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Kroløkke, Charlotte. Gender communication theories & analyses: From silence to performance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005.
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Scott, Sørensen Ann, ed. Gender communication theories & analyses: From silence to performance. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2006.
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Dupré, Sven, Anna Harris, Julia Kursell, Patricia Lulof, and Maartje Stols-Witlox, eds. Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463728003.
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Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materials, bodily knowledge and sensory skills, and in forms of education and public engagement in classrooms and museums. This book offers, for the first time, sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative methods, variously known as Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment (RRR) practices across the fields of history of science, archaeology, art history, conservation, musicology and anthropology. Each of these fields has distinct histories, approaches, tools and research questions. Researchers in the historical disciplines have used reconstructions to learn about the materials and practices of the past, while anthropologists and ethnographers have more often studied the re-enactments themselves, participating in these performances as engaged observers. In this book, authors bring their experiences of RRR practices within their discipline into conversation with RRR practices in other disciplines, providing a basis for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization.
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1956-, Longhurst Brian, ed. Audiences: A sociological theory of performance and imagination. London: Sage, 1998.
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Terry, Anzur, ed. Power performance: Multimedia storytelling for journalism and public relations. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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1949-, Thomas Sari, ed. Communication and culture: Language performance, technology, and media : selected proceedings from the Sixth International Conference on Culture and Communication, Temple University, 1986. Norwood, N.J: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1990.
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Bertot, John Carlo. Statistics and performance measures for public library networked services. Chicago: American Library Association, 2001.
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Kuprina, Elena. Co-creation in music and music education. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1019193.
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The monograph is devoted to the problem of musical co-creation, represents the artistic and dynamic system. The author considers the musical co-creation from the perspective of interdisciplinary approach, as the phase of the creative process, featuring self-contained characteristics, manifested in the "I" and "I'm Different" through specific regularities and principles.
In music co-creation differentiated into spheres, types and forms, where the role of the ratio of the subjects and the performance of co-creative artistic projects are analyzed from the position of system dynamics. In music education operates a pedagogy of co-creation, manifesting the specifics through professional, psychological, reflective, and educational facets. Presented to the organizational form of the pedagogy of co-creation, from the perspective of information approach given the findings of a study of the influence of pop on the sensory system of the student of a musician-performer (the performer).
Can be used in courses of the disciplines of the history of music, music psychology and music pedagogy, pedagogy of co-creation. Addressed to students of music schools, teachers, musicians of all disciplines, musicologists and cultural studies, researchers, creative processes, and a wide circle of curious readers.
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Brusa, Elisabetta. 8 tesi per 150 anni. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-384-7.
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8 tesi per 150 anni è un filo rosso che parte dalle pagine di alcuni libri-tesi, preziosamente conservati tra le mura dell’Archivio Storico di Ca’ Foscari, per trasformarsi nel corso del 2018 nel simbolico volo di alcune rondini-studenti.Mettendo insieme voci provenienti dal passato e voci e corpi della nostra contemporaneità, Fucina Arti Performative Ca’ Foscari ha celebrato, nell’anno dei festeggiamenti per i 150 anni dell’Ateneo veneziano, gli otto Dipartimenti, dedicando ad ognuno di questi una performance realizzata partendo dall’elaborazione di una tesi.Spaziando cronologicamente (la prima tesi affrontata è del 1913) tra le diverse aree di studio – Economia, Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi, Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea, Studi Umanistici, Management e Scienze Ambientali, Informatica, Statistica – e, itinerando tra la magnificenza di sale, aule magne, cortili e auditorium cafoscarini, Fucina – con i suoi abitanti virtuali, studenti provenienti da tutti e otto i Dipartimenti, a cui si sono aggiunti studenti del Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello e dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia – è riuscita a costruire un mosaico di narrazioni intrecciando temi, ricerche, personaggi storici e figure immaginifiche, che ha condiviso con un pubblico curioso e attento.Il testo che qui presentiamo è la testimonianza di quanto realizzato ed è costituito dalla raccolta degli otto copioni, elaborati di volta in volta da uno studente-curatore.La collaborazione con i direttori dei Dipartimenti, con docenti di discipline diverse, con il personale cafoscarino coinvolto nella sfida, oltre alla partecipazione di Ca’ Foscari Alumni e di altre istituzioni veneziane, insieme all’Agenzia di Venezia di Banca Mediolanum, ha trasformato quest’esperienza in un possibile modello universitario di ricerca performativa.Se chi legge riuscirà a mettere in movimento processi immaginativi, allora per tutti coloro che hanno vissuto e condiviso questo progetto ambizioso sarà un ulteriore traguardo raggiunto.Fucina Arti Performative Ca’ Foscari nasce con il nome di Cantiere Teatro Ca’ Foscari nel 2011 come spazio fisico e mentale, teorico e pratico, aperto durante l’anno accademico agli studenti dei vari Dipartimenti desiderosi di confrontarsi con tematiche e sviluppi del mondo delle arti performative, realizzando produzioni proprie. Nel 2018 Cantiere Teatro Ca’ Foscari, diretto da Elisabetta Brusa, si trasforma in Fucina Arti Performative Ca’ Foscari.
