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When the Trees Resound
No full textThe English version of the Italian book I suoni dell'albero, about the Maggio di Accettura. A research conducted with Steven Feld and other scholars, with an innovative approach considering the sound of the festival
Mary Helen McSweeney-Feld, PhD, Long-Term Care Educator and Author
No full textToday’s guest is Mary Helen McSweeney-Feld. Mary Helen is an associate professor at Towson University in the Department of Health Sciences. Mary Helen is the author of one of the leading textbooks in the field of long-term care, Dimensions of Long-Term Care: An Introduction, and is a recognized leader in long-term care education nationally. In this podcast I talk with Mary Helen about her journey from an early interest in political science and international affairs to discovering the nascent field of health economics in the 80’s, and her transition to an interest in long-term care as a result of having to care for both her father and father-in-law when they suffered from debilitating terminal illnesses. Mary Helen makes a passionate case for long-term care, pointing out the economic opportunities for entrepreneurs, as well as young people looking for a meaningful and well compensated career. I hope you enjoy listening to Mary Helen’s story, and if you find it valuable, won’t you leave us feedback on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you may be accessing this recording. It helps other people discover us. Thanks for listening, and here is Mary Helen McSweeney-Feld
Dall’antropologia della musica all’acustemologia
No full textIl testo delinea una storia dell'etnomusicologia a partire dalla pubblicazione di "Antropolologia della musica" di A. P. Merriam, per arrivare alle nuove opzioni metodologiche proposte da Steven Feld con l'antropologia del suono e l'acustemologia.The text outlines the development of studies in the field of the so called Ethtnomusicology from the publishing of the book "Antthropology of Music" by A. P. Merriam up to new approaches such as "anthropology of sound" and "acoustemology" proposed by Steven Feld
Presentazione a: Il mondo sonoro dei Bosavi : espressioni musicali, legami sociali e natura nella foresta pluviale della Papua Nuova Guinea
No full textPrefazione al libro "Il mondo sonoro dei Bosavi" di Steven Feld.Preface to the book "The sound of Bosavi's Word" by Steven Feld
Comparing and contrasting the uses of two graphical tools for displaying patterns of multiparty competition: Nagayama diagrams and simplex representations
No full textWe compare two tools for displaying, in graphical form, information about vote outcomes in multiparty elections at the constituency level. One was recently proposed by Nagayama and introduced to the English-speaking world by Reed, who applied this method to Japanese and Italian election data. Reed labels the method Nagayama diagrams. Recently, Taagepera has shown how the domain of potential uses of Nagayama diagrams can be expanded significantly. A second graphical device has been used by a number of authors for various types of election analyses, but is not that well known in the comparative parties literature. This method, which uses barycentric coordinates (i.e. triangular) rather than the more familiar rectangular coordinates, has gone under a variety of names (e.g. trilinear plot, toroidal diagram and simplex representation), but we have chosen to use the last of these labels. We make use of both methods to visually present election data (by constituency) for the Italian national elections of 1994, 1996 and 2001. We show how different types of information may be readily gleaned from the two types of graph, and, perhaps most importantly, illustrate how we may improve the ready intuitive interpretability of each type of graph by specifying boundary constraints to define particular regions of the graph - a technique we call 'segmentation'
Questioning acoustemology: an interview with Steven Feld
No full textIn this conversation transcript, Tom Rice asks Steve Feld a series of questions
about ‘acoustemology’, a term Steve coined and which has become a key concept
in sound studies. Referring to ‘acoustic epistemology’, a ‘knowing-with and
knowing-through the audible’, acoustemology emerged in the context of Steve’s
work on the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea and their intricate knowledge of the
sounds of their rainforest environment (Feld 2015, 12). It has since been applied
by Steve, and many others, in studies of sound in a wide variety of settings. Tom
asks questions that have arisen as he tries to explore and clarify the implications
of the term. For instance, are acoustemologies invariably culturally embedded, or
can they also be understood to emerge independently of culture? To what extent
are acoustemologies shaped by individual and personal preferences, experiences
and abilities? Is it possible for one acoustemology to end and another begin or do
acoustemologies merely shift in terms of the sounds to which they are orientated?
