Street-Ball: The Myth of the Ghetto Basketball Star

In recent decades, countless scholars have examined the developing trend of African American dominance in United States’ professional sports. Many have hypothesized that this over-representation is caused by the presumed reliance on sports as an avenue out of poverty for the African American youths. This trend, it is believed, has a highly detrimental effect the African American community. In actuality, this argument is flawed because it works under the stereotypical assumption that the overwhelming majority of African Americans come from abject poverty. To dispel this fallacy, the author has analyzed the upbringings of each All-National Basketball League First Team player over the past thirty years. The author discovered that while the majority of the players selected were African American, only a small percentage of these athletes were raised in a poverty-stricken environment. Logically, this would not be the case if poor African Americans relied more heavily on sports than middle-class African Americans. This data proves that stereotypes, not empirical evidence, are the substance of nearly every previous study conducted on the topic.

Popular poetry of the Russian Jews

by Leo Wiener

Gently Sighs The Breeze : The popular Duet written for Mad.lle Jenny Lind & Mad.lle Marietta Alboni by Stephen Glover

Signatur des Originals: S 36/G03313

BLOOD PRESSURE CHANGES IN RELATION TO DEMOGRAPHIC, ANTHROPOMETRIC, AND SEXUAL MATURATION VARIABLES IN U.S. HEALTH EXAMINATION SURVEY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTHS (UNITED STATES)

The determinants of change in blood pressure during childhood and adolescence were studied in a cohort of U.S. national probability sample of 2146 children examined on two occasions during the Health Examination Survey. Significant negative correlations between the initial level and the subsequent changes in blood pressure were observed. The multiple regression analyses showed that the major determinants of systolic blood pressure (SBP) change were change in weight, baseline SBP, and baseline upper arm girth. Race, time interval between examinations, baseline age, and height change were also significant determinants in SBP change. For the change in diastolic blood pressure (DBP), baseline DBP, baseline weight, and weight change were the major determinants. Baseline SBP, time interval and race were also significant determinants. Sexual maturation variables were also considered in the subgroup analysis for girls. Weight change was the most important predictor of the change in SBP for the group of girls who were still in the pre-menarchal or pre-breast maturation status at the time of the follow-up examination, and who had started to menstruate or to develop breast maturation at sometime between the two examinations. Baseline triceps skinfold thickness or initial SBP were more important variables than weight change for the group of girls who had already experienced menarche or breast maturation at the time of the initial survey. For the total group, pubic hair maturation was found to be a significant predictor of SBP change at the 5% significance level. The importance of weight change and baseline weight for the changes in blood pressure warrants further study. ^

Microbe Hunters Revisited – Paul de Kruif and the Beginning of Popular Science Writing

Paul de Kruif is credited with being one of the first popular science writers for the general public. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1916 and worked at the Rockefeller Institute under Simon Flexner. After being fired in 1922 for publishing a scathing article on medical research, de Kruif caught the attention of Sinclair Lewis, who used his scientific background to write his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Arrowsmith. In 1926, de Kruif published Microbe Hunters which recounted the exploits and discoveries of 14 renowned microbiologists from von Leeuwenhoek to Pasteur, Ross, Paul Ehrlich and Walter Reed. Microbe Hunters became a best seller, was translated into 18 languages, and formed the basis of two Hollywood movies, "Yellow Jack" and "The Magic Bullet." Generations of young readers were captivated by the vivid protrayal of these men and their discoveries.

Bullied status and physical activity in Texas youths

Data from the 2009–2011 School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) project were analyzed to examine the association between bullied status at school during the past six months and engaging in five or more days of physical activity during the past seven days in a population of 8th and 11th grade Texas youths after stratifying by gender. As a secondary aim, this study also examined the association between weight status and the prevalence of bullied status at school. The final sample size for this study, after excluding missing data, consisted of 6,246 8th and 11th grade youths (girls, n= 3,237; boys, n=3,009) representing a total of 518,838 youths from 8th and 11th grade. Results from the multiple logistic regression adjusting for weight status, grade, and ethnicity, indicate that girls with a bullied status of at least two or three times per month had significantly lower odds of engaging in five or more days of physical activity during the past seven days than girls who were never bullied at school (ORadj=0.62; 95% CI, 0.40, 0.96). Conversely, girls who reported a bullied status of at least once per week were significantly more likely to engage in five or more days of physical activity during the past seven days compared to girls who were never bullied at school (ORadj=3.44; 95% CI, 1.56, 7.63). No significant associations between bullied status and engaging in five or more days of physical activity during the past seven days were found for boys. Bullied status differed significantly across weight status for 8th grade girls (χ2(6)=63.7, p<.05) and 11th grade boys (χ2(6) =94.93, p<.05), with overweight and obese youths reporting a higher prevalence of being bullied once or twice, at least two or three times per month, and at least once per week than their normal weight peers. Our finding that girls with bullied status of at least once per week were more likely to engage in five or more days of physical activity than girls who were never bullied warrants future qualitative research to identify potential explanations for such results. Future research on relational and weight-based bullying is also needed and may help explain the inconsistent findings between bullied status and engaging in physical activity in girls.^

