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Music, emotion and asylum: Wellbeing mapped through choral singing
No full textFostering group singing as a means of improving social connectivity within socially marginalized groups is now a well-established and widely reported practice. Investigating well-being related aspects of how such choirs function internally and in interaction with the broader community, this chapter purposefully expands the scope of the existing discourse on music and well-being. It emphasizes the powerful role of emotion in a choir’s expansion and growth and explores the singing group as a forum—a conceptual, specifically musical, emotional, and physical refuge—within which to build confidence and express voice. Two case study choirs are presented: a chorus of same-sex-attracted and gender-diverse young adults, and a community choir for older people. Interview data highlight the importance of in-group and community-focused experiences and the potential for such choirs to affirm personal and social experiences and provide opportunities for growth
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
Community Singing in Baltimore, 1915–16
No full textDuring the Great War, community singing became a popular activity for American troops and civilians alike. The practice quickly spread throughout the country and found a home in factories, department stores, movie theaters, and community centers. Even before the war, however, two extraordinary women were experimenting with community singing in the city of Baltimore. Their repertoire choices, presentation style, educational goals, and—most importantly—their enormous success influenced the practice of community singing over the next decade.
This paper explores the career and accomplishments of May Garrettson Evans, founder of the Preparatory Division at the Peabody Institute, and Henrietta Baker Low, Music Supervisor for the Baltimore School District and President of the Music Supervisors National Conference. In March 1915, these two women incorporated community singing into an orchestral program put on by the young musicians of the Preparatory Division. They advertised the novelty and hoped that it would attract a larger crowd than usual, but on the night of the concert they were astonished to find that the hall was packed, despite a torrential downpour. They continued to offer community singing at the Conservatory in the coming months, inviting attendees to sing uplifting and patriotic songs from books that were distributed at the door. In April, the president of the Baltimore Park Board invited Evans to stage her singing events in Patterson Park. By the end of the summer attendance had reached 2,500 at each weekly gathering, with participants singing from lyric sheets that had been printed the previous week in the Baltimore Sun.
Evans was a fascinating woman. In addition to overseeing the Preparatory Division at the Peabody, she was also the first female journalist for the Baltimore Sun, music supervisor for the Baltimore public schools, president of the national organization for music educators, and the author of five books. Low is remembered as a leading figure in music education, although she abandoned her formal roles upon her marriage in 1914. Their work as community singing organizers paved the way for other women to take on this role; even during the war, when song leaders were usually men, women often served as organizers and promoters.
This paper is based primarily on materials held in the archives and records of the Peabody Institute, including concert programs, photographs, and family scrapbooks. These sources are supplemented by articles from the Baltimore Sun
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
Selling with singalongs: community singing as advertising in cinema, radio, and television
No full textThis chapter examines the use of community singing as advertising in cinema, radio, and television, especially the tradition of singalongs characterised by the use of on-screen lyrics and the “bouncing ball” animated indicator. While some traditions of community singing examined in this handbook were motivated by musical or civic betterment, here it was in the service of consumption and profit. Illustrated song slides and early singalong films at the start of the twentieth century commonly served to promote sales of sheet music or recordings. Cinema clubs and sponsored radio shows in the intra-war period used community singing to build brand identities and bind consumers to them. Television commercials have utilised singalongs to bridge temporal and spatial distance between viewers. While all examples aim to induct audiences into a community of mass consumption, several changing vectors and historical variations are characterised: the balance between direct selling and brand formation; the changes from in-person communal singing to mediated imagined communities; a development from local or regional brands to a global marketplace, as well as subsequent nostalgic resistance or reversion. This chapter investigates English-language examples of the use of singalongs as advertising from the early twentieth century up to the present to understand the ways in which they aimed to sell products, direct audiences to adopt specific viewpoints and behaviours, and form brand identities and customer loyalty
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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