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Deaf West’s Awakening of Broadway
Authors: Donovan Ryan 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Musicals privilege the aural and the visual; they are as much about hearing the score as seeing the staging, which makes the form often inaccessible to audience members and actors alike denied access and accommodation. The perception of musical theatre performance as a style of hyper-ability, embodied by the triple-threat performer, contributes to the exclusion of Deaf and hard-of-hearing actors and spectators because it misrecognizes the ability of these actors and ASL to make music and dance. Deaf West Theatre’s Big River and Spring Awakening offer a more capacious understanding of the kinds of abilities musicals can include as they redefine what ability means on Broadway. The casting and staging of Deaf West’s revival of Spring Awakening provided a notable model of accessibility and inclusion for Broadway. The production staged d/Deaf and disability identities pedagogically for hearing audiences. This chapter examines casting Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, recasting the musical itself in ASL, its reception, and implications for the future of whose bodies are Broadway bodies.
It’s Easier to Imagine the End of Music Education than the End of Competition
Authors: Powell Sean Robert 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This chapter employs philosopher and cultural theorist Mark Fisher’s concept of capitalist realism as a tool to analyze how the competitive structures of school music impose limits and define horizons of possibility for music students, teachers, and programs. This analysis works on two levels. First, competitive structures in music education parallel the broader neoliberal capitalist economic structure in several ways, such as organizing relations among students, teachers, and schools as competitive; evaluating the performance of music programs through externally audited, standardized competitive events; and interpellating music teachers and students as competitors. Second, and central to the chapter’s argument, just as the capitalist economic system defines the parameters within which we think and act, the ideology of competition in school music delimits the possibilities of our thoughts and actions. Further, the chapter shows how the ideology of capitalist realism results in, for both the wider society and music classrooms, the individualization and privatization of social concerns and an increase in an audit culture with its accompanying bureaucracy.
The One-Dimensional Music Program
Authors: Powell Sean Robert 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This chapter explores the ideology of competition in music education through the work of Herbert Marcuse, a German American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, who was associated with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. It draws especially on his works Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man. Although these works are several decades old, Marcuse was especially prescient in foreseeing the current neoliberal predicament. Music education that aims all efforts at producing high-level performances suitable for judgment in high-stakes competitions is, in Marcusian terms, “one-dimensional.” That is, all instructional and material efforts within the music program are devoted to a singular goal: competitive success. This chapter provides examples from school music programs in Texas, because the competitive structure of school music in that state represents the height of hypercompetition in music education, and it serves as a model for others looking to replicate the system of high-level performance and competitive results.
Solidarity
Authors: Powell Sean Robert 
Published: February 2023

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This chapter begins with a critique of a common concept of inclusion—making the hegemonic structure accessible to all students. It then offers a different model of inclusion, one in which a universal limit paradoxically leads to a more varied, reflexive, and responsive music education at the singular register. The chapter then calls for collective praxis to enact change on a structural level. Finally, it concludes by summarizing the theoretical and practical implications presented in this book. Everyone struggles under competition—the losers who work and work but can never seem to win, those who do not participate at all, those whose music-making is not validated by the hegemonic system, and even those who win consistently but feel the pressure to maintain this one-dimensional focus. These are seemingly different problems, but when we examine the situation closely, we realize these struggles are all stemming from the same underlying problem. Fortunately, working together in solidarity, we can do something about it.
Introduction
Authors: Ma Nan 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This Introduction lays out the historical and theoretical framework for the entire book, speaking to the fields of dance studies and China studies. It first states the research questions and main contributions of the book, and then introduces the major Chinese modern dancers under study—Yu Rongling, Wu Xiaobang, Dai Ailian, and Guo Mingda—and their connections to the Western canonical counterparts, including Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, Rudolf von Laban, and Alwin Nikolais. It explains the book’s transnational and transcultural perspective and its critical, dialectic stance toward both Eurocentrism and Sinocentrism in Western and Chinese dance historiographies. The chapter critically compares John Martin’s expression theory of modern dance with the Chinese counterpart and points out the distinctive characteristics of dance modernism in China in terms of dance’s intermedial relation to language and other artistic mediums. It then reflects on the nature of the book as “a dance history without dance,” as well as on the employed primary sources and interpretive strategies, by integrating theoretical views on this issue in the existing dance scholarship. The Introduction concludes with chapter outlines.
