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Paul Watt

Bio: Paul Watt is an academic researcher from Monash University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Musical & Biography. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 27 publications receiving 111 citations.

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01 Sep 2019

32 citations

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TL;DR: In the early 1890s, a critic by the name of G.A.S. as discussed by the authors wrote in the newly founded liberal periodical, The Speaker, that the music hall was a "half-graceful, half-grotesque medley of spectacle and buffoonery" and that its total disappearance from the English stage is only a question of a few more years.
Abstract: On 11 January 1890, a critic by the name of ‘G.A.S.’ wrote in the newly founded liberal periodical, The Speaker, that the music hall was a ‘half-graceful, half-grotesque medley of spectacle and buffoonery … [it] is in a condition of hopeless decline, and that its total disappearance from the English stage is only a question of a few more years‘. Yet to some of G.A.S.'s contemporaries, such as the emerging music critic Ernest Newman, the music hall was a place of wholesome entertainment. Such polarized views on the value of music hall in the late Victorian period were common, but the music hall, as an important cultural institution, could not be easily dismissed or ignored. As F.Vr Robinson noted in The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper on 8 June 1878, there were over 400 music halls in London to which 175,900 people went each night. Even though G.A.S. was writing some twelve years after these statistics were published, the music hall was far from languishing in the 1890s.

8 citations

Book
01 Sep 2011
TL;DR: The Bang-up Songster as discussed by the authors is an out-and-out collection of humorous, humorous, and comic songs written by a man named William West (1834-36).
Abstract: Volume 1: Items published by William West (1834-36) The Bang-up Songster! A Famous Collection of Flash, Fancy, Friskey, Amatory and Clamatory Staves The Delicious Chanter, and Exciting Warbler a Capital Collection of Randy, Rousing, Tear-up, Falre-up Songs The Flash Chaunter: An Out-and-Out Collection The Flash Minstrel! A Famous New Collection The Libertine's Songster. One of the Best Collections of Songs Ever Printed The Luscious Songster: a Delicious Cabinet of all that is Amatory, Flash & Funny The Randy Songster. A Regular Out-and-Out Collection of the most Moving, Licentious, Pathetic, Flash, and Amatory Chaunts, Ticklish Staves, and Lecherous Tit Bits, Ever Before Printed The Knowing Chaunter, or, Kiddy's Cabinet! The Secret Songster, a Capital Collection of Fanciful, Frolicksome, Flash, Friskey, Flare-Up Songs The Cockchafer. A Choice Selection of Flash, Frisky, and Funny Songs The Comic Songster, and Gentleman's Private Cabinet: With a Superior Collection of Funny Toasts The Frisky Vocalist, and Funny Chaunter. Adapted for Gentlemen Only Volume 2: Items published by William West (1836-42) The New Cockolorum Songster with a Collection of Rummy Toasts The Cuckold's Nest of Choice, Flash, Smutty, and Delicious Songs, with Rummy Toasts The Little Icky-Wickey Songster. A New Collection of Delicious and Luxurious Staves