New Music and Dancing Prostitutes

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-289
Author(s):  
Laura Gianvittorio
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
New Music ◽  
Old Comedy ◽  
Bodily Movement ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sex Practices

Abstract Old Comedy often brings prostitute-like dancers on stage while parodying the New Music. This paper argues that such dances were reminiscent of sex practices, and supports this view with dance-historical and semantic evidence. For the history of Greek dance, I survey the literary evidence for the existence of a dance tradition that represents lovers and their acts, and which would easily provide Comedy with dance vocabulary to distort. The semantic analysis of three comic passages, all criticising the New Music in sexual terms, shows a consistent overlapping between the semantic fields of eroticism and of bodily movement, with several terms indicating both figures of lovemaking and figures of dance. By performing comically revisited erotic dances or by verbally alluding to them, prostitutes would powerfully embody the conservative criticism of Old Comedy against the new trends in dance promoted by the New Music.

scholarly journals (The Semantic Fields Analytical Studies, For the Words of Enmity in the Poems of Eulogy by Poet (Uthsman Bin Ishak El- Toradi: حقل الشحناء في قصائد المدح من ديوان الشيخ ابن إسحاق التوردي: دراسة في ضوء الحقول الدلالية

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
AUWAL IBRAHIM IMAM
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Analytical Studies ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analytical Operation ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

The language studies especially the semantics, had been greatly developed, particularly In this present period and It had became the most important issue in human though, because it is the fundamental basic of communication and understanding in community, It is also the root of development and prosperity. The semantics fields are the most important part of modern semantics studies. Such studies have been carried out by some old Arab linguists like: Abi Ubaidat (210. A. H) in his book titled: (Alkhail) the horse. Al- Asmaee (216 A. H) in his book titled: (Khalqu Al- Insaan) Creation of Human. And Ibn- Seedah (448 A. H) In His Book Titled: (AL- Mukhassas) likewise some modern Arab linguists have also contributed to this kind of studies, such as Professor Ahmad Umar Mukhtar, the author of the book (Ilmul- Dilalah) the semantics. Dr. Aliyu AL- Khouli, the writer of the book (Ilmul- Ma’na) science of meaning. DR Ahmad Azooz the author of the book (Usulun Turasiyyah fi Nazariyyatu Al- Huqulu Al- Ddilaliyyah) the Heritage bases in the theory of semantics fields The convergence of the meaning of words, with different words from each other, is a problematic linguistic phenomenon, and such case can only be solved by studying the words according to the theory of semantic fields, to identify the semantic features, and to detect the semantic relations between words, in this regard, The research Titled; The Semantic Fields Analytical Studies, For the Words of Enmity in the Poems of Eulogy by Poet (Uthsman Bin Ishak El- Toradi) had been carried out. The research Has Discussed A Brief History Of The Poet (Uthsman Bin Ishak El- Toradi), And Also The Paper Talked About The Semantic Analysis Theory In the Light Of Semantic Fields, Explaining Its Importance And Significance In Defining Words Sense And Meanings، Then The Paper Went On To Carry out the Analytical Operation For Words Of Enmity That Were Used In The Poems.    

scholarly journals The influence of the traditions of eastern art on the painting of Michael Guyda

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Min
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
General Structure ◽  
Deep Penetration ◽  
Chinese Painting ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Historical Comparative

The purpose of the article. To analyze the work of Ukrainian painter Mykhailo Huida in the context of cultural integrations of China and Ukraine in the last decades of the XX - beginning of the XXI century. as an expression of trends in contemporary art. Methodology. General scientific research methods, chronological and historical-comparative, historical-biographical, figurative-stylistic, semantic, analysis are applied. Theoretical and art terminological structures are used. The scientific novelty lies in elucidating the peculiarities of Mykhailo Huida's work and the formation of the meaningful, compositional, stylistic and aesthetic beginnings of his painting in the context of cultural integrations of China and Ukraine in the last decades of the XX - early XXI centuries. Conclusions. The peculiarities of the creative path of the Ukrainian painter Mykhailo Huida, his unique experience of work in China, which became the basis for the creation of the artist's personal artistic style, are analyzed. The study of works of art by Mikhail Guida revealed the consistent formation of features and peculiarities of his painting over the decades as a result of: a) acquaintance with the art of the East in Japan; b) stay in China, including among Chinese cultural and artistic figures; c) study the history of culture and art of China; d) deep penetration into the world of China through understanding of its nature, customs, traditions due to travel, stay in different provinces of the country, teaching in Chinese universities. The figurative and artistic content of his works reveals an innovative combination of European, including Ukrainian, and Chinese stylistics, artistic means and various linguistic methods of traditional Chinese painting. It is also important for the artist to comprehend the semantic foundations of Chinese traditional and modern art, which turned out to be in agreement with Mikhail Guidi as a person. It was found that the imagery of Mikhail Guida's painting has an internal form that embodies the image in the general structure of the subject-spiritual world. It is concluded that the involvement of the traditions of Chinese and Ukrainian art in a single work involves a philosophical understanding of the artistic heritage of both countries and their transformation into modern forms. The artist's creative path, discovering the techniques of painting in the East, enriched and elevated his work to exceptionally high standards.

