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Critical health literacy: conceptualization and settings-based development

Abstract Background Health literacy is conceptualized as a continuum of social practices spanning functional, interactive and critical domains. Critical health literacy enables individuals and communities to reflect on the wider health determinants and engage in social and political processes towards health equity. This project introduces the Oxford Bibliographies (OB) entry and illustrates through an empirical case study of critical health literacy in a community-based setting. Methods The OB entry provides a literature review of critical health literacy conceptualization, measurement and interventions. An institutional ethnography of critical health literacy in libraries, models a settings-based approach to critical health literacy development in children. Results Barriers to critical health literacy development include the lack of validated instruments and evaluation of interventions. Common settings for development with children are schools, but institutional settings face challenges in developing the political action element of critical health literacy. There is a need to move beyond single settings to consider multiple settings working in partnership where children can learn, live, and play. A coordinated supersetting approach leverages the strengths of different settings to promote critical health literacy. A model proposes four antecedents to a supersetting in which sub-settings collectively support (1) a determinants-based perspective, (2) open access to information and resources, (3) involvement of community stakeholders and (4) informed action on health. Conclusions Although conceptualized over two decades ago, it is only recently that research on critical health literacy has normalized the consolidation of both its cognitive and social dimensions into a joint strategy of critical thinking and empowerment. A supersetting approach can combine community-based and school-based support to embed critical health literacy development opportunities early in the life course.

Frederick Douglas Kelly Jr. (1934–2022)

Frederick Douglas Kelly Jr. (1934–2022) Wendy Pfeffer Douglas Kelly, the University of Wisconsin's Julian Harris Professor of Medieval French Emeritus, died on the morning of March 21, 2022 at the age of 87. In an email, Keith Busby described his late colleague as "one of the great medieval scholars of his generation." Kelly's research was devoted particularly to the topics of rhetoric and romance narrative of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Underlying all of his work is the notion that vernacular poetics were grounded in the Latin arts of poetry. Busby's encomium continued, "He was a great scholar and teacher and the best of men." Douglas received his BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Southern California (1956), his MA (1959) and Ph.D. (1962) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Once in Madison, he never left—he taught French, Italian, medieval Occitan, and Medieval Studies there for forty-three years, leaving teaching as professor emeritus. In an email, Julia Nephew, a former student, called Douglas "an inspiring and empathetic mentor." In a different email, Suzanne Hagedorn spoke of Douglas's "unfailingly gracious presence, his insightful comments on conference papers, his erudition and kindness." Among his many honors, we can list: Fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin; Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America; and senior fellow for the Netherland Institute for Advanced Study. Douglas was a recipient of two significant University of Wisconsin recognitions: the Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and the Hilldale Award for the Humanities. The French branch of the Société internationale arthurienne awarded him its Prix Excalibur in 1995. Over the course of his career, Douglas received extramural grant funding from Phi Beta Kappa, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I knew him as a welcoming, warm, and humble individual, open to ideas from all sides, ever inquisitive. My last interaction with Douglas was in 2019, at Kalamazoo, where he regretted simply [End Page 277] that he was perhaps getting too old to participate as actively in the congress as he would have liked. Though Douglas was better known as an Old French scholar, Occitan literature did not escape his purview. He was a long-standing member of the Société Guilhem IX. He discussed Flamenca in his important book Medieval Imagination; considered Flamenca and Jaufre in "Exaggeration, Abrupt Conversion, and the Uses of Description"; included Raimon Vidal de Besalù in The Arts of Poetry and Prose; and examined fourteenth-century lyric poets At de Mons and Raimon de Cornet in "The Late Medieval Art of Poetry" and again in "Translatio Poetriae." He was also the man responsible for Occitan as an area editor for Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. It is a sad day when a great scholar and a genuinely warm human being leaves our company. He will be missed. Wendy Pfeffer University of Louisville University of Pennsylvania OCCITAN-RELATED WORKS CITED Kelly, Douglas. The Arts of Poetry and Prose. Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 59. Turnhout: Brepols, 1991. Google Scholar ———. "Exaggeration, Abrupt Conversion, and the Uses of Description in Jaufre and Flamenca." In Studia occitanica in memoriam Paul Remy. Edited by Hans-Erich Keller et al. 2 vols. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1987. 2: 107–119. Google Scholar ———. "The Late Medieval Art of Poetry: The Evidence from At de Mons and Raimon de Cornet." In Études de langue et de littérature médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts. Edited by Dominique Billy and Ann Buckley. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. 681–692. Google Scholar ———. Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly Love. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Google Scholar ———. "Translatio Poetriae: Occitan Apprenticeship from the Latin Classroom to the Vernacular Court." In Le Poetriae del medioevo latino: Modelli, fortuna, commenti. Edited by Gian Carlo Alessio and Domenico Losappio. Filologie medievali e moderne 15. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. 91–128. Google Scholar Copyright © 2023 Société Guilhem IX ...