Th[e] Ri-tum Ti-fum Songster: A Slashing, Dashing, Leary, Frisky, and Delicious Collection of Gentlemen's Songs The Ticklish Minstrel! A most Bewitching Collection of the Very Best and most Truly Lecherous and Delicious Vocal Tit-Bits Ever Printed The Gentleman's Sparkling Songster, Nothing but Regular Good, Slashing, Touching, Irresistible, Amatory Ditties The Rambler's Flash Songster, Nothing but Out and Outers, Adapted for Gentlemen Only The Flash Chaunter, a Slashing, Dashing, Friskey, and Delecious Collection of Gentlemen's Songs The Gentleman's Spicey Songster, a most Bewitching Collection of the Very Best and Truly Delicious Tit-Bits Ever Printed The Gentleman's Steeple-Chaser, a Choice Selection of Flash Songs!!! Nancy Dawson's Cabinet of Choice Songs, Being a Collection of some of the most Superlative, Amatory, Flash, Luxurious, and Dainty Ditties, Ever Before Printed The Nobby Songster, a Prime Selection as now Singing at Offleys Cider Cellar: Coal Hole &c. Volume 3: Items published by M Metford (1833-40) and G K Edwards (1835-6) The Fal-lal Songster, a Real Tip-Top Budget of Amatory, Drinking, Sporting, and Laughable Songs The Funny Songster: an Extensive Collection of Flash, Amatory, and Comical Songs The Rake's Budget, and Songster's Tickler, Being a Regular Good Collection of all the most Funny, Flash Amorous, and Sensitive Songs Ever Printed The Rummy Cove's Delight: a Pretty Considerable Collection of Queer Staves The Flash Casket, a Very Curious Collection of Mouth-Watering Parodies, Funny Fakements, The Rum ti tum! A Favourite Collection of Amatory, Bacchanalian and Laughable Songs The Flash Olio: All that is Funny, Facetious, and Amorous Capt Morris's Songs. A Very Capital Collection of Bacchanalian, Amatory, and Double Entendre Songs The Facetious Songster: A Slap-Up Collection of Favourite New Flash, Amatory and Comic Songs The Fake Away Songster, a Capital Collection of Regular Good Songs G K Edwards, Fanny Hill's Bang-up Reciter, Friskey Songster, and Amarous Toast Master Fanny Hill's New Friskey Chanter, and Amorous Toast Master, containing a Slashing Lot of Randy, Friskey, Licentious and Slap-Up Flash Songs The Gentleman's Private Songster, Containing an Out-and-Out Colection of the most Amorous, Lucious, Randy, Friskey, Licentious, and Flash Songs, Ticklish Staves, and Lecherous, Slap-Up Tit Bits, Ever Printed Volume 4: Items published by J Duncombe (1833-5), Smith (1834) and Lovelace & Perkess (1833) Duncombe, The Convivialist: an Extensive Collection of Humorous, Flash and Love Songs The Corinthian an Extensive Collection of Flash Songs, Slang Ditties, and Rum Chaunts Fun Alive, O! A Capital Collection of Flash, Slang, Comic, and Queer Songs The Lummy Chaunter: A Plummy Collection of Original and Celebrated Flash Staves The Out-and-Outer! A Right Up-an-End Collection of Flash & Amatory Songs The Regular Thing, and No Mistake: or, A Prime Collection of Flash Chaunts The Swell!!! Or, Slap-Up Chaunter: An Out-and-Out Collection of Flash Songs, Rum Ditties, and Slang Chaunts The Cove, a Regular Rum Collection of Spreeish Songs The Rumcodger's Collection of Prime New Flash & Amatory Songs Smith, The Flare-up Songster, or Flash Kiddy's Fancy! The Black Joke: a New, Funny, Flash and Frisky Songster with Rummy Toasts, Lovelace & Perkess, Tommarroo Songster

