【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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A model for music therapy with students with emotional and behavioral disorders
Music therapy has been used in a variety of ways to benefit students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), even though little information on the specifics involved in applying music therapy to this population has been written. With proper plannin
Recurrent neural networks for music computation
Some researchers in the computational sciences have considered music computation, including music reproduction and generation, as a dynamic system, i.e., a feedback process. The key element is that the state of the musical system depends on a history of p
The origins of music: Some stipulations on theory
IT IS ARGUED THAT APPROACHES to music that employ evolutionary theory must seek to define 'music' as explicitly as possible. Without such a definition, the relationships between music and other domains of human and animal behavior must remain underspeci
The Cuidado music browser: an end-to-end electronic music distribution system
The IST project Cuidado, which ran from January 2001 to December 2003, produced the first entirely automatic chain for extracting and exploiting musical metadata for browsing music. The Sony CSL laboratory is primarily interested in the context of popular
Automatic summarization of music videos
In this article, we propose a novel approach for automatic music video summarization. The proposed summarization scheme is different from the current methods used for video summarization. The music video is separated into the music track and video track.
The BBC Young Dancer and the decolonising imagination
The process of decolonisation requires a radical re-imagination of how we construct our identities - one that steps away from fictions of independence and essentialism to acknowledge the complex webs of dialogue and interdependence. It requires a self-con
The Dance of the Spirits Beyond Wounded Knee: A meaningful historical episode of the expression of t
The Ghost Dance is a millenarian Indian movement which spread in 1889 and 1890 through the great plains of the United Sates and whose prophet, Wovoka, announced the advent of a new golden age of Indian nations. This protest is commonly remembered in relat
INVITATION TO THE DANCE: INTERMEDIAL ALLUSIONS IN T. S. ELIOT'S EARLY POETRY (THE DEATH OF SAIN
The paper Invitation to the Dance: Intermedial Allusions in T. S. Eliot's Early Poetry ('The Death of Saint Narcissus', 'Suppressed Complex') deals with some aspects of the early works by T. S. Eliot. The author examines relationships between dance,
FITNESS DANCE FOR DEVELOPING BASIC MOVEMENT QUALITIES IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AND IMPROVING THEIR PSYC
Aim. The article deals with developing a set of fitness dance exercises to improve basic movement qualities and psychic status in preschool children. Materials and methods. We studied two equal groups of apparently healthy children aged 5-6. All children
BALLETVALEMAS: REINFORCEMENT FOR THE REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL MOTOR NEEDS TROUGH THE
An inclusive society is based on the development of the rights humans that promote social justice and equality of opportunities.Then, why children and teenagers with motor difficulties,pain, or with any special needs cannot practise a sport or an artistic
Attitudes of music teachers towards final examinations in the French music conservatoires
This research investigated the attitudes towards assessment of music teachers in Brittany, France. The relative significance attached to musical examination and the psychological attitudes of music teachers towards assessment were examined. Participants (
Teaching popular music in Finland:: what's up, what's ahead?
This article describes the history and current situation of popular music pedagogy in Finland. While popular music is widely accepted in the curriculum, there are differences in its application in the comprehensive schools and music institutions. Popular
Contemporary music student expectations of musicianship training needs
The practical training of contemporary popular musicians, that is, the preparation of performers, songwriters, and music production personnel for the global popular music industry, is still in its infancy. This article seeks to discuss the specific issue
Effect of music on patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy
AIM: To evaluate the effect of relaxing music during colonoscopy under low-dose conscious sedation, on patient satisfaction, scope insertion time and procedure duration, medication doses, and the perceived adequacy of sedation and scope insertion difficul
Popular music in Malaysia: education from the outside
The musical preference of most Malaysian young people, their knowledge of music in general and popular music in particular are shaped through informal music education. Factors that contribute to this include the wide dissemination of popular music, the st