THE EVOLUTION OF SOTHO ACCORDION MUSIC IN LESOTHO: 1980–2005

Lehlohonolo Phafoli

doi:10.21504/amj.v10i4.2236

THE EVOLUTION OF SOTHO ACCORDION MUSIC IN LESOTHO: 1980–2005

African Music Journal of the International Library of African Music ◽

10.21504/amj.v10i4.2236 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 127-143

Author(s):

Lehlohonolo Phafoli

Keyword(s):

The Status ◽

The 1960S

The article describes the origins, evolution and status of Sotho1 koriana accordion music from the 1920s through the 1960s and 70s when it was considered shebeen music, and from1980 to 2005, when there was a change of attitude towards it and only sporadic production. Two concerns are: the status of koriana music, and, its appreciation by Sotho people themselves. Data was collected through observations, interviews with artists and listeners, and from cassettes, radio and TV programmes. Aspects of the music are described and related to non-musical events of the period.

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Politics and the life sciences:An unfinished revolution

Politics and the Life Sciences ◽

10.2990/30_2_43 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 43-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Gary R. Johnson

Keyword(s):

Life Sciences ◽

Empirical Work ◽

Journal Editor ◽

Multidisciplinary Analysis ◽

Thirtieth Anniversary ◽

Intellectual Origins ◽

The Status ◽

The 1960S ◽

Advance Knowledge ◽

The Revolution

Politics and the life sciences—also referred to as biopolitics—is a field of study that seeks to advance knowledge of politics and promote better policymaking through multidisciplinary analysis that draws on the life sciences. While the intellectual origins of the field may be traced at least into the 1960s, a broadly organized movement appeared only with the founding of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) in 1980 and the establishment of its journal,Politics and the Life Sciences(PLS), in 1982. This essay—contributed by a past journal editor and association executive director—concludes a celebration of the association's thirtieth anniversary. It reviews the founding of the field and the association, as well as the contributions of the founders. It also discusses the nature of the empirical work that will advance the field, makes recommendations regarding the identity and future of the association, and assesses the status of the revolution of which the association is a part. It argues that there is progress to celebrate, but that this revolution—the last of three great scientific revolutions—is still in its early stages. The revolution is well-started, but remains unfinished.

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Public Intoxication and Criminal Justice

Journal of Drug Issues ◽

10.1177/002204267500500304 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 220-232 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

S. George Clarke

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Alcohol Abuse ◽

Criminal Justice System ◽

Justice System ◽

Federal Courts ◽

Survey Questionnaire ◽

Modest Increase ◽

The Status ◽

The 1960S

Since the mid 1930's there has been an accelerating growth in understanding the nature and scope of alcohol abuse, and a modest increase in resources to combat it. Although, as early as 1869, a significant court decision held that alcoholism could be viewed as an illness, It was not until the second half of the 1960s that the next such findings, this time by Federal courts, set the course of continuing action to take alcoholism out of the criminal justice system and place it under the aegis of health care. The status of alcoholism legislation in thirty-eight states is examined, based on their resonse to a survey questionnaire and other data provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Alternate treatment systems, developed and tested by the Ontario Addictions Foundation, provide background to the treatment systems which have emerged in most states which have decriminalized public intoxication.

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CORPO E AUTOEXPERIMENTAÇÃO: UMA LEITURA DA ARTCHARNELDE ORLAN A PARTIR DO PENSAMENTO PÓS-FEMINISTA DE PAUL B. PRECIADO / Body and self-experimentation: a reading of ORLAN's artcharnel from Paul B. Preciado's post-feminist thinking

arte e ensaios ◽

10.37235/ae.n39.8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (39) ◽

pp. 93-105

Author(s):

Rejane Lopes Rodrigues

Keyword(s):

Female Body ◽

Western Society ◽

Surgical Interventions ◽

The Status ◽

The Usa ◽

The 1960S ◽

Theoretical Considerations ◽

Contemporary Western Society

A partir da década de 1960 teve início na Europa e nos EUA um novo movimento artístico conhecido como arte performativa. ORLAN, artista plástica francesa, insere-se neste movimento através de obras que incluem intervenções cirúrgicas em seu próprio corpo com o objetivo de questionar o status do corpo feminino na sociedade ocidental contemporânea. Diante disso, propomos no presente artigo, uma análise do seu trabalho a partir das considerações teóricas do filósofo e escritor transgênero Paul B. Preciado.Palavras-chave: Arte performativa; ORLAN; Gênero; Feminismo; Paul. B. Preciado.AbstractFrom the 1960s, a new artistic movement known as performative art began in Europe and the USA. ORLAN, a French artist, is part of this movement through works that include surgical interventions on her own body in order to question the status of the female body in contemporary Western society. Therefore, in this article, we propose an analysis of his work based on the theoretical considerations of the transgender philosopher and writer Paul B. Preciado.Keywords: Performative art; ORLAN; Genre; Feminism; Paul B. Preciado.