Nacimiento de la Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia : polifonía de lo popular y lo culto

El presente trabajo forma parte de una búsqueda en la que a partir del análisis de discursos acerca de la Fiesta de la Vendimia actual (ya sea a modo de comentario, critica o descripción)surgen interrogantes relacionados con su identidad y sus participantes. Se orienta, entonces, a la forma en que la Fiesta se va gestando. Describe los festejos previos a su oficialización haciendo referencia a fenómenos de inversión, circulación y conformación del campo festivo (legitimado y consagrado a partir de la participación de la Iglesia y del Estado).Reflexiona sobre el significado de los silencios en relación a músicas populares y concluye en el intento de explicarnos las relaciones entre lo "popular" y lo "culto" en la génesis de la Fiesta como tensión dialéctica que emerge de un universo cultural compartido no homogéneo.

Lenguajes en intersección : culto y popular en la configuración del campo musical

A partir de evidenciar algunas de las acepciones más cristalizadas del término "popular", se propone quebrar la identidad popular/ masivo y generar otra dimensión en el análisis de las producciones musicales. Desde esta configuración, se construye -con fines analíticos- un sistema que involucra, por un lado, el par culto/popular -pensado como un continuo de intersecciones entre lenguajes- y, por el otro, el concepto masividad. El análisis que se desprende del sistema lenguajes musicales/masividad, donde se manifiestan los cruces entre los lenguajes utilizados en las producciones musicales, se potencia mediante la aplicación de otros modelos que pueden permitirnos visualizar intersecciones en los públicos, es decir en la recepción y en los consumos

Fachadas mendocinas : la identidad de lo culto y lo popular

Fil: Rotella, María Inés. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Artes y Diseño

Zamba azul y la renovación de la canción popular argentina : convergencias disciplinares para un análisis musical significativo

Una de las problemáticas planteadas por la musicología es la limitación del análisis musical centrado sólo en las estructuras musicales. Con el presente trabajo intentamos realizar un análisis a través de una aproximación múltiple a una obra; una mirada o enfoque integral que permita llegar a un nivel de análisis más significativo, a través de la articulación de las diferentes aproximaciones. En este caso nos hemos ocupado de una obra emblemática dentro de la producción de Tito Francia, compositor mendocino en cuyo catálogo se reúnen géneros populares con géneros académicos.

Algunas notas sobre la poética del género popular : a propósito del Romance elegíaco de Fray Luis de Miranda

Fil: Calderón de Cuervo, Elena. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

La estética de lo bello y la exaltación de la cultura popular

Alegato en favor del concepto clásico de belleza y en contra de la concepción postmodernista de que todo puede ser arte y todos artistas. Se trata de rescatar la concepción de estética contenida en las obras de la Escuela de Frankfurt, especialmente de Theodor W. Adorno y Herbert Marcuse: el arte como lealtad a la promesa de felicidad. Se rescata la función crítica y anticipativa del gran arte y se pone en cuestión el carácter presumiblemente progresista y democrático del arte contemporáneo. Las élites actuales, legitimadas democráticamente, comparten las mismas inclinaciones estéticas de las masas, pero ejerciendo una función manipulativa en la configuración de la vida cotidiana.

La asunción de lo popular el teatro didáctico anarquista de Alberto Ghiraldo y su programa poético de «dar al pueblo la palabra»

Este trabajo aborda la conexión entre prácticas de comunicación y movimientos sociales a través de la particular asunción de lo popular que realizó el anarquismo en nuestro país a principios del siglo XX. Tomamos como caso particular el teatro didáctico propuesto por Alberto Ghiraldo, para describir algunas de las estrategias comunicacionales puestas en función, en relación con la cultura popular, con el fin de concientizar a las masas de los aspectos ideológicos del anarquismo.

Varios autores, "Sabiduría popular, símbolo y Filosofía. Diálogo internacional en torno a una interpretación latinoamericana", editado por Juan Carlos Scannone S. I., Buenos Aires, Ed. Guadalupe, 1984. (222 págs.)

Fil: Matuschka, Daniel von. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filosofía Argentina y Americana