The Image of a Solo Instrument Player as a Media Celebrity in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (14) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Marta Gabryelczak-Paprocka
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Music Interpretation ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Solo Instrument

In the article entitled The Image of a Solo Instrument Player as a Media Celebrity in the 21st Century, the author analyses the profiles of three musicians promoted by the contemporary media. These artists are: Lola Astanova, Stjepan Hauser and David Garrett. All of them, apart from the fact they are technically skilful performers, are also media personalities. They combine classical playing style with pop-culture image and visual setting of their performances. The author attempts to uncover the sources of their popularity and explain the mechanisms how the demand for the artistic activity of instrumentalists creating art (both music interpretation and the widely understood setting of a performance) synthetising tradition and innovativeness is generated. The described phenomena include the topics related to: the specificity of the images of celebrity instrument players and their function in the society, the homogenous culture of the 21st century, the widely-understood media coverage, consumerism, etc. The article has two parts. The first part is theoretical and it is based on the analysis and description of academic literature connected with the chosen subject matter referring to sociological topics and modern tendencies connected with culture. Another point in this section of the article is the presentation of the profiles of the selected artists. The second part is the report from the academic study conducted by the author of the article. It is a description of interviews with responders who wanted to share their opinions about the recordings of Astanova, Hauser and Garrett which were presented to them. The interviews were conducted by means of the social media and phone. The studies showed how different the impressions related to the same recordings might be even in a small group of respondents. These conclusions might serve as an inspiration for the development of research studying the influence of transformations taking place in modern culture on the tastes of audiences and the actual demand for artists who are well-adjusted to the requirements of modern audiences in terms of their image.

From System Into Networking: The Social Shape of Ecumenism in the 21st Century

Exchange ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-396
Author(s):  
Henk Witte
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
History Of

AbstractOn the threshold of post-modernism, the shape of ecumenism is in a process of change. It passes from a system to a form of networking. This article reflects on this process against the background of the question of the French sociologist of religion Jean-Paul Willaime whether ecumenism is out-of-date. According to Willaime, ecumenism has become a disordered pluralism. He only draws attention to the nihilistic and pluralistic character of post-modernism, but does not look at its aesthetic-mystic dimension. The history of western ontology shows three consecutive ways of experiencing reality: substance, system, and structure (Heinrich Rombach). Ecumenism has been developed as a system, in which unity predominates, but post-modern culture, with its priority to pluralism, challenges it to shape itself as networking and to think about unity in more sacramental and in more juridical terms.

scholarly journals Transgression as a Profanation in the Contemporary Art

2015 ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Olessya V. Stroeva
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Art ◽  
The Media ◽  
Market Relations

Analyses the postmodern concepts of “transgression” and “bricolage” in relation to contemporary art. Addressing the street art and the social art the author shows how the model of bricolage with the elements of transgression­profanity works in the modern culture. The mass audio­visual culture dictates a new way of perceiving art works, and all of them are the reflections of the media culture, or its bricolage “bounce.” The media culture and the society of globalisation in general produce a syncretic or bricolage environment with a “soft ban” system anticipating transgression; it is the erosion of boundaries which creates the illusion of transgression steps that can turn an artistic activity into a political action or make it balance on the verge of breaking the law. However, in such a type of culture, a transgression step is not opposed by a ban but by another transgression state which is a part of the system of market relations already

scholarly journals Hedonistic ontology of the film: generative models

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Olga Konfederat ◽  
◽  
Natalia Dyadyk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific

