albanian leaders fail to restore autonomy by political means, the Kosovo Liberation Army demands independence and attacks Serbian security forces. Milosevic, declaring a special Serbian historical claim to Kosovo, orders a military and police crackdown on the Albanians there. Secretary Albright is determined to prevent Milosevic from doing in Kosovo what he did in Bosnia.
Independence
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

The Contact Group and the UN agree to determine the future status of Kosovo in 2005. The UN appoints former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari to lead the status evaluation. After much negotiation, Ahtisaari recommends independence for Kosovo despite serious Russian objections. Although Russia blocks approval of his recommendation in the UN Security Council, Kosovo declares independence in 2008. Russia then occupies territories in Georgia.
Pop-up Insurgency
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

The volatile ethnic Macedonian leaders, who hold the most power in the country, vacillate between military and negotiated solutions. The Macedonian Prime Minister and other extreme nationalists want to destroy the Albanian insurgency even if it means dividing their country. President Trajkovski and other moderates want a peaceful solution. The National Liberation Army, like the KLA in Kosovo, usurps local Albanian political parties to pressure the government for increased Albanian influence in Macedonia. When EU and NATO leaders and an American at OSCE fail to find a solution, Macedonia faces the prospect of a civil war.
Leo-Pard
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

Pardew and Leotard agree on an aggressive diplomatic strategy to promote peace. The Macedonians allow Pardew and Leotard to talk only to recognized Albanian political leaders. NATO is left to exclusively engage the NLA. The international envoys look for leverage to influence the negotiating parties.
Fury in Skopje
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

Pardew and Leotard present a draft settlement to the discomfort of the ethnic Macedonian leaders. When Albanian negotiators demand official status for the use of the Albanian language, the Macedonians turn hostile. As the Macedonian leaders verbally attack Pardew and Leotard in public, riots break out in Skopje requiring Marine security reinforcements to the US Embassy. Under increasing hostility, Pardew prepares to leave the talks. Washington and European Governments give support to their envoys to restore the process. The negotiations depart the politically charged environment in Skopje for Lake Ohrid.
On the Banks of an Ancient Lake
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

The talks resolve most issues after the talks move to the shore of Lake Ohrid. But the execution of NLA fighters and the ambush of a Macedonian Army convoy threaten to destroy the negotiations. President Trajkovski steps in to complete the agreement and prevent a destructive civil war. NATO then moves to disarm the NLA.
The Long Struggle
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

Implementation of an agreement often is more difficult and requires longer than the negotiations themselves. Pardew’s confrontation with a paramilitary group during US sponsored police training leads to a verbal clash with the Prime Minister. Macedonian nationalists unsuccessfully try to use the attacks on the US in September 2001 to undermine the Ohrid Agreement. The international community prevents a dangerous return of Macedonian police to sensitive areas. Ultimately, most of the Ohrid Agreement is implemented although difficult ethnic tensions remain in Macedonia.
Crisis Management
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

The US engagement in the former Yugoslavia demonstrates the value of American leadership in an international crisis. This chapter highlights the critical importance of strong European democracies and NATO to American national security. It also emphasizes multilateral cooperation with key allies and international organizations as the best means to promote US security interests. Pardew draws from his crisis management experiences in the former Yugoslavia to present valuable lessons on the function of special envoys, activist diplomacy, the military role in humanitarian interventions, and the practical aspect of implementing a negotiated peace agreement.
Epilogue
Authors: Lawson Robert G.
Published: May 2018

Did Alex Arnold kill Betty Gail Brown? I have been asked that question hundreds of times and have never found it easy to answer. My difficulty with the question began almost as soon as I saw Arnold for the first time, in a jail cell in Lexington two or three days after he had confessed to the killing and been charged with murder. Although Arnold was not at the time hallucinating about mind-reading machines or talking to creatures on the walls of his jail cell, he was quite obviously still suffering mental impairments. He had lost his access to alcohol a little more than a week earlier and had been sitting alone in jail for most of that period; he seemed to have passed through the worst of his withdrawal symptoms, but was not even close to a total escape from the consequences of at least ten years of drunkenness. He had lost the “good feelings” he gained from drinking (elevated mood, self-confidence, and nonexistent inhibitions) and had found in their place high anxiety, low energy, some disorientation, and a crystal-clear desire to be left alone. It was under these conditions, speaking very softly and seeming almost to be talking to himself, that he said, “I killed her.” Had he made this statement under normal circumstances, in a clean and clear state of mind, it would have been easy to believe that the state had found the killer of Betty Gail Brown. But the circumstances under which the statement was made were far from normal, although they were much closer to normal that those that prevailed a few days earlier when he signed the confession that led to his prosecution for murder....
Sweetening Death
Authors: Cann Candi K.
Published: May 2018