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Hamera, Judith. Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies. Sage Publications, Inc, 2005.
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Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies. Sage Publications, Inc, 2005.
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Qiong Yu, Sabrina, and Guy Austin, eds. Revisiting Star Studies. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474404310.001.0001.
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This collection revisits star studies with themes and methods from the latest international research into stardom and fandom across the globe. It challenges the Hollywood-centrism in star studies by presenting new angles and models, and raises important questions about image, performance, gender, sexuality, race, fandom, social media, globalisation, and translocal stardom. This volume seeks to expand the notion of stardom that is traditionally associated with glamour and desirability to include less glamourous, more troubling stardom (e.g. ageing stars, ‘crip’ stars), or previously unacknowledged stardom (e.g. porn stars, animal stars). It also aims to expand star studies to a wider range of critical disciplines by engaging with performance studies, genre studies, sound studies, disability studies, animal studies and so on. From Hollywood to Bollywood, from China to Spain, and from Poland to Mexico, this collection revisits the definitions of stars and star studies that have been previously based on the study of Hollywood stardom, and points the way forward to new ways of approaching the field.
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Goad, Tom W. Information Literacy and Workplace Performance. Quorum Books, 2002.
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Krolokke, Charlotte, and Anne Scott Sorensen. Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to Performance. Sage Publications, Inc, 2005.
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Krolokke, Charlotte, and Anne Scott Sorensen. Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to Performance. Sage Publications, Inc, 2005.
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Kroløkke, Charlotte, and Anne Scott Sorensen. Gender Communication Theories and Analyses: From Silence to Performance. SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2012.
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Windsor, W. Luke. Measurement and models of performance. Edited by Susan Hallam, Ian Cross, and Michael Thaut. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298457.013.0030.
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This article describes and evaluates the ways in which both the measurement and modelling of performances have contributed to the emerging discipline of music psychology. What is intended is a tutorial guide covering major issues, techniques, and findings in this area, along with enough context and exemplification to meet this end. Measurement and modelling have provided the psychology of music with substantial insights into the processes underlying music performance. One can safely assume that these insights will be extended given the attention paid to this area by researchers. However, it is disappointing to note that work on expression in music is being simultaneously studied both by musicologists and psychologists, without much reference to each others' work.
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Ready, Jonathan L. Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835066.001.0001.
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This book queries from three different angles what it means to speak of Homeric poetry together with the word “text.” Scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies on the relationship between orality and textuality motivates and undergirds the project. Part I uses work in linguistic anthropology on oral texts and oral intertextuality to illuminate both the verbal and oratorical landscapes our Homeric poets fashion in their epics and what the poets were striving to do when they performed. Looking to folkloristics, Part II examines modern instances of the textualization of an oral traditional work in order to reconstruct the creation of written versions of the Homeric poems through a process that began with a poet dictating to a scribe. Combining research into scribal activity in other cultures, especially in the fields of religious studies and medieval studies, with research into performance in the field of linguistic anthropology, Part III investigates some of the earliest extant texts of the Homeric epics, the so-called wild papyri. Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE. By looking at oral texts, dictated texts, and wild texts, this book traces the intricate history of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, long before the emergence of standardized written texts. Researchers in a number of disciplines will benefit from this comparative and interdisciplinary study.
