Cultural Scene Research Articles

Francisco Pérez Bayer como informador de Alejandro Javier Panel Y Apuntes sobre inscripciones romanas de la provincia de Salamanca

After briefly reviewing the career of Francisco Perez Bayer, one of the most important figures of the Hispanic cultural scene of the 18th century, we analyse his work in the field of epigraphy and his relationship, as an informant, with Alejandro Javier Panel. Perez Bayer provided the French Jesuit with notes about numerous epigraphs, epigraphs that Panel then integrated into his inconclusive corpus of Roman inscriptions of Hispania. Among the manuscripts of Panel, his notes related to various pieces of Salamanca are almost unknown, but are a good sample of the quality of the Valencian’s epigraphic work.

RELASI BUDAYA DALAM PENYEBARAN ISLAM DI BUMI WALI TUBAN

Tuban As a coastal area has become an important area for all the development of the archipelago's culture. This is partly due to the location of Tuban as a large port in the northern coastal area which is the main route for the entry of all outside cultures in the interior. So that the process of the spread of culture, especially Islam (Middle East), is in Indonesia, so the city of Tuban becomes important to study as the location of the beginning of the cultural scene.

Захар Прилепин – литературный портрет

Со времени дебюта в 2004 году имя Захара Прилепина постоянно присутствует в литературном пространстве России. Филолог, журналист, писатель, политический деятель и военный, он – автор целого ряда романов, каждый из которых стал символом своего времени и поколения. Писатель получил основные литературные премии России и завоевал признание как маститых критиков, так и обычных читателей. Цель настоящего исследования – сформировать литературный портрет Захара Прилепина, прояснение его популярности среди русских читателей.

Preservation Laws: Saving Modern Egyptian Architectural Integrity

Egyptian cities have witnessed a variety of impeccable architecture throughout centuries of civilization, which enriched the Egyptian society. Constantly rising to the discussion is a question of what constitutes value to architecture of different times. It is important to regard heritage conservation as a synthetic, complex topic that is open for interpretations and judgment. While some antiquities are protected by law, it is apparent how modern heritage is a matter of ambiguity when it comes to preservation and conservation efforts. Until the mid-19th century, architectural heritage was primarily concerned with the preservation of monumental architecture. Theorists like John Ruskin and Le-Duc were largely exploring the authentic expression of materials in architecture, establishing the foundation, that Cesare Brandi would later build on, that conservation authenticity is not limited to age, rather includes material, style and structure.It is appropriate to regard heritage buildings as capital assets, with a potential to raise fluxes of services over time. However, not only Cairo, but Egypt has been losing much of its valuable modern heritage; thus its identity in the process.This paper focuses on Egypt's modernist architecture, discussing the rise of modernism and its introduction to the Egyptian cultural scene while reflecting on the current cultural detachment from such heritage and the current tendency towards. It, also, explores the rise of Egyptian modernism as a national style that reflects social and economic prosperity, in contrast to its rise in the west primarily advocating minimalism, functionalism and social equality.In comparing Egyptian laws to international charters on heritage preservation; in particular modern heritage, case studies are used to explore the consequences. The research concludes by suggesting measures and acts that can, directly and indirectly, affect the decision-making process, as well as support efforts of preservation of Egypt's modern heritage.

The Coexistentialism of Chico Science and Brazil’s Manguebeat

Brazil’s manguebeat of the nineties was one of the most fertile Latin American cultural scenes of recent decades, not only for its rich musical creation but also for the playful, yet profound vision of social and ecological justice it championed. Twenty-some years after the death of Chico Science, its most iconic personality, this essay explores the strikingly relational philosophical bent at its core—one molded by the collectivism typical of its origins in local and global expressions of Black Atlantic cultures. Manguebeat was swamped in everyday philosophical questions about which kinds of knowledge, power, and being served to exacerbate violence, inequality, and harm to the environment, and which could instead encourage greater peace and harmony. Analyzing Chico Science’s three music videos, I discuss the “coexistentialism” of manguebeat, not only in a pacifistic sense or one of environmental rebirth but also in its insistence that all real living is “living with.”

Landscape Planning and Design of Complex Form Physical Education Stadium and Football Field Using Gis Technology

To explore the landscape planning of the comprehensive sports stadium and the football field, the similarities and differences between the comprehensive sports stadium and the football field landscape design and the general park design were analyzed by GIS technology. Special factors were discussed in the design of the complex sports stadium and football field. The treatment methods and principles of these special factors were analyzed. The results showed that their characteristics were created while meeting the functional requirements of each space. The local history and cultural scene left a deep impression on the viewers. Therefore, the design of sports facilities is consistent with the overall landscape effect. During the transformation of the base, the relationship between the original landform protection and development of the base is emphasized. This provides information and assistance for the comprehensive sports stadium and football field landscape design.