Aeneid II.402–452: Vergil

Aeneid II.402–452Vergil Translated by Nick Moschovakis (bio) No one has human rights when gods decide we don’t There was Cassandra for example—Priam’s daughterThey dragged her from Athena’s temple sanctuaryI remember her hair flying—her shining eyessearching for something higher up that wasn’t—justher eyes and not her princess hands—I saw those tiedwith rope Too much for her fiancé and my friendCoroebus to take I guess He lost his headwent straight into the crowd of Greeks to die fighting We ran after him and the cutting closed us in First there was friendly fire from Trojans on the roofwho thought our undercover gear—Greek swords—Greek helmetsmeant we were Greeks So plenty of us Greeks got killed But the real Greeks were hammered and on top of thatsaw us win back Cassandra—then they lost it Theirwhole force—manic Ajax—the Atreides brothers—the Thessaly contingent—crushed us on all sideslike winds all mashed together in a hurricanewith Zephyrus and Notus—and Eurus ridingat daybreak—tree-trunks milling loud—Nereus wave-breakertrident-shaker letting loose churning the depths [End Page 41] And then the ones we frightened off the night beforethrough the whole city started to regroup They werethe first to put it all together—how we woreGreek shields and used Greek weapons but we talked all wrong A lot of them came at us then Coroebus got itfirst—mowed down by Peneleus at the altarof Athena the war-god Rhipeus fell toowho did the right thing more than any other Trojanand cared the most for justice—though as it turned outthe gods themselves could care less Hypanis and Dymaswere shot dead by their own side Panthus, when you fellthe ribbons in your hair that showed you were Apollo’spriest couldn’t save you Neither could your decencyBut I swear on the ashes and the fire itselfthat ended Trojan history—I didn’t runfrom Greek weapons—from fights with Greeks And if it weremy turn to die my hand would have done something worthdying for As things were—we got split up I waswith Iphitus and Pelias—and it was heavygoing with Iphitus—he was an older manAnd Pelias was slowed down by a wound Ulyssesgave him [End Page 42] Still—we all heard the sounds from Priam’s house The fighting there made all the other fighting looklike nothing—as if no one anywhere in Troywas dying except here—just here Mars was that farout of hand there We saw the Greeks gaining the rooftopfast—swarming the main gate with their shields overtheir heads—ladders against our walls—they climbed up rungby rung—up one that leaned right up against the gate—shielded from weapons on their left and grabbing onto the roof on their right Trojans fought back with piecesof the housetop—bastions, all of it—they pulled it downwhen the end came in sight to use in their defensewhile they all died Their ancestors had laid gold leaftastefully on the same high housebeams that were beinglogrolled down Other Trojans circled the doorshuddled together—swords out Then we had to savethe king’s house—to give comfort to those men—to bringrelief—to add our strength to them in their defeat [End Page 43] Nick Moschovakis nick moschovakis has taught literature in the United States and France and works regularly as an editor, writer, and professional writing instructor. His scholarly essays have appeared in journals including Shakespeare Quarterly and Milton Quarterly, and in edited volumes, most recently Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook (forthcoming from Cambridge). He is co-editor, with Sean Keilen, of The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature and the entry “Classics and Shakespeare” (Oxford Bibliographies). The previous issue of Arion contained selections from his translation of The Glorious Stone, by the contemporary Greek writer Stamatis Polenakis. Copyright © 2022 Trustees of Boston University

John Steinbeck (Oxford Bibliographies: American Literature)

John Steinbeck (Oxford Bibliographies: American Literature)

Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance, by Alisha Lola Jones

Book Review| April 01 2022 Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance, by Alisha Lola Jones Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance, by Alisha LolaJones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. viii, 346 pp. Birgitta J. Johnson Birgitta J. Johnson BIRGITTA J. JOHNSON is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music and the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include music in African American churches, change and identity in Black popular music, and gospel archiving. She has published articles in the Black Music Research Journal, Ethnomusicology Forum, Liturgy, Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies, and The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2022) 75 (1): 163–167. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Birgitta J. Johnson; Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance, by Alisha Lola Jones. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2022; 75 (1): 163–167. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.163 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance is an innovative contribution to contemporary Black sacred music and religious life scholarship. Jones uses multi-sited ethnographic research to anchor her analysis of the layered nuances of race, sexuality, gender, and gender presentation in Black Pentecostal religious communities of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The diverse settings for musical and rhetorical performances of Black masculinity, gender, and sexuality that Jones traverses in Flaming? are timely additions to an emerging area of Black music research in America. Throughout the book’s eight chapters, she uses insightful case studies to center the spoken and unspoken sentiments of Black male Christian musicians living and working in a society in which their humanity has been historically and violently contested. At the same time, these men are members of a religious community in which Black masculinity is often lionized in overtly... You do not currently have access to this content.

Beyond order, beyond the human

Beyond order, beyond the human

Curating media history: Lessons from the Oxford Bibliography of ‘Australian Broadcasting’

This article explores a general question – why and how we do media history – by examining a recent case, the ‘Australian Broadcasting’ entry in Oxford Bibliographies, prepared by this author with research assistance from Rosemary Curtis. Four questions are posed for this bibliography and the wider project of media history: why do we do it? For whom? Where and how do we make resources accessible and comprehensible? And finally, the question that occupies most of this article, what resources do we preserve and curate? The processes used to select and organize the ‘most important sources’ for the Australian Broadcasting entry are discussed, emphasizing the sources most relevant to Australian Journalism Review: News, Currents Affairs, Documentary and Talkback Radio programming.

Simple Shaker Folk: Appropriation, American Identity, and Appalachian Spring

Research Article| December 01 2018 Simple Shaker Folk: Appropriation, American Identity, and Appalachian Spring David Vanderhamm David Vanderhamm David VanderHamm is a Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Denver. He earned his PhD in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his dissertation, “The Social Construction of Virtuosity: Musical Labor and the Valuation of Skill in the Age of Electronic Media.” His research focuses on the meanings of musical labor across multiple genres of US music from the twentieth century to today and on the ongoing role of advertising and commodification in American musical life. David has presented widely at international, national, and regional conferences, including meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for American Music. His other publications include “Preserving Heritage, Fostering Change: Accidental Archives in Country Music and Hip-Hop,” coauthored with Mark Katz (Public Historian 37, no. 4), and an entry for “Virtuosity/Virtuoso” in Oxford Bibliographies Online. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2018) 36 (4): 507–526. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.4.0507 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Vanderhamm; Simple Shaker Folk: Appropriation, American Identity, and Appalachian Spring. American Music 1 January 2018; 36 (4): 507–526. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.4.0507 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Music Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Oxford Scholarship Online

