【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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Shaping the biology of emotion: Emovere, an interactive performance
This paper presents the artistic creation and research work developed for the piece Emovere (2015), an interactive dance and sound performance. Emovere's creation process focused on configuring artistic material by exploring the biology of emotion in ass
History, Roots and Future Horizons
Presented as a workshop at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ADTA conference in San Diego, this article describes a workshop that was designed to help participants navigate through multiple identities in dance/movement therapy and psychotherapy.
MAKING SURE THEY HAVE THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES: IDENTIFYING COCREATION OPPORTUNITIES AT THE DIRTY DAN
Film-induced festivals are becoming more popular, generated through accessibility of streaming platforms and acceptance for popular culture fandom. This is different than any general film festival, because there is a sense of community and desire for recr
THE SURVIVAL OF A GENRE: THE DRAMATIC DANCE OF EL AMOR CASAMENTERO BY JOSE JOAQUIN BENEGASI Y LUJAN.
After acknowledging the author's appropriateness to be part of the roster of writers whose works have been traditionally classified as jocular and/or satirical, we have studied one of his short plays in which both of those stylistic as well as generic ch
PERFORMING GENDER, CLASS AND NATION: RUKMINI DEVI ARUNDALE AND THE IMPACT OF KALAKSHETRA
Rukmini Devi Arundale, herself a choreographer and dancer, is considered one of the key figures in re-creating Bharatanatyam. Through her utopian arts colony, Kalakshetra, started during the movement towards Indian independence, she taught what she deemed
Audiovisual synchrony perception for music, speech, and object actions
We investigated the perception of synchrony for complex audiovisual events. In Experiment 1, a series of music (guitar and piano), speech (sentences), and object action video clips were presented at a range of stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) using the
Music, madness and the body: symptom and cure
Building on Sander L. Gilman's exemplary work on images of madness and the body, this article examines images of music, madness and the body by discussing the persistent cultural beliefs stemming from Classical Antiquity that underpin music as medicinal.
A new 17th-century Iberian source of instrumental music
The finding of a new musical source is always exciting. It helps to fill in gaps and bring up new questions to Music History. The recent rediscovery of a new Iberian source for instrumental music is no exception. From the rich musical tradition of the San
N-gram inverted index structures on music data for theme mining and content-based information retrie
Content-based music information retrieval and theme mining are two key problems in digital music information systems, where themes mean the longest-repeating patterns in a piece of music. However, most data structures constructed for retrieving music data
TR-MUSIC - A robust frequency estimation method in impulsive noise
Sinusoidal frequency estimation has been studied for many years. The MUSIC method represents a class of super-resolution methods based on subspace decomposition. However, the MUSIC method has poor performance in impulsive noise environments due to the pre
Permanent confrontations in artistic activism
The present article proposes to discuss the importance and urgency of the artivist actions in the present times, especially with regard to dance. To this end, we use the term hegemony in the terms proposed by the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci, a
Saartjie Baartman, Nelisiwe Xaba, and me: the politics of looking at South African bodies
Dance Artist/Choreographer Nelisiwe Xaba's They Look at Me and That Is All They Think (2006) 'refers to the story of Sara[tjie] Baartman [horizontal ellipsis ] the Hottentot Venus' (2006. 9th Jomba! Contemporary dance experience 2006 programme, p. 7) w
Analysis of the physical development and somatotype of girls and females involved into dancing and g
Purpose: The comparative analysis of the physical development and somatotype of girls and females involved in dancing and gymnastic sports (acrobatic rock and roll, sports aerobics). Material: The study involved 45 girls and females. Group 1 - acrobatic r
Flamenco and emotions: New techniques of Socio-Educational intervention with minors at risk of socia
This paper attempts to explain the use of dance, especially the flamenco dance, as a useful tool for to promote the identification of emotions in children at risk of social exclusion with the aim of contributing to the personal and social development of t
Genre transformation in the musical folklore (Shamil's Prayer case)
This article uses the Caucasian dance Shamil's Prayer to examine the complex processes of genre transformation of folklore verbal and musical texts in the North Caucasus region. The dance was improvised by a Kumyk harmonist in the early twentieth century