scholarly journals Rapikwenty: ‘A loner in the ashes’ and other songs for sleeping

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-79
Author(s):  
Myfany Turpin ◽  
Jennifer Green
Keyword(s):  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Pitch Range ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Formal Properties ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

Rapikwenty is a traditional Australian Indigenous set of stories-and-songs from the Utopia region of Central Australia performed by Anmatyerr speaking adults to lull children to sleep. The main protagonist is a boy who is left to play alone in the ashes. Like many lullabies, Rapikwenty is characterised by scary themes, soft dynamics, a limited pitch range and repetition. The story-and-song form is not common in the Australian literature on lullabies, yet such combinations of prose and verse are found in other forms of verbal art of the region (Green 2014). This verbal art style is also well-attested in other oral traditions of the world (Harris & Reichl, 1997). Rapikwenty resembles other Anmatyerr genres in its song structure; yet differs in its performance style. Echoing Trainor et al. (1999: 532), we find it is the “soothing, smooth, and airy” delivery, rather than any formal properties of the genre, that achieves the lulling effect. In addition, Rapikwenty uses the recitative style known as arnwerirrem ‘humming’. The voice thus moves seamlessly between spoken story and sung verse, creating a smooth delivery throughout. We suggest that the combination of prose and verse reflects an Anmatyerr concept of song as prototypically punctuating events in a story rather than a medium for story-telling itself. This article suggests a more nuanced approach to the relationship between genre and performance styles.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Dramatic Text and Performance with the Centrality of the Body with a Look at Anne Bogart’s Rendition of The Persians

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Samin Gheitasy ◽  
Leila Montazeri ◽  
Simin Dolatkhah
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Physical Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Dramatic Text ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Anne Bogart ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sociological View

The dramatic text defines, to some extent, the structure of the work but the type of performance and the physical approach to the text can represent different meanings. The body of the actor, as a means of conveying concepts from the text to the audience, can be effective in creating different interpretations and meanings of the text. Since eons ago, directors have used the body of the actor with different approaches, and the application of body on the stage has always been underdoing changes. Anne Bogart is one of the few directors who is less known in the Iranian theater despite possessing the most updated and well-known methods of practice and performance in the world. Using her viewpoint method, she brings live and dynamic bodies to the stage; bodies that are able to convey the hidden meanings of the text to the audience in the most suitable way. The overall purpose of this research is to find the relationship between the dramatic text and the performance with the centrality of the body with a sociological view toward the body. To this end, by presenting Foucault's theories, the researchers defines the role of the body in the society and its extent of effectivity and impressibility. Finally, this study explores the implications of this role in each element of Aeschylus’s The Persians, and it shall show how Bogart beautifully represents them using the bodies of her actors during performance.

scholarly journals Ownership structure and performance: A comparison of different corporate governance systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto de Miguel Hidalgo ◽  
Julio Pindado ◽  
Chabela de la Torre
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Insider Ownership ◽  
Market For Corporate Control ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyses how the main institutional factors characterizing corporate governance systems around the world affect the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance. Our analysis gives rise to the following remarks. First, ownership concentration and insider ownership levels are determined by several institutional features such as investor protection, development of capital markets, activity of the market for corporate control, and effectiveness of boards. Second, the relationship between ownership concentration and performance is not directly affected by these institutional factors. Third, there is, however, a direct influence of corporate governance characteristics on the relationship between insider ownership and performance.

The Voice That Crieth in the Wilderness: F. W. J. Schelling and Toni Morrison’s Primordial Longing

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Jared Kenrick Nieft
Keyword(s):  
American Slavery ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The World ◽  
History Force ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

Abstract This paper explores the relationship between Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, Beloved, and F. W. J. Schelling’s 1813 draft of Ages of the World (Die Weltalter). It shows that Die Weltalter, contrary to much recent scholarship, which often stresses the many ways Schelling anticipated the antimetaphysical trends of post-Hegelian thought, should be first approached as a genuine attempt tobe faithful to the event of first creation and time’s “indivisible remainders”. The paper will show that Schelling’s “indivisible remainders”, the forgotten and “disremembered” of history, force his thought to the limits of Romantic and idealist reflection and toward the traumatic encounters of Beloved. Morrison’s depiction of the irrepressible longing for life and recognition amid the pain and ugliness of American slavery parallels Schelling’s efforts to understand the tremendous need for life and fellowship that first urged god toward creation, when primordial longing was overcome in a child and a god entered time.