4 citations


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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The authors reflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlightenment, including histories of astronomy, ancient logic and ancient physics; essays on the "imitative" arts and the affinity between music, dancing, and poetry; and a critical review of Samuel Johnson's famous Dictionary.
Abstract: Reflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlightenment. Included are histories of astronomy, ancient logic, and ancient physics; essays on the "imitative" arts and the affinity between music, dancing, and poetry; and a critical review of Samuel Johnson's famous Dictionary. which Smith originally published in the Edinburgh Review (1755-56).

419 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the Triassic through Cenozoic geology of the central Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and presents their tectonic interpretations in a time series of schematic lithosphere-scale cross-sections and paleogeographic maps.
Abstract: The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen culminated during the Cenozoic India – Asia collision, but its geological framework and initial growth were fundamentally the result of multiple, previous ocean closure and intercontinental suturing events. As such, the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen provides an ideal laboratory to investigate geological signatures of the suturing process in general, and how the Earth9s highest and largest orogenic feature formed in specific. This paper synthesizes the Triassic through Cenozoic geology of the central Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and presents our tectonic interpretations in a time series of schematic lithosphere-scale cross-sections and paleogeographic maps. We suggest that north-dipping subducting slabs beneath Asian continental terranes associated with closure of the Paleo-, Meso-, and Neo-Tethys oceans experienced phases of southward trench retreat prior to intercontinental suturing. These trench retreat events created ophiolites in forearc extensional settings and/or a backarc oceanic basins between rifted segments of upper-plate continental margin arcs. This process may have occurred at least three times along the southern Asian margin during northward subduction of Neo-Tethys oceanic lithosphere: from ∼174 to 156 Ma; 132 to 120 Ma; and 90 to 70 Ma. At most other times, the Tibetan terranes underwent Cordilleran-style or collisional contractional deformation. Geological records indicate that most of northern and central Tibet (the Hoh-Xil and Qiangtang terranes, respectively) were uplifted above sea level by Jurassic time, and southern Tibet (the Lhasa terrane) north of its forearc region has been above sea level since ∼100 Ma. Stratigraphic evidence indicates that the northern Himalayan margin of India collided with an Asian-affinity subduction complex – forearc – arc system beginning at ∼60 Ma. Both the Himalaya (composed of Indian crust) and Tibet show continuous geological records of orogenesis since ∼60 Ma. As no evidence exists in the rock record for a younger suture, the simplest interpretation of the geology is that India – Asia collision initiated at ∼60 Ma. Plate circuit, paleomagnetic, and structural reconstructions, however, suggest that the southern margin of Asia was too far north of India to have collided with it at that time. Seismic tomographic images are also suggestive of a second, more southerly Neo-Tethyan oceanic slab in the lower mantle where the northernmost margin of India may have been located at ∼60 Ma. The geology of Tibet and the India – Asia suture zone permits an alternative collision scenario in which the continental margin arc along southern Asia (the Gangdese arc) was split by extension beginning at ∼90 Ma, and along with its forearc to the south (the Xigaze forearc), rifted southward and opened a backarc ocean basin. The rifted arc collided with India at ∼60 Ma whereas the hypothetical backarc ocean basin may not have been consumed until ∼45 Ma. A compilation of igneous age data from Tibet shows that the most recent phase of Gangdese arc magmatism in the southern Lhasa terrane initiated at ∼70 Ma, peaked at ∼51 Ma, and terminated at ∼38 Ma. Cenozoic potassic-adakitic magmatism initiated at ∼45 Ma within a ∼200-km-wide elliptical area within the northern Qiangtang terrane, after which it swept westward and southward with time across central Tibet until ∼26 Ma. At 26 to 23 Ma, potassic-adakitic magmatism swept southward across the Lhasa terrane, a narrow (∼20 km width), orogen-parallel basin developed at low elevation along the axis of the India – Asia suture zone (the Kailas basin), and Greater Himalayan Sequence rocks began extruding southward between the South Tibetan Detachment and Main Central Thrust. The Kailas basin was then uplifted to >4 km elevation by ∼20 Ma, after which parts of the India – Asia suture zone and Gangdese arc experienced >6 km of exhumation (between ∼20 and 16 Ma). Between ∼16 and 12 Ma, slip along the South Tibetan Detachment terminated and east-west extension initiated in the northern Himalaya and Tibet. Potassic-adakitic magmatism in the Lhasa terrane shows a northward younging trend in the age of its termination, beginning at 20 to 18 Ma until volcanism ended at 8 Ma. We interpret the post-45 Ma geological evolution in the context of the subduction dynamics of Indian continental lithosphere and its interplay with delamination of Asian mantle lithosphere.

365 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state of the art in computer vision and artificial intelligence in London, and the place of publication is London and the date 2005 unless otherwise stated.
Abstract: (The place of publication is London and the date 2005 unless otherwise stated.)

164 citations

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TL;DR: This literature review of dance and sexual expression considers dance and religion, dance and sexuality as a source of power, manifestations of sexuality in Western theater art and social dance, plus ritual and non-Western social dance.
Abstract: This literature review of dance and sexual expression considers dance and religion, dance and sexuality as a source of power, manifestations of sexuality in Western theater art and social dance, pl...

98 citations

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TL;DR: The bibliographies of the Keats-Shelley Journal as discussed by the authors provide a broad overview of the history of British Romanticism with an emphasis on second-generation writers, particularly John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, and William Hazlitt.
Abstract: T he annual bibliography of the Keats-Shelley Journal catalogues recent scholarship related to British Romanticism, with emphasis on secondgeneration writers—particularly John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, and William Hazlitt. The bibliography includes books, chapters in books, book reviews, articles in journals, other bibliographies, dissertations, and editions of Romantic-era literature and historical documents. The listings are compiled primarily from the catalogues of major British and American publishers and from the tables of contents of books and major journals in the field. The first section of the bibliography lists a wide range of scholarly work on Romanticism that might be of interest to the Journal’s readers, while the subsequent sections list items that deal more specifically with the six aforementioned authors. Because the length of the bibliography precludes my annotating every item, only some entries have annotations—primarily books dealing with the second-generation Romantics. The following bibliography catalogues scholarship for the year 2015, along with the occasional item that inadvertently may have been excluded from the annual bibliography in previous years or that may have arrived too late for inclusion. While I have made every attempt to keep the bibliography accurate and comprehensive, the occasional error or omission is inevitable. Please send corrections, additions, and citations for upcoming bibliographies to Ben P. Robertson at Troy University (ksjbiblio@troy.edu).

85 citations