The Music Road: An Expedition across Time and Space

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Reinhard Strohm
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
World Region ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Western Half ◽  
The Silk Road ◽  
East West

The introduction first explains the relationship of the book to the discourse of the ‘Silk Road’, the western half of which is discussed here. It is differently related to Europe than the eastern one. The ‘music road’ metaphor emphasizes the historical and geographical flux of cultures across this region, justifying the keywords of diversity and yet, coherence in musical developments. The topics covered in the book are then gathered under three cultural paradigms: mobility, transmission in time, East–West imagination. The last-named is proposed as a more sensitive term for attitudes formerly subsumed under ‘orientalism’. An extended survey of the topic of all individual chapters reveals many different forms of transfers, connections, bridges and also disruptions in the musics of this special world region.

scholarly journals Ordovician graptolite biostratigraphy in North Greenland

1989 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
M Bjerreskov
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Canadian Cordillera ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Arctic Canada ◽  
The North ◽  
Water Trough ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East West ◽  
North Greenland

Up to 500 m of black-bedded cherts and mudstones with thin turbidites and thick local beds of redeposited limestone and chert conglomerates were deposited during the Ordovician in North Greenland, along the southern margin of an east-west trending deep-water trough forming a continuation of the Frank Jinian Basin of Arctic Canada. A large collection of Ordovician graptolites has recently been obtained from this clastic sequence. The graptolite fauna, not collected in continuous sections, compares particularly well with the fauna from the Canadian Cordillera and for the most part is interpreted in terms of the established biozones from that area. The faunas are also correlated with the Australian zonal sequences. In North Greenland neither the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary nor the Ordovieian-Silurian boundary ean be precisely demarcated by graptolites. The folIowing graptolite biozones are represented: Anisograptus, Adelograptus & Clonograptus, T. approximalus, P. frulicosus, D. bifidus, I. victoriae lunatus, ? T. victoriae victoriae, ? l. victoriae maximus, Oncograptus, P. tentaculatus, ? 'D.' decoratus, ? H. lereliusculus, N. gracilis, C. bicornis, ? O. amplexicaulis, O. quadrimucronatus, D. ornatus and? P. pacificus. The relationship of the North Grecnland graptolites to the Ordovician 'Pacific faunal realm' and oceanic graptolite biofacies is briefly discussed.

The Classical Silk Road: Trade and Connectivity across Central Asia, 100 BCE–1200 CE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Iranian Plateau ◽  
The North ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Popular View ◽  
Bronze Mirrors ◽  
The Silk Road ◽  
East West

The Silk Road refers to all the overland routes connecting the major oasis kingdoms of Central Asia including Dunhuang, Turfan, Khotan, and Samarkand to their neighbors: the Chinese landmass, the Mongolian grasslands, the Iranian plateau, and the Indian subcontinent. The best-known routes ran east-west, but the north-south routes to the nomadic states of the Asian grasslands were also important. In the popular view of the Silk Road, extensive camel caravans carried goods over long distances, but this was rarely the case. Usually peddlers carried mostly local goods short distances. Government shipments to provision armies profoundly affected the region’s economy, because they involved much larger quantities than in the peddler trade. Rulers regularly exchanged envoys who carried gifts, exchanges that continued even when private trade fell off. Whatever the reason for an individual’s trip, almost everyone—whether envoy, missionary, artist, craftsman, or refugee—bought and sold goods to pay for travel along the Silk Road. Silk was not the primary commodity traded on these routes. Goods traveling east included ammonium chloride, paper, silver, gold, glassware, and aromatics such as spices, incense, and fragrant woods. Goods traveling west out of China included bronze mirrors, other metal goods, and paper, in addition to silk. Between 300 and 1000 ce, the most important function of silk was as a currency, not as a trade good, although it remained an important export throughout the period. A vibrant series of cultural exchanges occurred alongside these commercial exchanges. Technologies, medicine, plants, music, and fashion all moved in both directions across Central Asia. Multiple religions also entered China during this time. The term Silk Road may not be the most accurate term for these commercial and cultural exchanges, but, despite its flaws, the term has secured a firm place in both scholarly works and the popular mind.

The Identification of pastoralist sites Within the context of estate-based agriculture in ancient Greece: beyond the ‘Transhumance versus agro-pastoralism’ debate

1995 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 325-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamish Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Major Element ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Surface Survey ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Rural Sites ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

The present ‘transhumance versus agro-pastoralism’ debate is here set within the context of a broadly based anthropological approach to pastoralism. Certain constant features of the relationship of pastoralists to their landscape are identifiable, although many aspects of pastoral strategies are variable over time and space and across socio-economic groups. The control of much of the pastoral exploitation of the landscape in antiquity by wealthy estate owners is one important difference from the present day. The resulting observations are applied to the archaeological record of isolated rural sites now widely known from surface survey projects. It is argued that the tendency to assume that pastoralists are archaeologically invisible has meant that these very visible sites have been ignored as possible pastoral bases. The location of a number of these sites suggests that pastoralism was a major element in the activities focused on them in antiquity.

scholarly journals Regional Disparities on The New Silk Road: Some Thoughts about Regional Convergence

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Oldřich Hájek ◽  
Jana Novosáková ◽  
Michal Lukač
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Regional Convergence ◽  
Important Research ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Spatial Hierarchy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East West

Abstract Regional disparities are a research and political theme that has received considerable attention. This is also because regional disparities constitute a pull factor of migration, because high regional disparities may seriously threaten territorial integrity, and because socioeconomic development potential is not fully realized in lagging regions. Not surprisingly, regional disparities are an important research and political theme for New Silk Road countries and this is also reflected in the focus of this paper. The primary aim of this paper is to characterize regional disparities in selected New Silk Road countries, namely in China, in Russia and in Visegrad Four countries, and subsequently to discuss the relationship between regional disparities and the One Belt, One Road Initiative. The results point out the presence of a pattern of regional disparities in the countries. In this regard, the importance of the East-West gradient, of spatial hierarchy, and of inherited specialization is particularly emphasized. Reflecting the pattern of regional disparities, the potential of the One Belt, One Road Initiative to stimulate development of lagging regions is indicated.

scholarly journals ARTISTIC FUNCTION OF MYTH IS IN KAZAKH PROSE

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-373
Author(s):  
A. Tanzharikova ◽  
◽  
D. Satemirova ◽  
B. Kelgembayeva ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Artistic Function

The use of the myth in modern Kazakh prose in different senses is of interest to the reader. This allows us to determine how the authors' attitudes towards different literary trends are conveyed in the choice of basic myths to reflect the ideas presented in the myth. Using myths, the author enters into a dialogue with several traditions, and secondly, reinterprets a well-known mythological plot, creates his own image, as a result of which the narrative becomes a myth. The protagonist's mythological worldview is characterized by a special perception of time and space. This scientific article analyzes the features of the use of folk myths in Kazakh prose and identifies their artistic function.The prerequisites for renewed interest in myth in Kazakh prose at the end of the 20th century are being clarified. The relationship of mythological traditions and new literary trends in Kazakh prose is considered. The artistic function of myth is determined in the image of real life through mythological models and images.

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