Assessing the structural, mechanical and dispersible characteristics of flushable nonwovens

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 581-592
Author(s):  
Hande G Atasağun ◽  
Gajanan S Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Production Technology ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Wet Strength ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Flushable wipes have become popular among consumers who worry about environmental problems the world confronts today. However, whether these wipes have a positive effect on environmental protection is contradictory because of the lack of government regulations and legal obligations. Starting from this point, in this study, we characterized commercially available flushable products, which were manufactured from various raw materials by different production methods, in order to understand the relationship between their structure and performance properties. The results showed that production technology had a significant effect on the structural, mechanical, and dispersible properties of nonwovens. The disintegration percentage of nonwovens was inversely related to their wet strength. The findings of this study will be helpful in the design of new flushable nonwovens for improved wet strength and dispersibility performance.

Stress, Emotion, and Performance in Elite Slalom Canoeists

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Males ◽  
John H. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Reversal Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the relationship between precompetitive affect and performance, using elements of reversal theory (Apter, 1982): a conceptual framework that incorporates a full range of pleasant and unpleasant moods. Nine elite male slalom canoeists completed questionnaires prior to each event of a season that included the world championships. Results were analyzed using a time-series model to make comparisons of each subject’s best and worst performance of the season. Predicted variations in precompetitive levels of pleasant and unpleasant mood did not occur, despite variations in subsequent performances. As predicted, good performances were preceded by low discrepancies between felt and preferred arousal levels, but there was no support for the hypothesis that a large discrepancy between perceived stress and coping efforts would precede a poor performance.

scholarly journals Electroglottographic Analysis of the Voice in Young Male Role of Kunqu Opera

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 3930
Author(s):  
Li Dong ◽  
Jiangping Kong
Keyword(s):  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Sound Pressure ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Pitch Range ◽  
Male Role ◽  
Male Roles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

The phonation types used in the young male role in Kunqu Opera were investigated. Two national young male role singers volunteered as the subjects. Each singer performed three voice conditions: singing, stage speech, and reading lyrics. Three electroglottogram parameters, the fundamental frequency, contact quotient, and speed quotient, were analyzed. Electroglottogram parameters were different between voice conditions. Five phonation types were found by clustering analysis in singing and stage speech: (1) breathy voice, (2) high adduction modal voice, (3) modal voice, (4) untrained falsetto, and (5) high adduction falsetto. The proportion of each phonation type was not identical in singing and stage speech. The relationship between phonation type and pitch was multiple to one in the low pitch range, and one to one in the high pitch range. The sound pressure levels were related to the phonation types. Five phonation types, instead of only the two phonation types (modal voice and falsetto) that are identified in traditional Kunqu Opera singing theory, were concomitantly used in the young male role’s artistic voices. These phonation types were more similar to those of the young female roles than to those of the other male roles in the Kunqu Opera.

scholarly journals Konsep dan aplikasi konseling olahraga bagi atlet; peluang dan tantangan

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Tjung Hauw Sin
Keyword(s):  
Self Management ◽  
Emotional Control ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Family Problems ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Psychological Concepts

<p><em>The development of the world is now complex, problems are diverse, including in sports settings. The problem of athletes is more complex, not a few athletes who do not compete because of low self-management, unstable emotional control and even motivation and performance that are not optimal. Not to mention the condition of the relationship between athletes and athletes, athletes with coaches and even family problems that are Carrie away and affect psychological conditions during sparring in the field. The condition requires the existence of a special psychological companion for athletes, this condition makes the background of the need for sports counseling, a sports counselor can accompany the need for special personnel skilled and mastering the psychological concepts of athletes. This has become a new alternative for counselors in performing. Script will present the background of the need for sports counseling services, athlete’s problems, direction of sports counseling services and opportunities and challenges.</em></p>

scholarly journals Integritas Personal dan Kepemimpinan Etis

Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 950
Author(s):  
Antonius Atosökhi Gea
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Leadership Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
The Relationship

