Producing Space and Locality Through Cultural Displays

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Cultural Complexity ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
French Government ◽  
Cultural Negotiation ◽  
Spatial Construction

The cultural complexity—and potential for identity building—of museums and cultural displays can be potentially powerful spaces of cultural negotiation; in a postcolonial or diasporic setting, the production of locality through cultural displays can serve as a home surrogate (albeit temporarily) for deterritorialized peripheral subjects. However, when these productions (whether they be museums, festivals, or other events of representation) are commoditized and sponsored by socially dominant groups (such as the French government), so that outsiders (nondiasporic people, i.e., the general public) can consume them, what kinds of interactions and clashes can take place? This article aims to answer this question, through the examination of space in a French Antillean festival in Paris: Rue Créole, illustrating the production of locality in Rue Créole through the spatial construction of the venue, and then by examining the production of space and its implications in the festival’s musical performances. Ultimately, I argue that in postcolonial situations, socially produced space can result in polyrhythmic, performatively doubled ensembles and that this in itself is a mark of colonial relation.

The Birth of Central Banking, 1955–1956

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Vũ Quốc Thúc
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Goods ◽  
General Public ◽  
Counting Process ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Business Community ◽  
French Government ◽  
Public Consumption ◽  
National Bank ◽  
American Consumer

This chapter discusses the experiences and challenges faced by the former governor of the National Bank of Vietnam. It also describes his experiences prior to the bank's establishment, as Vietnam negotiated with France in the Four-Party Conference on the various issues related to the transfer of sovereignty. During this time, Vietnam had inherited from the French government an empty treasury, a disheartened French business community, and a bureaucracy entrenched in antiquated colonial methods. It was against this gloomy backdrop that American aid began to arrive, first to help Northerners resettle in their new land, and later, to fund the import of American consumer goods for general public consumption, an initiative known as the Commercial Import Program. The chapter also discusses the 1956 Banknote Exchange Scandal, which highlighted the flaws inherent in the banknote counting process.

scholarly journals PROSES PENCIPTAAN KOMPOSISI MUSIK KYAI BADRANAYA DALAM KARYA MUSIK KIDUNG SEMAR

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Aris Setyoko ◽  
Rahayu Supanggah
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
New Music ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Alignment Process ◽  
Puppet Show ◽  
The Creation

Kyai Badranaya is another name for figures in the purwa puppet show which is a symbolic figure for Javanese people. The special symbolic means to have variations, concepts of life, and beliefs in Javanese society. In the Javanese purwa puppet show, Semar figures are representations of good and wise qualities in human beings. Real Semar figures are also gods who transformed into commoners and became servants, protectors, and also knights of Pandawa namely Yudhistira, Bima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sadewa in the Javanese version of the Mahabharata epics. The musical composition of Kyai Badranaya is part of the four musical compositions of Kidung Semar by the author, who presents musical performances with ideas from the values and semar phenomenon of Semar figures in the purwa puppet show in Java. The method is carried out through stages, namely the alignment process, and sound training. With this method, the music composition of Kyai Badranaya is compiled and presented in the form of a musical repertoire, which proposes reflection and thoughts about how one becomes a leader who applies the life concept of Semar, namely tepa selira, lembah manah, and andhap asor. The purpose of various organizations is the application used as a learning medium for the general public in the form of new music works. The result of the creation of this musical composition work is to contribute scientific thinking on how to create new music works by utilizing work from traditional sources of Javanese musical music in particular, as well as archipelago music.

scholarly journals Subjective Assessment of Concert Halls: a Common Vocabulary for Music Lovers and Acousticians

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Giménez ◽  
Rosa María Cibrián ◽  
Salvador Cerdá
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Sound Transmission ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Concert Halls ◽  
High Level

Abstract In recent years we have interviewed members of the audience after musical performances and asked them to evaluate the acoustics of the concert halls. A group of ‘music lovers’ (with a high level of musical training and experience) and ‘acousticians’ (with a wide knowledge of the physical characteristics of sound transmission) also attended each performance and answered the same questions as the general public. This group thereby served as a control group when evaluating surveys of the general public. In this paper, the results obtained when analyzing these control group surveys are presented. This analysis shows that a common vocabulary exists between music lovers and acousticians when rating a hall, although the grouping of the questions for each factor depends on the training of the respondents.

