Archive for July 7th, 2008
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Black Spirituals: Eschatological Hope, Tension, and Freedom
6 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen July 7th, 2006 in Music, Race IssuesI have been reading an excellent book by James H. Cone called, The Spirituals and the Blues, in preparation for my paper that I will be presenting at a conference at Baylor in November. Below is a “snip” that discusses some of the various historical, cultural and musical influences that come to shape jazz. (Though [...]
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Nietzsche and Dostoyevski on the Effects of a "Purely" Scientific Metanarrative
11 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen July 7th, 2006 in Dostoevsky, Russian Literary Figures“And here you have begun upon it. Indeed, if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices—that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is [...]
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