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Localising African popular music transnationally: ‘Highlife-Travellers’ in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s
2008
The paper argues that a critical toehold for understanding the formation, modernization, and popularity of Highlife in the 1950s is its transnational dimension. To corroborate this claim, the paper puts emphasis on Highlife musicians in the UK, especially London, during this time, their musical activities and productions there, and the effects of their journeys on popular music. The growing evidence that cultural practices and processes in different locales, across national and continental boundaries, were interrelated in the making of Highlife, asks for a multi-sited study of Highlife especially with regard to the musical creativity and productivity of 1950s and 1960s. It requires further …
Objetos-testigo. Fracturas y reconstrucciones del relato identitario
2020
The presentation will be divided into three movements: fractures, reconstructions and archives. Each movement will correspond to a different typology of objects: shoes, nails and beams, clothes. The aim is to show the process of defamiliarization/refamiliarization of some of the objects present in the testimonial stories of Miguel Lawner ( Return to Isla Dawson ) and Marta Dillon ( Aparecida ), as well as in a corpus of photographic images ((Javier Garcia, Lourdes Almeida, Gustavo Gutierrez) and artistic and performative works (Alfredo Lopez Casanova, Colectivo de Hijos, Elina Chauvet, Doris Salcedo). As a whole, they are objects that exhibit resistance and resilience, creations that are op…
Orxata Sound System. Música glocal, libre, colectiva y cooperativa / Orxata Sound System. Glocal, free, collective and cooperative music
2017
Resumen: Orxata Sound System es un colectivo musical de la comarca de l’Horta (País Valenciano) que se fundó el año 2003 y que se disolvió indefinidamente el año 2014. Su existencia ha dejado huella en la escena musical del ámbito catalanófono, no solamente por su estilo, sino también porque fueron pioneros en el uso de las nuevas tecnologías tanto para crear, producir y difundir su música como para (auto)gestionarse y comunicarse con el público de manera eminentemente horizontal. Este artículo observará la trayectoria musical de Orxata Sound System haciendo especial hincapié, por un lado, en la explotación artística que desarrollaron a partir de la hibridación de dos elementos aparentement…
Mafalda and museum educators. Strategies for teaching creation from Childhood Visual Culture
2013
Esta investigación aborda desde la cultura visual infantil un problema educativo -como el del diseño creativo de actividades didácticas de materia artística- mediante intersecciones e interacciones con aspectos de género, crítica social y cultural. Desde el marco conceptual se expone el interés y vigencia de Mafalda como personaje de la cultura visual: por su calado internacional, por haberse empleado con fines pedagógicos con anterioridad, por ser precursora de la crítica al sistema educativo, por ser conocido por todos los integrantes del entramado educativo formal e informal, y por tratar transversalmente cuestiones de género. Desde la pedagogía generativa se intenta alterar la práctica …
Coordinated Interpersonal Behaviour in Collective Dance Improvisation: The Aesthetics of Kinaesthetic Togetherness
2018
International audience; Collective dance improvisation (e.g., traditional and social dancing, contact improvisation) is a participatory, relational and embodied art form which eschews standard concepts in aesthetics. We present our ongoing research into the mechanisms underlying the lived experience of "togetherness" associated with such practices. Togetherness in collective dance improvisation is kinaesthetic (based on movement and its perception), and so can be simultaneously addressed from the perspective of the performers and the spectators, and be measured. We utilise these multiple levels of description: the first-person, phenomenological level of personal experiences, the third-perso…
La pedagogia liberante
2018
In questo breve articolo viene presentata la pedagogia della liberazione messa in campo da Danilo Dolci nella Sicilia del secondo ‘900. Il Centro educativo di Mirto a Partinico, fondato da Dolci nel 1974, divenne un laboratorio maieutico che accoglieva i bambini dai 4 ai 6 anni di età per avviare in loro un processo di auto-apprendimento creativo e incentrato sul comunicare in vista della costruzione di una nuova società democratica. This short paper presents the Danilo Dolci’s pedagogy of freedom in Sicily in the Seventies of the twentieth century. The Educational Center of Mirto in Partinico, founded by Dolci in 1974, became a maieutic laboratory where children from 4 to 6 years of age st…
The interaction between social media, knowledge management and service quality: A decision tree analysis
2020
The existing literature fails to identify to which extent the utilization of social media could be relevant for increasing the effectiveness of knowledge management, in respect to overall business operations. In order to shed some light on this area we define three goals. Firstly, we investigate to what extent the different activities of clients on social media (SM), are important to the processes of knowledge management (KM) in companies. Secondly, we examine to what extent KM functions can be relevant in attaining the quality of IT services. Thirdly, we analyze to what extent KM mediates between SM and the quality of IT services, that is, which client activities on SM should be formalised…
The Spirit of Inquiry and the Reflected Self: Theological Anthropology and the Sociology of Knowledge
1978
The general aim of an anthropology may be said to be the determination of man's characteristics in his environment. In social anthropology, however, the trend has been to emphasise the environment at the expense of man. The present article argues that a similar tendency prevails in theology's typical description of man as a ‘hearer’ of the Word of God and finds illuminating parallels in Berger and Luckmann's sociology of knowledge. The failure of these two authors to maintain a true dialectic between individual creativity and the formative influences of society appears in connection with their view of human inquiry. By developing George Kelly's model of man as an inquiring scientist, the ar…
Introduction: Cultural Literacy and Creativity
2021
AbstractThe introductory chapter explains the core concepts of the book: Cultural literacy and creativity. Cultural literacy is defined as a social practice that is inherently dialogic and based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. Creativity is seen as stimulating cultural literacy learning through openness and curiosity to test and develop something new or imaginative. The chapter introduces the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme (CLLP) and the research data: 1906 works created by 5–15-year-old children and young people who participated in the program in 2019 and 2020 in Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, and the UK. …
Impacto de las aulas de creación en el nivel medio superior: el caso ITESO
2016
Resumen: El artículo plantea un análisis etnográfico del impacto de aulas y talleres de creación artística en Educación Media y Superior. Para ello se analiza en profundidad el caso de la red de aulas y talleres artísticos dePromoción Cultural del ITESO, a través de la revisión de un proyecto de investigación que recuperó la experiencia vivida, sirviendo de retroalimentación para la propia institución. En el desarrollo de esta investigación se apunta a una serie de criterios, ya detectados en distintas líneas de investigación, que pudieran favorecer un “enfoque proactivo de la creatividad”, confirmar la figura del artista-pedagogo, poco conocida en el contexto universitario, y un tipo de di…