Variety Of Genres Research Articles

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Learning the Features of Genres in The Classes of the Main Instrument Summary The presented article is devoted to the topic of studying genre features in the process of teaching students on the main instrument. The article makes an excursion to the main varieties of genres of musical art. The student's orientation in a variety of genres expands the boundaries of his worldview and professional field of activity. As a result of this, the presented article carries methodological value in the educational process. Key words: student, art, music, genre, piano

An Analysis of The Economic Impact Potential of The Art Music Scene in Kosovo: Is It a Burden or An Additional Value for Society?

The art and music sector in Kosovo possesses considerable potential for growth and development. These institutions are essential in shaping Kosovo's cultural and economic environment by providing employment possibilities for composers, performers, and industry specialists, contributing to the expansion of the music industry, and aiding in post-conflict recovery. In recent years, Kosovo's music sector has undergone substantial growth and development, driven by technological advancements, globalization, and changing consumer preferences. This progress contrasts with the underdeveloped state of the sector in the past, a result of economic, social, and political factors that this paper will further discuss. Kosovo's music scene is characterized by a wide variety of genres, ranging from traditional folk music to modern styles including pop, rock, hip-hop, and electronic dance music (EDM). This diversified range of styles and influences caters to a broad spectrum of preferences and attracts listeners both within Kosovo and globally. The art music genre of the scene garners significant attention due to its growing popularity, diverse activities, extensive outreach, cultural enrichment, cultural diplomacy efforts, and possible economic influence. This study seeks to analyze the economic influence of the art music sector in Kosovo within the wider music business. It will conduct a thorough and systematic assessment of the sector's contributions to the country's economy, society, and cultural identity.

Translating Ulyssei@s: Work in progress between general and specialised translation in light of NMT

It is common knowledge that the publication of translation projects carried out by students is a very motivating factor for training. Since the second semester of 2015-2016, undergraduate translation students of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto have participated in the development of the French and English versions of the digital encyclopaedia Ulyssei@s, created by the Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa (ILCML) in the early 2010s. Besides motivating students, this translation project published on the Internet allows us to develop translation skills, foster teamwork, consolidate the three-phase methodology proposed by Gouadec (2002, 2007), and experiment with several essential tasks in language services: collaborative glossary-making, translation, revision of human translation and post-editing neural machine translation (NMT). Some of the challenges posed by the translation of Ulyssei@s are common to all types of translation, while others are specific to the translation of entries of this sui generis encyclopaedia, such as a variety of textual genres (biography, literary criticism, prose, poetry, theatre, essay) in hybrid texts and the need to find the original or the official translation of the works cited. This paper focuses on the data collected in the spring semester of 2022 and is based on the results of a survey submitted to students at the end of the project. It aims to share the experience of developing an inevitably unfinished project and adapting training and learning to the latest advances in Human Language Technology, since NMT has become a valuable tool for human translators, and Ulyssei@s is a digital encyclopaedia regularly enriched by ILCML collaborators with new entries.

Introduction: Disturbing the Sedimentations of Nineteenth-Century Environments

Abstract This research cluster offers four original case studies in Victorian and neo-Victorian ecocriticism. Clustered around the key concepts of form, materiality, and politics, its articles build on recent efforts by Victorianists to analyse interconnections of nature, agriculture, industry, and empire in the nineteenth-century literary imagination. The introduction first relates the cluster’s concerns to the latest scholarship in Victorian ecocriticism, and then turns to the aims and thematic focal points of the four contributions. The articles by Julia Ditter, Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Katharina Kalthoff, and Marlena Tronicke foreground the ecological project at the heart of a variety of fictional and nonfictional genres: the sensational novel, travel and nature writing, fantasy, and neo-Victorian gothic fiction. Ditter examines industrial travel narratives in the periodical press; Espinoza Garrido investigates the eco-colonial aesthetics of Florence Marryat’s sensation fiction; Kalthoff provides an ecofeminist reading of H. G. Wells’s mermaid tale The Sea Lady; and Tronicke examines material embodiments of the Irish Famine in the work of Paul Lynch. Together, these contributions offer fresh perspectives on the emerging field of Victorian ecocriticism and embrace the interdisciplinary dialogues facilitated by the environmental humanities for the study of nineteenthcentury literature and culture.