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Weiss, Sarah. Ritual Soundings. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042294.001.0001.
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This book documents ways in which women’s performance practices engage with and localize world religions while creating opportunities for women’s agency. This study draws on the rich resources of three disciplines: ethnomusicology, gendered studies of religion, and religious music studies. It is a meta-ethnography formed by comparisons among different ethnographic case studies. The book analyses women’s performances at religious events in cultural settings spread across the world to demonstrate the pivotal roles women can play in localizing the practice of world religions, exploring moments in which performance allows women the agency to move, however momentarily, beyond culturally determined boundaries while revealing patterns that suggest unsuspected similarities in widely divergent religious contexts. With the rise of religious fundamentalism and with world politics embroiled in debate about women’s bodies and their comportment in public, ethnomusicologists and other scholars must address questions of religion, gender, and their intersection. By reading deeply into, but also across, the ethnographic detail of multiple studies, this book reveals patterns of similarity between unrelated cultures. It invites ethnomusicologists back into comparative work, offering them encouragement to think across disciplinary boundaries and suggesting that they can actively work to counter the divisive rhetoric of religious exceptionalism by revealing the many ways in which religions and cultures are similar to one another.
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Music in the Body –The Body in Music. Georg Olms Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.25366/2022.84.
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The body matters in the humanities and within social and cultural studies. It is variously understood as a knowledge store and transmitter, as a node of perception and cognition, as a site of discipline and power and as a locus of identity and agency. But how is the body integral to our concept of music? With increasing interest, Musicology is discovering the epistemological role of the body and its potential as analytical tool, pursuing avenues such as affect studies, performance studies, gender in music and musical perception and cognition. This volume of collected works draws on an international conference, held at the Department of Musicology at the University of Göttingen in 2019, that aimed to bring together various theoretical perspectives relating to the body and evaluating its present musicological relevance. It explores pathways into a fundamental debate on the body as a central musicological category and reflects on the relevance of this category in the application of diverse musical objects and practices. Composition and performance, aesthetic discourse and sociological analysis, perception and production are all discussed in relation to bodily knowledge, bodily practice and bodily norms. Historical, contemporary, analytical, ethnographic and artistic-experimental approaches reflect the richness of the musicological discipline and its forays into the musical body. The publication contains twelve different approaches to the body in music in German and English by Sylvain Brétéché, Max Ischebeck, Werner Jauk, Jasna Jovicevic, Moritz Kelber, Tobias Knickmann, Ina Knoth, Madeleine Le Bouteiller, Alastair White, Martin Winter, Stefanie Schroedter and Martin Zenck.
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Thomas, Sari, and William A. Evans. Studies in Communication, Volume 4: Communication and Culture: Language, Performance, Technology, and Media (Communication and Information Science). Ablex Publishing, 1990.
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von Kellenbach, Katharina, and Matthias Buschmeier, eds. Guilt. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197557433.001.0001.
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The book investigates the role of guilt in the global discussion of locally specific legacies of mass violence and injustice. Guilt is an indispensable element in human social and emotional life that surfaces as a central phenomenon in the cultural politics of memory, transitional justice, and the aftermath of violence. The nuances and complexities of various national and historical guilt configurations foster insights into guilt’s transformative possibilities. The book interweaves specific case studies with broader theoretical reflections on the conditions that turn the emotional, legal, and cultural phenomenon of guilt into a culturally transformative dynamic that repairs relationships, equalizes power dynamics, demands new social orders, and creates literary, artistic, and religious productions and performances. The authors examine different case studies on the basis of discipline-specific definitions of guilt, ranging from psychology to law, philosophy to literature, religion to history and anthropology. The contributors generally approach guilt less as a personal emotion than as a socio-legal, moral, and culturally ambivalent force that mandates ritual performance, political negotiation, legal adjudication, artistic and literary representation, and intergenerational transmission. The book calls for a more nuanced understanding of the world’s—and history’s—diversity of guilt concepts and the cultivation of cultural strategies to negotiate guilt relations in specific religious, cultural, and local ways.