Integrity is very important for a leader. When a leader does not have integrity, then, sooner or later it will destroy the group or organization s/he leads. This occurs because the policies, decisions, attitudes, and actions made by the leader will have wide impact to the organization. A leader will be the center of attention of the members, and whatever they see in her/him will have a huge impact on the organization as a whole. Integrity has been given a lot of meaning; and everything is interconnected, which essentially refers to one's personal qualities, which make a person trustworthy and reliable. In the world of work, integrity appears in the form of good work performance or results. To be able to produce a good performance it is necessary to have competence. With integrity possessed the competence can be directed to produce a good performance. The problem that occurs is a lack of understanding of the relationship between integrity and performance. Generally, they are both understood separately, as stand-alone. But in reality the integrity is manifested through good performance. This applies also to a leader, which results a good performance in implementing ethical leadership. The purpose of this paper is to outline the relationship between integrity and performance, in which competence plays an important role. Integrity is the foundation for leadership, which makes it able to run and produce ethical leadership performance. 

The Disintegration of Sense and Bodies in Pain

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Madelyn Detloff ◽  
Gaile Pohlhaus
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Attention To Pain

In this essay, Detloff and Pohlhaus examine Virginia Woolf and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writings on the precarious nature of sense and certainty as a counterpoint to Elaine Scarry’s analysis of the rhetoric of war in The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. In her introduction, Scarry cites Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill” to exemplify a crucial premise of her argument about pain’s propensity to “bring[] about, even within the radius of several feet, this absolute split between one’s sense of one’s own reality and the reality of other persons” (4). “Whatever pain achieves,” Scarry argues, “it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharability through its resistance to language” (4). Through a more extensive analysis of “On Being Ill” than Scarry affords, along with a reading of Woolf’s later essay, “Craftsmanship,” Detloff and Pohlhaus illuminate a distinction between Woolf’s position and a central premise of Scarry’s theory –the presumed unsharability and near inexpressibility of pain. The essay argues that Woolf was not necessarily describing a fundamental incapacity of language to express pain, but rather a social practice of failing to attend to pain and therefore failing to develop the lexical tools to express the pain adequately. If this is the diagnosis, what is called for is a shift in attention (a shift in aspect perception, to follow Wittgenstein) from the inexpressibility of pain to our collective lack of attention to pain. Wittgenstein, himself a veteran of World War I who saw plenty of “bodies in pain” at the front, proposes a different view of the relationship between pain and knowing from Scarry. Following Stanley Cavell, Detloff and Pohlhaus understand the relation between the voice of the ordinary language philosopher and the skeptic in Wittgenstein’s Investigations to be neither dismissive, nor matter of fact. As Cavell notes, the ordinary language philosopher must take the skeptic seriously if she expects herself to be taken seriously and “In all cases [the] problem is to discover the specific plight of mind and circumstances within which a human being gives voice to [their] condition” (240). For this reason, Detloff and Pohlhaus approach the differences between Scarry, Woolf, and Wittgenstein not with the aim of proving one right over the other, but rather in order to find insight in the tension between them as a means to attend to and acknowledge others’ pain.

‘Steely Velvet’: The Voice of James Mason

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Adrian Garvey
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Responses ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Film Sound

This article argues that, although the subject of film sound is a developing field of interest in film studies, the voice, despite its centrality to issues of performance and stardom, remains an under-examined subject within the discipline. It considers some existing work on the topic and proposed methodologies for the analysis of voice and performance. The work of James Mason is used as a case study, offering an overview of his career and a discussion of the changes in his star persona and performance style as he moved from star to character actor. Consideration is given to the ways in which Mason's distinctive voice became the defining aspect of his star persona and a subject for impersonation. Critical responses to his vocal style throughout his career are examined and sequences from three Mason films, The Pumpkin Eater (1964), Fanny by Gaslight (1944) and The Upturned Glass (1947) are analysed in order to explore Mason's use of voice and gesture in detail.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document