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“Subhan’Allāh” (Glory to God): Listening and Weeping in a Dhikr Ceremony
No full textThey are led by Bu Sarem, an elegant and charismatic woman in her sixties, who sits in the place of honor at the center of the back wall, flanked by her apprentices (shagird). The other women sit around her, grouped in roughly concentric semicircles on the room’s large raised platform, which is covered with brightly colored carpets. In this all-female gathering, Bu Sarem draws back her sequinned face veil and conducts the proceedings, almost as an orchestral conductor directs an orchestra. She also leads the performance, giving a long opening solo section of recitation herself then leading the other women in repeated rhythmic chants (dhikr), which include short phrases from the Qur’an and Arabic language prayers. She points to her apprentices to perform longer sections of individual recitation, and guides the whole group through emotional peaks and troughs towards the climax of the ritual. After around an hour she leads into a new chanted dhikr: Subhan’Allāh wa bihamdihi, subhan’Allāh il adhīm (Glory to Allah and praise him, Glory to Allah the supreme)
Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian maqām traditions
Full text linkThis chapter considers the problem of theory and practice in Central Asian maqām traditions with reference to two distinct traditions: the Kashmiri Sūfyāna Musīqī and the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam. I speculate that the imposition of different forms of musical theory in the different locations may serve to mask deeper, unmarked, similarities in performance and aesthetics. Maqām traditions in this region are closely tied to Sufi traditions of vocal practice, and I suggest that these are more significant than the elite heritage of music theory in explaining the close musical relations between different regional maqām traditions
Doing Satan’s Business: Negotiating gendered concepts of music and ritual in rural Xinjiang
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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
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