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Abercrombie, Nick, and Brian Longhurst. Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination. Sage Publications Ltd, 1998.
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Abercrombie, Nick, and Brian Longhurst. Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination. SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 1998.
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Abercrombie, Nick, and Brian Longhurst. Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination. Sage Publications Ltd, 1998.
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Abercrombie, Nick, and Brian Longhurst. Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination. SAGE Publications, Limited, 2012.
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Gentry, Philip M. Introduction—Music and Identity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190299590.003.0001.
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This first chapter of the book introduces its key concepts. The term “identity” became popularized after World War II, thanks to social scientists attempting to describe new modes of self-fashioning. At the same time, large social movements began to coalesce around the concert, and simultaneously, there was a large growth in new musical styles and institutions. Rather than impose larger abstract theories, the book’s methodology is to examine individual scenes of music-making, asking how individuals made use of the concept of identity, especially in political terms. A more holistic notion of music, drawn from the discipline of performance studies, allows the book to make connections between often disparate strategies.
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The Field Guide To The 6ds How To Use The Six Disciplines To Transform Learning Into Business Results Tips Tools Case Studies And Practical Advice. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2014.
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Garrett, Peter, Angie Williams, and Nikolas Coupland. Investigating Language Attitudes: Social Meanings of Dialect, Ethnicity and Performance. University of Wales Press, 2003.
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Hollenback, Kacy L., and Michael Brian Schiffer. Technology and Material Life. Edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.013.0013.
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Humans live in a world of things. They are surrounded by artefacts. Referred to as the social shaping of technology, this has been an interesting area of research in the recent past. The focus of this article is on the ‘material life’ of human beings, and the place of technology within it. The authors approach this topic from the discipline of archaeology, specifically behavioural archaeology, but also draw on research in other fields. This article, expands this framework to include the life histories of technologies and associated material practices. This article further contextualizes contemporary technology studies, primarily in archaeology, and considers how theoretical concepts from behavioural archaeology and social constructivist studies of technology might be combined. Archaeological studies of technology are explained in details in the following section with special emphasis on performance characteristics. This article also explains the life history of technology which helps us conceptualize material practices in relation to objects and technologies.
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Leisink, Peter, Lotte B. Andersen, Gene A. Brewer, Christian B. Jacobsen, Eva Knies, and Wouter Vandenabeele, eds. Managing for Public Service Performance. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192893420.001.0001.
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How does management make a meaningful contribution to public service performance? This is the overall question of this volume. The sixteen chapters aim to clarify conceptual issues; critically reflect on assumptions underlying public management and public service performance understandings; theoretically explain direct and indirect relationships between management and performance; and outline a research agenda based on a review of the extant literature. In order to achieve these aims, this volume takes a multidisciplinary, critical, rigorous, and context-sensitive approach. The disciplines of public management, leadership, human resource management, and work and organization psychology are combined because they focus differently on aspects of management, public service performance, employee outcomes, and linking mechanisms such as employees’ attitudes and behaviors. Multidisciplinarity is illustrated by the variety of management aspects examined: different types of leadership behaviors, people management, performance management, human resource management systems, diversity management, and change management. Stakeholders often emphasize different public values that influence what they hold desirable in public service provision. The authors critically reflect on which stakeholder interests are included and excluded in empirical studies. The institutional perspective informs critical reflection on public sector context factors that affect the management–performance relationship in democratic societies. By paying attention to distinctive features of the public sector context, the volume contributes to both knowledge growth and the improvement of public services in practice.
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Silvia, Tony, and Terry Anzur. Power Performance: Multimedia Storytelling for Journalism and Public Relations. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2011.
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Silvia, Tony, and Terry Anzur. Power Performance: Multimedia Storytelling for Journalism and Public Relations. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2011.
