Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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Recent developments in coping strategies focusing on music performance anxiety: a systematic review. [PDF]
Bakhtiari P+2 more
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Simon Frith. Music for Pleasure: Essays in the Sociology of Pop. New York: Routledge, 1988. Simon Frith (ed.) Facing the Music. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, (eds.) On Record: Rock, Pop and The Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. Peter Wicke. Rock Music: Culture, Aesthetics and Sociology (trans. Rachel Fogg). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. [Originally published in German as Rockmusik: Zur Ästhetik und Soziologie eines Massenmediums. … [PDF]
Will Straw
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Nuances of an In-Between Space of Learning Through Auditory Approaches in Early Piano Instruction. [PDF]
Pang SE, Kan RYP.
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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When Attempts to Help Backfire: Psychosocial Interventions that May Inadvertently Prolong Anxiety Among Youth. [PDF]
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