【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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Becoming animal: Children's physical play and dance improvisation as transformative activities
This article addresses the transformative potential of children's physical play and dance improvisation. Using the enactive approach as a theoretical framework, it is argued that play and dance improvisation trigger novel sense-making capabilities by a d
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'[...] wind in my hair, I feel a part of everywhere [...]': Creating dance for young audie
This article is a reflection from a moment during the tour of my performance work for young audiences - Found. I explore how the meaningfulness shared in the moments dancing together captures much broader narratives about the transformative connections of
Amphibious dancers and their contribution for resistance from abyssal exclusions in the Municipal Da
In recent past, the funding for the Municipal Dance Company of Porto Alegre (MDCPA), in the south of Brazil, was deliberately interrupted. Even so, they are stilt resisting to abyssal exclusion by occasionally dancing the company repertoire. Nevertheless,
THE BUTOH DANCE: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF THE BODY DUMPED OUT
Since the first philosophy, we have been led to believe that the meaning of life lies beyond us. We have no body, but we are body and it is body where we must trace the collective memory of human beings. We must put the focus back on the body leaving expr
Fascial embodiment in movement, training and dance education: Insights from a somatic workshop
The purpose of this article is to describe how students exploring fascia through somatics experience its embodiment. This is done by discussing their written impressions of the somatic workshop: 'Fascia & movement', which I taught in dance institutions
Breaking into a world of perfection: Innovation in today's classical musical instruments
Professional music journals frequently publish descriptions of newly registered patents concerning classical musical instruments. Only a few of the many proposals for innovation actually enter production. The large number of ideas for improving musical in
Sound and meaning in aboriginal tourism
Musical heritage is a profitable resource in the development of cultural tourism worldwide, yet the identities of the communities whose music is recontextualized at venues are frequently co-opted in the process. Centering on an Aboriginal tourism company
Approximate string matching for music analysis
Approximate pattern matching algorithms have become an important tool in computer assisted music analysis and information retrieval. The number of different problem formulations has greatly expanded in recent years, not least because of the subjective nat
'She's very slim': talking about body-size in all-female interactions
A feminist issue that still attracts a great deal of both academic and public debate is the topic of body-image, particularly in relation to women's physical and emotional health. In today's media-saturated world, women are constantly surrounded by imag
Effects of music therapy for children and adolescents with psychopathology: a meta-analysis
Background: The objectives of this review were to examine the overall efficacy of music therapy for children and adolescents with psychopathology, and to examine how the size of the effect of music therapy is influenced by the type of pathology, client's
The role of dance therapy in the rehabilitation of Parkinson disease patients
Introduction: Parkinson disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease which requires a complex approach including pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment. While kinesiotherapy is a must in Parkinson's disease patients, dance thera
The Architecture of Underground Dance Music: The Work of Shaun Bloodworth
This photo essay presents a posthumous consideration of the work of Shaun Bloodworth, photographer of musicians from the UK underground dance scene in the early twenty-first century. The article argues that Bloodworth sets up in his portraits a connection
Clinical intervention using dance-movement psychotherapy for couples: qualitative research and clini
Dance-movement psychotherapy for couples (DMP-C) provides the space to mentally process physical experiences in relationships. The objective of the research is to become familiar with how, in the therapeutic process, a combination of, and a transition fro
Music, movement, and emotions: an inquiry with suggestions for the practice of dance/movement therap
Emotions play a significant role in our lives. While the literature has shed some light on how emotions are evoked, not all aspects are well understood. Music and dance or movement have been shown to stimulate an aesthetic or emotional response and seem t
The Dance of the Tiger's patrimonialization in a ch'ol town Puxcatan, Mexico
The article analyzes the historical, sociocultural, envirommental and political elements in the Dance of Tiger (DT) and its patrimonial process since 1980 in Puxcatan, Tabasco, Mexico. It uses qualitative methods: semi-structured interviews, participatory