Traveling “Princess” and Dancing “Diplomat”
Authors: Ma Nan 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Chapter 1 follows Yu Rongling’s international travel in the early 1900s from Paris to the late Qing court, where she transformed Isadora Duncan’s “Greek dance” into its Chinese counterpart under the auspices of Empress Dowager Cixi. It shows that, on the one hand, Western early modern dance incorporated the “Oriental body” within itself, rather than simply treating it as some exotic other. On the other hand, Yu’s “Chinese dance” cannot be understood as some “invented tradition” created by the local as some “old” way to resist the “new” way imposed by colonial powers, because it exposes and exploits the paradox inherent in dance modernism: modern dance is, in Yu’s words, “both inventing the new and reviving the old.” The chapter demonstrates that this paradox is caused by a particular mode of corporeal modernity underlying early modern dance, which is characterized by the blurred boundaries between the past and the future, the universal and the national. This corporeal modernity enabled early modern dance and the cosmopolitan women performing it to cross various borders of race, culture, nation, and time. However, it can also be appropriated and re-articulated by the local to handle anxieties about perceived differences that sprang from all these border-crossings within a global colonial hierarchy. Therefore, this chapter contributes to the rethinking of the origin of modernism and feminism as global and multiple, instead of exclusively Western, in nature and of the evolving late Qing court as part of global modernity, rather than simply a “backward” and “reclusive” monarchy.
Dancing Reclusion in the Great Leap Forward
Authors: Ma Nan 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Chapter 3 focuses on Wu Xiaobang’s paradoxical “classical new dance” in the late 1950s of the socialist era. By that time, Wu’s new dance had fallen out of political favor due to its “bourgeois ideology.” As a response, Wu looked into Chinese literary and philosophical classics to create the “classical new dance” as a disguised haven to harbor his modernist ideas. This genre was the antithesis of “Chinese classical dance” that was contemporaneously being developed. The invention of Chinese classical dance was part of a national project, demanded by the Chinese Communist Party, to create “national forms” in literature and arts by resorting to Chinese traditional and folk forms. A purpose of this national project was to use “national forms” as a means to interpellate the bourgeois, West-leaning intellectuals and artists into subjection to the new regime. Wu’s classical new dance was a circuitous modernist critique of both “invented tradition” and “national forms,” and thus a deflection of the state’s interpellation, by denying codified form in dance. Moreover, Wu appropriated the Chinese intellectual ideal of “reclusion” in his classical new dance to construct an individual-based, spiritual utopia to resist the collectivist, material utopia of the Great Leap Forward Campaign. However, Wu’s resistance is conflicted in nature: his embrace of spirituality is at the cost of the body’s physicality in dance. Therefore, this chapter sheds light on the possibilities and limits of the agency of artists in negotiating the relative independence of art within the ideological control of the socialist state.
Conclusion
Authors: Andreou Chrisoula 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This chapter summarizes the findings of the book, which concern the challenges associated with effective choice over time in light of the possibility of rationally cyclic preferences and rationally incomplete preferences. Each chapter of the book is briefly reviewed. The eight chapters reviewed include the following: Chapter 1: Disorderly Preferences; Chapter 2: Self-Defeating Self-Governance; Chapter 3: Instrumental Rationality Revamped; Chapter 4: Parity; Chapter 5: Incomparability; Chapter 6: Betterness; Chapter 7: Resolutions and Regret upon Going Astray; and Chapter 8: Regret in Continued Endorsement Cases. Key take-home messages are emphasized. The central take-home message is that rationality can handle quite a lot of messiness. This is important, since rationality wouldn’t be all that helpful if, whenever messiness threatened, we had to rush to its rescue rather than look to it for guidance.
Seeing Sound, Hearing Movement— Music and Mirror Neurons
Authors: Svard Lois 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Mirror neurons, brain cells that are activated for both action and perception, may be one of the most important discoveries in neuroscience in the past thirty years. They play a significant role in how we learn music, how we teach, and surprisingly, in how an audience member experiences a performance. Because imitation via mirror neurons is a primary way of learning, visual and auditory demonstration and imitation are crucial for teaching and learning. It is therefore important to model a healthy technique when teaching and to direct students to high-quality performances for listening. Their mirror neurons will be activated by what they see and hear. Because of mirror neurons, audience members respond to a performer’s passion, intensity, quality of movements, enjoyment, and confidence—referred to by some researchers as embodied simulation. As a performer, one should generate sound in the most healthy, authentic way possible because your listeners are simulating—mirroring—your movement and your emotions.
