Phonographic Imaginaries: A Conversation with Renée Altergott

Jason Camlot's research focuses on the history of early sound recording media technologies (and spoken recordings) in Anglo-American contexts, and Renée Altergott’s research explores this historical period of the medium in French and French colonial contexts. Camlot conducted the following interview with Altergott about her research and wider interests in audio media and sound studies by email during the month of April, 2021

Marriage, social integration and loneliness in the second half of life: A comparison of Dutch and german men and women

Contains fulltext : 55589.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)Although marriage is usually considered to be socially integrative, some studies indicate that it can be privatizing, enclosing couples in isolated dyads. This study compared the availability of support, companionship, and negative relational experiences in various types of relationships for married men and women aged 40 to 85 years in the Netherlands and Germany. The Dutch demonstrated a more varied pattern of relationships beyond the nuclear family than the Germans but also reported worrying about a greater variety of people. In both countries, men relied more strongly on their partners, whereas women had more varied networks and experienced more worries. A continuum of social involvement can be drawn with German men, for whom marriage is privatizing, at one end and Dutch women, for whom marriage is highly socially integrating, at the other. Loneliness was related to the provisions of social relations, but no national and gender differences in predictors of loneliness were found.17 p

Gesundheitliche Auswirkungen des Bürgerkrieges in Syrien - welche gesundheitlichen Potentiale entstehen durch die Unterbringung der Flüchtlinge in nachbarschaftlichen Gemeinden?Eine systematische Literaturrecherche am Beispiel „Libanon“

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Compiling of the Profile of Health and Well-being and Highlights on Health and Well-being publications for the WHO Regional Office for Europe - description and critical analysis of the process of creating the Maltese reports

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An interpretation of peer breastfeeding counselors' experience of breastfeeding and its promotion.

An interpretation of peer breastfeeding counselors' experience of breastfeeding and its promotion

Phonographic Imaginaries: The Birth of Sound Recording in France and the French Colonial Empire

“Phonographic Imaginaries: The Birth of Sound Recording in France and the French Colonial Empire” constructs a new media history of the phonograph. During the first three decades of the recording era, roughly 1877-1910, the phonograph had not yet been defined as a machine for musical entertainment, and thus still had seemingly infinite potential. My chapters examine the myths and collective “phonographic imaginaries” of the recorded voice that developed across the disciplines of science, literature, politics, and music during this time period. Chapter 1 reconstructs the history of the invention of sound recording in France and the U.S., shedding light on those whose voices and contributions to sound recording have been forgotten or silenced, and showing how the French claim a literary origin for the phonograph. Chapter 2 draws on Michel Chion’s theorization of the “acousmatic,” or sound whose source has been obscured, to analyze the earliest French narrative uses of phonographic voice in Auguste de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s L’Ève future (1886) and Jules Verne’s Le Château des Carpathes (1892). Chapter 3 considers the urgent political context of the burgeoning recording era in France, namely the renewed colonial ambitions of the Scramble for Africa (1881-1914). Through artifacts related to the famed sub-Saharan figure of resistance, Samori Touré, I reveal the neglected French contributions to a collective political imaginary, what I term “phonographic imperialism,” according to which the phonograph could be used to manipulate indigenous leaders into submission. Chapter 4 investigates the postcolonial afterlives of the first field recordings made in French Algeria in 1913 by Béla Bartók. I develop an original theoretical lens through which to examine the recycling of Bartók’s recordings in the works of Francophone Algerian writer and film director Assia Djebar (1936-2015), for whom hospitality, listening, and the siren song were crucial themes. By bringing diverse perspectives to bear on the relationship between sound, technology, and listening during the French Colonial recording era, I demonstrate that sound studies is a productive lens for advancing French and Francophone literary and cultural thought

A study of Navy first-term reenlistments

It occasionally happens in economic analyses that the correctly specified model contains variables for which no observed data has been collected. When the data in a linear regression model are crosssectional it is possible, under certain conditions on the nature of the variables, to estimate the independent effects of a specific set of explanatory variables on the dependent variable. A procedure for doing this is presented. A commonly used model of reenlistment behavior, for which the data base is cross-sectional, satisfies the requisite conditions. This permits the estimation of the independent effect of the military wage on reenlistment rate, as an illustration of the proposed procedure.http://archive.org/details/studyofnavyfirst00alteLieutenant, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Raisin Pie

Cover for Raisin Pie, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_zinecollection/1123/thumbnail.jp

Raisin Pie

Cover for Raisin Pie, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_zinecollection/1121/thumbnail.jp