Acting Out

Author(s):  
Grace Elizabeth Hale

This chapter examines the sonic landscapes of Athens, Georgia, which was an epicenter for cutting edge music from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, leading the way for college rock and other independent music scenes. The transformation of this small Southern college town into a new kind of bohemia and nationally and internationally recognized site of alternative culture is covered through the lens of several important Athens bands. These include the B-52’s, Pylon, and R.E.M. The chapter also examines related elements of the emerging scene, such as drag and pop art.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
I Putu Adi Septa Suweca Putra

 Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengupas dan memahami lebih mendalam cara kerja musik “Kuasa Tanah” yang dikomposisi oleh musisi Bali Dewa Ketut Alit yang secara terselubung menanamkan nilai intelektual dalam proses perwujudannya. Setiap komponis tentu memiliki metode tersendiri untuk mewujudkan karyanya. Perbedaan metode dan wujud karya yang dihasilkan dapat memberikan ciri khas tersendiri bagi setiap komponis. Tulisan ini lebih merujuk kepada persoalan musikalitas yang terjadi pada peristiwa karya ini. Persoalan musikalitas sangat penting dipahami dan dikupas untuk melihat musik secara tekstual. Melalui persoalan ini, pada giliran selanjutnya, dapat digunakan sebagai pengetahuan serta landasan keilmuan dalam membuat suatu karya, dan diharapkan dapat membuka cara pandang masyarakat agar musik tidak hanya dianggap sebagai hiburan semata. Berdasarkan metode kualitatif dari wawancara dan transkripsi yang dilakukan, dalam analisis penulis ditemukan bahwa dalam karya ini terdapat pembaharuan tata racik yang tercermin dari cara kerja komponis dalam mengolah elemen-elemen musik yang telah dipilih. Keseluruhan karya ini menggunakan beberapa jenis instrumen yang terdapat dalam gamelan Bali. Meskipun medium yang digunakan ialah beberapa instrumen lokal dari gamelan Bali, tetapi musik yang dihasilkan bersifat universal. Ini menunjukkan bahwa gamelan akan secara elegan hidup berdampingan di atas kesetaraan dan bergelora sebagai musik yang mandiri di tengah-tengah dinamika musik global yang tiada batas.  This paper aims to explore and understand more deeply about the music of “Kuasa Tanah” (or the power of land) composed by a Balinese musician named Dewa Ketut Alit which covertly instills intellectual value in the process of its manifestation. Broadly speaking, each composer certainly has his own method for realizing his work. The difference in methods and forms of the work produced can also provide distinctive characteristics for each composer. This article is more referring to musicality problems that occur in “Kuasa Tanah” The issue of musicality is very important to understand and peel to see music in a textual manner. Through this issue, in the next turn, it can be used as knowledge and scientific foundation in making another new work, and is expected to open a society’s perspective so that music is not only regarded as merely entertainment. Using qualitative method through interview and transcription done, in the analysis is fount that in “Kuasa Tanah”, there is a renewal of the packaging system that is reflected in the way the composer works in processing the selected musical elements. The entire work uses several types of local instruments found in Balinese gamelan. Although it uses several instruments from Balinese gamelan, but the music produced is sounded universal. This shows that the gamelan will elegantly coexist above equality and surge as independent music amidst the infinite dynamics of global music.


Author(s):  
Ismaila Rimi Abubakar ◽  
Abubakar U. Benna ◽  
Umar G. Benna

The emergence of digital currencies is substantially influencing the growth of global financial markets and cities. Cryptocurrency entrepreneurs (CEs) are reshaping global cities and regions by transforming the way we live, work and interact. This chapter explores how the entrepreneurs use cryptocurrency assets and their underpinning computing technologies to transform the dysfunctional and evolving global cities. The CEs generate funds and create cutting-edge technologies to meet the challenges faced by cities, including unemployment, inadequate and rundown infrastructure and facilities as well as for new development to meet the needs of massive future urbanization. The chapter is organized in five parts. It first introduces the study and presents a background on the concepts of blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency, their emergence and development trend. It then discusses the rise of global cities and how technology impacts them, followed by the potentials and challenges of CEs in transforming global cities and regions. It ends with conclusion and future research directions.


