scholarly journals Cultural Research and Intangible Heritage

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheenagh Pietrobruno
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Media Research

Intangible heritage deemed worthy of preservation is often regarded as traditional culture that reflects the identity of a particular nation or group. Traditional cultures are distinct from commercial forms, which are transmitted and promoted via businesses, commercial establishments, and media. Research on culture reveals the way that a large part of the world’s intangible heritage includes practices that interweave tradition and commodification as well as blur the boundaries between nations. As these practices do not fit into the clear categories of “traditional” or “national”, they may not be considered for preservation in official project documents such as the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Many of these practices are being, nonetheless, stored today through the unofficial archiving of moving images on the Internet, facilitated by Web 2.0. Through the case studies of various Caribbean performing arts, this paper illustrates how cultural research can provide a comprehensive understanding of intangible culture in both its lived and digital contexts, knowledge that in turn challenges the process of categorization and the measures of preservation of intangible heritage proposed by UNESCO.

PERLINDUNGAN SENI PERSEMBAHAN TRADISIONAL MAK YONG: EVOLUSI PENDOKUMENTASIAN MAKLUMAT WARISAN DI INSTITUSI WARISAN NEGARA (IWN)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215
Author(s):  
MAZLINA PATI KHAN ◽  
ANDIKA ABDUL AZIZ ◽  
KHAIRUL AZHAR MAT DAUD
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
The Government ◽  
Performing Art

Seni persembahan Mak Yong merupakan satu-satunya objek warisan tidak ketara negara yang mendapatpengiktirafan dunia daripada UNESCO sebagai Karya Agung Warisan Tidak Ketara pada September2005. Warisan tidak ketara ini terdedah dengan ancaman kepupusan terhadap perubahan zaman danditambah dengan kekurangan sokongan, penghargaan dan kesedaran di kalangan masyarakat kini.Bagi memperkukuhkan dan memupuk penghayatan yang utuh kepada budaya warisan, pelbagai usahadiambil untuk melindungi warisan dengan memelihara dan mendokumentasikan produk warisan ketaraatau tidak ketara seperti tapak warisan, monumen, artifak, tradisi lisan, nilai adat dan nilai budaya. Secarakeseluruhan, tujuan utama artikel ini adalah untuk mengenalpasti perlindungan yang dilaksanakan olehkerajaan dalam memartabatkan warisan Mak Yong dan menghuraikan evolusi pendokumentasian senipersembahan Mak Yong agensi yang terlibat. Hasil daripada penyelidikan ini, kajian mendapati bahawamaklumat warisan ini masih lagi tidak lengkap dan terdapat beberapa aspek maklumat penting yangmasih tidak didokumenkan untuk rujukan generasi akan datang. United Nations Educational, Scientifi c, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recognized Mak Yong’sTheater Performing Art as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity bySeptember 2005. This intangible legacy is exposed to the threat of extinction over the changing timesand coupled with the lack of support, appreciation, and recognition in among society now. In order tostrengthen and nurture intact behavior in heritage culture, various eff orts are necessitated to protect theheritage by preserving and documenting tangible or intangible heritage products such as heritage sites,monuments, artifacts, oral traditions, custom values and cultural values. Overall, the main purpose ofthis article is to discover the protection initiated by the government in upholding Mak Yong’s legacy andelaborating on the evolution of the Mak Yong presentation artworks involved. As a result of this research,investigations have determined that this legacy information is still fragmentary and there are someimportant aspects of valuable information that are still undocumented for future generation’s references

scholarly journals Niematerialne dziedzictwo kulturowe w warunkach pandemii COVID-19. Analiza porównawcza wybranych przykładów z Polski i Białorusi

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 341-364
Author(s):  
Tatsiana Marmysh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Adaptive Use ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The article discusses strategies to overcome the fear of the COVID-19 pandemic and its threats in the sphere of the intangible heritage in Poland and Belarus. The strategies are presented as activities that make an adaptive use of the measures for safeguarding recommended by the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003. Activities to maintain the viability of the intangible heritage have both similarities and differences in both countries. The difference is revealed in the institutional sphere of heritage safeguarding. The similarities have a negative dimension (resignation from actions, disruptions in the transmission of knowledge) and a positive dimension (a two-model strategy of transforming traditional practices, the use of the Internet and multimedia instruments).

scholarly journals Curating Action: Rethinking Ethnographic Collections and the Role/Place of Performing Arts in the Museum

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Bernier ◽  
Mathieu Viau-Courville
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Creative Artists

Dance involves a set of movements that embody social memory. Such forms of intangible heritage have presented emerging challenges for curatorship. This paper draws from the experience of the Musées de la civilisation (Quebec City, Canada) to address ideas of collecting and curating in the performing arts. By presenting the travelling exhibition Rebel Bodies, an international collaborative project that highlights contemporary dance and movement as universal modes of creativity and expression, the paper reflects on the social role of the museum in sustaining creativity within the community as well as on the use of ethnographic material to collectively (through museums and artists) curate the intangible. In treating notions of natural, virtuoso, urban, multi, political, and atypical bodies, this exhibition brings together performers and creative artists as well as industries in the museum setting. Such interplays, it is argued, encourage the sustainable participation of artistic communities/industries and further highlight museums as dynamic loci for the promotion of social change.Keywords: performing arts, intangible cultural heritage, museum, dance, performance, participation, reenactment, artists

scholarly journals Intangible cultural heritage: a benefit to climate-displaced and host communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gül Aktürk ◽  
Martha Lerski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Resilient Communities

AbstractClimate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others. Due to floods, sea level rise, destructive storms, drought, and slow-onset factors such as salinization of water and soil, people lose their lands, homes, and natural resources. Catastrophic events force people to move voluntarily or involuntarily. The relocation of communities is a debatable climate adaptation measure which requires utmost care with human rights, ethics, and psychological well-being of individuals upon the issues of discrimination, conflict, and security. As the number of climate-displaced populations grows, the generations-deep connection to their rituals, customs, and ancestral ties with the land, cultural practices, and intangible cultural heritage become endangered. However, intangible heritage is often overlooked in the context of climate displacement. This paper presents reflections based on observations regarding the intangible heritage of voluntarily displaced communities. It begins by examining intangible heritage under the threat of climate displacement, with place-based examples. It then reveals intangible heritage as a catalyst to building resilient communities by advocating for the cultural values of indigenous and all people in climate action planning. It concludes the discussion by presenting the implications of climate displacement in existing intangible heritage initiatives. This article seeks to contribute to the emerging policies of preserving intangible heritage in the context of climate displacement.

