The history of theatre has often been written as a history of great writers, actors, or directors. This book takes a different approach: The contributors examine the history of performance from the ...perspective of theatre spaces and stage technologies. Art, literature, religion, law, urbanism, architecture, technology - this interdisciplinary book discusses how these fields relate to theatre and performance. Geographically, it covers a significant portion of the globe; chronologically, it ranges from ancient times to the present. This book provides a timely attempt to combine cultural and global history.
Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsy—stage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans—remained arguably the most popular ...entertainment in North America. A renewed scholarly interest in this contentious form of entertainment has produced studies treating a range of issues: its contradictory depictions of class, race, and gender; its role in the development of racial stereotyping; and its legacy in humor, dance, and music, and in live performance, film, and television. The style and substance of minstrelsy persist in popular music, tap and hiphop dance, the language of the standup comic, and everyday rituals of contemporary culture. The blackface makeup all but disappeared for a time, though its influence never diminished—and recently, even the makeup has been making a comeback. This collection of original essays brings together a group of prominent scholars of blackface performance to reflect on this complex and troublesome tradition. Essays consider the early relationship of the blackface performer with American politics and the antislavery movement; the relationship of minstrels to the commonplace compromises of the touring “show” business and to the mechanization of the industrial revolution; the exploration and exploitation of blackface in the mass media, by D. W. Griffith and Spike Lee, in early sound animation, and in reality television; and the recent reappropriation of the form at home and abroad. In addition to the editor, contributors include Dale Cockrell, Catherine Cole, Louis ChudeSokei, W. T. Lhamon, Alice Maurice, Nicholas Sammond, and Linda Williams.
Math is in the air Ballesteros Álvarez, David; Casas Bernas, Nerea
Pensamiento matemático,
2019, Volume:
9, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Open access
Mathematics are present in all aspects of our life, but are we aware of it?
The proposal is an innovative talk, which in a fun and entertaining way, allows to approach mathematics, to students and ...the general public, in a visual and attractive way.
To achieve this goal, the talk has been designed combining two types of content. On the one hand, historical references on the evolution of the mathematics from its origins as a mere tool to count to the current complexity, which makes them essential for the development of scientific knowledge and for the advancement of society. On the other hand the talk focuses on offering a vision of mathematics linked to our daily life based on striking correlations with our daily experiences. Thus, topics such as the link of mathematics with our perception of beauty, the use of statistics to win in games of chance, its importance in the search for love or how is the presence of mathematical patterns in pop music are discussed.
Our intention is to awake the curiosity in mathematics, showing to the attendees their most unknown face and discovering the fascinating aspects hidden by this wonderful branch of knowledge.
Las matemáticas están presentes en todos los aspectos de nuestra vida, ¿pero somos conscientes de ello?
La propuesta es una charla innovadora, que de forma amena y divertida, permita acercar las matemáticas de una manera visual y atractiva a estudiantes y público general.
Para alcanzar este objetivo, se ha diseñado la charla combinando dos tipos de contenidos. Por un lado, referencias históricas sobre la evolución de las matemáticas desde sus orígenes como una mera herramienta para contar hasta la complejidad actual, que las hace imprescindibles para el desarrollo del conocimiento científico y para el avance de la sociedad. La otra vertiente de la charla se centra en ofrecer una visión de las matemáticas ligada a nuestra vida cotidiana partiendo de correlaciones llamativas con nuestras vivencias cotidianas.
Así, se tratan temas como los vínculos de las matemáticas con nuestra percepción de la belleza, el uso de la estadística para ganar en los juegos de azar, su importancia en la búsqueda del amor o cómo es la presencia de patrones matemáticos en la música pop.
Nuestra intención es despertar en los asistentes la curiosidad por las matemáticas, mostrando su cara más desconocida, descubriendo los fascinantes aspectos que oculta esta maravillosa rama del conocimiento.
David Lurie, the protagonist in Disgrace, boldly rejects the cyclical and persistent nature of state intrusion into private lives in post-apartheid South Africa. He presents a defence to counter a ...university academic committee's public interrogation into what he perceives ought to be a private matter, a spectacle of his sexual exploitation of Soraya and Melanie Isaacs. He scoffs at the menace of disciplinary hearings such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, trivialises the opportunity to defend himself, and flouts the committee's request, musing that in the new black politics his private life is public business. His obduracy to adapt to new political power and lesbian realities exhibits a false sense of entitlement to apartheid privileges. By analogy, Coetzee's depiction of the plaas and the raped lesbian body of Lucy similarly indicts an evolving post-apartheid South Africa that wrestles with the racialised history and memory of political change. Disgrace taps into the deep psychological attributes of complex and menacing human relationships and the intersectionality of land redistribution, retribution, state-sponsored and private in/justice. I contend, ultimately, that testimony as memory, truth-telling as menace and apology as spectacle are disrupted in a problematic if disorienting archive of narrative in post-apartheid Southern African literature.
