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“Sounds for Adventurous Listeners”: Willis Conover, the Voice of America, and the International Reception of Avant-garde Jazz in the 1960S (open access)

“Sounds for Adventurous Listeners”: Willis Conover, the Voice of America, and the International Reception of Avant-garde Jazz in the 1960S

In “Sounds for Adventurous Listeners,” I argue that Conover’s role in the dissemination of jazz through the Music USA Jazz Hour was more influential on an educational level than what literature on Conover currently provides. Chapter 2 begins with an examination of current studies regarding the role of jazz in Cold War diplomacy, the sociopolitical implications of avant-garde jazz and race, the convergence of fandom and propaganda, the promoter as facilitator of musical trends, and the influence of international radio during the Cold War. In chapter 3 I introduce the Friends of Music USA Newsletter and explain its function as a record of overseas jazz reception and a document that cohered a global network of fans. I then focus on avant-garde debates of the 1960s and discuss Conover’s role overseas and in the United States. Chapter 4 engages social purpose and jazz criticism in the 1960s. I discuss Conover’s philosophy on social responsibility, and how his contributions intersected with other relevant discourses on race on the eve of the civil rights movement. I argue that Conover embodied two personas: one as jazz critic and promoter in the United States, and the other as an international intermediary. In chapter 5 I …
Date: August 2012
Creator: Breckenridge, Mark A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 28, 2012 (open access)

Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Yoakum, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: McCracken, Michael S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archival and Archeological Research: Camino Real de los Tejas and Texas State Parks (open access)

Archival and Archeological Research: Camino Real de los Tejas and Texas State Parks

Report on the route of El Camino Real as it extends through four Texas State Parks.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Weddle, Robert S.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 4, 2012 (open access)

Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Yoakum, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 4, 2012
Creator: McCracken, Michael S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 11, 2012 (open access)

Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Yoakum, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 11, 2012
Creator: McCracken, Michael S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 2012 (open access)

Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Yoakum, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 5, 2012
Creator: McCracken, Michael S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Summary Report on CO{sub 2} Geologic Sequestration & Water Resources Workshop (open access)

Summary Report on CO{sub 2} Geologic Sequestration & Water Resources Workshop

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) jointly hosted a workshop on “CO{sub 2} Geologic Sequestration and Water Resources” in Berkeley, June 1–2, 2011. The focus of the workshop was to evaluate R&D needs related to geological storage of CO{sub 2} and potential impacts on water resources. The objectives were to assess the current status of R&D, to identify key knowledge gaps, and to define specific research areas with relevance to EPA’s mission. About 70 experts from EPA, the DOE National Laboratories, industry, and academia came to Berkeley for two days of intensive discussions. Participants were split into four breakout session groups organized around the following themes: Water Quality and Impact Assessment/Risk Prediction; Modeling and Mapping of Area of Potential Impact; Monitoring and Mitigation; Wells as Leakage Pathways. In each breakout group, participants identified and addressed several key science issues. All groups developed lists of specific research needs; some groups prioritized them, others developed short-term vs. long-term recommendations for research directions. Several crosscutting issues came up. Most participants agreed that the risk of CO{sub 2} leakage from sequestration sites that are properly selected and monitored is expected to be low. However, it also became …
Date: February 15, 2012
Creator: Varadharajan, C.; Birkholzer, J.; Kraemer, S.; Porse, S.; Carroll, S.; Wilkin, R. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 2 (open access)

Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 2

Second part of a report evaluating the environmental impacts of adopting a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) prepared by the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP) that would permit incidental take of endangered species during other lawful activities, while attempting to minimize or mitigate expected impacts. This volume contains agreements and supplementary information related to the report proposals.
Date: June 2012
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865/1874

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Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, for control of the southern states. Texas became one of the earliest battleground states in the War of Reconstruction. Throughout this era, white Texans claimed that Radical Republicans in Congress were attempting to dominate their state through “Negro-Carpetbag-Scalawag rule.” In response to these perceived threats, whites initiated a violent guerilla war that was designed to limit support for the Republican Party. They targeted loyal Unionists throughout the South, especially African Americans who represented the largest block of Republican voters in the region. Was the Reconstruction era in the Lone Star State simply a continuation of the Civil War? Evidence presented by sixteen contributors in this new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, argues that this indeed was the case. Topics include the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the occupying army, focusing on both sides of the violence. Several contributors analyze the origins of the Ku Klux Klan and its operations in Texas, how the Texas State Police attempted to quell the violence, and Tejano adjustment to Reconstruction. Other chapters …
Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Howell, Kenneth W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Guest Artist: 2012-03-05 - Denton High School Fine Arts

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A fine arts concert at the UNT College of Music Winspear.
Date: March 5, 2012
Creator: Denton High School Choir
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 3 (open access)

Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 3

Final part of a report evaluating the environmental impacts of adopting a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) prepared by the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP) that would permit incidental take of endangered species during other lawful activities, while attempting to minimize or mitigate expected impacts. This volume contains memorandum of agreement for Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program with signature pages, as well as associated research reports referenced by the study.
Date: June 2012
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Compatriot, Winter 2012 (open access)

The Texas Compatriot, Winter 2012

Publication of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, containing news and events related to the organization and its members.
Date: February 10, 2012
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 71, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 2012 (open access)

The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 71, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Semi-weekly newspaper from Gilmer, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 5, 2012
Creator: Overton, Mac
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 83, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 17, 2012 (open access)

The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 83, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Semi-weekly newspaper from Gilmer, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 17, 2012
Creator: Overton, Mac
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 6, Ed. 1, June 2012 (open access)