Reviewed by: Oxford Scholarship Online Stephen Henry Oxford Scholarship Online. [New York, New York]: Oxford University Press, (2008–). http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/ (Accessed 10 October 2017). [Requires a Web browser and an Internet connection. Subscription and perpetual access purchases are available] Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) provides full-text access to "over 13,000 outstanding academic books from Oxford University Press" (http://oxfordscholarship.com/page/about-oso/about, accessed 4 October 2017). The books are organized into twenty categories, including music. Oxford updates the collection three times a year. Institutions may subscribe to all of OSO or to individual subject areas or they may make outright purchases of individual titles, complete subject modules, or updates within subject modules. Content Oxford Scholarship Online presents scholarly monographs only. Specifically excluded are Oxford publications meant for general audiences, books in the Handbooks series (which are included in a separate resource, Oxford Handbooks Online), tertiary reference sources (some of which are included in Oxford Music Online), and Richard Taruskin's The Oxford History of Western Music (an entity onto itself, available separately from Oxford at http://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com). In addition, OSO is not to be confused with Oxford Bibliographies Online, which features online bibliographies on various topics. Oxford Scholarship Online exists as a subset of Oxford's umbrella interface University Press Scholarship Online. Through University Press Scholarship Online, subscribers may add titles published by a growing number of "partner presses." Publishers with notable offerings in music include University of California Press (102 titles), University of Chicago Press (41 titles), University Press of Mississippi (38 titles), and Yale University Press (31 titles). University Press Scholarship Online and Oxford Scholarship Online users may elect to search within OSO, within any single partner press, or across all partner presses simultaneously. This review will focus on the content available through Oxford Scholarship Online, but comments on the interface and usability apply equally to University Press Scholar ship Online. There are currently 509 titles in OSO's music subject category. The OSO music component was released in 2008; most titles date from that time or later, although Oxford has added several pre-2008 titles over time with the earliest being Martin Williams's Jazz Changes (1993). While not every scholarly monograph on music released since 2008 is represented in the resource, I found few conspicuous absences. As a way of assessing whether Oxford had included the most important music titles, I looked for the presence of books that had won major awards from the American Musico logical Society (AMS), the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and the Society for Music Theory (SMT) since 2008. All four of the Oxford publications that have won AMS's Otto Kinkeldey Award since 2008 are available in OSO. [End Page 480] In addition, Oxford has included Jane A. Bernstein's, 1998 work Music Printing in Renaissance Venice: The Scotto Press (1539–1572). Furthermore, two Oxford titles currently nominated for the 2017 Otto Kinkeldey Award—Kofi V. Agawu's The African Imagination in Music and Michael Marissen's Bach & God (both 2016)—are also included. Award winning Oxford books in the field of ethnomusicology are similarly well represented, albeit not comprehensively. Four of the five Oxford titles published since 2008 that have won the SEM's Alan Merriam Prize are in OSO, the exception being Carol Silverman's Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (2012). I was unable to determine why Silverman's book had been excluded, but it is an obvious candidate for inclusion. Unfortunately, the field of music theory does not fare as well. The Society for Music Theory has awarded its Wallace Berry Award to four Oxford books since 2008 and only one of them is in OSO: Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis's On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (2013). Absent from the collection are Giorgio Sanguinetti's The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice (2012); Janet Schmalfeldt's In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music (2011); and Danuta Mirka's Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787–1791 (2009). It is not clear whether these titles have been excluded for content or for licensing...

