From street dance to hip hop

This text historicizes the concept of street dance (dança de rua) by showing distances and approaches in relation to hip hop. For this purpose, the analysis starts from the cultural history of street dance in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais (Brazil), to understand the complex relationships that gave meaning and form to the practice of street dance between the 1980s and 1990s. In a first step, I investigate the various perspectives that permeate the bond between the popular dance and dance festivals, well as between the city neighbourhoods and dance clubs. In a second step, the analysis shifts to the cultural performance that allowed street dancers to migrate to the so-called hip hop dance. Analysing street dance and hip hop considering their ruptures and continuities, the text intends to contribute to studies dedicated to the presence of dance in the construction of urban identities.

Ecstasy-Induced Malignant Hyperthermia with Fatal Outcome: A Case Report

3,4-methylenedioxymetamphetamine (MDMA), also known as “ecstasy”, “tulips”, or “Molly”, is an increasingly used “recreational drug” particularly among teenagers and young adults along with the widespread conviction that MDMA is a “safe drug”. The reason for this substance being abused is a desire for closeness to other people, develop a greater tolerance of their views and feelings, and even to touch them physically. According to these effects MDMA is classified also as an “empatogenic” or “entactogenic”. Although MDMA is used for the above-mentioned socially acceptable purposes, in many individuals the drug usage is followed with side-effects varying from mild to severe, potentially even life-threatening. One of the most significant complication of MDMA intoxication is hyper-thermia in the consumer. Authors presented a case of MDMA toxicity with severe hyperthermia (42 ºC) with a fatal outcome to the ecstasy-influenced subject. The aim of this article is to describe the effects of ecstasy, the “recreational drug” widely used in local pubs, dance clubs, and during open air festivals, even in the Slovak Republic.

Features of the use of sports dances in the field of physical culture and sports

The popularity of sports dances continues to grow every year. It was found that today sports dances and their elements are actively used in physical education of preschoolers, schoolchildren and students. The adult population of the country is also involved in this sport. Popular are various dance clubs and hobby classes, which are open to people of all ages. The article identifies the main directions and features of the use of sports dances and their elements in the field of physical culture and sports. The programs and methods of application of elements of dance preparation in physical education of preschool children and schoolboys are considered. A significant number of techniques are aimed at developing physical abilities and improving the health of children. The use of the programs developed by the authors promotes harmonious physical development, attention development, improvement and optimization of the educational process of physical culture in secondary schools, the formation of motivation for physical education, the development of diverse harmonious personality, improving the physical condition of school children. The ways of improving the educational and training process and various aspects of the training of dancers are outlined both through the development of leading specific physical qualities and technical training. An important task in planning the process of physical training is the rational determination of priority areas at each stage of sports improvement. The importance of choreographic training in complex coordination sports, such as acrobatics, rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, sports aerobics, figure skating, diving, trampoline exercises is substantiated. It was found that choreographic training in sport dances includes a system of exercises and methods of influence aimed at educating the motor culture of dancers, to expand the arsenal of means of expression.

Black Market Business

This book is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. It explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years. The book argues that the confluence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes sweeping late colonial Tonkin created spaces of tension in which the interwar black-market sex industry thrived. The clandestine sex industry flourished in sites of legal inconsistency, cultural changes, economic disparity, rural–urban division, and demographic shifts. As a nexus of the many tensions besetting late colonial Tonkin, the black-market sex industry serves as a useful lens through which to examine these tensions and the ways they affected marginalized populations. More specifically, an investigation of this black market shows how a particular population of impoverished women — a group regrettably understudied by historians — experienced the tensions. Drawing on an astonishingly diverse and multilingual source base, the book includes detailed cases of juvenile prostitution, human trafficking, and debt-bondage arrangements in sex work, as well as cases in Tonkin's bars, hotels, singing houses, and dance clubs. Using GIS technology and big data sets to track individual actors in history, it serves as a model for teaching new methodological approaches to conducting social histories of women and marginalized people.

Evaluasi Cluster Social Media Data In Tourism Domain Menggunakan K-Means Clustering

Salah satu teknik dalam Data Mining yaitu clustering. Clustering adalah pengelompokan sejumlah data atau objek ke dalam cluster (group) sehingga setiap dalam cluster tersebut akan berisi data yang semirip mungkin dan berbeda dengan objek dalam cluster yang lainnya. K-means mempunyai kemampuan mengelompokkan data dalam jumlah yang cukup besar dengan waktu komputasi yang relatif cepat dan efisien. Penelitian ini membahas tentang penerapan data mining pada Online Reviews pada data TripAdvisor, menggunakan algoritma K-Means Clustering untuk menghasilkan profile yang memiliki kemiripan yang tinggi . Implementasi proses K-Means Clustring menggunakan Weka, Atribut yang digunakan adalah art galeries, dance clubs, juice bars, restaurants, museums, resorts, park/picnic spots, beaches, theaters dan religious institutions. Menghasilkan jumlah cluster 4 (k=4) dengan cluster pertama sebanyak 178 (18%) reviews traveler, cluster kedua 243 (25%) reviews traveler, cluster ketiga 228 (23%) reviews traveler, cluster keempat 331(34%) reviews traveler.

