Major Genres Research Articles

Novel Web-Based Music Re-Engineering Software for Enhancement of Music Enjoyment Among Cochlear Implantees.

Cochlear implant (CI) listeners experience diminished music perception and enjoyment from a variety of patient-related and implant-related factors. We investigate the hypothesis that patient-directed music re-engineering may enhance music enjoyment with CI. Prospective cohort study. Academic cochlear implant center. A multidisciplinary team of neurotologists, audiologists, and a sound/audio engineer collaborated with a web developer to create a music re-engineering application. Experienced adult CI listeners rated original excerpts from five major genres of music on enjoyment using a visual analog scale (VAS). Subjects were then allowed to re-engineer the original by adjusting treble frequencies, bass frequencies, percussion emphasis, and reverberation and again rated on enjoyment. Total of 46 subjects, with a mean age of 57.6 years (SD = 16; range, 18-90) participated in the study. User-mixed audio was rated higher across all measures of enjoyment than original recordings (mean difference +0.92; p < 0.05, CI [0.22, 1.62]), an effect that was seen across all genres except for country music. Subjects preferred louder bass frequencies (mean difference +7.1 dB; p < 0.01, CI [2.15, 24.3]) and more reverberation (mean difference +6.6 ms; p < 0.01, CI [2.85, 10.7]). Re-engineered music increased enjoyment in 57%, and 79% reported an interest in being able to mix music of their own choosing. User-directed music re-engineering increases music enjoyment for CI listeners. The cochlear implantee preferred heightened bass, reverberation, and treble across musical genres. These findings support the implementation of patient-directed music re-engineering to enhance music enjoyment with technology that is readily available today.

(Re)defining the Dichotomies within Moroccan Sufism

Although marked by diversity, the Moroccan Sufi rituals have been associated with mysterious aspects and reputed for the dichotomy of their different facets. The complexity of this field has intrigued my curiosity to investigate to what extent the type of music deployed can contribute to categorizing Sufi orders. In this context, it is worth exploring how the music is used and for which purposes. Through contrasting samaã to gnawa as major Sufi music genres, this paper sheds light on the duality inherent within the former as an elitist Sufi practice and the latter as its popular counterpart. In support if this, I conduct interviews and focus groups with several Moroccan disciples to further investigate the type of audience they both attract and how the two genres help the disciples to get into the Sufi atmosphere and the desired metaphysical level. By reviewing the literature carried out by Moroccan as well as foreign authors in this field, I also look into how researchers position Sufi activities and whether they approach them with awareness of the dichotomies categorizing the two genres within high and low cultures.

Independence of Vocal Load From Vocal Pathology Across Singing Genres

To investigate the extent to which vocal load is associated with previous diagnosis of a vocal pathology among four major genres of singers (primarily classical, primarily musical theatre (MT), classical and MT combined, and contemporary commercial music only). Cross sectional survey. An anonymous online survey was sent out to about 1000 professional singers through convenience sampling to touring companies, opera companies, MT companies, agents, directors and musical directors. Social media and email were used to solicit participation in the study. We utilized means and standard deviations for continuous characteristics and frequencies and percentages for categorical characteristics and calculated P values to assess whether differences were statistically significant. A total of 396 professional singers completed the survey, yielding a 40% response rate. Nonprofessional singers, incomplete surveys, and respondents <18 years old were excluded, resulting in a total of 238 responses. Among the 238 participants, 32% were performing in the classical style primarily, 33% in the MTstyle primarily, 15% in both classical and MT, and 20% in other contemporary styles only. Mean age was highest among CV+MT and lowest among primarily MT. Combined classical/MT singers were most likely to have a career outside of vocal performance and continue to work in that career followed by other contemporary styles, classical and MT (P=0.02). Participants in the combined classical/MT group were most likely to have a reported history of vocal pathology followed by classical, other contemporary styles and MT (not statistically significant). However, participants in the contemporary styles were most likely to have a history of more than one type of vocal pathology. Mean vocal load was highest for the MT group. Other nonsinging factors proved significant such as allergy, hydration and acid reflux. Symptoms of allergies were found to be significant across singing genres. A possible reverse causality association was identified in regards to water intake. Participants with acid reflux were three times more likely to have ever reported vocal pathology. Vocal load was not significantly associated with vocal pathology across singing genres; however other nonsinging factors such as allergy, reflux and water intake were significantly associated with vocal pathology.