Regulation and Migrant Vulnerability
Authors: Boucher Anna K. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Ten temporary migrant workers from the Philippines were employed in a series of cafés and restaurants in the Northern Territory in Australia where they were underpaid and charged illegal recruitment fees. In Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v. Choong Enterprises Pty. Ltd. (2015), the Australian government litigated against the employer’s breach of the Migration Act, in particular the employer’s decision to pay less than was required under the particular visa used to import the workers into Australia. The case highlights some of the weaknesses in the design of temporary work visas and subsequent reforms to such visas. Using the example of Australia, where visa regulation is fine-grained and complex, this chapter explores some of these concepts of visa conditions and disaggregates visa types across countries. Temporary migrant workers bring a disproportionate number of legal claims, even when compared with their overrepresentation in immigration flow data.
Strategic or General Enforcement of Migrant Workplace Rights
Authors: Boucher Anna K. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In Fair Work Ombudsman v. Bento Kings Meadows Pty. Ltd. (2013), the Australian enforcement body, the Fair Work Ombudsman, brought an action against the sushi chain Bento Kings Meadows in Tasmania for significant underpayment of thirteen workers. A key issue for the court was the extent of penalties and whether a general deterrent effect should also be assumed in their imposition in addition to specific deterrence for the employer. How are penalties against employers for migrant workplace rights infringements enforced by government? There are different theories on enforcement, from self-regulation, guidelines, workplace inspections, strategic civil and criminal litigation. The six jurisdictions vary considerably in their approach to enforcement, which in turn reflects different attitudes. This chapter uses MWRD data to explore the use of different forms of enforcement and their strengths and weaknesses.
Celestial Inclinations
Authors: Lewis Anne-Marie 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Celestial Inclinations: A Life of Augustus provides a new perspective on the life and career of the first Roman emperor, Augustus (63 b.c.–a.d. 14) and presents the case that Augustus used his knowledge of the celestial sphere in various ways to confirm for himself and convey to others that the heavens supported his activities on Earth and his inevitable greatness. The book is based on fresh assessments of relevant ancient historical, literary, astronomical, astrological, and artistic sources for the years prior to and during the life of Augustus. The book combines these sources with astronomical sky maps and astrological diagrams to offer fresh interpretations of critical events in the life of Augustus at a time when the celestial sphere had come to play an important cultural and political role. Topics include the birth and death of Augustus; the identification of the celestial object that appeared at the ludi in honor of Caesar in 44 b.c.; the Battle of Actium; the iconography of the Tellus Relief Panel on the Ara Pacis Augustae; the Ludi Saeculares; Augustus’ major building projects in Rome; and Augustus’ interactions with major historical figures of the period, such as Cicero, Caesar, Agrippa, Antonius, and Tiberius.
Octavianus, Antonius, and the Banquet of the Twelve Gods
Authors: Lewis Anne-Marie 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In the early 30s b.c. when Octavianus and Antonius were on reasonably good terms and superficially allies, Octavianus held a private banquet that came to be known as the Banquet of the Twelve Gods. In the late 30s b.c. when Octavianus and Antonius were open enemies, Antonius used the banquet to attack Octavianus for extravagance and frivolity in an attempt to create a scandal and diminish Octavianus’ standing in the public’s eye. The significance of the banquet may be found in Octavianus’ declared family connection to the heavens and the celestial display that was visible at the time the banquet was held.
Introduction
Authors: Bull Anna , Scharff Christina 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This editors’ introduction outlines the context of the volume’s publication, amid increasing attention to equity and diversity in the classical music profession internationally over recent years. It outlines the editors’ previous research and activism in this area, the scope of the book, and its limitations, in particular a focus on countries in the Global North. The editors describe how there now exists a vibrant field of activism in classical music, showcased by chapters outlining different modes of making change. It is argued that activists and academics in this area need to acknowledge structural inequalities while holding on to a sense of possibility of change, as demonstrated by chapters in the book that exemplify this tension. The introduction also explores the extent to which musical change is necessary for social change. Finally, the term “classical music studies” is introduced, drawing on theorizations of genre from popular music studies.
Class and Gender Inequalities in the Recruitment of Classical Musicians
Authors: Casula Clementina 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
As legitimized organizations for the vocational training of musicians, conservatoires are privileged sites for exploring inequalities and exclusions within the classical music profession. Drawing on the author’s research, this chapter discusses the case of Italian conservatoires, first contextualizing them in time and space, then focusing on the mechanisms adopted for student recruitment. Being virtually the only comprehensive opportunity for musical training within the Italian system of public education, for a long time conservatoires formally adopt meritocratic rules, but in practice they reproduce social inequalities naturalized over time within the classical canon. The data collected show the presence of a class divide in the selection process, taking the form of an urban-rural distinction, and of gender biases. In the recently reformed conservatoires, placed within the tertiary level of education, these patterns of inequalities have weakened, while new ones have emerged; beyond issues of efficiency, all of these should be a matter of concern for educational institutions, if they are to actively endorse more integrated and equitable labor markets and societies.
