Drive, lonesomeness, and the genre of bluegrass music

Rockwell, Joti The University of Chicago 2007 해외공개박사

This dissertation suggests how discursive ideas central to a particular genre of American popular music can resonate in recorded sound. My focus is on bluegrass music, where concepts of "lonesomeness" and "drive" permeate written histories, performer interviews, fan discussions, pedagogical traditions, and other such modes of discourse for a genre. I propose that these two themes or "tropes," along with the vigorously contested idea of bluegrass itself, provide an important means by which the genre is sustained; moreover, they can be heard in the music down to the most subtle sonic detail. Given the dual nature of this project---an examination of both musical sound and the ideas relating to it---my sources for the dissertation are of two types: (1) studio and live concert recordings taken from the genre's roughly sixty-year history, and (2) accounts of bluegrass from those who actively participate in its production and reception (found in articles, interviews, pedagogy, fan discussions, etc.). In order to forge analytic and interpretive connections between the two types, I draw from music theory, popular music scholarship, ethnomusicology, and folklore studies. In doing so, I address questions regarding musical structure, genre ontology, analysis, interpretive listening, and affective and aesthetic expression. Rather than attempt to provide concrete answers to disciplinary questions, though, this project invokes such questions in order to understand a musical genre through the study of the sounds and concepts that shape it.

Democratic Infelicity: Speech, Authority, and Disbelief in Malian Politics

Rockwell, Elsa Natalia Mendoza Columbia University 2016 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of institutional politics in postcolonial societies, in this case, contemporary Mali. It examines the ways in which transitions to democracy have transformed everyday politics not only through the creation of new institutional arrangements, but through the promotion of new understandings of social and political authority. In particular, this research examines the expectations that democratic institutions place on political deliberation and public speech, as well as the multiple ways in which democratic political speech has failed to fulfill those expectations. To address these questions, it combines Linguistic and Political Anthropology in the analysis of everyday discussions that took place in institutions of political representation in contemporary Mali---from the National Assembly to local councils and party meetings. This linguistic evidence was collected during fifteen months of fieldwork in Bamako and Kita, Mali, in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Each chapter is centered on one of the various categories that mediate the relationship between political speech and action---such as authority, representation, and intention. My analyses of discursive patterns within the specific political context of Mali lays bare an oscillation between a serious engagement with democratic political discussion on the one hand, and its rejection through expressions of suspicion and disbelief on the other. Drawing on J. L. Austin's speech act theory, I argue that democratic political speech suffers "infelicity", or a recurrent difficulty in authenticating formal political speech and investing it with added performative force.

The history and folklore of the Strangite Latter Day Saints

Rockwell, Ernest Allan The University of Wisconsin - Madison 2010 해외박사(DDOD)

From 1844 to 1856, James J. Strang led the second largest Latter Day Saint movement to emerge after the martyrdom of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, Jr. Although at the time many viewed him as a serious challenger for the leadership of the greater Latter Day Saint movement, in the wake of his own assassination in 1856, his movement was decimated and has largely been forgotten by mainstream America and scholars alike. In recent years, a number of historians have begun to approach the topic of the Strangite Saints with renewed vigor. However, most of this attention has focused on the early years of the movement and typically leaves off with the demise of Strang. In this work, I have sought to redress that issue by painting a more holistic picture of the Strangite Latter Day Saints in terms of their history and the folklore associated with their movement, both esoteric and exoteric. In doing so, I have employed theories and methodologies from a host of social science disciplines, including folklore, history, sociology, and religious studies; the works of Mircea Eliade, Richard M. Dorson, Alan Dundes, Rogers Brubaker, and Wayland Hand being of special significance. What emerges is the story of a people whose narrative is full of hope and loss, nostalgia and melancholy, love and hatred, and, more than anything, humanity. The Saints have adapted to situations largely outside of their control. They have maintained some traditions, and they have lost others. Along with the American nation, they have transformed from an agrarian people to an urban, or at least suburban, people. Yet, through it all, they have remained true to themselves. They embrace their uniqueness, both within the American context and within the religious context. Forcibly driven from their homes in 1856, they became a diasporic people, but have now returned to their sacred space. Proud of their self-professed status as a remnant people, they await the coming of a new prophet, and the dawning of a day long anticipated in their teachings.