“Sweetening Death” presents a comparative analysis of the role of sugar and its transformation in funeral foods, remembrance rituals, documenting the ways the dead are perceived and understood as active or passive actors in their afterlives. Sugar, though widely available in the contemporary world, was initially utilized in memorialization and funereal practices because it connoted a particular status to the dead, though it is now ironically a staple of the lower classes and a symbol of malnutrition. The comparison in food bereavement and memorialization rituals highlights a distinct difference between the function of food on the American table in comparison to the Mexican or Chinese context, revealing that while food functions to largely aide the bereaved and reintegrate the grieving into their social network without the deceased in the American context, it literally functions to feed the dead in Mexico and China.
Funeral Food as Resurrection in the American South
Authors: Graham Joshua
Published: May 2018

Joshua Graham writes on the role of funeral foods in the American South, examining how these foods function in helping Southerners come to terms with their grief, in light of theabsent deceased. He examines the role of several foods and drinks (particularly the absence of alcohol) common in Southern Baptist culture in funeral repasts, and questions the lack of current American scholarship on “continuing bonds theory” in American grieving customs. Graham makes a compelling argument for its application in his chapter, while offering the reader a richly textured ethnography of contemporary American funeral feasts.
Alcohol Consumption, Transgression, and Death
Authors: Shusko Christa
Published: May 2018

Christa Shusko’s chapter focuses on how alcohol-drinking rituals mimic the drinking of blood (really a “blood” punch) in male fraternity groups. Shusko’s chapter examines how the living face death and form community through food, albeit through male bonding rituals of consuming alcohol and reenacting illicit and horrific acts. Shusko contends that alcohol acts as both conduit and medium through which the living come to terms with both death and the macabre. Unlike Graham, who argues that the absence of alcohol reinforces Protestant, and particularly Baptist identity, Shusko points to the use of alcohol as a cohesive agent that brings the community together.
Institutional Leadership
Authors: Bland Larry I.
Published: May 2018

George C. Marshall served as the U.S. Army’s chief of staff from 1939 through 1945. Marshall possessed the experience, commitment, assertiveness, and intelligence necessary to meet the challenges of reforming and reenergizing the U.S. military. By emphasizing simplicity, flexibility, and decentralization, Marshall’s institutional leadership delivered undeniable effectiveness and efficiency. Leaders of large institutions face daunting challenges. Even when their organizations are remarkably efficient, the sheer size gives rise to managerial complexities that can produce bureaucratic inertia, infighting, and a loss of vision and vitality. Marshall was more than up for the challenge.
Charismatic Leadership
Authors: Hoffman Jon T.
Published: May 2018

In the years prior to Pearl Harbor, Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller served in multiple assignments abroad, including marine combat tours in Haiti and Nicaragua; in the United States, he completed military studies at the Virginia Military Institute, in the officer candidate program, and at the U.S. Army Infantry School. Puller’s at times controversial leadership style, most evident during World War II and the Korean War, developed over several decades of military service and education. The essence of Puller’s dynamic leadership was leading by example from the front, developing a personal connection with his subordinates, and ensuring the welfare of his men. Such behavior established strong bonds and unwavering loyalty.
‘Sympathie mit dem Tode’: Thomas Mann, Hans Pfitzner, and the further reflections of a non-political man
Authors: Attfield Nicholas
Published: May 2018

