Aesthetic Sense Research Articles

A STUDY OF STRUGGLE IN VERSATILITY IN TABLA PERFORMANCE

Tabla is the most versatile among percussion instruments today. The challenge that it meets till date is the recognition that Tabla has in terms of a Solo instrument. Although acclaimed worldwide for its versatility, yet the role of Tabla as a Solo instrument remains undefined at large. The tabla player today occupies a decent place on stage during accompaniment and exhibits the art, at times with his repertoire, especially when he accompanies to instrumental music. The rich repertoire of Tabla, which is learnt through life finds its expression only through solo performances, but this is confined only to the elite artists. There is no denial to the fact that Tabla is basically an accompanying instrument. Accompaniment is a beautiful art and every tabla artist should be an able accompanist. In fact, the art of accompaniment does need a better craftsmanship and a greater aesthetic sense than the art of tabla solo presentation. Given to these facts, the repertoire of tabla finds complete expression only during a solo performance. The collection of compositions of tabla from the masters of yesteryears is huge, and how many tabla players are able to put it across the listeners, even a meagre part of what they have learnt in the lineage? And the truth is that the Tabla is the primary accompanying instrument in North Indian classical, fusion and light music today. This is the struggle in its versatility. The music fraternity and the organizers need to ponder over this and improve their endeavors to promote Tabla more, as a solo instrument also.

Covering the Face

The Dutch ban on face-veiling is a strong instantiation of the gendered racialization of Muslims in Europe. Racialization as a relation of power, with some in the position to categorize and impose an identity on others, produces and naturalizes difference. To justify the ban, politicians signified face-veiling as gendered oppression, as a security threat and as an obstacle to integration, bringing together ethical positions with affective and aesthetic sensibilities. The largely unheard narratives of face-veiling women, in contrast, highlighted the positive religious value of face-veiling and point to the state’s infringement on their freedom of religion, expression, and movement. As face-veiling women are simultaneously defined as victims to be saved and as threat to be removed from the public, their racialization is ambivalent. It is also multilayered, with debates on faceveiling not only producing a divide between Muslims and non-Muslims, but with some Muslims also involved in the racialization of other Muslims.

Expanding Aesthetics.

This paper seeks to expand traditional aesthetic dimensions of design beyond the limits of human capability in order to encompass other species' sensory modalities. To accomplish this, the idea of inclusivity is extended beyond human cultural and personal identities and needs, to embrace multi-species experiences of places, events and interactions in the world. This involves drawing together academic perspectives from ecology, neuroscience, anthropology, philosophy and interaction design, as well as exploring artistic perspectives and demonstrating how these different frames of reference can inspire and complement each other. This begins with a rationale for the existence of non-human aesthetics, followed by an overview of existing research into non-human aesthetic dimensions. Novel aesthetic categories are proposed and the challenge of how to include non-human aesthetic sensibility in design is discussed.

Writing evocative case studies: applying autoethnography as a research methodology for the psychotherapist

This is an introduction to the application of autoethnography, a qualitative research method, an aesthetic inquiry into the psychotherapy process. The method engages the practitioner as researcherautoethnographer who enters a field, which is their client’s therapy process. The aim is to derive insights and deepen the understanding of process, theory and diagnostics from psychotherapy sessions in practice. The therapist creates a reflexive account of their experiences, recording this in their session notes, which are also the field notes and the data. As an autoethnographer, the therapist begins therefrom a process of creative writing. The writing process is reflexive, and aesthetic. Integral to the research method, the act of writing forms a hermeneutic circle where new insights of the phenomenon of therapy happen for the researcher. The writing is created as an art form, usually a story or poetry. The result of this method is a written, evocative, aesthetic representation of the therapy process, based on the phenomenological experience of the practitioner. Demonstrating this method, a single case study of an online Gestalt therapy session of a male client diagnosed with depression and borderline personality disorder is featured in this article. The outcome of this form of aesthetic inquiry is the embodiment of psychotherapy theory through the aesthetic sensibility of the therapist-researcher. Keywords autoethnography, psychotherapy case studies, psychotherapy process research, Gestalt therapy, aesthetic inquiry

