scholarly journals Getting to the Heart of the Music: Idealizing Musical Community and Irish Traditional Music Sessions

2007 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen O’Shea
Keyword(s):  
Group Performance ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
Ideal Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transcendent Experience ◽  
Irish Traditional Music ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
As If

The power of shared musical experience has inspired scholars to theorize collective musical performance as capable of producing an embodied, transcendent experience of an ideal society. Scholars who have written about the group performance of Irish traditional music demonstrate a similar understanding. Such models tend to idealize musical performance (as if it always produced a transcendent experience) and to elide the experiences of participants, representing them as harmonious (at one) and homogeneous (as one). Drawing on fieldwork conducted among musicians playing Irish traditional music in East Clare, this article considers the social and musical consequences of idealizing group performance and proposes a more nuanced understanding of musical community as a process of dialogue.

Queer as Trad

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tes Slominski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Ethnicity And Race ◽  
Irish Traditional Music

This chapter demonstrates that studying the experiences of queer musicians and dancers is vital to understanding the relationships among music, selfhood, and social identities in Irish traditional music. By breaking the silence around LGBTQ performers of Irish traditional music through ethnographic interviews with queer musicians in the United States, this chapter addresses the paradox that non-normative participants experience musical performance as simultaneously liberatory and confining. This chapter explores musicians’ feelingful experiences of “the music itself” as an escape and examines the issues queer musicians face in gaining recognition in the Irish traditional music scene. More broadly, this chapter begins a conversation about nationalist assumptions around sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and race still implicit in the (re)production of sounds and bodily practices considered “Irish.”

’Tis the Company

2019 ◽  
pp. 174-182
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Irish Traditional Music

This chapter presents a series of vignettes concerning contemporary uilleann piping, the social nature of tune transmission, the persistence of personal style, and tradition as conversation. It starts from the premise that Irish traditional music offers the possibility of enacting the value of neighbourliness through musical and social grooves, and considers how this plays out in a world of electronic devices, externalized memory, virtual communities, and commodified sound. How do players of Irish traditional music create sustainable local community in the digital age? How does conversation survive being stuffed down a wire?

Focus: Irish traditional music

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fintan Vallely
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Music ◽  
Irish Traditional Music

The Crisis of Contemporary Culture: A View from the History of Russian Philosophy: (Fedotov – Weidle – Landau – Bicilli) Materials of the “round table”

2021 ◽  
pp. 184-212
Author(s):  
Boris I. Pruzhinin ◽  
◽  
Aleksandr V. Antoshchenko ◽  
Tanya N. Galcheva ◽  
Inna V. Golubovich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Organism ◽  
As If

On August 26, 2021, with the support of “Voprosy filosofii” was held a “round table”, the participants of which considered it meaningful and relevant to address the legacy of experiencing and philosophical reflection of critical epochs by peo­ple who have fully endured the “breakdown” of being and an anthropological crisis – for comprehending the disturbing changes taking place in modern soci­ety. In this regard, the intellectual biographies of thinkers who felt a colossal shock in the 1920s and who tried to comprehend their local experience as a global are exceptional. In the authors’ focus are ideas and arguments of the philosophers of the Russian Abroad about the crisis of their contemporary culture (Fedotov – Weidle – Landau – Bicilli). The “round table” is an attempt to correlate their experience with the modern reality of the anthropological crisis. The studying intellectuals underlined the death of culture as the main threat to the life of the social organism. The salvation of culture, first of all, depends on the spiritual efforts of people. From this point of view, philosophy has to com­prehend the principles that make it possible to resist the processes of cultural de­struction. And in this regard, the personality of the philosopher is of exceptional importance, his willingness to live and work “as if history would never end, and at the same time, as if it ended today” (G.P. Fedotov). The philosophy of culture forms the ideal of personal choice as a free submission to universal human goals. The relevance of the intellectual and spiritual search of the “Russian Abroad” thinkers can't be overestimated since this crisis continues today, entering ever new, previously unpredictable phases. The struggle for culture continues. There­fore, the intellectual searches of the "Russian Abroad" thinkers are essential to­day. The core of the discussions was three actual topics in the context of their comprehension by the philosophers: 1. The crisis of religious consciousness; 2. The crisis of scientific rationality; 3. Crisis of cultural identity.

scholarly journals The Social Functions of Questions in Embodied Collaborative Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas M Bietti ◽  
Federico U. Bietti
Keyword(s):  
Group Performance ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Performance Outcomes ◽  
Similar Distribution ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Group Productivity ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Do So

Researchers have been interested in the investigation of the social functions of questions in conversational contexts. However, limited research has been conducted on the social functions of questions in embodied collaborative work, i.e. work that involves the manipulation of physical objects. The aim of this study was to identify the social functions of questions in embodied collaborative work and to determine whether such functions correlate with performance outcomes. To do so, we conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses of a dataset of 1751 question-answer sequences collected from an experimental study where pairs of participants (N=134) completed a collaborative food preparation task. Qualitative analysis enabled us to identify three functions of questions: Anticipation questions, exploration questions and confirmation questions. Quantitative analyses revealed that there was no correlation between the types of questions and group performance. However, they showed that groups that contributed the most to performance presented a similar distribution of question types. The identification of such patterns is a first step towards the design and implementation of interaction-focused interventions aimed at increasing group productivity in embodied collaborative work.

scholarly journals Traditional Music as the Sound of Space: Examples from Bosnia and Herzegovina

