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This book is dedicated with gratitude to the staff of the Music Library of the University of Pretoria: Isobel Oosthuizen, Gertrud Meyer and Marie Stals Gender and Sexuality in South African Music Published by SUN ePReSS, a division of AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch ...

Na presente dissertacao, pretendemos perceber se existira na nossaidentidade nacional actual, tracos da identidade nacional salazarista.Para responder a esta pergunta, efectuamos uma analise baseadana identidade nacional e nos simbolos/momentos que julgamos seremrelevantes para elaboracao deste estudo. Comecamos por definira identidade e a nocao de identidade nacional, onde efectuamos deforma sintetizada um percurso pela identidade nacional. Apos estaapresentacao, elencamos os mencionados simbolos/momentos quepensamos serem relevantes para a formacao de uma nocao de identidade.Neste capitulo, varias narrativas visuais serao apresentadas,demonstrando o exaustivo trabalho na construcao da identidade nacionalefectuado pelo regime do Estado Novo, mas tambem o processode construcao de identidade efectuado apos a queda do regime fascista.Finalmente, elaboramos uma analise comparativa de algumasnarrativas visuais, tentando a partir delas pensar a identidade nacionalexistente, analisando va...

Esta dissertacao tem como objetivo a analise da cidade de Viseu durantea ocupacao romana, entre os seculos II/I a.C. e IV/V d.C., usando odesenho como principal metodo de analise, sobre as teorias e achados.A primeira parte pretende enquadrar o tempo e local de estudo,clarificando sobre as alteracoes que ocorreram a nivel global na areaonde se insere Viseu. A percecao do territorio e da sua ordenacaopermitem tracar a area politica em que a cidade romana de Viseu seinseria, a Lusitânia. A compreensao da sua organizacao aos varios niveiscria uma base de estudo mais solida, apoiada em fatos e exemplos que,certamente, influenciaram Viseu.A segunda parte, considerada pratica, visa estudar a cidade e a suaevolucao atraves da analise e reconstrucao do que seria o seu urbanismo,recorrendo a tratadistica romana e aos estudos e escavacoes feitospor outros investigadores sobre a cidade de Viseu e outras cidades daLusitânia. A sobreposicao de diferentes camadas de informacao, defontes e context...

The “Earthrise” photograph, taken on the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, became one of the most significant images of the 20th Century. It triggered a profound shift in environmental awareness and the potential for human unity—inspiring the first Earth Day in 1970. Taking inspiration from these events 50 years later, we initiated Project Earthrise at our 2020 annual conference of inVIVO Planetary Health. This builds on the emergent concept of planetary health, which provides a shared narrative to integrate rich and diverse approaches from all aspects of society towards shared solutions to global challenges. The acute catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn greater attention to many other interconnected global health, environmental, social, spiritual, and economic problems that have been underappreciated or neglected for decades. This is accelerating opportunities for greater collaborative action, as many groups now focus on the necessity of a “Great Transition”. While ambitious integr...

The Sukuma Sensorium Before discussing the sensory shifts that are pivotal in Sukuma healing, an introduction to the human sensorium may be in order. As a Western ethnographer, I am inevitably influenced by Euro-American conceptions in which ...

In this volume, the aesthetic contours of literacies and communication are explored through a collection of chapters authored by educators, emerging and established researchers, youth researchers, and teaching artists whose lives intersect with those of young people inside and outside of formal institutional settings. At the heart of the varied research and curricular projects – ranging from writing workshops and photography walks to a theater elective at an alternative to incarceration program – represented in this volume is the pursuit of play, imagination, multimodal expression. The authors share their experiences working with court-involved youth to explore issues related to justice, community, identity, and representation through engagement with multiple media and modes – including photography, theater, writing, painting, and video.

This study examines existing research on the use of arts-based methods in approaching issues sensitive for youth and children. We conducted a qualitative, systematic review of twenty academic publications on this topic from 1997 to 2017. Our results show the use of arts-based methods to (1) recognize and  make visible previously invisible experiences, acts, voices and histories; (2) nurture change and transformation in the lives of the youth; and (3) allow exploring the
more-than-human, more-than-present and less-than-conscious aspects in the lives of youth and children – aspects that traditional study methods might not readily access. Our findings offer teachers, researchers, practitioners, psychologists and social workers greater awareness of the use of arts-based methods in matters young people find sensitive. This review allows education professionals to achieve
a broader view of methods emerging from the arts in addressing the social and psychological issues that young human beings might face.