Особенности развития книги стихов в современной русскоязычной поэзии Мордовии (на материале поэтических книг А. М. Шаронова «Монологи» и С. Ю. Сеничева «ВИНоГРАДвШОКоЛАДе, или Словосложение»)

Introduction: the article is devoted to the study of the development of books of poems as a major genre form in modern Russian-language poetry of Mordovia and fits into the complex of Russian literary studies concerning the peculiarities of the development of the Finno-Ugric literary process. In the course of the research, the typological features of a thematic and «final» book of poems are revealed; the poetological features of this genre in the works of the poets of Mordovia belonging to the «traditional» and «avant-garde» paradigm are analyzed. Objective: to analyze the main trends of the development of a book of poems in the literary process of Mordovia. Research materials: the poetry books by A. M. Sharonov «The Monologues» and S. Yu. Senichev «Grapes in Chocolate, or Compounding». Results and novelty of the research: the analysis of the modern Russian-language poetry of Mordovia has shown that today there are two ideological and artistic paradigms: «traditional» paradigm based on the experience of classical Russian poetry and «avant-garde» paradigm developing with the support of postmodern experiments. The diversity of poetic practices makes it possible to determine the ways of development of a book of poems in the poetic process of the republic. In the creative works of the poets of Mordovia two genre-specific forms, such as thematic and «final», are developing. Moreover, the traditional poets most often comprehend the problems concerning the preservation of the national identity of the Mordovian people. They poetically sum up the plots and images of national mythology and folklore. The genre form of a «final» book of poems allows the most representative to convey the scale of significant historical and sociocultural events of the era, as well as to present the author’s biography against the background of these events. The avant-garde poets, on the contrary, move away from national attributes. The associative and metaphorical principle of constructing a book of poems becomes more important for them, where along with the lyrical understanding of the world there is a philological game, intertextuality, and allusiveness. Through the techniques of literary play authors often express nostalgia for lost values. The analysis of the poetic of the books of poems by A. M. Sharonov and S. Yu. Senichev will allow not only to determine the features of their creative manner, but also to trace the ways and character of the development of modern Russianlanguage poetry in Mordovia as a whole.

A study on the evolution and influence of music from the perspective of data in the last hundred years

Whether in ancient or modern, as a way to cultivate sentiment, and relax the mind, music has been with mankind for a long time. With time going by, music is changing, people's creation and research on music is becoming more and more meticulous, and the major genres learn from each other. There are many factors that can influence artists when they create a new piece of music, including their innate ingenuity, current social or political events, access to new instruments or tools, or other personal experiences. Our goal is to understand and measure the influence of previously produced music on new music and musical artists. In the following report, we use four data sets collected from the ICM Association to quantitatively analyze the evolution of music over the past 90 years. By considering networks of songs and their musical characteristics, we have captured the influence that musical artists have on each other. And we also gain a better understanding of how music evolves through societies over time.

Texts rendering into a foreign language. Distant learning experience

This article examines the effectiveness of pedagogical techniques and means of stimulating educational motivation during the classes “Rendering and annotating text in a foreign language” in distant learning in higher education. Experimental training was conducted to test the effectiveness of the authors’ electronic text rendering tutorial for students learning Italian as a second language. The experiment was carried out among the 2-nd and 3-rd year students of the Linguistics department in the Institute of Foreign Languages of the RUDN University in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years. Currently e-learning has successfully integrated into the system of traditional education and is no longer seen as an alternative. The authors of this article focused on a combination of resources and tools from the Microsoft Teams platform and elaborated tutorial on rendering to motivate learners with distant learning. The article describes pedagogical practices for enhancing the motivation of students. We are talking about texts for rendering all major genres, functional styles, various topics, taking into account the level of students’ preparedness. With the aim of involving students in rendering activities and active expression of their own opinion, the researchers used an “ interpretive abstract “and included the paragraph “ OPPINIONE “ as its component. Experimental verification, its results and conclusions showed that combined rendering training based on e- tutorial developed by the authors and Microsoft Teams platform activates students’ motivation and contributes to their involvement in the process. The experiment showed another strong point of distant learning: it made a great contribution to the development of students’ independence, self-discipline and responsibility. 220.

