Aesthetic Experience, Social Interfaces, and the Phenomenology of Music

Author(s):  
Roger W. H. Savage

The distinction that John Blacking draws between music that serves a social purpose and music that he regards as enhancing human consciousness calls for a further consideration of how the experiences that music affords are the source of its meaning and significance. Drawing on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s phenomenological analysis of play, the author sets out a hermeneutical approach that accounts for music’s expressive vehemence. Paul Ricoeur’s theory of mimesis provides a hermeneutical foundation for understanding how music’s expression of moods and feelings gives rise to different ways of inhering in the world. Music’s exemplification of the moods and feelings to which it gives voice, the author accordingly argues, is the spring of its worlding power. Conversely, Thomas Turino’s adaptation of Peirce’s semiology both draws on and supports ethnographic descriptions of emotive, musical behaviors. In turn, these descriptions presuppose the meaningfulness of the experiences that music occasions. Blacking’s insight into the primary significance of what he identifies as “music for being” thus reserves a place within ethnomusicological discourse for a phenomenological hermeneutics for which music’s worlding power is the ground of the interfaces between music’s expressive force and its place in social life.

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 11009
Author(s):  
Elena Koltunova ◽  
Galina Vlasova ◽  
Elisaveta Sagaidachnaya

The article presents the analysis and generalizations, scientific justifications and views of scientists on the sign-symbolic system. Under this system, the "symbol" category and the "sign" category are separated. The sign is defined as a material definition, and the symbol is a treasure trove of meanings, since it has a unique ability not only to accumulate the age-old values of our predecessors, but also to form new semantic constructs through the disclosure of the contexts of ancient civilizations. This emphasizes the complementarity of the symbol and the sign, the interpenetration and ambiguity of their transition. Symbol possesses the power that can combine the perception of the world with the perception of the person him\herself when understanding the meanings. The symbol is firmly embedded in the human consciousness and is the cultural and spiritual heritage of humanity. Its origin and stages of formation are inextricably linked and are considered in the context of a long evolutionary process with cultural changes in social life. A review of various theoretical concepts in the psychological and legal sciences on the problem of symbolism and symbolization allows us to reach a deeper, integrated level of its development and to understand the mechanisms and specific features of development.


Author(s):  
Р.Я. Фидарова ◽  
И.А. Кайтова

Критический реализм художественный метод, с помощью которого осетинская литература отражает жизнь в формах самой жизни, в образах, создаваемых посредством специфических приемов типизации различных явлений и фактов действительности. Именно он дает возможность литературе стать важнейшим средством познания мира и человека, раскрыть порой противоречивую сущность жизни, процессуально показать взаимодействие героя и действительности, влияние социально-исторических обстоятельств на формирование личности человека. Одной из важнейших функций осетинского искусства критического реализма является художественное исследование социальной действительности в поступательном ходе ее развития, т.е. изучение и анализ не только уже существующих в обществе форм взаимоотношений людей между собой, но и процесс вызревания также и новых типов людей, характеров и обстоятельств. В целом это существенно меняет характер и сущность осетинской литературы. Критический реализм в осетинской литературе воплощает принципы жизненно-правдивого изображения действительности, целью которых является глубокое, последовательное и осмысленное познание человека и окружающего его мира во всей их противоречивой сути. Как форма общественного сознания, осетинская литература критического реализма отражает сущность объективного мира осетин, но не пассивно и зеркально. Осмысление гносеологических основ ленинской теории отражения приводит к пониманию важности и необходимости постановки вопроса о философских основах критического реализма в осетинской литературе. В целом это дает возможность исследования сложной диалектики ее отношения к действительности. Критический реализм ставит и решает в осетинской литературе сложные философские проблемы, исследуя структуру буржуазного общества на стыке XIX и ХХ вв., т.е. на стыке эпох: своеобразие и сущность труда, собственности, морали, семьи, человека, народа, классов, специфики системы общественного управления, эволюции общественного и индивидуального сознания, духовности осетинского общества и т.д. Таким образом, критический реализм дает возможность глубоко и многоаспектно проанализировать анатомию осетинского общества и в целом общественного бытия осетин. Благодаря критическому реализму осетинская литература сформировала универсально-целостный философский взгляд на общественную жизнь, на взаимосвязи общества и человека накопила большой художественно-эстетический опыт осмысления проблем общества и человека. Critical realism is an artistic method by which Ossetian literature reflects life in the forms of life itself in images created through specific techniques of typifying various phenomena and facts of reality. It is this very method which makes it possible for literature to become the most important means of understanding the world and a man, to reveal the sometimes contradictory essence of life, to procedurally show the interaction of the hero and reality, the influence of socio-historical circumstances on the formation of ones personality. One of the most important functions of the Ossetian art of critical realism is an artistic study of social reality in the progressive course of its development, i.e. the study and analysis of not only forms of relationships between people among themselves existing in the society, but also of the process of maturing of completely new types of people, characters and circumstances. In general, this significantly changes the nature and essence of the Ossetian literature. Critical realism in the Ossetian literature embodies the principles of a life-truthful depiction of the reality, the purpose of which is deep, consistent and meaningful knowledge of a person and the world around him in all their contradictory essence. As a form of public consciousness, the Ossetian literature of critical realism reflects the essence of the objective world of the Ossetians, but not passively and speculatively. Understanding the epistemological foundations of the Leninist theory of reflection leads to an understanding of the importance and necessity of raising the question of the philosophical foundations of critical realism in the Ossetian literature. In general, this makes it possible to study the complex dialectics of its relationship to reality. Critical realism poses and solves complex philosophical problems in the Ossetian literature, exploring the structure of bourgeois society at the turn of the XIXth and XXth centuries, i.e. at the intersection of eras, the uniqueness and essence of labor, property, morality, family, man, people, classes, the specifics of the system of public administration, the evolution of social and individual consciousness, the spirituality of Ossetian society, etc. Critical realism makes it possible to deeply and multifacetedly analyze the anatomy of Ossetian society and the general social life of Ossetians. So, thanks to critical realism, Ossetian literature has formed a universally-integrated philosophical view of the social life, of the relationship between society and man accumulated a great artistic and aesthetic experience in understanding the problems of the society and a man.