Curating performances that speak all languages

ABSTRACT This contribution sheds light on PQ Performance as a non-competitive section of the Prague Quadrennial. It describes the process of curating the performance program created on the basis of an open call, for performance designers, directors, choreographers, performers, and artists of all career levels, without any age limit. The call was drafted in English, French and Portuguese and offered the possibility to reply in any of those languages. The 21 performances of the final program were presented in the Prague Market (Pražská Tržnice), the National Gallery (Veletržní palác), Štvanice Island and the streets of Prague. Ranging from physical to site-specific, walking, conceptual, visual, drawing, ritual, costume, puppetry, dance and participatory, all performances operated scenographically, crafting moments of exceptional presence. The article also recalls the epidemic context in which PQ23 was curated and produced, and how artists have, responded to the questions What needs to be performed urgently? How do we address the future of performance design? And how do we take it from here? Finally, the article draws attention to the diversity of cultures and genres that revealed the poetic and critical potentials of space across different expressions of performance and performance design as a language that speaks all languages.

From Activists to Werewolves: 2023 Rainbow Book List Trends

This manuscript explores the trends of the American Library Association’s (ALA's) Rainbow Book List Top Ten Titles for Young Readers for 2023. It provides an overview of the titles and curricular connections. The authors discuss how the 2023 Rainbow Book List offers a diversity of genres and topics and also delves deeply into portrayals of queer and trans youth and family members. These books allow ample opportunities for elementary and middle-level teachers to incorporate diverse and varied LGBTQIA+ experiences and narratives into instruction and classroom life.

Evidence‐Based Practices to Enliven Integrated Reading‐to‐Writing Instruction

AbstractDespite strong support for integrating reading and writing instruction, writing practice is often crowded out of the schedule in elementary classrooms. To promote increased emphasis on writing, a working group of literacy researchers highlights three writing goals and six research‐based reading‐to‐writing practices to enliven instruction with more integrated opportunities. The three featured goals are maximize reading–writing connections, increase student collaborative writing, and promote a classroom writing community. To achieve these goals, the authors highlight flexible, evidenced‐based writing activities to encourage genre diversity, goal‐setting, peer feedback, and cross‐curricular reading tasks. The collection of recommended practices has the potential to engage students and improve both reading and writing achievement.

What Large Language Models Know

Abstract The strengths and weaknesses of generative applications built on large language models are by now well-known. They excel at the production of discourse in a variety of genres and styles, from poetry to programs, as well as the combination of these into novel forms. They perform well at high-level question answering, dialogue, and reasoning tasks, suggesting the possession of general intelligence. However, they frequently produce formally correct but factually or logically wrong statements. This essay argues that such failures—so-called hallucinations—are not accidental glitches but are instead a by-product of the design of the transformer architecture on which large language models are built, given its foundation on the distributional hypothesis, a nonreferential approach to meaning. Even when outputs are correct, they do not meet the basic epistemic criterion of justified true belief, suggesting the need to revisit the long neglected relationship between language and reference.

Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere: Vernacular Liberalism in Late Colonial North India

AbstractDrawing from publications by Swami Achutanand and the Adi-Hindu Mahasabha press between 1916 and 1940, this article examines the role of this north Indian Dalit organization in creating language and categories of liberalism in the Hindi vernacular. The Mahasabha poet-activists published numerous song-booklets in a variety of Hindi song genres to intervene in ongoing discussions on the subjects of representation and equality which they characterized as mulki-haq and unch-niche. Histories of liberties in late colonial India have typically examined its emergence within dominant Hindu and Muslim middle-class groups. This article uncovers the unique contributions of Dalit poet-activists who recognized the value of liberal ideas and institutions in challenging caste and abolishing “Manu’s Kanun” (lawgiver Manu’s Hindu law codes). It highlights the methodological importance of mohalla (neighborhood) sources usually located in Dalit activists’ houses in untouchable quarters. The chapbooks found in mohalla collections have enabled the writing of a new history of the Mahasabha’s activism and of the initiatives taken by poet-activists in founding a new Dalit politics in northern India. I explore the emergence of a Dalit literate public which sustained the activities of the Mahasabha and which responded with enthusiasm to its articulation of the new social identity of Achut (untouched) and a new political identity of Adi-Hindus—original inhabitants of Hindustan (India). Offering a new methodological approach in using mohalla sources and song-booklets composed in praise of liberal institutions, this essay makes a significant contribution to the recovery of a forgotten Dalit public sphere in early twentieth-century India.

