The Folk Music of Anglophone New Brunswick: Old-Time and Country Music in the Twentieth Century

This article, which calls for a flexible and broad understanding of folk music, examines the role of old-time and country music in twentieth-century New Brunswick. Old-time music was primarily for dancing and its chief instrument was the fiddle. In the 1920s and 1930s hillbilly and cowboy music, with an emphasis on songs, began to dovetail with old-time music. Old-time and country music became closely embedded in rural and small-town New Brunswick. This paper argues that these musical forms, despite their commercial origins and dissemination via technology such as recordings, radio, and motion pictures, constituted a de facto folk music for the anglophone populations of the province.RésuméCet article, qui nécessite une connaissance souple et élargie de la musique folklorique, passe en revue la musique d’antan et country dans le Nouveau-Brunswick du 20e siècle. La musique d’antan en était une principalement pour la danse, et son principal instrument était le violon. Dans les années 1920 et 1930, la musique genre western, centrée sur les chansons, a commencé à s’imbriquer avec la musique d’antan. Ces deux musiques sont devenues étroitement liées dans la campagne et les petites villes du Nouveau-Brunswick. Cet article souligne que ces formes musicales, malgré leur origine commerciale et leur diffusion par la technologie, au moyen d’enregistrements, de la radio et du cinéma, constituent une musique folklorique de fait pour la population anglophone de la province.Cet article, qui nécessite une connaissance souple et élargie de la musique folklorique, passe en revue la musique d’antan et country dans le Nouveau-Brunswick du 20e siècle. La musique d’antan en était une principalement pour la danse, et son principal instrument était le violon. Dans les années 1920 et 1930, la musique genre western, centrée sur les chansons, a commencé à s’imbriquer avec la musique d’antan. Ces deux musiques sont devenues étroitement liées dans la campagne et les petites villes du Nouveau-Brunswick. Cet article souligne que ces formes musicales, malgré leur origine commerciale et leur diffusion par la technologie, au moyen d’enregistrements, de la radio et du cinéma, constituent une musique folklorique de fait pour la population anglophone de la province

Support for Realist Foreign Policy: Reality Attunement or Ignorance?

Social discourse often considers realist foreign policy to be the most pragmatic and rational approach to international relations. The present research tests the widespread belief that realist foreign policy reflects superior reality attunement by examining its correspondence to two indicators of reality engagement: the amount and quality of historical knowledge and the presence or absence of identity-defensive biases. In a first study I used a true/false quiz to test participant's performance on a test of critical and celebratory knowledge about past US foreign interventions; I measured endorsement of blind and constructive orientations of American patriotism, and I examined the relationship of these predictors with support for realist foreign policy. Consistent with a "realism as ignorance" hypothesis, realist foreign policy support was negatively related to historical knowledge and positively related to identity defensive patterns of American patriotism. In a second study, I conducted an experiment in which I exposed participants to different sets of facts that were either critical or celebratory representations of past US foreign interventions and assessed the impact of this manipulation on support for realist policy. Inconsistent with a "realism as ignorance" hypotheses and results of Study 1, results reveal a biased assimilation pattern, such that participants who were high in blind patriotism selectively appropriated celebratory knowledge to further bolster their realist policy inclinations. Together, results from both studies challenge the notion of realist foreign policy as reality attunement. Instead, results associate realist policy preferences with ignorance and identity defensive forms of patriotism

X-Men, Dragon Age, and Religion: Representations of Religion and the Religious in Comic Books, Video Games, and Their Related Media

It is a widely accepted notion that a child can only be called stupid for so long before they believe it, can only be treated in a particular way for so long before that is the only way that they know. Why is that notion never applied to how we treat, address, and present religion and the religious to children and young adults? In recent years, questions have been continuously brought up about how we portray violence, sexuality, gender, race, and many other issues in popular media directed towards young people, particularly video games. These issues rarely include religion, despite a significant shift in how young people, specifically millennials, relate to religion. This paper examines how religion and religious characters are presented in comic books and video games. These two mediums are particularly important for young people as video games are an ever growing form of entertainment and comic books, though they have been a part of popular culture for decades, have seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years. Specific cases of religion in video games, including the creation of religions specifically for the game, the addressing of real world religions in games, and the use of religious terminology in the game are examined. This paper also examines the number of comic book characters that are associated with various religions, how they are portrayed in comics, and how this numbers are changing

“Mixed Up in the Coal Camp”: Interethnic, Family, and Community Exchanges in Matewan During the West Virginia Mine Wars, 1900-1922

The West Virginia Mine Wars are etched in the popular memory of West Virginians, who view these events as an important part of their identity as Mountaineers; yet, there is still much historians do not know about the Mine Wars, especially when concentrating on the perspectives and experiences of the working-class miners. These everyday miners and their families are the topic of this thesis. Using oral histories from the Matewan Development Center Records housed in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, this thesis argues that community-building across ethnic and racial lines within Matewan’s coal camps was not only possible, but occurred at a degree unmatched by other West Virginia industrial communities. In these camps, miners lived less segregated lives than their counterparts, presenting a fairly mixed community in which inter-ethnic exchanges laid an early foundation for cross-ethnic organization and resistance against the coal operators. As miners in southern West Virginia struggled to unionize against pro-coal forces and their attempts to divide miners and the larger community along racial and ethnic lines, miners turned to their foundation of community in the coal camp to withstand strike tactics, including their almost two year banishment to tent colonies. Tent colonies presented opportunities for informal exchanges between miners – exchanges that were just as valuable as formal exchanges in their day to day lives. By examining both formal and informal exchanges between Matewan’s mining population, this thesis argues that the “mixed up” quality of Stone Mountain Coal Corporation’s coal camps stimulated a shared working-class identity that was then mobilized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) on a scale previously not achieved in West Virginia’s southern coalfields