Reconciling the local and the global in the Brisbane independent fashion sector

The humid, sub-tropical city of Brisbane is Australia’s third-largest and one often regarded as culturally inferior to its southern counterparts Sydney and Melbourne. However, the city has supported a small but active independent fashion scene, and this article examines three of these businesses, exploring how they positioned themselves in relation to the global fashion industry. It contributes to literature on local fashion industries in New Zealand, Scandinavia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Challenges and opportunities presented to local fashion businesses are considered, and ways in which these have changed over time is also discussed. Case studies are drawn from a period between 1950 and 2018 and were purposively chosen so that contemporary case studies could be contextualized with historical examples. Research was conducted through archival research at the Queensland Museum, semi-structured interviews with participants and on-site observations. Findings confirm those of existing studies in the field that suggest local fashion businesses outside of large cities and dominant fashion centres may struggle to remain relevant in a fast-paced global industry, but have an opportunity to develop and foster close bonds to local cultural scenes and to contribute to place-making in the cities in which they are located.

Is there a role for culture in rebalancing the UK economy?

The UK has among the worst regional economic imbalances in the developed world, despite attempts to change this stretching back decades. Second tier (core) cities have a significant role in addressing this imbalance, as drivers of wider city regions and labour markets, although that happens best when surrounding areas also benefit, through a ‘networked economy’ approach rather than trickle-down. Successful cities rely on a vibrant cultural scene as part of their offer, and culture is an important economic and employment sector in its own right. Yet in the UK, public funding for culture is under intense pressure due to the programme of austerity which has diverted funds to statutory services with rising demand. The Cultural Cities Enquiry was set up to investigate innovative sources of cultural investment, and was launched in early 2019. This paper sets out the key recommendations of that enquiry, linking them to the vital importance of culture in supporting the future success of cities, as they in turn support economic rebalancing in the UK. The paper argues that a more radical approach to devolution, national locational investment decisions and alignment of resources is needed to deliver rebalancing, and that this will also deliver new sources of — and free up investment for — culture, as part of the mix of creating successful places.

Jaime Eyzaguirre y la circulación del hispanismo reaccionario en Chile en el siglo XX

The work offers an interpretation of one of the sources of conservative, evenreactionary, thought in twentieth-century Chile, a hitherto unknown milestone, as well asthe context in which it occurred and the first signs of an ideology that ended up circulatingthroughout Latin America through people, texts and institutions, and transforming alsothe pastoral and political visit of the first cardinal of the Catholic Church who visitedChile, in 1923, into an instrument of ideological circulation. Based on the work of theChilean intellectual, essayist and historian Jaime Eyzaguirre, whose first publications dateback to 1924, we will expose the origin of his Hispanicist thought, as well as the socialand political influence of a figure in the national cultural scene who was also characterizedfor his Catholicism, traditionalism and conservatism, all of which he projected throughnumerous initiatives and publications.

Habitus, dialogismo e resistência no discurso das últimas falantes da língua munduruku do Amazonas

objetivo deste trabalho é evidenciar o habitus e o dialogismo inscritos no discurso das últimas falantes da língua munduruku do Amazonas e delinear a maneira pela qual esse movimento enunciativo se projeta como uma proposta de resistência discursiva ante as transformações que vêm ocorrendo no cenário cultural e linguístico dos munduruku do Amazonas. A abordagem se assenta na Etnolinguística, cujo referencial adotado tem como base as propostas de Pierre Bourdieu e de Mikhail Bakhtin. A metodologia utilizada consistiu em análise bibliográfica, análise documental e pesquisa de campo, realizadas em duas etapas, no período de 2015 a 2017.

Unethical Adaptation: Indigenization and Sex in Chan-wook Park’s The Handmaiden (2016)

Abstract In contemporary cultural scenes saturated by ‘intermediality’ and ‘transmediality’, adaptation studies have challenged the distinction and hierarchy between the source and its adaptation, the author and the reader-spectator, and a variety of genres and media. While early critics of adaptation studies centred on fidelity criticism, recently Linda Hutcheon breaks free from literary elitism and emphasizes how stories, ‘like genes’, adapt to new environments ‘by virtue of mutation’. Hutcheon argues, ‘the fittest [stories] do more than survive; they flourish’ in today’s fierce competition for ‘cultural selection’. This postmodernist notion of adaptation as proliferation, however, remains curiously reticent about the ‘value’ of such proliferation. My article argues that in the era of textual proliferation, adaptation has an ethical responsibility to voice the story of the socially and sexually ‘unfit’. I then analyse The Handmaiden as a failed attempt at this ethical project. Directed by Chan-wook Park, a South Korean auteur, The Handmaiden borrows from Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith (2002), a novel about female romantic friendship in nineteenth-century England. Although Park’s visually stunning film epitomizes the indigenization of the ‘fittest’ story, its graphic portrayal of lesbian sex and change of setting leaves the question of sexual objectification of Asian women and Japanese colonization unanswered.