Introduction. Observing the production and consumer area of modern cinematography makes it possible to draw conclusions about the value dominants of modern society, to conduct its sociocultural analysis. Cinema, both auteur and mass, is a way of reflecting and modeling the society spiritual state and its analysis makes it possible to draw quite serious and justified philosophical and social conclusions. The film in a philosophical sense is ontologized by the dominant intention of the era. Such a dominant intention of modernity is hedonism. Pleasure, enjoyment, happiness, according to the humanities, is the basic values of the 21st century society. Cinema is the most comprehensive reaction to the needs of hedonism, since hedonistic prerequisites are to some degree laid down in its technical (movement, photographic phenomenology) and social nature (art and entertainment). In this regard, it seems relevant to conduct a philosophical analysis of the ontological level of modern cinema. The aim of the study is to conduct a philosophical analysis of the ontological level of modern cinema; identify ontological models, variations and combinations of which provide its artistic diversity. Methods: the authors use the general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, the phenomenological method, since they identify the sensory intentions that underlie modern cinema. The authors also use the hermeneutic method, since they reveal the hidden meanings of the film, determined by the time and conditions of its creation, as well as the semiotic approach, which makes it possible to analyze the structural-semiotic whole of the film. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the authors analyze films from philosophical aspects, and not just cultural studies, as is customary. In modern cinema, the authors look for a reflection of the “social soul”, identify those intentions that underlie modern cinema, both auteur and mass. This makes it possible to deduce a typology of film models that have not previously been applied to the analysis of the film process. Results. During the analysis, the authors developed a hedonistic-ontological typology of cinematic models, identified five generative models of cinema, four of which have a hedonistic orientation: an alimentary model that pleases the recipient by intensively stimulating his perceptual sphere; a parkour model that gives pleasure to light and unhindered movement, minimizing the severity and resistance of the environment; an arcade model that provides the viewer the pleasure of victory through virtual immersion in the ups and downs of the “action film”; a detective model that gives the viewer pleasure through the removal of cognitive uncertainty. The fifth model, tentatively called existential, should lead the viewer into a complex philosophical state of being-with-self-self, an experience of one’s own fulfillment, associated with the experience of suffering. However, due to the hedonistic orientations of modern culture, this model is not relevant in the first decades of the 21st century. Conclusions. Philosophical analysis of modern cinema has revealed that at the ontological level it is based on the philosophy of hedonism. Modern cinema delivers the following types of pleasures to the recipient: enjoyment of the flesh of the world, enjoyment of bodily freedom in motion, enjoyment of peace, cognitive enjoyment.

scholarly journals Co-opting psychiatry: The alliance between academic psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Moncrieff
Keyword(s):  
Academic Psychiatry ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Origin ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbance ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Psychiatric Profession

AbstractThe Editorial present the arguments that an alliance between academic psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry is harmful through a critical review of the academic literature and media coverage of activities of the pharmaceutical industry. The industry and the psychiatric profession both gain advantages from promoting biomedical models of psychiatric disturbance and pharmacological treatment. This confluence of interests has lead to the exaggeration of the efficacy of psychiatric drugs and neglect of their adverse effects and has distorted psychiatric knowledge and practice. Academic psychiatry has helped the industry to colonise more and more areas of modern life in order to expand the market for psychotropic drugs. Persuading people to understand their problems as biological deficiencies obscures the social origin and context of distress and prevents people from seeking social or political solutions. Psychiatry has the power to challenge the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry and should put its efforts into developing alternatives to routine drug treatment. Psychiatry needs to disengage from the industry if it wants to make genuine advances in understanding psychiatric disorder and help reverse the harmful social consequences of the widening medicalisation of human experience.

Different Resources, Different Conflicts? The Subnational Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Crime in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Conflict Behavior ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This book explores some of the risks associated with sustainable peace in Colombia. The book intentionally steers away from the emphasis on the drug trade as the main resource fueling Colombian conflicts and violence, a topic that has dominated scholarly attention. Instead, it focuses on the links that have been configured over decades of armed conflict between legal resources (such as bananas, coffee, coal, flowers, gold, ferronickel, emeralds, and oil), conflict dynamics, and crime in several regions of Colombia. The book thus contributes to a growing trend in the academic literature focusing on the subnational level of armed conflict behavior. It also illustrates how the social and economic context of these resources can operate as deterrents or as drivers of violence. The book thus provides important lessons for policymakers and scholars alike: Just as resources have been linked to outbreaks and transformations of violence, peacebuilding too needs to take into account their impacts, legacies, and potential

