【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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The aesthetics of spiritual practice and the creation of moral and musical subjectivities in Aleppo,
This essay analyzes the performance of dhikr (the invocation of God through prayer, song, and movement) in Aleppo, Syria, as an embodied practice mediated by specific repertoires of aesthetic and kinesthetic practices. In dhikr, aesthetic stimuli produce
Music improves dopaminergic neurotransmission: demonstration based on the effect of music on blood p
The mechanism by which music modifies brain function is not clear. Clinical findings indicate that music reduces blood pressure in various patients. We investigated the effect of music on blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Previous s
Emotional effects of startling background music during reading news reports: The moderating influenc
We examined the moderating influence of dispositional behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and behavioral activation system (BAS) sensitivities on the relationship of startling background music with emotion-related subjective and physiological responses eli
Can musical transformations be implicitly learned?
The dominant theory of what people can learn implicitly is that they learn chunks of adjacent elements in sequences. A type of musical grammar that goes beyond specifying allowable chunks is provided by serialist or 12-tone music. The rules constitute ope
Losev's development of themes from Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, and early 20th century Russians' interpretations and embellishments of it, informed Losev's theories of music and myth and his studies of the religions of Apollo and Dionysus. His complex musical aesthetic includes the
Dance and political engagement in the works of Pro-Posicao group: a panoramic view on the dance of S
As a fragment of the research carried out in 2012, in the doctoral thesis entitled Mediatic cartography: the body and media in the construction of memory of dance, this article presents historical relations between the emergent dance in Sao Paulo in the 1
Social dancing to prevent falls in older adults: a control case study
Introduction: Brazil is in a period of transition in which an accelerated process of aging is presented, which poses multiple challenges to the country. Therefore, it is essential to develop public policies to address health for older adults. This study a
Dancing the rainbow nation as it bleeds: the Surialanga Dance Company in post-apartheid South Africa
This article analyzes the work of the Surialanga Dance Company of Durban, South Africa, which debuted at Nelson Mandela's inauguration in 1994. Inspired by Mandela's vision of intercultural harmony and created through sustained engagement with Zulu cult
DANCE AND PHOTOGRAPHY: A THEME ON THE RISE ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
Dance and photography have always been related, but the impact that these photographs have on social networks and in the personal evolution of the future dancers, is an unknown world. In particular, Instagram is a very dynamic and easy to use social netwo
A not so silent communication in the teaching of dance: attending to words in tango classes in Bueno
Bourdieu's claim that sports and dances are acquired through silent, body-to-body communication has often been adopted as the starting point for ethnographic research. As a consequence, anthropologists have assumed that the disciplines of human movement
On the religious foundations of A. F. Losev's philosophy of music
The article considers A. F. Losev's philosophy of music in the context of his entire religious worldview and as the part of his Christian-Neoplatonic philosophy. Synthesizing Pythagorean-Platonic and Romantic musical doctrines, Losev concludes: music is
World music: deterritorializing place and identity
Music has been neglected in geography, yet the rise of 'world music' exemplifies the multiple ways in which places are constructed, commodified and contested. Music from distant and 'exotic' places has long entered the western canon, yet the pace of d
You know what I want to hear - The music of 'Casablanca' (Curtiz's film, Steiner'
The author provides an analysis of how Max Steiner wove diegetic and nondiegetic music in Casablanca (1942) into a meaningful score that illuminates and connects the political and romantic conflicts and themes in the film. The analysis includes background
'Cop Rock' revisited - Unsung series and musical hinge in cross-genre evolution
Hindsight and context reveal that, despite its critical and commercial failure, Steven Bochco's police musical/drama Cop Rock (ABC, 1990) represents a plausible progression of permission and possibility for music and narrative in television. The unsung s
A connectionist approach to automatic transcription of polyphonic piano music
In this paper, we present a connectionist approach to automatic transcription of polyphonic piano music. We first compare the performance of several neural network models on the task of recognizing tones from time-frequency representation of a musical sig