Mediation and The Marketplace

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
New Music ◽  
Commercial Market ◽  
John Tavener ◽  
Bang On A Can ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Arvo Part ◽  
Comprehensive History

Providing first a comprehensive history of spiritual minimalism– the extraordinarily successful phenomenon that made unlikely stars of Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, and John Tavener in the early 1990s–this chapter makes the case that by the end of the 20th century new music had entered into a new and transformative relationship with the media and the commercial market, through new listening practices such as soundtracking, and through marketing towards new audiences. This is supported by discussions of composers and collectives that have particularly engaged with these, including Bang on a Can, Nonclassical and, in particular, Edition Wandelweiser.

Opera Inside and Out

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-268
Author(s):  
Katharine Ellis
Keyword(s):  
New Music ◽  
Musical Identity ◽  
Paris Opera ◽  
First Case ◽  
History Of

In three main sections, the discussion takes the reader from standard municipal opera in town theaters to the new phenomenon of open-air opera that started fitfully in the late 1860s but which became fashionable and important for decentralist and regionalist reasons from around 1900 onward. In the first case study, Wagner’s Lohengrin is detoxified in 1891 via seven municipal French stages, in advance of its successful appearance at the Paris Opéra. This provincial coup nevertheless indicates the stranglehold of French repertorial centralization, since it was possible only because Wagner was already embarrassingly famous and the violent history of his reception in Paris had paralyzed the capital’s ability to function as normal. Lohengrin was acclaimed in Lille as “local” but contained no audible couleur locale. It was through such “marked” music that opera acted as a vector for the “picturesque” presentation of the French provinces. Changing critical and audience attitudes to couleur locale from the 1830s onward prepared the conditions necessary for the development of regionalist operatic commentary, especially in Brittany and Provence. Identity, whether local and/or national, could also be enacted by audiences attending festival and commemorative performances of opera and stage spectacle in open-air venues. Catalyzed by performances at Orange, a tradition of open-air opera presented a distillation of meridional musical identity from around 1900 in ancient classical venues and their modern equivalents, while the new music it spawned remained stubbornly difficult to transplant to Paris.

“Bread and Roses”

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Tom Juravich
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
First Generation ◽  
New Music ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
History Of

This paper traces the history of the song “Bread and Roses” to examine labor culture and the role of song in the labor movement. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, “Bread and Roses” was included in several of the first generation song books produced by unions that reflected an expansive and inclusive labor culture closely connected with the Left. With the ascendance of business unionism and the blacklisting of the Left after the war, labor culture took a heavy blow, and labor songbooks became skeletons of the full-bodied versions they had once been. Unions began to see singing not as part of the process of social change but as a vehicle to bring people together, and songs such as “Bread and Roses” and other more class-based songs were jettisoned in favor of a few labor standards and American sing-along songs. “Bread and Roses” was born anew to embody a central concept in the women’s movement and rode the wave of new music, art, and film that were part of new social movements and new constituencies that challenged business unionism and reshaped union culture in the 1980s.

The “National Left” in Israeli public discourse

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moran M. Mandelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
Palestinian Authority ◽  
Ernesto Laclau ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Crisis Of Meaning

In 2000 the leftist camp in Israel experienced a crisis of meaning and identity. This was the result of the failure of the 2000 Camp David Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The atmosphere that emerged amongst the Israeli left was one of despair and disillusion, a void of meaning. Recently, however, a new Zionist “national left” discourse emerged, which refutes the idea of peace and reconstructs the ideology of the Israeli left. This paper engages critically with this discourse by deploying a discourse analytical approach, as it draws on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s theory of hegemony as well as semantic analysis, specifically the use of “semantic fields” and “semantic networks”. This paper looks at a variety of public texts, which are exemplary of the “national left” discourse in Israel.

scholarly journals GENETICALLY TURKISH OIKONYMS OF ODESSA REGION: MOTIVATED / UNMOTIVATED RENEWALS OF THE SOVIET PERIOD.