Perhaps the most infamous of the Weimar musical ‘anti-modernists’, Hans Pfitzner is well known for his polemics against Paul Bekker and Busoni and his opera Palestrina, products of the First World War’s end. Pfitzner’s relationship with Thomas Mann has also been discussed, particularly in terms of Mann’s description, in his Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, of Pfitzner as the bearer of ‘sympathy with death’. As this chapter details, Mann’s early post-war work situated Pfitzner at the heart of a drive for revival, based around the ‘Hans Pfitzner Association for German Composition’, and linked to Mann’s idiosyncratic notions of cultural-political ‘synthesis’ and Humanität. This revival provoked Pfitzner’s swerve from opera towards the more direct public form of the cantata. Here, in his 1921 work Von deutscher Seele, the allegedly reclusive Pfitzner tried to strike a ‘popular’ tone and seized the moment to address his vision of the entire German nation.
‘Der alte treue Meister Antonius’: mysticism, nation, and the Weimar ‘Bruckner cult’
Authors: Attfield Nicholas
Published: May 2018

Twenty-five years after Anton Bruckner’s death, groups formed in Germany to revise the composer’s biography, highlighting Bruckner as a German mystic in the medieval tradition of Meister Eckhart and his successors, and thus a figure newly divorced from the facts of his (Austrian) life. Through reference to monographs from this 1920s Bruckner renaissance—by Karl Grunsky, Oskar Lang, Erich Schwebsch, and Richard Wetz —this chapter demonstrates that, despite their ‘anti-modern’ rhetoric, these authors engaged mystic doctrine to advocate connection to a new sense of community above the individual self, expressed in terms of narrow, pro-Christian nationalistic feeling. This advocacy envisaged cultural consequences, even new symphonic performance practices. It influenced other Bruckner commentators of the decade, including those who have rarely been placed in such a context, and the chapter turns to Ernst Kurth’s Bruckner monograph (1925) and the central role that a specifically German mysticism plays within Kurth’s musical and biographical interpretations.
Introduction
Authors: Misak Cheryl
Published: May 2018

This chapter introduces the tradition of pragmatism as it first appeared in America in the mid-1800s, outlines its migration to Britain, and traces the reception of pragmatism in Britain and the influence of pragmatism on British philosophy. It also provides summaries of the contributions of the various authors in the volume and ties them together.
Ramsey’s 1929 Pragmatism
Authors: Misak Cheryl
Published: May 2018

This chapter argues, contrary to the received view, that Frank Ramsey was not part of the logical analyst programme of the early Russell and the Tractarian Wittgenstein. He did not identify a primary language comprising observation and logic and then go on to argue that open generalizations and scientific laws must be given a different, pragmatist, treatment. Rather, he started from the pragmatist account of belief as a habit of behaviour and came to a global pragmatist account of belief and its evaluation.
Personal Spin A
Authors: Sissay Lemn
Published: May 2018

Yegna, featuring Aster Aweke: Taitu

Nils Frahm: Says

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards: Amazing Grace

Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), 2nd movement

Annie Lennox: Cold

Aretha Franklin: Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Prince: Nothing Compares 2 U

B.B. King: Better Not Look Down...
The cultural baggage of the desert island
Authors: Straw Will
Published: May 2018

The notion of the desert island disc has its roots in ideas of travel and self-improvement extending at least as far back as the 17th century. Lists of records to be taken to a desert island follow on from collections of books to be taken on long sea voyages. Descriptions of these collections recur throughout 19th century journalism, then become fashionable in the 1910s and 1920s, when the concept of ‘literature as luggage’ enjoys a brief vogue. By the 1930s, musical recordings begin to take their place alongside lists of literary works, laying the groundwork for Desert Island Discs and other manifestations of a music-oriented turn towards personal musical canons. Noting the ways in which such lists move between expressions of personal affinity and acknowledgements of public canons, the chapter traces the evolution of the travel-list and the shipwreck-list through literature and music from the 19th century onward.
Desert island discomorphoses: Listening formations and the material cultures of music
Authors: Devine Kyle
Published: May 2018

