http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75630 2026-07-17T02:33:02Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75744 Title: Art Music as Universal Language: Youth Orchestras' Reactions to Social Conflict Authors: Kunitomo, Mariko Abstract: This article identifies the role art music plays in orchestra projects that deal with social conflicts of youth populations. I argue that art music serves well in this context because it is a universal language that allows for an alternative method of communication and expression between the young musicians themselves and with others. I apply metaphysical explanations, studies from cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy of language in three specific youth orchestra contexts: the Retiro Youth Orchestra, El Sistema, and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. These different lenses help uncover why and how art music positively impacts the development, both socially and personally, of young musicians in a healthier or alternative manner. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75747 Title: Identity and Nation: Comparing Egyptian and Israeli Bedouin Policy Authors: Wisniewski, Jessica Abstract: In many ways, the Egyptian and Israeli states fail to ‘see’ the Bedouin and therefore situate them as a group “in but not of the global order,” an order where nations and states represent contingent identities and socio-political organizations. However, the Bedouin are not legally recognized as a distinct nation nor as indigenous peoples in neither Egypt nor Israel, and Egyptian Nationalism and Zionism reject the Bedouin as part of their nation, or ‘imagined community.’ This concept of nationalism strongly influences policy, and as a result, leads to the discrimination of the Bedouin through internal colonial policies, land seizure, suspension of human rights, and exclusionary economic policy. Despite Egypt and Israel’s different political systems, the outcome for the Bedouin in both countries is remarkably similar. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75743 Title: Reconsidering Public Space: The Case of Turkish Associations in France Authors: Kiran, Alia Abstract: This article examines how immigrant culture in modern-day France is communicated through Turkish associations as a medium of the public space. Through interviews with members of various types of cultural associations, I explore how public and private space dictate how culture and identity are understood within the French context. To better explain their goals and how they fit into larger French “cultural” discussion, I develop a simple typology of these cultural associations as “localizing” or “orientalizing” immigrant culture. Pointing to the space between these categories, I show the need for the immigrant experience to be recognized as part of French history in these public spaces in order to directly confront the issue of “neo-racism.” 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75741 Title: Love for the Colonizer: Literary and Psychoanalytic Investigations of Brazil's Foundational Trauma Authors: Attié, Francisco Abstract: The Brazilian cultural and political project began in 1822 with the end of colonization. At its outset, colonization stood fictitious in its enormous power to shape reality. In Latin America there was a confluence between the politicians and writers of the 19th century that guaranteed wholly pervasive foundational mythologies—the people building the legal-political state were also setting the mythological ideology of the nation in stone. As such, foundational myths served to unify the people under a common national banner. However, in their attempts to overcome the ghost of colonization, they ended up guaranteeing a wholly pervasive structure wherein the repressed trauma could fester. In Brazil, foundational works, like José de Alencar’s Iracema, instead of rejecting the trauma of colonization, engendered myths that repressed it, romanticizing a narrative for the people to fall in love with their colonizer. This love, I argue, led to a specific cultural complex that induces a repetition compulsion of the original traumatic event up to this day, guaranteeing unconscious entrapment and a constant return and submission to the figure of the colonizer. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z