Recorded Music Research Articles

Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking.

Parental scaffolding such as looking at and showing objects has long been considered to be helpful for early attention and language development. However, relatively little is known about how parental social multimodal cues work alone or together in guiding an infant's attention toward the referent items. The present study aims to document the dynamics of social referential input during an interactive play session and specify the different types of social cues in directing infant attention. Forty-three parent-infant dyads (infants aged from 5.0 to 18.0months) in the U.S. completed a short play session recorded by head-mounted camera with eye-trackers. The present findings suggest that joint attention between parent and infant toward the same referent item often co-occurred with other referential input. Infants were more likely to maintain sustained attention to an object under the circumstance that the parent looked at the same item and named it explicitly. This was not the case when parent object looking accompanied other utterances, like "Look!" or the child's name. The present study highlights the importance of multimodal referential input, which sets up enriched opportunities for children to become sensitive to social input and develop sustained attention for further learning.

Hyperbolic Bodies for Sale: The Figurative Representations of Prostitutes in Tennessee Williams’s Early Works

The article examines representations of prostitutes in the early works of Tennessee Williams. The characters of hustlers in two of his two short stories, “In Memory of an Aristocrat” (1940) and “One Arm” (1942-45) as well as one short drama, “Hello from Bertha” (1941), are discussed as representatives of Williams’s employment of the hyperbolic figuration. In the case of each of the three examined characters, Choiński discusses the excessive and contrastive elements of descriptions which allow Williams to investigate the grotesqueness of human physicality on sale.

A Personalized Recommendation Method for Short Drama Videos Based on External Index Features

Dramatic short videos have quickly gained a huge number of user views in the current short video boom. The information presentation dimension of short videos is higher, and it is easier to be accepted and spread by people. At present, there are a large number of drama short video messages on the Internet. These short video messages have brought serious information overload to users and also brought great challenges to short video operators and video editors. Therefore, how to process short videos quickly has become a research hotspot. The traditional episode recommendation process often adopts collaborative filtering recommendation or content-based recommendation to users, but these methods have certain limitations. Short videos have fast dissemination speed, strong timeliness, and fast hot search speed. These have become the characteristics of short video dissemination. Traditional recommendation methods cannot recommend short videos with high attention and high popularity. To this end, this paper adds external index features to extract short video features and proposes a short video recommendation method based on index features. Using external features to classify and recommend TV series videos, this method can quickly and accurately make recommendations to target customers. Through the experimental analysis, it can be seen that the method in this paper has a good effect.

Short Plays and Drama in EFL Classrooms as Perceived by Secondary School Students: the Role and Impact

This quantitative study investigates the role and impact of short plays and drama on English as a foreign language (EFL) students. A total of 72 students from a secondary school in North Kalimantan in Indonesia participated in the study. Data was collected through a questionnaire consisting of 8 items, which were later classified into three different focuses of inquiries; psychological, instrumental, and pedagogical aspects. The study results indicate that secondary school students viewed short play from the three perspectives positively. Findings also suggest that the application of short play in EFL classrooms must be preceded by a careful selection of literary texts and careful planning of short play instructional design. Finally, the study calls for further attempts to integrate secondary school EFL curriculum and literature, implying the needs for appropriate drama-based activity pedagogy and professional development programs.

On the Reflection of Schopenhauer’s Ethics in Fly by Riichi Yokomitsu

The short story Fly, published in 1923 in the Japanese magazine Bungeishunju, is the Japanese neo-sensationalism writer Riichi Yokomitsu’s maiden work. The full text is only more than three thousand five hundred words, but its content is humorous, profound implication, vivid image, it is really a short and pithy life drama. This paper will take the characters in Fly as the research object to discuss the embodiment of Schopenhauer’s ethics in the text.

Lo-fi Today

This article investigates two current incarnations of ‘lo-fi’ music and questions the extent to which these subgenres are actually low in fidelity. In essence, mainstream ‘hi-fi’ productions use similar effects, such as filtering to sound like a radio or adding noise to sound like a vinyl record. To understand lo-fi today, this article explores music by a lo-fi hip-hop producer and a lo-fi ambient producer, drawing upon the analytical methods of Alan Moore and Dennis Smalley. First to be discussed is Glimlip, one of the many anonymous producers behind the popular Lofi Girl YouTube streams. The next discussed is Amulets, an ambient musician known for using hacked and looped cassette tapes. Analyses of their music demonstrate a level of care in production that goes against the idea that lo-fi is primitive or naive.

