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L’histoire des femmes acadiennes durant les années 1960 et 1970 est encore sousétudiée. Une manière d’aborder le passé des femmes est par l’étude du concept de genre, soit l’évolution des rôles, valeurs et normes de comportements prescrites aux femmes. Nous pouvons cerner ces va…

Paradigms of Protest: American Artists Against the Vietnam War is a narrative history of antiwar engagement by American artists during the Vietnam War (1964-1975). Contextualized within the major events of the war and the greater American antiwar movement, this history explains …

In the 1960s, African American jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81) used what was then known as the Negro spiritual, blues, swing, bebop, and even ragtime as inspiration for her settings of the sacred liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. She deliberately chose …

The standard model since the advent of recorded jazz is for an ensemble to include a single bassist (or, in the earliest days, a tuba player). In the 1960s, however, all of the major figures that we associate with the jazz avant-garde included two bassists in their ensembles dur…

Fabricated in unlimited series and sold at cost, the sculptures produced by Charlotte Posenenske between 1966 and 1967—modular wall reliefs, interactive cubic structures, and tubular geometric units whose installation requires collective decision making—were meant to confront bo…

History (1973) remains Robert Lowell’s most criticized collection of poetry. This was largely because of the critical consensus that Lowell, the most well-known confessional poet, had moved too far away from the elements of the genre in his later works. This reception, coupled w…

Despite the rise of social studies to address craft economy or production in modern society, how the value can be added to a craft-made product is poorly explained. By exploring the global context of the guitar-making industry in the 1960s and interviewing guitar makers in four …

The 1960s saw major fashion innovation for women’s styles. Increasingly young people made deliberate choices to convey their stances on political, economic, and social issues through dress. The counterculture adopted crochet along with vintage and do-it-yourself styles. They for…

On the campus of Eastern Michigan University, the turbulent decade of the 1960s passed by almost without notice. Only small groups protested the war in Vietnam or racial equality on campus. Beginning with the seizure of Pierce Hall by black students in February 1969, student act…