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Listening to Los Angeles in the Theatre of Anna Deavere Smith and Gabriel Kahane
Modern Drama, 2021Postmodern theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, David Harvey, and Frederic Jameson have tended to approach cities through the eye rather than the ear, often citing Los Angeles as a prototypical example of an urban simulacrum. This article takes up two works of theatre that focus on listening to rather than looking at Los Angeles.
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Gabriel’s Annunciation and the Problems of Angelic Voice
2020The word ‘angel’ means ‘messenger’, and this is the role that angels are intended to fill, communicating the divine will to humankind. It is, however, a function that the Middle Ages considered potentially problematic, for what does it mean to speak of ‘voice’ in terms of an angel?
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The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad
Pacific Historical Review, 1951IN MAY, 1887, the first train to travel Santa Fe all the way puffed into the California Southern depot in Los Angeles. This event ended a six-year struggle between the two railroads which had begun when Jay Gould and Colis P. Huntington had joined forces in an all-out attempt to hold the Santa Fe Railroad at the Colorado River. William B.
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Cloudburst on San Gabriel Peak, Los Angeles County, California
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1927Introduction The sporadic but intense rains, known in the Southwest as cloudbursts, have in that arid and semiarid land extraordinary erosive power. Though cloudbursts occur frequently and their results are well known in a general way, accurate records of rainfall and detailed accounts of the work done by their ensuing floods are rare.
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Chinese Ethnic Economy: San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County
Journal of Urban Affairs, 1994ABSTRACT: In the past decade, Los Angeles has emerged as the single largest Chinese business center in the US. However, unlike the Chinese economies in New York and San Francisco which are concentrated in Chinatown, Chinese businesses in Los Angeles have formed multinuclear concentrations in suburban communities in the San Gabriel Valley.
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Some titaniferous magnetites of the San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California
Economic Geology, 1938In the last twenty years investigators have cast doubt on the metallic oxides being among the first minerals to crystallize in a cooling magma, in the case of the oxide ores in basic and ultra-basic rocks. They have considered them to be "late magmatic," late-phase injections, and even hydrothermal.Support to this interpretation is supplied by the ...
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