scholarly journals EDUCATION AS A FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL TASTE

2020 ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Predrag Cvetičanin
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Music Genres ◽  
Introductory Part ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
Audience Development

In this paper, the influence of the respondents’ level of education, and that of their parents, on the development of musical taste is analyzed. The analyses are based on the survey research into the cultural practices of the citizens of Serbia from 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2017, headed by the author. The introductory part of the text provides a brief overview of the three sociological standpoints on the relation between taste and belonging to social collectives, whose applicability has been tested in the research on cultural practices in Serbia. The following section provides the results of longitudinal research on the manifested preferences for various types of music genres in Serbia and attitudes which the respondents had towards numerous music genres which were analyzed in these studies. In the third part of the paper, following the presentation of the concept of the cultural capital of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, we focus on the research results related to classical music and the opera and explore which social factors influence the formation of esthetic preferences for these music genres. The conclusion contains a brief presentation of the implications of the findings on the activities of audience development for classical music that is mostly studied in the course “Musical Culture” in elementary and secondary schools.

scholarly journals Livelihood assessment of avocado growing in western Kenya and its socioeconomic implications using agricultural extension services

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ouma George ◽  
Odhiambo G. Duncan ◽  
Musyimi David ◽  
Kwach Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Lake Victoria Basin ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Western Kenya ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Secondary Sources

Avocado (Persia americana) is an important world crop. In Kenya, it has become a very important crop but its production is limited by several factors. Studies were conducted in the Lake Victoria Basin counties of Bunyala in Busia, Kisumu, Muhoroni, Nyando and Rachuonyo in western Kenya to investigate the socioeconomic factors affecting Avocado production.  Information were collected from focus group discussions, key informants, individual interviews and secondary sources. Statistical Package for Social Scientist was used to analyze data collected interpreted and reported.  The objectives were to assess how Avocado growers in western Kenya using Agricultural extension services affects the Livelihood of farmers considering their level of education and extension services and the implication it has on their decisions making to invest in Avocado production. There was positive relationship within the participating farmers as relates their level of education, income and availability of extension services that led to high adoption of inputs, choice of rootstocks to grow the crop, varieties chosen, planting, cultural practices harvesting, storage and marketing.

scholarly journals Sociolinguistic variation of parameters of oral spontaneous text

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Ekaterina S. Khudyakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Modeling ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Sociolinguistic Variation ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Variation Of Parameters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Factor Type ◽  
And Gender

The article examines the social factors influence on prosodic manifestation of syntactic and macrosyntactic units. The data collected during suprasegmental analysis of spontaneous speech are used, which are directly related to the syntactic level, namely: the average length of a phrase in words and in syntagmas and the average length of a syntagma in phonetic words, as well as parameters associated with the design of the whole text: the number of composition blocks in the text, their length in phrases, the length of the whole text in phrases and words. The results of statistical modeling of the influence of the factors "age", "type of education", "level of education" and "gender" clearly indicate that the factors "type of education" and "gender" significantly influence the variation of syntactic and macrosyntactic parameters of an oral text. The factor "type of education" significantly affects the number of phrases in the text and the length of the text block in phrases – both parameters are significantly higher for the speakers who specialize in Humanities compared to those who specialize in Sciences. The length of the syntagma depends on the speaker’ gender – syntagmas produced by male speakers are longer.

Ballad for Incarcerated Americans: Second Generation Japanese American Musicking in World War II Camps

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTA ROBERTSON
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
World War ◽  
American Popular Music

AbstractDuring World War II, the United States government imprisoned approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens, half of whom were children. Through ethnographic interviews I explore how fragile youthful memories, trauma, and the soundscape of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) Incarceration Camps shaped the artistic trajectories of three such former “enemy alien” youth: two pianists and a koto player. Counterintuitively, Japanese traditional arts flourished in the hostile environment of dislocation through the high number ofnisei(second generation) participants, who later contributed to increasing transculturalism in American music following resettlement out of camp. Synthesizing Japanese and Euro-American classical music, white American popular music, and African American jazz, manyniseiparadoxically asserted their dual cultural commitment to both traditional Japanese and home front patriotic American principles. A performance of Earl Robinson and John Latouche's patriotic cantata,Ballad for Americans(1939), by the high school choir at Manzanar Incarceration Camp demonstrates the hybridity of these Japanese American cultural practices. Marked by Popular Front ideals,Ballad for Americansallowedniseito construct identities through a complicated mixture of ethnic pride, chauvinistic white Americanism allied with Bing Crosby's recordings of theBallad, and affiliation with black racial struggle through Paul Robeson's iconicBalladperformances.

Fission and Fusion: From improvisation to formalism in law and music

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Manderson
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
The Relationship

Law and classical music are both performative disciplines. Both became concerned with practices of textual interpretation, and with questions of the authority of those texts and the legitimacy of those interpretations. But exactly how did that happen, and with what social consequences? The relationship between law and music across the centuries shows striking parallels and echoes. If we study them carefully each can illuminate the other, binding them together so that we can see them as two aspects of the same process and the same histories. The insights we gain from the novelty of their conjunction help us to understand these social changes better and differently. This conjunction will also help us see how much our disciplinary blinkers prevent us from observing the far-reaching social forces which these cultural practices at each moment both echo and animate.

