【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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Asghar Farhadi's nuanced feminism: Gender and marriage in Farhadi's films from Dancing in
Aiming to contribute towards studies of gender in Iranian cinema, this article draws on feminist and masculinities theories to examine representations of gender in the films of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, including his first Academy Award-winning fil
DANCING IN PARADISE: A PAS DE DEUX IN TWO PARTS DISCUSSION OF KAREN MARTIN'S ONCE BEGUN IS HALF
This is a beautiful paper that tells a moving and gripping story of how two people come together to create a mutually vitalizing therapeutic process. And it is a story of courage, mutually facilitated by the two protagonists: Anne's courage in relaxing h
YURI SLONIMSKY. LIBRETTOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF IDEOLOGY: DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE
Yuri Iosifovich Slonimsky (1902-1978) is a unique personality in the history of Russian and Soviet ballet. He was a ballet scholar, a playwrighter, a screenwriter and a teacher. At the age of 18 he became a passionate promoter of the dance art, collaborat
Some Thoughts on the Mechanical Features of Pantomime Dancers
This paper aims to investigate the kinaesthetic experience of dance, and especially of pantomime dance in Lucian's De Saltatione and in Libanius' oration 64, A Reply To Aristides On Behalf Of The Dancers, from the perspective of the mechanical. Specific
Decolonising moves: gestures of reciprocity as feminist intercultural performance
In this article, I think through decolonisation from the place of praxis and cultural artistic exchange in Global South-South encounters. I base my thinking on the concepts of 'neighbouring' by the Argentine theorist, [Savigliano, M. 2009. Worlding Danc
Randomized controlled trial of music during kangaroo care on maternal state anxiety and preterm infa
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to investigate the influences of music during kangaroo care (KC) on maternal anxiety and preterin infants' responses. There are no experimental studies that explore the influences of combination of musi
Identifying the classical music composition of an unknown performance with wavelet dispersion vector
As the internet search evolves toward multimedia content based search and information retrieval, audio content identification and retrieval will likely become one of the key components of next generation internet search machines. In this paper we consider
FSF MUSIC for joint DOA and frequency estimation and its performance analysis
In this paper, we present a tree-structured frequency-space-frequency (FSF) multiple signal classification (MUSIC)-based algorithm for joint estimation of the directions of arrival (DOAs) and frequencies in wireless communication systems. The proposed app
Analysis and treatment of problem behavior evoked by music
The present study investigated the effects of differential negative reinforcement of other behavior (DNRO) on problem behavior evoked by music in a 7-year-old child with pervasive developmental disorder. Following an auditory stimulus assessment, DNRO was
Machine-learning based classification of speech and music
The need to classify audio into categories such as speech or music is an important aspect of many multimedia document retrieval systems. In this paper, we investigate audio features that have not been previously used in music-speech classification, such a
Dance Like No One's Watching: the Influence of Demand Characteristics When Examining Lineups vi
Lineup administrators may inadvertently bias an eyewitness' identification; as such, the blind-lineup administration is recommended to combat this bias. Three studies examined eyewitness identification accuracy when the lineup is presented on a computer
Deconstructing Fosse
This article discusses 'Paramodernities #5: All That Spectacle: Dance on Stage and Screens', the instalment of Netta Yerushalmy's Paramodernities series focusing on Bob Fosse's film version of Sweet Charity (1969). Paramodernities was a 2018 series of
Aesthetic education revised: a contribution to mobile learning in physical education
The purpose of this study was to empirically capture the sociocultural practices of young people who have used mobile digital technologies in physical education lessons. The focus was on dance, including the process- and product-relevant aesthetic teachin
Embodying the Couple Relationship: Kinesthetic Empathy and Somatic Mirroring in Couples Therapy
Kinesthetic sensitivity plays a central role in the development of empathy and in understanding others' intentions, skills that greatly affect spousal satisfaction. The present study examines how, in the couple relationship, somatic mirroring of the othe
Folklore's Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu
The folklore studies scholar, such as Dorson (1976, Folklore and fakelore: Essays toward the discipline of folk studies, Harvard: Harvard University Press), was emphatic about the distinction between folklore and 'fake lore', one being authentic and the