Unfashioned creatures: A study of photo-collage and its relevance in the twenty-first century

Most recently art philosophy has shifted away from postmodernist ideas. But where does the practice of photo-collage fit in? Photo-collage addresses a range of theories; it involves a particular method of cutting and pasting; it brings up metaphysical notions of ‘decoding’ artworks; and it addresses a variety of themes. This article places these ideas into the twenty-first-century cultural rhetoric, which has broadened to involve wider themes from ecological philosophy. The article suggests that in asking how photo-collage fits into the cultural scene, it is pertinent to ask how the arts fit into the bigger picture of the world.

“The Darts to Wound With Endless Love!” on Hannah Cowley’s Response to Frances Burney’s Evelina

Abstract The paper traces the intertextual echoes of Frances Burney’s debut novel, Evelina, in The Belle’s Stratagem, a play by Burney’s contemporary Hannah Cowley. The latter was certainly an avid admirer of Burney. In one of her poems she pays tribute to the novelist and praises her ability to achieve uncommon subtlety in the depiction of characters in her writing: “What pen but Burney’s …/… draws from nature with a skill so true” (Escott 2012: 38). The paper, however, argues that the connection between the writers and their literary productions goes much further than the obeisance paid to Burney in Cowley’s admiring verses. The congruence between the plots of Evelina and The Belle’s Stratagem, and, in some instances, the very wording used in the two texts, poses immediate questions about its significance in Cowley’s popular play (which was first produced in 1780, two years after the publication of Burney’s debut). The conclusions suggest that Cowley deliberately drew Burney’s novel into a discussion on viable models of femininity and matrimony in contemporary society. But they also point to a wider phenomenon, namely, the extent to which the relationship between the eighteenth-century theatre and novel was reciprocal. While several recent studies discuss the influence of the theatre on the novel, little has been said on the importance of the novel for the development of the contemporary drama. This new reading of Cowley’s The Belle’s Stratagem as a response to Burney’s Evelina shows the immediacy with which a literary dialogue could be opened by authors and appreciated by audiences on the vibrant eighteenth-century cultural scene.

Hospital pedagogy as support for the construction of identity in chronic hospitalized students, Peru

Hospital pedagogy implies the presence of the teacher in the environment in which the sick student is to accompany him in his process of cognitive, affective and social development and contribute the elements of understanding to his current condition and in that sense, the educational process is becomes the support for the construction of the identity of chronic hospitalized students. This research aims to understand hospital pedagogy as a support in the construction of identity in chronic hospitalized students, Lima, 2017, qualitative approach, ethnomethodological method, non-participant observation technique, the semi-structured interview was used and the stories were submitted to the analysis of domains and analysis of categories that allowed the understanding of the cultural scene and the sense of identity and the interpretation of how they construct their identity through practices and values, which are acquired through interaction with their environment; relatives, doctors, nurses, auxiliaries, volunteers and friends.

Yacoub Ben Keles, the First of the Fatimid Ministers ( 368-380 A.H. / 978-990 A.D. )

Minister Yacoub Ben Keles distinguished himself with leadership and administrative talents, as well as his abilities in the field of jurisprudence, which made him the top political, administrative and cultural scene of the Fatimid state and left its mark on it by influencing its fateful decisions.He was the son of Kels of the Jews of Baghdad, where he learned writing and arithmetic, and moved with his father to Syria and then carried him to Egypt.Egypt embraced the son of Kels, living in a transitional period from the Achaishid era to the Fatimid period. Both these two covenants reconciled this man to his career until he became minister in the Fatimids in 368 A.H. / 978 A.D.His character was overshadowed by most of the state's men, and those who were credited with the emergence of the Fatimid state in Egypt, such as the leader Jawhar al-Saqli, played an important role in the context of the internal politics of the Fatimid state. In foreign policy, the Levant occupied most of its interests, The great powers at the time exceeded his role in the Hijaz, Iraq,BaniZiridand with the Byzantines, and during the time of this minister, the Fatimid state reached its fullest extent.Upon the death of this minister, the Fatimid were keen to establish the grief of his death, and to preserve the rights of his beloved and the rights of his family and slaves, and the depth of the feelings of sorrow for his departure, but a clear proof of the majesty of this minister and his clear role in the history of their state.