Cultural Content Analysis of the EFL Textbook for Primary Education in Indonesia

This study attempts to investigate the cultural contents of two EFL textbooks entitled English for Elementary School Students Grade 6 and Grow with English Book 6. This research is qualitative descriptive research, particularly content analysis. This study uses the categorization of cultural aspects by Cortazzi and Jin (1999), including source culture, target culture, and International culture. Adaskou’s et al. (1990) categorization of cultural dimensions covering sociological sense, aesthetic sense, semantic sense, and pragmatic sense is also employed. The findings show that the two English textbooks present the cultural aspects and dimensions differently. English for Elementary School Students Grade 6 textbook carries out more source culture than target culture and international culture. In comparison, Grow with English Grade 6 textbook carries out more target culture than source and global cultures. The findings also reveal that the sociological sense is the most prominent sense occurring in the two textbooks compared to the aesthetic, semantic, and pragmatic senses. Therefore, from the results, it can be inferred that the proportion of the cultural content in the two textbooks is imbalanced.

Greening Black Metal: The EcoGothic Aesthethics of Botanist’s Lyrics

Environmentalist Black Metal has been a liminal subject of academic ecocriticism during the last decade, but it has rarely been addressed from the perspective of ecoGothic studies. Environmental discourses in Black Metal have taken diverse ideological forms based on the time and place in which they were generated. In the United States, many bands have focused on exploring what Hunter Hunt-Hendrix calls “aesthethics,” an affirmative and nihilist sense of transcendentalism carried out through a certain sense of aesthetics, ascetics (spirituality), and ethics. US bands like Botanist have usually been analyzed through the lens of Deep Ecology, that is, as projects depicting a sacralized Nature and a sense of nihilist self-hating humanism. This view, thus, implies an essentialist understandings of Nature/humanity dynamics on their behalf. Botanist’s lyrics are characterized by the creation of a demonological/angelical Nature in sempiternal conflict with humanity and its environment-destroying activities. Observing this narrative through an ecoGothic perspective, however, uncovers a different understanding of the romanticized portrayals of Nature depicted by the band, ultimately highlighting humanity and “humanness” as a vital part of its aesthethical construction. This article, therefore, explores the ways in which ecoGothic aesthetics, Val Plumwood’s notion of material spirituality and, Donna Haraway’s sense of “chthulucenic” ethics connect with each other in Botanist’s grim lyricism. The article highlights the importance of Botanist’s representation of plant architectures, “Mother Nature’s” spirituality, and the environmental ethics involved in the performance of “The Botanist,” the protagonist of the band’s narrative. This brings to light how the band’s depiction of Nature not only drives audiences to reflect on contemporary environmental anxieties, but also to look for onto-ethical alternatives to addressing human/non-human relationships.

Penggunaan Wangsalan dalam Sindhenan Karawitan Jawa

AbstractThis research was conducted using descriptive analysis research methods on the use of wangsalan in Javanese karawitan sindhenan. Wangsalan in Javanese karawitan functions as a song decoration or gendhing decoration. Wangsalan also has meanings or messages that can be conveyed to listeners, for example, inviting listeners to get rid of doubts in their lives and surrender to God, values of love, values of love for the state, a form of Javanese poetry that contains people's views on life. Java, as well as the requirements for divine teachings, the development of these teachings further takes the form of moral teachings and character. If there is wangsalan, of course there are also perpetrators who bring it. The perpetrator in question is Pesindhen. Sindhen is a woman who can be called a waranggana. Sindhen is someone who sounds wangsalan using a tone or song, and is sung along with gendhing. The form resulting from a mixture of sindhen, wangsalan, and gendhing songs is called sindhenan. Sindhenan is part of the unity with karawitan in order to improve the aesthetic sense or vocals that follow the rhythm of gamelan music with a distinctive voicing technique based on Javanese aesthetic concepts. The purpose of this study is to identify the various forms of wangsalan used in Javanese karawitan sindhenan, the aesthetics contained therein, and the moral message contained in the wangsalan itself.

