scholarly journals (Mashima Toshio (1949-2016), Japanese Music Composer, and Association between His Music Characteristics and Medical Perspective)

Author(s):  
Masahito Katsuki
Author(s):  
Kazuhiro Ando

Although Japan is the second largest music market in the world, the structure and practices of the music industry are little understood internationally. People overseas need to know how the music business works in Japan so that they can conduct business comfortably. The Japanese music industry has unique features in some respects. First, Japanese record labels remain heavily dependent on traditional physically packaged music although its profitability is much lower than that of digital distribution. Second, full-scale competition in the music copyright management business has just begun. While JASRAC monopolized this market for more than sixty years, the new entrant, NexTone has gradually increased the market share thanks to the frustration experienced by many music publishers and songwriters in their dealings with JASRAC. Third, the relationship between artists and artist management companies is more like an employer-employee relationship than a client-agent relationship. Artist management companies are fully invested in discovering, nurturing, and marketing young artists just the way big businesses handle their recruits. This chapter illuminates practices of the Japanese music industry for an international audience.


1991 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilman A Ruff ◽  
John A Ward

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e043955
Author(s):  
Stine Gundtoft Roikjær ◽  
Charlotte Paaske Simonÿ ◽  
Helle Ussing Timm

ObjectiveIn the field of palliative care (PC) as it is integrated into heart failure (HF) treatment, it is essential to explore the patient experience and build on this knowledge for the further development of PC practice and policy. Based on an intervention study, this paper explores what patients with HF find significant in integrated sessions using a narrative S’ approach.DesignWe conducted a semistructured interview study with a qualitative analysis focused on meaning making. The study follows the guidelines of Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research.Participants and settingThe inclusion criteria for the PC intervention were (1) a new diagnosis of HF, (2) follow-up treatment at this local Danish HF clinic and (3) informed consent to participate in the integrated PC intervention. The only exclusion criterion was if the patient was already engaged in a PC programme. 20 patients agreed to participate in the intervention, and 12 of these completed the S’ approach sessions and participated in this interview study.ResultsOverall, the analysis showed that the integrated S’ approach sessions were successful in joining an embodied patient perspective with a medical perspective. The thematic analysis resulted in three themes supporting the overall findings: sessions bring comfort, telling your story provides a sense of meaningfulness, and integrating perspectives of HF into everyday life.ConclusionThe method using the S’ approach in integrated PC and HF sessions was significant in various ways. First, patients experienced a calm and safe atmosphere and perceived that the nurse was truly interested in them. Second, the integrated sessions based on the S’ approach were able to bring comfort to lived physical, psychosocial and existential issues. Last, it allowed patients to combine their embodied understanding of HF with a medical perspective, thereby finding meaning in the sense of how everything is connected.


2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Williams

ArgumentMontpellier vitalists upheld a medical perspective akin to modern “holism” in positing the functional unity of creatures imbued with life. While early vitalists focused on the human organism, Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud investigated digestion, growth, and other physiological processes that human beings shared with simpler organisms. Eschewing modern investigative methods, Grimaud promoted a medically-grounded “metaphysics.” His influential doctrine of the “two lives” broke with Montpellier holism, classifying some vital phenomena as “higher” and others as “lower” and attributing the “nobility” of the human species to the predominance of the former. In place of Montpellier teaching that attributed health to the holistic equilibration of vital activities, Grimaud embraced spiritualist dualisms of soul and body, Creator and created. Celebrating the divinely-ordained “wisdom” evident in involuntary physiological processes, he argued that such life functions were incomprehensible to human investigators. While Grimaud's work encouraged inquiry into the division between the central and “vegetative” nervous systems that became paradigmatic in nineteenth-century neuroscience, it also opened Montpellier vitalism to charges of conservatism and obscurantism that are still lodged against it to the present day.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara E. T. Woezik ◽  
Thieme B. Stap ◽  
Gert Jan Wilt ◽  
Rob P. B. Reuzel ◽  
Jan‐Jurjen Koksma
Keyword(s):  
The Arts ◽  

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Fernando Lolas

Objectives: To present a conceptual and medical perspective on studies on wellbeing and its determinants. Method: The notion of well-being as a transient state and as a stable trait is considered conceptually. Results and Discussion: This consideration uncovers several linguistic dimensions relevant to well-being: subjectivity, multidimensionality, dynamism, contextdependency, complexity. These are related to the notions of health and quality of life, discussing the narrative dimensions of personal experience and the need to consider the psychophysiological triad composed of behavior, mentation, and physiology in the evaluation. Conclusion: The humanistic dimension of well-being and its determinants should be considered as a precondition for an attempt at a biopsychosocial/integrative approach. The methodical approach represented by overt language behavior is emphasized as important.


Asian Music ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale A. Olsen
Keyword(s):  

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