Eric Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6058-1834 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“A Black Future in the Air Industry?”
This essay charts a history of black liberation and complicity in the struggle for economic advancement at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Joining scholars who have explored commercial aviation as a site of black mobility and immobility as well as those who have theorized Black Power's intersections with municipal policymaking, labor organizing, business and community development projects, and affirma…
Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath
The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury
The Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out, despite the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois, the broad range of writing he produced during the 1940s and early 1950s has not been thoroughly examined in its historical context, nor has sufficient attention been paid to the theoretical interventions he …
Reconstruction’s Soundtrack
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the US on 29 August 2005, causing extensive damage throughout the region. The city of New Orleans was especially hard hit, first by wind and rain, then by a devastating storm surge that overwhelmed an inadequately maintained levee system and quickly flooded 80 per cent of the city. The days after the storm were terrifying, chaotic, and often deadly for those who were unable, or chose not, to leave the city …
Reconstructionâ s Soundtrack
New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
This book joins the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Through photographs and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city (and region) and its residents, map recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seek to counter inadequate (and often pejorative accounts) of people and place. Focusing, for the most part, on African American New Orleans, New Orleans Suite is …
Legitimacy, Democracy and Rights: The Conservatism of Janet Albrechtsen
In recent years, media columnists have been instrumental in redefining Australian conservatism. One of the most prominent is Janet Albrechtsen. Using her critique of a bill of rights, this article examines how this new Australian conservatism rejects or reverses core elements of traditional conservatism. Utilitarianism exchanges the transcendent for the social. Equality and democracy replace elitism. Elites were minorities, albeit ones with leade…
Jazz
With Jazz, the musicologist Scott DeVeaux and the jazz critic Gary Giddins seek to present an innovative jazz history survey, one more attuned to social contexts and better at initiating listeners than existing works. Two introductory chapters covering instrumentation, musical elements, and jazz forms and practices serve the second goal, as do analyses of seventy-eight listening examples across the volume. (A compact disc with these examples is a…
Rethinking Jazz Through the 1970s
The 1970s has been a vexed and vexing decade in the field of jazz studies, as it has been in other areas of historical and cultural analysis. As a relatively proximate “time of great uncertainty,”
Imagining Africa, remaking the world: W.E.B. Du Bois' history for the future
This essay examines W.E.B. Du Bois' rearticulation during the 1940s of his long-standing idea that African liberation was a necessary step in the creation of a more democratic world. Du Bois' writing of Africa into world history, as both land of civilizational achievement and object of western terror, helped make the case for a global frame of economic justice and, concomitantly, an extension of human rights. He hoped as well to explore the possi…
Jazz and Revival
This essay offers preliminary thoughts on the role of music in the reconstruction of New Orleans. Focusing on Jazzfest and second-line performances, it addresses thorny issues that have emerged when jazz, in particular, has been deployed to rebuild the city, given the competing claims on culture and place, the racial and class divisions in play before and after the storm, the ways that local musical cultures have reflected social possibilities an…
Jazz on the Road: Don Albert's Musical Life
A Cloak for Knavery: Kingship, the Army and the First Protectorate Parliament 1654–55
Current interest in the role of kingship during the 1650s is confined largely to concerns about the origins and consequences of the Humble Petition and Advice presented to Oliver Cromwell on 31 March 1657 by the Second Protectorate Parliament.1 That episode highlighted an unresolved tension at the heart of Protectoral authority: though Cromwell regularly utilised the trappings of kingship and already, in effect, exercised a de facto prerogative, …
Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Journal Article Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. By Graham Lock. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv, 314 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2404-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2440-7.) Get access Eric Porter Eric Porter University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought
Alain Locke's introduction to The New Negro (1925) recognized the ongoing black migration to ''northern city centers'' as a turning point in American history.World War I had sparked new industrial labor demands, thus aiding the exodus of African Americans eager to escape rural peonage and nakedly enforced white supremacy in the South.However, as the explosive antiblack violence of 1919 made clear, Northern cities remained a distant cry from the '…
"Dizzy Atmosphere": The Challenge of Bebop
The development of bebop in the 1940s is crucial to understanding jazz as we know it. A product of jam sessions, big bands, small combos, and countless hours of woodshedding, the musical language of bebop included rapid tempos, dissonant chords and melodic lines, tritone and other chordal substitutions, extensive chromaticism, offbeat piano accompaniment (comping), walking bass lines, polyrhythmic drumming, and, perhaps most important, a focus on…
Jazz and Revival
This essay offers preliminary thoughts on the role of music in the reconstruction of New Orleans. Focusing on Jazzfest and second-line performances, it addresses thorny issues that have emerged when jazz, in particular, has been deployed to rebuild the city, given the competing claims on culture and place, the racial and class divisions in play before and after the storm, the ways that local musical cultures have reflected social possibilities an…