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Silvia, Tony, and Terry Anzur. Power Performance: Multimedia Storytelling for Journalism and Public Relations. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2015.
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Rosenberg, Douglas, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199981601.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies is the first publication to offer a scholarly overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema, and media arts articulate the practice of screendance as an interdisciplinary, hybrid form that has yet to be correctly sited as an academic field worthy of critical investigation. Each essay discusses and reframes current issues, as a means of promoting and enriching dialogue within the wider community of dance and the moving image. Topics addressed include politics of the body; agency, race, and gender in screendance; the relationship of choreography to image; constructs of space and time; dance and interactive and digital technology; representation and effacement; production and curatorial practice; and other areas of intersecting disciplines, such as kinesthetic explorations. The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies features newly commissioned and original scholarship that will be essential reading for all those interested in the intersection of dance and the moving image, including film and videomakers, choreographers and dancers, screendance and videodance artists, academics and writers, producers, composers, as well as the wider public. It will become an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals in the field and is intended as the first classroom text for screendance courses.
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Sunardi, Christina. Aims and Approaches. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038952.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the main aims and analytical approaches underpinning this book's research. It draws theoretical and methodological approaches from ethnomusicology, anthropology, gender studies, dance studies, Southeast Asian studies, and other disciplines—combining interpretive ethnography, textual analysis, and analysis of performance—in order to present a brief overview of each major theme tackled in this work: power, gender and sex, tradition, and Islam. All of these are analyzed in the context of east Javanese presentational dance and music in order to examine the perseverance of “female power” in the face of a variety of cultural pressures that work to contain, control, and suppress it.
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Noy, Chaim. Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015.
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Noy, Chaim. Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015.
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Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015.
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Londoño-Pérez, Constanza, Martha Peña-Sarmiento, Santiago Amaya-Nassar, Daniel Felipe Rodríguez-Caballero, Sandra Jimena Perdomo-Escobar, Ana María Pérez-Caro, Jaime Humberto Moreno-Méndez, et al. Perspectivas de investigación psicológica: aportes a la comprensión e intervención de problemas sociales. Edited by Constanza Londoño-Pérez and Martha Peña-Sarmiento. Editorial Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/9789585133808.2021.
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This book presents investigative advances in psychology related to the lines of research of the Department of Psychology of the Catholic University of Colombia, whose central purpose is the generation of new knowledge with social repercussions. In this sense, the studies presented within the framework of the lines of Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Health and Addictions, Psychobiological and Behavioral Processes, Legal Psychology and Criminology, Social, Political and Community Psychology, and Research Methods applied to the behavioral sciences, although oriented from different perspectives and methodologies, they unite in the same purpose: to strengthen their approach towards problems of social relevance without losing their contribution to psychological discipline. As a consequence, this book presents an enriched thematic variety directly related to the lines of research such as credibility of the testimony, adolescent domestic violence, cognitive training in older adults, family functioning and quality of life, emotional reparation in survivors of sexual violence in the middle of the Colombian armed conflict, dissatisfaction with body image, relational therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy in victims of the Colombian armed conflict, the relationship between physical activity and academic performance, and organizational change. The results of the studies can be problematized and vitalized in different application contexts.
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McClure, Charles R., Joe Ryan, and John Carlo Bertot. A Guide for Using Statistics and Performance Measures: Public Library Networked Services. American Library Association, 2000.
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Martin, Jeffrey J. Handbook of Disability Sport and Exercise Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638054.001.0001.
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This book seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the research done in sport and exercise psychology with individuals with disabilities. Research from diverse academic disciplines such as psychology, medicine, health, recreation, kinesiology, sociology and disability studies is reviewed. In the first part of the book, covering 5 chapters, philosophy of science issues, models of disability, how to conduct quality research, research controversies, and living with a disability are explored. In a second section on sport psychology, covering 19 chapters, diverse topics such as self-efficacy, athletic and superchip identities, motivation, self-esteem, peer relationships, sport retirement, coaching, and performance enhancement are covered. In the last part on exercise psychology, covering 16 chapters, a range of topic such as obesity and fitness, exercise barriers, body image, quality of life, physical education, wounded warriors, intellectual impairments, and gender issues are discussed. All chapters conclude with extensive directions for new avenues of research and exploration.
