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Cultural Life (cultural + life)

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Selected Abstracts

The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village

JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2005
Shane Greene
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Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life by Lawrence Rosen

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 4 2009
ANOUAR MAJID
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Brecht and Sinn und Form: The Creation of Cold War Legends

GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 4 2007
Stephen Parker
ABSTRACT Brecht and Peter Huchel's Sinn und Form are among the few examples of early GDR cultural life with a genuine capacity to accumulate cultural capital on the international stage. The analysis of Brecht's collaboration with Sinn und Form in the Deutsche Akademie der Künste offers a fresh perspective upon their attainment of a legendary pre-eminence in German cultural life during the Cold War. Brecht's espousal of Marxism-Leninism and of a relative artistic autonomy, informed by political constraints, ensured some common ground with the SED leadership. However, the Party's enforcement of a binary opposition between Socialist Realism and Formalism became a crucial field of conflict, spawning major illusions and antagonisms between the artistic and political elites. In key contributions to Sinn und Form, Brecht foregrounded aesthetic considerations and historical responsibility, yet the SED's nationalistic discourse colouring Socialist Realism was motivated by the geopolitical imperative of justifying the GDR's status among the people's democracies of the Eastern Bloc. This, in turn, justified the SED's subordination of cultural to political capital, dismissing the claims of elite culture in a series of staged events. The position of Brecht and his supporters was relentlessly eroded until, quite improbably, the crisis of 17 June 1953 allowed them to turn the tables. While popular opposition was suppressed, Brecht simultaneously re-affirmed his loyalty to the weakened SED leadership, whose revolutionary achievements he continued to praise, and re-asserted the relative autonomy of the elite Akademie and its journal. Brecht and Sinn und Form capitalised upon their enhanced reputations, securing the legendary status that later repression did nothing to diminish. [source]

Paying the piper: a study of musicians and the music business

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SECTOR MARKETING, Issue 4 2005
Krzysztof Kubacki
Many artists argue that treating music as a business represents a particularly insidious force in cultural life, stifling creativity and change. For them business and art are mutually incompatible and they regard the evident economic success of the music industry as an example of the shameless exploitation of our cultural heritage. This paper is based on detailed research into the attitudes of musicians across two distinct cultures. It finds strong echoes of the key criticisms of the music business which have been prominent in academic literature and in the specialist music press for more than a generation. Singled out for particular censure are not-for-profit organisations for apparently following the global recording companies down the same, profit-driven routes. The research confirms that there is a large gap between the expectations of artists and the organisations which employ them and fund their work. It is important that these expectations are understood and, if possible, bridged. For the arts to regain their place at the heart of cultural life it is necessary once more to bring the artists themselves into the picture. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

The Forgotten Greek Books of Elizabethan England1

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2007
Kirsty Milne
This essay was runner-up in the 2006 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Renaissance Section. The well-founded view that the Elizabethans were not distinguished for Greek scholarship has spawned the mistaken presumption that no Greek books were printed in England between 1543 and 1610. In fact a variety of texts, mostly classical, were produced in London, Oxford and Cambridge during the latter half of Elizabeth's reign. Their survival raises the question of why domestic printers should have ventured into a market dominated by Continental printing-houses, and suggests a need to reassess the place of Greek in the intellectual and cultural life of the late sixteenth century. [source]

11.,Toward Lasting Peace: Kant on Law, Public Reason, and Culture

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2009
Marc Lucht
Kant helps us understand the conditions for peace by reminding us that lasting peace requires both cosmopolitan legal reform and individual moral improvement, including resistance to egoism and the cultivation of cosmopolitan attitudes. The duty to pursue peace includes the duty to promote the rule of domestic and international law and work against its unilateral subversion. The juridical cosmopolitanism of a worldwide league of free peoples enables resistance to the dangers posed by authoritarian regimes and their dangerous willingness to manipulate their subjects and ignore international law. Constraining egoism enables people to overcome the tyranny of their desires and cultivates a sense of affiliation with the larger community of humanity in general, providing the moral foundation needed to support a cosmopolitan legal order. Moral development to a great extent is fostered through the arts and humanities, and a robust cultural life therefore ought to play a central role in the pursuit of global peace. [source]

THEATRE, PERFORMANCE AND THEATRICALITY IN SOME MOSAIC PAVEMENTS FROM ANTIOCH,

BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, Issue 1 2003
JANET HUSKINSON
The ,Red Pavement' and the mosaic of ,Iphigencia' have been taken to illustrate the texts of particular plays by Euripides; scenes in the ,House of Dionysus and Ariadne' show satyrs in theatrical costume; and a triclinium mosaic from the House of Menander portrays the playwright himself. It views them in the light of some current interpretative approaches based on ,theatricality' and ,performance' and the decoration of houses. Through detailed analysis of each case it shows how their images provide further evidence of the cultural life of Antioch and for the interests and aspirations of elite patrons. [source]

Youth Cosmopolitanism: Clothing, the City and Globalization in Dakar, Senegal

CITY & SOCIETY, Issue 2 2007
SUZANNE SCHELD
Youth clothing and exchange shape cosmopolitan identities, the city, and global flows in Dakar, Senegal. How Dakarois youth use dress to shape the city and urban identity is puzzling. Despite the declining economy and for many, extreme poverty, youth dress up in stylish and provocative outfits. In Dakar, youth are increasingly entrepreneurial individuals who base the authenticity of their cosmopolitan identity on an ability to buy and sell (trade) in the urban/global informal economy. Because the informal economy is intensely competitive for both buyers and sellers, youth rely on social networks, various forms of reciprocity, and trust in order to perform their work. At times, youth engage in dishonest acts and banditry in order to sell and procure clothing. These strategies highlight the uncertainty of life in Dakar, the relativity of morality, and the creativity that youth employ to make their lives and a life for the city. In these often hidden and subtle ways, youth steer the economic cultural life of the city and keep it hooked in to the global economy. This research is based on fieldwork conducted in Dakar and New York City between 1996 and 2005. Research methods include interviews, participant observation, focus groups and engaging youth in authoring informal fashion magazines which feature their own photography and stories about contemporary clothing trends in Dakar. [source]