Artikkelissa tarkastellaan taidelähtöisten tutkimusmenetelmien ja käytänteiden mahdollisuuksia käsiteltäessä herkkätuntoisia aihepiirejä lasten ja nuorten kanssa. Tutkimuksessa toteutettiin laadullinen systemaattinen kirjallisuuskatsaus, johon valikoitui 20 akateemista englanninkielistä julkaisua vuosilta 1997–2017. Katsauksen perusteella taidelähtöiset lähestymistavat voivat olla avuksi tutkimuksessa
ja käytännössä (1) tehtäessä näkyväksi lasten ja nuorten elämän hankalasti tunnistettavia sekä heikosti tiedostettuja kokemuksia, käytänteitä, ääniä ja historioita; (2) etsittäessä muutoksen mahdollisuuksia lasten ja nuorten oikeuksia rikkovissa kysymyksissä; ja (3) tutkittaessa lasten ja nuorten elämänpiireihin sisältyviä
materiaalisia sekä inhimillisen ja nykyhetken ylittäviä kietoumia. Tutkimus tuottaa uutta tietoa taidelähtöisten menetelmien ja käytänteiden sellaisista ulottuvuuksista, joita perinteisillä puhe- ja tekstilähtöisillä menetelmillä on usein vaikea tavoittaa. Se tarjoaa tutkijoille, kasvattajille ja päättäjille välineitä hyödyntää taidelähtöisiä lähestymistapoja tutkittaessa ja käsiteltäessä lasten ja nuorten
kanssa herkkätuntoisia aihepiirejä.

Colour is visual identification or perception of a property derived from spectrum of light by human eyes. When a beam of light from sun or light source passes through a glass prism, it dispersed in to seven colours of rainbow. Sunlight has a high color temperature, a fairly uniform spectrum and is considered a standard for white light. A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon caused by reflection and refraction of light in water droplets present in the atmosphere. The rainbow colours are violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red (vibgyor). Electromagnetic radiation in the visible range is generally called as light.

Addressing the coronation issue in France always comes down to talking about Reims, its archbishop, its cathedral, and its Holy Ampulla. If these elements are indeed constitutive of the consecration ceremony, they only became so from the 13th century onwards. Before that, Reims had difficulty asserting its alleged prerogative to welcome the consecration’s ceremony. The practice of “festival crowing”, practiced by monarchs to assert their authority, did not indeed help the metropolitan Reims to assert its monopoly. In this context, Saint-Denis sought recognition of his rights to host the royal ceremony. Saint-Denis has always been intimately connected to the monarchy and hosted Pepin the first consecration, Pepin the Short and his heirs, in 754. In the 12th century, Abbot Suger’s arrival at Abbey’s head marked a new impetus for the Abbey in this race for prestige. The Saint-Denis church’s reconstruction and its liturgical organization demonstrate the great project that the Abbey purs...

This paper aims at reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock with respect to T.E.Hulme’s argument in Romanticism and Classicism. The researchers try to apply T.E.Hulme’s notion of Romanticism and Classicism on dramas and poems. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock poem will be examined and illustrated from two differing but independent classical and romantic perspective based on Hulme’s definitions. It shows that the poem contain characteristics of both classical and romantic art forms. The effect of Hulme’s notion can be seen particularly clearly in the works of T.S.Eliot and other poets of the 1930’s.  T.E.Hulme’s insistence on order and exactness sowed the seed of ‘Classical revival”, to which Eliot contribute a great deal in his poems.

The thesis of this essay can be stated quite directly: Slavoj Žižek, despite having little to say about mashup and remixing in any direct way, engages this new media phenomena in both theory and practice, providing contemporary culture with both a conceptual understanding of the mashup and a carefully executed illustration of its methodology. The examination of this will proceed by way of two movements. The first investigates how Žižek's work, especially his general interest in "short circuiting," provides theoretical insight for understanding the mashup and its cultural significance. The second turns things around, demonstrating how the mashup explains and describes Žižek's own compositional practices. In other words, the first part explains the mashup by way of Žižek, while the second explains Žižek by way of the mashup.