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Anno, Mariko. Piercing the Structure of Tradition. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781939161079.001.0001.
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What does freedom sound like in the context of traditional Japanese theater? Where is the space for innovation, and where can this kind of innovation be located in the rigid instrumentation of the Noh drama? This book investigates flute performance as a space to explore the relationship between tradition and innovation. This first English-language monograph traces the characteristics of the Noh flute (nohkan), its music, and transmission methods and considers the instrument's potential for development in the modern world. The book examines the musical structure and nohkan melodic patterns of five traditional Noh plays and assesses the degree to which Issō School nohkan players maintain to this day the continuity of their musical traditions in three contemporary Noh plays influenced by William Butler Yeats. The book's ethnographic approach draws on interviews with performers and case studies, as well as the author's personal reflection as a nohkan performer and disciple under the tutelage of Noh masters. The book argues that traditions of musical style and usage remain influential in shaping contemporary Noh composition and performance practice, and the existing freedom within fixed patterns can be understood through a firm foundation in Noh tradition.
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Mazor, Barry. Country Music and Film. Edited by Travis D. Stimeling. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190248178.013.7.
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This chapter presents an overview of available writing and research materials within country music history and cinema studies disciplines on the interaction of commercial country music and theatrical motion pictures—how the music and its practitioners have been represented on-screen and reception of both have been affected by that representation, and how the music has contributed to films. The deficit in systematic resources for study is described—the lack of country music film archives, filmographies of related motion pictures, and dedicated catalogues. Literature (or its absence) engaging country music and the screen as they evolved and related in the silent, prewar sound, postwar country music boom, and post-1970 “New Hollywood” periods is outlined. How country music performances have served narratives and as self-contained cinematic elements are differentiated, and film’s continuing use as an agency for shaping country’s cultural respectability is outlined.
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Cheyne, Peter, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison, eds. The Philosophy of Rhythm. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199347773.001.0001.
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Spanning all cultures, rhythm is the basic pulse that animates poetry and music. The recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience—particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary studies—has yet to explore this fundamental category. Discussion of rhythm tends to be confined within the discrete conceptual domains and technical vocabularies of musicology and prosody. With its original essays by philosophers, psychologists, musicians, literary theorists, and ethno-musicologists, this volume opens up wider—and plural—perspectives. It examines formal affinities between the historically interconnected fields of music, dance, and poetry, addressing key concepts such as embodiment, movement, pulse, and performance. Questions considered include: What is the distinction between rhythm and pulse? What is the relationship between everyday embodied experience, and the specific experience of music, dance, and poetry? Can aesthetics offer an understanding of rhythm that helps inform our responses to visual and other arts, as well as music, dance, and poetry? What is the relation between psychological conceptions of entrainment, and the humane concept of rhythm and meter? This collection provides a unique overview of a neglected aspect of aesthetic experience, and will appeal across disciplinary boundaries. It examines formal affinities between the historically interconnected fields of music, dance, and poetry, addressing key concepts such as embodiment, movement, pulse, and performance. The book is conceived throughout to appeal to a cross-disciplinary readership.
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Ezra, Elizabeth, and Catherine Wheatley, eds. Shoe Reels. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451406.001.0001.
