scholarly journals Afterglow: Belonging, diversity, and emotional expression in barbershop singing in Wellington, New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joshua Ellery
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
History Of ◽  
Auto Ethnography

<p>Over the last three years, since the development of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s “Everyone in Harmony” inclusivity and diversification initiative, barbershop singing networks have increasingly broken down systems of class, gender and race. Despite a history of conservative and traditionalist musical practice, I argue that participating in barbershop music offers singers in New Zealand opportunities to express themselves and create lasting relationships in increasingly diverse social contexts. In light of this, this thesis explores ideas of belonging, camaraderie, diversity and self-expression in barbershop music in New Zealand, through ethnographic fieldwork conducted with Vocal FX chorus, based in Wellington, New Zealand. This thesis works through these ideas in three ways: I consider historical context and discuss who gets to sing, belong or contribute to barbershop music; I then explore diversity and Māori and Pacific Island influence in barbershop in New Zealand; and I conclude with a discussion of performative emotional expression in the barbershop style, and how that contributes to free and healthy modes of self-expression in a predominantly homo-social male space. These threads combine to display how ideas of belonging – both to an ensemble and to a wider, global style of music – and camaraderie are complex and culturally nuanced concepts in barbershop music contexts. Furthermore, this research displays ways in which established socio-cultural norms in barbershop contexts can be challenged by ensembles working in this musical style. Ethnography, including personal reflection through performative auto-ethnography and memory, informs much of the thesis. I draw on conversations with singers and observations of rehearsals and contests for Vocal FX to narrate many of the ways in which barbershop music works in New Zealand.</p>

scholarly journals Afterglow: Belonging, diversity, and emotional expression in barbershop singing in Wellington, New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joshua Ellery
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
History Of ◽  
Auto Ethnography

<p>Over the last three years, since the development of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s “Everyone in Harmony” inclusivity and diversification initiative, barbershop singing networks have increasingly broken down systems of class, gender and race. Despite a history of conservative and traditionalist musical practice, I argue that participating in barbershop music offers singers in New Zealand opportunities to express themselves and create lasting relationships in increasingly diverse social contexts. In light of this, this thesis explores ideas of belonging, camaraderie, diversity and self-expression in barbershop music in New Zealand, through ethnographic fieldwork conducted with Vocal FX chorus, based in Wellington, New Zealand. This thesis works through these ideas in three ways: I consider historical context and discuss who gets to sing, belong or contribute to barbershop music; I then explore diversity and Māori and Pacific Island influence in barbershop in New Zealand; and I conclude with a discussion of performative emotional expression in the barbershop style, and how that contributes to free and healthy modes of self-expression in a predominantly homo-social male space. These threads combine to display how ideas of belonging – both to an ensemble and to a wider, global style of music – and camaraderie are complex and culturally nuanced concepts in barbershop music contexts. Furthermore, this research displays ways in which established socio-cultural norms in barbershop contexts can be challenged by ensembles working in this musical style. Ethnography, including personal reflection through performative auto-ethnography and memory, informs much of the thesis. I draw on conversations with singers and observations of rehearsals and contests for Vocal FX to narrate many of the ways in which barbershop music works in New Zealand.</p>

Hebephrenia: a conceptual history

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Kraam ◽  
Paula Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Psychiatric Establishment

This paper traces the conceptual history of hebephrenia from the late nineteenth century until it became firmly embedded into modern psychiatric classification systems. During this examination of the origins and the historical context of hebephrenia it will be demonstrated how it became inextricably linked with twentieth-century notions of schizophrenia. The first detailed description of hebephrenia in 1871 by Ewald Hecker, then a virtually unknown German psychiatrist, created a furore in the psychiatric establishment. Within a decade hebephrenia was a firmly embedded concept of adolescent insanity. Daraszkiewicz, Kraepelin’s brilliant assistant in Dorpat, broadened Hecker’s concept of hebephrenia by including severe forms. This paved the way for Kraepelin to incorporate it together with catatonia as a subtype of dementia praecox. We recognize Hecker’s hebephrenia in DSM-IV as schizophrenia, disorganized type. Although DSM-5 will probably abolish subtypes of schizophrenia, characteristic features of hebephrenia will be found within the proposed domains of disorganization, restricted emotional expression and avolition.

