【Music】Article four: 'Digital music and critical music literacy'
The Society of Music Analysis report indicated that digital music often sits uncomfortably within a curriculum where the main focus is on the non-digi... [more]
【Music】Music-making for music teacher identity: perspectives from novice music teachers in South Korea
Music teacher identity is constructed at the intersection between musician and teacher. This study investigated the meaning of music-making among Kore... [more]
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Archives of the Dance (28): Chisenhale Dance Space
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My re...
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Dance matters: dancing in Tunisia
A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creati...
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Garage rock bands: a future model for developing musical expertise?
A commonly accepted assumption in music education based on the apprenticeship tradition is that teachers deliver their musical expertise using pedagogically relevant methods that will help them to have effective mastery and control over the process of lea
Mizwid: An urban music with rural roots
This paper discusses a particular type of popular song performed in Tunisia, mizwid. It evolved as a result of migrant workers from rural areas moving to the capital, Tunis. Sales figures prove that it now has a huge following; some 80 per cent of the com
'Music is in our blood': Gujarati Muslim musicians in the UK
In the past, members of the Mushni Khalifa community in Gujarat (India) held a low position in the social hierarchy, a status closely bound up with two of their hereditary occupations, barber and musician. This paper examines changing Khalifa attitudes to
Music as a cultural identity: a case study of Latino musicians negotiating tradition and innovation
This study, based on recent field research, explores Latino music culture in Toledo, Ohio, and presents strategies for incorporating the music into the classroom. In the ethnographic project, three professors-music educator, ethnomusicologist, folklorist
An empirical study of syncopation in American popular music, 1890-1939
A study of syncopation in American popular music was carried out based on analyses of sound recordings spanning the period 1890 to 1939. Sample measures were randomly selected and the presence and rhythmic character of syncopations were tabulated. Several
Fat Lip Readers Theatre: A recollection in two voices
Fat Lip Readers Theatre (1981-1999) was a collective of fat women from the San Francisco Bay Area. Their mission was exposing discrimination in our fat-phobic society and offering an alternative paradigm by using theater to present stories of their lives
Cuban private entrepreneurship - from periphery to key sector of the economy in tourism-oriented mar
The aim of this article is to explore shifts in the role of Cuban private sector within the broader context of tourism economies. Based on ethnographic data collected on two types of private businesses offering their services to tourism-rooms for rent and
Analysis and reflection on the scope of the development of corporeal awareness in university teacher
This article reflects on the implications of the development of corporeal awareness in the constitution of autonomous subjectivities linked to the full exercise of citizenship. Bodily Expression is postulated as an artistic discipline which conceives the
Fair and verbena salmantina at the beginning of the XX Century. A window to musical artistic activit
The present article, extracted from a broader research process, tries to collect the main artisticcultural characteristics of the feria, festivals and popular festivities of Salamanca in the early twentieth century, especially emphasizing the transformati
Queers and bewitched: Temporada de huracanes of Fernanda Melchor
In this essay the character of la Bruja (The Witch) in Fernanda Melchor's novel Temporada de huracanes is analysed, highlighting the characteristics that resemble the literary and historical archetype: flight, transformation into animals, pacts and copul
Sparse and shift-invariant representations of music
Redundancy reduction has been proposed as the main computational process in the primary sensory pathways in the mammalian brain. This idea has led to the development of sparse coding techniques, which are exploited in this article to extract salient struc
Long-term positive associations between music lessons and IQ
In Study 1 (N = 147), duration of music lessons was correlated positively with IQ and with academic ability among 6- to 11-year-olds, even when potential confounding variables (i.e., family income, parents' education, involvement in nonmusical activities
Music and mirror neurons: from motion to 'e'motion
The ability to create and enjoy music is a universal human trait and plays an important role in the daily life of most cultures. Music has a unique ability to trigger memories, awaken emotions and to intensify our social experiences. We do not need to be
Copyright, the work and phonographic orality in music
Shaped by a combination of romantic aesthetics and capitalist economics in the 19th century, the musical work was only enshrined in copyright law at the beginning of the 20th. However, even as the distinctiveness of the work was being legally inscribed, t
Managing voice-to-voice encounters - Reducing the agony of being put on hold
Voice-to-voice (V2V) encounters are interactions that occur between the company and the customer via a telephone. One critical aspect of the V2V encounter is the waiting time that occurs before the customer talks with a service employee. This article inve