2020 ◽  
pp. 204-224
Author(s):  
Sean Bellaviti

Chapter 6 extends the discussion of the previous two chapters by examining the musical choices música típica musicians make to forge an identifiable individual style that is the key to establishing a career, distinguishing the sound of individual conjunto musicians, and achieving a coveted region-based following. This focus on specific musical strategies through which musicians draw creative inspiration—whether from renown música típica performers and/or genres that have achieved broad international success—allows the author to explore música típica’s development as a form of cutting edge popular music that is, at the same time, firmly tethered to sentiments of tradition, regionalism, and populist nationalism. The technical approaches for developing the all-important original sound described by the musicians who are featured in this chapter opens the way for the author to theorize the relationship between style and genre as well as to discuss issues involving the common usages of these terms and concepts in ethnomusicological discourse.


2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 30-32

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – New sustainable business can be stimulated by a combination of principles that strengthen the purpose, autonomy and mastery of employees. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-555
Author(s):  
STEPHEN GRAHAM

AbstractIn this article I examine localized cultural change that nevertheless serves as an applied instance of broader change. Focusing mostly on British, white male musicians and music writers active in the improvised and experimental music scenes of the UK (and, to a lesser extent, United States and Europe) across the 1970s and early 1980s, I identify clear shifts in taste, attitude, and practice. These shifts arc across what Ben Piekut calls the ‘mixed avant-garde’ of the 1960s to what I describe as the ‘unpop avant-garde’ of the late 1970s and 1980s, in which influences from popular and non-Western music play more significant roles than before and liminal, quasi-popular practices such as noise are in the emergence. I trace the appearance of the unpop avant-garde through independent music publications from the period, most prominently Microphone, Musics, Collusion, Impetus, and Re/Search, using these published scene discourses as barometers of the musical atmosphere of the time.


2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Milivojevic

In this paper I recount the difficulties of working with the group whose members were traumatized during the bombing of Serbia and Montenegro in 1999. The difficulties were most present in transference-countertransference relations. The focus will be the influence of the projective identification mechanism on counter-transference, and how this mechanism is used in order to express the feelings that cannot otherwise be expressed, except for the therapist to experience them. The communications aspects of Projective Identification (PI) were evident when the group members tended to provoke certain feelings and thoughts within the therapist, trying to involve him in some kind of an acting-out and so avoid anxiety related to their feelings. Therefore it was of great importance that the therapist should observe his countertransference feelings as the way for the feelings of the group members to be registered, since they cannot be registered in any other way.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 5053-5059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katelyn Randazzo ◽  
Zhihan Wang ◽  
Zijun D. Wang ◽  
Jonathan Butz ◽  
Qianli R. Chu
Keyword(s):  
Uv Light ◽  

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 3823-3836
Author(s):  
Maha Mohamed Ahmed Al Habsi ◽  
Smitha Sunil Kumaran Nair ◽  
Said Juma Said Juma Al Sulti ◽  
S. Adarsh

The rise of connected world is a reality through Internet of Things (IoT) technology and is increasingly changing the way people live, communicate and work. Perhaps, for a continued support to be delivered efficiently and effectively in terms of the services IoT offers, there are some challenges which need attention. This is basically the security aspects pertaining to the data the IoT devices generate, collect and process. In the recent years, blockchain technology gained attention in cutting edge solutions based on securing IoT devices. However, it is observed that adoption of blockchain technology is limited in several countries. The proposed research aims to investigate potential barriers to adopting blockchain technology in smart city applications through a qualitative study. In addition, a stake algorithm to demonstrate the security aspect in IoT device is presented.


Author(s):  
Dario Di Zenobio ◽  
Massimo Celidonio ◽  
Lorenzo Pulcini ◽  
Arianna Rufini

The growing interest in the possible deployment of mobile cellular networks in the 790-862 MHz frequency band, resulting from the transition process from analogue to digital TV, will pave the way for cutting-edge technology (LTE) and a new interesting market.


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