Soil classification in New Zealand - Legacy and lessons

Soil Research ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 843 ◽  
Author(s):  
AE Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Soil Classification ◽  
Soil Taxonomy ◽  
Regional Correlation ◽  
Reconnaissance Survey ◽  
Soil Landscape ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intensive Land Use ◽  
Made In

A brief review of the history of soil classification in New Zealand is made in order to place the most recent work in its historical context. The first comprehensive system was inspired by the Russian concepts of zonality, and was published as the New Zealand Genetic Soil Classification by Taylor in 1948. It may be regarded as a grand soil-landscape model that related soil classes to environmental factors. Although successful in stimulating the reconnaissance survey of New Zealand soils, it failed to support the requirements of more intensive land use. Soil Taxonomy was tested as an alternative modem system for a period of 5 years but was found to make inadequate provision for important classes of New Zealand soils. The New Zealand Soil Classification was developed using many of the features of Soil Taxonomy while preserving successful parts of the New Zealand Genetic Soil Classification. Historical lessons include the increasing importance of electronic databases and regional correlation, the importance of nomenclature, the necessity of a national system and the divorce of soil classification from soil-landscape modelling.

A Snare and a Delusion (Or, Danger, Europeans at Work)

1978 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Henige
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Island Group ◽  
History Of ◽  
Derived Data ◽  
Orthodox View ◽  
Remote Past

This minor revision in Polynesian scholarship, the undermining of the authenticity of the traditions as historical … is one of the most significant developments in New Zealand archaeology.This [belief in a Great Fleet] arose out of the desire of European scholars to provide a coherent framework by which to interpret the prehistory of New Zealand.As heavily as historians must rely on orally-derived data for their study of the African past, historians of Oceania are far more in thrall to such materials in attempting to reconstruct the history of the various Pacific island groups. Although archeology and historical linguistics can sometimes help to provide broad sequences and interrelationships as well as evidence concerning origins, neither can, of course, provide circumstantial local detail or close dating. Oral traditions, often supported by genealogies of sometimes extraordinary length and complexity, have been collected in all parts of the Pacific almost since the time of Cook, but the latter part of the nineteenth century was a period of particularly feverish activity. The result is a vast body of material, much of it still in manuscript form. Of this corpus far more relates to the Maori people of New Zealand than to the inhabitants of any other island group.In the course of the first half of this century a homogenized orthodox view of New Zealand's more remote past developed -- an interpretation based on three pivotal events, each of which came to be dated calendrically by means of Maori genealogies. The first was the arrival of the “discoverer” of New Zealand, one Kupe, who was dated to ca. 950. Then, two centuries later, came Toi and his companions. Finally, so this version goes, the so-called Great Fleet, comprising about seven large canoes (the number varies slightly) arrived in about 1350, and New Zealand began to be well and truly peopled by Maori.

scholarly journals ‘It’s part of who I am’: Tā’aloga ma fa’asinomaga ma fa’aSāmoa - Sport, identity, and culture in the lives of Samoan-New Zealanders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Josh Connolly
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Culturally Embedded ◽  
New Zealanders