Answering with illustrations from his own intellectual journey, Steve presents
acoustemology as an open-ended concept which is generative rather than
prescriptive and which invites ongoing empirical research and interdisciplinary
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Beyond Transcendence and Immanence: the Hermeneutical Spiral
No full textThe spiral, which Ray L. Hart substitutes for the circle, traces the “hermeneutical arc” of the philosopher’s work from his two principal books, Unfinished Man and the Imagination: Toward an Ontology and a Rhetoric of Revelation (1968; 2001) to God Being Nothing: Toward a Theogony (2016). With this substitution, Hart offers much more than a pure and simple indication of his method, since the spiral is itself the method according to which his work proceeds. Indeed, this work is a form of thinking which progresses by intensifications, just like a spiral which grows and intensifies by revolving around an axis – not only upward and downward, but also toward the right and the left. And it is because Hart’s work is a spiral-like progression that the preposition which recurs the most frequently in his work is justified: “toward”. This preposition not only indicates the argument toward which the (philosophical and theological) work progress but signals the fact that this effort is intrinsically tension toward. Thus, “toward” is not a stylistic artifice which rescues the author from having to “define” the object of his research but is rather the preposition which expresses the fact that the author and his research are always in tension between a “terminus a quo” and a “terminus ad quem.” And given that the tension arises when two elements are conjoined and united without any annihilation of their differences, the spiral is the appropriate image for expressing that situation in tension because it is a figure capable of containing multiplicity within itself while also preserving differences. The spiral is capable of this because: (1) it begins by unfolding from a single point and revolving around an axis to progress toward someplace else, in order to (2) enrich itself with new coils which surpass one another without an annihilation of the previous ones, and (3) it does so in a way that is potentially infinite, going toward every possible direction. In sum, insofar as the spiral traces a movement which always goes “toward,” it expresses the way that all human investigation must occur. The originality of the spiral, however, appears when it is contrasted with two other figures which are typically used in philosophy to indicate the way in which research and knowledge are explained: that is, the circle and the line. The latter is the expression of knowledge which proceeds in a continuous and “linear” way: it is capable of sustaining contraries but not contradiction. Indeed, if – as Aristotle says – contraries are maximally distant terms of the same type, then there can be contraries in “linear” knowledge but there cannot be contradictions: the latter would be unproductive and fallacious (which is why they must be resolved). The circle, on the other hand, has presented itself in philosophy in different forms: as circulus in probando, circulus in definendo, petitio principiis, tautology, circulus vitiosus. In contrast to the line which proceeds “toward” in a linear way, the circle tautologically repeats itself – taking back up into itself not only contraries, but also contradictions. The spiral, on the other hand, is a curve which does not return upon itself but rather – as was mentioned above – unfolds by enriching itself with that which is different from it and by going toward that which is other: it intensifies and expands itself not in a linear way, but by appropriating that which precedes it. Accordingly, its “coils” which proceed in a progressive way can even contradict what existed before, as well. Unfolding “toward,” the spiral is capable of that contradictory quality of the multiple that returns on several occasions in Hart’s work. For this reason, although Hart introduces the spiral in order to emphasize its methodological fertility, we maintain that the entirety of his philosophical system proceeds like a spiral. We will attempt to demonstrate this by: (1) pointing out the moments in which Hart introduces this figure and inquiring into the philosophical role that he assigns to it; (2) showing how the spiral is not only the image which is announced by Toward a Theogony, but is also the image which opens philosophy toward what we will a metagony – that is, a philosophical method which, inheriting from tradition the patient inquiry into the “elements” of metaphysica generalis (being) and of metaphysicae speciales (God, the world/cosmos, and humankind), attempts to “comprehend the incomprehensible,” or their incessant genesis. (3) Finally, after highlighting the difference between “duality” and “dualism,” and after having identified the various pairs which Hart introduces, there will be an attempt to show how the spiral is the image which enables us to overcome the opposition of immanence and transcendence when these categories are – at least in philosophy – usually conceived according to a spatial scheme of inner and outer. The latter conception is rarely challenged in philosophical thought that investigates the human experience of the world, of humankind, and of God
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (feld)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/1941/thumbnail.jp
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