Beyond the Candelabra: The Liberace Show and the Remediation of Beethoven

AbstractLiberace entered the sprawling scene of US pop culture in 1952 emceeing a TV show that initially garnered higher ratings than I Love Lucy. The Liberace Show presented staples of the classical piano repertoire in abridged versions that cut the “dull parts” and liberally added orchestrations. Liberace's heterodox practices outraged prominent music critics, who soon deemed him the very incarnation of kitsch. Turning from aesthetic criticism to an archaeological analysis of media, I discuss the show's presentation of classical music, taking as its main case study Liberace's iconoclastic rendition of Beethoven's “Tempest” sonata, and examine it through the theory of remediation advanced by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin. Analyzing archival videos, I show how the alterations exerted on the musical text were inextricably tied to the telegenic mise-en-scènes staged for each episode while situating them in the new media landscape that emerged in the 1950s. The show remediated not only the pieces Liberace performed but also his own TV persona to nurture an intimate bond with home viewers who became captivated by the host's enchanting presence. I contend that Liberace's remediations drastically collapsed the specificity of performance medium that modern critics construed to be immanent to the musical work. This collapse entailed a proliferation of musical and audiovisual media that afforded Liberace's devoted viewers an alluring experience of immediacy and ultimately retrieved the domestic intimacy that had been integral to the genealogy of the piano sonata.

Cenas brasileiras, violências, subjetividades

Neste artigo problematizamos as repercussões dos ideais sociais que retratam o povo brasileiro como pacífico e avesso a movimentos marcados por ações violentas. De forma específica, interessa problematizar as repercussões desses ideais sobre a organização social nacional e a constituição subjetiva do brasileiro. A pergunta posta diz respeito às implicações subjetivas e sociais relacionadas ao fato de uma pessoa inserida na tradição cultural nacional passar a se representar e a se sentir como alegre e pacífica, mesmo perante a desigualdade social e a violência. Entendemos que essa inscrição psíquica pode ocorrer em função do ideal social disseminado por séculos a fio, pelas elites que dominam a cena econômica e cultural.

Biblioteche di conservazione & Data Curation: dal Custos catalogi al Digital Librarian. Il caso della Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana

The massive projection of information contents in the digital world and the ever-increasing pervasiveness and ubiquity of web-based resources are unstoppable phenomena that force a careful reflection on the role that public libraries and conservation libraries play in the traditional cultural scene; on how they are perceived by users; on how they are solicited by the digital world and how they adapt (or at least try to do so) to change towards this aspect. The concept of public library can certainly be considered as one of the most disruptive cultural innovations of the modern era: this innovation has profoundly marked the development of our society up to the present day, helping to shape its forma mentis and gradually becoming more and more “transparent” because now considered “normal”; however, there are many pitfalls and difficulties that our society ‒ hyper-connected and bulimic in the spasmodic search for accessible contents in digital ‒ puts forward the public library, even more, if it corresponds to the particular meaning of the conservation library. The public library and the conservation library are very often faces of the same coin, souls of the same institution, face the challenge of the digital dimension.

The genesis of the Moroccan novel in Arabic: a review of the origins of the modern fusion of mature domestic and imported literary forms

ABSTRACTThe complexity, difference, and potential excitement of the current cultural scene in Morocco and its expression in fictional form highlights the Moroccan novel in Arabic khuṣūṣiyyah. These were remarks made by Roger Allen in a 2011 article entitled ‘Rewriting Literary History: The Case of Moroccan Fiction in Arabic.’ The widespread presence of the Moroccan novel in Arabic commands an analysis that underlines the growing argument that such a genre deserves further serious scholarly inquiry. This paper takes Allen as a point of departure and seeks an appreciation of the Moroccan novel in Arabic; it is meant to add to the repertoire of Arabic literature, contributing, one hopes, to a framework from which other scholars can expand any discussion of the development of modern Moroccan novel. Its main purpose is to emphasise that the Moroccan novel in Arabic is the result of a combination of two influences, the Western modern novel and the pre-modern historical and contextual attributes.

Modern dance

The objective of this research is to invesigate the innovation process in dance and theatre production in São Paulo, as initiated by two pioneer artists of modern dance, Ruth Rachou and Renée Gumiel. A study of the history of dance in São Paulo, starting from the founding of the IV Centenary Ballet, the country's first professional dance company, including an analysis of the emergence of modern dance in Brazil's largest city and how the cultural scene was affected by the innovative work done by these artists, primarily in theatre.