【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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Female Roles in the Religious Rituals and Political Performances Among the Pre-Colonial and Colonial
The work presented is part of a larger study dedicated to the place of women in the Nahua oral tradition and focuses on one of the aspects of this subject, namely on the set of roles performed by female protagonists in the artistic manifestations of relig
Thinking, being, teaching and learning with Spotify: Aspects of existential and essential musical bi
Streaming media seems to have become a natural part in teachers' professional life. Streamed music, primarily distributed by the company Spotify, sounds in most music and dance classrooms, not least in Swedish schools. Hence, the concepts of digitalizati
Touching the untouchables
This paper presents a model of dance movement psychotherapy/body psychotherapy that deploys touch and movement techniques from a somatic movement education and therapy approach called Body-Mind Centering (R) (BMC (R)). The case study is situated in the co
A Theology of Religions in the United Church of Canada: A Journey
The study of missionary involvement, whole-world ecumenism, and the dance of theological inclusivism and pluralism has been the United Church of Canada's journey of love to mend the world. We live in a multicultural world, in a time of secularism and spi
Territorial survey on the interest in sport in the local territory of Gian Camillo Glorioso school
The latest survey by the Central Statistical Institute (ISTAT) in 2015 reports in Italy an increase in the number of sports practitioners compared to 2011. They are greater in girls and more distributed on the 4 age groups chosen as a representative sampl
Segmental pattern discovery in music
In this paper we describe a new method for discovering recurrent patterns in a corpus of segmented melodies. Elements of patterns in this scheme do not represent individual notes but rather represent melodic segments that are sequences of notes. A new kno
Dancing composition: pedagogy and philosophy as experience
For philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the work of philosophy consists of affirmatively and artistically creating and reworking concepts in response to real-life problems in an ongoing process that invites new perspectives and ways of thinking. Carol Matthews's
Melodic analysis with segment classes
This paper presents a representation for melodic segment classes and applies it to music data mining. Melody is modeled as a sequence of segments, each segment being a sequence of notes. These segments are assigned to classes through a knowledge represent
Multimodal affective interaction: A comment on musical origins
THE RIGORS OF ESTABLISHING INNATENESS and domain specificity pose challenges to adaptationist models of music evolution. In articulating a series of constraints, the authors of the target articles provide strategies for investigating the potential origins
Redesign and initial validation of an instrument to assess the motivational qualities of music in ex
In the present study, a measure to assess the motivational qualities of music in exercise was redesigned, extending previous research efforts (Karageorghis et al., 1999). The original measure, the Brunel Music Rating Inventory (BMRI), had shown limitation
The body against the tides: a pilot study of movement-based exploration for examining Burmese refuge
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to to understand Burmese refugees' resilience in the USA, as well as to explore the potential contributions of arts- or movement-based interviews (movement elicitation (ME)) to the exploration of the immigration exper
Tum Toh Mohammed Rafi Nikle: The song sequence in contemporary Hindi cinema
This article explores the role of the song sequence as a narrative device in contemporary Hindi cinema. It does this through an analysis of select song sequences from six films - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Tumhari Sulu, Dangal, Highway, Tamasha and Udta Punjab.
Cycling in Tonal Space Neo-Riemannian Theory in der dritten Dimension
This article responds to suggestions of Neo-Riemannian Theory, referring to Richard Cohn. It presents some new three-dimensional models that depict the connections of triads and seventh chords as alternatives to Jack Douthett's and Peter Steinbach's Cub
Facilitating scientific engagement through a science-art festival
The recent discovery and ongoing detection of Einstein's predicted gravitational waves offers an exciting opportunity for engaging the general public in science. In order to reach a wide range of people with different science-art identities, levels of ph
Daily Soundscapes Predict Musical Preferences: A Survey on Sonic Affinity Cause-Effect Processes
This study aimed to provide a quantitative frame for the theory of sonic affinity (Campos, 2016), according to which humans tend to assimilate and reproduce the sounds of the aural environments that surround them since the prenatal phase and throughout a