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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Celebratory"”.
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Celebratory Insurgency. The Art of Peripheral City-Making
… for peripheral residents to thrive, and celebratory of the periphery as a site of creativity. Celebratory insurgent processes across the region play a central role in everyday life on the urban margins. However, within urban studies scholarship, which has explored the political and …
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Policing Celebratory Behavior: Tactical vs. Relationship, a Micro Study of Lexington Kentucky Police Response
… to these events, particularly concerning celebratory behavior following a sporting event. Celebratory incidents are less organized than their protests counterpart. A variety of fans with collective zeal gather in a common location without leadership or mission. Celebratory behavior has …
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Reducing Stigma Around Neurodiversity Through the Use of Celebratory Technology Ice Breakers in First-Year Undergraduate Classrooms
<p>Celebratory technology for Neurodiversity is a new paradigm in the field of human computer interaction; it focuses on reducing stigma surrounding neurodivergent labels and behaviors. Celebratory technology aims to highlight the strengths of neurodiversity rather than fixing socially undesired …
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Reshaping Memory: Counter-Narratives in Kindertransport Literature
… Their retellings challenge the British celebratory narrative, and reshape discourses around the history and memory of this rescue operation. Together, Gershon, Barnett, and Eisinger's accounts provide alternative perspectives on the Kindertransport based on their age, gender, emigration, …
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Landscapes For Celebration; An Investigation and Design of Wedding Gardens
… gathered to inform the design. Case studies of celebratory landscapes and powerful places are also performed to gather knowledge. Through this investigation a set of design principles is collected, and then applied to a wedding garden design. Thoughtful design, incorporating knowledge of ritual, …
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Arabaribiti, for SATB Voices Divisi
… the imagery of nature and the divine. A celebratory middle movement, marked by a dance-like 6/4 meter, introduces the percussive accompaniment, depicting the communal and celebratory Yorùbá musical traditions.Dynamic shaping, expressive markings such as swell, crescendo, decrescendo, and …
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Dance and Identity Politics in Caribbean Literature: Culture, Community, and Commemoration
… political significance of Caribbean dance--both celebratory (as in Carnival) and defensive (as in warrior dances). Furthermore, this study observes how the weight of Western views on dance influences Caribbean transmutations and translations of cultural behavior, ritual acts, and spontaneous …
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"Modern Primitive: Parody, Ambivalence, and Paradox in Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir"
… an expression of the simultaneously progressive, celebratory, racist, and colonialist ideas about jazz music, dance, and blackness in Paris during the 1920s. Because the portfolio often demonstrates conflicting tropes for representing people of African American descent, for example minstrelsy vs. …
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A Heuristic Multiple-Case Study of Culturally Relevant Practices of Six Urban Elementary School Principals
… the richness of students’ backgrounds and celebratory multicultural education as starting points for implementation, was compromised by preparation coupled with Midway School District’s (pseudonym) reform agenda of assessment, standards and monitoring data that derailed support for …
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El Baile de los que Sobran. Literatura y Negatividad en el Caribe Hispano
… a series of texts and authors that question celebratory approaches to racial and sexual difference. I argue that negative relationality constitutes and epistemological and aesthetic alternative to reevaluate hegemonic representations of the Caribbean, one that dwells on antagonism, excesses, …
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Offerings
… for making objects that would be used in those celebratory moments with my family, and speaks on the love of femininity, domesticity and utilitarian objects.
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Rap music: popular perceptions and its affect on the lives of adolescents attending Jackson Middle and Grimsley High Schools of Guilford County, North Carolina
… a controversial topic since the mid-1970s. The celebratory and inflammatory aspects of rap and the often negative media coverage of rap music and rap artists have placed the questionable art form at the forefront of popular controversy. Rappers often struggle with the tension between fame and …
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Concerto for Two Horns and Orchestra
… of these mountainous peaks. It begins with a celebratory fanfare growing out of the lonely calls. The music returns to the grandeur of the opening melody, mixed with driving rhythms and massive sound.
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The Self-Regarding Comedy of the Contemporary British Stage
… be explained In traditional terms as either celebratory or corrective. Through heavily parodic and Ironic use of comic elements and a wide range of literary and non-literary sources, the self-regarding comedy of the late twentieth-century British stage forces us to redefine and update our …
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An Underlying Perplexity
… human beings’ inability to comprehend reality, a celebratory gesture for our confusion. Whether in this text or the two parts of my exhibition, I have humbly tried to position myself where I need to be. If I were to seek an affect within the pieces of my show, it would be nothing but showing …
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On the Margins of the Grand Unity: Empire, Violence, and Ethnicity in the Virtue Ethics and Political Practice of Wang Yangming (1472--1529)
… despotism engaging in acts of repression; celebratory interpretations yield a man of passionate humanity responding to his conscience. This study eschews a simplistic reading of Wang Yangming's actions and policies as an official by showing the promises and limitations of his political …
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Shoulder to the wind : a lyrical evocation of the Bogong High Plains
… Mostly, they are a response—protective, celebratory, artful, tinctured at times with grief and loss and, perhaps more frequently, with amazement—to a rare and increasingly threatened place. These creative essays are accompanied by an exegetical reflection that contextualises the creative …
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I Am See-Through: Participatory Video Making As A Method For Social Change In The Mississippi Delta
… Recent scholarship calls into question the celebratory tone of many youth participatory video projects and examines the viability of the participatory video approach in participatory action research. This criticism considers the complexities of self-representation in visual work made by …
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WHO YOU CALLIN' A BITCH? A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGES USED TO PORTRAY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN RAP MUSIC
… the 1970s. It can be political, uplifting, and celebratory. It can also be misogynistic and degrading to women, the focus of the current research. This paper begins with a brief history of the importance of music in the African American community. It then provides a history of rap music and …
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Toward a Postmodern Avant-Garde: Labour, Virtuosity, and Aesthetics in an American New Music Ensemble
… members embrace postmodern values including a celebratory mix of musical styles, attempts to provide accessible concerts, and an adoption of post-Fordist branding wherein personality and the display of labour figures as part of a marketing strategy. By examining the specific rationalizations of …
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