【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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Dance movement psychotherapy for couples (DMP-C): systematic treatment guidelines based on a wide-ra
A new body of knowledge, growing out of the clinical and research fields, has been developing in recent years in the area of dance-movement psychotherapy for couples (DMP-C). Formulation of an intervention protocol based on a systematic review of theories
The Impact of a Ballet and Modern Dance Performance on Heart Rate Variability in Collegiate Dancers
Heart rate (HR) variability (HRV) is a useful tool for assessing cardiac autonomic function and identifying potential readiness to perform in athletic populations, but has yet to be investigated in dance populations. As such, HRV may be able to provide va
Senses of the dance: conceptions of students of physical education
The purpose of this study was to analyse the process of appropriation of dance content by students of a degree in Physical Education, from the investigation of a process of pedagogical intervention. This research was carried out with a qualitative approac
Embodied attunement: a dance/movement therapy approach to working with couples
Attachment theory is well-recognised for understanding and treating adult love relationships. Neuroscientific research highlights the implicit process of attachment and the unconscious, nonverbal, bodily-based, and affect-regulating interactions of the ri
Using Wittgenstein's Philosophy to Erase Conceptual Misconceptions in Dance Practice. A Fourfol
A fourfold use of Wittgenstein's later philosophy in order to tackle fundamental conceptual misconceptions in the domain of dance practice is proposed: the extension to dance of the insights of his remarks on other arts, the application to dance instruct
At the crossroads of evolutionary computation and music: Self-programming synthesizers, swarm orches
This paper introduces three approaches to using Evolutionary Computation (EC) in Music (namely, engineering, creative and musicological approaches) and discusses examples of representative systems that have been developed within the last decade, with emph
Stimulating music increases motor coordination in patients afflicted with Morbus Parkinson
The present study measured the short-term effect of special stimulating music on motor coordination in Parkinson patients. Eleven patients with a dominant akinetic Parkinson syndrome as well as ten healthy persons (age-matched control group) participated
The music of speech:: Music training facilitates pitch processing in both music and language
The main aim of the present experiment was to determine whether extensive musical training facilitates pitch contour processing not only in music but also in language. We used a parametric manipulation of final notes or words' fundamental frequency (F0),
Long play: adult-oriented popular music and the temporal logics of the post-war sound recording indu
While the historiography of post-war popular music has tended to emphasize radical musical stylistic breaks and cultural ruptures, industrial continuities between the adult-oriented popular music of the 1950s and the youth-oriented music of the rock era (
Playing piano in the mind -: an fMRI study on music imagery and performance in pianists
Reading of musical notes and playing piano is a very complex motor task which requires years of practice. In addition to motor skills, rapid and effective visuomotor transformation as well as processing of the different components of music like pitch, rhy
Research on Dance Teaching Mode Based on Flipped Classroom in the Internet +Age
The development of Internet technology has injected new impetus into the reform of education, and also posed new challenges to the traditional teaching mode. In recent years, as an extension of educational informationization, the flipped classroom has dev
TORTOLA VALENCIA, THE PERFORMER: HER ACTIONS BETWEEN DANCE AND OFFSTAGE PERFORMANCE ART
The aim of this paper is to highlight the figure of the mysterious dancer Tortola Valencia as a person-performer who inserts a (proto)performatic dance into everyday life. As an alternative to the dances performed on the stages -La Maja (Albeniz), The Dan
Decolonising human exhibits: dance, re-enactment and historical fiction
This article focuses on decolonising exhibition practices and colonial archives. It begins with a survey of literature on nineteenth-century colonial exhibitions and world's fairs as a cultural practice and the complicity of academic disciplines such as
Walking as site dance: Choreography and conflict in Tel Aviv
This article emerges from my experiences of 'moving and being moved' on a recent trip to Tel Aviv. The focus is on an exploratory practice as research project, grounded in two conflicted sites - my body and Israel/Tel Aviv - and framed as compositional
WHO BUYS THE AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT?
The purpose of the research was to examine the profile of the national Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) visitor. It explored the demographic profile, the buying behavior, the communication activity, and the motivators behind visiting ADE. A quantitative method