The chronicle in opinion journalism. facts and interpretation

The diversity of genres of opinion in Moldovan journalism and the multiple possibilities of approaching events within the framework of journalistic opinion materials allow the examination of the genres and species of journalistic branches in new contexts every time. The article below examines the characteristics of the chronicle as a journalistic genre of opinion and observes the traditional but also the new valences of the chronicle texts. At the same time, in the materials presented in the article below are proposed examples of chronicle texts with the analysis of their specifics in order to observe the mandatory and necessary elements of the chronicle, according to the specifics of the genre, as well as the identification of those characteristics that will not be found in other opinion texts.

한국 영어 듣기학습자를 위한 다양한 영어 실제(authentic) 자료 보통속도 연구

Objectives Normal English speed is a core factor of characteristics of authentic spoken language; thus, its study is essential for teaching English listening. The purpose of this study is two fold: 1) To investigate English normal speed(160~190 wpm), which was claimed by Primsleur, et. al. 45 years ago; and 2) To find out whether normal speed is utilized in teaching of listening in Korean high schools.
 Methods To find out current normal English speed, we investigated 42 YouTube materials from varied genres. In addition, a survey was conducted with 22 prospective English teachers.
 Results The research findings on the speech rate for various genres are: speeches (135 wpm), dramas (141 wpm), talk shows (174 wpm), and news (185 wpm). We found out that the normal speed has been maintained for 45 years under similar conditions as measured by the news announcers' speeches. The survey reveals that slower than normal speed is utilized in English listening classes, which makes Korean learners of English experience difficulties in authentic situations.
 Conclusions Utilizing the normal speed is recommended on the Korean Scholastic Ability Test listening items and in the English classroom alike, to solve the speed gap between the English classroom in Korea and authentic situations in English.

Face Melody-Mood-Aware Music Recommendation System with Facial Recognition

Abstract: The proposed Face Melody analyzes the user’s facia l expressions in real time. Through the user’s webcam, the system captures emotional cues, such as joy, sadness, or excitement, and processes this data to understand the user’s current mood. Face Melody leverages a sophisticated recommendation engine that correlates the detected mood with a vast music database, ensuring that the music selection aligns with the user’s emotional context. The recommendation engine considers a variety of factors, including tempo, genre, lyrics, and historical preferences to provide a personalized and emotionally resonant playlist. The system also adapts in real-time, allowing users to change their music selection as their mood evolves. Whether a user is looking to lift their spirits, relax, or reflect, face Melody is designed to cater to these emotional shifts

The Use and Application of Mangas as Course Materials in Intermediate Japanese Language Teaching for Turks: An Active Learning Method in Online Classrooms

The purpose of this study is to clarify the potential of using manga as a teaching tool in Japanese language education in Turkey. Manga is generally recognized as an entertainment product, with a wide variety of genres and diverse images of manga. In addition, prejudice against manga also exists. Therefore, it is necessary to first analyze learners’ candid feedback on the academic use of manga and present an evaluation of its usefulness as a teaching material. This will diversify Japanese language education, which has been limited to conventional teaching materials, and will motivate learners to learn more, thereby contributing to the discovery of effective teaching methods, the improvement of Japanese language teaching methods, and the development of educational programs. This research can be positioned as basic research to provide more attractive and effective Japanese language education.

