How Does It Feel to be Creative? A Phenomenological Investigation of the Creative Experience in Kinetic Places (open access)

How Does It Feel to be Creative? A Phenomenological Investigation of the Creative Experience in Kinetic Places

How does it feel to be creative? Such a question, when approached from a phenomenological perspective, reveals new understandings about the embodied experience of creativity, and how it feels as it is being lived. This investigation begins with a provocative contrast of two environments where creativity is thought to manifest itself: school art classrooms, where creativity is often legislated from an authority figure, and New Orleans Second Line parades, where creativity is organically and kinetically expressed. A thorough review of the literature on creativity focuses on education, arts education, creative economies, psychology, and critical theorists, collectively revealing a cognitive bias and striking lack of consideration for community, freedom, and the lived experience of being creative. Further discussions in the literature also neglect sites of creativity, and the impact that place (such as a school classroom) can have upon creativity. The phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Bachelard, and Trigg support a methodological lens to grasp embodied knowledge, perceptions of placedness on creativity, and the interdependent frictions between freedom, authenticity, movement and belonging. The research method includes investigations in New Orleans in archives, examination of visual and material culture, participation in cultural practice, and formal and informal interviews. Further, the phenomena of …
Date: December 2017
Creator: Bartholomee, Lucy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Picayune's Map of New Orleans

Map of New Orleans in 1906 showing street layout of the city including parks and roads.
Date: 1906
Creator: The Picayune
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library

Plan of the City of New Orleans and the Adjacent Plantations

Map of the city of New Orleans in 1798, including adjacent plantations (with property notes and the history of land ownership) and points of interest. Scale ca. 1:18,676 (ca. 280 toesas per inch).
Date: December 24, 1798
Creator: Trudeau, Carlos
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New Orleans fire] (open access)

[News Script: New Orleans fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 12:00pm.
Date: April 7, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Evening sports roundup] (open access)

[News Script: Evening sports roundup]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 6:00pm.
Date: April 7, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cancer] (open access)

[News Script: Cancer]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. The story aired at 10:00pm.
Date: March 28, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Explosions and artificial hearts] (open access)

[News Script: Explosions and artificial hearts]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 6:30am.
Date: April 7, 1969, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Strike] (open access)

[News Script: Strike]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: March 25, 1969, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: American Tobacco Company] (open access)

[News Script: American Tobacco Company]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 12:00am.
Date: 1969-04-08T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Boat on fire] (open access)

[News Script: Boat on fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: April 6, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Baylor Bears Fly to New Orleans] (open access)

[News Script: Baylor Bears Fly to New Orleans]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Baylor Bears, college football team, flying into New Orleans, Louisiana, for the Sugar Bowl.
Date: December 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Evacuation Policy: Issues for Congress (open access)

Federal Evacuation Policy: Issues for Congress

This report discusses federal evacuation policy and analyzes potential lessons learned from the evacuation of individuals from Hurricane Katrina. Several issue areas that might arise concerning potential lawmaking and oversight on evacuation policy are also highlighted. This report will be updated as significant legislative or administrative changes occur.
Date: March 30, 2009
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Man found in Louisiana] (open access)

[News Script: Man found in Louisiana]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 18, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Federal grand jury] (open access)

[News Script: Federal grand jury]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about about an appeal for Kenneth Tierneys release from prison.
Date: June 23, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bus bombers] (open access)

[News Script: Bus bombers]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an upheld conviction for Fred Hayes and Kenneth McMaster.
Date: July 1, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 6PM Sports] (open access)

[News Script: 6PM Sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story giving the daily sports highlights.
Date: August 18, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Court] (open access)

[News Script: Court]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a federal appeals court in New Orlelans upholding a suspension in 1970 of a Dallas high school student for having long hair.
Date: June 17, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Nix] (open access)

[News Script: Nix]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the head of the Dixie Mafia, Kirksey McCord Nix Jr, failing in an appeal bid in New Orleans.
Date: August 5, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Desegregation] (open access)

[News Script: Desegregation]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a motion to reopen a desegregation case.
Date: July 21, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: MacGregor] (open access)

[News Script: MacGregor]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story teasing an upcoming story on Clark MacGregor speaking about peace efforts in Vietnam.
Date: June 19, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Kirksey] (open access)

[News Script: Kirksey]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 1, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fort Worth desegregation trial] (open access)

[News Script: Fort Worth desegregation trial]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 25, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mayors] (open access)

[News Script: Mayors]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about votes by the US Conference of Mayors and approval for a day care program.
Date: June 21, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fort Worth school desegregation] (open access)

[News Script: Fort Worth school desegregation]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the federal court of appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana ordering the desegregation of Fort Worth schools.
Date: July 14, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library