Musical identities are forged in relation to the material properties of media formats. The cultures of listening and modes of identification fostered by the 78-rpm disc, for example, are not the same as those that took shape around the LP or the MP3. Each technology affords different modes of musical identification, fandom, enjoyment, and taste. To read Desert Island Discs as a continuous archive of self-presentation or a straightforward reflection of musical taste is thus to overlook a key point: the programme equally reflects seven decades of change in the material cultures of music. This chapter combs the online Desert Island Discs archive for evidence of the relationship between the discographic self and the ‘discomorphosis’ of music, focusing on such conjunctures as the hypothetical wind-up gramophone that furnished the island in 1942, the introduction of the LP and transistor radios around 1950, and the introduction of the iPod in 2001.
Playlists and prizes: Cultural authority, personal taste, and musical value since the 1940s
Authors: Blake Andrew
Published: May 2018

This chapter offers an overview of changing modes of valuation of music, c. 1945–2015. A sequence of partially overlapping histories charts the rise and decline of critic-led cultural authority in relation to classical and rock musics, and their partial replacement by the personal valorisation of the playlist. The list-based autobiographical musicality of Desert Island Discs can be seen as prefiguring contemporary culture’s personalised, non-hierarchical, non-judgemental tastes, and their display in playlists puts each of us on the desert island. The chapter also explores the residual cultural authority embodied in the cultural prize shortlist, and offers a brief study of the Mercury Music Prize, which celebrated its 20th birthday in 2012, as Desert Island Discs was celebrating its 70th. The conclusion explores the ‘post-playlist’ world of streaming technologies which, starting from the user’s own preferences, move us away from history and memory embodied in both the Desert Island Discs list and the playlist.
Punk, class, and taste in Desert Island Discs
Authors: Webb Peter
Published: May 2018

This chapter attempts to use popular music as a way of connecting a number of castaways who shared a similar love of punk and post-punk and who described certain experiences that their appreciation of that music had resonance with. The music is used as a starting point to trace the experiences of the castaways to wider sets of social, cultural, and political histories of the UK. Among the castaways chosen are Kathy Burke, Ian Rankin, Ricky Gervais, and Hanif Kureshi. Each of these had a working-class upbringing and Kureshi grew up in a working-class area with parents who had been well off in India before moving to the UK. The choice of music intertwines with their descriptions of economic hardship, domestic violence, and racism but also a developed sense of community, sensitivity, and humanism that illustrates a sector of British life in the 1950s through to the 1980s.
Desert island dislocation: Emotion, nostalgia, and the utility of music
Authors: Brown Julie
Published: May 2018

This chapter explores how the contrivance of asking people to imagine being cast away on a desert island has provided the basis for radio discussions of disc recordings that go beyond questions of taste and aesthetic value, opening up considerations of potential utility. Guests are simply asked which discs they would want to have with them if alone on a desert island, and why. Explanations for given choices often include the way in which music and other sound recordings might prove useful—for managing the castaway’s moods, their social isolation, their sense of loss and displacement, their ostensibly endless ‘free time’, and their likely desire to wish to keep memory of people and places alive. Castaways mostly choose music, but sometimes opt for recordings of other sorts, including of their children. These prove to be nostalgia ready and especially well-suited to managing the programme’s fictional scenario.
Personal Spin J
Authors: Bryars Gavin
Published: May 2018

Bill Evans Trio: My Foolish Heart

Propellerheads: History Repeating

The Carla Bley Band: The Lord Is Listenin’ To Ya, Hallelujah!

Glenn Gould: The Idea of North from Solitude Trilogy

Tom Waits: Tom Traubert’s Blues

Richard Strauss: Traumlicht from Drei Männerchöre

Richard Wagner: Parsifal

Gavin Bryars Ensemble: ...
Afterword: Playing the discographic self
Authors: Cook Nicholas
Published: May 2018

