Matthew Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2812-9589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Australia, the Cold War, and the Rhodesia Information Centre, 1971–1972
In March 1972, the Rhodesia Information Centre (RIC) in Sydney was burglarized by political activists who seized key documents and later released them to the Australian press. The documents showed that, despite UN sanctions against the white minority regime in Salisbury, the RIC was importing and distributing Rhodesian propaganda, lobbying senior Australian policymakers, and violating Australian customs regulations. The Australian government, led…
Mind-bending geometry
Humans appear to intuitively grasp definitions foundational to formal geometry, like definitions that describe points as infinitely small and lines as infinitely long. Nevertheless, previous studies exploring human's intuitive natural geometry have consistently focused on geometric principles in planar Euclidean contexts and thus may not comprehensively characterize humans' capacity for geometric reasoning. The present study explores whether chil…
Neville Kingsley Meaney (1932–2021)
Australia in this Matter is under Some Scrutiny’
Australia’s attitude towards the problem of Rhodesian independence in the early 1960s has been largely ignored by the literature on the subject. Not unnaturally, the focus of recent research and scholarship has been Australia’s response to Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in November 1965 and the absence of any appetite for sanctions against the white minority regime. This lack of enthusiasm is often interpreted as symptoma…
An uncertainty management perspective on long-run impacts of adversity
Not on Your Life’
The liberalisation of the White Australia policy in the mid-1960s was a seminal event in Australian history. It marked the beginning of the end for the racial conception of society which had defined the federation since the late-nineteenth century. Cabinet’s discussions of the proposed changes during these years demonstrate that most Australian political leaders were not only fundamentally opposed to reform but also unconvinced by arguments empha…
Canned Music and Captive Audiences
This article recounts the fight over public soundspace at Grand Central Terminal in 1949 after management began using Muzak, punctuated by commercial advertisements, to manage and monetize the soundscape. The public protests against these broadcasts in the press were followed by public hearings which weighed the commuter's right to be left alone with his or her own thoughts against the company's right broadcast sell the public soundspace. The aut…
Obama's iPod
This article examines how Barack Obama has used popular music over the last several years as part of a populist communication strategy. It argues that thinking about the aesthetics of popular music helps us understand how populist logic functions. Examining the music used during the campaign, the inaugural celebration, and the In Performance at the White House series, I show how the aesthetic problems of Obama's musical spectacles are symptomatic…
The French connection
In the 20th century, jazz music spread throughout global culture like few other musical forms. Over the 40-year period in which jazz was assimilated into French culture, myths about the origin of jazz played an important role in the discourse surrounding the music. By examining both how these myths functioned in the discourse and examining how they changed over time depending on cultural circumstances, this article shows how writers increasingly …
The meaning of affinity and the importance of identity in the designed world
research-article Share on The meaning of affinity and the importance of identity in the designed world Author: Matthew Jordan View Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 17Issue 5September + October 2010 pp 6–11https://doi.org/10.1145/1836216.1836218Published:01 September 2010Publication History 5citation3,188DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations5Total Downloads3,188Last 12 Months1,263Last 6 weeks148 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert adde…
The Reappraisal of the White Australia Policy against the Background of a Changing Asia, 1945-67
This paper is concerned with the way in which Australian policy-makers approached the problem of “White Australia” in the years 1945–67. It makes extensive use of original archival material to show how Australia's increasing engagement with Asia in the 1950s and 1960s exercised a direct influence on officials within the Department of Immigration. In response to Australia's changing geopolitical circumstances and the international community's incr…
Rewriting Australia's Racist Past
This article examines recent writing on the ‘White Australia’ policy and its origins in the late‐nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries. For the most part, this body of work falls into two distinct and opposing categories. On the one hand, historians who take an ‘essentialist’ approach to the problem view ‘White Australia’ as a natural and inevitable by‐product of Anglo‐Australian racism, which, they argue, permeated Australian culture from the…
Discophilie or Discomanie
This article examines the early debate over the impact of people listening to phonograph records on musical culture and French cultural health. The new private experience of listening to mechanised music made possible by phonograph technology, and the different ways in which this recorded music was used, radically challenged the traditional conceptions of public musical cultural praxis. Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, French critics were fo…
How jazz got francisé
Quality control in South Australia
(1992). Quality control in South Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, No. 34, pp. 53-68
An uncertainty management perspective on long-run impacts of adversity
Obama's iPod
This article examines how Barack Obama has used popular music over the last several years as part of a populist communication strategy. It argues that thinking about the aesthetics of popular music helps us understand how populist logic functions. Examining the music used during the campaign, the inaugural celebration, and the In Performance at the White House series, I show how the aesthetic problems of Obama's musical spectacles are symptomatic…
Not on Your Life’
The liberalisation of the White Australia policy in the mid-1960s was a seminal event in Australian history. It marked the beginning of the end for the racial conception of society which had defined the federation since the late-nineteenth century. Cabinet’s discussions of the proposed changes during these years demonstrate that most Australian political leaders were not only fundamentally opposed to reform but also unconvinced by arguments empha…