<p>Samoan-New Zealanders have become increasingly prominent within New Zealand sport since the mid-20th century. Despite the apparent desirability of players with Pacific Island heritage their presence is also met with resistance and apprehension in both professional and amateur settings. Discourse that frames the relationship between Samoan-New Zealanders and sport often does so in terms that rely on stereotypes and the naturalisation of sporting ability and participation suggesting that they are ‘built’ for sport. This thesis offers a counternarrative to such discourse exploring the ways in which sport, particularly rugby, is a culturally embedded practice for Samoan-New Zealanders. I argue that for Samoan-New Zealanders sport exists as an example of Marcel Mauss’s fait social total or Total Social Phenomenon (TSP) by virtue of the range of cultural institutions and practices that find expression within it. As such it is deeply and uniquely immersed within the fa’aSāmoa or Samoan culture. This thesis is based on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation, and talanoa conducted in Wellington, New Zealand. It seeks to explore the ways in which sport is a culturally embedded practice as a means of interrogating the notion that Samoan-New Zealanders are ‘born to play sport’.</p>

scholarly journals Treaty-Making in the Pacific in the Nineteenth Century and the Treaty of Waitangi

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Bennion
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
International Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Treaty Of Waitangi ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pacific Island Nations

This paper discusses the history of treaty-making between Pacific island nations and European powers during the nineteenth century in order to assess the validity of the Treaty of Waitangi at international law. The author also draws some brief comparisons with treaty-making in Africa. The particular focus of the paper is an assessment of how the colonial powers would have viewed a document such as the Treaty. The conclusion of the paper is that the signatories would have presumed that the Treaty would have serious effect, and would be binding in international law.Editor’s note: This paper was originally written in 1987 as part of the Administrative Law LLM course at Victoria University of Wellington. After it was recently cited with approval in Sir Kenneth Keith's article "Public Law in New Zealand" (2003) 1 New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 3, it transpired that access to the paper was very limited. Despite its age, and the fact that much scholarship has been done in the intervening time, on the Treaty in particular, the material is still of considerable interest. Some changes have been made to the original text to cater for the passage of time.

scholarly journals Conversion of Intangible Property: A Modest, but Principled Extension? A Historical Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Leigh Kan Shaw
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Property A ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

This article examines whether an expansion to the tort of conversion to cover intangible property is warranted. In the 2007 case of OBG Ltd v Allan (OBG), the majority of the House of Lords held in favour of retaining the rule that only tangible property may be subject to an action in conversion, while the minority argued that expansion of the tort is necessary based on principle, the history of conversion and developments in other jurisdictions. The OBG decision is set in its historical context through an analysis of the origins and extensive history of the tort of conversion. The article concludes there is nothing in the history of the tort that stands in the way of expansion to cover cases of interference with intangible interests, and argues that such an extension would be a welcome development in the New Zealand context.

scholarly journals O ENSINO DE HISTÓRIA E UM TEXTO EM CONTEXTOS: uma leitura sobre o livro “História da Liberdade no Brasil” de Viriato Corrêa

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Vasni De Almeida ◽  
Cristiano Gomes Lopes ◽  
Dhiogo Rezende Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of

