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The Cimbál (Cimbalom) and Folk Music in Moravian Slovakia and Valachia
(A-R Editions, 2010)
This article presents an English-language introduction to the cimbalom, known in Czech as cimbál, as it is played in the Czech Republic. The article presents a holistic perspective on the cimbalom in Moravia, beginning ...
Disjuncture On The Left: Proudhon, Courbet And The Antwerp Congress Of 1861
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 1991-03)
A Theater Studies Look at Maya Performance
(Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), 2001)
Performing Českost (Czechness): Polka Music and Musical Ethnicity at Wisconsin Czech-American Festivals
(Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), 2006)
The article reports on the significance of polka music at Czech-American festivals in Wisconsin. Data is presented from observations at Czech-American community festivals in Wisconsin during the summer of 2003.
A Geometric Comparison of Branching Structures in Tension and in Compression versus Minimal Paths
(International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 2007-12-03)
Branching structures are based on geometric systems that expand through bifurcation without returning to form closed cells. In this sense, branching structures resemble the structure of trees that branch continually outward. ...
Racially Restrictive Covenants in the United States: A Call to Action
(2018-04-14)
This paper examines the history and structure of racially restrictive covenants in the
United States to better comprehend their continued existence, despite their illegality.
While unenforceable, racially restrictive ...
Opportunity costs and non-scale free capabilities: profit maximization, corporate scope, and profit margins
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The resource-based view on firm diversification, subsequent to Penrose ( 1959 ), has focused primarily on the fungibility of resources across domains. We make a clear analytical distinction between scale free capabilities ...
Rural parents with urban children: social and economic implications of migration for the rural elderly in Thailand
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-05)
The present study explores the social and economic consequences of the migration of adult children to urban areas for rural parents in Thailand. Attention is given to the circumstances under which such migration takes ...