Imagining Africa, remaking the world: W.E.B. Du Bois' history for the future
This essay examines W.E.B. Du Bois' rearticulation during the 1940s of his long-standing idea that African liberation was a necessary step in the creation of a more democratic world. Du Bois' writing of Africa into world history, as both land of civilizational achievement and object of western terror, helped make the case for a global frame of economic justice and, concomitantly, an extension of human rights. He hoped as well to explore the possi…
"Dizzy Atmosphere": The Challenge of Bebop
The development of bebop in the 1940s is crucial to understanding jazz as we know it. A product of jam sessions, big bands, small combos, and countless hours of woodshedding, the musical language of bebop included rapid tempos, dissonant chords and melodic lines, tritone and other chordal substitutions, extensive chromaticism, offbeat piano accompaniment (comping), walking bass lines, polyrhythmic drumming, and, perhaps most important, a focus on…
Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Journal Article Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. By Graham Lock. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv, 314 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2404-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2440-7.) Get access Eric Porter Eric Porter University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought
Alain Locke's introduction to The New Negro (1925) recognized the ongoing black migration to ''northern city centers'' as a turning point in American history.World War I had sparked new industrial labor demands, thus aiding the exodus of African Americans eager to escape rural peonage and nakedly enforced white supremacy in the South.However, as the explosive antiblack violence of 1919 made clear, Northern cities remained a distant cry from the '…
A Cloak for Knavery: Kingship, the Army and the First Protectorate Parliament 1654–55
Current interest in the role of kingship during the 1650s is confined largely to concerns about the origins and consequences of the Humble Petition and Advice presented to Oliver Cromwell on 31 March 1657 by the Second Protectorate Parliament.1 That episode highlighted an unresolved tension at the heart of Protectoral authority: though Cromwell regularly utilised the trappings of kingship and already, in effect, exercised a de facto prerogative, …
Jazz on the Road: Don Albert's Musical Life
Imagining Africa, remaking the world: W.E.B. Du Bois' history for the future
This essay examines W.E.B. Du Bois' rearticulation during the 1940s of his long-standing idea that African liberation was a necessary step in the creation of a more democratic world. Du Bois' writing of Africa into world history, as both land of civilizational achievement and object of western terror, helped make the case for a global frame of economic justice and, concomitantly, an extension of human rights. He hoped as well to explore the possi…
Jazz and Revival
This essay offers preliminary thoughts on the role of music in the reconstruction of New Orleans. Focusing on Jazzfest and second-line performances, it addresses thorny issues that have emerged when jazz, in particular, has been deployed to rebuild the city, given the competing claims on culture and place, the racial and class divisions in play before and after the storm, the ways that local musical cultures have reflected social possibilities an…
Rethinking Jazz Through the 1970s
The 1970s has been a vexed and vexing decade in the field of jazz studies, as it has been in other areas of historical and cultural analysis. As a relatively proximate “time of great uncertainty,”
Legitimacy, Democracy and Rights: The Conservatism of Janet Albrechtsen
In recent years, media columnists have been instrumental in redefining Australian conservatism. One of the most prominent is Janet Albrechtsen. Using her critique of a bill of rights, this article examines how this new Australian conservatism rejects or reverses core elements of traditional conservatism. Utilitarianism exchanges the transcendent for the social. Equality and democracy replace elitism. Elites were minorities, albeit ones with leade…
Jazz
With Jazz, the musicologist Scott DeVeaux and the jazz critic Gary Giddins seek to present an innovative jazz history survey, one more attuned to social contexts and better at initiating listeners than existing works. Two introductory chapters covering instrumentation, musical elements, and jazz forms and practices serve the second goal, as do analyses of seventy-eight listening examples across the volume. (A compact disc with these examples is a…
New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
This book joins the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Through photographs and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city (and region) and its residents, map recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seek to counter inadequate (and often pejorative accounts) of people and place. Focusing, for the most part, on African American New Orleans, New Orleans Suite is …
Reconstruction’s Soundtrack
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the US on 29 August 2005, causing extensive damage throughout the region. The city of New Orleans was especially hard hit, first by wind and rain, then by a devastating storm surge that overwhelmed an inadequately maintained levee system and quickly flooded 80 per cent of the city. The days after the storm were terrifying, chaotic, and often deadly for those who were unable, or chose not, to leave the city …
Reconstructionâ s Soundtrack
“A Black Future in the Air Industry?”
This essay charts a history of black liberation and complicity in the struggle for economic advancement at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Joining scholars who have explored commercial aviation as a site of black mobility and immobility as well as those who have theorized Black Power's intersections with municipal policymaking, labor organizing, business and community development projects, and affirma…
Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath
The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury
The Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out, despite the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois, the broad range of writing he produced during the 1940s and early 1950s has not been thoroughly examined in its historical context, nor has sufficient attention been paid to the theoretical interventions he …
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