COMPLEXITY, CLARITY AND CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Tempo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (277) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Sam Hayden
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Orchestral Music ◽  
Compositional Approach ◽  
Value Judgements ◽  
Brian Ferneyhough ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
Post War ◽  
Musical Elements

AbstractThis article discusses how normative perceptions of British contemporary orchestral music can be underpinned by a residual binary of ‘clarity’ versus ‘complexity’ as positive and negative value judgements respectively, informing public discourse around the orchestra by reviewers, audiences and performers alike. A post-war valorisation of ‘clarity’ is traceable to the transparent neo-tonal harmony, melodic invention and approaches to orchestration characteristic of the post-Britten tradition. The adoption of such a valorisation by ‘mainstream’ contemporary British composers, exemplified by Faber Music, has generalised an aesthetically specific compositional approach. Using the examples of Thomas Adès and George Benjamin, the article shows how certain residual normative approaches to material and notation are defined against the tendencies of ‘complexism’ as exemplified by Brian Ferneyhough. This binary has engendered conservatism towards traditions of radical new orchestral music that do not conform to normative expectations of ‘clarity’, as the immediately perceptible separation and identification of musical elements.

Bosnian voices from the bottom of the well: Genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity and victims’ right to remedies

2021 ◽  
pp. 026975802110464
Author(s):  
Alma Begicevic
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Close Family Member ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One

Human rights advocates call for reparation as an important step to acknowledge and repair historical injustice and mass harms. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, victims of war continue to seek monetary reparation for non-pecuniary damages caused by genocide: murder, injury to human body and dignity, and harms inflicted upon a close family member. They seek legal remedies using national, foreign, and international human rights judicial venues. Drawing from qualitative, ethnographic research data and archival documents, the article examines legal claims and public discourse regarding reparation and makes a case for a reconceptualization of reparation by including victim voices. The article concludes that despite being absent from the post-conflict victims’ reparation programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, monetary reparation has assumed a social valuation attribute. On the one hand, it is a victim’s call for retributive, legal conceptions of justice – that someone who escaped international and national criminal justice programs pays. On the other hand, it is a tool to draw attention to Bosnian victims’ present civil and political exclusions that came with the international post-conflict peace treaty. While the post-war reconstruction focused on international trials, democratization, restorative justice, and state building programs, it also restricted socio-economic and cultural rights by redefining the citizenship and dismantling the welfare state. Reparation is a debt owed to victims.

The Music of Magnus Lindberg

Tempo ◽  
1992 ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Warnaby
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Orchestral Music ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One

Among composers born in the 1950s, who witnessed the decline of the post-war avant-garde – together with its most cherished principle, integral serialism – the Finn Magnus Lindberg has produced some of the most challenging responses. It is tempting to attach considerable significance to Lindberg's national origins. Born in 1958, he belongs to a particularly vital generation of Finnish composers whose output extends from traditional symphonic forms to experimental creations involving electroacoustic and computer technology. On the one hand, they have benefitted from the example of composers (such as Aulis Sallinen) who emerged from Sibelius's shadow not only by founding a strong operatic tradition, but also by generating their own brand of orchestral music. On the other, several of the younger generation have continued the practice of studying abroad, though without sacrificing their independence from the European mainstream.

scholarly journals EDUCATING THE NATION I: SCHOOLS

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 5-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mandler
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Post War ◽  
Universal Secondary Education ◽  
Educational Thinking ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Ideal

ABSTRACTThis paper assays the public discourse on secondary education across the twentieth century – what did voters think they wanted from education and how did politicians seek to cater to those desires? The assumption both in historiography and in popular memory is that educational thinking in the post-war decades was dominated by the ideal of ‘meritocracy’ – that is, selection for secondary and higher education on the basis of academic ‘merit’. This paper argues instead that support for ‘meritocracy’ in this period was fragile. After 1945, secondary education came to be seen as a universal benefit, a function of the welfare state analogous to health. Most parents of all classes wanted the ‘best schools’ for their children, and the best schools were widely thought to be the grammar schools; thus support for grammar schools did not imply support for meritocracy, but rather for high-quality universal secondary education. This explains wide popular support for comprehensivisation, so long as it was portrayed as providing ‘grammar schools for all’. Since the 1970s, public discourse on education has focused on curricular control, ‘standards’ and accountability, but still within a context of high-quality universal secondary education, and not the ‘death of the comprehensive’.

Male Breast Cancer in the Public Imagination

2019 ◽  
pp. 220-237
Author(s):  
Piper Sledge
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Male Breast Cancer ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Male Breast ◽  
The Public ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
Narrative Framework ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
Breast Cancer In Men

Breast cancer in American culture is intrinsically tied to normative ideologies of femininity. Within the highly visible public discourse about breast cancer, men with the disease (both transgender and cisgender) remain nearly invisible. The very presence of breast cancer in men is unthinkable precisely because its presence challenges the association of femininity with breasts. In this chapter I explore the ways that male breast cancer emerges in public discourse in order to explore the ways in normative expectations of masculinity emerge as a narrative framework for bringing trans and cis men into the breast cancer conversation as well as the ways that masculinity is deployed differentially in representing breast cancer in these two groups of men.

scholarly journals Post-War Cultural Heritage Preservation in Kosovo: Rethinking the Implementation of Ahtisaari Plan Annex V

Heritage ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-115
Author(s):  
Lorika Hisari ◽  
Kalliopi Fouseki
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Implementation Period ◽  
Community Rebuilding ◽  
Post War ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