The Literacy of Scientific Research and Presentation

When presenting the results of scientific research in English as a second language, a scientist must prepare effective slides and a manuscript in its final form. Moreover, precise pronunciation and diction in English is requisite to success, and potential exchanges in the question-and-answer session should be anticipated and, if possible, rehearsed. In order to achieve these goals, a sense of aesthetics is helpful, because creative powers are integral to both the arts and sciences. For example, composition in slides can be learned by studying pictures, and phonological awareness can be strengthened by listening to music or by playing an instrument.

Learning to Walk with Turtles: Steps Towards a Sacred Perception of the Environment

What can we learn from the open and attentive perception of children and poets? How does this perception contribute to a methodology that reaches the intricate entanglement of worldly phenomena in its entire otherness? In this essay, we aim to answer these questions, taking into account the phenomenological grounds which lead us to achieve a singular state of perception and, therefore, a more crystal clear knowledge of the beings and things in the lived world. We seek to explore other forms of rationality and aesthetic sensibility, by considering poetic language and a phenomenological understanding of the environment. We argue for a modality of thought that encompasses the foundations of Goethe, Husserl, Bateson, Ingold, Leiris and Krishnamurti to collapse the dichotomy between person and environment.

Can the Periphery Speak: The Self-Representation of Tokugawa Japan’s Periphery in Suzuki Bokushi’s Hokuetsu Seppu

Suzuki Bokushi (1770–1842) was a peasant-entrepreneur, essayist and amateur haikai poet who lived in the Echigo province of Tokugawa period Japan, a region which gets the highest amount of snowfall in the world. Bokushi wrote about the people of his region, their customs, their lifestyle, their relationship with the natural world and the folklores of the region in a book entitled Hokuetsu Seppu (1837). This essay will examine the ways this book interrogated the dominant cultural discourse and offered new ways of thinking about centre and periphery, urban and rural. An analysis of the text and context of the book will show how ‘provinciality’ was deployed to question and de-centre prevailing cultural norms, and how a new aesthetic sense was developed that contrasted and questioned the urban sensibilities prevailing in the political centre. This essay will argue that Bokushi’s book articulates a significant critique of the urban-centric discourse of classical Japanese literature, while also offering an alternative rural aesthetic, thereby countering the hegemonic tendency to read the Japanese past through the lens of urban-centric literature. His writings are what Fredric Jameson would call a ‘nonhegemonic cultural voice’.

Hadislerde Beyân ve Bedî İlmiyle İlgili Edebî Sanatların Kullanıma Dair Örnekler

Bu çalışmada, Belâğat’ın iki önemli dalı olan beyân ve bedî ilimleriyle ilgili sanatların, hadislerdeki kullanımına dair örnekler konu edilmiştir. Beyân, bir manayı farklı söz ve usûllerle anlatmayı öğreten, kendine hâs kaideleri olan bir ilim olarak tarif edilmekte olup teşbîh, mecâz, istiâre ve kinâye gibi sanatları içermektedir. Bedî ise edebî sanatlarla donatılmış ifadenin lafız bakımından kusursuz, mâna bakımından mâkul ve âhenkli olmasının kurallarını inceleyen ilimdir. Bu ilmin kapsamında, kaynaklarda en çok zikri geçen edebî sanatlar cinâs, iktibâs, seci, reddü’l-acuz ale’s-sadr, tevriye, tıbâk, mukâbele, müşâkele, muraâtu’n-nazîr, üslûbu’l-hakîm gibi sanatlardır. Hz. Peygamber’in (s.a.s.) anlam bakımından zengin, ifade açısından zarîf ve veciz hadisleri, mezkûr edebî sanatların kullanımına dair eşsiz güzellikte örnekler sunmaktadır. Bu hadislerde söz konusu edebî sanatlara, sanatsal bir kaygıyla değil daha çok bir anlatım metodu olarak başvurulmuştur. Bu anlamda beyân ilmiyle ilgili sanatlar, daha çok verilen masajı doğru, etkili ve kalıcı şekilde muhataba iletmenin bir ifade aracı olarak kullanılmıştır. Bedî ilmiyle ilgili sanatlarla da muhatabın edebî zevki ve estetik duygusu harekete geçirilerek, ilgi ve dikkatinin canlı tutulması sağlanmıştır. Söz konusu sanatların, hadislerdeki kullanımına dair örnekler üzerine yapılan bu çalışmanın, hem ilgili sanatların daha iyi anlaşılmasına hem de Hz. Peygamber’in (s.a.s.), edebî yönünün yakından tanınmasına katkı sağlayacağı ümit edilmektedir. Çalışmanın konusunu dağıtmamak ve hacmini artırmamak için örneklendirmelerde hadislerle sınırlı kalınmaya özen gösterilmiştir.

