scholarly journals Musical language of the programme «Xuxa and the world of imagination»

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Nunes-Fernandes

This study is developed on the theoretical and methodological basis of analysis of discourse apply to music, proposed by Amparo Porta (1997, 2001). The objective is to analyse the sound language of program «Xuxa and the world of imagination», by three levels of approach: provable point of reference (musical qualities), poetic (treatment of phrases and conclusion), and topical (ideology transmited). In this study an analysis of one aspect of program is presented. As a partial result, in may be pointed out that the aspect selected was not present innovative language to resources for producing sound. And the contrary, it is characterized by a lack of musical recourses, which produces repetitive effect and suggests stereotypes, not only in the scope of the ideological message, but also in the musical scope. This is because it expresses musical forms which are based on commercial and industrial just justification – which have as a reference a passive spectator who is subject to the relationship of dominant culture. Con el aporte teórico y metodológico de análisis de los discursos aplicado a la música propuesto por Amparo Porta, se desarrolla esta investigación. Analizamos la banda sonora del programa «Xuxa no Mundo da Imaginação» por medio de tres niveles de aproximación: verosimilitud referencial (las calidades sonoras), poética (tratamiento de frases y de finalización) y tópica (ideología difundida). Presentamos, en esta comunicación, el análisis de uno de los cuadros del programa. Se trata de un musical que hace alusión a los festejos de Santos de la Iglesia Católica (San Juan, Santo António y San Pedro) que ocurren durante el mes de Junio, con Xuxa y un actor caracterizados de caipiras (como si fueran trajes típicos de los festejos) cantando en play back. Los instrumentos musicales son acordeón, bajo, batería y teclado (sonidos electrónicos, salvo el acordeón). La estructura melódica presenta frases completas, con diseños de ruido (sonorización). No hay polifonía vocal, la textura es de melodía acompañada. El estilo es popular/ folclórico (música típica de los festejos). En cuanto a la estructura formal, la canción tiene una parte A cantada y un estribillo instrumental, los cuales se repiten a lo largo de la duración total de la música (3 minutos y 29 segundos). En el fin del cuadro hay un rápido fade out, e inmediatamente surge otro cuadro. En el nivel de verosimilitud referencial, observamos que el cuadro analizado comprende algunas clases de sonido: los sonidos electrónicos y acústicos, con predominio de los primeros. En el nivel de verosimilitud poética, el cuadro no presentó música incompleta, pero cortada por el rápido fade out y entrada abrupta de nuevo cuadro. Y, en el nivel de verosimilitud tópica, se presentó la música situada en contextos histórico y cultural si no erróneos, por lo menos equivocados en cuanto al estereotipo reforzado del personaje caipira. El cuadro no presenta lenguaje innovador en lo que concierne a recursos de sonorización, al contrario, la escasez de recursos musicales produce efectos repetitivos y sugiere estereotipos no sólo en el ámbito del mensaje ideológico, sino también en el ámbito musical. El tramo analizado ya demuestra algunas características generales del lenguaje sonoro del programa «Xuxa no Mundo da Imaginação» : música predominantemente tonal, con poca variación armónica (no hay modulación), ritmo danzante, presentación de estereótipos sociales para transmisión de mensajes (el personaje como estereotipo ya consagrado en fiestas escolares) y conocimientos. En este último caso, la caracterización de la presentadora está cargada de clichés –sin dientes, con gafas y con el rostro lleno de pintas– no proporcionando ninguna reflexión sobre las culturas propias de las regiones del interior de Brasil. La música está situada en contextos histórico y cultural equivocados en cuanto al estereotipo reforzado del personaje caipira. Hasta el momento, verificamos, de acuerdo con Porta (2001), que el programa expresa formas musicales que se basan en justificaciones comerciales e industriales que toman como referencia un espectador pasivo y sujeto a relaciones de dominio cultural.

Author(s):  
Alistair Fox

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.


2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.


1893 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 401-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl A. von Zittel

In a spirited treatise on the ‘Origin of our Animal World’ Prof. L. Rütimeyer, in the year 1867, described the geological development and distribution of the mammalia, and the relationship of the different faunas of the past with each other and with that now existing. Although, since the appearance of that masterly sketch the palæontological material has been, at least, doubled through new discoveries in Europe and more especially in North and South America, this unexpected increase has in most instances only served as a confirmation of the views which Rutimeyer advanced on more limited experience. At present, Africa forms the only great gap in our knowledge of the fossil mammalia; all the remaining parts of the world can show materials more or less abundantly, from which the course followed by the mammalia in their geological development can be traced with approximate certainty.


