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Music

Music and cognitive abilities

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Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning would be notable only if the benefits apply reliably to nonmusical abilities and

Music

The evolution of Rai music

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Rai has evolved from native Orani-Algerian music with provocative lyrics sung at local cafes, bars, and bordellos to the most popular and controversial music in North Africa today. It was banned from the Algerian broadcast media because it was considered

Music as therapy
Music

Music as therapy

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Music is widely used to enhance well-being, reduce stress, and distract patients from unpleasant symptoms. Although there are wide variations in individual preferences, music appears to exert direct physiologic effects through the autonomic nervous system

Theater and dance at Mare Arts Center - counter-world actions
Dance

Theater and dance at Mare Arts Center - counter-world actions

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This paper proposes a reflection on artistic and pedagogical theater and dance practices developed by Programa Teatro em Comunidades and by Escola Livre de Danca da Mare at Centro de Artes da Mare. Based on the notions of viable-unprecedented and possible

Dance

FU-LIN DANCES IN MEDIEVAL CHINESE ART - BYZANTINE OR IMAGINARY?

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Chinese artists, active from the Tang dynasty to Northern Song dynasty, created famous paintings including Fu-lin musical and dancing scenes; as e. g. Yan Liben, Wu Daozi and Li Gon-glin. The most of these works are unfortunately lost; thus, we have infor