The history of addressing of ballet art to literature has lasted for more than one century. However this cooperation increasingly causes discrepant appraisements from both specialists and viewership. ...They even offer opinions about unnatural character of alliance of ballet and literature as completely heterogeneous phenomena. Literature sources in their softer variant refer to be only a distant primary push for completely self consistent and autonomous choreographer’s creativity. Such affirmations seem to be not enough convincing. Bearing in mind inevitability of organic relations between various phenomena, belonging to one and the same cultural sphere, while interacting, each one reproduces definite features of the other. This is all the more characteristic in the situation of intersemiotic translation of the text content into a language common to a phenomenon of another indicative nature. In this case basis of adequate translation is built from common significant patterns characteristic of the both texts. For literature and ballet such patterns are visually entertaining aspects of a work, embodying narrative, conceptual and emotional aspects of the content. They are internally enclosed into the literature text, they are perceived by a choreographer, and they form basis for the creative conception. Specification of a scenic image is an aspect of a complex of actual socio-cultural contexts of the historic epoch, in which the act of transferring of literature into a ballet action takes place
This document focuses on a type of relationship between the media and the penal system, through the work of a case study around a recent femicide in
Colombia, presented by the television program ...Séptimo Día. It inscribes the sensationalist communication matrix of this within a scopic regime that dis-
criminates against some types of violence over others that it hides, for political reasons, and correlates the visibility of femicide with that of the murder of
social leaders in the country. It involved the review of the press, audiovisual material and databases, and made it possible to create a proposal to read this type of relationship between the media and the criminal justice system within what will be presented here as fiscal journalism.
Este documento se centra en un tipo de relación entre medios de comunicación y sistema penal, mediante el trabajo de un estudio de caso en torno a un
feminicidio reciente en Colombia, presentado por el programa de televisión Séptimo Día. Inscribe la matriz de comunicación sensacionalista de este dentro
de un régimen escópico que discrimina unas violencias por encima de otras que oculta, por causas políticas, y correlaciona la visibilidad del feminicidio
con la del asesinato de líderes sociales en el país. Implicó la revisión de prensa, material audiovisual y bases de datos, y posibilitó fabricar una propuesta para
leer este tipo de relación entre medios y sistema penal dentro de lo que aquí se expondrá como periodismo fiscal.
Evading an exact definition, the feeling of nature remains a difficult concept to be grasped in Roman thought, although one feels it today going through not only intellectual creation but also the ...architectural genius, from Cicero to Pliny the Younger and from Libanios to Sidonius Apollinaris. By means of a study combining descriptive texts, circumstance poetry and letters, this article focuses on the close link between the domus, the pleasure villas and the natural landscapes that are contemplated. Countryside and lakes, coast and mountain ranges: the Romans have created a visual symbiosis with the surrounding nature, from the belvederes of their residences. This very diverse experimentation, ranging from admiration to a feeling of anxiety, is particularly evident through the filter of gardens, where the scheduled and dominated plant element is recomposed with the view from reception rooms, cubicula, porticos and belvederes. Frescoes or mosaics also sometimes magnify the environment of the represented areas. Through the multiple panoramas of the Empire, it is a way of staging the spectacle of nature that characterizes the architecture of Roman leisure.
The history of theatre has often been written as a history of great writers, actors, or directors. This book takes a different approach: The contributors examine the history of performance from the ...perspective of theatre spaces and stage technologies. Art, literature, religion, law, urbanism, architecture, technology - this interdisciplinary book discusses how these fields relate to theatre and performance. Geographically, it covers a significant portion of the globe; chronologically, it ranges from ancient times to the present. This book provides a timely attempt to combine cultural and global history.
From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of
the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in
human-orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in
this volume ...present an array of case studies that inspire new ways
of interpreting animal performance and the role of animal agency in
the performing relationship.
In exploring the human-animal relationship from the early modern
period to the nineteenth century, Performing Animals
questions what it means for an animal to "perform," examines how
conceptions of this relationship have evolved over time, and
explores whether and how human understanding of performance is
changed by an animal's presence. The contributors discuss the role
of animals in venues as varied as medieval plays, natural
histories, dissections, and banquets, and they raise provocative
questions about animals' agency. In so doing, they demonstrate the
innovative potential of thinking beyond the boundaries of the
present in order to dismantle the barriers that have traditionally
divided human from animal.
From fleas to warhorses to animals that "perform" even after
death, this delightfully varied volume brings together examples of
animals made to "act" in ways that challenge obvious notions of
performance. The result is an eye-opening exploration of
human-animal relationships and identity that will appeal greatly to
scholars and students of animal studies, performance studies, and
posthuman studies.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Todd Andrew
Borlik, Pia F. Cuneo, Kim Marra, Richard Nash, Sarah E. Parker, Rob
Wakeman, Kari Weil, and Jessica Wolfe.
Effective spectacle coverage is a useful indicator to assess the coverage of refraction services in a given region. We found a low coverage in the Akividu region suggesting a need to develop ...effective refraction services.
To assess the prevalence of spectacle use and effective spectacle coverage for distance vision among people aged 40 years and older in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
A population-based cross-sectional survey was carried out in the Akividu region in West Godavari and Krishna districts. The study teams visited selected households and conducted eye examinations in the selected clusters. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information on spectacle use. 'Met Need' was defined as unaided VA worse than 6/12 but improved to 6/12 or better with their current spectacles. 'Unmet Need' was defined as unaided VA worse than 6/12 but improved to 6/12 with pinhole, among those not using spectacles. The 'Under-met Need' was defined as aided VA worse than 6/12 but improving with pinhole to 6/12 or better. Based on these definitions, Effective Refractive Error Coverage (e-REC) is calculated as: e-REC (%) s = ((met need)/(met need + under-met need + unmet need)) X100.
Of 3,000 enumerated from 60 clusters, 2,587 (86.2%) participants were examined. The prevalence of current spectacle use was 43.1% (95% CI:41.2-45.0). The e-REC was 37.4%. It was also lower in men compared to women and among those without any education. Participants who had cataract surgery in either eye had similar e-REC compared to those who were not operated.
Though spectacle use was found to be high, there is a still large unmet need for refractive correction for distance. Effective service delivery models to provide refraction and spectacle dispensing services are needed to achieve universal eye health coverage in the region.
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