The evolution of music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupert Till
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Evolution Of Music ◽  
Prehistoric Landscapes

This chapter explores how the representation of music has developed within human cultures. It begins by discussing the soundscapes of prehistoric landscapes, in order to better understand the acoustic ecologies of the past. This is followed by investigating the role of music within societies, addressing how music interacts with work, ritual, and trance. Discussion of lithophones, drums, and dancing is followed by addressing bone pipes, the earliest musical instrument archaeologists found, exploring music as technology for socialization and community. Bronze horns in Europe such as the Carnyx and Greek and Roman music provide evidence of complex technological processes applied to music making, showing an increasing sophistication in the use of technology to create sonic meanings. The paper concludes that the representation of meaning in sound through an aural symbolic language, combines semiotics and embodied knowledge in complex networks of understanding that play a significant role in human cultures.

The Art of Using Sound: Pengkul (Trumpet) and Its Role in Traditional Kuki Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 0972558X2110553
Author(s):  
Lalginthang Khongsai ◽  
Mayanglambam ManiBabu
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
The Village

The unique way of timekeeping strategy, involving pengkul (a traditional bamboo trumpet) as a communication or signalling device within the Lom institution demonstrates the early Kuki people’s technological adaptability and cognitive development. Pengkul has been an important musical instrument of the early Kuki people since time immemorial. It plays a significant role in traditional Kuki society as a means of public communication and conveyor of time and event rather than a mere instrument of merriments. Firstly, the article focuses on the procurement of raw materials, manufacturing process, uses, maintenance, repairing, and discard pattern of the pengkul. Secondly, the article focuses on the role of pengkul as a communication or signalling device within the organization of the village workforce called “ Lompi.” Wherein, pengkul remains as a guiding element of the socioeconomic survival strategy adopted by the traditional Kukis. Thirdly, the article further analyzes the myths and traditional beliefs associated with pengkul to delineate the ideational aspect of pengkul within their concept of the supernatural realm.

scholarly journals The Role of the Media in Democratic Consolidation of Taiwan and Slovenia

Asian Studies ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 67-77
Author(s):  
Sasa ISTENIČ
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Democratic Consolidation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media

The importance of the media in democracies has long been recognized. The media has often been seen as a preliminary mechanism of democratization process. Over the past 20 years, both Taiwan and Slovenia have been undergoing profound political changes, transforming from authoritarianism to democracy. This research will be a modest attempt to portray the significant role that media has played in the two countries’ democratization processes and draw some interesting parallels between them.   

scholarly journals The Role of Human Resources Management Towards Healthcare Providers Retention during Covid-19 Pandemic in Egypt

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Ashraf Elsafty ◽  
Mohammad Ragheb
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact

HRM has a significant role in motivating the employees and ensuring that every employee is satisfied with the HR practices. Healthcare providers have been facing stress and depression especially in Egypt, due to COVID-19. In this country, the healthcare providers are looking for alternatives to achieve satisfaction as COVID-19 has affected their jobs, salaries, incentives, and bonuses. The past studies have focused on assessing the HRM’s role in employee retention and satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt. The past research discussed the impact of motivation, incentives, and rewards on the employees’ motivation. This study focused on evaluating the role of HRM towards the healthcare providers' retention during COVID-19 in Egypt. This study relied on the quantitative approach for achieving the findings and conclusion. The sample size of the study involved 120 healthcare providers working in different hospitals. The results revealed that intrinsic motivation, rewards, incentives, monetary benefits, and non-monetary benefits have an essential role in maintaining the healthcare providers during COVID-19. It is concluded that HR can play a significant role in retaining key healthcare providers in COVID-19. The elements including intrinsic motivation, incentives, non-monetary, and monetary benefits can play a significant part in retaining healthcare providers. HR departments should focus on releasing salaries on time, providing specific bonuses, and providing incentives to healthcare providers whenever they perform at their best level.

scholarly journals A Sociotechnical Framework for Smart Urban Governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaxiong Jiang ◽  
Stan Geertman ◽  
Patrick Witte
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
The Past ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Governance Process ◽  
Urban Contexts

Over the past decade, the dominant entrepreneurial form of urban governance has seriously hindered the transformation of cities by neglecting the role of urban contexts in shaping governance structures and outcomes. To promote alternatives, this article presents a sociotechnical framework for smart urban governance. This framework explicitly examines the impacts of urban contexts on the sociotechnical interaction between urban technological innovation and urban governance in the realm of smart cities. Three real-world cases were used to demonstrate how the framework can be applied in different urban contexts. The results show that the alleged smartness in smart urban governance by no means implies the simple acceptance, adoption, and use of technology; instead, it needs to be conditionate. For successful smart urban governance, urban technological innovation should be effectively attuned to the wider urban actors and preexisting urban challenges (i.e., the urban governance process), with a special focus on the urban context.

scholarly journals The Impact of Transport on International Trade Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duško Pavlović ◽  
Božica Radoš
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact

AbstractInternational trade implies transport of specific quantity of goods to (frequently) large distances, the success of which depends on the safety and speed of delivery. These are greatly conditioned by the quality of means of transport and infrastructure. This is why international trade development is affected by transport, and the development of means of transport and infrastructure is, to a great extent, influenced by demand for international delivery of various commodities. This paper looks at the interdependence of international trade and transport, showing how transport played a very significant role in international trade development in the past as it does today, commensurate to the role of international trade in the development of carriers and transport infrastructure.

