Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line, by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner

This article is a review of “Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line” by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner

A Context for Eminem’s “Murder Ballads”

The media coverage of rapper Eminem in the days immediately preceding and following the 2001 Grammy awards rehearsed a number of common tropes regarding controversial art forms: is free artistic expression more important than a moral social order? Is there a distinction between individual expression and commercial manipulation? Do portrayals of violence beget more violence? Is rap music indeed “music”? Concerns about vulgar language, homophobia, and the degradation of women arose from a range of voices because The Marshall Mathers LP had been nominated for the prestigious “Album of the Year” award by the members of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences. According to C. Michael Greene, then the Grammy organization’s president, the nomination was intended to “recognize [Eminem’s] music and not his message” (All Things Considered). At the time, I found feminist objections to Eminem’s depictions of violence against women particularly salient perhaps because, between the Music History Sequence and the Opera History course I was then teaching, I tallied a depressingly large number of dead women. My gruesome accounting revealed four women murdered by jealous husbands or boyfriends; two killed or raped by authority figures; one ritually sacrificed; and five who died after having been seduced and abandoned or forced to marry against their will—for a body count of twelve dead women in one semester of teaching. And that did not include tuberculosis victims.[2]]]> 2002 English http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/E_Keathley_Context_2002.pdf oai:libres.uncg.edu/17273 2014-11-06T14:23:36Z UNCC INGAN/GAN MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES: SUBMICRON STRUCTURAL, OPTICAL, ELECTRICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES Li, Ying NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte <![CDATA[In this work, a novel approach has been implemented to investigate the submicron (30nm spatial resolution) structural and optical properties of bulk GaN, InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Well (MQW), p-typle AlGaN capped MQW, and full Light Emitting Diode (LED) as-grown structures by stopping the Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) process at various points during the growth. 4 pair or 6 pair of 2.6nm In0.14Ga0.86N/10nm GaN MQW structures have been grown at same well and barrier temperature (at 760oC), and at different well and barrier temperature (well at 760oC and barrier at 860oC). For the first time these structures have been analyzed layer by layer using high resolution Cathodoluminescence (CL) system. This technique allowed independent study of structural and carrier confinement effects of each layer on subsequent layers. Together with other characterization techniques, this novel approach can allow critical improvements in future LED development. Owing to the ability of the CL system to study the luminescence properties in the vertical axis by changing the electron beam voltage, the nonradiative recombination centers (NRRCs) and radiation fluctuations beneath the surface were studied as a function of film depth. Pits and dislocations in bulk GaN and V-pits in MQW were shown to be NRRCs. Luminescence fluctuations, at about 30nm spatial resolution, in MQW emission wavelength was observed in CL images and correlated to local bandgap variation. InGaN/GaN MQW layers revealed double peak emission at 2.74eV and 2.82eV. Optical microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and its electrical modules, X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence (PL), electroluminescence (EL), time resolved PL (TRPL), Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM), and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) analysis were performed to investigate the origin of double peak emission. The low energy (LE) emission at 2.74eV was attributed to InGaN/GaN MQWs, and the high energy (HE) emission at 2.82eV to nanostructures formed surrounding the (VGa-ON)2- point defects mainly at the bottom pairs of MQW layer due to the strain relaxation by the point defects and the compositional pulling effect. This O impurity introduced HE emission decreases the quantum efficiency of the MQW structure and deteriorated the device performance by forming leakage paths. It was observed that O impurity incorporation was enhanced by defective nature of the films and low growth temperature. It was shown that higher temperature growth of GaN quantum barriers at 860oC eliminated the double peak InGaN emission

Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. By Ellie M. Hisama

This article is a review of the book “Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon” by Ellie M. Hisama

Postwar Modernity and the Wife's Subjectivity: Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti

Leonard Bernstein's short opera Trouble in Tahiti (1951-52) is a humorous but scathing satire on postwar consumerism and bourgeois marriage. Such critiques are now so commonplace that it may be difficult to appreciate the opera's political edge unless it is seen against the backdrop of repression that marked the years following World War II: in an era in which a group as mainstream as the League of Women Voters was denounced as a "communist front organization," Trouble in Tahiti's criticisms risked reprisals.[1]]]> 2005 English http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/E_Keathley_Postwar_2005.pdf oai:libres.uncg.edu/17281 2014-11-10T09:48:48Z UNCG Taste, Disgust, and Feminist Aesthetics Keathley, Elizabeth NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro <![CDATA[The fourth volume in the Routledge series “Understanding Feminist Philosophy,” Carolyn Korsmeyer’s Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction, aims to provide undergraduate philosophy students with some grounding in feminist aesthetics. The initial chapters provide a clear, although not unproblematical, summary of the ways gender is implicated in aesthetic theories of Western philosophy, how these implications bear on women’s artistic education and practice, and feminist critiques of Western aesthetics. The final chapters theorize beyond traditional aesthetics to contextualize the challenging art of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially certain types of feminist visual and performance art. Particularly noteworthy are Korsmeyer’s discussions of feminist artists’ use of the abject and disgust as an aesthetic response. While these are challenging issues, and Korsmeyer must be applauded for taking them on, they raise numerous questions that she fails to address, and sometimes even to acknowledge. Although Korsmeyer includes music in the earlier chapters, the later chapters deal almost exclusively with visual art, and this omission raises questions about whether music is compatible with more recent aesthetic theories

Preventing Pneumonia Through Early Mobilization of Critically Ill Adults

The purpose of this critically appraised topic (CAT) is to investigate early mobilization and its effect on preventing pneumonia in adults in the intensive care unit (ICU). The final portfolio contains four research articles from both national and international journals. Study designs included two meta-analyses, one case series, and one retrospective study. All four of the articles specifically described the effects of early mobilization on individuals in the hospital and ICU and showed positive results in reducing the likelihood of developing pneumonia. This CAT will be used to draft new practice guidelines for mentoring new managers in both occupational therapy and physical therapy

Predispose, precipitate, perpetuate, and protect: how diet and the gut influence mental health in emerging adulthood

Medicine often employs the 4Ps of predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating, and protective factors to identify salient influences on illness states, and to help guide patient care. Mental illness is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Mental health is a complex combination of biological, psychological, environmental, and social factors. There is growing interest in the gut-brain-microbiome (GBM) axis and its impact on mental health. We use the medical model of the 4Ps to explore factors involving the connection between nutrition and the GBM axis and their associated risks with mental health problems in emerging adults (EAs), a life stage when mental illness onset is the most common. We review the impact of current dietary trends on the GBM and on mental health, and the role that gut microbiome-based interventions can have in modulating the GBM axis of EAs. We discuss the implications of gut health on the GBM and areas for clinical intervention