ПРИНЦИПИ ПІЗНАННЯ ПОБУТУВАННЯ ПЕРФОРМАНСУ

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Admink Admink ◽  
Жанна Шкляренко
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Dividing Line

Стаття присвячена дослідженню шляхів вивчення перформансу як культурного явища. Зростаюча увага до цього феномену зумовлена відсутністю лінії розмежування його з життям, створенню особливої реальності, спроможністю викликати потужні емоційні стани та взаємоемпатії. Проблематичність у вивченні його полягає у складності архівування, хиткий своєрідний наратив, що вислизає зі сприйняття непідготовленого глядача, міграція з виставкових зал у соціальну сферу, супроводжувана жанровими новоутвореннями. Даним дослідженням зроблено спробу аналізу шляхів пізнання культурного явища перформансу, визначені особливості побутування, виявлено закономірності проявів та варіативність в сучасній культурі. The article is devoted to the study of ways to research performance study as a cultural phenomenon. The growing interest in the phenomenon of performance art is due to the lack of a dividing line with our life, the creation of a special reality, the ability to cause strong emotional states and mutual empathy. The difficulty of study is also in trouble archiving it, shaky kind of narrative which escapes the perception of the unprepared viewer, the migration of the exhibition halls and in the social media sphere, followed by the creation of new genres. This analyzes the ways of understanding the cultural phenomenon of performance art. The features of being are determined, patterns and a variety of its manifestations in modern culture are revealed.

The Factors of the Holistic Health Status of Thai Elders in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manyat Ruchiwit ◽  
Kanjanee Phanphairoj ◽  
Tipsuda Sumneangsanor ◽  
Jinpitcha Mamom
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Alpha Coefficient ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Stress Prevention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Whole Person

Background: Holistic health is important to life, perhaps especially for elders. Focus should not only be placed on illness or the physical part of their lives, but the whole person should also be considered, emphasizing the connection of their mind, body, and the environment. Objective: The aims of this research were to study the factors of the holistic health status (HHS) of the Thai elderly in the 21st century, and to predict the factors affecting the development of HHS in 3 aspects; physical health status, mental and emotional health status, and the social and environmental health status. Method: The data were collected from 928 Thai elderly aged 60 and over in the central part of Thailand. The research instrument was a questionnaire whose reliability was confirmed using a Cronbach alpha coefficient of .904. Multiple regression analysis was used for predicting the factors of HHS. Results: The results indicated that stress, increased age, gender, and social participation can predict the HHS of Thai elders, and stress can predict each 3 aspects. Therefore, stress prevention activities are very important for enhancing the HHS of Thai elders. Conclusion: The findings of this research can be used to improve the quality of life of elders in the 21st century.

Integrating Social Entrepreneurship Literature Through Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 251512742110219
Author(s):  
Angela E. Addae ◽  
Cheryl Ellenwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Sectors

As boundaries between the business and social sectors dissolve, social entrepreneurship has emerged as a phenomenon that bridges two worlds previously divided. Now, social entrepreneurs embrace market-based tools to address society’s greatest challenges. Coinciding with the growth of the sector, students and researchers have sought to understand development, growth strategies, and the practical challenges related to social entrepreneurship. In turn, universities have bolstered social entrepreneurship education by creating academic offerings that emphasize business, social impact, and innovation. Still, social entrepreneurship education remains in its infancy. Courses are as varied as the field itself, and instructors routinely rely on their professional backgrounds and networks to develop curricula that explore the field’s multifaceted character. Thus, social entrepreneurship courses are diverse across disciplines, and the academic literature theorizing the phenomenon is similarly emergent. As social entrepreneurship courses combine theoretical insights with experiential learning in a myriad of ways, aligning theoretical insights with necessary core competencies presents a challenge. To address this dilemma, we highlight the importance of employing theory-driven concepts to develop core competencies in social entrepreneurship students. In doing so, we review key threshold concepts in the social entrepreneurship literature and suggest how instructors might link theoretical insights to practical skill sets.

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