Este trabalho tem como foco o ensino de História e a análise do livro A História da Liberdade no Brasil de Viriato Corrêa, que em diferentes contextos históricos, a citada obra foi utilizada com finalidades diferentes. O discurso e a narrativa histórica extraídas da fonte em questão, produziu, em três momentos distintos, diferentes reorientações de sentidos, o seu lançamento em 1962, seu uso como tema de enredo de samba pela Salgueiro no carnaval de 1967 e na sua 2ª coedição pelo Instituto Nacional do Livro (INL) em 1974. Além dos contextos culturais e sociais, destaca-se o político na história recente do Brasil, na transição entre a democracia e a ditadura com o advento do golpe civil-militar de 1964. O tema central da nossa reflexão é “luta por liberdade no Brasil”, perpassando contextos políticos e históricos, correlacionando repercussões das abordagens no ensino de História.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Ensino de História, Contexto histórico, Discurso histórico, Narrativa histórica.     ABSTRACT This work focuses on the teaching of History and the analysis of the book The History of Freedom in Brazil by Viriato Corrêa, that in different historical contexts, the mentioned work was used for different purposes. The discourse and historical narrative extracted from the source in question produced, in three distinct moments, different reorientations of meanings, its launching in 1962, its use as theme of samba story by the Salgueiro in the carnival of 1967 and in its second coedition by the National Institute of the Book (INL) in 1974. In addition to the cultural and social contexts, the politician stands out in the recent history of Brazil, in the transition between democracy and dictatorship with the advent of the civil-military coup of 1964. The central theme Of our reflection is "struggle for freedom in Brazil", crossing political and historical contexts, correlating repercussions of the approaches in the teaching of History.   KEYWORDS: History Teaching, Historical context, Historical speech, Historical narrative.         RESUMEN Este trabajo se centra en la enseñanza de la historia y el análisis de lo libro Libertad de historia en Brasil de Viriato Correa, que en diferentes contextos históricos, se utilizó el trabajo citado para diferentes propósitos. El discurso y la narrativa histórica extraída de la fuente en cuestión, producido en tres ocasiones diferentes, diferentes reorientaciones de los sentidos, su lanzamiento en 1962, su uso como el tema de samba Salgueiro trama del carnaval 1967 y su segundo co-editado en español por Instituto nacional del libro (INL) en 1974. Además de los contextos culturales y sociales, existe el político en la historia reciente de Brasil, en la transición entre la democracia y la dictadura con el advenimiento del golpe cívico-militar de 1964. el tema central nuestra reflexión es "la libertad luchando en Brasil," que impregna contextos políticos e históricos, efectos de los enfoques de la historia de la enseñanza de la correlación.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Enseñanza de la historia, contexto histórico, discurso histórico, narrativa histórica.

By No Means Pleasant

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political History ◽  
Phosphate Fertilizer ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Phosphate Mining ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The South

This chapter surveys the ecological and political history of the South Pacific island of Nauru after 1798 – a microcosm of the globalization of unsustainability. In the 1900s Nauru became a major source of high-grade phosphate fertilizer, especially for Australia and New Zealand. The history of phosphate mining in Nauru illustrates how deeply colonial and postcolonial forces can disrupt sustainability even in places far from the centers of power, and how over generations these disruptions can build into an ever-greater crisis. At the height of Nauru’s phosphate boom in the mid-1970s average income of the Nauruan people was the second highest in the world. But this wealth was an illusion, as Nauru was being strip-mined with little planning for a future without phosphate. Today, Nauru’s economy is in tatters, and with hardly any phosphate left it is now serving its former colonizer Australia as a detention camp for asylum seekers who had been hoping to reach Australia.

Ethnicity and Bias in Police Contact Statistics

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
D M Fergusson ◽  
L J Horwood ◽  
M T Lynskey
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Police Contact ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Official Police ◽  
Logistic Modelling ◽  
The Way

The relationships between ethnicity, self/parentally reported offending and rates of police contact were examined in a birth cohort of Christchurch (New Zealand) born children studied to the age of 15 years. This analysis suggested that whilst children of Maori/Pacific Island descent offended at a significantly higher rate than European (Pakeha) children, there were clear differences in the magnitude of ethnic differentials in offending depending on the way in which offending was measured. On the basis of self/parentally reported offending, children of Maori/Pacific Island descent offended at about 1.7 times the rate of Pakeha children. However, on the basis of police contact statistics these children were 2.9 times more likely to come to police attention than Pakeha children. These differences between self/parentally reported offending rates and rates of police contact could not be explained by the fact that Maori/Pacific Island children offended more often or committed different types of offences than Pakeha children. Logistic modelling of the data suggested that children of Maori/Pacific Island descent were in the region of 2.4 times more likely to come to official police attention than Pakeha children with an identical self/parental reported history of offending. These results are generally consistent with the hypothesis that official police contact statistics contain a bias which exaggerates the differences in the rate of offending by children of Maori/Pacific Island descent and Pakeha children.

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