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Between positivism and narrativism in Polish methodology of history

HISTOREIN ◽

10.12681/historein.234 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 75 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Krzysztof Brzechczyn

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Framework ◽

Font Size ◽

Theory Of Science ◽

The Third ◽

Nancy Cartwright ◽

The Status ◽

Scientific Context ◽

Scientific Laws ◽

Covering Law ◽

The 1960S

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This paper has two main purposes. Its primary purpose is to present the reception of the discussion between positivism and narrativism in the Polish methodology of history. A secondary one is to paraphrase, using the notion apparatus of the idealisational theory of science, the issue of the accuracy of explanation. The article consists of six parts. In the first part, Hempel’s deductive-nomological (or covering-law) model of explanation is presented. In the second part, the main tenets and assumptions of the Poznań school of methodology are presented. The emergence of this school at the end of the 1960s delayed the popularisation of narrativism in Polish methodology of history. In the third part, the manifold reasons of this delayed reception are analysed. The popularization of narrativism was only possible in Poland after 1989, but it had a primarily imitative character. This outline of cultural and scientific context allows Chris Lorenz’s proposals (on the problem of the accuracy of explanation) to be put in a wider perspective (part four). Namely, this author describes “a theoretical historical debate” on the status of scientific laws and refers to a post-positivistic approach to science represented by Nancy Cartwright. This approach was to introduce new perspectives to the understanding of lawfulness. In the fifth part, the main assumptions and tenets (for example, modes of explanation) of another post-positivistic approach to science, namely the idealisational theory of science, are presented and compared with the Hempelian model of explanation. In the sixth part, Hempel’s explanatory sketch is paraphrased using the notion apparatus of the idealisational model of science which provides a solution in this theoretical framework, to the problem of accuracy of explanation posed by Lorenz.</p>

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Youth welfare work

Reframing Irish Youth in the Sixties ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781786941237.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 180-216

Author(s):

Carole Holohan

Keyword(s):

National Level ◽

Youth Work ◽

Welfare Work ◽

Youth Welfare ◽

The Status ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Many ◽

Changing Attitudes ◽

The Impact ◽

International Strategies

Chapter five focuses on the development of youth welfare work, in particular the youth club, as a response to concerns that young people were not using their leisure time appropriately. Fred Powell, Martin Geoghegan, Margaret Scanlon and Katharina Swirak highlight how an international volunteer boom in the 1960s, and in the field of youth work in particular, in part reflected changing attitudes to youth and concerns about what seemed a disaffected generation. This chapter assesses developments in youth work at a local and national level, highlighting the impact of international strategies in this field and the tensions between the many players in the Irish scene. It attests to the ways in which external frameworks, emanating from supranational bodies such as the Council of Europe and the United Nations, reframed understandings of youth in the adult imagination and influenced how youth was perceived by voluntary and statutory organisations. It also highlights the ways in which some international ideas and models were embraced but others challenged the status quo, and therefore faced resistance.

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Transformal Role of Product Design in Singapore’s Transition to a Service Economy

Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-617-9.ch023 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 431-446

Author(s):

Peer M. Sathikh

Keyword(s):

Product Design ◽

Free Market ◽

Small Population ◽

East India Company ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

The Status ◽

The Government ◽

The 1960S ◽

City State

Singapore, a city state of 4.8 million people, located at the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula, was founded in 1819, when Sir Stamford Raffles of the East India Company established a trading settlement in Singapore. The meeting point for Chinese, Malays, Indians, Arabs, Europeans and others on their journey through the southern seas, Singapore achieved its initial economic success through international trade as a free port and free market. Given the status of an independent country in 1965, Singapore suddenly found itself in a struggle to survive. It’s small population and scarce resources meant that regional and world markets were larger than the domestic market, presenting the government and its policymakers with distinctive economic challenges and opportunities. This chapter tries to recount the policies and subsequent actions put in place in Singapore from the 1960s till the present, promoting the creative industry, including product design, in order to transform a market dependent economy into a service centered economy. This chapter also discusses if and how such a ‘planned intervention’ played an important role in building up the resources and infrastructure within Singapore and in attracting multi-national companies to locate their R&D and design facilities in Singapore, pointing to where it has succeeded and where it has not.

