Sound Communities Ostashewski, Marcia
Music and arts in action,
01/2020, Letnik:
7, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
What makes communities 'sound'? One key feature noted in this article is resilience, though a more extensive list of features of sound communities is also addressed. The term 'sound communities' is ...intentionally polysemous and perhaps especially for this reason demands an intensely interdisciplinary approach to its definition for use within ethnomusicology. The keyword 'sound communities' builds on the work of ethnomusicologist Jeff Todd Titon (2015) and puts the discussion in a much wider context of studies of community, communities of practice and performance, 'sound praxis' (Araujo, 2009), applied ethnomusicologies and peacebuilding. Case studies presented in this article are largely based on applied ethnomusicology approaches.
The figure of the Cossack in Canada has long been objectified as a model of Ukrainian culture and performance. Rather than a fixed stereotype, however, research shows the Cossack to be a flexible ...point of negotiation for Ukrainian identity and cultural expression in Canada. Analyses of dance and music performances and rich interview data demonstrate how hypermasculinity in particular has become a significant aspect of the Cossack image in recent Ukrainian Canadian song and dance performances. Some reasons for the wide appeal of the Cossack image in Canada are also explored in this essay.
This article presents action research that identified iPad
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tablet technology-supported teaching strategies in a dance classroom context. Dance classrooms use instructor-accessed music as a regular ...element of lessons, but video is both challenging and time-consuming to produce or display. The results of this study highlight how the Apple iPad tablet device can be used in the dance classroom for efficient digital media access as well as custom instructional video production. Three technology-supported teaching strategies-mobile small group demonstration, large group demonstration, and student-controlled playback and practice activities-were identified and described as part of this iPad implementation study. In theory, dance educators could enhance and extend their classroom practice using these new strategies or components of them. In practice, technology-supported teaching strategies require preparation time and appropriate classroom management techniques to be successful. Further research on efficient dance video segment creation and the benefits of those segments is needed.
I met Arnie Strynadka, who billed himself as the “The Uke-Cree Fiddler,” while conducting field research at the Vegreville Ukrainian Pysanka Festival in Alberta in 2002. When I stopped at Arnie’s ...booth to chat, he told me that he was the child of a marriage between a Cree woman and a man born of Ukrainian immigrants. I had already spent almost a decade researching and writing about Ukrainian music, culture, and identity, and I had spent my entire lifetime as a Ukrainian cultural, music, and dance performer and enthusiast. This was the first I had ever heard of family relations
In 2013, the Singing Storytellers research-creation public outreach project was initiated to study the lives, music and verbal art of bardic traditions across cultures. Singer-songwriters in ...contemporary popular music traditions have been the focus of scholarship, particularly in popular music studies, and popular discourse. In the case of Singing Storytellers, this included scholars, artist-practitioners, public and educational sector workers, community organizations and tourism and music industry professionals. The study of bards in Singing Storytellers resonates with theoretical interest in ethnomusicology, humanities and social sciences, offering opportunities to consider the importance of the individual in society and the politics of representation. One of the key legacy components of Singing Storytellers was our new production of a core Mande epic, the Sunjata story. The Singing Storytellers Symposium created a hub of activity and myriad opportunities for face-to-face interaction.
Autorica je u Cape Bretonu (Nova Scotia, Kanada) inicirala digitalni multimedijalni istraživački projekt, kojemu je glavna sastavnica mrežni portal diversitycapebreton.ca. Kontinuirano se razvija u ...tijesnoj suradnji sa samim zajednicama o kojima je riječ — onima podrijetlom iz istočne i srednje Europe, a obuhvaća digitalni repozitorij, virtualno uključivanje u njihove svjetove i druge interaktivne edukativne sadržaje. Namjera mu je nadoknaditi manjak u postojećim interpretacijama baštine Cape Bretona, usredotočenima na škotske i akadske karakteristike, predočujući raznolikost etnokulturnog profila ovoga otoka. Korisnici portala mogu pristupiti arhivskom gradivu kao što su fotografije, raznovrsni dokumenti te zvučni i video zapisi. Dostupni su i mnogobrojni interaktivni sadržaji, uključujući prethodno oblikovane izložbe (npr. zbirke usredotočene na glazbu, na povijest zajednica, pa su tu virtualni obilasci izložbenih postava, panoramski obilasci arhitektonske baštine, virtualne šetnje po četvrtima spomenutima u arhivskoj građi), nastavne materijale namijenjene učiteljima i virtualni svijet Cape Bretona po kojem se korisnici, nakon što stvore vlastiti lik, mogu kretati i doći u doticaj sa zvučnom i video građom vezanom uz važne lokacije u regiji. Portal je zamišljen kao široko dostupan živi repozitorij s rastućim fondom građe, što će omogućiti njezinu dugoročnu zaštitu, istraživanje i daljnje osnaživanje dijaloga i razmjene među svim dionicima i drugim zainteresiranim stranama. Takvo multimedijalno istraživanje posjeduje znatan potencijal da potpomogne angažman zajednica jer im pristupa na razumljiv način, povezujući privatnu, obrazovnu i baštinsku sferu. Javljaju se međutim i izazovi istraživanja provedenog uz angažman zajednice i za nju, napose kad istraživač radi s različitim zajednicama i živi među njima. Nadalje, ograničene mogućnosti programiranja te različita infrastrukturna i financijska ograničenja mogu utjecati i na multimedijalne alate. No oni, s druge strane, omogućuju nove i inovativne načine predstavljanja i dijeljena rezultata istraživanja povrh pukog tekstualnog predstavljanja, pohranu i očuvanje prikupljene građe te primjenu istraživanja na dobrobit istraživanih zajednica. Usto takvi alati potiču povezivanje umjetnosti i znanosti te nove tehnološke primjene. Projekt o kojemu je riječ visoko vrednuje sve sudjelujuće pojedince i zajednice, stavljajući naglasak na učenje u oba smjera, izgradnju i dijeljenje informacija te širenja znanja. Predstavlja vrijedan javni izvor o etnokulturnim skupinama koje su u Cape Bretonu aktivne od potkraj 19. stoljeća, no do danas su ostale mahom nevidljive. Osvjetljavajući iz novog ugla što to znači istraživati na atlantskoj obali Kanade, projekt promiče dublje razumijevanje kulturnih identiteta, te time odjekuje i povrh svog nacionalnog konteksta.