The NBC Music Appreciation Hour: Radio Broadcasts of Walter Damrosch, 1928–1942

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sondra Wieland Howe
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Repertoire Selection ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Audience Development

Walter Damrosch, a pioneer in the early days of radio, introduced American and Canadian children to classical music through the radio broadcasts of the NBC Music Appreciation Hour, 1928–1942. This article contains a description of the format of the programs and instructional manuals. It includes a discussion of the programs sponsorship, Damroschs collaboration with MENC, and the national impact of the broadcasts. The Music Appreciation Hour broadcast four series of programs for four different age-groups, and various authors prepared instructors manuals and student notebooks. The successful programs were promoted as a supplement for school programs, and students were encouraged to expand the experience with other musical activities. The broadcasts were discontinued in 1942 for financial and personal reasons. The Music Appreciation Hour and other music programs of the past can be used as models for contemporary projects as educators explore the creative use of technology in music teaching. Although technology changes, many issues of the past (audience development, repertoire selection, finances, sponsorship) are still relevant today.

150 Falls in Malaysia: Magnitude, Risk, Disparities, and Solutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (Supplement_4) ◽  
pp. iv34-iv39
Author(s):  
Maw Pin Tan ◽  
Sumaiyah Mat ◽  
Deepa Alex ◽  
Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Differences ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Psychological Status ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
One Year ◽  
Risk Factors For Falls

Abstract The Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research (MELoR) study found 1 in 4 residents aged 65 years and over living in the Klang Valley of Malaysia fall at least once a year in their survey conducted between 2013 and 2015. Recent figures obtained from the First Older Persons’ National Health and Morbidity Survey conducted in 2018 revealed that 15% of Malaysians aged 60 years and over fall at least once a year. In a 10-year follow-up study involving 200 individuals who presented to the emergency department over a six-month period in 2002, 22% were no longer alive at one year, and 80% had died at 10 years. Older age, indoor falls, subsequent hospital admission and functional impairment predicted death at one year. Cross-sectional data from MELoR revealed ethnic differences in fall prevalence, with the ethnic Indians more likely to report falls in the past 12 months compared to the ethnic Malays. Independent risk factors for falls identified from MELoR were urinary incontinence, reduced grip strength, hearing impairment, comorbidities and reducing walking speed. The ethnic differences in falls in our population remain unexplained. Lifestyle and cultural practices may well be the underlying rationale, but genetic influences cannot currently be ruled out. The results of a randomized controlled trial on multifactorial interventions, the Malaysian Falls Assessment and Intervention Trial (MyFAIT), was published last year. Mo differences in falls outcomes with an individualized multifactorial intervention were observed, despite improvements in physical performance and psychological status in the intervention group compared to the control group. The research group has now secured two-year funding to evaluate post-fall behavior in our setting in the Life After Falls (LiAF) study. In addition, dissemination and upskilling efforts are underway through training workshops, formation of the Malaysian Falls Network (MyFalls) and collaborations with the private sector to increase awareness on falls and increase fall prevention efforts throughout the country.

Social factors, weight perception, and weight control practices among adolescents in Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 939-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ietza Bojorquez ◽  
Jorge Villatoro ◽  
Marlene Delgadillo ◽  
Clara Fleiz ◽  
Diana Fregoso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Poisson Regression ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
Weight Perception ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Body Weight Perception

We evaluated the association of social factors and weight control practices in adolescents, and the mediation of this association by weight perception, in a national survey of students in Mexico ( n = 28,266). We employed multinomial and Poisson regression models and Sobel’s test to assess mediation. Students whose mothers had a higher level of education were more likely to perceive themselves as overweight and also to engage in weight control practices. After adjusting for body weight perception, the effect of maternal education on weight control practices remained significant. Mediation tests were significant for boys and non-significant for girls.

The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Musical Canon

1989 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Weber
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Critical Plane ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Gradual Evolution ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
History Of ◽  
Musical Canon ◽  
Modern Form

Joseph Kerman has suggested a distinction crucial in defining the meaning of ‘canon’ in musical culture: repertory, he argues, was simply the performance of old works; canon, by contrast, is their reverence on a critical plane and in a literary context. The distinction is a fertile one, for it challenges us to define when works were not just offered by convention, but when they functioned as models for musical taste critically and aesthetically. The distinction can be extremely fruitful in tracing the early history of the canon – its origins in repertory and gradual evolution into its modern form. What I would like to show here is how repertories grew up originally without true status as canon; before canon there was repertory, and that is where the whole tradition began. In inquiring just where the modern practice of performing old music regularly came about we can look into some of the most fundamental social and intellectual bases upon which the tradition was established.

Association between degrees of social defeat and themes of delusion in patients with schizophrenia from immigrant and ethnic minority backgrounds

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 735-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danni Li ◽  
Samuel Law ◽  
Lisa Andermann
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Chart Review ◽  
Retrospective Chart Review ◽  
Social Defeat ◽  
Employment History ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Psychosocial History ◽  
The Relationship

Immigrants have a heightened risk of developing schizophrenia, suggesting that social factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. This study aimed to examine the relationship between degrees of social defeat and themes of delusion in patients with schizophrenia from immigrant and ethnic minority backgrounds. Retrospective chart review was conducted. Patients’ psychosocial history, particularly employment history, level of education, and subjective feelings of societal integration before and after immigration, were compared to determine the degree of social defeat. It was found that delusional themes of psychological persecution, such as control and reference, were more common in those with either moderate or severe degrees of social defeat.

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