Cultural Entertainment Research Articles

Теневой рынок алкоголя: к определению основных типов и мотивов потребителей

В последнее десятилетие наблюдается снижение потребления алкоголя и переход с крепких напитков на более легкие. Тем не менее употребление спиртных напитков по-прежнему встроено в культуру досуга и снятия стресса. Теневой рынок алкоголя уменьшился и видоизменился после принятия государственных регуляторных мер, но не исчез. Один из ключевых исследовательских вопросов статьи — почему человек покупает алкоголь в нелегальных точках продаж? В статье представлены результаты совместного исследования Центра социального проектирования «Платформа» и Центра развития потребительского рынка бизнес-школы СКОЛКОВО. В статье на основе серии интервью с потребителями продукции теневого рынка алкоголя описываются типы, мотивация и модели поведения покупателей, а также ситуации перехода на этот рынок. Как правило, на теневом рынке покупают алкоголь люди с низкими доходами; не доверяющие лицензированному продавцу и производителю; стремящиеся обойти запрет на ночную покупку. Введение ограничений на розничную торговлю спиртным переводит в теневой сегмент часть потребителей, если они стремятся сэкономить или если их приобщили к потреблению в теневом канале знакомые. На теневом рынке потребители сталкиваются со специфическими рисками, поскольку там продаются в основном крепкие напитки, и единственный способ контролировать качество продукции — через «сарафанное радио».

Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture, Evan Elkins (2019)

Review of: Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture, Evan Elkins (2019) New York: New York University Press, 221 pp., ISBN 978-1-47987-387-6, p/bk, US$29.00

The panorama in Meiji Japan: horizontal and vertical perspectives

ABSTRACT The panorama was introduced to Japan in 1890, two decades after the collapse of the feudal society. Not only the horizontal 360-degree view was a novelty for Japanese audiences, but also the realistic oil paintings drawn in perspective. In the same year, a 12-story viewing tower was erected and the first hot air balloon ascent took place, both in the adjacent Asakusa and Ueno districts where the two major panorama halls stood. These spectacles offered new visual experiences to the masses who were experiencing the new world that had opened to them with the freedom of travel and choice of profession. In other words, with the arrival of late-nineteenth century modernity, people’s gaze expanded both horizontally and vertically. During this period, Japan was in the midst of a rapid process of modernization, aiming at catching up with the Western Great Powers. Concurrently, the Japanese Democracy movement that endorsed values of liberty and civil rights had spread nationwide, and its theorists were among cultural figures who promoted modern and cultural entertainment forms – including the panorama. However, the earlier promises of the Meiji Emperor on creating a democratic society were soon replaced by the pursuit of Japanese Monarchy. The Constitution of the Empire of Japan in 1890 put an end to the Democracy movement and to the freedom of expression. Excavating the visual culture around the panorama and its environment, this article offers an alternative viewpoint on the atmosphere of Japan in the late nineteenth century.

EXPLORING THE AESTHETICS OF AWON MASS WEDDING FESTIVAL AS POPULAR CULTURE

Popular culture or popular literature is often being referred to as trivial literature or para literature as it possesses virtually similar characteristics of writing. Among its other genres, abound in popular culture are the festival aesthetics which constitutes its dramatic genre. “Awon” Mass wedding festival is one of such festivals celebrated annually in Shao, Moro Local Government, Kwara State. The festival has its many features which are rich in oral tradition and tourist events deployable for modern cultural entertainment. This paper considers the aesthetics of Awon Festival as an exemplary popular culture with a view to explore the richness and impact of the mass wedding festival on the cultural landscape of Nigeria and global setting. The objectives of this essay are: to project the aesthetics as popular culture; to explore the role and tourist potentials of the festival towards the development of Kwara State; to promote the festival for global audience. The researcher participated in the annual two editions (2017 and 2019) of the festival to enable him obtain firsthand information for the analysis. Interviews and recordings were also carried out. The findings of the paper are that Awon festival is both entertaining and didactic as a popular culture in terms of events, oral texture and significance. It is capable of boosting the economy/IGR of the host state and the nation at large. The festival is recommended for global tourism and that the Kwara State Government and the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture should adopt the festival for invigoration interms of packaging for international audience.

