Database Narrative, Spatial Montage, and the Cultural Transmission of Memory

2013 ◽  
pp. 150-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Aston
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an ongoing collaboration between the author and the historical anthropologist, Wendy James, to develop a multilayered associative narrative, which considers relationships between experience, event, and memory among a displaced community. The work is based on a substantial living archive of photographs, audio, cine, and video recordings collected by Wendy James in the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands from the mid-1960s to the present day. Its critical context relates to the ’sensory turn’ in anthropology and to ’beyond text’ debates within the arts and humanities regarding ways in which we can capture and represent the sensory experiences of the past.

scholarly journals ‘A Kind of Sensory, Strange Thing to Experience’: Speaking Environmental Disaster in the Sea Empress Project Archive

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Sensory Event ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores embodied encounters with the Sea Empress oil spill of 1996 and their representation in oral narratives. Through a close reading of the personal testimonies collected in the Sea Empress Project archive, I examine the relationship between intense sensory experiences of environmental change and everyday interpretations of the disaster and its legacy. The art­icle first outlines the ways in which this collection of voices reveals sensory memories, embodied affects and narrative choices to be deeply entwined in oral representations of the spill, disclosing a ‘sensory event’ that created a powerful awareness of both environmental surroundings and their relationship to everyday social processes. Then, reading these narratives against-the-grain, I argue that narrators’ accounts tell a paradoxical story of a disaster that most now wish to forget, and reveal an ambivalent legacy of environmental change that is similarly consigned to the past. Finally, I relate this social forgetting of the Sea Empress to the wider history of environmental consciousness in modern Britain.

Retrieving the Past—The Historical Theme in Penelope Lively’s Fictions

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 2014
Author(s):  
Xiaotang Lv
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Book Award ◽  
National Book ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Present Life

Penelope Lively (1933- ), the contemporary British writer, was first known mainly as a children’s writer prior to her winning the 1987 Booker Prize with her widely praised novel Moon Tiger (1987). The Road to Lichfield, published in 1977, is her first adult novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Treasures of Time (1979), her second adult novel, was the winner of Great Britain’s first National Book Award for fiction in 1980 and the Arts Council National Book Award. In her literary fictions, Lively interweaves the present and the past -- history, the public, collective past, and memory, the private and personal past -- together with the application of various narrative techniques, such as flashback, stream of consciousness, psychological time, etc. A predominant theme running through her literary world is her consistent focus on history. This essay intend to study Penelope Lively’s understanding and interpretation of history, and draw this conclusion: Although a complete understanding of history is impossible, yet as we realize our subjectivity and misunderstanding of history we can try to understand it in a new way and integrate it into the present life.

Cash and Customers: Theatre Revenue and the National Economy

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (15) ◽  
pp. 258-263
Author(s):  
Paul Huntington
Keyword(s):  
Arts Administration ◽  
Commercial Sector ◽  
Consumer Expenditure ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

While statistical information on certain sectors of the British theatre is slowly becoming available – notably from the Arts Council and the Society of West End Theatre, as also from researchers in the Department of Arts Administration at the City University – few attempts have yet been made to draw useful conclusions from these figures, or to deduce how they might be helpful in terms of forward-planning and projections. In the following article. Paul Huntington examines the relationship between theatre revenue and total consumer expenditure, in the context of published figures which illustrate the changing national economic picture of the past decade. He examines not only the way in which these figures tend, naturally enough, to confirm certain expectations – for example, concerning the impact of tourism on the theatre – but also less expected findings, such as the relative upsurge in the fortunes of the regional theatres at a time of slump in the commercial sector of the West End.

Understanding cultural activity involvement of loyalty segments in the performing arts

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter de Rooij
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Activity Involvement ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Leisure Involvement ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and understand dimensions of cultural activity involvement and the relationship between cultural activity involvement and behavioural loyalty. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured in-depth interviews with 47 customers of a theatre were held. Findings – The study shows that the concept of cultural activity involvement consists of six dimensions: attraction, centrality, self-expression, social bonding, cultural transmission and financial contribution. Three customer segments are taken into consideration according behavioural loyalty levels: incidental spectators, interested participants and the core audience. There are large differences between the three customer segments regarding cultural activity involvement. Research limitations/implications – Introspection might have decreased the reliability. As the study is a case study, problems with external validity are recognised. Practical implications – Given the decline of subsidies in the arts world, it becomes more important to attract more visitors and to increase spending. Performing arts organisations might attract more visitors in case they provide additional services which enable cultural transmission. Moreover, the study shows that certain visitors are willing to contribute additional money to the arts. Originality/value – Current studies about leisure involvement focus on recreation and distinguish four dimensions of involvement. This study focuses on cultural activity involvement and explores these four dimensions, but also shows there are two new dimensions. This study contributes to a further understanding of the relationship between cultural activity involvement and behavioural loyalty.