Checklist of Welty Scholarship 2014–2015

Checklist of Welty Scholarship 2014–2015 Catherine H. Chengges Catherine H. Chengges University of Toledo This checklist is based on current listings in on-line bibliographies and research done through Carlson Library at the University of Toledo. Useful databases included Ebsco (Academic Search Complete), FirstSearch (ArticleFirst, WorldCat, WorldCat Dissertations and Theses), and ProQuest (DAI). 1. Bibliographies Chengges, Catherine H. “Checklist of Welty Scholarship 2013–2014.” Eudora Welty Review 7 (Spring 2015): 129–33. Print. Google Scholar McHaney, Pearl. “Eudora Welty.” Oxford Bibliographies. 21 Jan. 2016. Web. DOI 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0125. [A prose introduction to Welty, followed by an annotated bibliography organized by General Overviews, Reference Works, Archives and Collections, Journals, Biographies, Primary Texts, Reception, Criticism] 2. Books Welty, Eudora, and Ross Macdonald. Meanwhile There Are Letters: Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald. Ed. Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan. Arcade: New York, 2015. Print. Chapter One: “I love and need and learn from my friends, they are the continuity of my life.”: 1970–1971 Chapter Two: “We haven’t known each other terribly long, but we know each other well.”: 1972 Chapter Three: “Love & connections”: 1973 Chapter Four: “If one of your letters could be rotten there’d be nothing sound left in heaven or on earth.”: 1974 Chapter Five: “Simply but infinitely complex expressions of love and courtesy.”: 1975 Chapter Six: “I dreamed I was sending you the dream I was dreaming.”: 1976 [End Page 173] Chapter Seven: “Sometimes your insight is so dazzling that I have to shut my eyes.”: 1977 Chapter Eight: “Our friendship blesses my life and I wish life could be longer for it.”: 1978 Chapter Nine: “What we need is one another.”: 1979 Chapter Ten: “Every day of my life I think of you with love.”: 1980–1982 Appendix: “Henry,” an unfinished story by Eudora Welty Acknowledgements Notes Index Google Scholar Wolff, Sally. A Dark Rose: Love in Eudora Welty’s Stories and Novels. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2015. Print. “A fruitful marriage. That simple thing”: Early Stories of Rural Love “The quiet arcade of identity”: Grief and Aloneness “Like a rose forced into premature bloom”: Dreaming and Telling in “A Memory” “Gossamer and roses”: Fantasy and Responsibility in The Robber Bridegroom “Got thorns”: The Complex Loves of Delta Wedding A “little sweetheart rose in his lapel”: The Heart of the Ponders “With rosettes”: The Golden Apples “Roses as headlights”: The Bride of the Innisfallen “Like the stamens in a dainty bess rose”: The Love Story in Losing Battles “It was the old wood that did the blooming”: The Optimist’s Daughter and One Writer’s Beginnings “A dark rose”: Eudora Welty’s Love Stories Google Scholar 3. Articles Agner, Jacob. “Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Summer 2014.” Eudora Welty Review 7 (Spring 2015): 125–27. Print. [End Page 174] Google Scholar Brown, Carolyn J. “‘Both authors are aunts!’: The Note that Compares Delta Wedding with Pride and Prejudice.” Eudora Welty Review 7 (Spring 2015): 73–78. Print. Google Scholar Bryan, Victoria M. “Out of Her Safety into His Hunger and Weakness.” Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis & Invention 11.1 (2015): 1–15. Print. [“Flowers for Marjorie,” “The Wide Net”] Google Scholar Claxton, Mae Miller. “Migrations and Transformations: Human and Nonhuman Nature in Eudora Welty’s ‘A Worn Path.’” Southern Literary Journal 47.2 (Spring 2015): 73–88. Print. Google Scholar Eby, Margaret. “Eudora Welty’s Garden: Jackson, MS.” South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature. New York: Norton, 2015. 19–34. Print. Google Scholar Edwards, Bridget. “Eudora Welty House and Garden.” Eudora Welty Review 7 (Spring 2015): 112–15. Print. Google Scholar Ford, Sarah. “Eudora Welty Society.” Eudora Welty Review 7 (Spring 2015): 115–16. Print. Google Scholar Galey, Forrest. “Eudora Welty Collection: Mississippi Department of Archives and History.” Eudora Welty Review 7 (Spring 2015): 116–18. Print. Google Scholar Graham-Bertolini, Alison. “Finding the Extraordinary in Welty’s ‘Music from Spain.’” Eudora Welty Review 7 (Spring 2015): 79–92. Print. Google Scholar Gretlund, Jan Nordby. “Biography or Novel? Eudora Welty’s Bestseller.” Heads on Fire: Essays on Southern Fiction. Odense: UP of Southern Denmark, 2014. 87–100. Print. [One Writer’s Beginnings...

Turkey and India: From Distant Acquaintances to Partners in World Politics and Trade

Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Vol. XL, No.1 Fall 2016 Turkey and India: From Distant Acquaintances to Partners in World Politics and Trade Michael B. Bishku* William Hale in his comprehensive work Turkish Foreign Policy, 1774-2000 has only one mention of India and it is not in regard to bilateral relations: In the post- [Second World] war world, and faced with the classic choice between alliance and non-alignment, Turkey was almost bound to take the first option. In effect, it was in the same position as most of the medium and small powers of Western Europe, which preferred defensive alliance with the United States to active non-alignment. Unlike say, India, it was in the middle of a zone of intense rivalry between the superpowers , and if unaided, it could not expect to hold off a direct attack by the Warsaw Pact for more than a limited time—especially, if as expected, this was launched against the straits [i.e. Bosporus and Dardanelles].1 Indeed, security was of prime interest to Turkey given common borders with the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc. However, this statement alludes to one important reason for the more distant nature of Turkish-Indian relations during the Cold War. In addition, Turkey and India were overwhelmingly concerned about two respective issues—1) the political situation regarding Cyprus and 2) land and political disputes with Pakistan, especially over Kashmir. The ethnic Greek leader and later President of Cyprus from 1960-1977, Archbishop Makarios, was an influential figure in the Non-Aligned Movement, while Pakistan was a member of two Western alliances, one of which together with Turkey—the Baghdad Pact, later 80 *Michael B. Bishku is a Professor of History at Augusta University in Georgia. He is a former President of both the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies and the Association of Third World Studies and an advisory editor for Oxford Bibliographies Online for Islamic Studies. He has published numerous academic articles on the history and politics of the Islamic World and on connections between the Middle East and other regions of the world. 1 William Hale, Turkish Foreign Policy, 1774-2000 (London: Frank Cass, 2000), pp. 325-326. 81 known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)—and many Pakistani leaders shared a secular Muslim identity with their Turkish counterparts. Both Turkey and India were (and still are) regional powers, but the former has had more immediate threats historically to its territorial integrity. The Republic of Turkey was established in 1923 out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire and its founder Kemal Atatürk saw his country’s future in being associated with Europe and its culture; also, with the exception of Iran its Middle Eastern neighbors were under the control of either Britain or France, with whom (as well as with the Soviet Union) it had good working relations. During the interwar years, Fascist Italy’s interests in the Balkans and Mediterranean Sea presented the greatest security threat and during the Second World War neutrality and Germany overextending itself in its invasion of the Soviet Union provided some sense of protection. India, on the other hand, received its independence from Britain in 1947 with a partition that provided it with greater resources than Pakistan, had no border with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China was in no position to present a military challenge until the early 1960s. Later, the post-Cold War era offered both Turkey and India more flexibility regarding foreign relations, while India liberalized its economic policies. However, it was not until Turkey’s Justice and Development (AK) Party came to power in 2002 when that country began to pay greater attention to Asian (and African) countries outside the Middle East. At the same time, both Turkey and India have dealt with their relations and common areas of interest separate from the respective problems associated with either Cyprus or Pakistan. This article examines Turkish-Indian relations since the beginning of the Cold War, a subject that only has been given attention in recent years. Indeed, Prithvi Ram Mudiam’s work India and the Middle East published in 1994 makes...

Revise and Resubmit … or Maybe Not: An Essay

Revise and Resubmit … or Maybe Not: An Essay

Folsom, Ed, "Walt Whitman" in Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature

Folsom, Ed, "Walt Whitman" in Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature

Oman and the Indian Ocean Rim

46 *Michael B. Bishku is Professor of History at Georgia Regents University in Augusta. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press’ Oxford Bibliographies Online for Islamic Studies. He has published numerous articles on Middle Eastern diplomatic history and politics and is a former president of both the Association of Third World Studies (1995-1996) and the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (2005-2006). 1 M. Najmuz Zafar, “Omani Population Hits 3.8mn. Mark,” Muscat Daily, April 23, 2013. Available at: http://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Oman/Oman-population-hits-3.83mnmark -27eq. (Accessed on January 26, 2014). According to these figures, Omanis account for 56% of Oman’s total population with the remainder comprised of expatriates. Oman’s population is much smaller than all its immediate neighbors. These statistics come from the National Center for Statistics and Information, an Omani government department. It should be noted that these expatriate workers are not citizens. 2 Marc J. O’Reilly, “Omanibalancing: Oman Confronts an Uncertain Future,” Middle East Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 70-84; and Fred Halliday, Arabia without Sultans: A Survey of Political Instability in the Arab World (New York: Vintage Books, 1975). 3 Uzi Rabi, “Oman and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Reflection of a Pragmatic Foreign Policy,” Israel Affairs, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 2005), pp. 535-551; and Jacob Abadi, “Israel’s Relations with Oman and the Persian Gulf States,” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall 1996), pp. 46-73. Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Vol. XXXVII, No.4, Summer 2014 Oman and the Indian Ocean Rim Michael B. Bishku* Oman is a country slightly smaller than Kansas with a population of just over two million citizens,1 located on the edge of the Arab world a couple of centuries ago it possessed a vast maritime empire. It is also trifurcated with the lion’s share of its territory and a few offshore islands lying on the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman; in addition, Oman includes a minuscule enclave (Madha) located in the midst of the eastern United Arab Emirates and a small exclave (Musandam) guarding the narrow Strait of Hormuz, entrance to the Persian Gulf. While maintaining close ties to the West, Oman is also a member of the Nonaligned Movement (NAM). As such, it has developed a somewhat unique and pragmatic foreign policy that emphasizes cooperation, dialogue and cultural exchange. Studies on Omani foreign relations in the past have concentrated primarily on that country’s policies and interactions within the Arab world,2 its attitude regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict,3 or Oman’s place in global politics and its connections 47 with the United States and other states in the Western alliance.4 This article, however, will deal with Oman’s ties with countries located on the Indian Ocean rim going west to east from South Africa to Indonesia. (Australia is excluded as it is regarded as a Western nation.) These relationships are important for political, economic and/or cultural reasons. Oman is a member of the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, formerly known as the Islamic Conference Organization) as well as the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC). The Omanis are a diverse society, including ethnic Arabs, Persians, East Africans and South Asians, but Oman is dependent, like other GCC states, upon expatriates, especially from South and Southeast Asia, to do both skilled and manual labor. These workers account for about 40% of Oman’s population around 3.3 million or more, a figure that the Omani government would like to reduce to at least 33%.5 Although Oman is regarded as a rentier state6 it is concerned with planning for a post-oil economy in the future, one that will take of advantage of its geographical location and political and economic ties. Before considering Oman’s multilateral and bilateral connections with the nations located on the Indian Ocean rim, it is necessary to examine the principles of that country’s foreign relations. Principles of Oman’s Foreign Policy...

