A popular music project and people with disabilities community in Hamburg, Germany: the case of Station 17

Popular Music ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-410
Author(s):  
DIETMAR ELFLEIN
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Professional Artists

AbstractIn this article I discuss the past and present of Station 17, a project made up of disabled and non-disabled musicians, which was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1988. Station 17 refuse to regard themselves as a pedagogic or therapeutic project. My specific interest is to show how they attempt to solve artistic and economic problems that arise out of this decision. In artistic terms they developed two major modes of production, which both led to a dead end. As a consequence they merged these two modes in order to regain the flexibility of improvisation without losing the benefits of sequencer-based electronic music. Within the pop market the lyrics, which are exclusively provided by disabled members of the project, serve as a unique selling proposition. In economic terms they succeeded in creating themselves a niche within a therapeutic structure that allows them to act as professional artists.

Regional Restructuring: Class Politics and Popular Protest in South Wales

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Regional Growth ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Social Bases ◽  
Social Mobilisation ◽  
State Investment ◽  
Regional Restructuring ◽  
State Regional

The question of whether class or territory is the stronger basis of social mobilisation is examined. It is suggested that the economic problems being experienced by many older industrial areas can give rise to regional coalitions that seek to transcend class antagonisms in order to press for state investment to improve regional growth and employment prospects. But it is further argued that, because of the heterogeneity of the sociospatial base in such regions, supralocal coalitions will be vulnerable to the effects of allocative decisions favouring particular within-region locations. The notion of the vulnerability of regional social bases to the expression of local class interests is explored in the context of industrial South Wales. This region has been subject to successive attempts at economic revival, often in response to an apparently coherent regional voice pressing for state regional interventions. Important parts of various policies for restructuring the regional economy have been defeated in the past, precisely because of the impotence of regional coalitions to carry disadvantaged local class groupings along with them. On occasions, such local class groupings have been capable of mobilising popular support, indicating more the defensive than offensive nature of their power.

The relationship between disability and suicide: prospective evidence from the Ten to Men cohort

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Milner ◽  
Anne-Marie Bollier ◽  
Eric Emerson ◽  
Anne Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Logistic Regression Model ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Longitudinal Cohort ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background People with disabilities often face a range of social and economic adversities. Evidence suggests that these disadvantages result in poorer mental health. Some research also indicates that people with disabilities are more likely experience thoughts about suicide than people without disability, although most of this research is based on small cross-sectional samples. Methods We explored the relationship between self-reported disability (measured at baseline) and likelihood of reporting thoughts of suicide (measured at follow up) using a large longitudinal cohort of Australian males. A logistic regression model was conducted with thoughts of suicide within the past 12 months (yes or no) as the outcome and disability as the exposure. The models adjusted for relevant confounders, including mental health using the SF-12 MCS, and excluded males who reported thoughts of suicide at baseline. Results After adjustment, there was a 1.48 (95% CI: 0.98–2.23, P = 0.063) increase in the odds of thoughts of suicide among men who also reported a disability. The size of association was similar to that of being unemployed. Conclusions Males reporting disability may also suffer from thoughts of suicide. We speculate that discrimination may be one explanation for the observed association. More research on this topic is needed.

scholarly journals Mobile Controlled Automated wheelchair for Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1S) ◽  
pp. 240-244
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Mobile Users ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Mobile Games ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wheel Chair ◽  
Physically Challenged ◽  
Tilt Change

As the usage of the Android smart phones has been considerably increasing, a lot of applications have been developed for the benefits of mobile users. In the past, many applications have been designed aiming to help physically disabled persons. This paper presents an android application which providers several options for controlling the movement of wheelchairs effectively. The proposed application enables People with Disabilities (PWDs) to operate the wheel chair with minimum effort. Apart from voice commands, the proposed application detects and measures the tilt change, and moves the wheelchair based on the degree of the tilt. It also provides a soft joystick as in mobile games to ease the operation of the wheelchairs. Furthermore, sensors that are fixed in the wheelchair can detect and avoid obstacles when the chair is on the move. Hence, it ensures the safety while using the wheelchairs. The proposed application will help both physically challenged persons and elders to operate the wheelchairs more comfortably.