Oratory Genre In The Work Of Uzbek Composers

This article covers the characteristics of the oratorio genre, which is one of the major genres in professional music, the unique interpretation of this genre in the works of Uzbek composers, and the essence of the content of oratorios written in recent years.

The Theme of Infidelity in Ajo Obi: A Reader Response Approach

Thematic study is an area in any literary study that cannot be easily overlooked. It is an area that cuts across the three major genres of literature. This paper examines the literary text Ajo Obi which is written by I.G. Nwaozuzu in form of drama with the view of studying the theme of infidelity as portrayed in the text. This work aims at showing the ambiguity of the claim of innocence by the accused in the text. It also brings to light how cultural divergence brings about different interpretations of an action. The data for this study are drawn from intensive study of the literary text Ajo Obi. Following a qualitative research paradigm the study adopts reader response approach in its analysis. Findings show that there is a kind of uncertainty in the claim of innocence by the accused in the text. Again cultural divergence is also found to bring about differences in interpretation of an action.

Action Real-Time Strategy Gaming Experience Related to Enhanced Capacity of Visual Working Memory.

Action real-time strategy gaming (ARSG)—a major genre of action video gaming (AVG)—has both action and strategy elements. ARSG requires attention, visual working memory (VWM), sensorimotor skills, team cooperation, and strategy-making abilities, thus offering promising insights into the learning-induced plasticity. However, it is yet unknown whether the ARSG experience is related to the development of VWM capacity. Using both behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) measurements, this study tested whether ARSG experts had larger VWM capacity than non-experts in a change detection task. The behavioral results showed that ARSG experts had higher accuracy and larger VWM capacity than non-experts. In addition, the ERP results revealed that the difference wave of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) component (size 4–size 2) elicited by experts was significantly larger than that of non-experts, suggesting that the VWM capacity was higher in experts than in non-experts. Thus, the findings suggested that prolonged ARSG experience is correlative with the enhancement of VWM.

A Curriculum for Blackness: Podcasts as Discursive Cultural Guides, 2010-2020

ABSTRACT African-American podcasting’s ascent marks a potent articulation of Black identity and experience in media history, one reaching an unprecedented range of audiences, dialogs, and online communities. This study examines how content, production practices, and digital audiences for Black podcasting generate a metaphorical curriculum for blackness, a set of discursive cultural guides for listeners. Case studies representative of major genres and publishing sectors where Black podcasting flourished from 2010 to 2020 include humorous commentary on popular entertainment in The Read (2013-), independent media’s exploration of Black life in The Nod (2014–2020), and legacy media’s in-depth cultural criticism and analysis in Still Processing (2016-).

From Talented Poet to Jealous Wife: Reimagining Su Hui in Late Tang Literary Culture

Abstract Su Hui was a late fourth century Chinese woman who is famed for her creation of brocade palindromic poems. Due to an account of her life story, attributed to the female emperor Wu Zetian, that highlighted her jealous disposition, Su Hui is remembered today primarily as a talented but jealous wife, which is in contrast with how she was viewed in the period prior to the Wu version. Tracing the genealogy of Su Hui’s narrative in pre-Tang and Tang literary and visual materials, this article demonstrates that the definitive version of Su Hui’s story is misattributed to Wu Zetian and, more importantly, that the image of this well-known figure of early medieval China underwent a transformation that reflects important aspects of Late Tang literary culture. In ‘boudoir lament’ poetry of the Southern Dynasties period, Su Hui is the stock image of a melancholy wife longing for her absent husband. In ‘frontier’ poetry of the Tang dynasty, she is a worrying wife concerned with her military husband fighting on the borderlands. It is in a Late Tang prose account misattributed to Wu Zetian that we finally see her as a jealous woman competing for her husband’s affections. The transformation of Su Hui’s image across three major literary genres over a period of half a millennium offers readers a window into the literary and cultural changes that took place in medieval China.