Architectural and artistic features of the concert halls’ construction

This study is devoted to the architectural and artistic features of the multifunctional concert halls’ construction. Since, in our time, more and more often use non-specialized objects for the concert halls’ function (stadiums, theaters, clubs), this study is relevant. Also, the interest of researchers in the concert halls’ subject is rather mosaic and fragmented, and the works that systematically study the structures’ origin in Russian culture, from the standpoint of architectural and artistic features, are still not observed. It should be noted that the formation of a unique architecture image of a multifunctional concert hall will contribute to the tourism sector’s development, add prestige to the city and satisfy the growing demand of the population for cultural entertainment and a variety of leisure activities.The article discusses the principles of designing the multifunctional concert halls that can be adapted to various types of concerts (philharmonic, chamber, pop, choreographic, prefabricated), due to the technical equipment that will contribute to the architectural object’s novelty. The article presents the results of studies on the conceptual model formation of a multifunctional concert hall for the city of Rostov-on-Don, which is proposed to be located on the left bank of the river Don, west of the Voroshilov bridge. This place is promising for the construction of public buildings with an entertainment function.

Book Review: Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture

Book Review: Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture

Suomalaisten naisopiskelijoiden luennan perustaajuuden muutos 1990-luvulta 2010-luvulle

Puhekorkeus on sekä yksilöllinen ja tilannekohtainen että myös sosiaalinen muuttuja. Eri maissa on viimeisen sadan vuoden aikana raportoitu naisten puhekorkeuden laskua. Puhekorkeuden muutoksen oletetaan heijastelevan yhteiskunnallisia muutoksia. Keskimääräistä puhekorkeutta mitataan usein perustaajuuden keskiarvolla ja mediaanilla. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan suomalaisten yliopistossa opiskelevien naisten perustaajuuden (fo) keskiarvoa ja mediaania 160-sanaisessa, noin minuutin mittaisessa neutraalissa tekstiluennassa, joka on äänitetty 1990- ja 2010-luvuilla. Tutkimuksen aineisto on peräisin Tampereen yliopiston Puheen ja äänen tutkimuksen laboratorion äänitearkistosta. Tutkimukseen valittiin satunnaisesti 136 (N) 20–25-vuotiasta naista, joilla ei ollut tiedossa ääntöelimistön tai kuulon sairauksia, ja joiden ääni oli kuulonvaraisesti arvioituna normaali. Näytteet oli taltioitu vaimennetussa äänitysstudiossa digitaalisesti mittamikrofonia käyttäen, ja ne analysoitiin Praat-ohjelmalla. Perustaajuuden keskiarvo näyttää nousseen aiemmasta 195,7 Hz:stä 210,6 Hz:iin ja mediaani 190,9 Hz:stä 203,2 Hz:iin. Muutokset ovat tilastollisesti merkitseviä (Studentin t-testi, p = < 0,001 molemmissa). Vieraiden kielten ja globaalin viihdekulttuurin vaikutus voinee osaltaan selittää muutosta.

Framing the Market at the Paris Universal Expositions

ABSTRACT From 1855 to 1900, the Paris expositions gradually included an increasing number of commercial spots and venues operated by private companies and entrepreneurs. This article examines the emergence and development of these private concessions such as cafés, kiosks, shops and restaurants on the exhibitions grounds, and how they accompanied the rise of entertainment and mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris. More specifically, it will address the organizational aspects and the logistics of these new sites of consumer culture in order to show how consumer capitalism was not just exhibited but also materially performed at the Paris universal expositions.

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF ORAL LITERATURE IN SIMEULUE

This research was basically aimed to document the oral literature of the people in simeulue and to collect Simeulue’s oral literature in the form of prose to be documented in the form of text and translated into English. The general problems of this research were the structure and function of oral literature in simeulue region. Simeulue oral literature is one of the oral literature that was born and developing in the special of Aceh region. This can be reinforced by the fact that literature is told orally. Thus, this oral literature shows a lot of things that have to do with the lives of people in Simeulue itself. There are three titles analyzed, they are: Anak durhako, Luma fatu, and si mesken. The purpose of the study is to describe the issues discussed, while the benefits of this research that can contribute to the development of oral literature research, especially story telling or folklore, can be studied and used as a teaching material in school, can be used as a reference for further researchers, as well as one of the efforts of cultural preservation and entertainment especially towards the Simeulue community. The theory used in this research is the theory of oral literature, structural theory, oral literary function, translation theory and literary learning. This research uses descriptive and qualitative method.

