B Curtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 9615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Curtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtis |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0632-0676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Eyesight to the Blind: Secular and Religious Dialogue in the 'Devil's Music
I adopt a dialogic approach to refute Paul Oliver's claim that there is no challenge to the authority of the black Church or religion in the segregated 'race records' of the first half of the 20th century in the United States. I dismiss the claims of some black theologians that the presence of biblical imagery in the blues means that performers were essentially religious. I show that the dialogue between secular song and religious sermons on reco…
Daddy-callin' Mamas' and 'Jelly Beans: Sex Work and Ribaldry in the Blues Archive
I present a thematic overview of sex work and ribaldry in recorded blues songs for the period c.1920-1942. My ambition is primarily documentary, to take up Paul Oliver's insistence that discussion of the blues must ultimately revolve around its 'libidinous hub' and to concretise Abbott and Seroff's characterisation of blues as 'unabashedly licentious a music form as America has ever produced'. Ribald sex work songs are common in the blues archive…
Selective Tradition and Structure of Feeling in the 2008 Presidential Election: "A Genealogy of "Yes We Can Can
I examine Raymond Williams's concepts "structure of feeling" and "selective tradition" in an engagement with the novel technical-musical-cultural politics of the 2008 Barack Obama presidential election campaign.Williams hoped structure of feeling could be used to reveal the existence of pre-emergent, counter-hegemonic cultural forces, forces marginalized through selective tradition.In a genealogy of the Allen Toussaint composition, "Yes We Can Ca…
The Missing Memory of Canadian Sociology: Reflexive Government and “the Social Science
The modest literature on the history of Canadian Sociology takes the appearance of a named academic discipline as its object. Canadian Sociology is held to have had some precursors in the 1880s, but really to appear only in the 1920s. It is described as a foreign import and as an activity first of intellectual speculation and moral reform. Observational and analytic practice are absent before 1880. The activities of state agents and government de…
How Much and How Not to Explain: Gestural Referencing and Conceptual Misappropriations
A Plentiful Crop of Cripples Made by All This Progress: Disability, Artificial Limbs and Working-Class Mutualism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1890-19481
Historians of orthopaedics, artificial limbs and disability have devoted a great deal of attention to children and soldiers but have neglected to give sufficient space in their studies to industrial workers, the other patient group that has been identified as crucial to the development of these areas. Furthermore, this attention has led to an imbalanced focus on charitable and philanthropic activities as the main means of assistance and the negle…
Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives/ La quantification medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques
Pierre Bourdieu's Masculine Domination: A Critique
Les auteurs montrent que la tentative de Pierre Bourdieu de résoudre le problème de la « domination masculine» est limitée par l'application inconséquente de son propre répertoire conceptuel, par l'emploi d'exemples empiriques périmés et par l'utilité douteuse du cas des relations sociales en Kabylie. Un rejet des catégories fondamentales (« homme », « femme ») et le recours à une conception plus nuancée de la domination seraient une approche plu…
From the Moral Thermometer to Money: Metrological Reform in Pre-Confederation Canada
The importance of infrastructural work for the mobility of practices and for the capacity of centres to act on distant sites is stressed in both science studies and the sociology of state formation. Employing Kula's typology of metrological systems, this paper examines four areas of metrological reform in pre-Confederation Canada, stressing the existence of metrological hybrids. Metrological standardization is held to depend upon the exercise of …
Uneven Institutional Development and the "Staple" Approach: A Problem of Method
Bruce Curtis, Barry Edginton, Uneven Institutional Development and the "Staple" Approach: A Problem of Method, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1979), pp. 257-273
From the Moral Thermometer to Money: Metrological Reform in Pre-Confederation Canada
The importance of infrastructural work for the mobility of practices and for the capacity of centres to act on distant sites is stressed in both science studies and the sociology of state formation. Employing Kula's typology of metrological systems, this paper examines four areas of metrological reform in pre-Confederation Canada, stressing the existence of metrological hybrids. Metrological standardization is held to depend upon the exercise of …
A Plentiful Crop of Cripples Made by All This Progress: Disability, Artificial Limbs and Working-Class Mutualism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1890-19481
Historians of orthopaedics, artificial limbs and disability have devoted a great deal of attention to children and soldiers but have neglected to give sufficient space in their studies to industrial workers, the other patient group that has been identified as crucial to the development of these areas. Furthermore, this attention has led to an imbalanced focus on charitable and philanthropic activities as the main means of assistance and the negle…
The Missing Memory of Canadian Sociology: Reflexive Government and “the Social Science
The modest literature on the history of Canadian Sociology takes the appearance of a named academic discipline as its object. Canadian Sociology is held to have had some precursors in the 1880s, but really to appear only in the 1920s. It is described as a foreign import and as an activity first of intellectual speculation and moral reform. Observational and analytic practice are absent before 1880. The activities of state agents and government de…
