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Popular Music and the Anthropocene

2020

International audience; We are at a major turning point, probably irreversible for thousands of years. Despite the continued use of slogans like ‘Save the Planet’, it is living beings, more than the Earth (which has already seen many upheavals) who are threatened with extinction. Although the proponents of the term Anthropocene agree that human activities have become a force that is influencing the geological course of the Earth, and stratigraphers are already finding traces of that process in rocks and sediments (Zalasiewicz 2010), we can however identify two contrasting narratives about the Anthropocene.

Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia

2021

Running is a physical-sport practice that has gained enormous popularity and diffusion in the last two decades in most European countries, which has sparked research interest from social scientists...

Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid

2018

Abstract This study traces popularity-driven coverage of climate change in New Scientist with the special aim of identifying which aspects of the issue have been backgrounded. Unlike institutional communication or quality press coverage of climate change, commercial science journalism has received less attention with respect to how it frames the crisis. Assuming that the construction of newsworthiness in popular science journalism requires eliminating, or at least obscuring, some alienating information, the study identifies prevalent frames, news values and discursive strategies in the outlet’s most-read online articles on climate change (2013–2015). With the official statement of the World…

Pie laika … Now is the time. The singing revolution on Latvian radio and television

2020

AbstractIn the Soviet Union, song competitions had an important role in presenting new artists and songs. The Mikrofona aptauja contest of Latvian radio (1968–1994) was the main forum for new Latvian pop music. It had a reputation for expressing nationalist feelings within the limits of Soviet censorship. In 1988, with the rise of new political movements in the Soviet Union, the competition became a venue for the Latvian independence movement. The winning song of 1988 was a demand for ‘freedom to the fatherland’. The competition also played a part in the rehabilitation of pre-war popular music which had been forbidden in Soviet Latvia. The paper discusses the role of journalists, politician…

STTEPping in the right direction? Western classical music in an orchestral programme for disadvantaged African youth

2008

This article looks at STTEP, an outreach project currently housed at the University of Pretoria, which concentrates on the teaching of western orchestral instruments, plus background areas such as music theory, to disadvantaged children and youth from a variety of townships around Pretoria, South Africa. STTEP’s direction can well be described as ‘right’ – pupils are already surrounded by all kinds of global phenomena, and their formal music studies in western classical music are not making them forget their roots. In fact, the contrary has been found to be the case and some interesting cultural fusions are already seen – always a sign of a living culture.

A Hybrid Recommender System for Cultural Heritage Promotion

2021

Assisting users during their cultural trips is paramount in promoting the heritage of a territory. Recommender Systems offer the automatic tools to guide users in their decision process, by maximizing the adherence of the proposed contents with the particular preferences of every single user. However, traditional recommendation paradigms suffer from several drawbacks which are exacerbated in Cultural Heritage scenarios, due to the extremely wide range of users behaviors, which may also depend on their different educational backgrounds. In this paper, we propose a Hybrid recommender system which combines the four most common recommendation paradigms, namely collaborative filtering, popularit…

What Does It Mean to Be Popular in Spain? Mixed-Method Analysis of Popularity as Perceived by Teenagers and Their Teachers

2019

A great part of the research in adolescent popularity is based on sociometric methods, not always distinguishing between social preference (acceptance or likeability) and perceived popularity (visibility or salience), which has practical and theoretical implications. The aim of this work was to analyze the features that a sample of 406 Spanish adolescents (53.2% girls, M = 16.76 years) and their teachers (n = 26, 50% women) associated with perceived popularity. The data analysis established three main themes that categorize perceived popularity: behaviors, developmental traits, and other resources, which include both peer-valued and not valued characteristics. Qualitative and quantitative c…

Gozos en alabanza de Santa Candia virgen, y martyr, Patrona de la Villa de Falcét, del Arzobispado de Tarragona, cuyo Sagrado Cuerpo se venéra en su …

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Gozos en alabanza del glorioso Martyr San Daniel, que se cantan en la Iglesia del Santo Espiritu de la Ciudad de Barcelona, à donde está colocada su …

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Figueroles d'Alcalatén. Balls i costums

1999

Figueroles és una població de l'Alcalatén coneguda per una dansa tradicional emparentada amb les danses o dansades meridionals i els balls plans de les comarques septentrionals del País Valencià: el ball de l'Anguila, també conegut com el ball de Figueroles, una dansa que es va ballar per última vegada el dia de Sant Mateu de 1932 abans de la seua recuperació auspiciada pel treball investigador d'Amadeu Porcar, un dels autors d'aquest llibre, a l’any 1980. A més de l'Anguila, el patrimoni corèutic de Figueroles inclou la dansa del Prim, el ball de jota i el ball de plaça. A totes quatre manifestacions dediquen els autors el present estudi amb una petita descripció de la indumentària tradici…