Age and Gender in the European Contact Improvisation Community

Abstract This article examines issues related to age and gender within the European contact improvisation community (ECIC). In particular, my research interest is to find out more about experiences related to values in the dance genre of contact improvisation (CI), and how they relate to the values associated with democracy understood to be embedded in CI. From 2014 to 2017, I conducted interviews with seven persons who are CI dancers and teachers from different European countries. The interview material shows that a double set of values is communicated in the ECIC: one that is taught, spoken, written and understood to be holding on to and embodying ’the social ideologies of the early ’70s which rejected traditional gender roles and social hierarchies’ (Novack, 1990, 11) and a second set in which traditional gender roles and social hierarchies are active and experienced by European CI dancer-teachers and dancers when participating in CI events.

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Religion and Gender across Europe

Social Compass ◽

10.1177/0037768609103350 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 144-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Mălina Voicu

Keyword(s):

Gender Roles ◽

European Countries ◽

Religious Issues ◽

The Social ◽

European Values Survey ◽

European Values ◽

And Gender ◽

The Individual ◽

Individual Value ◽

Social Importance

European societies have experienced a decrease in the social importance of religious issues. Values and attitudes towards gender roles have also changed in the last decades. In European countries, people have become more egalitarian with respect to the position of women in society. The author tries to identify the relationship between secularization and changes in gender values. As a result of secularization, the individual value system has become fragmented and religious values have lost their coordinating role. The investigation employs cross-national and longitudinal analysis of European Values Survey data (1990, 1999), most of the European countries being included in the study. The results indicate the decreasing impact of traditional religious belief on values related to gender roles during the 1990s in Europe and a common pattern of relationships between gender values and religiosity in most European societies.

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“When we talk about intimate partner violence we talk in an adult way” – Social workers’ descriptions of intimate partner violence between teenagers

Qualitative Social Work ◽

10.1177/14733250211002890 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147332502110028

Author(s):

Emmy Högström Tagesson ◽

Carina Gallo

Keyword(s):

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Social Workers ◽

Social Services ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Treatment Quality ◽

Age And Gender ◽

The Social ◽

And Gender

This article examines how seven social workers within the Swedish social services describe intimate partner violence between teenagers (IPV-BT). The article adds to the literature by examining IPV-BT outside a U.S. context, where most studies have been conducted. Based on semistructured qualitative interviews, the authors analyze descriptions of IPV-BT in relation to Charles Tilly’s notion of category making through transfer, encounter, negotiation, and imposition. They also analyze how the social workers’ descriptions of IPV-BT relate to the intersection between age and gender. The results show that the social workers mostly described IPV-BT by referring to encounters with teenagers and by transferring knowledge and theoretical definitions from their specialized working areas, primarily intimate partner violence between adults (IPV-BA) and troubled youth. More rarely, the social workers based their definitions of IPV-BT upon negotiating dialogues with teenagers. Also, those who worked in teams specialized on IPV had the mandate to impose their definitions of IPV-BT to other professionals and teenagers. When taking age and gender hierarchies in consideration, the results show IPV-BT risks being subordinate IPV-BA on a theoretical level, a practical level and in terms of treatment quality. The study suggests that social work with IPV-BT needs to be sensitive to the double subordinations of the teenage girl and of the teenagers who do not follow gender expectations.

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Blackface Minstrelsy and the Reception of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield

Journal of the Society for American Music ◽

10.1017/s1752196321000195 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 305-320

Author(s):

Julia J. Chybowski

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

African American ◽

Social Class ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Black Swan ◽

Social Hierarchies ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Blackface Minstrelsy ◽

And Gender

AbstractThis article explores blackface minstrelsy in the context of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's singing career of the 1850s–1870s. Although Greenfield performed a version of African American musicality that was distinct from minstrel caricatures, minstrelsy nonetheless impacted her reception. The ubiquity of minstrel tropes greatly influenced audience perceptions of Greenfield's creative and powerful transgressions of expected race and gender roles, as well as the alignment of race with mid-nineteenth-century notions of social class. Minstrel caricatures and stereotypes appeared in both praise and ridicule of Greenfield's performances from her debut onward, and after successful US and transatlantic tours established her notoriety, minstrel companies actually began staging parody versions of Greenfield, using her sobriquet, “Black Swan.” These “Black Swan” acts are evidence that Greenfield's achievements were perceived as threats to established social hierarchies.

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DAMPAK PENAMBANGAN EMAS TERHADAP LINGKUNGAN DI DESA TAMILOUW KECAMATAN AMAHAI, KABUPATEN MALUKU TENGAH

JURNAL HUTAN PULAU-PULAU KECIL ◽

10.30598/jhppk.2021.5.1.90 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 90-96

Author(s):

Debbi V Pattimahu ◽

Antho Netty Siahaya ◽

Terezia V Pattimahu

Keyword(s):

Gold Mining ◽

Economic Aspect ◽

Social Aspects ◽

Environmental Damage ◽

Mining Activities ◽

Age And Gender ◽

The Social ◽

And Gender ◽

Traditional Processing ◽

The Impact

Natural resource management that does not pay attention to the principles of conservation of natural resources and the environment will have negative implications for environmental sustainability. With the discovery of gold on the coast of Tamiouw Village at this time, residents' activities have shifted to gold mining activities in the coastal area of Tamilouw. This study aims to determine the impact of gold mining on the physical environment in Tamilouw Village, Amahai District, Central Maluku Regency, as well as to determine the impact of gold mining on the social and economic environment of the local community. The research was conducted using non-experimental methods, namely exploratory descriptive, field observations and literature study. The results showed that gold mining carried out in Tamilouw Village uses mercury in the process of separating gold from sand, although there are also some people who carryout traditional processing. What some people are worried about is that the disposal of mercury waste is not carried out according to the required procedures, so that it will have an impact on environmental damage. The existence of mining activities does not affect the social aspects, namely education, health and age and gender; while from the economic aspect, it also contributes to increasing people's income. Keywords : Gold mining, environment, Tamilouw Villageout traditional processing. What some people are worried about is that the disposal of mercury waste is not carried out according to the required procedures, so that it will have an impact on environmental damage. The existence of mining activities does not affect the social aspects, namely education, health and age and gender; while from the economic aspect, it also contributes to increasing people's income.

