- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Overwhelmed: An Introduction to Congress’s Capacity Problem
- Part 1 The Foundations of Congressional Capacity
- 2 Capacity for What? Legislative Capacity Regimes in Congress and the Possibilities for Reform
- 3 The Decline in Congressional Capacity
- 4 How Congress Fell Behind the Executive Branch
- Part 2 Knowledge and Expertise in Congress
- 5 The Congressional Capacity Survey: Who Staff Are, How They Got There, What They Do, and Where They May Go
- 6 What Do Congressional Staff Actually Know?
- 7 How Committee Staffers Clear the Runway for Legislative Action in Congress
- 8 Legislative Branch Support Agencies: What They Are, What They Do, and Their Uneasy Position in Our System of Government
- Part 3 The Politics of Capacity in the Legislative Process
- 9 Still Muddling Along? Assessing the Hybrid Congressional Appropriations Process
- 10 Congress and the Capacity to Act: Overcoming Gridlock in the Senate’s Amendment Process
- 11 The Issue Dynamics of Congressional Capacity
- 12 Congressional Capacity and Reauthorizations
- 13 How Experienced Legislative Staff Contribute to Effective Lawmaking
- 14 Capacity in a Centralized Congress
- 15 Congressional Capacity and Bipartisanship in Congress
- Part 4 Capacity and the Politics of Reform
- 16 Lessons from the History of Reform
- 17 Dodging Dead Cats: What Would It Take to Get Congress to Expand Capacity?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- List of Contributors
- Index
Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical performance, and the remarkable ways in which English people understood music to inform other endeavors, from astrology and self-care to divinity and poetics. Music was considered both art and science, and discussions of music and musical terminology provided points of contact between otherwise discrete fields of human learning. This book demonstrates how knowledge of music permitted individuals to both reveal and conceal membership in specific social, intellectual, and ideological communities. Attending to materials that go beyond music's conventional limits, these chapters probe the role of music in commonplace books, health-maintenance and marriage manuals, rhetorical and theological treatises, and mathematical dictionaries. Ultimately, Austern illustrates how music was an indispensable frame of reference that became central to the fabric of life during a time of tremendous intellectual, social, and technological change.
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