Pierre Bourdieu's Masculine Domination: A Critique
Les auteurs montrent que la tentative de Pierre Bourdieu de résoudre le problème de la « domination masculine» est limitée par l'application inconséquente de son propre répertoire conceptuel, par l'emploi d'exemples empiriques périmés et par l'utilité douteuse du cas des relations sociales en Kabylie. Un rejet des catégories fondamentales (« homme », « femme ») et le recours à une conception plus nuancée de la domination seraient une approche plu…
Daddy-callin' Mamas' and 'Jelly Beans: Sex Work and Ribaldry in the Blues Archive
I present a thematic overview of sex work and ribaldry in recorded blues songs for the period c.1920-1942. My ambition is primarily documentary, to take up Paul Oliver's insistence that discussion of the blues must ultimately revolve around its 'libidinous hub' and to concretise Abbott and Seroff's characterisation of blues as 'unabashedly licentious a music form as America has ever produced'. Ribald sex work songs are common in the blues archive…
Selective Tradition and Structure of Feeling in the 2008 Presidential Election: "A Genealogy of "Yes We Can Can
I examine Raymond Williams's concepts "structure of feeling" and "selective tradition" in an engagement with the novel technical-musical-cultural politics of the 2008 Barack Obama presidential election campaign.Williams hoped structure of feeling could be used to reveal the existence of pre-emergent, counter-hegemonic cultural forces, forces marginalized through selective tradition.In a genealogy of the Allen Toussaint composition, "Yes We Can Ca…
Uneven Institutional Development and the "Staple" Approach: A Problem of Method
Bruce Curtis, Barry Edginton, Uneven Institutional Development and the "Staple" Approach: A Problem of Method, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1979), pp. 257-273
Uneven Institutional Development and the "Staple" Approach: A Problem of Method
Bruce Curtis, Barry Edginton, Uneven Institutional Development and the "Staple" Approach: A Problem of Method, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1979), pp. 257-273
From the Moral Thermometer to Money: Metrological Reform in Pre-Confederation Canada
The importance of infrastructural work for the mobility of practices and for the capacity of centres to act on distant sites is stressed in both science studies and the sociology of state formation. Employing Kula's typology of metrological systems, this paper examines four areas of metrological reform in pre-Confederation Canada, stressing the existence of metrological hybrids. Metrological standardization is held to depend upon the exercise of …
Pierre Bourdieu's Masculine Domination: A Critique
Les auteurs montrent que la tentative de Pierre Bourdieu de résoudre le problème de la « domination masculine» est limitée par l'application inconséquente de son propre répertoire conceptuel, par l'emploi d'exemples empiriques périmés et par l'utilité douteuse du cas des relations sociales en Kabylie. Un rejet des catégories fondamentales (« homme », « femme ») et le recours à une conception plus nuancée de la domination seraient une approche plu…
Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives/ La quantification medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques
A Plentiful Crop of Cripples Made by All This Progress: Disability, Artificial Limbs and Working-Class Mutualism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1890-19481
Historians of orthopaedics, artificial limbs and disability have devoted a great deal of attention to children and soldiers but have neglected to give sufficient space in their studies to industrial workers, the other patient group that has been identified as crucial to the development of these areas. Furthermore, this attention has led to an imbalanced focus on charitable and philanthropic activities as the main means of assistance and the negle…
How Much and How Not to Explain: Gestural Referencing and Conceptual Misappropriations
The Missing Memory of Canadian Sociology: Reflexive Government and “the Social Science
The modest literature on the history of Canadian Sociology takes the appearance of a named academic discipline as its object. Canadian Sociology is held to have had some precursors in the 1880s, but really to appear only in the 1920s. It is described as a foreign import and as an activity first of intellectual speculation and moral reform. Observational and analytic practice are absent before 1880. The activities of state agents and government de…
Selective Tradition and Structure of Feeling in the 2008 Presidential Election: "A Genealogy of "Yes We Can Can
I examine Raymond Williams's concepts "structure of feeling" and "selective tradition" in an engagement with the novel technical-musical-cultural politics of the 2008 Barack Obama presidential election campaign.Williams hoped structure of feeling could be used to reveal the existence of pre-emergent, counter-hegemonic cultural forces, forces marginalized through selective tradition.In a genealogy of the Allen Toussaint composition, "Yes We Can Ca…
Daddy-callin' Mamas' and 'Jelly Beans: Sex Work and Ribaldry in the Blues Archive
I present a thematic overview of sex work and ribaldry in recorded blues songs for the period c.1920-1942. My ambition is primarily documentary, to take up Paul Oliver's insistence that discussion of the blues must ultimately revolve around its 'libidinous hub' and to concretise Abbott and Seroff's characterisation of blues as 'unabashedly licentious a music form as America has ever produced'. Ribald sex work songs are common in the blues archive…
Eyesight to the Blind: Secular and Religious Dialogue in the 'Devil's Music
I adopt a dialogic approach to refute Paul Oliver's claim that there is no challenge to the authority of the black Church or religion in the segregated 'race records' of the first half of the 20th century in the United States. I dismiss the claims of some black theologians that the presence of biblical imagery in the blues means that performers were essentially religious. I show that the dialogue between secular song and religious sermons on reco…
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