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Learning Culture Through a Musical Practice with Manding Jalis in New York
Full text linkLEARNING CULTURE THROUGH A MUSICAL PRACTICE WITH MANDING JALIS IN NEW YORK
Lisa Karen Feder, Ph.D.
Cornell University 2007
This study depicts the music and culture of Manding jalis in New York through the perspective of non-African New Yorkers who interact with them. The non-Africans, the author included, move through the cross-cultural learning process as they attend live jali musical performances and learn to play and perform this music themselves. Jali refers to a person born into a particular caste and specific family lineage in the Manding region of West Africa. In Western literature, jalis are described as musicians, singers, oral-historians, advisers, diplomats, ceremony participants, teachers, and bards, among other things (Hale 1998; Charry 2000; Hoffman 2000). This dissertation depicts jalis who play the balafon, the kora, and the guitar in New York. Up to date, there is almost no literature on the topic.
The author applies Gregory Bateson?s notion of cultural ?ethos,? construed as schismogenic balances of tension and resolution, to both musical and non-musical social aspects of culture (Bateson 1972). Meter and rhythm create tensions and resolutions in people?s minds and bodies, giving them a common frame of reference. Simultaneously, participation in music exposes our cultural proclivities. This makes it an ideal place to begin the cross-cultural learning process. From the live music scenes, we then explore how music students learn to produce cross-rhythms and looping layered melodies as well as more subtle nuances in ?feeling,? or groove. Students learn how to learn, think, and play the music according to the Manding jali?s perspective. We apply these musical lessons as we become increasingly involved in the culture, at large.
This study uses an alternative methodology of a reflective practice (Sch?n 1987) in which the author is the primary participant. She moves from a music student, an organizer of balafon workshops to a friend, a patron, an agent, a marraine, and ultimately, a jatigi in jali society. The analysis is interlaced with antidotes of interpersonal experiences between Manding jalis, the author, and other participants. In conclusion we see how non-Manding and Manding music and culture cross-influence one another as they interrelate in the multi-cultural music scene in New York
A preliminary study of Lib-PassPort: JALIS' regional interlibrary loan management system
Full text linkThis paper reviews the development of Lib-PassPort service program by Jiangsu Academic Library & Information System (JALIS). The service has realized a reader self-directed method of interlibrary loan of printed books at more than 130 university libraries within Jiangsu Province of China in the last 5 years and with a cumulative inter-library circulation of nearly 190,000 volumes. The paper describes the framework of the clientele, structure, functions, policies, and management mechanisms of the services, and demonstrates its contribution to the improved accessibility of library materials in the region.</p
Acceptance level of Malaysian gastronomic tourism products among the western tourists / Mohd Hairi Jalis
Full text linkIn previous decades, people mainly associated tourism with travelling for leisure and considered it as one industry, whilst some perceived the tourism industry as just providing services related to leisure and recreation. Those perceptions however gradually changed in the mid 1980s when people start looking at this industry as a broader realm with a huge range of products. Since then tourism activities and products have not only been seen to relate to accommodation, leisure, recreation, sports, culture, transportation, business but beyond that. Efforts are continually being made by international organizations to discover new tourism products and activities that would provide a great market opportunity to be promoted as excitement and motivation factors to encourage tourists to come to a particular destination. Of the many tourism products, gastronomic which relate to food, beverages and food culture are the new tourism products that can also be used as marketing tool to promote tourism. These tourism products are now seen as valuable means of attracting tourists from all over the world to visit that particular country. This study empirically investigates the Malaysian gastronomy tourism products and their acceptance among western tourists. In other words, the western tourists' perceptions, levels of consumption and experience of the local food, beverages and food cultures were examined. A sample population was randomly selected from among the western tourists at the KLIA who had consumed and experienced those products during their vacation in this country. The data for this study was based predominantly on self completed questionnaires. Series of statistical analyses were employed looking at frequencies, mean scores and standard deviations through descriptive and parametric statistics (independent sample t-test, One-Way ANOVA and standard multiple regression) were undertaken. It was apparent that the majority of the respondents perceived that Malaysia offers great choices of food, snacks and beverages of good taste and freshly prepared. Similarly to the food and beverages, the majority of the respondents perceived Malaysia as having a unique food culture and identity. This was further supported by their high levels of consumption and experience, as the majority of them enjoyed and spent a lot on money on those products during their vacation. In sum, these research findings clearly showed that these products can be used in addition to other tourism products as a catalyst to generate business and boost the local economy. This result on the other hand signals to the business operators, travel agencies, non-government organizations and government authorities (Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage and Ministry of Agriculture) and those who are closely associated with the tourism industry that they should take proactive action in promoting these gastronomy products if the 'total tourism experience' for international tourists to this country is to be achieved
Arched jalis on the tomb of Muhammad Ghawth, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, 1965-2000
No full textPH Coll 1111.GWA147The mausoleum of Muhammad Ghawth is built in the form of a square with hexagonal towers at its corners surmounted by small domes. The body of the building is enclosed on all sides by carved jalis of elaborate and delicate design the whole being crowned by a large dome which was once inlaid with blue glazed tiles
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
Testimonio del acto en que fray Melchor Castañón, ministro provincial de Santiago de Jalis-co, y los religiosos definidores y custodio otorga-ron poder y nombraron procurador a
No full textTestimonio del acto en que fray Melchor Castañón, ministro provincial de Santiago de Jalis-co, y los religiosos definidores y custodio otorga-ron poder y nombraron procurador a fray Miguel de Molina: Ciudad de Guadalajara, 26 junio 1640. Se-guido de certificación de los escribanos: Ciudad de Guadalajara, Nueva Galicia, 27 junio 1640
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
A bibliometric analysis of Journal of Advances in Library and Information Science (JALIS) from 2016-2020: an international online journal
Full text linkThe study analyses papers published in Journal of Advances in Library and Information Science (JALIS) using bibliometric techniques for the period of 2016 to 2020 (5 years). The study examines that, publication growth, degree of collaboration, authorship pattern of the articles and reference distribution. The study has analysed that the highest number of articles was published during the year of 2017 followed by 2016. The degree of collaboration ranges from 0.70 to 0.78 and its mean value is 0.74. The findings indicate that a total of 431 authors produced 243 articles with an average of 0.53 percentage of per author and majority of articles published by joint authors. Subject analysis showed that Bibliometrics/Scientometrics and Electronic Resources occupied top position having maximum contributed papers
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