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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"performance culture"”.
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Performing Union: Walt Whitman, Participatory Democracy, and Antebellum Performance Culture
… the context of his indebtedness to antebellum performance culture, particularly as represented in the streets, in the theatres, and in the public halls that housed mesmeric sessions. Broadly stated, the project describes the relationship between American antebellum performance culture and …
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Towards a Theatre for Gamers : a new paradigm of practice in contemporary live performance as a response to games and interactivity in digital media and performance culture
… of play, be applied to the design of live performance and engage the new game playing audience within contemporary society? To investigate this I have carried out a practice-as-research project within an ethnographic framework and informed by action research methodologies. This study has …
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Bleeding Red: Decolonizing the Actor's Process in Search of Emotional Authenticity
… for emotional authenticity and vulnerability in performance through an investigation of my Indigenous identity and decolonization. Through the role of Maybe Jane and ensemble member in the adaptation of Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, I intend to explore indigenizing my role and …
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Erard, Bochsa and their impact on harp music-making in Australia (1830-1866): an early history from documents.
… in sustaining Bochsa’s legacy in Australia. The performance culture that coalesced around Bochsa and his disciples – incorporating as it did harp pedagogy, performance practice, repertoire, and commercial considerations – is shown to be a significant component of the social and cultural life of …
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Poetry in public: reperformance and publication of archaic Greek epigram
… My study contributes to our understanding of the performance culture of Archaic Greece, whereby, scholars have argued, poems and their meanings are intimately tied to their occasion and performative context. Epigram contributes in interesting ways to this narrative, for these inscribed texts are …
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Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and its Queer Afterlives
… in queer Asian/American and diasporic visual and performance culture. As a broad response to the conjuncture of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the renewed attention to anti-Asian violence, this project rethinks violence beyond its familiar terms as a scene of spectacular, individual, and …
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Human Capital Management Within the Federal Government Utilizing Generational Stratification With a Focus on Generation Y
… and Knowledge Management, Results-Oriented Performance Culture, Talent Management, Job Satisfaction, Global Satisfaction, and Employee Engagement. These indices provide a single, consistent definition of human capital management for the federal government. Generational data from these …
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An investigation of creative potential in high school musicians: recognizing, promoting, and assessing creative ability through music composition
… (with composition instruction) and a typical performance based band program (composition never taught) were examined. Students participated in a six-week composition program. Final compositions were evaluated by differing judging groups: teachers, students, and expert composers. Data were …
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A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America
… for moral legibility depends upon contentious performance rituals that make this search far more complex than it is generally conceived to be. I argue that its paradoxical resolutions provide a ritualized framework for the staging of contested identities and ideologies during the period of …
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Developing talent management hybrid model for business growth and sustainability: the case of Malaysian theme park industry
… helping companies achieve higher organizational performance. This research focused on Talent Management capabilities by examining talent competencies and business acumen. The researcher adopted semi-structured in-depth interviews, giving more flexibility and interactivity opportunity for the …
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An Empirical Investigation on the Critical Success Factors for Kaizen Events in Hospitals
… direct effects with both dependent variables, Performance Impact (PI) and Growth in Kaizen Capabilities (KCG). In addition, KEDC also had a significant direct relationship with Performance Culture (PC) and Team Dynamics (TD), respectively. Also, PC has a significant direct relationship with TD. …
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Investigation of polyhydroxyalkanoate production by an activated sludge microbial consortium treating artificial dairy wastewater
… this area has focused on using recombinant pure cultures to optimise PHA yields, however, despite considerable success, the high costs of pure culture fermentation have thus far hindered the commercial viability of PHAs thus produced. In more recent years work has begun to focus on mixed cultures …
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‘Io fui, et sono, et sarò Margarita’: Margherita Costa as Virtuosa on the Literary Stage of the Seicento
… journey opens a window onto the society and culture of a travelling musician and woman writer with a striking ability to succeed in an environment increasingly hostile to female public engagement.