Author(s):  
Minh-Tung Tran ◽  
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Tien-Hau Phan ◽  
Ngoc-Huyen Chu ◽  
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Public spaces are designed and managed in many different ways. In Hanoi, after the Doi moi policy in 1986, the transfer of the public spaces creation at the neighborhood-level to the private sector has prospered na-ture of public and added a large amount of public space for the city, directly impacting on citizen's daily life, creating a new trend, new concept of public spaces. This article looks forward to understanding the public spaces-making and operating in KDTMs (Khu Do Thi Moi - new urban areas) in Hanoi to answer the question of whether ‘socialization’/privatization of these public spaces will put an end to the urban public or the new means of public-making trend. Based on the comparison and literature review of studies in the world on public spaces privatization with domestic studies to see the differences in the Vietnamese context leading to differences in definitions and roles and the concept of public spaces in KDTMs of Hanoi. Through adducing and analyzing practical cases, the article also mentions the trends, the issues, the ways and the technologies of public-making and public-spaces-making in KDTMs of Hanoi. Win/loss and the relationship of the three most important influential actors in this process (municipality, KDTM owners, inhabitants/citizens) is also considered to reconceptualize the public spaces of KDTMs in Hanoi.


2021 ◽  
pp. 104365962110469
Author(s):  
Giorgia Rudes ◽  
Claudia Fantuzzi

Introduction: The World Health Organization states that suicide is the second leading cause of death among youngs, and racism has been proven to have detrimental effects on both physical and mental health. These two plagues represent a public health priority, especially for susceptible minorities. Method: This systematic review analyzed 23 studies from multiple database searches, to understand the relationship between racism and suicidality in young minority groups. Results: The review demonstrated the correlation between racism and suicidality with the consequent development of mental disorders. There is strong evidence that the main suicide risk factor is acculturation, interpreted as the assimilation of the dominant culture with the loss of values from one’s cultural background. Discussion: Health care professionals should not underestimate the risk of suicidality associated with racism. Prevention is crucial and it should be implemented from a young age, in schools, through a joint intervention with children and their families, aiming toward integration without acculturation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Mei-Mei Lin

<p>There is no same image who displayed out in the world because Leader career roles developed always leans on personal character, but it could describe as each person trend to play some a particular role. However the career role developed by nature and environment, impression management upon nurture education and skill training meanwhile involve with final result so that this work supposes career role would significant influence impression management. Hence image could be control if who would like to mold into a particular image on purpose for achievement. In addition to leaders in organization always have more pressure than employees whether performance or profit especial in such economic hardship. So that this work assumes leader career role significant affect to leader impression management and leaders’ image concerns is moderator to interfere with the relationship of these two aspects. At last this work assays hypotheses successful via structural equation modeling. According to the result, this work looks forward to make industries to clear up management problem and digs out more potential crises.</p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-132
Author(s):  
Paul Avis

AbstractHow can we explain the fact that the Anglican Covenant divides people of equal integrity and comparable wisdom around the world? We need to ask whether we have correctly understood both the ecclesiology of the Anglican Communion and the terms of the Covenant. What is implied in being a Communion of Churches, where the churches are the subjects of the relationship of communion (koinonia)? What does the Covenant commit its signatories to and, in particular, what does it say about doctrinal and ethical criteria for communion? Is it legitimate to apply biblical covenant language, in which the covenant relationship is between God and Israel, to relations between churches? By addressing some of the concerns of those who oppose it, a case is made in favour of the Covenant and some reassurances are offered. In conclusion, the mystical dimension of being in communion is affirmed.


1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
M.S. Jillani

The debate over the relationship of population and development is now more than 200 years old, starting with the treatise on population by Malthus, in 1798. The increase in population, ever since, has remained a matter of concern for economists and development planners. The most recent high point of the issue was witnessed at Cairo in September, 1994. The conference which was attended by more than 10,000 persons from all over the world ended with an agreement on the issues involved in the growth of population and the economy. The outcome was a Plan of Action for the next twenty years, which would concentrate on Reproductive Health in order to obtain, “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity in all matters relating to the reproductive system and its functions and process”. This can be a turn-around in global efforts for human health and welfare, if properly implemented.


Author(s):  
Ayu Kurniati ◽  
Enny Fitriahadi

IN 2013, the World Health Organization, released data in the form of Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) worldwide, and the number reached 289,000 per 100, 000 live births, which 99% of cases occurred in developing countries. Research aims to discover the relationship of antenatal class towards mothers’ knowledge of the dangerous sign during pregnancy. The result showed that there is a relationship of antenatal class towards mothers’ knowledge of dangerous sign during pregnancy, From this result, the researcher concludes that antenatal class could increase mothers’ knowledge of dangerous sign during pregnancy and may decrease the complication risk during the childbirth.


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