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Duet with the Past

A Composer's Memoir

By: Daron Hagen

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Composer, conductor and operatic polymath Daron Hagen has written five symphonies, a dozen concertos, 13 operas, reams of chamber music and more than 350 art songs. His intimate, unsparing memoir chronicles his life, from his haunted childhood in Wisconsin to the upper echelons of the music world in New York and Europe. Hagen's vivid anecdotes about his many collaborators, friends and mentors--including Leonard Bernstein, Lukas Foss, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paul Muldoon, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson and Gore Vidal--counterpoint a cautionary tale of the sacrifices necessary to succeed in the brutally unforgiving business of classical music.

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McFarland

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1476635870

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9781476635873

The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux

Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity

By: Daron Burrows,Daron Lee Burrows

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The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux

Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity

By: Daron Burrows,Daron Lee Burrows

The Old French fabliaux may be notorious for their bawdy content, but few aspects of these medieval comic narratives are as astonishing as their depiction of the parish priest, whose fiscal and sexual transgressions are on occasion so enormous that lay protagonists are driven to inflict graphic punishments ranging from public exposure and communal beating to castration and murder. In this study, Burrows draws on social psychological research into the cognitive and socio-motivational components of stereotyping to explore the forces underlying the creation and development of the fabliau priest. Through an assessment of the constituent elements of the figure against a background of a range of literary and historical sources, Burrows demonstrates that the literary figure is the product of the specific socio-historical context of contemporaneous changes in relationships between Church and laity in which anticlerical stereotyping, in a manner comparable to other instances of outgroup derogation, can be attributed to a quest for positive social identity and ingroup solidarity on the part of an inscribed lay audience.

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Peter Lang

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3039100726

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9783039100729

The Race to 270

The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004

By: Daron R. Shaw

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The Race to 270

The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004

By: Daron R. Shaw

The Electoral College has played an important role in presidential politics since our nation’s founding, but surprisingly little information exists about precisely how it affects campaign strategy. Daron R. Shaw, a scholar who also worked as a strategist in both Bush-Cheney campaigns, has written the first book to go inside the past two presidential elections and reveal how the race to 270 was won—and lost. Shaw’s nonpartisan study lays out how both the Democrats and the Republicans developed strategies to win decisive electoral votes by targeting specific states and media markets. Drawing on his own experience with Republican battle plans, candidate schedules, and advertising purchases—plus key contacts in the Gore and Kerry camps—Shaw goes on to show that both sides used information on weekly shifts in candidate support to reallocate media buys and schedule appearances. Most importantly, he uses strikingly original research to prove that these carefully constructed plans significantly affected voters’ preferences and opinions—not in huge numbers, but enough to shift critical votes in key battlegrounds. Bridging the gap between those who study campaigns and those who conduct them, The Race to 270 will provide political scientists and practitioners alike with fresh insights about the new strategies that stem from one of our oldest institutions.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226751368

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9780226751368

Battleground

Electoral College Strategies, Execution, and Impact in the Modern Era

By: Daron R. Shaw,Scott L. Althaus,Costas Panagopoulos

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Battleground

Electoral College Strategies, Execution, and Impact in the Modern Era

By: Daron R. Shaw,Scott L. Althaus,Costas Panagopoulos

Covering the beginning of the television era to the present, 'Battleground' provides an unprecedented look at the Electoral College strategies used by US presidential campaigns from 1952 to 2020 and what difference they make on election day. Although US presidential campaigns are among the most closely followed events in the world, academic research tends to conclude that they are much less important for shaping election-day outcomes than broader economic conditions and more gradual socio-political trends. If so, then what campaigners do and say might be entertaining, but should rarely have a decisive influence on who wins the White House. Yet because academic studies typically treat presidential elections as singular events, there is surprisingly little research that considers the strategies that parties pursue in presidential campaigning across multiple election years, how those strategies have evolved over time, or what difference those strategies might make on election day. Drawing on internal campaign records and novel data sources covering every presidential election from 1952 through 2020, 'Battleground' identifies the Electoral College strategies for every major presidential campaign in the modern era, assesses how well they executed their plans, and illuminates what difference their state-by-state allocation of candidate visits and television spending made on election day. From Eisenhower to Trump, Daron R. Shaw, Scott Althaus, and Costas Panagopoulos show how battleground states have been selected and contested, and why campaign strategies are important for shaping Electoral College outcomes. They find that presidential campaigns in the modern era have been consistently strategic, sophisticated, and effective. As a result, campaign strategies can still be pivotal for shaping Electoral College outcomes, even if their influence looks somewhat different today than in 1952. 'Battleground' provides readers with a sophisticated yet straightforward look at how (and how much) presidential campaigns affect the selection of the most powerful person in the world."--

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Oxford University Press

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0197774369

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9780197774366

Unconventional Wisdom

Facts and Myths about American Voters

By: Karen M. Kaufmann,John R. Petrocik,Daron R. Shaw

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Unconventional Wisdom

Facts and Myths about American Voters

By: Karen M. Kaufmann,John R. Petrocik,Daron R. Shaw

Preface. 1. Facts and Myths about American Voters: An Introduction. 2. Americans Hate to Love Their Party, but They Do!. 3. Are American Voters Polarized?. 4. Who swings?. 5. Soccer Moms and Other Myths about the Gender Gap. 6. The Young and Not-So-Restless Voters. 7. The Partisan Bias of Turnout. 8. Campaign Effects in the Twenty-First Century. 9. Hard Facts and Conventional Wisdom as We Look to the Future. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Oxford University Press

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0195366840

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Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys

L'Escommeniement Au Lecheor and Le Pardon De Foutre

By: Daron Burrows

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Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys

L'Escommeniement Au Lecheor and Le Pardon De Foutre

By: Daron Burrows

The thirteenth-century French comic dits of Les Escommeniemanz au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre are two of the earliest vernacular texts to articulate anticlerical satire against the abuse of excommunications and indulgences. In Les Escommeniemanz, a relentless series of excommunications is promulgated against a broad range of social groups accused of activities ranging from the illegal and the immoral, through the socially disruptive, to the profoundly nonsensical and obscene, while in Le Pardon, a cardinal freshly arrived from Rome offers indulgences to groups whose shocking alleged sexual incontinence appears scarcely to merit pardon. Burrows' new edition of two hitherto unedited poems so important to the understanding of lay attitudes towards ecclesiastical authority in thirteenth-century France is complemented by an English translation and a detailed commentary on the texts' literary, linguistic, codicological, ideological, and socio-historical content and context.

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Routledge

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1351195573

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9781351195577

Duet with the Past

A Composer's Memoir

By: Daron Hagen

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A Composer's Memoir

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1476677379

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Bandanna

An Opera in Two Acts and a Prologue

By: Daron Hagen,Paul Muldoon

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Bandanna

An Opera in Two Acts and a Prologue

By: Daron Hagen,Paul Muldoon

A verse libretto set in a small town on the Mexican border. It features illegal immigrants and corrupt law officers, but at its heart is an old-fashioned tale of sexual jealousy and murderous revenge.

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0571197620

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9780571197620

Shining Brow

By: Paul Muldoon,Daron Hagen

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Shining Brow

By: Paul Muldoon,Daron Hagen

Commissioned as the libretto for an opera by US composer Daron Arik Hagen, this piece can be read as a dramatic poem in its own right. It tells the story of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his affair with the wife of a millionaire client.

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Duet with the Past

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The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux

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The Race to 270

The Race to 270

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Unconventional Wisdom

Unconventional Wisdom

Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys

Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys

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