Theories, Principles, and Game Elements that Support Digital Game-Based Language Learning (DGBLL): A Systematic Review

The potential of Digital Game-Based Language Learning (DGBLL) in enhancing language learning outcomes has been demonstrated in previous studies. However, some scholars and educators maintain a skeptical perspective regarding its integration into language classrooms. Thus, this paper presents a systematic review examining the integration of DGBLL and its impact on language learning outcomes. This study examines 18 peer-reviewed articles published between 2014 and 2023 from Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), and ERIC research databases. The review explores relevant theories, principles, and game elements supporting DGBLL. It also investigates the types of digital games developed by both researchers and game developers that have already been studied, the most popular of which is serious games (83%). While the examined studies did not explicitly focus on digital game elements, they acknowledged the pivotal role of certain aspects, such as narrative, goals, rewards, and feedback, in enhancing language learning experiences. Notably, this paper affirms the positive impact of digital games on contextualized vocabulary acquisition, oral communication skills, and grammar learning, compared to conventional language teaching methods. These findings underscore the benefits of DGBLL in language education. Hence, this systematic review looks to reveal the multifaceted dimensions of DGBLL, emphasizing the theories, principles, and game elements of digital games that support the transformative potential of DGBLL for language instruction. Lastly, this paper advocates for an ongoing inquiry into the diversity of game genres and the continual refinement of frameworks to meet the evolving needs of language learners.

The Role of detection Algorithm in Tracking Techniques with the help of Deep Learning for an Enhanced user Experience

The drum set is a prominent instrument in a variety of music genres including pop, rock, and jazz. However, it costs money and space to get from nothing to purchasing a kit. The objective of these studies is to enable drummers to hone their skills, at least blithely, without a full set of drums and to expedite the initiation of drummers to their drumming experiences without incurring any costs. Drums do not fit inside a single bag, making them more difficult to travel than other instruments. We propose a virtual drum prototype that enables air-drumming using just two sticks, a computer equipped with a camera, and readily available markers that resemble the drumstick tips, such colourful papers. The detection algorithm combines tracking techniques with deep learning technology for an enhanced user experience. This was done using the Python-based OpenCV, as well as the concept of color-based blob recognition was used to find the markers. The capacity to function as a USB controller and MIDI controllers as well as the possibility for further development as a released program have all been shown by this prototype. Results from experiments show how useful and successful this method is for producing a lifelike and immersive virtual drumming experience.

MUSICAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF INDUSTRIAL URBANIZATION OF KAZAKHSTAN

The article is devoted to the processes of urbanization and expansion of the media space in the country, which every year give a significant impact to changing the organization and perception of Art. Culture in the new historical reality, has unlimited access to a variety of styles, genres, interpretations and manipulations with original sounds, which has never before been considered common place. These processes push aside previously available ways of perceiving art, thereby influencing the depth of meaning and perception of modern musical phenomena. The purpose of the study is to draw attention to the social and scientific need for studying types of communication activities in developed and developing countries, determined by the sociocultural situation and improving the standard of living of a person. Every act of contact between a recipient and an object of Art is unique, inimitable and individual. All over the world, the art of music - is no idea of ​​artistic influence and its manifestation in the structure of everyday life. From the point of view of musicology, responding to the relevance, issues of audiovisual distribution are a multidisciplinary problem, properly studied only in Western European and American culture. Summarizing the materials of the article, we can come to the conclusion that the industrial-urban form of life at the present stage of the domestic music industry is associated with a breakthrough in the field of mass communications and digital media, which entails certain changes in the spiritual space of a person.

Арабский традиционный жанр «мавваль» в аспекте выявления специфики устного профессионализма

The aim of the research is to characterize the insufficiently studied genre "mawwal" in Arabic musicology (a term included in folk music in existing literature) in terms of identifying parameters of oral professionalism. The article presents and systematizes various variations of the genre induced by geographic, ethnic, and social factors. Features confirming the specific professional status of the genre are highlighted. The duality of the genre is emphasized, rooted in legends about its origins: labor folk songs and palace influences. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the very formulation of its goal and objectives. For the first time, an attempt is made to identify the range of manifestations of professionalism by comparing genre variations in Arabic traditional music. The research establishes that on one end of the professionalism scale the most narrative mawwal lies and it closely aligns with traditional classics, while on the opposite end the folkloric ataba lies. Based on the information presented, the genre can be classified as an intermediary one – folk-professional.