This afterword seeks to put the chapters of Defining the Discographic Self: ‘Desert Island Discs’ in Context into dialogue with one another, drawing out a number of common themes. In particular it develops the idea of the Desert Island Discs interview as a performance of identity, and explores the nature of the social engagement it creates in the studio, through the broadcast, and in the imaginary domain of the desert island. It also considers the current and possible future impact of digitalisation on the programme, and the extent to which the Desert Island Discs archive can support such digital humanities approaches as Franco Moretti’s distant listening.
The Many (Im)possibilities of Contemporary Algerian Judaïtés
Authors: Everett Samuel Sami
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines ways of thinking and acting about algerianités — a range of ways of belonging to Algeria, as locality or as culture — and how these intersect with judaïtés that are anchored within affective and political-historical positions. This chapter draws primarily from textual production by Algerian Jews as well as interviews with Parisian intellectuals of Algerian descent, such as Benjamin Stora and Shmuel Trigano, and is informed by the transnational impact of discursive constructs of nationhood prompted by key moments such as the Algerian civil war of the 1990s, the fiftieth anniversary of independence in 2012 and the supposed rise of Muslim anti-Semitism in France since 2001.
1988–1992: Multipartism, Islamism and the Descent into Civil War
Authors: Rahal Malika
Published: May 2018

Following the youth riots of October 1988, Algeria experienced the first serious democratic opening in the region, 20 years before the revolutions of Egypt and Tunisia. Many new parties were created, including the Islamist FIS (Front islamique du Salut) which won the first round of the legislative elections interrupted by the military coup that would end the democratic experience in January 1992; other parties that had existed underground came out into the open, such as the communist Parti de l’avant-garde socialiste (PAGS). Following communist itineraries, this article will show the multiple tensions at stake in Algeria during this brief period: democratization, collapse of communism, the emergence of Islamism, and the descent into civil war, in which the communists were amongst the first targets of assassinations. Evolutions in the PAGS exemplify the lasting divisions in the country: between Islamists and secularists on the one hand; and amongst the non-Islamists, between those who, in the name of democracy, considered all Islamists to be the absolute enemy to be eradicated at all costs, and those who, in the name of democracy, did not.
Algerian Heritage Associations: National Identity and Rediscovering the Past
Authors: Northey Jessica Ayesha
Published: May 2018

This chapter explores the work of Algerian heritage associations. It focuses on a number of associations seeking to challenge, to redefine or to promote new conceptions of Algerian history and identity. From associations promoting Berber cultural identity, to those in Oran seeking to re-explore the colonial past of the city, it looks at the confrontations and negotiations which take place between associations, the state and external actors. It asks how Algerian perceptions of the past, as seen by associative actors, influence current debates about which Algerian culture and heritage is important to protect and promote. With increasing external funding to the heritage sector from actors such as the EU it explores how external or transnational perspectives are integrated into this process.
Writing in the Aftermath of Two Wars: Algerian Modernism and the Génération ’88
Authors: Treacy Corbin
Published: May 2018

Algerian literary works from the civil war of the 1990s are often described as testimonial—a littérature d’urgence. While the label ignores many experimental and anti-representational works from this period, the décennie noire clearly weighed on authors and provoked particular aesthetic responses. Less has been said of Algerian cultural production from the years following the civil war. Algerian writers have started to leverage fantasy, myth, and the fable to respond to the increasingly surreal relationship between state and society. This article addresses the shift from realism to surrealism in contemporary Algerian fiction, with special attention to the ways in which less representational texts more fully adumbrate the particularities of the Bouteflika era. Specifically, I focus on works by Mustapha Benfodil and Kamel Daoud, two authors born after independence who continue to live, write, and publish in Algeria. Their affiliation with Éditions Barzakh—an independent Algerian publisher — has granted their work the freedom to deviate from the proscribed narratives of terrorism and victimhood more common to Algeria’s export literature. I argue that Daoud and Benfodil create alternative forms of literary engagement that articulate a revised Algerian nationalism, plotting paths to futures beyond the limiting terms of the static present.
Music, Borders and Nationhood in Algeria
Authors: Langlois Tony
Published: May 2018

This chapter looks at the role of musical genres in the borderland between Oran in Western Algeria and Oujda in Eastern Morocco – in many ways a single cultural and economic zone that is distinct from the core of each of their respective nations. Once this had been the boundary of the Ottoman Empire, but at other times a refuge for political dissidents from either side in their many anti-colonial struggles. Today the cities are economically linked by smuggling and culturally by language, common tradition and strong musical connections – the raï pop music industry is strong on both sides of the border, but as important is the local form of ‘classical’ Andalous music tarab el gharnati and Berber ‘folk’ genres. Music itself marks boundaries of taste, heritage and allegiance, and these often have a tangential relationship to those demarcated by nationalist discourses. The chapter considers the ways in which musical practices preserve a sense of regional identity and allegiance despite the formal closure of the border in 1994. It looks at the economic and cultural consequences of this relationship and at the efforts of the Algerian government to maintain formal boundaries and address the broader context of cross-border cultural flow, not only with Morocco, but, increasingly, the wider mediated world.
Performing Algerianness: The National and Transnational Construction of Algeria’s ‘Culture Wars’
Authors: Benkhaled Walid , Vince Natalya
Published: May 2018