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Readymades

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem1006-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Danielle Child

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

John Cage ◽

Marcel Duchamp ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Jasper Johns ◽

Robert Rauschenberg ◽

The Status ◽

The 1960S ◽

Common Understanding ◽

Bicycle Wheel

In 1916, the French artist Marcel Duchamp coined the term "readymade" to describe a body of his own work in which everyday and often mass-produced objects were given the status of a work of art with little or no intervention by the artist beyond signing and displaying them. He began to produce these works in Paris, beginning with Bottle Rack (1914) and Bicycle Wheel (1913). (Duchamp, however, did not explicitly acknowledge these works until his move to New York in 1915.) These two works present examples of the two distinct types of readymades: readymade unaided and readymade aided. The most well-known readymade is Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), which was famously refused entry into an exhibition with no entry conditions. Much later, Fountain became symbolic of the emergent shift from modernism to postmodernism in the 1960s, with the group of artists who gathered around the composer John Cage, including Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, sometimes referred to as the neo-avant-garde. It was during this period that Duchamp’s account of the function of the readymade was consolidated into the now common understanding, which is that "readymade" constitutes an object chosen by an artist and declared to be art.

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Gears Galore!

Mechanical Engineering ◽

10.1115/1.2013-apr-4 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 135 (04) ◽

pp. 51-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lee S. Langston

Keyword(s):

Fuel Consumption ◽

Gas Turbines ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Jet Engines ◽

Efficient Operation ◽

Jet Engine ◽

The Status ◽

The 1960S ◽

A Company ◽

Bypass Ratio

This paper presents a review of gas turbines and Honeywell, a company based in Phoenix, history. The article through the review and historical analysis intends to provide perspective on the status of geared fan engines. The addition of a fan to a jet engine, first proposed by Frank Whittle, one of the inventors of the jet engine, increases thrust and reduces fuel consumption. Pratt & Whitney and Rolls Royce were the first to develop a dual spool engine for more efficient operation over a range of flight conditions. Work started on the geared fan TFE731 at the Garrett AiResearch Phoenix Division in 1968. The TFE731 gearbox resulted in a gear reduction of 1.8:1, to power the fan for a 2.5 bypass ratio, which was very high for the 1960s. Honeywell also has another geared turbofan engine, the ALF502. It was developed by AVCO Lycoming in Stratford, Connecticut, and has a 6000–7000 lbt thrust range. Honeywell’s successful 45-year record of producing geared fan small gas turbines gives promise of a bright future for geared fans on large commercial jet engines, providing lower fuel consumption and less noise.

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The Millennial/Gen Z Leftists Are Emerging: Are Sociologists Ready for Them?

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.1177/0731121420915868 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 408-427

Author(s):

Elaine Bell Kaplan

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Gender Inequality ◽

Status Quo ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Race And Gender ◽

The Status ◽

And Gender ◽

The 1960S ◽

New Generation ◽

Do So

Sociology is being challenged by the new generation of students and scholars who have another view of society. Millennial/Gen Zs are the most progressive generation since the 1960s. We have had many opportunities to discuss and imagine power, diversity, and social change when we teach them in our classes or attend their campus events. Some Millennial/Gen Z believe, especially those in academia, that social scientists are tied to old theories and ideologies about race and gender, among other inconsistencies. These old ideas do not resonate with their views regarding equity. Millennials are not afraid to challenge the status quo. They do so already by supporting multiple gender and race identities. Several questions come to mind. How do we as sociologists with our sense of history and other issues such as racial and gender inequality help them along the way? Are we ready for this generation? Are they ready for us?

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Current research and prevention of aflatoxins in China

World Mycotoxin Journal ◽

10.3920/wmj2019.2503 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 121-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

E. Tumukunde ◽

G. Ma ◽

D. Li ◽

J. Yuan ◽

L. Qin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Prevention And Control ◽

Safety Management ◽

Animal Feed ◽

Detection Methods ◽

The Status ◽

Food And Feed ◽

Considerable Impact ◽

Pollution Detection ◽

The 1960S ◽

And Control

Since their discovery in the 1960s, aflatoxins were found to have a considerable impact on the health of humans and animals as well as the country’s economy and international trade. Aflatoxins are often found in nuts, cereals and animal feeds, which has a significant danger to the food industry. Over the years, several steps have been undertaken worldwide to minimise their contamination in crops and their exposure to humans and animals. China is one of the largest exporters and importers of food and animal feed. As a result, many studies have been carried out in China related to aflatoxins, including their distribution, pollution, detection methods, monitoring, testing and managing. Chinese scientists studied aflatoxins in microbiological, toxicological, ecological effects as well as policies relating to their controlling. China has thus put into practice a number of strategies aiming at the prevention and control of aflatoxins in order to protect consumers and ensure a safe trade of food and feed, and the status and enlargement of these strategies are very important and useful for many consumers and stakeholders in China. Therefore, this article aims at the detriment assessments, regulations, distribution, detection methods, prevention and control of aflatoxins in China. It equally provides useful information about the recent safety management systems in place to fight the contamination of aflatoxins in food and feed in China.

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