Current works have focused on the role of urban heritage to sustainable development in postwar cities and have highlighted the significance of participatory and inclusive approaches that involve citizens and key stakeholders in the conservation and regeneration of heritage areas. However, this task is rather complex and challenging, especially in areas inhabited by multiple ethnic groups. Skills in negotiation and building trust are as important as skills in restoration and conservation of the physical fabric. However, the current literature lacks in-depth understandings of how negotiations in these contexts work and what we can learn from the past. The aim of this paper is to explore this issue by using a case study analysis, in particular, that of Kosovo. This paper looks at how the process developed during the implementation period of Annex V of the Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement (CSP) related to cultural heritage preservation. We analyze the sociocultural and political dynamics on the ground by focusing on Article 4 that deals with protective zones. With a critical examination of the approaches taken by stakeholders, including the public discourse and the example of the historic centre of Prizren, we suggest rethinking the implementation of Annex V as a sustainable option, rather than looking at other (beyond Annex V) alternatives that could potentially undermine the inter-community rebuilding efforts, and instead of creating the basis for sustainable cultural heritage preservation and reconciliation would eventually contribute to escalation and deepening of the conflict.

Ending empire: Education for ignorance, 1945-1960s

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-88
Author(s):  
Sally Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Subsequent Discussion ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Enoch Powell ◽  
Minimal Information

This chapter covers the period 1945-1960. It links the collapse of the British Empire as former colonies fought for or gained their independence peacefully, with the education systems emerging in post-war Britain. The migration of workers from former colonies to fill job vacancies set the racist terms for subsequent discussion of immigration and citizenship rights. The period covers the expansion of education from the 1940s and the incorporations of migrant’s children into a class-based education system. There was minimal information about the realities of decolonisation and why minorities had arrived in the country. This was a period of education for ignorance as any discussion of the brutalities of decolonisation was missing from public discourse, and the school and university curricula remained ethnocentric. By the end of the 1960s Enoch Powell MP was claiming that a sense of being a persecuted minority was growing in the working class.

Cosmopolitanism and the Modern Girl: A Cross-Cultural Discourse in 1930s Penang

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1385-1419 ◽  
Author(s):  
SU LIN LEWIS
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Port City ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Cultural Authenticity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Girl ◽  
Post War

AbstractIn the 1920s and 1930s, the Modern Girl emerged in advertisements, cinema and public discourse all over the globe. While she was implicated in nationalist projects of social reform in post-war Britain and Japan, in multicultural, port-city environments such as Penang, the Modern Girl was central to a discourse of ‘cosmopolitanism’. Lively debates about the Modern Girl in Penang's English press wrestled with the tensions between cultural authenticity, diversity and modernity. Male and female readers of the Straits Echo, from different ethnic backgrounds, engaged with each other in a shared public space about issues ranging from education and politics to women's liberality and fashion. The Modern Girl thus represents a new way of looking at the history of colonial Malaysia in the interwar period: one not focused on ethnic nationalism and communalism, but on a shared, multi-ethnic mode of belonging rooted in the globalist environment of the late colonial port-city.

scholarly journals Uniwersytet socjalistyczny i jego współczesne neoliberalne analogie

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-287
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Dziedziczak-Foltyn
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Origin ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
Economic Modernization

While referring to Agata Zysiak’s book Punkty za pochodzenie. Powojenna modernizacja i uniwersytet w robotniczym mieście [Points for Class Origin: Post-War Modernization and the University in a Working-Class City] (2016) the author’s intention is to provide an independent voice in the debate on plans to modernize the institution of the university, both in PPR times and at present. She describes the role of the university in Poland’s ideologically created socio-economic modernization. Both the communist and post-transformation reforms of the social system can be treated as being defined by the modernization imperative and a similarly legitimated attempt to overcome backwardness. The following points are raised: (1) the significance of the institution of higher learning in the modernization of the country; (2) the vision of a higher-learning institution guiding two outstanding academics of those times; (3) the university in the public discourse of the communist era; (4) the career paths of the recipients of university educations, that is, the students and graduates of the socialist university; (5) and the career paths of academics in the Polish People’s Republic. Consideration of these questions through the communist and capitalist prisms of modernization changes in Poland makes it possible to advance theses about the function of a higher-learning institution, regardless of the dominant political system.

scholarly journals Polish discourses concerning the Spanish Civil War. Analysis of the Polish press 1936-2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-225
Author(s):  
Wojciech Opioła
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Party Press ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World ◽  
Political Scene

The Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, as an ideologised and mythologised event, has been and is still used instrumentally within the Polish public discourse. The war was an important subject for the Polish press in the years 1936–1939. The Catholic, national-democratic, and conservative press supported General Franco’s rebellion. The governmental and pro-government press also supported the rebels. The Christian-democratic and peasants’ party press remained neutral. The social demo­cratic, communist, and radical press backed the Spanish Republic — as did liberal-conservative organs such as Wiadomości Literackie. After the Second World War, the Polish communist media created the positive legend of Polish participants in the Spanish Civil War in the International Brigades, label­ling Franco’s post-war regime fascist. In contemporary Poland, the same division within the Polish political scene as in 1936–1939 can be observed. Starting in 1990, the Spanish Civil War, as a subject of the Polish political discourse, has been the source of heated disputes, whose participants often present more radical views and narratives. The key issues that entered the canon of Polish political disputes after 1989 the International Brigades of volunteers, religious crimes, the support of fascists and communists for opposite sides of the conflict, are concentrated along the lines of the dispute arising from the debate within pre-war Poland: the clash of the traditional, Catholic world with the communist revolution.

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