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Shoe Reels examines the special relationship between shoes and cinema. The book considers the narrative and aesthetic functions of shoes, asking why they are so memorable, and what their wider cultural resonance might be. Written by experts from a range of disciplines, including film and television studies, philosophy, history, and fashion, this collection covers cinema from its origins to the present day, and spans a global range of films from the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. Besides protecting the feet, shoes contribute to the performance of gender; they indicate aspects of personality, sexuality, race, ethnicity and social class; and they serve as tools of seduction. As objects designed for the body, shoes also affirm the materiality of individual bodies and the endurance of the human body itself when physical presence has been progressively de-emphasised, first with the advent of technical reproducibility (printing, photography, cinema, radio and the like), and now with the rise of digital technology in the virtual era. The very materiality of shoes—the fact that they are things—is what makes them ripe for analysis. Shoes humanise, setting people apart from non-human animals, but they can also serve to dehumanise. Objects par excellence of hyper-consumption, shoes are situated at the crossroads of sexual fetishism and commodity fetishism. Shoes are clearly more than just good to wear, then: to paraphrase Claude Lévi-Strauss, they are also good to think.
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Barrett, Rusty. From Drag Queens to Leathermen. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390179.001.0001.
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This book analyzes gendered forms of language use in several different gay male subcultures. The subcultures considered include drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen. The chapters include ethnographic-based studies of language use in each of these subcultures, giving special attention to the ways in which linguistic patterns index forms of masculinity and femininity. In each case, speakers combine linguistic forms in ways that challenge normative assumptions about gender and sexuality. In an extension of prior work, Barrett discusses the intersections of race, gender, and social class in performances by African American drag queens in the 1990s. An analysis of sacred music among radical faeries considers the ways in which expressions of gender are embedded in a broader neo-pagan religious identity. The formation of bear as an identity category (for heavyset and hairy men) in the late 1980s involve the appropriation of linguistic stereotypes of rural Southern masculinity. Among regular attendees of circuit parties (similar to raves), language serves to differentiate gay and straight forms of masculinity. In the early 2000s, barebackers (gay men who eschew condoms) used language to position themselves as rational risk takers with a natural innate desire for semen. For participants in the International Mr. Leather contest, a disciplined, militaristic masculinity links expressions of patriotism with BDSM sexual practice. In all of these groups, the construction of gendered identity involves combining linguistic forms that would usually not co-occur. These unexpected combinations serve as the foundation for the emergence of unique subcultural expressions of gay male identity.
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Button, Chris, Ludovic Seifert, Jia Yi Chow, Duarte Araújo, and Keith Davids. Dynamics of Skill Acquisition. 2nd ed. Human Kinetics, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718214125.
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Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological dynamics framework for understanding movement behavior, this heavily updated edition stays on the cutting edge, with principles of nonlinear pedagogy and methodologies from the constraints-led approach. Students and practitioners across a variety of professions—including coaches, physical educators, trainers, and rehabilitation specialists—will appreciate the applied focus of this second edition. Movement models throughout the text provide examples for visualizing task constraints and enhancing the study and understanding of movement behavior. Athletes and sports teams are presented as specific complex adaptive systems, with information on designing learning environments and adapting programs to foster skill development. Readers will learn the historical evolution of dynamical systems theory and the ecological dynamics framework. These foundational concepts illustrate the integration between intentional action, cognition, and decision making and their effects on performance and behavior. Complex theoretical concepts are explained in simple terms and related to practice, focusing on the implications of the work of pioneering researchers such as Nikolai Bernstein, Egon Brunswik, James Gibson, Scott Kelso, and Karl Newell. Case studies written by practitioners contain specific examples of the ecological dynamics framework in action, bringing theory to life. By learning how to identify and manipulate key constraints that influence learning skilled behavior, readers will gain insight into practice designs for creating positive learning experiences that enable individuals to develop and learn functional movements. Throughout the book, learning features guide readers through material with clear direction and focus to improve understanding. Spotlight on Research sidebars provide detailed descriptions of important studies to connect theory, research, and application. Lab activities teach application skills beyond the content, ensuring reader understanding. In addition, chapter objectives, self-test questions, and Key Concept sidebars highlight important concepts in each chapter. With the study of human movement now bridging many disciplines, including motor development, psychology, biology, and physical therapy, Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides a timely analysis of the ecological dynamics framework and presents a comprehensive model for understanding how coordination patterns are assembled, controlled, and acquired. The theoretical roots and development of the ecological dynamics framework provide application strategies for all people with an interest in movement coordination and control. AUDIENCE An upper-level undergraduate or graduate textbook for courses in human movement and skill acquisition. A professional reference for movement practitioners and scientists, including teachers, coaches, trainers, physical educators, physical therapists, rehabilitation specialists, sport scientists, psychologists, biomechanists, sport analysts and physiologists.