Planning and Paying for Highways between Cities in the Pre-Freeway Era
Authors: Taylor Brian D. , Morris Eric A. , Brown Jeffrey R. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In rural areas, state and federal highway engineers responded to pressure for better roads from bicyclists and later motorists. They began with piecemeal road improvements and then gradually turned to the development of interconnected rural and intercity highway systems. By the end of the 1920s a federally supported, but state administered, national system of rural and intercity highways emerged as the focus of rural highway builders. This system was built by ostensibly apolitical engineers to uniform standards and prioritized economical traffic service over the social objectives that had motivated some earlier rural highway advocates. Yet by the end of the 1920s, the finance system used to support these programs ran into difficulties due to the high costs involved. A solution was found with the move to user-based highway finance, centered on motor fuel taxes, which would become the focus of state and federal decision-makers in the years that followed.
Planning Highways in Cities in the Pre-Interstate Era
Authors: Taylor Brian D. , Morris Eric A. , Brown Jeffrey R. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
During the 1920s, innovations in traffic regulation and the implementation of major traffic street plans greatly facilitated urban motor vehicle movement, but rising automobile ownership and usage, paralleled by a gradual, and then accelerating, decline in public transit patronage, resulted in a continuing flood of new motor vehicles on urban streets. Traffic congestion inevitably returned and intensified. Worried city officials and local business interests, particularly those situated in the downtowns of America’s cities, turned to transportation planning and engineering experts for solutions. One new potential solution was at hand, suggested by the recreational parkways designed for pleasure driving—the freeway. It ultimately was to sow the seeds of a revolution in urban highway construction. This revolution was enabled by the rise of state and federal motor fuel taxes. But access to this funding required a shift in control over metropolitan freeway development from cities to state highway engineers focused almost exclusively on the high-speed movement of urban traffic.
Planning and Financing Highways between Cities in the Pre-Interstate Era
Authors: Taylor Brian D. , Morris Eric A. , Brown Jeffrey R. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
America’s response to the onset of the Great Depression dramatically reoriented politics and policy in many spheres: highway policy would prove no exception. Although plummeting property tax revenues hamstrung cities in their efforts to undertake dramatic new initiatives, particularly those involving urban freeways, New Deal policies extended federal financial support to some urban road building projects. In terms of roads between cities, the new spirit of government activism set off by the New Deal would, with the personal sanction of President Franklin Roosevelt, ultimately lead to dramatic advances in the quest to create a national highway system. Beginning with the report Toll Roads and Free Roads in 1939 and continuing through Interregional Highways proposal in 1944, the form of a future Interstate Highway System gradually emerged.
White unto Harvest
Authors: Peterson Joseph W. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Chapter Three tells the story of the Jesuit mission to Muslims in Constantine, the provincial capital of Eastern Algeria, and the Jesuits’ two star pupils there—baptized “Louis” and “Stanislas” Khoudja—who were sent to France for a religious education in the 1860s. When the boys returned to Algeria, however, they rejoined the Islamic faith of their family, symbolizing the larger rise and fall of the Jesuits’ hopes for Muslims in Algeria. The missionaries transformed their personal disappointment into generalized ethnographic reflections about the inconstancy and ingratitude of all Arabs. But Louis, the elder of the brothers, went on to become a lawyer and spokesman for colonial reforms and left some tantalizing glimpses of how he perceived the competing French modernities represented by missionaries and colonial administrators.
Conspiracy to Massacre
Authors: Peterson Joseph W. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Like chapter four, chapter five focuses on the Catholic charitable organization the Œuvre d’Orient which raised funds for the allegedly oppressed Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire, and the milieu of liberal Catholic notables that animated that Œuvre. In the wake of the “massacres of Syria” in 1860, where Maronite Christians in Lebanon were killed by Druze rivals, the liberal Catholics of the Œuvre d’Orient, led by the Abbé Charles Lavigerie and the diplomat and orientalist Melchior de Vogüé, actively fomented anti-Islamic sentiment. Unlike the conservative admirers of Muslim religiosity, these liberal Catholics denigrated Islam precisely for its supposed religious fanaticism and its pre-secular, theocratic inability to distinguish between (private) religion and (public) politics. The Œuvre d’Orient was also at the forefront of those who stoked fears of pan-Islamic plots and expansion around the world.