Post-independence Algeria, particularly since 1988, has tended to be read through two dominant narratives. These narratives are widely reproduced in the Algerian and international media, in formal and informal political discussion, and indeed its tropes have seeped into much of the academic literature. The first narrative is that of the authoritarian ‘system’ (a nebulous fusion of state and regime) versus the downtrodden ‘people’. The second narrative is that of the perpetual identity crisis, pitching Arabophones against Francophones, Berberophones against Arabophones, Islamists against secularists and social and cultural conservatives (‘tradition’) against progressives (‘modernity’), in a zero-sum struggle to define the language and culture of Algeria. These two narratives intersect, with ‘the system’ depicted as imposing its version of Arabo-Islamic identity, and in doing so steamrollering over both citizens promoting greater pluralism and more stridently Islamist actors.This chapter focuses on the national and transnational construction of this ‘identity crisis’ in academic literature as well as media and popular discourse. In particular, it explores the construction of three rival groups — one Arab/Muslim/FLNist, a second radical Islamist and a third composed of cultural pluralists/progressives (into which are subsumed Berbers and feminists) — which are depicted as engaged in a battle to the death to impose their version of ‘Algerianness’.
‘The sacred talisman of language’
Authors: Callaghan Madeleine
Published: May 2018

Shelley’s letter to a Lady, written in 1821, considers the process of becoming a poet and the role of poetry. Yet the letter’s brevity and its focus on language render it subordinate, in terms of both its content and style, to the more intense exploration of poetry and imagination housed in The Witch of Atlas and A Defence of Poetry. Though The Witch of Atlas might seem more comic than thoughtful, Shelley approaches the question of the role of the poet and poetry with seriousness. Likewise, A Defence of Poetry does not content itself with exposition of how poetic language works. Instead, it works to embody not merely describe that which it discusses. The Witch of Atlas and A Defence of Poetry stand as two of Shelley’s most significant statements on poetic language and form the bedrock for any discussion of his poetics as they blaze far beyond the letter to a Lady’s instructive though prosaic description of language.
Food from the Water: Fishing
Authors: Reynolds Rebecca
Published: May 2018

Fishing and fish consumption in Anglo-Saxon England has always garnered the interest of historians and archaeologists. However, very often, much of the research has been considered in isolation from other findings. In order to gain as full a picture as possible of what fishing and fish consumption meant to the Anglo-Saxons it is necessary to gather all forms of evidence and examine them together. This chapter will endeavour to do so by combining zooarchaeological and material (fish hooks and net sinkers as well as weirs) data alongside recent discussions of isotope evidence to uncover who within Anglo-Saxon England consumed fish, but also to discover if there were regional and chronological variations in fish consumption. Place-names and iconographic representations of fish may help further understand the changing perceptions of fish, if indeed people’s view of fish and aquatic environments were changing. While this chapter is unlikely to answer fully all the questions surrounding fishing and fish consumption in Anglo-Saxon England, it will shed some light on what information we are currently able to extract from the data of this fascinating area of Anglo-Saxon life.
Inland Waterways and Coastal Transport: Landing Places, Canals and Bridges
Authors: Gardiner Mark
Published: May 2018

Transport by water was the quickest and cheapest method to move goods in the Middle Ages, and linked together people even in distant parts of England. Trading places could arise in almost any place where boats could be hauled ashore, on either rivers or coastal estuaries. These were all potential places where people on land could come together to trade with those arriving by boat and ship. It is no coincidence that the rise in both inland and coastal transport dates to the tenth century, the period from which England became increasingly commercialized.The discussion of water transport is not limited to indirect evidence. Archaeological work has identified canals dug to allow the movement of boats up rivers and in marshland, and landing places where boats could be brought to the banks of rivers and the shore. The development of water-transport led to the development of a ‘marine culture’, a change in attitudes to the sea and ships.
Sound and Vision: All Roads Lead to Santiago
Authors: Colmeiro José
Published: May 2018

