scholarly journals France Marolt’s Endeavours to Sound Document Folk Music

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-135
Author(s):  
Drago Kunej

The paper presents France Marolt’s endeavours spanning many years to acquire the recording devices that he planned to use for documenting folk music in the field, as well as for his research work and various forms of educational and cultural activities. The main focus is on researching the circumstances in which sound recordings on gramophone records were made in collaboration with Radio Ljubljana, and on the first sound collection of the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU, which consisted of these records. The records have a special documentary value and, combined with archival documents, convey Marolt’s view of folk music.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Verhunov ◽  
Yu. Dovgoruk

The monograph highlights the main stages of development of agricultural research land reclamation work in Ukraine, one of the founders, creators and developers of which was Professor D.O. Dzhovani. The scientific, scientific-organizational and pedagogical activities of the well-known domestic scientist was described, who is an iconic figure for the formation of experimental reclamation work in Ukraine and abroad. The professor laid the scientific-organizational and conceptual principles, in particular the state legislative acts of development of the scientific direction of agro-amelioration in Ukraine and Russia during the 20-30's of the 20th century. He is the author of a number of scientific papers in the field of experimental land reclamation, author of the first textbook in Ukrainian for agricultural courses "Reclamation legislation: a guide for the agricultural schools"(1927). D.O. Dzhovani was personally involved in the opening of a number of reclamation stations in the research network of Ukraine. He was a member of the Scientific & Advisory Board (SAB) on the construction of Dniprelstan and the Special Commission on Dniprelstan at the Agricultural Scientific Committee of Ukraine. The scientist is one of the founders of the Ukrainian Scientific & Research Institute of Agricultural Land Reclamation. The available archival documents attest to his significant contribution to the establishment and subsequent functioning of this institution. After forced emigration to Great Britain, he continued to supplement his inventions and research in the field of agriculture, until the end of his days he did not lose active interest in the business of his life – land reclamation and swamp culture. This edition also contains bibliographic descriptions of his works, written personally and in co-authorship, reports on scientific activities, scientific & popular publications. The book is recommended for scientists, teachers, graduate students, students, specialists in agricultural science, all those who are interested in the history of agricultural research work development.


Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Emiel Martens

In this article, I consider the representation of African-Caribbean religions in the early horror adventure film from a postcolonial perspective. I do so by zooming in on Ouanga (1935), Obeah (1935), and Devil’s Daughter (1939), three low-budget horror productions filmed on location in Jamaica during the 1930s (and the only films shot on the island throughout that decade). First, I discuss the emergence of depictions of African-Caribbean religious practices of voodoo and obeah in popular Euro-American literature, and show how the zombie figure entered Euro-American empire cinema in the 1930s as a colonial expression of tropical savagery and jungle terror. Then, combining historical newspaper research with content analyses of these films, I present my exploration into the three low-budget horror films in two parts. The first part contains a discussion of Ouanga, the first sound film ever made in Jamaica and allegedly the first zombie film ever shot on location in the Caribbean. In this early horror adventure, which was made in the final year of the U.S. occupation of Haiti, zombies were portrayed as products of evil supernatural powers to be oppressed by colonial rule. In the second part, I review Obeah and The Devil’s Daughter, two horror adventure movies that merely portrayed African-Caribbean religion as primitive superstition. While Obeah was disturbingly set on a tropical island in the South Seas infested by voodoo practices and native cannibals, The Devil’s Daughter was authorized by the British Board of Censors to show black populations in Jamaica and elsewhere in the colonial world that African-Caribbean religions were both fraudulent and dangerous. Taking into account both the production and content of these movies, I show that these 1930s horror adventure films shot on location in Jamaica were rooted in a long colonial tradition of demonizing and terrorizing African-Caribbean religions—a tradition that lasts until today.


Author(s):  
Sunny Pannu ◽  
Meenakshi Ahirwar ◽  
Rishi Jamdigni ◽  
B. K. Behera

The woven fabrics containing cotton/spandex core spun yarns possesses very vital properties of stretch, recovery and thus shape retention from the view point of wearing comfort and garment appearance. Spandex present in the core of core spun yarn is the most essential performer behind these properties. An attempt is made in this research work to study the influence of changing spandex denier in core spun yarn on the stretch and functional properties of stretch woven fabrics. The sole objective of this study is to find out whether different stretch, shrinkage and physical properties of stretch woven fabrics depend upon changing spandex percentage achieved by means of change in spandex filament denier. It was observed that by increasing denier of spandex in core spun weft yarns the increase in weft shrinkage diminishes. Dual core weft with spandex provides good elongation percentage and recovery percentage. The fabric with higher denier spandex in yarn shows a decreasing total hand values trend for summer and winter. The results depicts that the fabrics have higher THV for winter suiting fabrics as compared to summer suiting thus are more suitable for the winter wear.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
H.M Shalatska

The article considers the peculiarities of the organization of students’ research work in a technical university in foreign language classes with a gradual transition from simple forms of research to more complex ones, which is aimed at the harmonious development and improvement future specialists’ skills and abilities. The purpose of this article is to identify the main problems of the organization of students’ research work in a foreign language and consider ways of improving this process. Special attention is paid to the tasks, functions, components and various forms of students' research work. The researcher describes the possibility of using assignments for research work and organizing their performing by students in a foreign language class, in particular, such tasks as writing a summary of the text proposed by the teacher, corresponding to the student’s specialization, drawing up a plan for it, drawing up terminological dictionaries, preparing reports on a given topic, writing creative works, essays, drawing up tables and diagrams, solving problematic issues related to the future profession of a student, writing abstracts,  preparing the presentation of study' results. The involvement students in the work of scientific conferences, seminars, competitions, contests, and meetings with leading foreign experts are encouraged. The defense of master's and diploma projects in a foreign language prepares the student for the exercise of profession and integration into a foreign language environment. The examples of the most common mistakes made in the preparation of research works, which indicate the lack of students’ research skills formation are given, and ways to overcome them are recommended. The conclusions are related and future works are suggested. Thus, it also possible to create an education plans of student’ research work in foreign language and recommendations for the specific academic curriculum.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sakami ◽  
K. Mitra ◽  
P.-F. Hsu