The Social Spaces of Music Traditions in Baghdad before and after Destruction

The Social Spaces of Music Traditions in Baghdad before and after Destruction

Profiling Change of Direction Ability Using Sub-phase 5-0-5 Analysis

Change of direction (COD) ability is an important component for most field and court sport athletes. The modified 5-0-5 COD test is a commonly used test to measure 180-degree COD performance, the diagnostic value of which can be advanced using a multiple-timing light set-up to divide the test into sub-phases. The aim of this research was to determine what proportion of the 5-0-5 COD test was spent performing the 180-degree COD, whether anthropometry and position of the player influenced the sub-phase performance and provide an alternative approach to improve diagnostics for coaches and practitioners. Ten elite female netball athletes participated in this study. Dual beam timing gates set at 0, 2, and 4 m were used to isolate the phases of the 5-0-5 COD test and quantify COD performance. Independent t-tests were used to assess statistical significance (p<0.05) between anthropometry, position, and performance of the sub-phases. Rank-order of sub-phase performance was also conducted to determine individualized performance across phases. The highest percentage of time was spent during the 180-degree turn and reacceleration 1 phase (~23%). Heavier athletes were significantly slower for deceleration (9.26%), 180-degree turn (17.1%), reacceleration 2 (7.32%) and total time (8.68%), however no differences were identified between taller and shorter players. A sub-phase rank order table was used to provide diagnostic and training insights that allow more targeted programming to improve COD performance.

Assessing changes in knowledge, attitudes, and intentions to use family planning after watching documentary and drama health education films: a qualitative study

BackgroundThere is a paucity of literature on the effectiveness of drama or documentary films in changing knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of people towards family planning. This study aimed to compare and assess the acceptability of health promotion films based on documentary or drama, and their effect on knowledge, attitudes, and intention to use family planning.MethodsWe developed short documentary and drama films about contraceptive implants, using the person-based approach. Their acceptability was assessed in focus group discussions with younger women below 23 years, women over 23 years, men of reproductive age, and health workers in four different areas of Uganda (Bwindi/Kanungu, Walukuba/Jinja, Kampala, and Mbarara). Transcripts of the focus group discussions were analyzed using thematic analysis, to generate themes and examine the key issues. We assessed changes in knowledge, attitudes, and intentions to use family planning after watching the films.ResultsSixteen focus groups with 150 participants were carried out. Participants said that the documentary improved their knowledge and addressed their fears about side effects, myths, and implant insertion. The drama improved their attitudes towards the implant and encouraged them to discuss family planning with their partner. The final versions of the documentary and the drama films were equally liked.ConclusionsViewing a short documentary on the contraceptive implant led to positive changes in knowledge, while a short drama improved attitudes and intentions to discuss the implant with their partner. The drama and documentary have complementary features, and most participants wanted to see both.

The Emergence of Interactive Music: The Vision and Presence of Joel Chadabe

The Emergence of Interactive Music: The Vision and Presence of Joel Chadabe

Etnofon. Jak udostępniać dokumentalne nagrania muzyki ludowej? Z Jackiem Jackowskim rozmawia Piotr Grochowski

Jacek Jackowski is a musician and ethnomusicologist, and the head of the Phonographic Collection at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the conservation, digitization and archiving of old sound recordings. He is a field researcher and author of many academic articles on traditional, Catholic and folk religious culture associated with musical behaviours. He also published numerous articles and books on early folk music recordings and their digitization (Zachować dawne nagrania, Warszawa 2014; Polska muzyka tradycyjna – dziedzictwo fonograficzne, t. 1, Warszawa 2017; t. 2, Warszawa 2019), as well as 17 CD albums of folk songs and music from Kashubia, Kurpie, Podhale, Łowicz, Orava, South Wielkopolska and many other regions of Poland. Since 2014 he has been managing the Etnofon project, the goal of which is to create, develop and maintain a central digital repository of documentary phonographic and film recordings capturing Polish traditional songs and music as well as folk dance.

Short Play Approach for Analytical Chemistry Class

In this era, cooperative learning strategies have been practiced extensively as an alternative to conventional teaching methods. This is because some of the conventional methods are no longer suitable to be applied to the younger generation. Cooperative learning strategies such as role-play for instance are recommended in nurturing the exciting vibe of learning in class while at the same time boosting the students’ confidence level. In this case study, a total of 106 students in the 3rd Year in the 2nd Semester under the Chemical Engineering Department of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS were involved in a short-play approach for the subject of Analytical Chemistry. It is found that the short-play approach effectively improved the basic understanding of students towards the Analytical Chemistry subject. Furthermore, the majority of the students also scores better in the final exam as compared during the test.

A Barometer for Space Weather: Detect Solar Flares and Gamma-Ray Bursts for Less than $100

In the 1960s and '70s, musicians would sometimes insert into their releases odd sounds that could be made intelligible only by rotating the vinyl record backward using your finger. If you suspect this is only an urban legend, load a digital version of Electric Light Orchestra's 1975 recording of “Fire on High” into an audio editor like Audacity and play it in reverse. You'll hear ELO drummer Bev Bevan very clearly say, “The music is reversible, but time…turn back, turn back, turn back.”

Records as records: excavating the DJ’s sonic archive

ABSTRACT This paper uses four vinyl record collections to identify and infer the praxis of DJs and the evidential value of their sonic archives. The work positions the DJs’ vinyl records as a document of dance music culture while defining the DJ as the arbiter and transmitter of that record. The work adopts an archaeological perspective, questioning how to understand a DJ’s praxis from the material culture of their vinyl records, viewing these records as artefacts which together form an assemblage warranting ‘excavation,’ analysis and curation. A framework of evidence is proposed and applied to the four vinyl collections, focusing on what can be learnt from such close archaeological scrutiny. The work concludes with a discussion of themes suggested by the analysis and proposes a proactive approach to planning for the preservation of DJ archives.