This chapter examine the interaction of roots and routes, tradition and mobility, in contemporary Galician audiovisual culture, focusing on the cultural resignification of the ancient pilgrim’s Road to Saint James (Camino de Santiago) in the global age, and the transformation of Santiago de Compostela into a global theme park of Galicianness. It examines several audiovisual productions by Chano Piñeiro, The Chieftains, and Carlos Núñez that metaphorically travel in time and space, where experimentation with cinema and Celtic music merges old and modern forms and transcends spatiotemporal barriers, repositioning Galician culture on the global map.
The Galician Magic Kingdom: Nation and Animation from the Glocal Forest
Authors: Colmeiro José
Published: May 2018

This chapter focuses on the animation boom in Galicia of the last two decades. It examines the different strategies employed by Galician animation studios working in the global arena, analysing three different models and their results: Dygra, an independent studio behind 3D films with Galician roots and atmosphere (The Living Forest, Summer Night, Spirit of the Forest), rewriting the local for export internationally; Bren, a studio based in Santiago de Compostela, subsidiary of the giant Barcelona-based media conglomerate Filmax, with a diversified plan of international co-productions, films based on hybrid animation and live action scenes (Pérez, the mouse of your dreams, Pérez 2), combination of 2D and 3D (Gisaku, Nocturna) and 3D animation (Donkey Xote), where the global overshadows the local, with little apparent connection to the Galician reality. Lastly, a number of alternative and personal productions with highly innovative techniques, such as De Profundis by Miguelanxo Prado, which offer a symbolic journey to the depths and a final rebirth, an ecological allegory of Galicia’s cultural resurgence after the Prestige disaster.
A Peripheral Focus: The Rebirth of the Novo Cinema Galego
Authors: Colmeiro José
Published: May 2018

This chapter explores new conceptual models to approach the work of a new generation of experimental Galician filmmakers adopting a peripheral position, understood as a conceptual, ideological,and aesthetic positioning more than merely a geolocation, which questions the mainstream hegemonic values emanating from the center while aiming to bring visibility to the fringes. It examines the boom of the so called Novo Cinema Galego (New Galician Cinema), focusing on the border crossing and blending of fiction/documentary generic conventions, and analyses the most representative cases, such as Oliver Laxe, Xurxo Chirro, Lois Patiño, Peque Varela, Eloy Enciso, and Susana Rei.
Incidencia del género en los niveles de actividad física en las clases de educación física
Authors: Torres-Luque G. , Calahorro F. , López-Fernández I. , Carnero E. A.
Published: May 2018

El objetivo principal de este trabajo, es describir los niveles de actividad física en clases de Educación Física con escolares de Educación Primaria y, observar las posibles diferencias según el género. Se seleccionaron 42 estudiantes (22 chicos y 20 chicas) (10,5 ± 0,8 años de edad; 40,5 ± 8,3 kg de masa; 143,8 ± 7,1 cm de altura; 19,4 ± 3,2 kg/m2 de IMC) 4 y se evaluó el nivel de actividad física a través del acelerómetro GT3X (Actigraph, Pensacola, FL, USA) llevado durante los cinco días de la jornada escolar, en la cadera derecha, con un epoch de 1s. La intensidad de la actividad física se determinó mediante los puntos de corte de Evenson et al. (2008). Los resultados muestran que los alumnos realizan actividad física a intensidad moderada y vigorosa en torno a 17% y 13% para chicos y chicas respectivamente, no observándose diferencias significativas estadísticamente.
La calidad del servicio en los clubes de fútbol base de la región de Murcia. Una aplicación del análisis de importancia-satisfacción
Authors: Martínez-Caro E. , Martínez-Caro E. , Díaz-Suardíaz A.
Published: May 2018

