Tracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]

Despite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]

Article about the composer Pauline Viardot

Article about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain

In dem Seminar wird Sprachwandel aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet.

“Steven Schroeder’s most recent collection of poems, Still, offers an amazing juxtaposition of imaginary elements and sensible phenomena that keeps the reader turning page after page in wonder. Poems of varied textures, from Zen-like shorts to lengthier narratives, offer shifts in perspective that surprise and delight, many with seasonal beauty or…[Read more]

The title of this collection, taken from the poem with which the collection closes, calls to mind Helen Frankenthaler’s description of the places where colors converge on raw canvas in her “soak-stain” paintings. That closing poem is a meditation on her “Seven Forms of Ambiguity” in the “1940s to Now” section of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Ark…[Read more]

This book discusses advances in the dairy industry in various parts of the world. It is divided into four sections on “Dairy Technology”, “Reproductive Biotechnology”, “Entrepreneurship Development”, and “Sustainable Development”. Chapters address such topics as regional dairy breeds, farming innovations, mineral nutrition, folliculogenesi…[Read more]

Salaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]

Four colleagues–a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator of Special Collections–take turns describing their role in creating an undergraduate student project around an eighteenth-century almanac that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. In recounting the steps taken, the collaborative process, the student…[Read more]

Research about the influence of the musicological outpput of relevant Researcher Constantin Floros

Introductory overview of musical theory and thought in Spain in the 17th and first half of the 18th century.
Panorama introductorio sobre la teoría y el pensamiento musicales de España en el siglo XVII y primera mitad del XVIII.

Analysis of the participation of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in the commemorative events of the first centenary of Beethoven’s death (1927)

Before arriving in Spain, Francisco Corselli had developed an important career as opera composer and sacred music when he arrived in Spain in 1733 from Parma thanks to his previous relations with Isabella de Farnese, the future queen of Spain, and with the ducal house of Parma. At the Madrid court, he began his career as ‘maestro de música’ for…[Read more]

Discourse called post-humanism believes that humanism is a phony notion and an excuse for ruling over the other animals — and that it would eventually invite the destruction of the human race. They draw attention to the scientific fact that man is also an ordinary animal and just like other animals and birds is a small part of the huge e…[Read more]

The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]