Modern trends in architectural design of hospices

Introduction. This article reviews the brief history of palliative care spreading, it also studies specific characteristics of palliative care centers architecture. It also gives attention to the current condition of hospices in our country, and to the problems and opportunities that these hospices face. Materials and methods. Studies consider, firstly, methods of comparative analysis and synthesis of foreign and domestic scientific, literary and design materials; secondly, use of opinion poll findings; thirdly, use of interdisciplinary approach, which takes into account issues in the fields in medicine, sociology, legal regulations, that affect a set of requirements for hospice and palliative care centers design. Results. of the survey are presented as recommendations for the design of hospice territory, their landscaping, architectural planning and architectural-artistic characteristics of hospice design. These results can be used in architectural practice of hospice and palliative care centers design, as well as in the teaching and learning process as guidelines for hospice and palliative care centers design. Conclusions. Basic recommendations for hospice design are introduced. Problem analysis in the context of architectural planning and city planning organization of hospices will help to improve the structure of such architectural objects, and investigate their typology for future evolution. Public involvement in palliative care evolution, and in particular from the point of view of their architectural and spatial design, places an emphasis not only on currently dominating entertainment culture, but also on human duty and dignity.

Масленица в историографии социально-культурной деятельности

The article is devoted to the consideration of "Maslenitsa" in the historiography of social and cultural activities. It is noted that "Maslenitsa" as a national holiday appeared before the baptism of Russia. The author emphasizes that the study of the historiography of the holiday is of undoubted interest, both for scientists and practitioners of the leisure sphere, since such research is conducted for the first time. The purpose of the research is to reveal how historians, ethnographers, and folklorists studied Maslenitsa in various periods of Russian history. The author's task was to show the structure of Maslenitsa, the organization of its holding and numerous leisure forms of its holding, as well as to show through numerous studies how each day of Maslenitsa was celebrated. Methods. Various sources (monographs, articles, dissertations) that reveal the content and conduct of Maslenitsa in various historical periods are used in the study. The article provides a historiographical analysis of the national holiday "Maslenitsa". The author points out that at present the historiography of social and cultural activities, as a branch of pedagogical science, has become an independent section of research on a par with the history and theory of social and cultural activities. It is emphasized that the study of forms of holiday and entertainment culture in the history of socio-cultural activities is one of the directions of historiography in socio-cultural activities. Historiography of socio-cultural activity in its scientific development makes the first independent steps. The scientific novelty of this research is undeniable. Based on the fundamental historiographical material, the author shows the emergence of the "Maslenitsa", its structure, organization and conduct. In the article each day of the holiday and entertainment ways for its conduct are defined. Keywords: Maslenitsa, historiography, sociocultural activities, meeting, zaigryshi, lakomka, shirokij Chetverg, mother-in-law’s evening, sister in law’s gatherings, Sorry and Forgive day, holiday, holiday and entertainment culture, leisure.

방한 무슬림 관광객의 지출결정요인 분석

This study analyzed determinants of expenditure for the purpose of attracting high value-added Muslim tourists to expand the tourism market in Korea. We used the 2018 Foreign Tourist Survey' data from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's' and included tourists from Malaysia, Indonesia and Middle East in the analysis. The Tobit model was used to estimate expenditure determinants. As a result of the estimation, various mutual influential relations were found for each spending item. The total expenditure increases with being a male and getting older. The total expenditure also increased when a visitor is traveling alone or a visitor revisited Korea. Shopping spending was higher when a visitor was in Korea solely for traveling purposes, was highly satisfied with trips to Korea, and was a returning tourists. Food and beverage expenditures were higher for tourists who visited alone. Lastly, expenditures on cultural entertainment were higher among women, those who visited Korea solely for traveling purposes, and individual travel types. On the other hand, expenditures on cultural entertainment were lower for tourists traveling with family, traveling alone, and first-time visitors to Korea.