The Reproduction of Visual Pictures in Poetry Translation

It is generally recognized that poetry is the most difficult genre of literature to translate because linguistic competence alone does not guarantee an overall transference of all poetic factors. The soul of poetry is its aesthetic sense which can be conveyed in the light of picture reproduction to achieve aesthetic harmony and evoke similar emotional response in target readers. To achieve this goal, a descriptive analysis of translated poems from two perspectives, namely, reproduction of formal beauty and inner beauty, reproduction of static and motional pictures, are discussed in this paper.

Paiya, Paipaya Word Research in Ettuthogai

Tamil language flourished with Grammatical Literature. It originated along with the origination of the human race. It flourishes and cherishes through all the ages of the Tamil speaking communities with a pack of generational histories. The present paper is to highlight the words from the Tamil Classical Literature and the establishment of its functional usages of today. Also it is to underscore the alien words that hack the beauty of the ideal Tamil language. In Tamil language poetry, prose, essay, novel and short stories taking its reformed spirit according to the newness of the current scenario.There was a rejuvenated spirit among the Tamil language speakers to carry certain words for many generations. It was a gift of all lovers of Tamil speakers today. In one sense the researcher on Tamil language finds, there are alien words weeds to spoil the Tamil original word usages. Only the new innovations in Tamil literary genres and by naming the scientific and technical innovations alone safeguard the Tamil language vocabularies in rhetorical sense. Poetry from Classical Literature is not a comfortable one to read now. The poetic aesthetic sense from classic should be modified according to the present generation to read and feel what it was. The words from Classical Literature fail to give its functional message. For that one needs interpreters, so the need of the commentators and the usage of Dictionaries are preferable for our everyday communication. This paper spots the words like kadavul (God), arisi (rice), manjal (yellow) all from the tamil classical literature are still in function.

The Philosophy of Dissimilation, Meaninglessness and Isolation in Theatre of the Absurd: Evidence from John Ruganda’s Two Plays

Drama and theatrical performance remain one of the most effective ways through which life’s reality can be experienced, described, perceived and portrayed. Absurd drama has come to be seen as one of the most modern literary movements that have been adopted by African playwrights, Ruganda included. Based on a study of plays by Ugandan playwright John Ruganda, this paper discusses the philosophy of dissimilation, meaninglessness and isolation in theatre of the absurd. The study used Ruganda’s two plays, namely The Floods and Shreds of Tenderness. The various modes through which absurd drama appeal to the aesthetic sensibilities were examined. The study employed descriptive research and used purposive sampling. Data was analysed qualitatively by describing the findings of the study to arrive at inferences and conclusions. In Ruganda’s plays, the country is represented as being sick and in dire need of an urgent remedy but no one has the desire to bring in a solution to it. The sickness has not only affected the people as individuals but the nation as a whole. The playwright is by extension pointing to the cause of the sickness affecting the nation as being attributed to bad leadership. Using the lives of main characters, the playwright also demonstrates the senselessness of the human life and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought. The characters are portrayed as isolated and lonely individuals whose lives and fate area mere subject of time. The finding of the study is an important contribution to understanding drama and the changing trend in literary criticism in drama

