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Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century
No full textQuestions concerning representation are at the forefront of public and scholarly debate about classical music. What, and whom, does classical music represent in the twenty-first century? How is it represented in the arts and media? How does representation operate in the classical music industry? Efforts are being made to cultivate new audiences, diversify programming and ensembles, and experiment with new performance formats and technologies, yet it is clear there is still work to be done to achieve equal opportunities and inclusion.
This Special Collection, guest edited by Dr. Adrian Curtin (University of Exeter) and Dr. Adam Whittaker (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), investigates contemporary artistic and media representation of classical music as well as representation in the classical music industry and considers how these various forms of representation intersect. Articles encompass a broad range of art forms and media, including film, dance, theatre, literary and graphic novels, music, social media, and online streaming, and also engage key issues of representation within the classical music industry
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[Introduction] Understanding the present through the past and the past through the present
No full textHistory, like culture, has (to borrow from Clifford Geertz) a fictive quality. It is '"something made," "something fashioned"' : fictio in its true sense (Geertz, 1973, p.15). We may therefore speak of the historical past not simply as the transparent record of events but as a constructed narrative of documents whose voices have since fallen silent. As Foucault notes, "history is one way in which a society recognises and develops a mass of documentation with which it is inextricably linked" (1972, p.7). This notion has far reaching implications, and not simply for history as documentary. Those heteroglossic narratives which develop as history is lived, told, and continuously retold are - and have always been - the site from which new narratives spring, conditioned and coloured by the perspectives and technologies of the age. Such a process can be traced throught much of recorded history; mythology, storytelling in all its forms, and academic enquiry or polemic all draw upon canons of received knowledge, but to what end? History is the lens through which the ever changing developments of the present day can be understood: we see the present most fully in the absence of the past
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Music in fantasy pasts: neomedievalism and Game of Thrones
No full textHBO’s Game of Thrones is one of the major successes in what critics have called a new golden age of television. Its vogueish brand of fantasy neomedievalism has caught the imagination of global audiences and generated renewed interest in historical subjects. Through the exploitation of changing viewing contexts and audiences, as well as new media technologies, Game of Thrones represents a new sort of television spectacle which rivals cinema in its scope, ambition, and immersivity. Music has been essential for the Game of Thrones brand, and its role in the new television landscape demands different perspectives. This chapter, then, explores how legacies of fantasy medievalism and evolving transmedia scoring practices in long-form television interact to reinvent and make history (albeit, of a fantastical sort) present in Game of Thrones
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Introduction: Beyond authenticity in music, history, and fantasy
No full textTime is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so
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
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
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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