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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"tradition and innovation"”.
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Tap Dance Choreography: An exploration of tradition and innovation
… art form that has evolved from consolidated traditions to unexpected innovations in its technique and aesthetic. With awareness to social and cultural contexts, I aim to clarify the cyclical process between tradition and innovation in tap dance choreography. Through critical investigation of …
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Tradition and Innovation in the Pedagogy of Brazilian Instrumental Choro
Choro is a traditional Brazilian music that began in Rio de Janeiro during the latter half of the nineteenth century. A virtuosic instrumental music, choro developed through Brazilian interpretations of European dance genres, especially polka and waltz. Participation by both amateur and …
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Islamic Tradition and Innovation in a Contemporary Kuwaiti Woman’s Painting Practice
… ‘awakening’ of the author’s artistic practice and her identity as a female Arab Muslim painter through her studio-based research into Rumi’s writings, in conjunction with study of the Qur’an and Islamic teachings, informed by feminist ideas and enhanced by knowledge of the socio-political …
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Francesco Guicciardini and Philippe De Commynes: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Historiography
… author by investigating the historiographical tradition out of which he emerged. With this in mind, we will then consider Guicciardini and Commynes in the light of their continuities with and departures from the Florentine and French traditions. Finally, the two historians will be compared in …
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GESTURES TOWARDS EMPTINESS: AN EXPLORATION OF RITUAL WITH REFERENCE TO BUDDHIST TRADITION AND INNOVATION
… artist's books; some small-scale sculptural work and a documentary film. The research is concerned with parallel, related disciplines and modes of working: visual art, music, general ritual studies, pedagogy and the practice of Buddhist meditation and ritual. The following areas are being …
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Of brick and 'chuna': Technological tradition and innovation at the Fort Cornwallis powder magazine in Penang, Malaysia
… perspectives: social, architecture and materials. Focusing on Fort Cornwallis powder magazine, a military structure initially designed following European treatises, the research explores how the multicultural communities of colonial Penang interplayed to modify this utilitarian …
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Strategies and Challenges for Bridging Tradition and Innovation: A Case of Tourism Management in Ebian Yi Autonomous County in China
Tourism is a major driver of global economic and social development. Within this sector, ethnic rural tourism plays a vital role in promoting cultural preservation and poverty alleviation in marginalised regions. While existing research emphasises community participation and local entrepreneurship, …
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"She's an All-in-One Guru": Devotion to a 21st century Mystic
<p>Anandmurti Gurumaa is a multi-lingual teacher of meditation and "spirituality" situated at the intersection of Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi and Sikh mystical traditions. This dissertation, employing inter-disciplinary methodology, provides an in-depth study of Gurumaa and her rapidly developing, …
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Human Things: Rethinking Guitars and Ethnography
This work is about objects and their makers, their relationship, and the negotiation between tradition and innovation in the creation of things. I explore the relationship between tradition, innovation, and technology as it pertains to the creation, perception, and interaction with acoustic steel …
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Scenografijos ypatumai ir meninės raiškos kryptys Šiaulių dramos teatre /
… ing directors, actors generation, theatrical and artistic trends, etc. Resulting in the need to monitor, analyze, evaluate Šiauliai Drama Theater scenery, its cultural contribution to the cammon granary. Šiauliai Drama Theater artists who worked in was large, about three dozen if run from the …
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From inherited practices to imagined possibilities: teacher educator agency in American Orff-Schulwerk teacher education
… how four TEs navigated the dynamic between tradition and innovation in their AOSA Teacher Education courses. Specifically, I examined how these TEs perceived and used their agency to serve as arbiters of tradition or instigators of change, and how their enactment of agency aligned or …
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Lalava'i Fonua
The Tongan diaspora of New Zealand face disconnection with their fonua [place, people, culture]. Architecture may be the medium to bind this disconnect. The disconnection leaves a generation of individuals navigating tensions between the traditions of our ancestral pasts and the unknowns of their …
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The Classic-Novel Adaptation from 1995 to 2009
… between the nineteenth-century novel and the screen, interrogating evolving trends in film and television adaptation from the mid-1990s to 2009. In contrast to many other studies in this field, such productions are understood as both adaptations and ‘costume dramas’, whilst the often …
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Domenico Veneziano and his public commissions in Florence
… study of the life of Domenico Veneziano (†1461) and his Florentine public works. It aims both to bring the study of Veneziano’s fragmentary oeuvre up to date and to correct the persistent and prevailing historiographic tendency to interpret his painting within a teleological narrative of progress …
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Local identities in a common language: the iconography of Hellenistic funerary stelai from eastern Greek poleis
… covering the funerary monuments of Greek islands and large parts of modern Anatolia, was published by E. Pfuhl and H. Möbius during the 1970s and provides the most comprehensive collection of grave stelai from the eastern Greek cities during the Hellenistic period. Unlike the Archaic and …
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The Practice and Performance of Katajjaq: Culture, Identity and Resistance
… between two or more partners who face each other and exchange sound motifs; one is leading, while the other repeats the same motifs. The first person unable to maintain the rhythm, tempo, or breathing pattern will laugh, indicating that they have lost the game. An oral tradition, katajjaq …
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Rete simbolica e dinamiche della memoria nella trilogia della guerra civile di Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
… is to explore Juan Eduardo Zúñiga’s private and literary path in order to illustrate the author’s intellectual complexity and especially to offer a critical analysis of the most significant part of his production, that is the so called “trilogy of the Spanish Civil War”, which includes the …
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Building to power : architecture of Tehran 1921-1941
Between 1921 and 1941, Reza Shah Pahlavi orchestrated the transformation of Tehran from a traditional Iranian Islamic city into a modern capital. The urban grid, public spaces, state institutions and housing typologies introduced during his reign permanently altered the character of Tehran. Through …
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