Satire and The Cambridge Introduction to Satire

Satire and The Cambridge Introduction to Satire

Genre matters in determining success factors for online game service

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to highlight the importance of the game genres for identifying an online game’s success factors. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, perceived enjoyment, ease of use and quality were suggested for probable success factors of online game service and then research model was developed to identify which factors are related with gamers’ satisfaction and continuance intention. The model was tested on three major genres of online game service, role playing game (RPG), real time strategy (RTS), and first person shooter (FPS), respectively. Findings: The results showed that different online game genres were impacted differently by each element of perceived quality. The findings of this study highlight the importance of the game genres for discovering success factors of online game service. Research limitations/implications: Data used in this study may not be representative of the population of online game users because the data were gathered only in South Korea. If the future study can replicate the results with the data from other countries, it can contribute more practically to the online game market. Originality/value: This study contributes to both online game literature and genre theory by examining the relationships between success factors and satisfaction across various game genres. The empirical test results, which are meaningful not only for researchers but also for online game service providers, give evidence that each genre has different success factors.

ГЕРОЙ И ФОЛЬКЛОРНО-МИФОЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ НАЧАЛО В КОНЦЕПТОСФЕРЕ ИСТОРИКО-БИОГРАФИЧЕСКОГО РОМАНА(И. М. Гоголев – Кындыл «Манчаары»)

Выявление роли фольклорно-мифологического начала в своеобразии национальной картины мира в литературном произведении находит выражение в системе художественных концептов, образующих концептосферу, в которой воплощается культурно-исторический, духовно-нравственный опыт нации. Актуальность избранной темы определяется малой изученностью данной проблемы в якутском литературоведении, в частности, в жанрологии. В этом плане особый интерес представляет выявление роли фольклорно-мифологического начала и олонхо в концептосфере национального мира в самом крупном эпическом жанре в романе, который получил высокое развитие в якутской литературе второй половины ХХ в. В последней четверти XX в. знаменательно появление жанра собственно исторического и философского романа, что является показателем высокого уровня развития литературы. В 1990-е гг., в переломный момент, эволюции умопредставлений, утраты прежних ориентиров и неясности новых, роман как форму миропознания характеризует освобождение от социальных и культурных догм и канонов, что отразилось и в жанровой динамике. Лучшие романы якутских авторов отличает широкий историко-культурный, этногенетический аспект осмысления истории народа. Возросшая роль личностного начала определила актуализацию новых форм романного мышления, обогащение реалистического в основе письма новым обращением к народно-поэтическим, фольклорным истокам, мифу, олонхо, что позволило углубить философский план повествования, усилить гуманистический пафос. Одно из вершинных проявлений развития жанра романа характерно для творчества народного писателя Якутии И. М. Гоголева Кындыла. Творческое наследие писателя многогранно, отмечено достижениями во всех основных жанрах литературы: в поэзии, в прозе и в драме. Значимым событием в литературе стали его романы Черный стерх , Богиня милосердия , Третий глаз . В ряду произведений писателя выделяется историко-биографический роман Манчаары (2001). Цели и задачи работы определены выявлением роли фольклорно-мифологического начала и олонхо в концептосфере национального мира в романе Манчаары . Использованы историко-культурный, типологический, концептуальный методы исследования. The identification of the role of the folklore and mythological principle in the uniqueness of the national picture of the world in a literary work finds expression in the system of artistic concepts that form the conceptual sphere, which embodies the cultural, historical, spiritual and moral experience of the nation. The relevance of the chosen topic is determined by the low degree of research of this problem in Yakut literary criticism, in particular, in genre studies. In this regard, of particular interest is the identification of the role of folklore and mythological beginning and olonkho in the conceptual sphere of the national world in the largest epic genre-in the novel, which was highly developed in the Yakut literature of the second half of the twentieth century. In the last quarter of the XX century, the emergence of the genre of the historical and philosophical novel itself is significant, which is an indicator of the high level of development of literature. In the 90-ies, at a turning point, the evolution of mental representations, the loss of former landmarks and the ambiguity of new ones, the novel as a form of world knowledge characterizes the liberation from social and cultural dogmas and canons, which was reflected in the genre dynamics. The best novels of Yakut authors are distinguished by a wide historical, cultural, ethno-genetic aspect of understanding the history of the people. The increased role of personality has identified the mainstreaming of new forms of novel thinking, the enrichment of a realistic based letter new appeal to folk poetry, folk roots, the myth, the olonkho, which allowed to deepen the philosophical terms of narrative, heighten the pathos. One of the top manifestations of the development of the genre of the novel is characteristic of the work of the peoples writer of Yakutia I. M. Gogolev Kyndyl. The creative heritage of the writer is multifaceted, marked by achievements in all major genres of literature: poetry, prose and drama. A significant event in literature were his novels: Black Crane, Goddess of Mercy, The Third Eye. Among the works of the writer stands out historical and biographical novel Manchaary (2001). The goals and objectives of the work are determined by the identification of the role of folklore and mythological principle and olonkho in the conceptual sphere of the national world in the novel Manchaary. Historical-cultural, typological, conceptual methods of research are used.