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The Effects of College Music Instruction, Gender, and Musician Type on Income from Performing Music

Medical Problems of Performing Artists ◽

10.21091/mppa.2003.2014 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 72-77

Author(s):

Kris Chesky ◽

Karendra Devroop

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Music Performance ◽

Music Instruction ◽

Analysis Of Covariance ◽

Secondary Source ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

The Social ◽

College Music ◽

And Gender

Studies in the social sciences imply a relationship between levels of employment and potential adverse effects on health. The lack of information regarding musicians makes it difficult to describe and prepare for the potential adverse relationships between musicians’ economic patterns and health. The purpose of this study was to characterize economic patterns of musicians and to investigate the relationships between income from performing music and college music instruction, age, and gender. A total of 4,017 subjects participated in an Internet-based musician survey. Data analysis included the use of descriptive statistics, analysis of covariance, and multiple regression analysis. Results support the view that many musicians hold multiple jobs and that income from music performance is often a secondary source of income. Musicians with ≥4 years of college music instruction earned higher levels of income from performing music compared with musicians with less college music instruction. This study recognizes the need to consider the economic patterns of musicians and how these patterns may affect health adversely.

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Dropkin, Celia (1887–1956)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem642-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Agnieszka Legutko

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Gender Roles ◽

First Century ◽

Cultural Stereotypes ◽

Modernist Poetry ◽

Artistic Creativity ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Social ◽

The Usa ◽

And Gender

Celia Dropkin, one of the greatest yet lesser-known Yiddish poets, revolutionized modern Yiddish poetry with her pioneering exploration of gender dynamics. Bold erotic motifs in Dropkin’s poetry shocked her contemporaries, while her poems, written mostly in the 1920s and 1930s, sound au courant in the twenty-first century. In her poetry, Dropkin addressed themes such as sexuality, love, artistic creativity, motherhood, and nature — as well as domination and sexual politics in man-woman relationships. Born in Bobruisk, Belarus as Tsilye Levin, she wrote her first poems in Russian at the age of 10. After her immigration to the USA in 1912, she began writing in Yiddish, making her literary debut in 1918. She was affiliated with modernist groups formed by Yiddish poets in America, such as Di Inzikhistin [Introspectivists] and Di Yunge [The Young]. During her lifetime, she published only one volume of poetry, In heysn vint. Her children reissued the volume after her death, updating it to include her short stories and reproductions of paintings that she created later in life. Dropkin’s modernist poetry shattered cultural stereotypes about the social and gender roles imposed on men and women, making her a path-breaking poet who ‘filled the stillness of Yiddish poetry with a passionate breath’ (Yakov Glatshtayn).

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Gender and Gender Role Expectations

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190296650.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Brian J. Willoughby ◽

Spencer L. James

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Gender Role ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Role Expectations ◽

Gender Role Expectations ◽

Traditional Gender Roles ◽

Role Balance ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Neutrality

This chapter provides an overview of emerging adults’ views on gender and gender roles. The authors describe their findings regarding who emerging adults believe benefits more from marriage, men or women. Little consensus seemed to exist regarding how emerging adults viewed the connection between gender and marriage; the authors propose that this is a reflection of our current culture, which continues to move toward gender neutrality and the dismissal of gender differences. The authors also explore how emerging adults believe gender roles will play out in their own marriages. A specific paradox whereby emerging adults aspire to an egalitarian role balance yet tend to end up in traditional gender roles is discussed.

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Bag Across the Border

American Speech ◽

10.1215/00031283-7587892 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 95 (1) ◽

pp. 46-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Julia Thomas Swan

Keyword(s):

Pacific Northwest ◽

Growing Up ◽

The West ◽

Age And Gender ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Social ◽

Social Motivations ◽

Social Distribution ◽

And Gender ◽

Changing Demographics

Prior research documents /æ/ raising and tensing when followed by /g/ in words like bag in the Pacific Northwest, particularly in Seattle. The present study compares /æg/ raising among speakers from Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, and explores the social motivations for its use. The findings show that while the feature occurs in both cities, its social distribution is not identical. Different age and gender distributions and varying metalinguistic commentary raise questions about the trajectory of change in each city. Nonetheless, speakers’ realizations of raised bag are associated with similar sociocultural backgrounds and ideologies. In Seattle, bag raisers have multigenerational ties to the area, take strong ideological stances against changes in the area’s industries and economy, and oppose “gentrification.” Nonraisers have more international ties, show stronger interest in moving elsewhere, and embrace Seattle’s new industries. In Vancouver, BAG raisers describe growing up as Caucasian Canadians in majority Asian neighborhoods and emphasize the changing demographics and increased cost of living. In both cities, bag raisers are ideologically opposed to perceived encroachment and take conservative stances toward changes in their city. This highlights that the West and Canada participate in some of the same sound changes and show similar, locally contextualized motivations for their use.

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