Music and Nationalism

This article offers an overview of musical nationalism. It considers how states have used music as a political tool as well as the ways in which communities have employed music to reject national identities and challenge nation-states

Music and Nationalism: Annotated Playlist

This is an annotated playlist on the topic of music and nationalism. It can be used to accompany the World Music Textbook article Music and Nationalism

Prevalence of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Subspecies Among Persistently Infected Samples from Cattle in the United States

Objective: The focus of this survey was to determine the prevalence of BVDV subspecies in the United States

Prevalence of bovine viral diarrhea virus subspecies among persistently infected positive samples submitted to a diagnostic laboratory from cattle in the United States

Master of ScienceDepartment of Diagnostic Medicine/PathobiologyAnthony J. TarpoffDaniel U. ThomsonBovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is an infectious disease affecting ruminants worldwide. Impacting the respiratory, reproductive, and digestive systems, BVDV remains one of the most economically damaging diseases to cattle producers. Previous phylogenetic analysis has divided the virus into two species, BVDV1 and BVDV2, with three main subspecies circulating in U.S. cattle populations: BVDV1a, BVDV1b, and BVDV2a. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of the three subspecies in cattle across the United States. Samples were obtained from various segments of the industry: cow/calf, stocker, feedlot, and dairy. Samples used were from live animals where fresh skin (ear notch) had previously tested positive for persistent infection via antigen capture ELISA (ACE) or immunohistochemistry (IHC). This study was comprised of 1,093 samples from 21 states, with a majority of samples from Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Texas. Positive samples were submitted to a university diagnostic laboratory and segregated into three subspecies (BVDV1a, BVDV1b, and BVDV2a) via Reverse-Transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) by sequencing of the 5′-untranslated region (5′-UTR). 1,000/1,093 samples were confirmed positive by PCR. Of the PCR confirmed samples, the prevalence of subspecies BVDV1b BVDV1a, and BVDV2a was 702/1,000 (70.2%), 44/1000 (4.4%), 178/1000 (17.8%), respectively, with 76/1000 (7.6%) of samples unable to be translated successfully. These findings support previous studies exhibiting BVDV1b as the most predominant subspecies among cattle, persistently infected with bovine viral diarrhea virus, in the United States

La Música Da Vida a Vida: Transverse Flute Music of Otavalo, Ecuador

This dissertation introduces an Andean transverse flute tradition of northernEcuador that has been routinely overlooked throughout a long history of scholarship published on the Otavalan region and its Kichwa–speaking inhabitants. Ethnographic data was collected through a variety of methods over the course of eight cumulative months of fieldwork in Ecuador, as well as an additional three and a half years during which I co–produced an album with flute masters from the Hatun Kotama Cultural Center and Smithsonian Folkways, consulted in the development of a living museum exhibit for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and maintained regular contact with my host family and Otavalan friends via email, social media, and telecommunications.Although some people have dismissed the tradition as trivial or melancholic,flutists emphasize that flauta music performs a central role in giving life to life and maintaining a cosmic balance. In order to examine how this is achieved, I base the theoretical approach of the dissertation on three central concepts. The first is the idea that relationships of all kinds are sung into being through musical performance, which Ellen Basso develops in her work with the Kalopalo of lowland South America (1981:288). In particular, I examine how these relationships between humans, their environment, and spiritual world are gendered. In doing so, I apply Kotama local scholar and yachak (one who knows) Katsa Cachiguango's concept of the pariverso (the "pair-verse" instead of "universe," describing the more common term yanantin in Andean studies) as well as Otavalan scholar Luz María De la Torre's theory of a distinct Kichwa sense of gender, which is dynamic and exists on a flexible spectrum (Cachiguango and Pontón 2010; De la Torre 2010). These three ideas inform my analysis of who plays the transverse flute and why (Chapter 3), the construction of the flutes and gendering of material culture (Chapter 4), and the gendering of sound and Kichwa musical aesthetics (Chapter 5). Finally, I consider how the contemporary revitalization efforts of flauta music, led by the Hatun Kotama Cultural Center and flute ensemble, give life to the Kichwa language and Kichwa cultural institutions (Chapter 6)

La Música Da Vida a Vida: Transverse Flute Music of Otavalo, Ecuador

This dissertation introduces an Andean transverse flute tradition of northernEcuador that has been routinely overlooked throughout a long history of scholarship published on the Otavalan region and its Kichwa–speaking inhabitants. Ethnographic data was collected through a variety of methods over the course of eight cumulative months of fieldwork in Ecuador, as well as an additional three and a half years during which I co–produced an album with flute masters from the Hatun Kotama Cultural Center and Smithsonian Folkways, consulted in the development of a living museum exhibit for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and maintained regular contact with my host family and Otavalan friends via email, social media, and telecommunications.Although some people have dismissed the tradition as trivial or melancholic,flutists emphasize that flauta music performs a central role in giving life to life and maintaining a cosmic balance. In order to examine how this is achieved, I base the theoretical approach of the dissertation on three central concepts. The first is the idea that relationships of all kinds are sung into being through musical performance, which Ellen Basso develops in her work with the Kalopalo of lowland South America (1981:288). In particular, I examine how these relationships between humans, their environment, and spiritual world are gendered. In doing so, I apply Kotama local scholar and yachak (one who knows) Katsa Cachiguango's concept of the pariverso (the "pair-verse" instead of "universe," describing the more common term yanantin in Andean studies) as well as Otavalan scholar Luz María De la Torre's theory of a distinct Kichwa sense of gender, which is dynamic and exists on a flexible spectrum (Cachiguango and Pontón 2010; De la Torre 2010). These three ideas inform my analysis of who plays the transverse flute and why (Chapter 3), the construction of the flutes and gendering of material culture (Chapter 4), and the gendering of sound and Kichwa musical aesthetics (Chapter 5). Finally, I consider how the contemporary revitalization efforts of flauta music, led by the Hatun Kotama Cultural Center and flute ensemble, give life to the Kichwa language and Kichwa cultural institutions (Chapter 6)

Chronic pain care: The importance of a biopsychosocialexistential approach

Objective Experiencing pain not only affects patients' biopsychosocial functioning but also the existential domain. Attention to the existential, in addition to the biopsychosocial domains, might thus be important in chronic pain care. Therefore, we investigated: (a) how satisfied patients were with the attention of their practitioners to the impact of pain on biological, psychological, social, and existential life domains, and (b) how satisfaction with each domain was related to patient functioning. Method Pain patients ( N = 163) were questioned on their satisfaction with the attention of their practitioners to biological, psychological, social, and existential life domains, and on pain intensity, pain disability, life satisfaction, and depressive symptoms. Results Patients reported low satisfaction with the attention of their practitioners to the social and existential domains. Satisfaction with each domain was negatively related with pain intensity, pain disability, and depressive symptoms and positively related with life satisfaction. Only satisfaction with the existential domain was able to predict all functional outcomes above and beyond all other satisfaction variables modeled simultaneously. Conclusions Patients reported not feeling satisfied with the attention to the social and existential life domains. Furthermore, practitioners' attention to the existential domain seems highly important for patient functioning. Openness to existential concerns of pain patients might thus be an important aspect of chronic pain care.status: publishe

Chronic pain care: The importance of a biopsychosocial-existential approach

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