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Luis Díaz Viana’s introduction provides a substantial overview of literatura de cordel and the history of attitudes toward and studies of the genre. He recalls Julio Caro Baroja’s characterization of it as a “infierno literario” and discusses the juglar as a kind of “amphibion” navigating between different registers of culture (I: 34). Díaz Viana goes on to resume and further develop themes at once related to chapbooks and broadsides, and, in a broader application, central to his thinking over the years, particularly challenging the concepts of the “traditional” and the “popular”, and the
very existence of “traditional culture” (I:31ff). He also, in vol. II, refers to the relatively new concept of the glocal, applying it to the goigs (gozos; see Josep Martí’s discussion, I: 191-226) and to cordel literature more generally (II,232). His thoughtful questions and reflections stimulate readers to pose our own about the very idea of “value” and “importance” and who is entitled to make judgments about them
Romancero Sefardí de Marruecos. Antología de tradición oral
This
volume,
in
Spanish,
is
another
welcome
example
of
Weich-‐Shahak’s
continuing
work
documenting,
disseminating
and
providing
accurate
information
about
Judeo-‐Spanish
song.
Over
eighty
Moroccan
Judeo-‐Spanish
romances
are
fully
transcribed
(text
and
music)
and
annotated,
with
both
textual
and
musical
variants
indicated.
The
selections
are
taken
from
Weich-‐Shahak’s
1976-‐1994
fieldwork
in
Israel,
deposited
at
the
National
Sound
Archives
(NSA)
of
the
Jewish
National
and
University
Library
at
the
Hebrew
University
in
Jerusalem;
each
item
is
identified
with
its
NSA
catalogue
number
Music and the Re-creation of Identity in Imagined Iberian Jewish Communities
In both Spain and Portugal, over the past several years, more and more historically Jewish sites have been identified, discovered and promoted, both academically and for tourism. In a few cases this has accompanied individual Identification with Judaism or, in one Portuguese town, a significant group. More often, it has led to newly-created festivals of imagined Jewish communities. This article uses approaches from the anthropology of tourism to examine issues such as authenticity, appropriation and identity markers. More specifically, it focuses on the function of Sephardic music in recently developed festivals of two Camino de Sefarad towns, Ribadavia (Galicia) and Hervás (Extremadura).Tanto en España como en Portugal, en las décadas de los 80 y 90, se identifican cada vez más restos y vestigios de la presencia de los judíos, y se ha hecho una promoción importante académica y turística de éstos. En algunos casos, esa identificación ha ido junto con una identificación individual con el judaísmo contemporáneo; en el caso de un pueblo portugués, una comunidad entera. Sin embargo, un resultado más visible ha sido la creación de festivales de comunidades judías «imaginadas». Ese artículo utiliza la antropología del turismo para examinar asuntos de autenticidad, apropiación e indicadores de identidad. Concretamente, enfoca el uso y la función de la música sefardí en festivales de creación reciente en dos pueblos del Camino de Sefarad: Ribadavia (Galicia) y Hervás (Extremadura)
"Community Concert": A Multicultural Event in a Toronto Elementary School*
Judith Cohen retrace son expenence d'organisation d'un concert multiculturel et communautaire dans une ecole publique du centre ville de Toronto. Apres un recit detaille de sa collaboration avec enseignants, administrateurs de l 'ecole, eleves et families, elle conclut que de tels concerts devraient etre remplaces par l'inclusion de traditions musicales dans le cursus scolaire
The Nature of Hypervelocity Stars and the Time between Their Formation and Ejection
We obtain Keck HIRES spectroscopy of HVS5, one of the fastest unbound stars in the Milky Way halo. We show that HVS5 is a 3.62 ± 0.11 M_☉ main-sequence B star at a distance of 50 ± 5 kpc. The difference between its age and its flight time from the Galactic center is 105 ± 18 (stat) ±30 (sys) Myr; flight times from locations elsewhere in the Galactic disk are similar. This 10^8 yr "arrival time" between formation and ejection is difficult to reconcile with any ejection scenario involving massive stars that live for only 10^7 yr. For comparison, we derive arrival times of 10^7 yr for two unbound runaway B stars, consistent with their disk origin where ejection results from a supernova in a binary system or dynamical interactions between massive stars in a dense star cluster. For HVS5, ejection during the first 10^7 yr of its lifetime is ruled out at the 3σ level. Together with the 10^8 yr arrival times inferred for three other well-studied hypervelocity stars (HVSs), these results are consistent with a Galactic center origin for the HVSs. If the HVSs were indeed ejected by the central black hole, then the Galactic center was forming stars ≃200 Myr ago, and the progenitors of the HVSs took ≃100 Myr to enter the black hole's loss cone
The Outer Halo of the Milky Way as Probed by RR Lyr Variables from the Palomar Transient Facility
RR Lyr stars are ideal massless tracers that can be used to study the total
mass and dark matter content of the outer halo of the Milky Way. This is
because they are easy to find in the light curve databases of large stellar
surveys and their distances can be determined with only knowledge of the light
curve. We present here a sample of 112 RR Lyr beyond 50 kpc in the outer halo
of the Milky Way, excluding the Sgr streams, for which we have obtained
moderate resolution spectra with Deimos on the Keck 2 Telescope. Four of these