Thinking Through Secrets: Rethinking the Role of Thought Suppression in Secrecy

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1411-1427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Slepian ◽  
Katharine H. Greenaway ◽  
E. J. Masicampo
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Common View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Temporal Focus ◽  
Ironic Process ◽  
The Relationship

Having secrets on the mind is associated with lower well-being, and a common view of secrets is that people work to suppress and avoid them—but might people actually want to think about their secrets? Four studies examining more than 11,000 real-world secrets found that the answer depends on the importance of the secret: People generally seek to engage with thoughts of significant secrets and seek to suppress thoughts of trivial secrets. Inconsistent with an ironic process account, adopting the strategy to suppress thoughts of a secret was not related to a tendency to think about the secret. Instead, adopting the strategy to engage with thoughts of a secret was related the tendency to think about the secret. Moreover, the temporal focus of one’s thoughts moderated the relationship between mind-wandering to the secret and well-being, with a focus on the past exacerbating a harmful link. These results suggest that people do not universally seek to suppress their secrets; they also seek to engage with them, although not always effectively.

scholarly journals 1. Simultaneo Ensemble – Bringing Our History Into the Future / A New Pedagogical Approach of Music-Making Developed from “Bottega Dell'arte”

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Cecilia Franchini
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Music ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Italian Music ◽  
Concert Programs ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract How much can contemporary artists and audiences learn from the past? The mission and activity of Simultaneo Ensemble - SIM - is presented. How SIM laboratory, grouping performers from the seven Music Academies of Veneto, encourages musicians to explore, perform and promote italian music composers and their works. This article will consider the relationship between research into historical concert programs and the creation of adventurous and compelling chamber music concerts for contemporary audiences. Learn how to enhance the position of chamber music activity trough projects that have suceeded in bringing people together toward common goals via the arts.

Science and Humanity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Steane
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Darwinian Evolution ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
To Come ◽  
Science Educators ◽  
The Relationship

This volume offers an in-depth presentation of the structure of science and the nature of the physical world, with a view to showing how it complements and does not replace other types of human activity, such as the arts and humanities, spirituality and religion. The aim is to better inform scientists, science educators, and the general public. Many think that science can and does establish that the natural world is a vast machine, and this is the whole truth of ourselves and our environment. This is wrong. In fact, scientific models employ a rich network of interconnecting concepts, and the overall picture suggests the full validity of further forms of truth-seeking and truth-speaking, such as art, jurisprudence, and the like. In fundamental physics, the equations that describe physical behaviour interact in a subtle symbiotic way with symmetry principles which describe overarching guidelines. The relationship between physics and biology is similar, and so is the relationship between biology and the humanities. Darwinian evolution is an exploratory mechanism which allows richer patterns and truths to come to be expressed; it does not negate or replace those truths. The area of values, of what can or should command our allegiance, requires a different kind of response, a response that is not completely captured by logical argument, but which is central to human life. Religion, when it is understood correctly and done well, is the engagement with the idea that we have a meaningful role to play, and much to learn.

scholarly journals A Decade of Teaching the Course Aging & the Arts: Reflecting on Opportunities and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Interdisciplinary Program ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

Abstract In 2010, the University of Utah Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program first offered GERON 5240/6240: Aging and the Arts. This course was developed to enrich program curricula by addressing a gap in content specific to the arts and humanities. The purpose of this presentation is to focus on identifying the opportunities and challenges experienced teaching this course over the past decade. Opportunities will highlight competency mapping, internal and external partnerships, the benefits of bridging disciplines, and innovation in teaching and problem-solving. Challenges experienced include addressing various needs (online learning, undergraduate and graduate levels, multiple disciplines), tuition differentials, and varying levels of enrollment. A stand-alone course is one method of increasing humanities, arts, and cultural gerontology within curricula. It has the potential of enhancing student interest in gerontology while also demonstrating how the arts and humanities can improve work across disciplines.

The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Methodological Instruction ◽  
Key Issues

The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship presents the first comprehensive overview of research methods and practices for engaging in public scholarship. Public scholarship, which has been on the rise over the past 25 years, produces knowledge that is available outside of the academy, is useful to relevant stakeholders, and addresses publicly identified needs. By involving stakeholders in the entire process, and making the findings accessible, public scholars contribute to the democratization of research. The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship provides methodological instruction for engaging in public scholarship. The handbook features a who’s who of highly respected interdisciplinary contributors as well as emerging scholars. Chapters include robust examples from real world research in different fields and cultures, ample discussion of working with nonacademic stakeholders, coverage of traditional methods, coverage of emergent methods including those that draw on the arts, the internet, social media, and digital technologies, as well as coverage of key issues including writing, publicity, and funding.

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