Teaching Fiction: Challenges and Remedies for College Students and Instructors

I have been teaching fiction for a number of years and every time I walk into class to teach my students fiction, a short story or a novel, I get embarrassed to find out that my students who have taken courses such as “The Rise of the Novel, or “Introduction to Literature” still do not know to answer basic questions related to such courses. What is literature? What are the major genres of literature? What is fiction? What are the basic elements of fiction? These questions are fundamentals for literature students. Their inability of not answering them will cause big problems for college instructors presuming that students should have known these questions during the time they were students taking these courses above mentioned. These challenges rise when I first meet with my students taking fiction as university requirement. I ask them individually to answer these questions, to which they are unable to answer in good English. They just use words or phrases to answer, which adds a new challenge. There I have to stop and tell them. First, how to answer these questions using good English. Then I proceed with the answering the questions myself, so they are on the right track from the first day of meeting with them. Thus, this paper discusses the challenges of teaching fiction and provides ways, methods or remedies to handle them. It provides benefits of reading fiction for students and teachers. Finally, it demonstrates the delivery plan offered by the college in which I teach and the changes I have made on the original plan so that both can suit and achieve the desired learning outcomes.

"Olde feble wymmen with perseuerance ouercome many longe pilgrimages": Mapping the Feminine in Disce mori

