Transatlantic Techno Myths: The 1994 Arica Eclipse Rave as an Example of the History and Historiography of Electronic Dance Music between Chile and Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-433
Author(s):  
MATTHIAS PASDZIERNY
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Atacama Desert ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
International History ◽  
Cultural Mediators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Event Based

AbstractThis article focuses on one of the earliest truly international Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festivals: the Eclipse Rave in Arica, in the Chilean Atacama Desert in November 1994. As a collaboration of mainly German and Chilean individuals, the event was confronted with a multitude of organizational obstacles and problems of intercultural understanding. Nevertheless, the event has now achieved a kind of cult status and is mythologized as the breakthrough moment of EDM culture in South America. Drawing on German and Chilean sources, the article sheds light on the background and impact of the festival and discusses the important role of Chilean-German exiles as interpreters and cultural mediators within EDM scenes. This contribution questions the types of sources that festivals and similar events generate, and consequently asks how an international history of the event-based and present- and history-obsessed EDM culture could be written at all.

A Yahgan for the killing: murder, memory and Charles Darwin

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH L. YANNIELLI
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
History Of

AbstractIn March 1742, British naval officer John Byron witnessed a murder on the western coast of South America. Both Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy seized upon Byron's story a century later, and it continues to play an important role in Darwin scholarship today. This essay investigates the veracity of the murder, its appropriation by various authors, and its false association with the Yahgan people encountered during the second voyage of theBeagle(1831–1836). Darwin's use of the story is examined in multiple contexts, focusing on his relationship with the history of European expansion and cross-cultural interaction and related assumptions about slavery and race. The continuing fascination with Byron's story highlights the key role of historical memory in the development and interpretation of evolutionary theory.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J.C. Crescenzi
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
International History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academic Area ◽  
Area Of Study

This chapter introduces the puzzle of whether reputation matters in world politics. It then provides a preview of the theoretical argument developed by the author to illustrate and capture the complex nature of relational dynamics. The Introduction also offers an overview of the role of reputation in throughout global and international history, emphasizing its role, for example, in the negotiation of treaties and the escalation of conflicts into war. The history of reputation as an academic area of study is traced, noting the varying levels of importance afforded to it. The chapter concludes with a discussion designed to prepare the reader for the rest of the book, which lays out the plan and scope of the book and its arguments.

scholarly journals A new Palaeocene crocodylian from southern Argentina sheds light on the early history of caimanines

2018 ◽  
Vol 285 (1885) ◽  
pp. 20180843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Bona ◽  
Martín D. Ezcurra ◽  
Francisco Barrios ◽  
María V. Fernandez Blanco
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
South American ◽  
North Central ◽  
Skull Roof ◽  
History Of ◽  
Event Based ◽  
Dispersal Events ◽  
North And South America

Caimanines are crocodylians currently restricted to South and Central America and the oldest members are from lower Palaeocene localities of the Salamanca Formation (Chubut Province, Argentina). We report here a new caimanine from this same unit represented by a skull roof and partial braincase. Its phylogenetic relationships were explored in a cladistic analysis using standard characters and a morphogeometric two-dimensional configuration of the skull roof. The phylogenetic results were used for an event-based supermodel quantitative palaeobiogeographic analysis. The new species is recovered as the most basal member of the South American caimanines, and the Cretaceous North American lineage ‘ Brachychampsa and related forms' as the most basal Caimaninae. The biogeographic results estimated north-central North America as the ancestral area of Caimaninae, showing that the Cretaceous and Palaeocene species of the group were more widespread than thought and became regionally extinct in North America around the Cretaceous–Palaeocene boundary. A dispersal event from north-central North America during the middle Late Cretaceous explains the arrival of the group to South America. The Palaeogene assemblage of Patagonian crocodylians is composed of three lineages of caimanines as a consequence of independent dispersal events that occurred between North and South America and within South America around the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary.

The groove in the box: a technologically mediated inspiration in electronic dance music

Popular Music ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
AKSEL H. TJORA
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Technology Users ◽  
Hop Acid

AbstractEven though electronic and computer-based technologies are commonly used in music composition, performance and recording, this field of technology use has, with a few exceptions, remained fairly unexplored within social studies of technology. In this article, the role of technology in music production is investigated by applying the notion of script (Akrich 1992) to an empirical study of users of the Roland MC303 Groovebox, a self-contained instrument for making techno, rap, jungle, hip-hop, acid and other styles of electronic (dance) music. The study focuses especially on individual differences between users' perceptions of the musical-stylistic directedness of the Groovebox and how they construct different user scripts and more advanced needs as they become more familiar with the instrument. The latter observation highlights the relevance of a user trajectory, the notion that enthusiast technology users may keep on using a specific technological artefact through various usage modes or scripts over time.

