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Tango Revivals: Nostalgia, Listening, Experimentation
Full text linkThis article examines the history and culture of Argentinian tango as a translocal social dance and emphasizes its revivalist component along with other characteristic features: nostalgia, listening, and experimentation. It represents the partial and the preliminary result of the author’s anthropological research that they are currently conducting as part of the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague. The author concludes that both nostalgic beliefs and the desire to create something new contribute to the process of tango revival.This article examines the history and culture of Argentinian tango as a translocal social dance and emphasizes its revivalist component along with other characteristic features: nostalgia, listening, and experimentation. It represents the partial and the preliminary result of the author’s anthropological research that they are currently conducting as part of the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague. The author concludes that both nostalgic beliefs and the desire to create something new contribute to the process of tango revival
The Effects of War: Prague’s Tango Community After the Start of the War in Ukraine
Full text linkThis article examines the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on the Prague tango community. For six years, the author has been attending local milongas (social tango dance gatherings), and for the last five years, has developed an ethnography of Prague’s tango life, using soundscape analysis as a heuristic tool, and correlating the collected data with the translocal phenomenon of tango. The specific ways of experiencing wartime conditions and sharing solidarity which have arisen at the Prague milongas in response to the events in Ukraine have been identified. In addition to directly supporting Ukraine through donations, the soundscape of “the effects of war” appears to confront part of the community with the transience of the tango experience.This article examines the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war onthe Prague tango community. For six years, the author has been attendinglocal milongas (social tango dance gatherings), and for the last five years, hasdeveloped an ethnography of Prague’s tango life, using soundscape analysisas a heuristic tool, and correlating the collected data with the translocal phenomenonof tango. The specific ways of experiencing wartime conditions andsharing solidarity which have arisen at the Prague milongas in response tothe events in Ukraine have been identified. In addition to directly supportingUkraine through donations, the soundscape of “the effects of war” appearsto confront part of the community with the transience of the tango experience
The Nostalgic Chronotope of Prague Tango: Premilinary Outlines
Full text linkThis article deals with the study of the Prague tango as a nostalgic practice. It presents the fragments and the findings from the ethnography that the author has been carrying out at the tango parties in Prague since autumn 2019. Emphasis is put on the forms of nostalgia, but not on its objects. The ethnography is based on the theory of body techniques by Marcel Mauss and the conception of dance resources by Susan Lee Foster. Kinaesthetic empathy – a methodology of movement observation – helps describe the narratives that the dancing couples create. as Also, Bakhtin’s concept of chronotopes is used to interpret the collected data. The article covers the Prague tango scene from 2018 to the present. One tango party and narratives of two dancing couples are described in detail. At this time, we can describe five forms (or techniques) of nostalgia in the Prague tango community. These include the ironic use of the vintage attributes of tango, creating and distributing romanticized stories related to tango, unconventional behaviour that helps local tango dancers escape from the normalized reality of the contemporary city, the specific way of listening to old music, and the polyphony of the dancing narratives. The study to which this paper is devoted to should become an example of how modern urban citizens can create new ways of gathering and feel an emotionally meaningful experience
The poetics of tango: Ethnography of Prague milongas
No full textPředmětem předkládané disertační práce je poetika soudobých pražských milong (večírků tanga) v jejich provázanosti s translokálním fenoménem tango argentino. Vztahy mezi globálním a pražským tangem jsou sledovány v perspektivě motivu "setkání" (Bachtin 1975). Při zkoumání proměnlivého života pražské komunity tanga je používána koncepce soundscape (Shelemay 2006). Popisy tanečních interakcí zdůrazňují kvalitativní aspekty pohybu (Novack 1990; Sklar 2001). Mezitím reflexivní přístup k etnografování pomáhá badatelovi rozlišovat své subjektivní dojmy a dojmy aktérů daného výzkumu. Etnografická studie dochází k závěru, že poetika tanga je poetikou prožitku, a že specifikum omezené rituální techniky (Augé 1999) pražského tanga spočívá ve stejnoměrnosti pravidelných setkání, karnevalové povaze sporadicky konaných větších událostí, aktivnímu osvojení městských lokalit a společné reakci na změny v okolním světě, jež mohou mít jak protestní, tak reflexivní charakter. Klíčová slova: antropologie, poetika tance, pražské milongy, translokální fenomén tanga, motiv "setkání", soundscape.The poetics of Prague milongas (tango parties) in their interconnectedness with a translocal phenomenon of tango argentino is the object of this Ph.D. thesis. Relationships between global and Prague tango are traced in the perspective of the motif of 'meeting' (Bakhtin 1975), while the concept of soundscape (Shelemay 2006) is used to explore the fluid life of the Prague tango community. Descriptions of dance interactions emphasize qualitative aspects of movement (Novack 1990; Sklar 2001) and a reflexive approach to ethnography helps to distinguish between the researcher's subjective impressions and the impressions of the actors of this research. The ethnographic study concludes that the poetics of the tango is a poetics of experience and that the specificity of the ritual technique (Augé 1999) of Prague tango lies in the measuredness of regular encounters, the carnivalesque nature of sporadic larger events, the active appropriation of urban locations, and the communal response to changes in the surrounding world that can be both protest and reflexive. Key words: anthropology, poetics of dance, Prague milongas, translocal phenomenon of tango, motif of the "meeting", soundscape.PhD General AnthropologyDoktorský program Integrální studium člověka - obecká antropologieFakulta humanitních studiíFaculty of Humanitie
The poetics of tango: Ethnography of Prague milongas
No full textThe poetics of Prague milongas (tango parties) in their interconnectedness with a translocal phenomenon of tango argentino is the object of this Ph.D. thesis. Relationships between global and Prague tango are traced in the perspective of the motif of 'meeting' (Bakhtin 1975), while the concept of soundscape (Shelemay 2006) is used to explore the fluid life of the Prague tango community. Descriptions of dance interactions emphasize qualitative aspects of movement (Novack 1990; Sklar 2001) and a reflexive approach to ethnography helps to distinguish between the researcher's subjective impressions and the impressions of the actors of this research. The ethnographic study concludes that the poetics of the tango is a poetics of experience and that the specificity of the ritual technique (Augé 1999) of Prague tango lies in the measuredness of regular encounters, the carnivalesque nature of sporadic larger events, the active appropriation of urban locations, and the communal response to changes in the surrounding world that can be both protest and reflexive. Key words: anthropology, poetics of dance, Prague milongas, translocal phenomenon of tango, motif of the "meeting", soundscape
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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