"Olde feble wymmen with perseuerance ouercome many longe pilgrimages":Mapping the Feminine in Disce mori Denis Renevey Contrary to what its title may suggest, Disce mori is not a treatise about how to die. As a compilation, it is made up of several texts or extracts of texts that have been put together by a compiler to make a distinct and coherent whole. Disce mori is a manual of religious instruction, touching upon basic topics such as vices and virtues, an exposition of the Pater noster, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the seven works of corporal and spiritual mercy. This didactic material is divided into ninety-seven chapters. They are followed by a final part, the "Exhortacion," which, in accordance with the progressive order of presentation of the material, deals with the more ambitious subject of contemplation. The anonymous treatise not only compiles at a thematic level, but also offers generic variety. Indeed, sermon structure, epistolary form, and lyric are brought together to construct a structurally coherent whole for the attention of a primarily female readership. Disce mori is one of the many compilations that are insufficiently investigated when discussing the medieval canon, genre, and gender. This compilation in fact raises issues as to the too often neglected question in modern scholarship of the role of anonymous writings and compilations within medieval literary culture. Indeed, focus on canonical authors and major genres such as romance overlooks complex questions about the relationship between the canon and compilations. The discussion of this relationship in Disce mori, with reference to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde [End Page 351] and other canonical texts, problematizes it in interesting ways. Also, the construction of the female devout woman in particular, and the representation of readerly subjectivity identified as female, which this article explores, demonstrate the usefulness of extending our literary horizon for an understanding of the complex significance of anonymous works and compilations with the canon. Disce mori is extant in only two manuscripts: Oxford, Jesus College, MS 39 (J), which dates from the period 1453–64, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. th. C. 57 (L), which was copied around 1470, according to some features of its script.1 The compilation borrows from "rédaction w" of the French Miroir du monde, also known as Somme le roi. This treatise survives in more than 100 manuscripts and was translated into a large number of vernacular languages, with at least nine English versions.2 It also relies on a fifteenth-century Latin compilation, the Speculum spiritualium, for insertion of passages on remedies against the sins, following Miroir du monde passages on these sins. The first part of Speculum spiritualium is made up of catechetic material, followed by contemplative material gathered from the doctors of the Church and continental contemplatives, but also including Edmund of Abingdon, Walter Hilton, and Richard Rolle.3 In fact, as noticed by Eddie Jones, a quarter of Disce mori is borrowed from the Speculum spiritualium, including all of the material borrowed from Richard Rolle.4 Other compilations contribute to Disce mori's discussion on the virtues, which logically follows that on the sins. Indeed, between a third and a half of The Chastising of God's Children is found in Disce mori.5 The material used for the composition of Disce mori belongs to the range of texts that one could argue makes the fodder of religious compilation. The interest of this compilation lies especially in the way the material has been organized for the attention of a female lay readership. [End Page 352] Following a suggestion made by Jones that Disce mori was written for the attention of a vowess, Annette Kern-Stähler has argued that the passage discussing secular love's duplicity borrowed from Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde gains in didactic impact if, in fact, the recipient was a devout laywoman, rather than a nun, possibly from Syon Abbey.6 Kern-Stähler offers a perceptive analysis of episodes from Troilus and Criseyde that shows how a good understanding of the heroine, both initially as a model to emulate, and then as an exemplum of how not to fall into the lure of carnal love...

Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England, 1720–1800

Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England, 1720–1800

Особенности сюжетосложения лирических циклов путешествий в русской поэзии Мордовии конца ХХ – начала XXI вв.

Introduction: the article is devoted to the study of genre and aspect specifics of the travel lyric cycle as a major genre form in modern Russian poetry of Mordovia and it fits into the complex of research of Russian literary studies concerning the problem of genre synthesis. The subjects of the analysis are the features of plot building of the lyrical cycles of travels. Objective: to reveal the genre and problem-thematic originality of the lyrical cycles of travels in the works of modern poets of Mordovia. Research materials: cycles of travels of V. Gadaev, V. Yushkin, K. Smorodin. Results and novelty of the research: in modern Russian poetry of Mordovia large genre forms as the most flexible actively develop. Among them, a special place is occupied by lyrical cycles with diverse thematic lines. In this context, travel cycles that synthesize the features of genre forms of the cycle and travelogue are quite remarkable. The complex compositional structure marked by the presence of a real geographical route, the image of a traveler comprehending the cultural and historical atmosphere of the visited country / city, reflects the author’s worldview, historiosophy, and the idea of the world space. In the works of V. Gadaev, V. Yushkin and K. Smorodin such cyclic forms carry out various creative objectives. For V. Gadaev, trip brings the opportunity to rethink the tragic moments of history, to understand the state of a person who is far from his homeland. The plot-forming beginning of his works is the opposition «native – alien», where the image of the Mordovian region turns out to be the semantic artistic center. In V. Yushkin’s lyrical cycles, the traveler’s route is connected with the comprehension of semantic codes of geographical space, contact with important cultural and literary places. In the K. Smorodin’s center of attention is an image of a lyrical hero-traveler who is under the impression of the surrounding world’s beauty. The motif of travel in the works of Russian poets of Mordovia is largely enriched by landscape and philosophical, love motifs, which indicates the synthetic nature of this genre-specific form. The scientific novelty of the work is connected with the fact that it represents the first experience of the comprehensive study of the features of the lyric cycle of travels in Russia

Festschriften and Collected Essays

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