Arts and Humanities
This issue of Book Marks features the first volume of an encyclopedia of Nazi Germany's camps and ghettoes, published by Indiana University Press; an IU professor's explanation and defense of slang as the poetic expression of the every day; an IU Press book on Hoosier Impressionist T.C. Steele; and IU faculty members' books on distrust and civic institutions, filmmaking in the new South Africa, and the history of the religious doctrine of predestination.
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Military coups used to be a regular occurrence in Latin America, but the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya early Sunday was quite different from those of the past, said Jeffrey L. Gould, a Central America expert at Indiana University Bloomington. The primary difference: the United States, along with virtually every other nation, has condemned it.
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High school teachers from across the country will converge in Bloomington July 6 for a four-week Picturing John James Audubon institute at Indiana University, the first of its kind. The institute is directed by Indiana University English Professor Christoph Irmscher (Alita Hornick from the IU Department of English helped organize the institute), and funded by a $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities through its Picturing America series of summer seminars and institutes for high school teachers. The institute will feature experts on Audubon, American art and natural history.
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Tributes continue to celebrate the life of pop star and musical icon Michael Jackson, who died last week (June 25) at the age of 50. Three Indiana University experts on popular music are available to discuss the Indiana native's life and musical legacy. Glenn Gass is a professor at IU's Jacobs School of Music and author of the first for-credit course at any music school or conservatory on the history of rock 'n' roll. Portia Maultsby is a professor in IU's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture. Charles Sykes, director of IU's African American Arts Institute and an adjunct professor of folklore and ethnomusicology, developed the first for-credit college course on the Motown Record Corp.
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We all have a mental picture of the sights that greeted European settlers when they first encountered the American West. But what about the sounds? In the June 2009 issue of The Journal of American History, historian Sarah Keyes describes how overlanders imposed their own aural environment on the native peoples and natural landscape as they crossed the continent from east to west.
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With four of the country's top conductors on the podium and a number of nationally renowned instrumentalists in their midst, the IU Summer Music Festival Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra once again bring world-class music to the Midwest in a series of five upcoming concerts in Bloomington. David Robertson, Mario Venzago and Giancarlo Guerrero will conduct the 2009 Festival Orchestra. In her first Bloomington performance since her appointment to the Jacobs School faculty will serve as concertmaster for the opening concert.
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