Practical Idealism: The Musical Patronage of Phoebe Apperson Hearst

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-421
Author(s):  
LETA E. MILLER
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Prime Mover ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Culture Bearers ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Woman Movement

AbstractPhoebe Apperson Hearst, called “California's greatest woman” at her death in 1919, was very rich—and very philanthropic. Despite attending school in rural Missouri only a year or so past the eighth grade, Hearst directed her most influential benefactions toward education, particularly for women. She became a prime mover in the kindergarten movement and PTA, established women's scholarships at UC Berkeley, and was UC's first female regent.This article, drawing on Hearst's extensive archive, describes music's role in her philanthropy. She supported individual artists and ensembles, staged elaborate musicales at her various homes, funded music performing spaces, patronized renowned singers and instrumentalists, provided musical performances for college students and the general public, and encouraged the formation of an opera school.As a female patron championing women's education, Hearst was caught between the conservative ideology of male–female “spheres” and the New Woman movement of the early twentieth century. Her wealth allowed her to transcend old models; yet she was also conditioned by them, as shown in her attitudes toward women's suffrage and “proper” female behaviors. By bolstering the traditional view of women as the culture-bearers in U.S. society, Hearst's philanthropy functioned as both retrospective reinforcement and progressive idealism.

ANALYSIS OF PLANT FRAGARIA XANANASSA DISEASE DIAGNOSES USING PRODUCTION RULES BASE ON EXPERT SYSTEM

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Basiroh Basiroh ◽  
Wiji Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Expert System ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
General Public ◽  
Insect Pests ◽  
Fruit Rot ◽  
Proper Treatment ◽  
Harvest Time ◽  
Production Rules

Errors that occur in solving problems in strawberry plants (Fragaria Xananassa) such as the presence of leaf patches, fruit rot, perforated leaves, and insect pests can be the cause of not maximum in harvest time. The farmers and the general public who planted strawberry (Fragaria Xananassa) need to know the proper treatment of diseases and pests so that future yields as expected. Therefore, it takes an application as a solution in the delivery of information related to the problems that are often encountered in strawberry plants (Fragaria Xananassa). Methods of production rules can be used to diagnose the disease strawberry (Fragaria Xananassa) based on signs or symptoms that occur in the parts of plants and strawberry, the results of diagnosis using this method are the same as we do Consultation on experts.  The purpose of this study was to determine the early diagnosis of disease in strawberry plants (Fragaria Xananassa) based on signs or symptoms that occur in the plant and fruit parts. The results of the analysis of this study showed that the validation of disease and symptom data in strawberry plants (Fragaria Xananassa) reached 99%, meaning that between the data of symptoms and disease understudy the accuracy was guaranteed with the experts.

Gendering Emotions: Ṭarab, Women and Musical Performance in Three Biographical Narratives from ‘The Book of Songs’

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-183
Author(s):  
Karen Moukheiber
Keyword(s):  
Formative Period ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Slave Women ◽  
Social Conduct ◽  
Literary Biographies ◽  
The One ◽  
The Book Of Songs

Musical performance was a distinctive feature of urban culture in the formative period of Islamic history. At the court of the Abbasid caliphs, and in the residences of the ruling elite, men and women singers performed to predominantly male audiences. The success of a performer was linked to his or her ability to elicit ṭarab, namely a spectrum of emotions and affects, in their audiences. Ṭarab was criticized by religious scholars due, in part, to the controversial performances at court of slave women singers depicted as using music to induce passion in men, diverting them from normative ethical social conduct. This critique, in turn, shaped the ethical boundaries of musical performances and affective responses to them. Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī’s tenth-century Kitāb al-Aghānī (‘The Book of Songs’) compiles literary biographies of prominent male and female singers from the formative period of Islamic history. It offers rich descriptions of musical performances as well as ensuing manifestations of ṭarab in audiences, revealing at times the polemics with which they were associated. Investigating three biographical narratives from Kitāb al-Aghānī, this paper seeks to answer the following question: How did emotions, gender and status shape on the one hand the musical performances of women singers and on the other their audiences’ emotional responses, holistically referred to as ṭarab. Through this question, this paper seeks to nuance and complicate our understanding of the constraints and opportunities that shaped slave and free women's musical performances, as well as men's performances, at the Abbasid court.

A Study on Awareness on Organic Food Products Among General Public in Erode City, Tamilnadu, India

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 277-279
Author(s):  
M.Gomathi M.Gomathi ◽  
◽  
Dr.S.Kalyani Dr.S.Kalyani
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Food Products
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