Arts Nonprofits—Associations and Agencies: A Literature Review

An association is “a relatively formally structured nonprofit group that depends mainly on volunteer members for participation and activity and that primarily seeks member benefits, even if it may also seek some public benefits” (Smith, Stebbins, & Dover, 2006, p. 23). The arts that give birth to these organizations can be classified as either fine art or entertainment art. Every art association is embedded each in its own art world and its own social world. Members of these association are mostly amateurs or hobbyists in their art.Publications on arts-related amateur, hobbyist, professional, and mixed-member associations are reviewed. Their prime mission is to foster, present, and sometimes chronicle the art that its members prize. Many of these works report on the structure of the associations as well as on the recruitment, artistic development, deployment of artists, dissemination of their art, and retention of their members. Also reviewed is a selection of publications bearing on what could be called “arts consumption clubs,” or groups such as book clubs, dance clubs, and jazz clubs established to generate interest in a given art. Some of the publications reviewed center on associational management, use of volunteers, and financial base of the group.

The impact of musical structure on enjoyment and absorptive listening states in trance music

The act of listening to music to reach altered states of consciousness is common across many different cultures around the world, ranging from tribal settings in Central Java, Indonesia, to EDM (electronic dance music) dance clubs in the Western world. Despite the widespread listenership to trance music, we lack a comprehensive, scientific account of how features of the musical surface and structure map onto the psychophysiological experience of music. This chapter provides an overview of existing research that connects the phenomenology of trancing to psychological and neurophysiological findings. It highlights two recent empirical studies that investigate how listeners’ enjoyment and self-reported altered states of consciousness are influenced by harmonic repetition and complexity in uplifting trance (UT) pieces. This leads to a discussion of the connection between the structural properties of trance music and their impact on listeners’ enjoyment and on altered states of consciousness.

Organization or Community-Based Outbreak? Responding to Cases of Meningitis Under Epidemiologic Uncertainty

Six cases of serogroup C invasive meningococcal disease were identified in Treviso district, Veneto region, Italy between December 13 and 15, 2007. The afflicted patients were found to have attended the same Latin-dance clubs on the same nights, and chemoprophylaxis was provided to potentially exposed individuals. Despite these efforts, 2 cases caused by the same meningococcal strain subsequently occurred in the same area, without any apparent epidemiological correlation to the initial cases. This may have resulted from a failure to neutralize the meningococcal carrier/s. The root cause analysis method applied to public health emergency preparedness was used to analyze the response to this critical incident. The root cause analysis revealed a need to develop regional guidelines for the classification and management of a meningococcal outbreak and for developing risk-communication strategies that include the identification of appropriate channels of communication for differing segments of the population. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:368–371)

Creating a new way of life for the youth in the 1920s

This paper deals with the problem of creating a new way of life for young people in the 1920s, which was of great importance in the work of the Bolshevik Party for the communist education of the younger generation. Creating a new way of life of the youth had its own peculiarities and was aimed at overcoming the traditional forms of individualistic way of life, educating the communist worldview, developing collective forms of relationships among the younger generation, involving young people in the struggle against religious and other everyday remnants. The party sought to establish control and manage youth through Komsomol organizations. The work of the Komsomol reflected all the contradictions inherent in the transitional era of the 1920s. The paper contains main forms and methods of practical work that created a new life among young people aimed at changing everyday relationships between young men and girls; it describes mass work for the youth through clubs, sports and dance clubs, cinematography; mobilization of young people to combat domestic remnants; creating new cultural and everyday traditions and their distribution through the youth to society as a whole.

Flor do Abacate: Workers of African Descent, Dancing Associations and Nationality in Rio de Janeiro, 1898–1914

From the last years of the nineteenth century until the first decades of the twentieth, the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro witnessed a new social phenomenon: the proliferation, in every neighbourhood, of small dance clubs formed by workers. Noteworthy among them was the Flor do Abacate, a recreational society founded in 1906 by a group of men and women of African descent. Far from making any claim to ‘being African’, this association promoted balls and parades in which African cultural heritage was shown in conjunction with other cultural logics valued as modern and cosmopolitan. As a consequence, it constituted a model of recreational society, black and modern at the same time, which its members tried to associate to a national profile. The objective of this article is to analyse both the logic that explains the organisation of this dance society and the challenges that its members faced in consolidating it.