The current focus on high-stakes testing has pressured schools to focus on a narrow range of literacy skills at the expense of oral language, vocabulary, and background knowledge. This article argues that theatre arts lessons can be an effective way for teachers to engage in rich verbal interactions with many children at once, providing feedback and building vocabulary. A K-2 theatre arts program initiated in the San Diego Unified School District is described, with links to on-line lesson plans and streaming videos of classroom instruction. Participants comment on the effect K-2 theatre activities had on classroom culture and student learning especially the literacy skills of English language learners.

Our creative arts help to define our societies and our civilisation. Digital developments are democratising enjoyment of the arts and participation in the arts. The creative arts can address social issues, reach excluded groups, open-up creative, financial, entrepreneurial, active involvement, sustainability and other opportunities, break down barriers, widen perspectives, change expectations, bridge urban-rural divides and stimulate creative thinking, imagination and innovation. They can expose people to various physical/tangible expressions of individuals, movements and prevailing views from different ages, arenas and societies and encourage them to think, question and challenge. They can also enable people to produce designs, artefacts and other works that express their responses and views in a richer variety of ways than just the written or spoken word. An education in the creative arts can enhance, enable, enrich and empower. It can help to stimulate the exploration and commitment that can lead to responsible and fulfilling lifestyles and successful invention and entrepreneurship.

""Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture explores a variety of new theory and technologies, including devices and techniques for motion capture for music and performance, advanced photographic techniques, computer generated images derived from different sources, game engine software, airflow to capture the motions of bird flight and low-altitude imagery from airborne devices.

The international authors of this book are practising experts from universities, art practices and organisations, research centres and independent research. They describe electronic visualisation used for such diverse aspects of culture as airborne imagery, computer generated art based on the autoimmune system, motion capture for music and for sign language, the visualisation of time and the long term preservation of these materials. Selected from the EVA London conferences from 2009-2012, held in association with the Computer Arts Society of the British Computer Society, the authors have reviewed, extended and fully updated their work for this state-of-the-art volume.
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The research focuses on the importance of the interrelationship between identity and heritage as a bonding factor that brings together all those who contributed to the formation of this heritage, regardless of the other ethnic, religious and linguistic affiliations within one identity, the Syrian national identity.

العنوان: الهوية والتراث الثقافي المادي في سورية

يركز البحث على أهمية الترابط بين الهوية والتراث باعتباره يشكل عامل ترابط يجمع كل من أسهم في تكوين هذا التراث بغض النظر عن الانتماءات الآثنية والدينية واللغوية الآخرى ضمن هوية واحدة هي الهوية الوطنية السورية.

Art galleries, which exist as a cottageindustry, like many small businesses face a very challenging and changingcompetitive environment that demands attention to strategy formation andexecution. Many galleries, though, operate as though they were immune fromtechnology and consolidation. Their traditional business model is underpressure from globalization and the Internet. Data on 132 private art galleries in Colorado were collected by mail survey.In addition to gallery and owner characteristics, data for three sets ofvariables were collected: (1) economic and technological forces affectinggallery success, (2) changes in performance, and (3) adaptive strategic levelresponses to performance change. Findings indicate gallery business is very complicated, with a mix ofdriving forces. Gallery owners and managers are relatively unconcerned aboutkey external economic and technological pressures affecting their businesses.Their perceptions are not related to changes in performance. Owners i...

With deliberation on the architecture of Iran in Islamic period, it can be said that spaces and decorations used in its buildings have a deep relationship with cultural beliefs and world-view of Islam. Although, it is assumed in the first look that the space of these works have been shaped according to local and climatic conditions of Iran, but with more profound look, it can be observed that they are at the result of the spiritual and wise attitudes of the artists who have created their works by concerning to these principles. The authors of this paper intend to introduce the architectural and decorative arrays used in the soltaniyeh dome, and investigate the theosophical principles of light and colour, also analysis their symbolic meanings in this masterpiece of art and architecture in Ilkhani era. Research findings show that the use of light and arrays reflected it, as well as a variety of special colours, such as blue and green in this tomb are rooted in the religious beliefs of...

