Music, Exchange, and the Production of Value: A Case Study of Hindustani Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Morcom
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The Past ◽  
Objective Value ◽  
Hindustani Music ◽  
Theory Of Value

This chapter uses Hindustani music as a case study, developing anthropology’s theoretical work on value and exchange toward the analysis of music. It focuses on the action-based theory of value devised by Nancy Munn (1986) and later developed by David Graeber (2001). Rather than something residing “in the music,” value is viewed as entirely social, and ephemeral, generated by acts and the codification of acts into distinctive patterned aesthetic forms. The chapter refines the analysis through Annette Weiner’s concept of “inalienable possessions,” that is, things which are not necessarily costly or of any objective value, but have gained immeasurable and irreplaceable value to particular groups in particular times and places through “keeping while giving,” and which inscribe lineage, heredity, and history. This enables an exploration of how history and transmission operate in value creation in the context of music and performing arts. The chapter also develops theoretical work on exchange to analyze musical performance, where what is “given” or “received” is intangible and highly subjective, making it particularly unpredictable in its value and with potential for immense excess and thereby implications for obligations, attachments, or even devotion. Thus, the chapter explores how the complex web of behaviors, discourse, knowledge, and skills variously continued, adapted, and discontinued from the past, and with new strands woven in, constantly re-create Hindustani music as an inalienable possession for middle-class audiences, for whom basic templates of value are in many ways radically opposed to those of the original patrons and performers.

Leadership and Change Management: A Case Study of Pemancar

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Zarifah Abdullah ◽  
A. K. Siti-Nabiha
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Change Process ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
The Past ◽  
Internalization Process ◽  
Leadership And Change

This case examines the implementation of a new organizational culture in a newly taken-over Malaysian subsidiary by a European-based multinational company. The new organizational culture is geared towards high performance, increased accountability, value creation, and high quality and better communication. However, organizational members who were very much accustomed to their prevailing organizational culture found it difficult to understand the need for them to change as they had done well in the past. The features of the new culture, the structural changes that have taken place and how the organizational members felt about the change process and their reactions towards the change are explicated in the case. The case also highlights the various issues and challenges that took place and which needed to be tackled in the management's effort to ensure the successful integration and internalization process of the change in organizational culture.

scholarly journals Beton Ltd.: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2021-1) ◽  
pp. 150-162
Author(s):  
Branko Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Production Models ◽  
Collaborative Strategies ◽  
Effective Collaboration ◽  
Collective Production ◽  
Special Case

The paper focuses on Beton Ltd., a theatre collective comprised of three actors, Primož Bezjak, Branko Jordan and Katarina Stegnar, established in 2010. Beton Ltd. emerged on the Slovenian performing arts scene with a collective approach to theatre-making and is thus a special case as far as non-hierarchical and collective production models in Slovenia are concerned. In the last ten years, Beton Ltd. has created seven performances: So Far Away: Introduction to Ego-logy (2010); I Say What I am Told to Say (2012); Everything We’ve Lost, While We’ve Gone on Living (2013); Revolting Man (2014); Ich kann nicht anders (2016); Große Erwartungen/Great Expectations (2018) and Mahlzeit (2019). Through introspective self-analysis, the paper elaborates on the necessary preconditions for the formation of a collective, as well as the conditions necessary for effective collaboration in performance making, combining a short historical overview of the case in question, including specific collaborative strategies developed by Beton Ltd. during the past decade.

Bridging the Gaps

2011 ◽  
pp. 319-328
Author(s):  
Caroline Collins ◽  
Olga. A. Vásquez ◽  
James Bliesner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Past ◽  
Employment Gaps ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
The University

The following case study chronicles the activities of a community-university partnership that supports the University of California, San Diego’s threefold mission of teaching, research, and service while directing educational resources to underrepresented communities. This partnership, instantiated in a research project widely known as La Clase Mágica, involves a broad spectrum of institutional units seeking to bridge the digital, cognitive, and employment gaps that exist between middle-class mainstream communities and those at the margins. The case study examines the project’s history and philosophy, theoretical framework, commitment to collaboration, assessment, and impact over the past two decades.

The impact of citizen journalism engagement in Indonesian television on citizen journalists and society: A case study of the NET Citizen Journalist (NET CJ) programme

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asty Rastiya ◽  
Hendriyani
Keyword(s):  
Video Production ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Development ◽  
News Video ◽  
Negative Side Effects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Share Information

Citizen journalism in television in Indonesia has flourished in the past decade, with two national commercial companies broadcasting citizen programme on occasion and three stations engaging in ongoing citizen journalism initiatives. This article uses a case study of Indonesia’s NET Citizen Journalist (NET CJ) programme to study perspectives of citizen journalists about the impact of citizen journalism in television on themselves and their society. Surveys and interviews with active CJ members indicated that collaboration between citizen journalists and television networks democratizes information by allowing a wider range of people to share information and perspectives, and drives positive changes in citizen’s surroundings and self-development in terms of knowledge and skills in news video production. However, potential negative side-effects are the high risk of being sued by injured parties and dissatisfaction about limited opportunities to have community videos broadcast on television.