The Boeotian army: The convergence of warfare, politics, society, and culture in the classical age of Greece

Rockwell, Nicholas Ryan University of California, Los Angeles 2008 해외박사(DDOD)

The Boeotian army was one of the preeminent land forces during the classical period in Greece (approximately the fifth and fourth centuries BC). A detailed study was undertaken to elucidate the nature of this military power. By examining various forms of evidence, such as literary texts, inscriptions, coinage, and material remains, a comprehensive picture of the Boeotian army emerged. With the rise in the scale and frequency of wars between Greek city-states and leagues during the classical period, the Boeotian army relied ever more on lower-class men to fight its wars as light-armed troops and hoplites. Over time this increasing military significance of previously marginalized men served as a primary catalyst for political change. Integration of the Boeotian army led to the continual expansion of Boeotia's political system, which culminated in a broad-based democracy in fourth-century Greece.

Finding Meaning in Transformational Change: Long-Term Recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous

Rockwell, Cassie ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Fielding Graduate 2022 해외박사(DDOD)

Alcoholism is a deadly disease that has the potential to adversely impact all those with whom the alcoholic shares some part of life. Yet, beginning in the 1930s, the grass-roots organization Alcoholics Anonymous has blossomed into fertile ground allowing many worldwide to live a life free from alcohol. Research presented in this dissertation’s literature review identifies high relapse rates for those in the early phase of abstinence. However, there exists a large population of people who maintain membership in Alcoholics Anonymous and achieve long-term sobriety, 20 or more years of recovery for this study. A semi-structured interview questionnaire was created to explore an individual’s cognitive (mental), emotional, and spiritual meaning-making complexity as reflected in Robert Kegan’s (1982, 1994) adult development theory in combination with the specific AA Twelve Step Program tools used by each interviewee during their transformational change. The finding from this qualitative study present both the specific AA program tools used by each member of AA during the process as well as the way the 14 interviewees (2 from the pilot project and 12 from the formal study) believe their psychological (emotional), cognitive (mental), and spiritual meaning of the situation changed as a result.

Melancholy and Hypochondria in Carlo Goldoni's Comedic Works (1735-1762)

Rockwell, Anna Krautkremer ProQuest Dissertations & Theses The University of 2020 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation provides a chronological account of the representation of the melancholic-hypochondriac in Carlo Goldoni's comedic works up to his definitive departure for France in 1762 with an emphasis on the status of the figure as a patient. By gradually integrating diverse etiologies of the disease into the backstories of his characters, Goldoni transforms the traditional figure from a static character-type deserving of derision into an individual worthy of empathy and social reintegration. As the etiologies evolve, so too do the therapeutic responses warranted. In Goldoni’s hands, the delusions from which the hypochondriac suffers become fertile ground for a reflection on the therapeutic or “corrective” value of theater, in which the distinction between “honest” and “dishonest” simulation is explored, as doctors and patients become actors, and invalids learn to heal themselves through the mirror of theatrical performances. Attention is paid to points of contact between Goldoni's representations and selected medical texts of the period, primarily from the Italian tradition. Starting with Bartoli, who employs theatrical terms to describe the malady, Chapter 1 considers the figure of the imaginary invalid and hypochondriac within the context of understudied early intermezzi and drammi giocosi, genres that formed an Italian theatrical background out of which the invalid emerged in later Goldonian comedies. Chapter 2 examines first the earliest example of hypochondria in Goldoni's corpus, his intermezzo, L'ippocondriaco (1735), after which the figure temporarily disappears and is replaced with melancholics in the following comedies: La vedova scaltra (1748), La Pamela fanciulla (1750), L'erede fortunata (1750) and Il padre di famiglia (1751). These works illustrate the diverse collection of etiologies of melancholy used by Goldoni. Lastly, the chapter attends to performative aspects of the representation of the malady seen in La finta ammalata (1751) where the question of feigned illness reemerges in conjunction with the notion of “honest” simulation. Chapter 3 focuses on two distinct versions of the melancholic genius in works devoted to literary figures: Il Moliere (1751) and Torquato Tasso (1755). Along with Il vecchio bizzarro (1754) these plays present a rehabilitated melancholic-hypochondriac worthy of sympathy and admiration. Chapter 4 features Goldoni's final comedies before his departure to Paris, in which one finds the last fully developed examples of melancholy and hypochondria in his Italian works. In Il medico olandese (1756), the reintegration of the patient is feasible through companionship and a kind of self-reflexive talk therapy. Goldoni explores the melancholic mania that arises from an obsession with fashion among the Venetian bourgeoisie in the Trilogia della villeggiatura (1761). With Una delle ultime sere di carnovale (1762) Goldoni bids farewell to Venice and returns to an example of the female hypochondriac who closely resembles the early imaginary invalids from musical theater.

A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT OF KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE (INDICATOR, ECOSYSTEM PLANNING)

MINTON, GAEL ROCKWELL THE UNION INSTITUTE. 1999 국내박사