An analysis of leadership practices and leadership development in Pakistan universities

The general aim of the dissertation was to gain the insight about the leadership and decision-making practices in Pakistan universities and to implement a leadership development program for university leaders to raise awareness about their leadership practices. To pursue the aim of the dissertation, five different studies were conducted. This concluding chapter gives an overview of the main findings of the various studies, considering the three research objectives. Findings in relation to each research objectives are presented, followed by a comprehensive discussion of the results focusing on four different themes. These themes link aspects of leadership and decision-making to our key findings. Further, limitations of the dissertation research program and possible directions for future research are presented. A new move towards leadership development in higher education Pakistan is discussed in view of one of the key directions for future research. The chapter concludes with implications for theory, practice, and policy

An Exciting Time of Transition: 2022 Annual Report

The Annual Report you are about to read recaps the year that was 2022, and our team stepped up in remarkable ways - working together to emerge from a global pandemic, raising more than $75 million and making$84 million in grants to approximately 2,400 nonprofit organizations. We remain ranked among the nation's 20 largest community foundations by asset size, and in a year when the S&P 500 was down 18.1 percent, our endowment return was down only 10.6 percent, which ranked in the top quartile of endowments nationwide.Most importantly, in 2022, we were laser focused on ways to aid Rhode Islanders who have been historically marginalized, and those struggling to make ends meet - by battling inequity, hunger, surging housing prices, educational gaps, behavioral health challenges, economic insecurity, and more, through our grantmaking and civic leadership efforts.The year 2022 also launched the Foundation into an exciting time of transition. While our dedicated staff, under the inspired leadership of Neil Steinberg, stayed focused on fundraising and grantmaking, the Board of Directors took on the search for the Foundation's next President and CEO. After a thoughtful, thorough national search that included significant community input, our next President and CEO, David Cicilline, was unanimously appointed.Times of transition can be both exciting and challenging. Committed to continuity, we are stewards of a 107-year-old legacy of generosity and impact. We have flourished though more than one global pandemic, economic ups and downs, war times, and times of peace and prosperity, a continuous source of hope and a community resource. We will continue to be so.We are humbled by the generosity of our donors and the incredible dedication of our nonprofit partners, and we know you will feel the same as you read through these pages

The aged south: old age and roots music in the us south, 1900-1945

This dissertation investigates experiences and representations of old age and ageing in roots music of the US South from 1900-1945. During this period, aged musicians and depictions of old age were commonplace in southern roots music. This dissertation assesses the meanings and functions of age and ageing in southern roots music in the context of the drastic economic, technological, political, social, racial, and cultural changes and tensions in the early twentieth century South. This study proposes that the production of ideas about old age in southern roots music figured into a range of anxieties about the modernising ‘New South’, and a corresponding nostalgia for the ‘Old South’. This dissertation posits that the proliferation of older people and ideas about ‘elders’ in roots music also reflected and impacted on some of the realities and beliefs about the changing age demographics and generational dynamics of the era, such as those relating to life expectancy, retirement, pensions, and an evolving sense of ‘age consciousness’. Employing a multi- and interdisciplinary approach, this dissertation revaluates roots music and southern history with new analytical frameworks from the fields of medical humanities and age studies, with a particular focus on how issues of debility, disability, and ageism intersect with other power structures. This dissertation adds the category of age to a growing literature on the cultural significances of early roots music and the mass media by analysing a range of textual, visual, and aural primary sources and synthesising secondary research to explore the age dimension of five domains of southern roots music: old fiddlers’ contests; aged musicians in the broadcasting and recording industries; ‘age masquerade’ on ‘barn dance’ radio; representations of old age on commercial ‘old-time’ and ‘race’ recordings; and folklorists John and Alan Lomax’s research for the Library of Congress into African American music

Death Sentence: A Compendium Against Assailment

Getting people to kill themselves is the oldest trick in the book. There ought to be a constitutional law against it. This Article proposes one.“Assailment” means asking, telling, or tempting a person under the age of eighteen to attempt or complete suicide. It also includes extorting or blackmailing a child into suicidal behavior. Such a law is necessary because of the skyrocketing rate of youth suicide. Death Sentence: A Compendium Against Assailment encourages lawmakers to enact an assailment statute. It further tells the stories of 41 completed youth suicides, 15 attempts, and 8 cases of suicidal ideation. The rigors of strict scrutiny demand such depth. See United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709, 725 (2012) (requiring a direct causal link between a restriction on speech and the injury to be prevented)

Wooster Magazine: Winter 2014

The Winter 2014 edition of the Wooster Magazine highlights many different topics. Editor Karol Crosbie gives the top 10 reasons why she likes her job as an introduction in the magazine. The beloved restaurant, The Shack, has closed its doors for good. The college\u27s radio station, WOO 91, has a new home in the basement of Lowry Center. There is a section about the plants on campus and how they are seen by different people on campus. Some students in Charles Kammer\u27s religious study course, Just Work share their experience working in Lowry Dining Hall. Karol Crosbie put together a section highlighting some alumni that are now noteworthy chefs.https://openworks.wooster.edu/wooalumnimag_2011-present/1031/thumbnail.jp