Крымскотатарские граммофонные пластинки из каталога Алана Келли

The article discusses the issues related to emergence of the first gramophone recordings of the Crimean Tatars at the beginning of the XX century. The list of companies that produced gramophone records with the Crimean Tatar songs and music is given. The article provides an English transliteration of the names of the Crimean Tatar records, which were taken from the catalog of the British scientist, discographer, professor of music at Sheffield University Alan Kelly (1928–2015), indicating recording dates and serial numbers. Finally, the biography of Appaz Sandykchi, one of the performers, is partially restored and presented.

Why Did the Chinese Opera Masters Make Movies and Phonograph Records: The Studying of Fixed Media in Traditional Chinese Opera, Written and edited by WANG An-chi, Taiwan: Kuo Chia Publishing Co., 2016

Why Did the Chinese Opera Masters Make Movies and Phonograph Records: The Studying of Fixed Media in Traditional Chinese Opera, Written and edited by WANG An-chi, Taiwan: Kuo Chia Publishing Co., 2016

HANDWRITTEN EPIC WORK OF THE EARLY VYACHESLAV MEDVID’ (1970s)

The article analyzes epic works (fragments, sketches, stories, the shot novel “Completely Military Maneuvers”), as well as the play “Bomb, or Responsible Person” of the early stage of creativity (1970s) Shevchenko Prize winner Vyacheslav Medvid’ (Born in 1951), which were not published for various reasons and remained in the manuscripts of the writer and therefore remained out of the attention of researchers. This works fit into the context of the writer’s biography, his work as a librarian in Uzhhorod, service in the army, moving to Boyzrka and Kyiv, in the context of intellectual and cultural communication. Some of the manuscripts are impressionistic reflections of the surrounding world and their own perception of this world, which are very close in genre to “sketches”, “drawings”, samples” of the late nineteenth – early twentieth centuries. Also through most works is the motive of determining their own path, choosing a writing profession. An analysis of V. Medvid’s unpublishes works of the 1970s gives grounds to assert that from text to text the author’s narrative skill grew, a range of problems, methods of imagery, stylistic features, and chronotope were developed, which would later form the basis of the writer’s idiosyncrasy. V. Medvid’s manuscripts, which preserve further author’s corrections and edits, make it possible to trace the formation of idiosyncrasies, a critical attitude to written texts, and persistent purposeful activity to improve them. Most often, the corrections were reduced to the removal of unnecessary, according to the writer, segments of the text, especially close to journalistic interpretive self-explanations. To a large extent, this correlates with the desire to write in accordance with the technique of “iceberg”, which testified to the great interest of V. Medvid’ in the work of E. Hemingway, V. Faulkner and others. The short play is written in the vein of absurdist drama, which was little known and not tolerated in the USSR. The writer did not make serious attempts to publish the manuscripts in the decades, believing that they had not yet reached the proper level of skill.

Ο Καραγκιόζης πάει αντάρτης: ένα ανέκδοτο έργο της Έλλης Αλεξίου από το αρχείο του ΚΚΕ

This short Karagkiozis play, by the writer and Resistance fighter Elli Alexiou, was discovered in the archives of the Greek Communist Party. Karagkiozis, the Greek popular shadow theatre, was used during the Resistance (1941–1944) to promote the struggle against the German occupiers. Here, the main hero, who, for some researchers, symbolizes the low-class Greek citizen, abandons his eternal hunger to join the Resistance movement. But he never abandons his playfulness and jokes, even during the darkest times of the Greek history.

Aspects of interaction between radio and recording industry: Example of the his master’s voice concerts on Radio Belgrade programme

A significant part of the Radio Belgrade programme, especially in the years before the establishment of instrumental and choral ensembles within this institution, was comprised of music recordings. Although gramophone record concerts were presented within the programme announcements, they were not considered in more detail in existing studies of music on Radio Belgrade. One of the reasons for this could be limited access to the data on the gramophone record concerts. Thus, for the first analysis of this segment of the music programme, the author has focused on the first year in which weekly radio programme announcements were printed in Radio Beograd: nedeljni ilustrovani casopis. The announcements contained data about music numbers, recordings companies, and serial numbers of the records played. More precisely, the series of His Master?s Voice concerts, named after the label of records exclusively broadcast in the programme, were examined in the period from October 1930 to October 1931. This particular series was chosen because of the importance of the label in both the global and local mu?sic industry and the continual broadcasted of His Master?s Voice records on Radio Belgrade. Furthermore, the diversity of programme conceptions of concerts within the series indicates the particular ways in which gramophone record concerts were designed. Based on the series of His Master?s Voice concerts, three methods of categorising gramophone record concerts are suggested. In addition, the paper offers little known archival data on gramophone record distributors who borrowed records to Radio Belgrade for marketing purposes.

Alexander Arkhangelsky as Interpreter of his own Compositions: A Study of Phonograph Records

Alexander Arkhangelsky as Interpreter of his own Compositions: A Study of Phonograph Records