“In Afghanistan, women in uniform are widely seen in the airports and across bases heading to work. But watch a war movie and the roughly 300,000 women who have deployed in America’s post-9/11 wars are largely missing in action. These untold stories have consequences both for how America sees its women in uniform and how they see themselves.”
Tag: 08.04.15
The ISIS Book Club? These Volumes Could Help Trace Antiquities Looted From Iraq And Syria
“The stash of books about ancient coins and Egyptian pyramids seemed to belong more in a 1950s library in Germany than on the back of a truck filled with shoulder-fired missiles. Then again, if you’re an Islamic State fighter with plans to loot and sell antiquities to the West in order to fund your cause, it helps to know which objects to look for.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.04.15
“Music Unwound” – The NEH and the Music Education Crisis
AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published 2015-08-04
Who’s “Unfair”? Guggenheim & Gulf Labor Coalition Exchange Barbs Over Delayed Abu Dhabi Project
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-04
Follow that Brook at your Peril!
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-08-04
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The Tourism Problem (It’s Killing Travel, Killing Experience, And Killing Places)
“In an age of unprecedented foreign travel, tourists get quite a bad rap, not least from tourists themselves. Of course, many high-minded people would scoff at the notion that they are tourists, beholden to the same vulgar taste as the travelling masses, even though, as we shall see, that hierarchy is not a very convincing one.”
Free “Happy Birthday!” (The Battle To Release An Iconic Song From Copyright)
A federal lawsuit filed by a group of independent artists is trying to change that, and lawyers in the case, in a filing last week, said they had found evidence in the yellowed pages of a nearly century-old songbook that proves the song’s copyright — first issued in 1935 — is no longer valid.
A First: Theatre Company Asks Taylor Swift For Song Rights Over Social Media And…
Five days before opening, all conventional efforts exhausted, the company resorted to trying to reach Swift on social media and in what may be a first, she granted the rights via Twitter just hours ago. While I suspect there are some contractual details to be worked out beyond “Permission granted,” presumably the tweet from Swift gives Belvoir Street enough comfort that they can proceed.