Los clubes de fútbol base, protagonistas en la promoción deportiva en período escolar, necesitan, como cualquier organización deportiva, deben incrementar la satisfacción de sus usuarios ofreciendo servicios de alta calidad. El objetivo de esta investigación es, basándose en el Análisis de Importancia-Valoración, realizar evaluación de la calidad en clubes de fútbol base con el propósito de diseñar un plan de mejora en el que se detecten áreas de sobreinversión de recursos, áreas de recursos insuficientes y realizar una propuesta priorizada de acciones de mejora. Para ello se administró un cuestionario basado en la escala SERVQUAL a una muestra de 1076 usuarios de los clubes de fútbol base de la Región de Murcia, en la que se incluyen 413 jugadores, 366 madres y padres, 207 técnicos y 90 árbitros. El estudio ha revelado que los puntos fuertes de los clubes de fútbol base de la Región de Murcia están principalmente en aspectos de capacidad de respuesta y seguridad. Los puntos débiles, por el contrario, están relacionados con aspectos tangibles. Además, se ha detectado que podrían estar destinando excesivos recursos a elementos algo menos importantes para los usuarios, relacionados con la seguridad y la empatía.
Working with Circus Artists: Reflections on a Process of Collaborative Research, Participation and Commitment
Authors: Infantino Julieta
Published: May 2018

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO SHARE SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LONG RESEARCH EXPERIENCE I HAVE DEVELOPED WITH CIRCUS ARTISTS IN THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA. THESE REFLECTIONS REVOLVE AROUND THE QUESTION OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY ANTHROPOLOGY, THROUGH RESEARCH PRACTICES CONDUCTED IN COLLABORATION WITH ARTISTS. I AM INTERESTED IN RETHINKING THE ROLE OF THE RESEARCHER BY UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE FROM A CONCEPTION IN WHICH COMMITMENT, COLLABORATION, AND PARTICIPATORY KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING CAN POTENTIATE RESEARCH PRACTICES AND, AT THE SAME TIME, CREATE DILEMMAS AND CHALLENGES. WHAT ARE THE THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE ROLES WE CAN PLAY THROUGHOUT A LONG RESEARCH PROCESS? WHAT ARE THE TOOLS WE CAN USE WHEN CONDUCTING RESEARCH ON THE FIELDS WE ALSO PARTICIPATE IN, SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY? HOW CAN WE RECONCILE THE TIME IT TAKES TO CONDUCT ACADEMIC WORK WITH THE SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES FOR EVENTS TO UNFOLD IN REAL-TIME?
Analyzing Participatory Cultural Practices in a Medium-Scale Swiss Town: How Multiple Belongings are Constructed and Consolidated Through an Interactive Filmmaking Process
Authors: Salzbrunn Monika , Dellwo Barbara , Besençon Sylvain
Published: May 2018

THIS PAPER DEALS WITH A PARTICIPATORY FILMMAKING PROJECT INVOLVING YOUNG RESIDENTS OF A NEIGHBORHOOD IN A SWISS TOWN, LOCAL SOCIOCULTURAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LOCAL POLICE, AND AN INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER. SEEKING TO QUERY WHAT PARTICIPATION MEANS IN SUCH A SETTING, WE PROPOSE AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK THAT CONSIDERS THREE SCALES OF PARTICIPATION: THE PARTICIPATORY NODE, THE PARTICIPATIVE COLLABORATION, AND PARTICIPATION AS AN ARGUMENT IN THE TOP-DOWN SETTING OF A MUNICIPAL POLICY. AS RESEARCHERS, WE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED IN THE ANALYSIS OF THE ENTIRE RAW UNEDITED FILM MATERIAL THAT DOCUMENTS THE WHOLE PRODUCTION PROCESS. FOCUSING ON THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE FILMMAKER AND THE YOUTHS, THE PAPER EXPLORES HOW MULTIPLE BELONGINGS ARE MOBILIZED IN ORDER TO NEGOTIATE THE FRONTIER BETWEEN PARTICIPATION AND AUTHORITY, NAMELY THROUGH JOKING RELATIONSHIPS. WE DIFFERENTIATE THIS FORM OF AUTHORITY FROM THE SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE EXERTED BY INSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVES IN ORDER TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONDITIONS BY WHICH ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP IS MADE POSSIBLE.