Japanese film culture is one of the oldest and most prolific in the world. Today, few people are surprised by the scope of its fiction-film industry, which was the largest in the world after Hollywood. However, the production of documentary films in Japan has not received the attention it deserves:, it is often believed that Japan never developed a true documentary tradition, due to an apparentpreference for stylisation originating in the country’s theatrical tradition (Richie 1990). Yet, this filmography is not isnignificant. Japan has left one of the most important legacies in terms of non-fiction films in the world, with 130,000 works since the end of World War II (Maruyama 2010). This constitutes a huge cultural heritage but its cataloguing is a job that exceeds the capacity of any one researcher. "Trends in Japanese Documentary Film" seeks to challenge the predominance of fiction film in the literature on Japanese Cinema. Thus, this Special Issue proposes new approaches to film history and theory from non-fiction genres that contribute to identifying, analysing and categorising distinctive schools, artistic and intellectual movements, and trends in the history of Japanese documentary.

Book Review: Talking Prices by Olav Velthuis

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I. Introduction
II. Juxtaposition of art and commerce: the trichotomy of the avant-garde galleries, conservative dealers and auction houses
III. Money as the building block of relationships between artists, dealers and collectors
IV. Pricing works of art: bending rationality and twisting the economic principles
V. Social fabric of the art market
VI. Conclusion

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Revealing a substantial amount of evidence hitherto missed by pertinent literature reviews, this article sets out to offer a critical appraisal of the empirical research literature on the contributions arts-based programmes may make to the process of desistance from crime. The article begins by focusing on evaluations of arts-based programmes run by practitioners inside prisons, and their effects in terms of three sets of developments that are thought to advance desistance: psychological and attitudinal changes; increased learning capacity and motivations; and social skills building. Our appraisal then proceeds to address the effects of arts-based prison programmes after participants’ release into the community; a theme that has received very limited research attention to date, and even less attention in extant literature reviews. In the next section of the article, we briefly discuss our own evaluation of an arts-based programme that is aimed at prolonging and enhancing desistance through providing former prisoners with opportunities to continue engaging with the arts after release. We conclude with a few short remarks as to the lessons that can be drawn from this article for the design of arts-based programmes in the field of criminal justice.

This paper analyses the taxonomy, distinctive features and evolution of Kant’s conceptions of friendship by examining Kant’s accounts of this topic in his different Lectures on Ethics from the mid 1770’s till early 1790’s and his Metaphysics of Morals from 1797 as well as his scattered remarks on friendship in some of his smaller writings and notes from his manuscript remains. On the basis of this analysis, I show that (1) Kant’s taxonomy of friendship is far more intricate that the distinction between friendship based on need, taste and disposition as Lynch (2005) claims; (2) from the late 1770’s till the late 1790’s, Kant’s writings on friendship display an increasing focus and emphasis on moral friendship, whereas his discussion of friendship of need and taste from the early Lectures on Ethics disappears in his late Lectures on Ethics and the Metaphysics of Morals ; (3) although – following Marcucci (1999) – one can distinguish between an ‘anthropological’ or ‘phenomenological’ a...

Als Goethe in seiner monumentalen Farbenlehre (1810) versuchte, Newtons Theorie des Lichts und der Farben anzugreifen, setzte er eine Methode ein, die er als Vermannigfachung der Erfahrungen bezeichnete: Er variierte verschiedene Parameter der newtonischen Experimente, um neuen Spielraum für Alternativen zur Theorie Newtons zu gewinnen. Dabei erzielte er durchaus Erfolge. U.a. entdeckte er das Komplement zum newtonischen Spektrum (das aussieht wie dessen Farbnegativ und durch Vertauschung der Rollen von Licht und Finsternis entsteht). Ingo Nussbaumer hat Goethes Methode kongenial fortgeführt. Dabei hat er sechs weitere Farbspektren entdeckt. Sie entstehen, wenn man anstelle des Hell/Dunkel-Kontrasts (in Newtons und Goethes Experimenten) mit Paaren bunter Komplementärfarben arbeitet. Die neuen Farbspektren sehen genauso differenziert aus wie Newtons und Goethes Spektrum; doch anders als diese enthalten sie die unbunten "Farben" Schwarz und Weiß. Die vielfältigen Ordnungsbeziehungen und Symmetrien, die Ingo Nussbaumer in der Farbenwelt der insgesamt acht Spektren ausgemacht hat, verhelfen uns vielleicht zu einem tieferen Verständnis der Prinzipien menschlicher Farbwahrnehmung. Und sie tauchen die überkommenen Prinzipien der additiven und der subtraktiven Farbmischung in neues Licht.