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-119
Author(s):  
Amra Toska
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Elements Of Style

The connection between the traditional music and its ambient through the existing physical space, a product of nature and human activity, is reflected in the social and musical behaviour (elements of style), acoustic phenomena and rules, and in the inner architecture or structure of the particular traditional musical expression.

scholarly journals Komunikasi Kenusantaraan (Studi Komunikasi Nusantara Perspektif Integrasi Interkoneksi)

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Mokhamad Mahfud
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
As If

The term "think globally and act locally" has begun to surface since the eighties, but until now, a quarter century later, there was also a surefire formula go see about it. Human experience feel things that otherwise like sara (suku, agama dan ras)  events that befall the nation, instead of peace, mutual trust, peaceful coexistence, at-ta'ayus as-silmi, tolerance, tasamuh among fellow human beings and between groups, but rather violence, violence , prejudice (prejudice), az- su'u zan  religion, ethnicity, class, race, interests, both at the local, regional, national and even international (global). As if all want to reverse the adage "think locally and act only", without having coupled "think globally". In the associate, connect and communicate with other groups and do not feel the need to consider the governance rules, laws, agreements and international relations.Each ethnic group, religion, class, culture wants to maintain, even cult, sect or school of thought wanted to strengthen and reinforce certain local religious identity, cultural identity, ethnic identity, political identity as felt in the shadow of the threat of domination and cultural hegemony, certain foreign cultures or civilizations.Pressure of social psychology in the real and the imagined then cause unfair treatment (injustice), discriminatory (political behavior discrimination of race, ethnicity, religion and origin) and subordinate (humble and do not consider important the presence of another person or group), here as if there is no problem indeed, in maintaining the identity and group identity, but the ripples that appear in events locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to prove there is indeed a problem in the social order of the world.This paper offers a model of communication between fellow men's race (human), which integrates and connectedness with nature and God (spirituality), in the context of Communication Studies allows develop integration-interconnection study Communications, for example, the model trialektika between Islamic, and Indonesian-ness can Modernity in trialektika developed to initiate some sort of communication, namely (Islamic [Komunikasi Islam(i)/ hadarah an-nas/Religion/‘irfani], Indonesianness (Komunikasi Indonesia/ Nusantara/ hadarah al-falsafah /Philosophy/ burhani), and Modernity [Modern/Western Communications]/ hadarah al-‘ilm/Science/bayani), researcher asumtion that Modern Communications refers to Western Communications.Komunikasi Nusantara is a science communication in digging up the basic values of the indegenous values or the values of local wisdom Indonesia (Nusantara Philosophy), then associate with theories derived from Komunikasi Islam(i)/Komunikasi Profetik and Modern/ Western Communications.

scholarly journals The Social Oikos

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Michael Lee Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Core Points

In one of the foundational articles of persona studies, Marshall and Barbour (2015) look to Hannah Arendt for development of a key concept within the larger persona framework: “Arendt saw the need to construct clear and separate public and private identities. What can be discerned from this understanding of the public and the private is a nuanced sense of the significance of persona: the presentation of the self for public comportment and expression” (2015, p. 3). But as far back as the ancient world from which Arendt draws her insights, the affordance of persona was not evenly distributed. As Gines (2014) argues, the realm of the household, oikos, was a space of subjugation of those who were forced to be “private,” tending to the necessities of life, while others were privileged with life in the public at their expense. To demonstrate the core points of this essay, I use textual analysis of a YouTube family vlog, featuring a Black mother in the United States, whose persona rapidly changed after she and her White husband divorced. By critically examining Arendt’s concepts around public, private, and social, a more nuanced understanding of how personas are formed in unjust cultures can help us theorize persona studies in more egalitarian and robust ways.

scholarly journals El binomio discapacidad-enfermedad: un análisis crítico / The Disability-Disease Pairing: A Critical Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Guzmán Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
As If

ABSTRACTDisease and disability are two concepts closely linked for a long time, so that the second seems to be merely a consequence of the first. Even today both realities are treated as if they were the same thing in many public contexts and legal documents. However, this link between disease and disability is not as unavoidable as is often implied. According to the approach outlined in this paper it comes to different realities that are interpreted as part of the same thing under the code of the medical gaze. This paper presents and critically analyzes the archaeological origin of the interpretation of the person with disabilities and chronically ill in the discourse called «medical rehabilitation». Under this paradigm is imposed on the person with disabilities the social mandate to rehabilitate and/or cure to, so, be reintegrated and contribute to society. Otherwise, will be doomed to exclusion.RESUMENEnfermedad y discapacidad son dos conceptos estrechamente vinculados entre sí desde hace mucho tiempo, de manera que la segunda no parece más que una consecuencia de la primera. Aún hoy se tratan ambas realidades como si fueran la misma cosa en multitud de contextos públicos y documentos jurídicos. Sin embargo, este vínculo entre enfermedad y discapacidad no es tan ineludible como a menudo se da a entender. Según el planteamiento expuesto en este trabajo, se trata de realidades distintas que son interpretadas como parte de una misma cosa bajo el código de la mirada médica. Este trabajo presenta y analiza de forma crítica el origen arqueológico de la interpretación de la persona con discapacidad como un enfermo crónico dentro del discurso que se denomina «médico-rehabilitador». Bajo este paradigma se impone a la persona con discapacidad el mandato social de que se rehabilite y/o se cure para, de esta manera, poder reinsertarse y aportar a la sociedad. De lo contrario, quedará condenado a la exclusión.

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