Minor characters, genre, and relationality: Antigone’s sister in contemporary literature

This essay investigates the distinction between major and minor characters by analysing the contemporary literary reception of a minor figure from one of the most canonical works in world literature: Ismene, Antigone’s sister in Sophocles’s Antigone. While Sophocles’s tragedy continues to elicit a startling number of rewritings and adaptations, the last two decades have seen a remarkable increase in rewritings which bring the heroine’s sister Ismene, a minor character in the original play, to the forefront. This multilingual, multi-generic, world literary corpus engages with Ismene’s relationship to heroism and sacrifice, moving away from tragedy and instead turning to a variety of genres: monologues, short stories, non-tragic plays, comedies, as well as hybrid forms that incorporate intermedial references. While much has been written about postcolonial and feminist rewritings of canonical Western texts, very little has been said about the attachments which secondary figures might elicit in peripheral literatures and minor authors. This focus, as this essay will show, helps refine notions of agency, solidarity, and connectivity in theories of the minor. The analysis presented here underscores the aesthetic, generic, and political implications of the revisionary representation of minor figures by contrasting Jeremy Menekseoglu’s theatrical rewriting Ismene (US, 2004) and Lot Vekemans’s monologue Zus van (Sister of, The Netherlands, 2005) as two distinct modes of engaging with Ismene as a paradigmatic minor figure. Pursuing the genre-theoretical and political questions raised by what Jeremy Rosen has termed “minor-character elaborations”, this essay identifies the practice of rewriting as a key literary strategy to decentre the major position of certain figures and genres in world literature. In dialogue with Rosen’s theoretical work, I argue for an aesthetic, enunciative, stylistic understanding of genre, which is best able to raise both the question of the minor character and that of minor-character elaborations within debates surrounding the minor.

MEDIATEXTOLOGY: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE MODERN MEDIA LANGUAGE FORMAT AND GENRE DIVERSITY

The purpose of this article is to present the basics of a systematic integrated approach to the study of the format and genre diversity of modern media speech, designed within the framework of a separate direction of media linguistic research - media textology. The relevance of the development of media textology as an independent direction is due to the rapid diversification of the format and genre structure of the modern media language under the influence of constant improvement of information and communication technologies and the emergence of new multimedia opportunities for the creation and distribution of media content. The theoretical and methodological apparatus of media textology is built on the basis of previous experience in typological description of speech media practices, taking into account the dynamics of media speech, the spread of new forms of media content representation and the peculiarities of its structuring, including the tendency to hybridization and convergence. The key principle of mediatextology is the selection of media texts proper from the set of texts functioning on the Internet, i.e. those that are created by professional journalists for online media and form the basic media content. Unlike other types of network texts created and distributed by individual users on various network platforms for personal purposes, network media texts are produced and distributed on media platforms that have the status of an official mass media.

A Comparative Lexical Analysis of Kazakh, Russian and English Children’s Folklore

Occupying a special position in the oral folk art of any nation, children’s folklore is a complex field, which interrelates two areas: folklore for children and folklore created by children, learned from adults, and passed on from some children to other children. Human world and values are reflected in folklore - thus the ethnographic study of children’s folklore contributes to the understanding of the specifics of various cultures, and children’s participation in them. The purpose of the study is to describe children’s folklore in the Kazakh, Russian, and English languages from the linguistic and cultural comparative perspectives. The importance of identifying the lexical and phraseological features of different genres of children’s folklore and describing their common and culturally marked characteristics lies in the fact that despite the availability of ethnographic studies of children’s folklore in some cultures, there doesn’t exist a single research on cross-cultural comparative perspectives of various genres of children’s folklore. The study employed analytical descriptive, and comparative methods. The research data were collected through the online sociolinguistic surveys parallelly conducted in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. Texts of children’s folklore in English were taken from the collections Nursery Rhymes and Mother Goose’s Songs . The amount of research data made nearly 2000 Kazakh, Russian and English children’s folklore texts. The study revealed that the genre variety of children’s folklore leaves an imprint on the language of each genre. The lexical and phraseological analysis of various genres of children’s folklore demonstrated an active use of neologisms, transrational language and personal names. Children’s folklore is characterized not only by genre and intragenre dynamics, but also by historical changes.