Abstract This research work deals with the analysis of transient radiative transfer in one-dimensional scattering medium. The time-dependant discrete ordinates method was used with an upwind monotonic scheme: the piecewise parabolic scheme. This scheme was chosen over a total variation diminishing version of the Lax-Wendroff scheme. These schemes were originally developed to solve Eulerian advection problem in hydrodynamics. The capability of these schemes to handle sharp discontinuity in a propagating electromagnetic wave front was compared. The accuracy and the efficiency of the discrete ordinates method associated with the piecewise parabolic advection scheme were studied. Comparisons with Monte Carlo and integral formulation methods show the accuracy and the efficiency of this proposed method. Parametric study for optically thin and thick medium, different albedos and phase functions is then made in the unsteady state zone.


1941 ◽  
Vol 19b (3) ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
Paul Riou ◽  
Joachim Delorme

A systematic study of official methods of analysis of maple sap products has been made in order to investigate their validity as criteria of the purity of these products.A new value, the manganese number, is being proposed as a safer criterion but, in some cases, even this may lead to error.The conclusion of the writers is that, at the present time, it cannot be stated with certainty that a maple product is 100% pure; it is therefore necessary that research work be continued in order to find a criterion of purity that would be valid in every case.


2011 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 307-311
Author(s):  
Li Mei Tang

Gabbro is mostly the result of partly melting from mantle rock, and its formation is usually related with extension tectonic, the research work on Triassic gabbro from Hainan island has important instruction significance to its tectonic background. System chronometry and geochemistry research on hornblende gabbro in Wanning area was made in this paper, and its tectonic significance is to be discussed. The LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb age dating result shows that the gabbro in Wanning area was formed in 241±1.7Ma. The major and trace elements characteristic shows that the rocks belong to alkaline series, enrichment in light REE (LREE/HREE=7.22-8.5) and LILE Rb, Th, and Sr, Ba while depleted in HFSE Nb, Ta and Zr, Hf. The Wanning gabbro exhibits a narrow range of εNd(t) values (1.59-1.76), and a broad rang 87Sr/86Sr initial ratios(0.70633-0.70964). The tectonic background of Wanning gabbro is intracontinental extensional setting, and its geochemistry characteristic declare that there was an ancient ocean basin existed, and maybe one branch of the ancient eastern Tethys ocean. The formation age and tectonic setting declare that the ancient ocean basin was disappeared at least before 241Ma.


2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 323-340
Author(s):  
Mehdi Trabelsi

When travelling in and around Biskra, Algeria, in 1913, Béla Bartók recorded almost two hundred melodies on phonograph cylinders. Bartók’s unique research was the subject of my PhD dissertation at the Sorbonne in Paris in 2003. The dissertation was based on about half of Bartók’s Arab collection available at the time at the Budapest Bartók Archives. In the meantime in 2006, the CD-ROM Bartók and Arab Folk Music has made for the first time available all the surviving transcriptions and sound recordings, which represent Bartók’s collection almost in its entirety. The article summarizes new research into the source material which has recently become available and points out the special significance of his study of Arab folk music for ethnomusicological research into the Maghreb.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (117) ◽  
pp. 244-252
Author(s):  
M. Gýrsoı ◽  
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K.M. Jetіbaev ◽  
B. Sızdıkov ◽  
M. Qoja ◽  
...  

The article discusses a new scientific concept made in the course of the excavation and the results of exploration at the archaeological complex of Shanshar-Asarshyk. It provides data on the existence of people during the Paleolithic and iron age and their occupation of sedentary animal husbandry and nomadic cattle breeding. The collected ceramics were analyzed from a macroscopic point of view and described. The found ceramic objects were compared with ceramic objects from other places and the corresponding conclusions were made. In addition, The Shanshar-Asarshyk settlement was compared with other cities in Central Asia and its architectural features and structure were revealed. With the help of the discovered material data, a predictive Dating of the monument was made. The article substantiates the necessity of conducting archeological excavations in the archaeological complex of Shanshar-Asarshyk. Мақалада Шаншар-Асаршық археологиялық кешенінде жүргізілген барлау нәтижелері мен қазба жұмыстары барысында жасалған жаңа ғылыми тұжырымдамалар сөз болады. Бұл жерде адамдардың палеолит және темір дәуірі кезінде өмір сүргені және отырықшы мал шаруашылығы мен көшпенді мал шаруашылығы кәсібімен айналысқандығы туралы деректер айтылады. Жиналған керамикалар макраскопиялық тұрғыдан сарапталып, талдау жүргізіліп, сипаттамасы жасалынды. Табылған керамикалық заттар басқа жердегі керамикалық заттармен салыстырылып, тұжырымдамалар жасалынды. Сонымен қатар Шаншар-Асаршық қалажұрты Орта Азиядағы басқа қалалармен салыстырылып, архитектуралық ерекшелігі мен құрылымы айқындалды. Табылған заттай деректер арқылы ескерткіштің болжамды мерзімдемесі жасалынды. Мақалада Шаншар-Асаршық археологиялық кешенінде археологиялық қазба жұмыстарының жүргізілу қажеттіліктері айтылды.


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