South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 6, Ed. 1, June 2012

Monthly newspaper from Corpus Christi, Texas published by the Diocese of Corpus Christi that includes news of interest to Diocese members along with advertising.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Cardenas, Alfredo E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Summary and Findings from the NREL/DOE Hydrogen Sensor Workshop (June 8, 2011) (open access)

Summary and Findings from the NREL/DOE Hydrogen Sensor Workshop (June 8, 2011)

On June 8, 2011, DOE/NREL hosted a hydrogen sensor workshop attended by nearly forty participants from private organizations, government facilities, and academic institutions . The workshop participants represented a cross section of stakeholders in the hydrogen community, including sensor developers, end users, site safety officials, and code and standards developers. The goals of the workshop were to identify critical applications for the emerging hydrogen infrastructure that require or would benefit from hydrogen sensors, to assign performance specifications for sensor deployed in each application, and to identify shortcomings or deficiencies (i.e., technical gaps) in the ability of current sensor technology to meet the assigned performance requirements.
Date: July 1, 2012
Creator: Buttner, W.; Burgess, R.; Post, M. & Rivkin, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas State University-San Marcos Annual Financial Report: 2012 (open access)

Texas State University-San Marcos Annual Financial Report: 2012

Annual financial report of Texas State University-San Marcos for fiscal year 2012 including organizational information, financial statements regarding assets, revenues, expenses, and cash flows, as well as supplemental notes and schedules.
Date: Autumn 2012
Creator: Texas State University--San Marcos
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department

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Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others. The Houston Police Department was one of the first cities in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are …
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Roth, Mitchel P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Antebellum Jefferson, Texas: Everyday Life in an East Texas Town

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Founded in 1845 as a steamboat port at the entryway to western markets from the Red River, Jefferson was a thriving center of trade until the steamboat traffic dried up in the 1870s. During its heyday, the town monopolized the shipping of cotton from all points west for 150 miles. Jefferson was the unofficial capital of East Texas, but it was also typical of boom towns in general. For this topical examination of a frontier town, Bagur draws from many government documents, but also from newspaper ads and plats. These sources provide intimate details of the lives of the early citizens of Jefferson, Texas. Their story is of interest to both local and state historians as well as to the many readers interested in capturing the flavor of life in old-time East Texas. “Astoundingly complete and a model for local history research, with appeal far beyond readers who have specific interests in Jefferson.”—Fred Tarpley, author of Jefferson: Riverport to the Southwest
Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Bagur, Jacques D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 12, Pages 9848 to 10799, August 20 - August 31, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 12, Pages 9848 to 10799, August 20 - August 31, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: August 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of Treated Municipal Wastewater as Power Plant Cooling System Makeup Water: Tertiary Treatment versus Expanded Chemical Regimen for Recirculating Water Quality Management (open access)

Use of Treated Municipal Wastewater as Power Plant Cooling System Makeup Water: Tertiary Treatment versus Expanded Chemical Regimen for Recirculating Water Quality Management

Treated municipal wastewater is a common, widely available alternative source of cooling water for thermoelectric power plants across the U.S. However, the biodegradable organic matter, ammonia-nitrogen, carbonate and phosphates in the treated wastewater pose challenges with respect to enhanced biofouling, corrosion, and scaling, respectively. The overall objective of this study was to evaluate the benefits and life cycle costs of implementing tertiary treatment of secondary treated municipal wastewater prior to use in recirculating cooling systems. The study comprised bench- and pilot-scale experimental studies with three different tertiary treated municipal wastewaters, and life cycle costing and environmental analyses of various tertiary treatment schemes. Sustainability factors and metrics for reuse of treated wastewater in power plant cooling systems were also evaluated. The three tertiary treated wastewaters studied were: secondary treated municipal wastewater subjected to acid addition for pH control (MWW_pH); secondary treated municipal wastewater subjected to nitrification and sand filtration (MWW_NF); and secondary treated municipal wastewater subjected nitrification, sand filtration, and GAC adsorption (MWW_NFG). Tertiary treatment was determined to be essential to achieve appropriate corrosion, scaling, and biofouling control for use of secondary treated municipal wastewater in power plant cooling systems. The ability to control scaling, in particular, was found to be …
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Dzombak, David; Vidic, Radisav & Landis, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 2012 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 2012

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 19, 2012
Creator: Reddell, Valerie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 2012 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 30, 2012
Creator: Pena, Hilda
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A New Literary Realism: Artistic Renderings of Ethnicity, Identity, and Sexuality in the Narratives of Philip Roth (open access)

A New Literary Realism: Artistic Renderings of Ethnicity, Identity, and Sexuality in the Narratives of Philip Roth

This dissertation explores Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959), the Ghost Writer (1979), the Counterlife (1986), the Facts (1988), Operation Shylock (1993), Sabbath's Theater (1995),and the Human Stain (2000), arguing that Roth relishes the telling of the story and the search for self within that telling. with attention to narrative technique and its relation to issues surrounding reality and identity, Roth's narratives stress unreliability, causing Roth to create characters searching for a more complex interpretation of self. Chapter I examines Roth’s negotiation of dual identities as Neil Klugman in Goodbye, Columbus feels alienated and displaced from Christianized America. the search for identity and the merging of American Christianity and Judaism remain a focus in Chapter II, which explores the implications of how, in the Ghost Writer, a young Nathan Zuckerman visits his mentor E.I. Lonoff to find him living in what he believes to be a non-Jewish environment—the American wilderness. Chapter II also examines the difficulties of cultural assimilation in "Eli, the Fanatic," in which Eli must shed outward appearances of Judaism to fit into the mostly Protestant community of Woodenton. Relative to the negotiation of multiple identities, Chapter III considers Sabbath’s attempt, in Sabbath’s Theater, to reconcile his …
Date: May 2012
Creator: Harvell, Marta Krogh
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library