1,046 research outputs found
Shea Kells-Murphy, Horn
No full textBagatelle / Hermann Neuling; Romance op. 36 / Camille Saint-Saëns; A Tarot Reading / Ethan Gurwit
Shea Kells-Murphy, Horn
No full textSur Les Cimes / Eugène Bozza; Nocturno, Op. 7 / Franz Strauss; Canto Serioso / Carl Nielsen; Horn Sonata, Op. 17 / Ludwig van Beethoven; Tanguito / Dante Yenqu
Shea Kells-Murphy, Horn
No full textBagatelle / Hermann Neuling; Romance op. 36 / Camille Saint-Saëns; A Tarot Reading / Ethan Gurwit
Shea Kells-Murphy, Horn
No full textSur Les Cimes / Eugène Bozza; Nocturno, Op. 7 / Franz Strauss; Canto Serioso / Carl Nielsen; Horn Sonata, Op. 17 / Ludwig van Beethoven; Tanguito / Dante Yenqu
Review Of Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies Of Relation By J. Shea Murphy
No full textIn this book, her second, Shea Murphy (Univ. of California, Riverside) extends a trajectory she began in her first book, The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories (CH, Jun\u2708, 45-5492). She deepens discussions regarding Indigenous knowledge grounded in relationality and the ways such understandings permeate current Indigenous dance practices. Sharing examples from some 20 years of research—including conversations with Indigenous dancers and communities in Aoteroa, Australia, and North America—Shea Murphy presents important perspectives. She asserts the importance of the voices of Indigenous dance artists within the larger field of dance studies. Writing as a non-Indigenous scholar, she documents, in dialogue with her Indigenous colleagues, practices that re-center their creative projects in opposition to past colonialist norms. The author draws on and incorporates arguments from other decolonizing writing in dance theory, anthropology, and philosophy. She investigates ways indigenous environments and creations manifest in California, Minnesota, New York, and Ontario, as well as Aoteroa. The widely varied contexts demonstrate the vibrancy of current respectful, relational, Indigenous choreographies. Inclusion of writing by and interviews with Indigenous collaborators further supports the author’s approach. Useful notes and an extensive bibliography ground and augment the text. Helpful photos are included. Valuable for scholars of dance, Indigenous studies, and anthropology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty
Review of "Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation" by Jacqueline Shea Murphy (University of Minnesota Press)
No full textJacqueline Shea Murphy’s Dancing Indigenous Worlds deals with her participation in festivals, performances, and conversations with Indigenous dance artists, whose practices enact, register, and experience relationality. Relationality is both an expression of Indigenous ways of being and knowing and an integral part of dance work, including all the activities produced around it. Each chapter of the book explores in depth an aspect of relationality based on the work of an artist and the descriptions of the experiences and sensations that each of these has awakened in the author, both in the author's voice and that of her interlocutors
Shea butter: connecting rural Burkinabè women to international markets through fair trade
No full textProcessed by rural West African women and desired by wealthy Northern consumers of natural beauty products, shea butter seems a prime candidate for fair trade, yet to date there has been little study of the industry. This article analyses the opportunities and constraints of the development of fair-trade exports of shea butter from Burkina Faso, taking into account the context in which shea is produced and sold locally and internationally, the concept of fair trade, and the impact of gender relations on shea production. Although a definitive positive or negative determination cannot be made, given the complex and divergent factors affecting the potential international market and the production process, the author finds that the development of the fair-trade shea butter industry in Burkina Faso has great potential. However, such development must occur with restraint and consideration of possible challenges and limitations, in order to remain sustainable and viable for rural female producers.This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p
The Way of Shea: Developing Permaculture Systems within the Shea Butter Supply Chain in Ghana
No full textThe aim of this work is to analyze the traditional shea butter production process and the supply chain of shea in the rural communities that produce it in the Upper West region of Ghana so as to improve these activities through developing permaculture systems and collective work in Ghana and throughout the African diaspora. This thesis focuses on the traditional shea butter process, existing permaculture systems within the process, and supply chain to market. The value of cooperatives and connecting the African Diaspora to shea for a greater social impact is also discussed. The author concludes with suggestions for opportunities to further develop a permaculture system within the shea butter supply chain through improved environmental policy, greater community cooperation, infrastructural developments, and private and public entities creating methods for greater collective impact.</p
Ele Agbe in search of a new light in Ghana's shea sector
No full textEle Agbe is a Ghanaian phrase meaning “God is alive.” Founded as a small and medium enterprise (SME), in Ghana in 1996, Ele Agbe Company is currently a dynamic business operating in the downstream shea export sector. Demand for shea is increasing for skin and hair products on the foreign market. Ele Agbe’s artisans use traditional Ghanaian tools and methods, and the highest quality materials available, including unique scents. The protected knowledge build up of unique scents in its shea product mix has given Ele Agbe its trade secret. At Ele Agbe, artisans pass on their skills to younger generations, conducting workshops for school groups and accepting apprentices from throughout Ghana. The business is confronted with challenges partly as a result of non-existent working policy for shea and breaks or gaps in the shea supply chain preventing it from achieving full potential. The company needs to consider how to improve on its’ firm and business networks given its internal and external environment in order to expand.Values Technology and InnovationTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Review Of The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories By J. Shea Murphy
No full textCoeditor (with Ellen Goellner) of Bodies of the Text (CH, Oct\u2795, 33-0847), Shea Murphy (Univ. of California, Riverside) uses written and choreographed texts, oral histories, and interviews to investigate ways dance documented and supported Native American histories and practices from the late 19th century to the present. Beginning with an exploration of 19th-century US and Canadian Native performances and federal responses to--and restrictions of--them, the author demonstrates the contradiction between efforts to curtail authentic ritual dances and the simultaneous construction, by Europeans and Euro-Americans, of an imagined concert-stage Indian. She interrogates how works by modern dance pioneers (Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Lester Horton) accessed Native American archetypes and beliefs for choreographic inspiration. The book concludes with an examination of ways various Native artists in Canada and the US draw on traditional and contemporary dance vocabularies and structures, creating concert choreography that comments on cultural connections and addresses social/political concerns. Enriching a dialogue begun by Jamaka Highwater\u27s Ritual of the Wind (1977) and Native American Dance: Ceremonies and Social Traditions, ed. by Charlotte Heth (CH, Jul\u2793, 30-6248), this major work is marked by fluid analysis and rigorous research. It includes extensive endnotes and some 30 black-and-white photographs. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals
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