Reverberations

The Editors: Susan Ingram has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta and is currently working on a postdoctoral project in the History Department at the University of Victoria on the technologies of self-representation. In addition to women's writing and auto/biography, she has also published on topics in Translation Studies.
Markus Reisenleitner has a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and joined the Department of Cultural Studies at the Lingnan University Hong-Kong in the capacity of Associate Professor in 2001. Areas of interest include cultural history and cultural studies (urban studies, theories of space, place and identity, popular culture in public entertainment and spectacle, popular literature and themed environments).
Cornelia Szabó-Knotik has a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Vienna and is Associate Professor at the Institute of Analysis, Theory and History of Music at the University of Music in Vienna. Interested in the aesthetic content as well as the social and cultural importance of music, her main subjects are the history of music-life, the many phenomena of reception, including the importance of new media (film) for the way the musical heritage is confronted.

lt;i>Contents: James Deaville: Cakewalk in Waltz Time? African-American Music in Jahrhundertwende Vienna - Martina Nußbaumer: «...im gesegneten Lande der Erfindungen so wenig musikalische Erfindung...»: Perceptions of American Musical Culture in Vienna around 1900 - Michael Saffle: Cultural Transfer, Identity and Otherness, and Depictions of Musical Vienna in the New York Times, 1918-1938 - Peter Stachel: «I even ask the Putzfrau with the Buerschtl»: How the Blues Came to Austria - Barbara Boisits: Austria's Neue Volxmusik: The Sound of the Global Village? - Nada Bezic: Around the World With Croatian Tamburitza - Cornelia Szabó-Knotik: Dreams of Exotic Beaches - Paulus Ebner: Go East, Young Man! A Comparison of The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) and Mr. Pim (1929-30) - Alexandra Seibel: A Topography of Excess: Visions of Vienna in Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March (1928) - Susan Ingram: Modernity, Modernism and Canadian Film: A Rhapsody in Two Languages - Andriy Zayarnyuk: Closing Modernity: Ukrainian Emigration and Images of America - Natalia Shostak: On Local Readings of Overseas Kin: Visions from Ukraine - Johannes Feichtinger: Migration - Cultural Transfer - Scientific Change: Austrian Scholarly Traditions and their Impact on Scholarship and Science in the Americas 1933-1945 - Markus Reisenleitner: Beach-Haus vs. Traum(a) Factory: The L.A. Experience through Central European Eyes - Wladimir Fischer: America as a Circus: Antun Gustav Matos's Multiple Perspectives on Modernity - Helga Mitterbauer: Fear - Despair - Insanity: The City of New York as a Vanishing-Point of Accelerated Modernity.