Literary Theory on Acid

Abstract This essay argues for the value of psychedelic experience as a framework for amplifying the social and political impacts of literature on the affective lives of readers and viewers. Psychedelics are chemical compounds that induce a hypersaturated experience of life that represents facets of the world to us in unfamiliar, intensified form. Neurochemical studies of the psychedelically “tripping” brain suggest that the experience can have wide-reaching, long-term positive outcomes including the expansion of one’s sensory apprehension of the world, a stronger ability to grapple with life’s contingency and human mortality, and the mitigation of depression, anxiety, and addiction. The author identifies several crucial ways in which literary criticism and pedagogy’s enhancement of cultural meaning making dovetails with the best aspects of psychedelic states, including the activation of readers’ and students’ aesthetic sensibilities. A psychedelically inflected criticism aims to achieve the psychedelic experience’s “blossoming of mental states” by revitalizing the literary text as a site for exploring, refining, and retuning the sensorium, thereby enriching one’s perceptual and imaginative capacities. The author unpacks how the insights of psychedelic experiences can shape distinct pedagogical and interpretative practices that respond to our current global political crises. This can potentially revivify the therapeutic value of the humanities as an institution invested in honing the creative and ethical faculties of generations of youth while attending to their long-term affective well-being.

Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age: The Eglantine Table Michael Fleming and Christopher Page

Renaissance woodwork, both decorative and functional, offers intriguing evidence for music history. Notable examples include the c.1480 studiolo from the ducal palace of Gubbio, its design attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Martini, executed by Giuliano da Majano, and now installed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the study’s intricate intarsia walls show a variety of instruments in remarkable detail, together with books, scientific and mathematical devices, and other furnishings redolent of high aesthetic sensibility. Equally fascinating, an anonymous Venetian spinet also at the Metropolitan Museum, dated 1540 and commissioned by Eleonora della Rovere, bears exquisite carvings and marquetry along with a humanistic inscription testifying to the fraught relationship between instrument and player: translated, it reads, roughly: ‘I’m rich in gold and rich in tone; if you lack goodness (del buono), leave me alone.’ Here, ‘goodness’ implies personal virtue, virtuosity, and a good tune; the rhyming couplet warns the player, who must come close to the keyboard to read the inscription, that she is about to engage in intimate dialogue with an instrument possessing riches and integrity in its own right, not to be violated.

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Peranan Finance & Marketing Dalam Sebuah Distribusi Produk Film

Financing of film projects often requires an elaborate patchwork of investors, banks, soft money tax credits and in-kind services, and some companies specialize in financing specific stages of production. One of the overall themes of the industry that can at times make obtaining financing hard is the risks involved in making films, many of which may have very little tangible value at the end of the process. How an independent filmmaker chooses to make a movie is often dictated by access to money more than any aesthetic sensibilities. Without the proper funding, a feature film never gets made or made the way the filmmaker wants to. Which strategy the filmmaker uses to access funding will depend on the type of film, the story or subject matter, the budget, genre, the filmmaker’s reputation, the talent attached and the amount of creative control the filmmaker wants over the production.

Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism 1976–2009 by Neil Gabbler

