【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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Body Rhetorics and Kinesthetic Empathy in the Video Game Bound (2016)
Dance is found in every known human culture as part of religious, social and healing ceremonies. The increased interest in the role of dance in western psychology corresponds with the creation of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) founded by Ma
Artistic work as a practice of translation on the global art market: the example of African dancer a
Identity, difference, and translation are important theoretical concepts in the field of translation studies and postcolonial studies. It is a basic assumption of this lecture that aesthetic and cultural translation is exposed to the paradox of identity a
Choreographic Pattern Analysis from Heterogeneous Motion Capture Systems Using Dynamic Time Warping
The convention for the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) by UNESCO highlights the equal importance of intangible elements of cultural heritage to tangible ones. One of the most important domains of ICH is folkloric dances. A dance choreog
FeArt and Dance-xiety in Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Pursuit of Happiness: Artificiality, Auth
Pursuit of Happinessis a 2017 co-production of the American group Nature Theater of Oklahoma and the Slovenia-based, multinational En-Knap dance company. The genre-defying production provocatively misleads the audience through the textual as well as perfo
Diagnosis of tubo-ovarian filariasis with retroperitoneal extension: A radiological challenge
The purpose of this report is to describe a very rare case of bilateral tubo-ovarian filariasis with retroperitoneal extension in a 20-year-old female patient. The patient complained of low-grade fever with whitish cloudy urine. Computerized tomography im
A.Chorus section detection method for musical audio signals and its application to a music listening
This, paper describes a method for obtaining a list of repeated chorus (hook) sections in compact-disc recordings of popular music. The detection of chorus sections is essential for the computational modeling of music understanding and is useful in variou
Innateness, learning, and the difficulty of determining whether music is an evolutionary adaptation
MCDERMOTT AND HAUSER (2005) and Justus and Hutsler (2005) argue that in order for music to be an evolutionary adaptation, and not an exaptation, music must be constrained by innate factors that are specific to music and that evolved because music conferre
Factors affecting music retrieval in query-by-melody
This paper assesses the impact of three factors on the music retrieval accuracy of a query-by-melody (QBM) system. The investigated factors are the accuracy of the query provider (the singer), the query transcription accuracy of the acoustic front-end and
Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers
This paper explores the role of music activity and music therapy in health care drawing on a survey of UK cancer care providers offering music interventions and music therapy. The survey examined the extent and type of music provision and explored provide
Exploring the outcomes of rock and popular music instruction in high school guitar class: a case stu
The purpose of this study was to better understand the impact of rock and popular teenage music on public school music education programs. 'Frankstown Secondary School' is a large suburban public school offering a guitar program that includes a strong p
Application of social dance exercise and social support program to improve quality of life for Thai
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to test the effectiveness of social dance exercise and social support program to improve quality of life (QOL) for older adults in Thailand. Design/methodology/approach - A quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test r
The Representation of Dance Within the Banquet Scenes of the Private Theban Tombs of the Eighteenth
The present paper is the result of an investigation about the representation of dance within the banquet scenes found in the decoration of the private Theban tombs of the New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.). It aims to put in context the representation of dance
Archives of glory and repudiation: paradigm and value shifts in New Burlesque
Starting from the idea of archives and reenactman, we propose to review certain moments of burlesque art, analyzing the dimension of the body (dancing body) in the realm of sensuality, the different value regimes involved, and the role of women. We launch
A plastic experience from my cotidianity linked to the Dancing Devils ofYare
This article is about a plastic experience from my daily life linked to the Dancing Devils of Yare (part of the feast of Corpus Christi declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, by Unesco, on 12-12-2012). From my visions, beliefs and perceptions
Swordplay Uncloaked: Women as Active Agents in Ana Caro's Valor, agravio, y mujer and Lope de V
This article explores possible dance and swordplay choreography in Felix Lope de Vega's La pobreza estimada (1597-1603) and Ana Caro's Valor, agravio, y mujer (1630s-1640s) in hopes of shedding light on the manner in which women as active agents or bodi