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Objective: The study investigated the impact of thin idealized images of women as presented in music television, a popular form of entertainment for young people. Methods: A sample of 84 women viewed a videotape containing either appearance music videos (

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Nowadays, available music information is increasing rapidly from fast growing digital libraries and the Internet. How to effectively retrieve music data is a challenging task and content-based retrieval of music is a relatively large area. Much work that

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Establishing the legitimacy of the arts within the larger school curriculum is a defining issue in arts education. Within the context of this perennial challenge, this article examines two multicultural issues in music education: equal music education opp

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Digital library technologies have a great deal to offer to creative, design(1) communities. They can enable large collections of text, images, music, video and other information objects to be organised and accessed in interesting and diverse ways. Ordinar

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Often music is used as a metaphor of global social and cultural processes; it also constitutes an enduring process by and through which people interact within and across cultures. The review explores these processes with reference to an anthropological an

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This article delves into the ways in which dance practice revises traditional approaches to assistive technology design, adding a productive dimension to current momentum in the design field at large. Based upon research with dancers who have disabilities

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This article draws from a collaboration between Rambert School of Dance, University of Kent, University College London Institute of Education and an anthropological filmmaker. Together we took a creative and embodied approach to teaching reflective practi

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This article shares methodological meanderings that sit at the intersection of embodiment and improvised dance ethnography. Comprised of a series of personal reflections on fieldwork, the query of 'how does ethnography feel for the researcher?' is explo

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This article describes a contemporary dance intervention among psychiatric outpatients with a diagnosis of mild-to-moderate depression. Five females participated in a pilot intervention, which was carried out twice a week over four consecutive weeks. Duri

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In his book on the history of creating self-made art in the USSR, Igor Narskiy describes a paradox: selfmade art managed from the top, creativity under instruction, controlled independent art. In the article, the author discusses how, in the mid-1920s, th

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Letter to the World is a choreography Martha Graham created in 1940 and revised in 1941. It is dedicated to Emily Dickinson, one of her favourite poets. However, it is not a biographical account, but an introspective work, that, in Graham's words, invest

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This article has the objective to introduce some discussions on the training and practice of the dance performer, considering the multiplicity of artistic and pedagogical contexts in which dance is structured. Furthermore, the use of the term dance perfor

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This article explores the values that bridge democracy and community dance. Policymakers show an interest in promoting democracy, including the very values shared between community dance and democracy. Observing this, we propose that policy may benefit fr

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Empowerment-Focused Dance/Movement Therapy is a multifaceted approach for healing the emotional and physical impacts of trauma. Dance/movement therapy experiences are introduced for guiding body-based self-discovery and transformative creative expression.