Abstract During the 1930s, Heitor Villa-Lobos concentrated his efforts on coordinating Brazilian musical education. As such, he changed compositional style and did not travel to Europe again until 1936. This article examines Villa-Lobos's trip in 1936, drawing Florencia Garramuño's call ‘incorporate avant-garde voyages as founding moments’ for an autochthonous national character music. journey,...

In this paper, we have tried to analyze and asses the process of formation and spatial – structural evolution of Iranian-Islamic cities through Tehran case study as well as how to organize and effecting different factors specially modernism on urban elements. Also we have discussed about formation and emergence of Tehran and the effect of different pre modernism and postmodernism socio-economic...

The need to call a place home is a very familiar desire. National citizenship can be thought of as a unique status which offers people unbridled access to this peace of mind. Because the nation is the source of this comfort, it is not surprising that people take pride in it. But nationalism stems from the abstract, purely ideological form of a nation. This concrete-less nationalism has been a k...

Glancing through the contemporary architecture of Iran and its different generations during the Pahlavi era, it seems that there have been notions and ideas regarding the architecture which can be considered as a specific current in the architecture of Iran based on different elements of architecture criticism; then the aim of this study is to scrutinize those notions and ideas and their transf...

this paper deals with the philosophical aspects of nationalism and pan-islamism in view of dr. muhammad iqbal, a great poet and philosopher of sub-continent. the paper examines in an analytical way, how iqbal’s concept of nationalism is different from western brand of nationalism and coincided with jamal-u-din afghani’s ideal of pan-islamism. the paper discusses how iqbal reconciled his ideal w...

Spring | Summer 2010 121 This article analyzes the dynamics of development, democracy, and conflict in Georgia, focusing on variation in state capacity, political institutions and varieties of nationalism. Whereas Georgia’s ethnic nationalism substituted for political institutions in the 1990s, the state’s enhanced administrative capacities after 2003 inhibited it from returning to ethnic natio...

Katherine Mansfield is traditionally located in English Modernism; however, she goes beyond the modernist perception of the “allotropic self” and approaches the endlessly split subject of postmodernism. This study selects the theoretical rationale of a number of postmodernist critics that validates a perception of Mansfield’s treatment of the human subject as postmodernist, particularly in “The...

Herder is often considered a cultural nationalist rather than a political nationalist. Although there is a measure of truth in this assessment, it overlooks the important passages in Herder’s writings where he did make political claims about the nation. The article explores the basis of these claims, and tries to articulate what is theoretically interesting and plausible in Herder’s account. He...

in this paper, we have tried to analyze and asses the process of formation and spatial – structural evolution of iranian-islamic cities through tehran case study as well as how to organize and effecting different factors specially modernism on urban elements. also we have discussed about formation and emergence of tehran and the effect of different pre modernism and postmodernism socio-economic...