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Musical meetings
No full textUnsavoury impressions of Chinese music were widespread in the goldfields of nineteenth century Australia. Newspapers such as the Mount Alexander Mail reported on the unceasing cacophony of percussion and unusual vocal timbres. For the entertainment of the fast-growing Chinese community, operatic and circus troupes from Southern China began performing in Victorian tents and town halls from the 1850s (Lyndon, 1999; Farrell, 2009, p. 20) and numbered from thirty to fifty by the early 1860s (Love, 1985). The performers brought with them all the intrigue and mystery of the orient including props, opium-addicted lead performers, female impersonators and “dandies” (Farrell, 2009, pp. 20-25; Love, 1985. pp. 80-81). Although Europeans came to Chinese shows, many were not accustomed to, nor appreciative of the noise and din of Cantonese opera. The performance of this musical genre, coupled with a clash of cultural values and work ethics (Rolls 1992), may be attributed to European resentment of the Chinese in the area. This disharmony eventually culminated in an outbreak of civil violence and brutal massacres (ibid)
"Sounds Chinese" : musical meetings with "China" in contemporary Australia
No full textTouching on issues of migration, identity, hybridity and appropriation, this paper reveals how the disciplines of ethnomusicology and composition helped remedy my “cultural crisis” of sorts by enabling me to shift my focus from when I am ‘from” to where I was ‘at”, in the words of Ien Ang (2001). The ethnomusicological component of this discussion draws on original fieldwork conducted between 2003-2008 in three Chinese communities in Sydney. I focus on Chinese-Australians who have chosen to create a new home in Australia as opposed to diasporans who might be classed as “cosmopolitans” in their constant movement from country to country. Applying certain cultural theories, I reveal how these ethno-specific centres, which function as loci of transformation in a fast-changing contemporary climate, have come to influence my artistic voice as a first generation Chinese-Australian composer. It is this ongoing passion for rediscovering, redefining and revitalising notions of Chineseness that in many ways led to my curatorship of the four-day event, Encounters: Musical meetings between Australia and China (6-9 May 2010)
I love the starry sky at night-time: Singing and signing in a Buddha's Light International Association, Sydney
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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