Shipbuilding and the State in Japan since the 1850s

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seymour Broadbridge
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Private Enterprise ◽  
Banking System ◽  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Government

In the past decade or so there have been several critical revisions of the long-accepted view of the important role of the state in Japan's economic development and programme of modernization generally. Professor Harry Oshima has attempted to demolish the argument that the Meiji governments' policies were at all economically beneficial. On the contrary, he has said, those policies retarded growth, particularly through their neglect of agriculture. Professor Hugh Patrick has cautioned us against giving the Meiji governments too much credit for the development of the banking system. Private enterprise, he has insisted, was also important. Most recently, Professor Kozo Yamamura has delivered yet another broadside against what he considers the myths of Japanese economic history. This time he criticizes the view that the government, by intervening and pioneering model plants, played a significant role in Meiji Japan's industrial dcvelopment.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION STRATEGY OF DAKWAH IN COMMUNITY OF THE MODERN ERA (CASE STUDY IN LENGKONG VILLAGE, SUKOREJO DISTRICT, PONOROGO REGENCY)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-217
Author(s):  
Zaimatul Millah
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
Modern Era

Voicing goodness including preaching is an obligation for Muslims. In contrast to the method of preaching the Prophet Muhammad in the past, the ease of doing anything now cannot be separated because of the role of technological developments in disseminating information including preaching. The modern era provides an opportunity for us to invite us to do good by preaching by utilizing technology. However, the ease of access now is also inseparable from the communication strategy of preaching da'i in packaging da'wah messages to attractive and light da'wah methods which are also very much needed by modern society. In this paper the author presents empirical data from the preaching of the Prophet Muhammad which is still relevant to be implemented in the communication strategy of da'wah in modern society. The purpose of this research is that the modern era da'wah strategy must be able to be side by side with advanced science and technology. So that the use of technology in preaching is needed in order to increase faith and devotion to Allah through verbal communication (bil al-oral) and nonverbal (bil al hal). The result of this research is that modern society in Lengkong Village gives a good response and can apply what has been conveyed through the da'wah communication strategy carried out, by utilizing the sophistication of today's technology. Keywords: Strategy, Da'wah Communication, Society, Modern Era

Dawn of the DAW

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Patrick Bell
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Music Making ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Music And Technology ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Traditional Roles

Dawn of the DAW tells the story of how the dividing line between the traditional roles of musicians and recording studio personnel (producers, recording engineers, mixing engineers, technicians, etc.) has eroded throughout the latter half of the twentieth century to the present. Whereas those equally adept in music and technology such as Les Paul were exceptions to their eras, the millennial music-maker is ensconced in a world in which the symbiosis of music and technology is commonplace. As audio production skills such as recording, editing, and mixing are increasingly co-opted by musicians teaching themselves in their do-it-yourself (DIY) recording studios, conventions of how music production is taught and practiced are remixed to reflect this reality. Divided into three parts, part I first examines DIY recording practices within the context of recording history from the late nineteenth century to the present. Second, part I discusses the concept of the studio as musical instrument, and the evolving role of the producer. Part II details current practices of DIY recording—how recording technologies are incorporated into music-making, and also how they are learned by DIY studio users in the musically-chic borough of Brooklyn. Part III examines the broader trends heard throughout the stories presented in part II, summarizing the different models of learning and approaches to music-making. Dawn of the DAW concludes by discussing the ramifications of these new directions for music educators.

Technology in the Music Classroom in Kenya

2017 ◽  
pp. 128-136
Author(s):  
Emily Akuno
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Curriculum Planning ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Music Classroom ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Evolution Of Music ◽  
Learning And Instruction

The Kenyan music classroom is a tapestry of experiences, challenges and revelations that accommodate, support, and impact creativity. The curriculum allows for the application of a variety of resources for delivery, with facilities varying with the learning context. Technology has greatly influenced the evolution of music styles in the country, resulting in a rich and varied soundscape as the learning environment. This chapter addresses the issue of availability and use of technology in music learning, and its impact and possible ramifications on policy and curriculum planning. Field studies reveal varying degrees of availability and application of resources and articulate the role of technology in facilitating music experience, skill development, and knowledge transfer. The article recommends rethinking music learning and instruction, adoption of new teaching strategies, and conceptualization of creativity and the curriculum through technology.

scholarly journals MENDALAMI GELAR-GELAR SANTA PERAWAN MARIA BUNDA ALLAH DALAM PENGAKUAN DAN AJARAN FRANSISKUS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Philipus Benitius Metom
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Triune God ◽  
The Church

There is a line of titles of Saint Mary mentioned by Pope Francis in his published encyclicals and apostolic exortations. However, we summarize them into seven new titles, namely, Saint Mary is the daughter of Zion, mother, queen, woman, star, bride, and the spring of happiness for the little people. We consider that the number seven title has opened the minds of the faithful about the joy of believing in the Triune God who saves the world and the significant role of Saint Mary in the success of this exalted work. The recognition of the seven new titles aims to support the understanding of the faith of the Catholic faithful in the Blessed Mary as Mother of God and Virgin. Apart from that, another goal is that the quality of the Church's faith in the virginity of Saint Mary and her mother of God will be strengthened. What kind of quality do you want to affirm? What he wants to affirm is the quality of the Church's faith which is rooted in the past of the Old Testament, which is flourishing and expanding in the present, and which will bear fruit to await eternal happiness in the future (eschatological). Thus, the seven new titles of Saint Mary can reveal the faith of the Church to live at all times.

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