Krithi: Cows at the Beach

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby Wren ◽  
Suresh Vaidyanathan
Keyword(s):  
Musical Form ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
Dialogic Process ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Intercultural creative practice is a topic that has attracted a lot of recent scholarly attention. As improvising musicians from very different cultures and traditions, we decided to analyse a recent collaborative performance that we were involved in to unpack the ways that we were interacting through music. As performers, we were interested primarily in the ways that such an analysis would help us to work more effectively in intercultural situations, but we also wanted to understand the synergies and dissonances that exist between improvising cultures more broadly. For the essay we adopt the musical form of a krithi, a Carnatic compositional form that allows for joint statements and improvised exchanges. Through this dialogic process, we propose improvisation as a kind of negotiation that occurs between musicians, and between musicians and their culture, highlighting some of the specific challenges and rewards that we faced.

scholarly journals Constructing Contrast: Juxtaposition as a tool for formal construction in my own creative practice, explored through the music of Stravinsky and Donatoni

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Glen Downie
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Wind Instruments ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Formal Construction

<p>Juxtaposition and Superimposition are two techniques that I have adopted as a core feature of my creative practice. This exegesis examines the origins of these techniques through the analysis of two 20th century works, Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920/1947) and Franco Donatoni’s Tema (1981), examining how the role all musical parameters, including timbre, pitch, rhythm and gesture, combine to create unique and perceptible shapes which can be purposefully juxtaposed, recombined and shuffled to create musical form. The influence and effect of these compositions is then discussed in relation to an analysis of the major work of my accompanying portfolio: Hot Coals for orchestra (2016/2017), demonstrating how ideas taken from the preceding analyses are developed further, and influence not just the resulting aesthetic, but also the construction and process of composition itself.</p>

Making music together

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Cook
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
Contemporary Classical Music ◽  
The Dead

This first chapter of Music as Creative Practice sets out a social and performative approach to creativity in music. It develops the idea of emergence, the generation of unpredicted and unpredictable outcomes, within the context of collaborative performance, but extends it into a broad concept of real-time musical creativity. This is achieved through the idea of the musical assemblage, in which interactions between people are extended through the role of instruments, scores and other ‘outside the room’ factors: creativity is a property of the total human and nonhuman system. The argument is developed through case studies that range from rock to contemporary classical music, and from improvisation and the performance of notated music to collaborative composition and studio production. The chapter concludes with recent, technologically afforded collaborations between the living and the dead, which are no different in principle from the classical tradition of collaboration between living performers and dead composers.

scholarly journals Miskâsowin—Returning to the Body, Remembering What Keeps Us Alive

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Moe Clark ◽  
Kenna Aviles-Betel ◽  
Catherine Richardson ◽  
Zeina Allouche
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Plains Cree ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
Healing Art ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Work Contexts

The nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree language) Cree word, miskâsowin, relates to the sacred teachings of Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan as a concept pertaining to wellness of “finding one’s sense of belonging”—a process integral in the aftermath of colonial disruption. Métis educator and performance artist Moe Clark offers an approach to healing and well-being, which is imparted through movement, flux and through musical and performance-based engagement. Moe works with tools of embodiment in performance and circle work contexts, including song creation, collaborative performance, participatory youth expression and land-based projects as healing art. She shares her process for re-animating these relationships to land, human kin, and other-than-human kin through breath-work, creative practice and relationality as part of a path to wholeness. The authors document Moe’s approach to supporting the identity, growth, healing and transformation of others.

The Chinese Discourse on Civil Society

1994 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 180-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu-Yun Ma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Scholarly Attention

In recent years the concept of civil society has gained scholarly attention world-wide. It has found numerous advocates in the West, such as John Keane who suggested democratizing European socialism by defending the distinction between civil society and the state; Michael Walzer who proposed synthesizing socialist, capitalist and nationalist ideals under the rubric of civil society; and Daniel Bell, who called for a revival of civil society in the United States as a protection against the expanding state bureaucracies. In 1992 alone, at least three books on the subject appeared. In Eastern Europe, proponents of the civil society concept – like Vaclav Havel, George Konrad and Adam Michnik – have been credited with developing an extremely useful theoretical tool for overthrowing Stalinist authoritarianism. A volume consisting of case studies of seven former or present socialist countries found that the notion of civil society is generally applicable to the study of Communist systems, as long as the influence of different cultures and traditions of individual countries are fully acknowledged. The civil society paradigm, despite its basic European orientation, has also been recognized as applicable to the study of developing countries.

scholarly journals Constructing Contrast: Juxtaposition as a tool for formal construction in my own creative practice, explored through the music of Stravinsky and Donatoni

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Glen Downie
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Wind Instruments ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Formal Construction

<p>Juxtaposition and Superimposition are two techniques that I have adopted as a core feature of my creative practice. This exegesis examines the origins of these techniques through the analysis of two 20th century works, Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920/1947) and Franco Donatoni’s Tema (1981), examining how the role all musical parameters, including timbre, pitch, rhythm and gesture, combine to create unique and perceptible shapes which can be purposefully juxtaposed, recombined and shuffled to create musical form. The influence and effect of these compositions is then discussed in relation to an analysis of the major work of my accompanying portfolio: Hot Coals for orchestra (2016/2017), demonstrating how ideas taken from the preceding analyses are developed further, and influence not just the resulting aesthetic, but also the construction and process of composition itself.</p>

Understanding the Communication Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Who Are Deafblind

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
Sandy K. Bowen ◽  
Silvia M. Correa-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Linguistically Diverse Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
Different Cultures

America's population is more diverse than ever before. The prevalence of students who are culturally and/or linguistically diverse (CLD) has been steadily increasing over the past decade. The changes in America's demographics require teachers who provide services to students with deafblindness to have an increased awareness of different cultures and diversity in today's classrooms, particularly regarding communication choices. Children who are deafblind may use spoken language with appropriate amplification, sign language or modified sign language, and/or some form of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).

Self-Promoting and Modest Job Applicants in Different Cultures

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Schmid Mast ◽  
Denise Frauendorfer ◽  
Laurence Popovic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Background ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
Presentation Style ◽  
Interview Situation ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Different Cultures

The goal of this study was to investigate the influence of the recruiter’s cultural background on the evaluation of a job applicant’s presentation style (self-promoting or modest) in an interview situation. We expected that recruiters from cultures that value self-promotion (e.g., Canada) will be more inclined to hire self-promoting as compared to modest applicants and that recruiters from cultures that value modesty (e.g., Switzerland) will be less inclined to hire self-promoting applicants than recruiters from cultures that value self-promotion. We therefore investigated 44 native French speaking recruiters from Switzerland and 40 native French speaking recruiters from Canada who judged either a self-promoting or a modest videotaped applicant in terms of hireability. Results confirmed that Canadian recruiters were more inclined to hire self-promoting compared to modest applicants and that Canadian recruiters were more inclined than Swiss recruiters to hire self-promoting applicants. Also, we showed that self-promotion was related to a higher intention to hire because self-promoting applicants are perceived as being competent.

Children in extreme vulnerability: Using narrative story-stems to assess perceptions of care in three different cultures

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Page ◽  
M. Franieck ◽  
I. Luoma ◽  
T. Buchanan ◽  
O. Verbovaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Story ◽  
Story Stems ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Perceptions Of Care
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