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Rituals, repertoires, and performances in postmodernity

2015
The study of ritual has been central to cultural sociology since its earliest days. While Durkheim’s theory has been the main reference point for the study of ritual, more recent approaches have emphasized contingency, strategic action, and historical contingency. This chapter reviews these recent developments, focusing specifically on the work of work
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Understanding decision-making in interprofessional team meetings through interpretative repertoires and discursive devices

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2020
Health practitioners of the geriatrics ward in a teaching hospital participate in interprofessional team meetings to agree on treatment and discharge care plans for their patients suffering from chronic illnesses and co-morbidities and in need of ...
Mary Lee, Y. Ong, M. A. Martimianakis
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Language Portraits: Investigating Embodied Multilingual and Multimodal Repertoires

, 2019
In this article, we discuss the use of language portraits (LP) as a research method to investigate the embodied multilingual repertoires of people who use both spoken and signed languages. Our discussion is based on two studies in which most participants
Annelies Kusters, M. D. Meulder
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Gestural systems for the voice: performance approaches and repertoire

Digital Creativity, 2018
ABSTRACTSinging, like dance, emerges directly from the body. The voice, in combination with whole body movement, constitutes a potent form of self-expression.
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The performer’s body in creative interpretations of repertoire music

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2016
Recent developments in the performing arts have led Western classical instrumentalists to reconsider their own creative input in their interpretative practice. Still recognising the composer as a main creative source, a fresh approach to interpretation specifically embraces possibilities for shared creativity.
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Performing Loss: Materiality and the Repertoire of Absence

2017
This chapter focuses on ideas of generational agency and performance in Lola Arias’ Mi vida despues (2009) and a range of contemporary Argentine photography (2001–2013). Through a discussion of the work of Diana Taylor, the chapter questions whether a new understanding of how memory is transferred between and within generations in contemporary ...
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Nanguan Music Repertoire: Categories, Notation, and Performance Practice

Asian Music, 1988
Etude d'une tradition musicale Chinoise, opera ou musique de chambre, repandue egalement chez les Chinois d'Asie du Sud-Est, de Taiwan et de Hong ...
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Percussion performance : challenges of the medium, technique and repertoire

2016
This dissertation for the degree of Master of Philosophy at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, examines the challenges to percussion performance presented by the medium, techniques and repertoire in a changing environment. The importation, development and adaptation of percussion instruments, the development of techniques in ...
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Moving Shakespeare indoors: performance and repertoire in the Jacobean playhouse

Shakespeare, 2014
Essays in this collection are split, by the editors, into three parts: they deal with the “hard” evidence of an indoor theatre (Part I); materiality indoors (Part II); and the “new fashions for ind...
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Hawaiian Hula Competitions: Event, Repertoire, Performance, Tradition

The Journal of American Folklore, 1996
While competitions have been significant in stimulating perpetuation of the hula since the cultural resurgence of the early 1970s, these very events have provided the stage for creativity that has transformed the tradition. I describe the competition events and examine how their circumstances have impacted repertoire, performance, and presentation ...
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