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-24
Author(s):  
Sviatoslav Verbych
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Artificial Nature ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Local Nature ◽  
Cultural Features

Introduction. The article analyzes the oikonyms of the modern Odessa region, which were formed during the Turkish-Tatar (Nogai) history of this region. The genetic Turkic names that the Bulgarian settlers moved to a new place of residence from their homeland (or from the territory of Turkey) during the end of the XVIII – first half of the XIX century are analyzed. These names were changed as a result of administrative intervention by the Soviet authorities, mainly during 1944–1945. Аim. The study aims to carry out etymological and structural-semantic analysis of genetically Turkic oikonyms of modern Odessa region. The object of the study is the genetically Turkic names of the settlements of Odesa region (local and transferred by Bulgarian settlers from across the Danube), which were changed administratively mainly after 1944; the subject of research is to find out the etymologies of the corresponding oikonyms and their structural and semantic characteristics. Research methods. For the analysis of oikonyms the descriptive method is applied by means of which the structure of both historical (genetically Turkic), and new (Soviet period) names is characterized, and also reception of the etymological analysis for establishment of etymons of genetically Turkic names of settlements. Research results. The article identifies word-forming models, presents the classification of genetically Turkic oikonyms of Odesa region, clarifies the dеonymic motivation of their creative bases; the structure of new (renamed) names is characterized. Conclusions. It is proved that most renamings do not take into account either the derivation model, which formed the original name of the settlement, or the appellate (onym) meaning of the creative bases, which convincingly testifies to their artificial nature, lack of connection with local nature, historical and cultural features of the region. It should be noted that it is necessary to change the names of the modern Odessa region, in particular the names with the Russian imperial connotation (Alexandrovka, Suvorov), as well as with the Russian-speaking structure (Udobne, Utkonosivka).  

scholarly journals The Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language as a Reflection of Economic Change: Semantic Dynamics of Words with the Root Torg-

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-180
Author(s):  
Roman I. Vorontsov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Semantic Differentiation ◽  
Historic Change ◽  
Text Illustrations ◽  
Russian Linguistic ◽  
The Russian Language

The article deals with the dynamics of a fragment of the Russian linguistic worldview projected onto the experience of academic lexicography. Based on the data extracted from the three editions of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language (also referred to as the Dictionary), which serves as a reflection of the 80-yearlong history of the Soviet and Russian society, the sociocultural dynamics of a conceptual view of economy and trade is uncovered through its lexical, semantic and lexicographic realization. The aim of the research is to analyze the semantic dynamics of the words with root torg- [trade] based on the Dictionary data. This includes the study of the lexicographic interpretation of these words as well as the justification of new lexicographic solutions. The key attention is paid to a number of polysemantic words: torg, torgovat’, torgovat’sya, torgovlya, torgovyy. In the course of the research, the method of componential semantic analysis is applied together with the comparison of the entries from different editions of the Dictionary and with the selection of text illustrations by means of linguistic corpora. Two aspects of the semantic dynamics of the words with root torg- are discussed: 1) reflection of lexicographic principles adopted by the authors of the Dictionary and 2) lexical and semantic objectivation of the Russian linguistic worldview. The first aspect is represented by the trend of semantic differentiation typical of the Dictionary and manifested in both enlargement and specification of the word semantic structure. Syncretic meanings that can be seen in the first edition are later splintered into separate meanings or even shades of meaning (torgash, torgashestvo, torgovat’). The sociocultural dynamics is presented by a number of linguistic trends. The first trend is generating new collocations, and the adjective torgovyy shows here the highest productivity. Adjacent to it stands the active formation of compound words beginning with torgovo-. The second (controversial) trend is obsolescence of words and meanings: notions of the Soviet economy are going out of use (torg as a ‘trade institution’). The third trend is actualization of obsolete words and meanings, which is often only illusive. In the Soviet period, many notions of economy were considered inadmissible or typical of the Czarist era, hence, these words were defined as obsolete ones. However, the historic change of the early 1990s showed that this part of vocabulary was always commonly used, even in the Soviet texts that could not serve as a source of illustrations due to censorship. Thus, the considered aspects of the semantic dynamics of the words with the root torg- demonstrate the general way of conceptualizing the economic sphere by the Russians. It is mainly reflected in the social revaluation of the market relations, trade, and entrepreneurship. The lexical and semantic objectivation of this revaluation requires shrewd lexicographic solutions.

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