The Confluence Between Materiality and Immateriality in Site-Specific Sound and Visual Performances

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-96
Author(s):  
Frederico Dinis
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Visual Performance ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
The Past

Aiming to explore the diverse nature of sound and image, thereby establishing a bridge with the symbiotic creation of sensations and emotions, this chapter intends to present the development and the construction of a proposal for the confluence between materiality and immateriality in site-specific sound and visual performances. Using as a focal point sound and visual narratives, the author tries to look beyond space and time and create a representative atmosphere of sense of place, attempting to understand the past and sketching new configurations for the (re)presentation of identity, guiding the audience through a journey of perceptual experiences, using field recordings, ambient electronic music, and videos. This chapter also presents the development of an experimental approach, based on a real-time sound and visual performance, and some critical forms of expression and communication that relate or incorporate sound and image, articulating concerns about their aesthetic experience and communicative functionality.

Musique Concrètization

2011 ◽  
pp. 125-139
Author(s):  
Jean Hébert
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Heterogeneous Networks ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Music Distribution ◽  
And Control

For the past several years, a crisis over copyright and control of music distribution has been developing. The outcome of this crisis has tremendous implications not only for the fate of commercial and creative entities involved in music, but for the social reproduction of knowledge and culture more generally. Critical theories of technology are useful in addressing these implications. This chapter introduces the concept of “concretization” (Feenberg, 1999), and demonstrates how it can be mapped onto the field of current music technologies and the lives and work of the people using them. This reading of popular music technologies resonates strongly with themes arising out of current scholarship covering the crisis of copyright and music distribution. Reading music technology in this way can yield a lucid account of the diverse trajectories and goals inherent in heterogeneous networks of participants involved with music technologies. It can also give us not only a detailed description of the relations of various groups, individuals, and technologies involved in networks of music, but also a prescriptive program for the future maintenance and strengthening of a vibrant, perhaps less intensively commercialized, and radically democratized sphere of creative exchange.

Web Accessibility Laws and Issues

2011 ◽  
pp. 1990-1996
Author(s):  
Holly Yu
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Past

The concept of access to information has changed in the past three decades to reflect the changes in the methods of receiving and conveying information. With the advent of information technology and the unprecedented opportunities created by the technology for people with and without disabilities, it has become apparent that information technologies have a tremendous potential for allowing people with disabilities to participate in mainstream activities and to support their ability to live independently. However, the new forms of access to information that have made it easier for non-disabled people have often created barriers for people with disabilities.

Web Accessibility and the Law

2005 ◽  
pp. 3042-3047
Author(s):  
Holly Yu
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Law

In the past three decades, the method of receiving and conveying information has shifted from paper-based, typewriter-generated, hand-edited, and printing-press-produced publications to more technology-mediated, intelligent, WYSIWYG software-generated forms. Consequently, the concept of access to information has changed to reflect this phenomenon. The new forms of access to information that have made it easier for non-disabled people have often created barriers for people with disabilities.

Bezeichnungen für Menschen mit Behinderungen in kroatischen und serbischen Presseberichten über die Paralympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-110
Author(s):  
Claudia Radünzel
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Menschen Mit Behinderungen ◽  
Paralympic Games

SummaryThe present article deals with Croatian and Serbian terms that denote people with disabilities placing a particular focus on the structure of these terms and the frequency of their use in current language. The study is based on 398 articles about the XV Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro published in the online issues of 19 Croatian and Serbian newspapers from September 2016. The texts reflect an increasing interest in the situation of people with disabilities in Croatia and Serbia. They show a growing tendency to use altern­ate, non-discriminatory terms instead of the formerly established ones. One example is the term “invalid”, which was common in the past, but is today replaced by “osoba s/ sa invaliditetom”.

Crippling Competition: Critical Reflections on Disability and Australian Telecommunications Policy

2000 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin ◽  
Christopher Newell
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
High Time ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Telecommunications Policy ◽  
Disability Discrimination ◽  
Telecommunications Reform ◽  
The Past ◽  
Explicit Reference ◽  
Disability Discrimination Act

Telecommunications reform in Australia, and in particular the introduction of competition, is often claimed to have delivered benefits to consumers. From the perspective of people with disability, this competition so far can been seen as crippling rather than enabling. There have been some gains for telecommunications for people with disabilities over the past decade in particular —delivered by slowly changing corporate attitudes buttressed by the explicit reference to the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 in the Telecommunications Act 1997. This article examines telecommunications and disability in Australia since 1975, and concludes that it is high time for a telecommunications and new media industry where measures of outcomes would include utilising the experiences and meeting the needs, expectations and aspirations of those who live with disability.

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