【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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MUSICAL PRACTICES AND SPACES OF A BOURGEOIS CITY IN DEVELOPMENT: THE LAST YEARS OF MADRID ISABELINO
Music plays a prominent role in the new modes of leisure and sociability that appeared in European cities after the liberal revolutions. Though romantic salons remained a part of this changing society, it was opera and the new lyrical genres that attracte
Unvoiced Human Conversation of I-Thou: A Commentary on Kottler's paper, When the echoes of red
Kottler's paper is beyond Togashi and Kotter's original understanding of Kohut's twinship/alter-ego, with exceptional sensitivity for clinical work. Her article successfully illustrates the essential process of the Psychology of Being Human. In this di
From Paragone to Symbiosis. Sensations of In-Betweenness in Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson
Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson (1997), an homage to the Argentine tango, situated in-between autobiography and fiction, creates multiple passages between art and life, the corporeal and the spiritual, emotional involvement and professional detachment. T
Intimacy, Cooperation and Ambivalence Social, Economic and Cultural Interaction between Jews and Ber
This study deals with the entangled relations that developed between Jews and Berbers in Morocco. From the beginnings of the Arab rule, Jews lived as Dhimmis under the protection of Arab or Berber dynasties in urban centres, or Berber tribes and clans in
THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF YUKAGHIR MUSICAL CULTURE
Yukaghirs are a very small Northern people, their number is only 1603 people (according to the all-Russian census of 2010). The article describes the process of studying the musical folklore of two preserved local groups of Yukaghirs: Oduls (Upper Kolyma
Mobile networks and place making in cultural tourism -: Staging viking shipsand rock music in Roskil
Tourism has become an increasingly important asset for small and medium-sized cities. However, tourism is a vulnerable basis for the local economy of towns and cities as it depends on far-reaching, mobile and unstable networks of visitors, cultural indust
Cardiovascular and respiratory responses during musical mood induction
Music is used to induce moods in experimental settings as well as for therapeutic purposes. Prior studies suggest that subjects listening to certain types of music experience strong moods and show physiological responses associated with the induced emotio
Play it again with feeling:: Computer feedback in musical communication of emotions
Communication of emotions is of crucial importance in music performance. Yet research has suggested that this skill is neglected in music education. This article presents and evaluates a computer program that automatically analyzes music performances and
Classification of musical patterns using variable duration hidden Markov models
This paper presents a new extension to the variable duration hidden Markov model (HMM), capable of, classifying musical pattens that have been extracted from raw audio data into a set of predefined classes. Each musical pattern is converted into a sequenc
Learning absolute pitch by children: A cross-sectional study
THIS STUDY IS AN ATTEMPT to depict the learning process of AP in Japanese children in a cross-sectional design. In this study, 104 children of 4 to 10 years of age in a music school were tested. The children had been trained within a music education syste
Beauty appears in sadness, misery and folly: an ethical perspective
This chapter focuses on the beauty that often appears in and from (extreme) sadness, misery and folly. It argues that the experience of beauty is an ancient impulse, and that one need not progress through the lower hierarchical levels set out by the psych
Tracktivism: Eco-activist walking art as expanded choreography in rural landscape
This article offers a reflexive account of my journey from dance into walking examination of tracktivism: the rural, eco-activist, pedestrian performance the past eight years. My dancer's perception of walking art in the sculptural choreography on an exp
Ensemble practices in the arts: A reflective matrix to enhance team work and collaborative learning
Ensemble practices have been essential to the performing and visual fine arts over centuries. The skills of working in ensembles, including team work and collaborative learning, are increasingly understood to be critical and transferable professional attr
The Wisdom of and Science behind Indigenous Cultural Practices
Conquest and colonization have systematically disrupted the processes by which Indigenous communities of the Americas transmit cultural knowledge and practices from one generation to the next. Even today, the extended arm of conquest and colonization that
Customary International Law and the General Principles of Law Recognized by Civilized Nations
This article looks beyond customary international law and asks whether the source of international law listed in Article 38, paragraph 1(c) of the ICJ Statute ('the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations') might join the dance. Is the