have distances exceeding 100 kpc. These were selected from a much larger set of
447 candidate RR Lyr which were datamined using machine learning techniques
applied to the light curves of variable stars in the Palomar Transient Facility
database. The observed radial velocities taken at the phase of the variable
corresponding to the time of observation were converted to systemic radial
velocities in the Galactic standard of rest. From our sample of 112 RR Lyr we
determine the radial velocity dispersion in the outer halo of the Milky Way to
be ~90 km/s at 50 kpc falling to about 65 km/s near 100 kpc once a small number
of major outliers are removed. With reasonable estimates of the completeness of
our sample of 447 candidates and assuming a spherical halo, we find that the
stellar density in the outer halo declines as the -4 power of r.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Ap
The oxygen-II luminosity density of the Universe
Equivalent widths of [OII] 3727 A lines are measured in 375 faint galaxy
spectra taken as part of the Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey centered on
the Hubble Deep Field. The sensitivity of the survey spectra to the [OII] line
is computed as a function of magnitude, color and redshift. The luminosity
function of galaxies in the [OII] line and the integrated luminosity density of
the Universe in the [OII] line are computed as a function of redshift. It is
found that the luminosity density in the [OII] line was a factor of ~10 higher
at redshifts z~1 than it is at the present day. The simplest interpretation is
that the star formation rate density of the Universe has declined dramatically
since z~1.Comment: accepted for publication in Ap
Tradições musicais da Estremadura
This monumental, hefty volume is the work of someone who passionately loves
musical tradition, and believes in documenting and disseminating it; it is hard to
believe that the author’s full
-
time “official” profession has nothing to do with
music or ethnogr
aphy. The focus on Estremadura is an unusual and welcome one:
while there is always more work to be done on Trás
-
os
-
Montes, the Beiras and
other regions of mainland Portugal, little attention has been paid to Estremadura.
Clearly, the author wanted to get
“everything” in, and the result is a multi
-
faceted
picture of musical traditions in this province, a book to return to often, to read, to
look at, and CD’s to listen to for pleasure and for study
Losing Weight: A KECK Spectroscopic Survey of the Massive Cluster of Galaxies RX J1347-1145
We present a sample of 47 spectroscopically confirmed members of RX
J1347-1145, the most luminous X-ray cluster of galaxies discovered to date.
With two exceptions, all the galaxies in this sample have red B-R colors and
red spectral indices, with spectra similar to old local ellipticals. Using all
47 cluster members, we derive a mean redshift of 0.4509\pm 0.003, and a
velocity dispersion of 910\pm130 km/sec, which corresponds to a virial mass of
4.4 x 10^{14} h^{-1} Solar masses with an harmonic radius of 380 h^{-1} kpc.
The derived total dynamical mass is marginally consistent with that deduced
from the cluster's X-ray emission based on the analysis of ROSAT/ASCA images
(Schindler et al. 1997), but not consistent with the more recent X-ray analyses
of Allen (2000), Ettori, Allen & Fabian (2001) and Allen, Schmidt & Fabian
(2002). Furthermore, the dynamical mass is significantly smaller than that
derived from weak lensing (Fischer & Tyson 1997) and from strong lensing (Sahu
et al. 1998). We propose that these various discrepant mass estimates may be
understood if RX J1347-1145 is the product of two clusters caught in the act of
merging in a direction perpendicular to the line of sight, although there is no
evidence from the galaxy redshift distribution supporting this hypothesis. Even
with this hypothesis, a significant part of the extremely high X-ray luminosity
must still arise from non-virialized, presumably shocked, gas. Finally, we
report the serendipitous discovery of a lensed background galaxy at z=4.083
which will put strong constraints on the lensing mass determination once its
counter-image is securely identified.Comment: Minor changes to conform to version accepted by Ap
Calibration of the CH and CN Variations Among Main Sequence Stars in M71 and in M13
An analysis of the CN and CH band strengths measured in a large sample of M71
and M13 main sequence stars by Cohen (1999a,b) is undertaken using synthetic
spectra to quantify the underlying C and N abundances. In the case of M71 it is
found that the observed CN and CH band strengths are best matched by the
{\it{identical}} C/N/O abundances which fit the bright giants, implying: 1)
little if any mixing is taking place during red giant branch ascent in M71, and
2) a substantial component of the C and N abundance inhomogeneities is in place
before the main sequence turn-off. The unlikelihood of mixing while on the main
sequence requires an explanation for the abundance variations which lies
outside the present stars (primordial inhomogeneities or intra-cluster self
enrichment). For M13 it is shown that the 3883\AA CN bands are too weak to be
measured in the spectra for any reasonable set of expected compositions. A
similar situation exists for CH as well. However, two of the more luminous
program stars do appear to have C abundances considerably greater than those
found among the bright giants thereby suggesting deep mixing has taken place on
the M13 red giant branch.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication by A
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