The role of spirituality in learning music: A case of North American adult students of Japanese music

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Matsunobu
Keyword(s):  
Adult Students ◽  
North American ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Single Tone ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
Musical Skills ◽  
American Adult ◽  
Japanese Music

In this paper the role of spirituality in learning music for North American adult students is explored by examining the case of shakuhachi music. One distinctive character of engaging in music through the shakuhachi is that it facilitates the attainment of an ‘optimal relationship’ between the practitioners’ musical pursuit and self-cultivation through a ‘simple’ media, such as a single tone. The findings indicate that spirituality could be experienced regardless of one's musical skills or the level of outward expression. A second characteristic is that both experienced players and beginners could experience what the spirituality of music means through certain forms of music practice, including the shakuhachi practice, which followed the principle of ‘less is more’.

Music for life: a Japanese experience of spirituality, ageing and musical growth

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1100-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
KOJI MATSUNOBU
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
Musical Engagement ◽  
Musical Growth ◽  
Positive Ageing

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the role of musical engagement in later-life spiritual development and ageing. The nexus of music, spirituality and ageing has been relatively unexplored. Change of styles, means of expression and ways of engagement are among the transformation that older musicians often encounter. Based on an ethnographic study of Japanese music practitioners, the paper introduces a community music practice in which spiritual cultivation is a collective goal of musical pursuit. A case introduced in this paper suggests that music helps to develop a sense of purpose and enhance the meaning of life by instilling the feeling that people are still able to develop musically and spiritually. Some of the transformation identified in the study included changes of repertoire, the purpose of practice and the meaning of progress, all of which was characterised in the dictum of less-is-more. The paper highlights the process in which spiritual development and musical growth are linked and support positive ageing.

North American Adult Reading Test Performance in Young Adult Simulators

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Wall ◽  
Jeremy J. Davis ◽  
Jacqueline H. Remondet Wall
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
North American ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
American Adult ◽  
Adult Reading

Gender Indeterminacy in Translation: the Case of R. L. Stine’s Give Yourself Goosebumps Gamebooks via Portuguese Translation

2018 ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Ana Brígida Paiva
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Second Person ◽  
The North ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Literary Systems ◽  
Second Person Perspective ◽  
Neutral Language

As works of fction, gamebooks offer narrative-bound choices – the reader generally takes on the role of a character inserted in the narrative itself, with gamebooks consequently tending towards being a story told in the second-person perspective. In pursuance of this aim, they can, in some cases, adopt gender-neutral language as regards grammatical gender, which in turn poses a translation challenge when rendering the texts into Portuguese, a language strongly marked by grammatical gender. Stemming from an analysis of a number of gamebooks in R. L. Stine’s popular Give Yourself Goosebumps series, this article seeks to understand how gender indeterminacy (when present) is kept in translation, while examining the strategies used to this effect by Portuguese translators – and particularly how ideas of implied readership come into play in the dialogue between the North-American and Portuguese literary systems.

The Keystone Role of Bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie

BioScience ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan K. Knapp ◽  
John M. Blair ◽  
John M. Briggs ◽  
Scott L. Collins ◽  
David C. Hartnett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tallgrass Prairie ◽  
North American

Less is More? The Strategic Role of Retailer’s Capacity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinliang (Ricky) Tan ◽  
Yan Xiong ◽  
Haibing Gao ◽  
Xi Li ◽  
Huazhong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Less Is More ◽  
Strategic Role

Predictors of transfer behaviours in adult university students

2021 ◽  
pp. 147797142199278
Author(s):  
Charlie Potter
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Transfer Students ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
College Completion ◽  
Enrollment Patterns ◽  
Adult Transfer

Adult students are critical to addressing the college completion crisis. Retention and completion for adults lags behind students who enter college directly from high school. However, higher education has largely been built around service to younger high school graduates, and institutions are slow to change. A shift in focus to accommodate the needs and interests of adult learners will require additional research regarding the enrollment patterns and behaviours of adult students. This study uses quantitative methods and the Beginning Postsecondary Students 12/14 dataset to consider the role of transfer in the experience of the adult learner, with specific attention to the characteristics, demographics and experiences of adult transfer students as well as the predictors of reverse and lateral transfer behaviour in adult student populations.

scholarly journals The role of pre-magmatic rifting in shaping a volcanic continental margin: An example from the Eastern North American Margin

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Lang ◽  
Uri S ten Brink ◽  
Deborah R. Hutchinson ◽  
Gregory S Mountain ◽  
Uri Schattner
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
North American ◽  
Eastern North American Margin

scholarly journals An Exon-Based Comparative Variant Analysis Pipeline to Study the Scale and Role of Frameshift and Nonsense Mutation in the Human-Chimpanzee Divergence

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
GongXin Yu
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Cell Lineage ◽  
Nonsense Mutations ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
Sequencing Errors ◽  
Evolutionary Force ◽  
Variant Analysis ◽  
Species Specific

Chimpanzees and humans are closely related but differ in many deadly human diseases and other characteristics in physiology, anatomy, and pathology. In spite of decades of extensive research, crucial questions about the molecular mechanisms behind the differences are yet to be understood. Here I reportExonVar, a novel computational pipeline forExon-based human-chimpanzee comparativeVariant analysis. The objective is to comparatively analyze mutations specifically those that caused the frameshift and nonsense mutations and to assess their scale and potential impacts on human-chimpanzee divergence. Genomewide analysis of human and chimpanzee exons withExonVaridentified a number of species-specific, exon-disrupting mutations in chimpanzees but much fewer in humans. Many were found on genes involved in important biological processes such as T cell lineage development, the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases, and antigen induced cell death. A “less-is-more” model was previously established to illustrate the role of the gene inactivation and disruptions during human evolution. Here this analysis suggested a different model where the chimpanzee-specific exon-disrupting mutations may act as additional evolutionary force that drove the human-chimpanzee divergence. Finally, the analysis revealed a number of sequencing errors in the chimpanzee and human genome sequences and further illustrated that they could be corrected without resequencing.

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