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Adler, Paul S., and Terry A. Winograd, eds. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195075106.001.0001.
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As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools collects six essays that herald a fundamental shift in the way industry and researchers think about usability. In this new, broader definition, usability no longer means safeguarding against human error, but rather enabling human beings to learn, to use, and to adapt the equipment to satisfy better the demands and contingencies of their work. Following an introduction that develops some core concepts of usability, the subsequent chapters: -- describe the role of usability in guiding one of Xerox's largest strategic initiatives -- analyze a Monsanto chemical plant where a study of worker's conversational patterns contributed to the design of a more effective system of controls -- present an empirical study of equipment design practices in U.S. industry which contrasts technology-centered and skill-based design approaches -- summarize recent Scandinavian experiences with user participation in design, with specific reference to the DEMOS and UTOPIA projects -- analyze European experiences that suggest five key criteria for effective human-centered design of advanced manufacturing technology --offer an insightful discussion of the powerful, often hidden human and organizational resources that conventional design processes overlook. Today, three quarters of all advanced technology implementations in manufacturing fail to achieve their performance goals because of inadequate usability. By viewing the human being as a mechanistic system component, and not a particularly reliable one, the traditional "human factors" model of usability virtually ensures that the uniquely human qualities -- experience, adaptation, innovation -- will be neglected, and therefore that new technologies will realize little of their true potential. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools answers the need for better usability criteria and more effective design and usability assurance processes. In so doing, it leads the way to making a new, broader concept of usability central to design. Its chapters will be of interest to managers and professionals in computer systems, manufacturing engineering, industrial design, and human factors, as well as researchers in disciplines such as computer science, engineering, design studies, sociology, organizational behavior and human resource management, industrial relations, education, and business strategy.
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Duffy, Ali. Careers in Dance. Human Kinetics, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718212701.
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Never before has a greater variety of careers been available in dance—and never before has such comprehensive, expert guidance on those burgeoning careers been accessible in one book. Careers in Dance is a master guide that will help students navigate the expanding opportunities in dance and familiarize current professionals with potential career choices that best align with their pursuits and strengths. This highly practical text offers a wealth of information on career options in a variety of settings and with a variety of focuses, including commercial ventures, scholarly pursuits, administrative avenues, medical and scientific settings, and interdisciplinary opportunities. Readers are guided in discovering their deepest interests and learning how to translate their unique strengths into rich and fulfilling careers. In keeping with recent trends in higher education dance programs, Careers in Dance spotlights entrepreneurship and leadership opportunities for dancers, delving into an array of options and offering much-needed advice. The book covers some of the social and cultural influences that affect success in the field, and it explores various career opportunities: • K-12 and postsecondary dance education • Dance studios • Performance, choreography, and production • Dance research, analytical writing, and journalism • Dance administration and advocacy • Dance science, therapy, and medical and somatic practices • Private competition companies • Technical theater and related areas The text also helps readers understand the connections between dance and other disciplines. For example, it details the interdisciplinary opportunities involving technology, technical theater, and media. It also notes the possibilities for continued education in graduate school programs and suggests approaches to acclimating to life as a working professional. Careers in Dance offers two recurring elements throughout the book: 1. Profiles of, and interviews with, esteemed professional dancers, revealing their real-world experiences and affording insights into different dance careers 2. Reflection prompts that encourage self-reflection and prepare readers to seek career development and career advancement opportunities This text explores the opportunities dance students and professionals can pursue, helps them pinpoint their areas of interest and strengths, and equips them to create their unique paths to a fulfilling career in dance. In doing so, Careers in Dance provides the advice and strategies dancers need to actualize their own destinies in dance. AUDIENCE Text for undergraduate courses on careers, entrepreneurship, and leadership, and for dance students embarking on careers. Reference for professionals considering career changes in the dance field.