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Rethinking Folk Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain [PDF]
Twentieth Century British History, 2017 Research on folk culture in twentieth-century Britain has focused on elite and transgressive political episodes, but these were not its mainstream manifestations. This article re-evaluates the place of folk culture in twentieth-century Britain in the context of museums.
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Bhangra: Mystics, music and migration [PDF]
, 2014 Bhangra: Mystics, Music and Migration explores the origins of this folk song and dance from the Panjab in South Asia and its development into part of modern British culture in the hybrid soundscape of British Bhangra and beyond.
Sahota, Hardeep Singh
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Supporting the Shift: Professional Development for Alternative Grading Practices
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alternative grading (e.g., contract grading, ungrading, specifications grading) practices have emerged as a promising approach to enhance student success, improve students’ sense of belonging, and make higher education more accessible. This study explores the challenges faced by community college faculty when implementing alternative grading ...
Breana Bayraktar, J. Indigo Eriksen
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Turkish folk music in Ghent: developing musical knowledge in a diaspora context [PDF]
, 2010 The question of musical knowledge applied to folk music is always challenging. While folk music normally does not have great artistic or academic aspirations and its theory and praxis are often little documented, its musicians and public still possess ...
Sels, Liselotte
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Sensory Screens, Digitized Desires: Dancing Rasa From Bombay Cinema To Reality TV [PDF]
, 2016 Bombay cinema incorporated songs, dances, choreography, staging, and costumes from a variety of traditional forms to mark a modern national identity. The pioneering figure for using dance in films was Uday Shankar in his experimental film Kalpana. Bombay’
Chakravorty, Pallabi
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How to ‘survive’ after graduating in science or engineering: Becoming an academic administrator
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract This is the eighth article in the series ‘Survival Skills for Scientists’; previous papers were published in the Journal of Materials Education. Here I describe my views, based partly on personal experience, about pursuing an alternative career path within academia: becoming an administrator (e.g., Department Chair, Dean, Vice‐President ...
Federico Rosei
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Merengue: Dominican Music and Identity
, 1997 Merengue—the quintessential Dominican dance music—has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City.
Austerlitz, Paul
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart +3 more
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A bibliometric analysis of review on folk art
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesFolk art is a kind of visual art and arts and crafts formed under the background of folk culture, which is considered as the symbol of traditional culture. But all forms of traditional arts and crafts are threatened by a globalized culture. Many scholars
Feng Lijuan, Ahmad Rizal Abdul Rahman
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Intangible inventions: the Kalbeliya gypsy dance form, from its creation to UNESCO recognition [PDF]
, 2015 Despite the creation of the Kālbeliyā dance form in the 1980s, it was recognized as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage in 2010. Rajasthani “Gypsy” performances,featuring a dance designed by the nomadic Kālbeliyā community, have quickly become popular ...
Joncheere, Ayla
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