Inventing Narratives, Arousing Audiences: the Plays of Mahesh Dattani

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-356
Author(s):  
Susan Oommen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
English Department ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
Personal Histories ◽  
Academic Year

In this article Susan Oommen looks at the plays of the popular Indian dramatist Mahesh Dattani as conversations between the writer and his audience on models of reality, and interprets their performance as moments in subjectivization. In initiating an audience into redefining identity, she argues that Dattani provides the parameters within which problematizations may be reviewed and better understood. He also seeks to queer the debate on Indian middle-class morality, thereby challenging its privileged status and underscoring the interconnection between repression and invisibility. The question for the audience is whether Dattani's plays can cue them into experiences of resistance and encourage them to reinvent narratives that may then function as personal histories. One of the plays on which this article focuses, Dance Like a Man, was seen during this year's Edinburgh Festival as part of the Celebration of Indian Contemporary Performing Arts. Susan Oommen works in the English Department in Stella Maris College, India, where she has been on the faculty since 1975. She spent the past academic year at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University.

scholarly journals Increasing the Selling Value of Indonesian Cultural Products to the Global (Case study of Batik as Indonesian Cultural Identity)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Ferric Limano
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Approach ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
The Past ◽  
Strong Current ◽  
Business Design

Culture consists of practices, objects, and values ​​in one society. This culture occurs as a result of the emergence of transactions and agreements between certain communities so as to agree on these existing values ​​into the daily life. Even this culture itself is passed down from generation to generation, the identity of this culture demands uniqueness, boundaries, and originality. But the big problem is the strong current of globalization which makes the mingled interactions between one and another culture. Indonesia is rich in culture, which in the past also experienced a lot of acculturation with one another. The uniqueness of Indonesian culture is displayed in many forms, both objects and habits, including performing arts in Bali, phinisi ships, and also batik. Through this research the authors again raise how to increase the selling value of cultural products in Indonesia, by looking at the case studies of traditional batik which innovated into a global approach. This case is discussed from the point of view of Komaruddin Kudiya's success in introducing batik to the global market. The research method was carried out qualitatively, with a cultural and business design approach. The data obtained is based on workshops and seminars, as well as literature obtained online. Furthermore, the data will be studied and analyzed descriptively to produce explanations related to the factors that increase the selling value of batik as a result of Indonesian culture.

From hard to soft: theory and Neolithic studies in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  
The Past

The Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group (STAG) conference organisers expressed some doubts about how far theory has changed, and impacted, archaeological establishment and academia in Scotland. In this paper, I will argue that Scotland is certainly not isolated in a theoretical sense, although in the past, Scottish archaeology could be accused of being theoretically conservative, or at least dependent on ideas and models developed elsewhere. A case-study looking at Neolithic studies will be used to illustrate that despite some recent critical historiographies of the study of the period in Scotland, archaeologists in Scotland and those working with Scottish material have been theoretically innovative and in step with wider paradigm changes. The study of the Neolithic in Scotland, it could be argued, has been shaped by theory more than the study of any other period; we are not isolated, but rather part of wider networks of discourse.

THE URBAN MIGRANT FUTURE DESIRE: A STUDY OF REVERSE MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain ◽  
Hugh Byrd ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Oil Crisis

Globalisation combined with resources of oil and gas has led to an industrial society in Malaysia.  For the past 30 years, rapid urban growth has shifted from 73% rural to 73% urban population. However, the peak oil crisis and economic issues are threatening the growth of urbanisation and influencing the trends of population mobility. This paper documents the beginnings of a reverse migration (urban-to-rural) in Malaysia.  The method adopted case study that involves questionnaires with the urban migrants to establish the desires, definite intentions and reasons for future migration. Based on this data, it predicts a trend and rate of reverse migration in Malaysia. 

Conservation and Preservation of Nature Reserves, Monuments andSpecial Architectural or Historic Interest in Nigeria: Towards Promotion of Sustainable Cultural Tourism

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Francis Chuma Osefoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Developed Nations

Some of the renowned world tourism countries have special peculiarities in character in terms of their nature reserves and built environments; that made them stand out for their attractions and visits. These qualities range from conservation and preservation of nature reserves, built environments- epoch architectural supports over the years; historical heritage; political; religious; socio-economic; cultural; and  high technology that enhance culture. The virtues of multi- ethnic groups and multi- cultural nature gave Nigeria a rich cultural heritage, and she is blessed with natural wonders, unique wildlife, and a very favorable climate. More often than not less attention and importance are placed over the nature reserves and built environments to the detriment of tourism in lieu of other sectors. Summarily the country lacks the culture of conservation and preservation of her abundant resources to promote cultural tourism. Case study strategy was applied in the research tours with reports of personal experiences, documentaries and analyses of sites visited in Europe and Nigeria were highlighted with references to their attributes in terms of structures and features that made up the sites as relate to culture and attraction.The task in keeping rural, city landscapes and nature reserves alive stands out as the secret of communication link from the past to present and the future; which tourism developed nations reap as benefits for tourist attraction.

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