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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

Seeking out the spaces between: Using improvisation for collaborative composition and interactive technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Copyright © 2010 ISASTThis article presents findings from experiments into piano performance live electronics undertaken by the author since early 2007.
Nicolls, S
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
wiley   +1 more source

Performing the Unexpected Improvisation and Artistic Creativity

open access: yesDaimon, 2012
In this paper I suggest that we look to improvisation in order to understand artistic creativity. Indeed, instead of being anti-artistic in nature, due to its supposed unpreparedness, inaccuracy, and repetitive monotony, improvisation in art exemplifies
Alessandro Bertinetto
doaj  

Positive outcomes of implementing applied theatrical improvisation in communication trainings/ workshops for healthcare students in two European countries: a comparative study

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry
Introduction Effective communication has been shown to improve patients’ health outcomes. This study utilizes medical improvisation techniques to teach communication skills to different groups of health students (nurses, midwives, medical doctors ...
J. D. Fekete   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

La situatività improvvisativa

open access: yesItinera, 2015
Some manuscripts of Maurice Merleau-Ponty are the core of the investigation about the improvisation pursued in this essay, an investigation within the domain of the philosophical interrogation about music.
Daniela De Leo
doaj   +1 more source

Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Improvisation i musikundervisningen: Tre lärares didaktiska förhållningssätt

open access: yesNordic Research in Music Education, 2020
This article draws on interviews with three music teachers. It is part of a larger study that explores improvisation in general music education in the Swedish school year 4.
Christina Larsson, Eva Georgii-Hemming
doaj   +1 more source

Improvisation-performance link and the moderating effects: A case of Malaysia technology-based companies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This research aims to examine the relationship between organisational improvisation and firm performance as well as to identify the effect of environmental turbulence on improvisation performance relationship.Given the lack of studies on these ...
Arshad, Darwina
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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