China Confidential: Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Global Nursing Historiography

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya Grypma ◽  
Na Wu
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
International History ◽  
Global Consciousness ◽  
Mission Hospital ◽  
Language Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking

As the history of nursing as a field of scholarship expands its global consciousness, it seems timely to join other scholars of international history in rethinking conventional approaches to historiography. The lament by mission scholars at the invisibility of nurses and indigenous workers in historical mission records coincides with calls by China scholars to reconsider traditional reliance on English-language data generation and interpretation for an English-speaking audience. In a similar way, nursing scholars are challenging historians of nursing to find ways to build a body of scholarship and a cadre of scholars that can open up new linguistic and cultural space for vibrant discussion and dialogue. Drawing on Sonya Grypma’s research on the role of missionary nurses in the development of modern nursing in China and based on a series of interviews by the authors in China of participants with ties to a former Canadian mission hospital, we explore methodological and ethical challenges in global nursing historiography. By offering insights gleaned from our early attempts to capture voices not included in conventional mission records, we hope to stimulate more dialogue about conceptual and structural issues central to a “new” global nursing historiography.

Below 100 Hz

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Fink
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Sound Propagation ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Audio Engineering ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Musical Sounds

This chapter explores cultural theories of sub-bass production and reception in electronic dance music (EDM), reggae, and other bass-heavy popular musics. After a brief review of the musicology surrounding sub-bass (particularly the work of Steve Goodman and Julian Henriques), the discussion moves on to a cultural history of the sub-bass signal chain, including the subject of subwoofer design and other aspects of audio engineering for the reproduction of musical sounds below 100 Hz. The chapter details the perceptual responses to low frequencies and the physics of sub-bass sound propagation in order to critique the mystification of recent theorists of “bass culture.”

A home on the floor: The musical expression of a DJ in a queer place

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan G. Schaller
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Music Educator ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Musical Development ◽  
Layered Samples

Existing studies about DJ learning and experience hint at the importance of place and music in the development of DJ musicianship. An exploration of the experiences of a queer DJ performing electronic dance music in a queer place might broaden our understanding of how musical expression and identity intermingle with musical places. I sought to understand how the monthly queer event Bronco functioned as a place for musical expression for an electronic dance music DJ named Greg. Using the remix as a methodological framework, I layered samples from interviews and field texts to depict Greg’s experiences alongside my own at Bronco. Findings illuminate the role of place in Greg’s musical development, performances and expression of musical and sexual identity. The resonance of Greg’s experiences with my experience as a queer music educator is discussed as well as considerations for music educators who may seek to include electronic dance music in classroom settings.

Contrasting variations in the diet of the Andean fox Lycalopex culpaeus Molina, 1782 on geographical and environmental scales in the Atacama Desert

Mammalia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-446
Author(s):  
Felipe S. Carevic ◽  
Erico R. Carmona ◽  
Francisco Cartes ◽  
Felipe Taucare
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Prey Species ◽  
Atacama Desert ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Dietary Breadth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Study Sites ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Andean Fox ◽  
Main Food Item

Abstract We determined the seasonal diet of the Andean fox Lycalopex culpaeus in three habitats in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, by analyzing their scat contents. We estimated the biomass and the number of individuals of each prey species consumed and compared our results with those of other studies on Lycalopex foxes in Chile and South America. In general, the L. culpaeus diet was characterized by a generalist behavior and higher dietary breadth than those in other ecosystems. In contrast with the other biomes of southern Chile and South America, insects represented the most frequent prey species in the present study and the main food item, comprising more than 50% of all prey at the three study sites; however, in terms of biomass, rodent and reptile prey showed the highest percentage from summer to winter. Significant differences were found between the biomass consumed among sites. Likewise, we found a relationship between the niche breadth of the diet and the primary productivity of the sites. Statistically significant differences in prey items consumed were noted across seasons and sites located at different altitudes, which reflected an opportunistic response to the availability of prey. Our report contributes to current data about the natural history of L. culpaeus in hyper-arid habitats.

scholarly journals The role of the Andean uplift as an asymmetrical barrier to gene flow in the Neotropical leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Muñoz-Valencia ◽  
Glever Alexander Velez-Matinez ◽  
James Montoya-Lerma ◽  
Fernando Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Gene Flow ◽  
South America ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Atta Cephalotes ◽  
Geographical Barrier ◽  
History Of ◽  
Andean Uplift ◽  
Leaf Cutting ◽  
And Migration

Neotropical diversification by the Andean uplift is typically addressed on a large evolutionary scale (e.g. speciation), even though many species are still distributed in both sides of the mountains. The three parallel mountain ranges in the northern Andes (Colombia) impose a major geographical barrier to species' migration from South to Central America. How important these barriers are for conspecific diversification of cross-Andean species such as the leaf-cutting ants remains largely unknown. To answer this question, we studied the mtCOI gene of Atta cephalotes, the most widely distributed leaf-cutting ant species. Our hierarchical analyzes evidenced substantial genetic structure among regions and populations, suggesting a more complex biogeographical history of Andean populations than previously thought. These mountains seem to isolate Central American and Western Colombian populations from the rest of A. cephalotes in South America. Population and migration modelling are consistent with the origin of this species in South America and a major role of the Eastern cordillera as a geographical barrier to historical gene flow, restricting dispersion from north to south. These findings provide insights into the role of the Andean uplift as barrier to gene flow and, eventually, implications for monitoring and designing management strategies for leaf-cutting ants.

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