Migrant Youths and YouTube Entertainment: Media Participation in Post-Migrant Finland

Recent media studies in Europe have stressed the importance of studying socie- ties’ negotiations on migration and the ability of migrants and other ethnic minorities to participate in these processes. Social media platforms have been widely praised for their openness to culturally diverse voices and representations. For minorities who have often been ignored and misrepresented in traditional media, these platforms arguably provide an empowering space where they can self-represent their identities, provide counter-representations to large and diverse audiences, and enhance their careers as media professionals. The video streaming social media platform, YouTube, is at the forefront of media participation. However, YouTube also has been criticized for promoting a highly commercialized culture of self-commodification and entertainment that maintains the status quo instead of enabling progressive social change. This study presents the results of an examination of the YouTube scene in Finland, a country with the lowest percentage of foreign-born inhabitants in Northern and Western Europe, where few YouTubers with migrant backgrounds have become increasingly visible within the last few years. Drawing on interviews with YouTubers, the study presents new insights into ethnic minority participation on YouTube and challenges binary oppositions between commercialism, entertainment and social change.

Hetzende Hunde, gehetzte Stiere und vorgeführte Bären

The Vienna „Hetztheater“, established in 1755 and closed down in 1796, could be seen as part of an early modern European, commercialised culture of theatre and entertainment, such as fireworks and ballooning in 18th century. In the suburban areas, bulls were baited before slaughter and soon bears and other animals as well. The „Hetztheater“, as part of the city’s wide-ranging theatre scene, was not only a brother of the Globe Theatre in architectural terms, but also proved to be a pacemaker in a growing city for a new leisure culture that transcended the boundaries of status. On the other hand, the Enlightenment increasingly condemned these animal baitings as a „stain on our century and our customs“. The „Hetztheater“ also helped to establish a taxonomy of the animal world and to classify the human-animal relations. Since horses as first-ranking means of transport were not allowed to be rushed around in the baiting arena, the „Hetztheater“ contributed to drawing the dividing lines between wild and tame animals.

What does frustration, serendipity and uncertainties of global media and communication means? Some versions from Latvia and Estonia

In a short novel by contemporary Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin “White square” (2018), the moderator of the show with the same title gets killed during the show in which four guests express their visions of present society. Everyone can follow the killing on-line, having voted shortly before for the most entertaining guest. After having received an injection of a new chemical formula which is supposed to entertain the audience, the four participants get wild and destroy the whole show enjoyed by the audience. A new moderator is being engaged to let the show go on...
 This rather gothic plot shows another part of the reality – the memories of the director of the show about someone, a person unknown to the reader, who has been killed to start the bloody entertainment. The ring, made of the skin of this unknown person gets lost and lands in a realm beyond the on-line entertainment culture: poor workers, their uneducated wives and alcoholics, who still inhabit the off-line everyday life of low wages, heavy physical jobs and simple joys ignored by blood thirsty audience, voting and selling advertisement time for higher prices. Both groups, digital media users and poor underpaid blue collars are in contemporary Europe and the USA targets for populist messages in media.

Intellectual games concept review in THE XIX – XXI century (Google book Ngram Corpus scientific materials base)

In the context of the development of information technology in the world, modern scientists have noted in children, youth and adults the processes of creative and intellectual degradation, the growth of functional illiteracy. In the 20th century, the value of general intelligence for each new generation was one more statistical “norm” than the previous one. Scientists have discovered that the activity of a man of the 21st century in his free time becomes more significant for the development of his intellect and creativity (gaining a state of "flow") than activity during working hours. The intellectual load during leisure time allows a person to maintain a high level of mental activity until the end of his life, to prevent brain degradation. In the scientific community, from the mid-19th century, the verbal definition of the term “intellectual games” is enclosed in different types of games. Drawing analogies between the concepts of “Quiz” and “intellectual games”, the authors of the article determine that they are the product of two opposites: mass, entertainment culture and intellectual culture, which is characteristic of a rational person, capable of endless development. The authors described a modern tool for working in the database of scientific materials Google Book Ngram Corpus. This database contains also materials concerning architecture, construction, machine-buliding fields of research. With its help, connotations of intellectual games in the history of their development were considered.

AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OVER BANGLADESHI LEARNERS' ATTITUDE TOWARD KOREAN LANGUAGE AS K-FAN IN 2020

The popularity of Korean language results from ‘Hallyu’ or ‘Korean Wave,’ the coinage for Korean entertainment culture. It came in the late 1990s as the wave first hit in China and Japan used the term first. The impact of glocalization of Hallyu is increasing day by day upon many aspects of life among young generation. K-ubiquity creates an overflowing popularity all over the world, regarding which a lot of studies have already been done. Bangladesh is also under the influence of Korean entertainment industry since 2009 or around. Youth of Bangladesh are fans of Korean pop culture as well as dramas as a result of cultural hybridization. Notably the highly passionate Korean language learners are involved in versatile economic sectors related to Korea. A number of K-pop cultural programs has been arranged by K-fans in Bangladesh. Therefore, I conduct the study particularly over Bangladesh as a need of 2020 to get an ultimate picture of K-fans attitude towards Korean language. A survey of more than 100 participants results an analytical comparison over Bangladeshi K-fans’ attitude that aims for a further innovative curriculum of Korean language based on peoples’ interests. Keenly observed facts in this survey are fields of interests behind learning Korean language. These facts reflect their inner views about Korean as a foreign language through various learning experiences. According to the survey results, the 66% youngsters of Bangladesh are interested to learn Korean language passionately by focusing on their individual motto of learning Korean. Therefore, through this work an average change in learning choice of Bangladeshi youth is obtained as an overview of 2020.

Remembering Napoleon: Americans and the French Emperor in the 1820s and 1830s

In the 1820s and 1830s, many Americans were fascinated by Napoleon. After his death in 1821, biographies of the French emperor circulated widely in the United States and Jacques-Louis David's painting of his coronation attracted visitors throughout the country. Conduct books lauded the emperor's character, and travelers to France enthusiastically recounted viewing the fallen hero's robes. Against the backdrop of an age that saw both the much-lauded rise of the common man and endeavors to culturally disentangle the United States from Europe, this fascination with a foreign emperor is intriguing. Telling the story of Napoleon as a success story of self-making, however, allowed Americans across party lines to ease tensions between the ongoing appeal of courtly glamour and republican ideals. Acknowledging that this emperor was a self-made man seemed to legitimize the enthrallment with imperial pomp. At the same time, in the context of American westward expansion, the rise of an entertainment culture, and the emerging culture of selffashioning, the French emperor became a lens through which to view contemporary questions of revolution and empire, glamour and spectacle, upward mobility, and the structure of the young nation's social fabric.

Midiatização da política, entretenimento e cultura pop. Dimensões conceituais e práticas

<p>El artículo describe tres dimensiones de la mediatización de la política, centrando la atención en la relación entre entretenimiento y democracia. En tal sentido, de la investigación bibliográfica realizada, ilustrada por casos particulares, se indican los siguientes aspectos del<br />proceso: (a) la aproximación de la política, en sociedades democráticas, con formas de entretenimiento; (b) la politización del entretenimiento y la cultura pop, transformada en espacios para la discusión de temas públicos; y (c) los límites de esta intersección, tanto en términos de medios como de la política, los cuales preservan sus identidades particulares como campos sociales relativamente autónomos.</p>

¿Es posible un sainete socialista? Algunas reflexiones en torno a la figura de Pedro E. Pico, socialista y hombre del teatro comercial

Este artículo aborda la vida y obra de Pedro E. Pico, miembro del Partido Socialista argentino, pero también, importante autor de la escena del teatro comercial en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Al realizar este análisis se pretende discutir los vínculos entre cultura de izquierda y cultura de masas y, a su vez, el modo en que los vínculos entre ambas esferas han sido caracterizados por un espectro amplio de la historiografía consagrada al tema.El hecho de que estas dos vertientes de su actividad no resultaron contradictorias en su trayectoria obliga a formular nuevas preguntas sobre las interrelaciones entre diferentes lógicas de prácticas culturales y el mundo del entretenimiento en la Argentina de la primera mitad del siglo XX.