Africa ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misty L. Bastian

AbstractThis article deals with witchcraft, missionisation, domestic slavery and social life on the emerging colonial ‘frontier’ of Onitsha, Nigeria, during the last years of the nineteenth century. The analysis centres on the confession of an accused witch and former domestic slave in the Waterside area of the town. It uses the document as a springboard for a larger discussion of the intersecting lives of Africans and Europeans in this marginal location at a moment when social relations there were undergoing radical transformation. By addressing such a text, taken down verbatim at the time of the confession, the author argues, we can gain a privileged insight into women's unofficial (and even prohibited) religious practice as well as the everyday lives of persons—notably female domestic slaves—who ordinarily receive little notice in the African colonial record. From Okuwan's confession we also learn something about how the increasing flows of commodities and new forms of colonial authority along this mercantile border were changing (and possibly devaluing) African women's labour as well as their religious power.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-61
Author(s):  
Lucyna Myszka-Strychalska

Summary The social activity of young people is essential for the development of their participation in the social life. It’s conditioned, inter alia, by educational measures directed at stimulating the behaviour of the young people, strengthening their sense of consciousness and responsible influence on the environment. The article presents a deeper insight into the mutual dependence between the individual’s sense of agency (and thus the subject’s belief in his/her ability to influence the reality) and his social activity (understood as the readiness to act for the benefit of others). They are not meaningless for building the social capital of the young generation, which in the near future will be responsible for the fate of the world. One of the analytic categories used to consider the presented issues is the construct of pro-development orientation, the constructive features of which include both trust in others and the world, as well as a sense of agency.


Author(s):  
W. L. Steffens ◽  
Nancy B. Roberts ◽  
J. M. Bowen

The canine heartworm is a common and serious nematode parasite of domestic dogs in many parts of the world. Although nematode neuroanatomy is fairly well documented, the emphasis has been on sensory anatomy and primarily in free-living soil species and ascarids. Lee and Miller reported on the muscular anatomy in the heartworm, but provided little insight into the peripheral nervous system or myoneural relationships. The classical fine-structural description of nematode muscle innervation is Rosenbluth's earlier work in Ascaris. Since the pharmacological effects of some nematacides currently being developed are neuromuscular in nature, a better understanding of heartworm myoneural anatomy, particularly in reference to the synaptic region is warranted.


2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.


2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leszek Koczanowicz

The Dialogical concept of consciousness in L.S. Vygotsky and G.H. Mead and its relevance for contemporary discussions on consciousness In my paper I show the relevance of cultural-activity theory for solving the puzzles of the concept of consciousness which encounter contemporary philosophy. I reconstruct the main categories of cultural-activity theory as developed by M.M. Bakhtin, L.S. Vygotsky, G.H. Mead, and J. Dewey. For the concept of consciousness the most important thing is that the phenomenon of human consciousness is consider to be an effect of intersection of language, social relations, and activity. Therefore consciousness cannot be reduced to merely sensual experience but it has to be treated as a complex process in which experience is converted into language expressions which in turn are used for establishing interpersonal relationships. Consciousness thus can be accounted for by its reference to objectivity of social relationships rather than to the world of physical or biological phenomena.


Author(s):  
Vu Kha Thap

Entering the XXI century and especially in the period of the industrial revolution has entered the era of IT with the knowledge economy in the trend of globalization. The 4.0 mankind development of ICT, especially the Internet has had a strong impact and make changes to all activities profound social life of every country in the world. Through surveys in six high School, interviewed 85 managers and teachers on the status of the management of information technology application in teaching, author of the article used the SWOT method to distribute surface strength, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges from which to export 7 management measures consistent with reality. 7 measures have been conducting trials and the results showed that 07 measures of necessary and feasible.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phu Van Han

After more than 30 years of national reform, Ho Chi Minh City has made great changes in economy, living standards and society for all population groups, including the Cham Muslim community. The study clarifies the social characteristics, community development trends in the current sustainable development process of the Cham Muslims. At the same time, explore the adaptability of the community, clarify the aspects of social life and the development of Cham Muslims in Ho Chi Minh City. Thereby, providing insight into a unique cultural lifestyle, harmony between religion and ethnic customs, in a multicultural, colorful city in Ho Chi Minh City today.


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