Seven Women Who Transformed French Holocaust Memory
When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Veil to memory activist Sabine Zlatin, who shaped the production of Holocaust memory in France from 1945 to the present. Most of these women began their memory work immediately after the war by testifying at perpetrator trials and ......
Seven Women Who Transformed French Holocaust Memory
When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Veil to memory activist Sabine Zlatin, who shaped the production of Holocaust memory in France from 1945 to the present. Most of these women began their memory work immediately after the war by testifying at perpetrator trials and ......
Working from a monastic cell in Paris, French polymath and savant Marin Mersenne became a key facilitator of the early scientific revolution. An interdisciplinary music theorist, Mersenne drew from the burgeoning field of rhetoric to describe, analyze, and teach musical structures. At a time when the heart of seventeenth-century rhetoric seemed to ......
Working from a monastic cell in Paris, French polymath and savant Marin Mersenne became a key facilitator of the early scientific revolution. An interdisciplinary music theorist, Mersenne drew from the burgeoning field of rhetoric to describe, analyze, and teach musical structures. At a time when the heart of seventeenth-century rhetoric seemed to ......
Considered by many to be the most accomplished songbird in Australia, the pied butcherbird is known for its ability to skillfully improvise new and complex melodies. Each one sings differently from the next; their nocturnal solo songs can span up to seven hours and are often combined with other calls to form an artistic ensemble; and since their ......
Music, Trance, and Feeling in Algerian Diwan of Sidi Bilal
Dancing at the Thresholds tells the story of communities in Algeria that practice diwan: a nocturnal musical ritual in which practitioners enter various modes of trance to achieve affective "ignition" and emotional release through the body. Seen by other locals as a form of "popular" or "folk" Islam, Algerian diwan exists as a racially ......
Music, Trance, and Feeling in Algerian Diwan of Sidi Bilal
Dancing at the Thresholds tells the story of communities in Algeria that practice diwan: a nocturnal musical ritual in which practitioners enter various modes of trance to achieve affective "ignition" and emotional release through the body. Seen by other locals as a form of "popular" or "folk" Islam, Algerian diwan exists as a racially ......
Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands
Sonic Relations explores how sound shapes religious life and community among Twelver Shi'i Muslims in eastern Turkey and beyond, examining the powerful role of devotional recitation in cultivating relationships not only among people, but also with the unseen. These sonic practices are central to Muslim devotional life, and through media and public ......
Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands
Sonic Relations explores how sound shapes religious life and community among Twelver Shi'i Muslims in eastern Turkey and beyond, examining the powerful role of devotional recitation in cultivating relationships not only among people, but also with the unseen. These sonic practices are central to Muslim devotional life, and through media and public ......