Book Review: "Oxford Bibliographies: Hinduism and Christianity"

Book Review: "Oxford Bibliographies: Hinduism and Christianity"

Music Library Association

The Music Library Association announced its publication and research awards at 2013 meeting in San Jose, California. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music is awarded to Jerry McBride for his book Douglas Moore: A Bio-Bibliography (A-R Editions). This exhaustive work incorporates a large amount of research from diverse sources and goes well beyond typical length of a bio-bibliography. The biography section contains thoughtful prose that illustrates intellectual journey McBride undertook and his obvious interest in Moore as a person and composer. Sections of bibliography include writings by and about Moore as well as articles and reviews of specific pieces. Also included are alphabetical, chronological, and classified works lists, and an extensive index. McBride states that he hopes [this book] encourage more research into [Moore's] life and works and further performances of his and indeed this book should be starting point for anyone beginning research into Douglas Moore or his music. The Richard S. Hill Award for best article of music librarianship or best article of a music-bibliographic nature is awarded to James L. Zychowicz for his article, Gustav Mahler's Second Century: Achievements in Scholarship and Challenges for Research, Notes 67, no. 3 (March 2011): 457-82. It has been observed that Richard S. Hill maintained high standards for his own work in area of music bibliography as he recognized the value of adequate for music research. Zychowicz indeed has met this standard and has provided an essential guide to exploration of Mahler, his music, and his times. He observes that developments in research on Mahler and his music from early twentieth century to early twenty-first century may be seen to map directly to changes that have taken place in approaches and standards of musicology itself. Consequently, he takes a historiographical approach in his review of literature, exploring a vast range of research tools including biographies, letters, critical editions, and musical analyses. Further, and in light of these changes, he offers salient advice regarding challenges of, and future direction for, Mahler research. For students, performers, scholars, and aficionados, especially those without access to this author's annotated Mahler bibliography appearing in Oxford Bibliographies Online, this article serves as an excellent point of departure for exploring body of literature that has emerged over past century. The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for best review published in Notes was given to Lance W. Brunner for his review of Inside Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission by Rebecca Maloy (Oxford University Press, 2010) published in Notes 68, no. 2 (December 2011): 332-34. A quote from winner of O'Meara Award about book he reviewed says following: Many of questions Rebecca Maloy grapples with do not have definite answers, but way she works with them and wonders about them is so inviting. ... The same could well be said of Lance W. Brunner's review. While revealing and debunking old research by respected scholars who have become household names in musicology in a most sensitive and respectful manner, Brunner reveals and applauds Maloy's research, holding it in acclaim as both a critical edition and an in-depth study of medieval Offertory that will stand as a monument of chant scholarship. Brunner's review is so clear and well written that even an individual with merely a bare-bones grasp and appreciation for genre understand Brunner's explanations and analysis of content, style, and features of this book. Research Awards: The Walter Gerboth Award for members of MLA who are in first five years of their professional careers to assist research in progress was award to Jessica Nay for her work on developing a catalog of works of Ferdinand Praeger. …

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Oxford Bibliographies Online