scholarly journals Performing arts buildings in Taiyuan: Cultural history buildings in a second-tier Chinese city

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Yingbo Xiao ◽  
Yan Wan ◽  
Charlie Q.L. Xue
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
Second Tier

A Cultural History Of Color in the Renaissance

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Material World ◽  
Color Terms ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
The World ◽  
Color Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Psychology Literature

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color production transformed the material world of the Renaissance, especially in ceramics, cloth, and paint. Collectors across Europe prized colorful objects such as feathers and gemstones as material illustrations of foreign lands. The advances in technology and the increasing global circulation of colors led to new color terms enriching language. Color shapes an individual’s experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts. Volume 3 in the Cultural History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Industrial Manufacturing ◽  
The World ◽  
Color Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Color Printing ◽  
Psychology Literature

Volume 5 A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, such as steam power, lithography, photography, electricity, motor cars, aviation, and cheaper color printing, all contributed to a new exuberance about color. Available pigments and colored products – made possible by new technologies, industrial manufacturing, commercialization, and urbanization – also greatly increased, as did illustrated printed literature for the mass market. Color, both literally and metaphorically, was splashed around, and became an expressive tool for artists, designers, and writers. Color shapes an individual’s experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf

Cultural Studies in China: towards closing the gap between elite culture and popular culture

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
WANG NING
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
The West ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Elite Culture ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
The Mainland Of China ◽  
Western Scholarship

This essay deals with cultural studies, including elite culture and its products (literature and the performing arts), as well as studies of film and TV and other expressions of popular culture in the mainland of China. It lays particular emphasis on the currently prevailing concept of Cultural Studies introduced from the West at the beginning of the 1990s. The author addresses the following issues: how Cultural Studies was introduced into the Chinese context, how it was integrated with existing practices of cultural history and comparative literature studies, how it was institutionalized in China, and how it was developing into a position from where it can engage in a dialogue with Western scholarship against the background of increasing globalization. According to the author, Cultural Studies has much in common with literary studies, especially in the Chinese context. Therefore, these two branches of learning should not necessarily be seen as opposed to one another. Literary and cultural studies are complementary rather than exclusionary towards each other.

scholarly journals Household Drug Management Practices of Residents in a Second-Tier City in China: Opportunities for Reducing Drug Waste and Environmental Pollution

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8544
Author(s):  
Yumei Luo ◽  
Kai Reimers ◽  
Lei Yang ◽  
Jinping Lin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Drug Management ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
Pharmaceutical Pollutants ◽  
Second Tier ◽  
Drug Waste ◽  
Effective Use

The total amount of drug waste is expanding significantly as populations age and societies become wealthier. Drug waste is becoming a problem for health and the environment. Thus, how to reduce and effectively dispose of drug waste is increasingly becoming an issue for society. This study focuses on household drug management, which involves five sub-practices: selection, purchasing, using, storing, and disposing of drugs. A questionnaire survey was conducted in a second-tier Chinese city that reveals both problems and opportunities in these five sub-practices. The results show that consumers are aware of significant issues with regard to the safe and effective use of drugs as well as with regard to proper ways of disposing of and recycling drugs. Moreover, our analysis reveals promising opportunities for addressing these issues by developing novel services based on the idea of connecting the five involved sub-practices of household drug management. Connecting and adjusting practices in this manner can be seen as an important factor in reducing drug waste and pharmaceutical pollutants.

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Synthetic Dyes ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Color Technology ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Psychology Literature ◽  
Different Cultures

Volume 6 A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated by mass consumerism as artists, designers, architects, writers, theater and filmmakers made us a ‘color conscious’ society. This influenced what we wore, how we chose to furnish and decorate our homes, and how we responded to the vibrancy and chromatic eclecticism of contemporary visual cultures.The volume brings together research on how philosophers, scientists, linguists and artists debated color’s polyvalence, its meaning to different cultures, and how it could be measured, manufactured, manipulated and enjoyed. Color shapes an individual’s experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf

scholarly journals The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Lomax Wood ◽  
Kathryn R. Kirby ◽  
Carol Ember ◽  
Stella Silbert ◽  
Hideo Daikoku ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Global Database ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Traditional Songs ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
First Time

The lack of standardized cross-cultural databases has impeded scientific understanding of the role of the performing arts in other domains of human society. This paper introduces the Global Jukebox (theglobaljukebox.org) as a resource for comparative and cross-cultural study of the performing arts and culture. Its core is the Cantometrics dataset, encompassing standardized codings on 37 aspects of musical style for 5,779 traditional songs from 992 societies. The Cantometrics dataset has been cleaned and checked for reliability and accuracy. Also being released are seven additional datasets coding and describing instrumentation, conversation, popular music, vowel and consonant placement, breath management, social factors, and societies. For the first time, all digitized Global Jukebox data are being made available in open-access, machine-readable format, linked with streaming audiovisual files to the maximum extent allowed while respecting copyright and the wishes of culture-bearers. The data are cross-indexed with the Database of Peoples, Languages, and Cultures (D-PLACE) to allow researchers to test hypotheses about worldwide aesthetic patterns and traditions, including earlier findings by Alan Lomax and his research team regarding coevolutionary relationships between the performing arts, social structure and cultural history. The Global Jukebox adds a large and detailed global database of the performing arts to enlarge our understanding of human cultural diversity.

scholarly journals Ancestral and Authorial Voices in Lloyd Newson and DV8's ‘Strange Fish’

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Janet Lansdale
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Experimental Dance ◽  
The University ◽  
Head Of Department

Lloyd Newson has worked in Europe for some twenty-three years with DV8 Physical Theatre, creating powerful socio-political pieces which address sexuality and interpersonal relationships. These works are generally created with performers through workshop processes and collaboratively with composers. London's experimental dance and theatre scenes in the 1980s and early 1990s provided a challenging context for Lloyd Newson's early creative endeavours. Here, Janet Lansdale takes one work, Strange Fish, as the locus of her discussion on narrative positions in relation to dominant forms of modern dance and issues of sexuality, homophobia, and politics within physical theatre. She conceptualizes and contextualizes ‘voices’ as ‘authorial’ and ‘ancestral’, and traces their manifestation in readings of the work. Complementary and sometimes competing voices from author, text, reader, and cultural history are articulated through a range of intertextual perspectives. This is the second in a series of articles on this work. Janet Lansdale is Distinguished Professor in Dance Studies at the University of Surrey, where she was Head of Department, and later Head of the School of Performing Arts. She is the author and editor of four books on dance theory, history, and analysis, the most recent being Dancing Texts: Intertextuality in Interpretation (1999).

A Cultural History Of Color in the Age of Enlightenment

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Color Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Color Printing ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment ◽  
Psychology Literature

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neoclassical, color transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass. Newton, using a prism, demonstrated the seven separate hues, which encouraged the development of color wheels and tables, and the increased standardization of color names. Technological advances in color printing resulted in superb maps and anatomical and botanical images. Identity and wealth were signaled with color, in uniforms, flags, and fashion. And the growth of empires, trade, and slavery encouraged new ideas about color. Color shapes an individual’s experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6-volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5,000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artifacts.

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