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Creative Music Education: Neoclassicism, Jazz Pedagogy, and the Afrological Alternative
Creative Music Education: Neoclassicism, Jazz Pedagogy, and the Afrological Alternative Brandon Roberts When studying history in today’s schools, it is common to inhabit a post-historical mindset. Many textbooks make this easy: by positioning oneself at the end of the timeline, looking back on what has happened, the reader often feels a sense of finality, not…
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One Needs to Fly Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Needs to Fly Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest Chieko Dunham “They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them” (Kesey 1). Those are the first two sentences of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…
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“Degreeless Noon”: Abstractions of Time in Emily Dickinson’s “A Clock Stopped”
“Degreeless Noon”: Abstractions of Time in Emily Dickinson’s “A Clock Stopped” A Clock stopped —Not the Mantel’s —Geneva’s farthest skillCan’t put the puppet bowing —That just now dangled still — An awe came on the Trinket!The Figures hunched, with pain —Then quivered out of Decimals —Into Degreeless Noon — It will not stir for Doctors…
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“This trap you have laid to catch my immortal life”: Beauty, Color, Romance, and Race in the Renaissance
“This trap you have laid to catch my immortal life”: Beauty, Color, Romance, and Race in the Renaissance Chieko Dunham Beauty standards have ebbed and flowed across various extremes for millennia. What humans have considered “beautiful” has differed based on historical and cultural context, technology, and various other factors. For this essay, I will be…