Australia in this Matter is under Some Scrutiny’
Australia’s attitude towards the problem of Rhodesian independence in the early 1960s has been largely ignored by the literature on the subject. Not unnaturally, the focus of recent research and scholarship has been Australia’s response to Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in November 1965 and the absence of any appetite for sanctions against the white minority regime. This lack of enthusiasm is often interpreted as symptoma…
Canned Music and Captive Audiences
This article recounts the fight over public soundspace at Grand Central Terminal in 1949 after management began using Muzak, punctuated by commercial advertisements, to manage and monetize the soundscape. The public protests against these broadcasts in the press were followed by public hearings which weighed the commuter's right to be left alone with his or her own thoughts against the company's right broadcast sell the public soundspace. The aut…
Quality control in South Australia
(1992). Quality control in South Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, No. 34, pp. 53-68
How jazz got francisé
Rewriting Australia's Racist Past
This article examines recent writing on the ‘White Australia’ policy and its origins in the late‐nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries. For the most part, this body of work falls into two distinct and opposing categories. On the one hand, historians who take an ‘essentialist’ approach to the problem view ‘White Australia’ as a natural and inevitable by‐product of Anglo‐Australian racism, which, they argue, permeated Australian culture from the…
Discophilie or Discomanie
This article examines the early debate over the impact of people listening to phonograph records on musical culture and French cultural health. The new private experience of listening to mechanised music made possible by phonograph technology, and the different ways in which this recorded music was used, radically challenged the traditional conceptions of public musical cultural praxis. Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, French critics were fo…
The Reappraisal of the White Australia Policy against the Background of a Changing Asia, 1945-67
This paper is concerned with the way in which Australian policy-makers approached the problem of “White Australia” in the years 1945–67. It makes extensive use of original archival material to show how Australia's increasing engagement with Asia in the 1950s and 1960s exercised a direct influence on officials within the Department of Immigration. In response to Australia's changing geopolitical circumstances and the international community's incr…
The meaning of affinity and the importance of identity in the designed world
research-article Share on The meaning of affinity and the importance of identity in the designed world Author: Matthew Jordan View Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 17Issue 5September + October 2010 pp 6–11https://doi.org/10.1145/1836216.1836218Published:01 September 2010Publication History 5citation3,188DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations5Total Downloads3,188Last 12 Months1,263Last 6 weeks148 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert adde…
The French connection
In the 20th century, jazz music spread throughout global culture like few other musical forms. Over the 40-year period in which jazz was assimilated into French culture, myths about the origin of jazz played an important role in the discourse surrounding the music. By examining both how these myths functioned in the discourse and examining how they changed over time depending on cultural circumstances, this article shows how writers increasingly …
Obama's iPod
This article examines how Barack Obama has used popular music over the last several years as part of a populist communication strategy. It argues that thinking about the aesthetics of popular music helps us understand how populist logic functions. Examining the music used during the campaign, the inaugural celebration, and the In Performance at the White House series, I show how the aesthetic problems of Obama's musical spectacles are symptomatic…
Canned Music and Captive Audiences
This article recounts the fight over public soundspace at Grand Central Terminal in 1949 after management began using Muzak, punctuated by commercial advertisements, to manage and monetize the soundscape. The public protests against these broadcasts in the press were followed by public hearings which weighed the commuter's right to be left alone with his or her own thoughts against the company's right broadcast sell the public soundspace. The aut…
Not on Your Life’
The liberalisation of the White Australia policy in the mid-1960s was a seminal event in Australian history. It marked the beginning of the end for the racial conception of society which had defined the federation since the late-nineteenth century. Cabinet’s discussions of the proposed changes during these years demonstrate that most Australian political leaders were not only fundamentally opposed to reform but also unconvinced by arguments empha…
An uncertainty management perspective on long-run impacts of adversity
Australia in this Matter is under Some Scrutiny’
Australia’s attitude towards the problem of Rhodesian independence in the early 1960s has been largely ignored by the literature on the subject. Not unnaturally, the focus of recent research and scholarship has been Australia’s response to Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in November 1965 and the absence of any appetite for sanctions against the white minority regime. This lack of enthusiasm is often interpreted as symptoma…
Neville Kingsley Meaney (1932–2021)
Mind-bending geometry
Humans appear to intuitively grasp definitions foundational to formal geometry, like definitions that describe points as infinitely small and lines as infinitely long. Nevertheless, previous studies exploring human's intuitive natural geometry have consistently focused on geometric principles in planar Euclidean contexts and thus may not comprehensively characterize humans' capacity for geometric reasoning. The present study explores whether chil…
Australia, the Cold War, and the Rhodesia Information Centre, 1971–1972
In March 1972, the Rhodesia Information Centre (RIC) in Sydney was burglarized by political activists who seized key documents and later released them to the Australian press. The documents showed that, despite UN sanctions against the white minority regime in Salisbury, the RIC was importing and distributing Rhodesian propaganda, lobbying senior Australian policymakers, and violating Australian customs regulations. The Australian government, led…
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