Library Internet Resources: Conducting Performing Arts Research Online

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Susan Brady
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Electronic Access

Over the past decade academic and research libraries throughout the world have taken advantage of the enormous developments in communication technology to improve services to their users. Through the Internet and the World Wide Web researchers now have convenient electronic access to library catalogs, indexes, subject bibliographies, descriptions of manuscript and archival collections, and other resources. This brief overview illustrates how libraries are facilitating performing arts research in new ways.

scholarly journals New Ideas for the Development of Tea Culture Tourism Economy in the Internet Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 01051
Author(s):  
Fei Deng
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Times ◽  
Tourism Economy ◽  
Rich History

Tea originated in China and flourished in China. Tea has a long history for China. Tea has given birth to rich history and culture in the long river of history. Tea culture has become an important part of our excellent traditional culture, which has given birth to countless traditional cultural industries. Although with the development of the times, Chinese traditional cultural industry is facing many challenges. Fortunately, the arrival of the information age has brought new opportunities for the traditional cultural industry. This paper analyzes the new ideas brought by the era of “Internet” for the development of tea culture tourism economy, and discusses how to better use information technology to help the development of traditional cultural industry.

scholarly journals Blockchain Technology for Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Shen Lvping
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Loss ◽  
Network Attacks ◽  
Malicious Software ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Encryption Algorithms

With the development of information technology and network technology, digital archive management systems have been widely used in archive management. Different from the inherent uniqueness and strong tamper-proof modification of traditional paper archives, electronic archives are stored in centralized databases which face more risks of network attacks, data loss, or stealing through malicious software and are more likely to be forged and tampered by internal managers or external attackers. The management of intangible cultural heritage archives is an important part of intangible cultural heritage protection. Because intangible heritage archives are different from traditional official archives, traditional archive management methods cannot be fully applied to intangible heritage archives’ management. This study combines the characteristics of blockchain technology with distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, encryption algorithms, etc., and proposes intangible cultural heritage file management based on blockchain technology for the complex, highly dispersed, large quantity, and low quality of intangible cultural heritage files. Optimizing methods, applying blockchain technology to the authenticity protection of electronic archives and designing and developing an archive management system based on blockchain technology, help to solve a series of problems in the process of intangible cultural heritage archives management.

scholarly journals Geisha Fever: Changes in the Traditional Entertainment Districts in Kyoto in Response to Excessive Attention from Western Tourists

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2(6)) ◽  
pp. 125-137
Author(s):  
Magdalena Grela-Chen
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Living Form ◽  
The Way

In the popular discourse, geiko districts are described as places where traditional culture is preserved in a living form. Although this statement may be considered as true, the geiko community is a part of Japanese society as a whole and does not exist in complete isolation. Being able to survive as guardians of the Japanese tradition, in the 21st century geiko are discovering new opportunities, such as using new media to promote themselves in order to protect their lifestyle. However, outside world has forced them to change the way they manage their business in the districts. By using their own Internet sites, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts to reach new customers, they display their daily routine, one in which traditional culture meets modern ideas. This paper shows the reception of usage of the Internet in traditional entertainment districts of Kyoto and the response of Western tourists to the geisha phenomenon. It appears that overwhelming attention on the part of tourist industry, as well as commercialisation, are becoming a threat to the values which have cemented relationships between customers, geiko and teahouses owners. For instance, while during the so-called “geisha hunting”, tourists often try to take photographs of them at all costs. Considering the aspects of geiko life and processes mentioned above it is worth analysing how the image of the geiko is perceived by Westerners.

scholarly journals Her majesty, the queen of sounds: Cultural sustainability and heritage in organ craftsmanship and music

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Martin Gerner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
Organ Builders

Abstract Organ craftsmanship and music are inextricably linked with each other. In Germany, a particularly rich symbiosis between craftspeople, composers, and performing artists has evolved over the centuries. In recognizing the transmission of this intangible cultural know-how from generation to generation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed organ craftsmanship and music together in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017. This article elucidates how this inscription influences the perception and self-concept of organ craftsmanship and music, both in theoretic-intellectual and in virtual terms. Complementing the qualitative content analysis of literature and documents, narrative first-hand accounts/expert interviews with organ craftspeople/organ builders have been conducted and interpreted. Taking into account a dual nexus of cultural sustainability and intangible cultural heritage, sustainable value creation, substantial claims, multi-perspective visibility, and facilitative reassurance were analyzed and assessed vis-à-vis organ craftsmanship and music. Including organ craftsmanship and music in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity demonstrates an appreciation for sustainable value creation related to the quadruple bottom-line of sustainability – that is, addressing economic, environmental, and societal aspects, including culture as a fully integrated dimension; claims substantial rights for safeguarding and invoking/activating heritage; enhances visibility of performing organists, assigned organ builders, frequent practitioners, and nominated organ experts; and enables reassurance of passion and self-positioning with organ craftsmanship and music.

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