Reviewed by: Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism 1976–2009 by Neil Gabbler Ronald Franco, C.S.P. Gabbler, Neil. Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism 1976–2009. New York: Crown, 2022. 1258 pages. Hardcover. $45.00. ISBN 9780593238622. At the time of his death from brain cancer at age 77 in 2009, Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy, the last of the fabled Kennedy brothers, had served in the United States Senate for 47 years. By then he was widely regarded as a senatorial star, someone much more committed to the Senate as an institution and more effective as a legislator than either of his two older brothers had been during their comparably brief terms in the Senate. His name had become associated with major landmark legislation, including the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act ("perhaps the single most nation-changing measure of the era"), and he was recognized as the leading advocate for universal health care and as one of the greatest advocates for liberal causes in American politics. The paradoxical product of wealth, privilege, and entitlement, Ted Kennedy became one of his era's most admirable liberal figures. None of that was inevitable. Nor would it have likely been predicted when, at the constitutionally minimum age of 30, Kennedy was first elected to the Senate in 1962, a position for which he was at the time widely seen as completely unqualified. Then, he was just President John F. Kennedy's baby brother, and his senatorial adventure was simply seen as one more example of the unbridled ambition of an arrogant, ambitious, [End Page 217] overly rich, and overly privileged Kennedy dynasty. ("Never expect any appreciation from my boys," Joe Kennedy once told Tip O'Neill. "These kids have had so much done for them by other people that they just assume it's coming to them.") How a career that began so inauspiciously in 1962 became something so surprisingly effective and unexpectedly admirable is the story which journalist and author Neal Gabler tells in a comprehensive two-part biography. His first volume, Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour 1932–1975, was published two years ago. Now Gabler has completed the story of the most influential of the Kennedy brothers with a lengthy sequel, Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism 1976–2009. The previous book prefigured an ambitiously detailed and comprehensive personal and political biography, and this second volume does not disappoint. For most Americans (at least those above a certain age), the basic outline of Ted Kennedy's long life is familiar, as is so much of the triumph and tragedy associated with the Kennedys as a problematic late 20th-century substitute for an authentic American royal family. Gabler retells the familiar story through the lens of Edward Kennedy's marginal status within the family itself-the youngest child, from whom little was expected in comparison with his star-quality brothers, but who unlike them developed precisely those empathetic personal qualities which enabled him to connect naturally and effectively with people. In the end those qualities made him a better and more effective politician than his higher stature brothers. Indeed, Gabler calls "Teddy, the most empathetic of the Kennedys, in part because he was the most disrespected of the Kennedys." Famously, family patriarch Joe Kennedy had big plans for his sons. But (Gabler argues) "there was no morality in those plans, no civic mission or public good." This too was part of the legacy Senator Kennedy would struggle to transcend. Gabler's previously took the reader through the familiar territory of the more positive influence of his maternal grandfather Honey Fitz and Ted's initiation into the family business of politics (and the family hobby of womanizing). "The Kennedys had been the product of Joe and Rose—of his sense of muscular competition and stoicism and her sense of aesthetics and decorum." But Ted was also "a Fitzgerald, like his grandfather, more a hardy, affable mess of a man." With the Kennedys, this family saga is inescapable. But the book also examines the wider picture of the changing times against which Kennedy's senate...

An Evaluation Model for the Influence Factors of Interest in Literature Courses Based on Data Analysis and Association Rules in a Small-Sample Environment.

The primary tools for developing pupils' creativity, capacity for verbal expression, and spiritual growth are literary reading and writing. Literature is a sort of art that elicits feelings and expresses the author's comprehension and outlook on social life via the use of language. Reading and writing literary works helps students develop their aesthetic sensibilities and capacity to create compelling images, as well as their spirituality and wisdom. This study suggests a data mining-based optimal design approach for analyzing association rules of influencing aspects of interest in literary courses. To increase the frequency and accuracy of data mining, association rules are used to obtain the association mapping relationship between data sets of influencing factors of interest in literature courses. Rough set theory is then used to distinguish between the feature sets of data sets in the same subspace and different subspaces. To identify the most prevalent factor that affects the interest of the curriculum's literary components and then to conduct simulation testing and analysis. The proposed arithmetic has a particular accuracy, which is 8.25% greater than the conventional arithmetic, according to simulation findings. This outcome demonstrates in full how the enhanced arithmetic decreases the amount of records in the scanning database by grouping and compressing the database, hence lowering the scanning time and pruning before the connection process of Liu arithmetic. Classical literary works are without a doubt the most valuable resources to feed, edify, forge, and grow the spirit, soul, and personality of contemporary individuals throughout history and in all nations. Education through literature develops one's character, spirit, emotions, and aesthetic sense. The importance of reaffirming the significant place of literature education in contemporary national basic education cannot be overstated.