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ItemFrom Acoustic Scenery to Sonic Dramaturgy: Music in Radio-Specific Drama of Weimar Republic Germany(Brill, 2023)Weimar Republic Germany (1919–1933) witnessed the development of experimental dramatic forms created specifically for the radio, celebrated for their technical and dramaturgical innovation, including the Hörfolge, which montaged pre-recorded sounds, narration, and dramatic scenes in a non-linear narrative, and the Tonfilm, in which sound was recorded on the film used for audiovisual sound film, but without images. I argue that these dramatic forms also emerged out of the practice and discourse of music in earlier, more conventional genres such as radio-specific opera (Funkoper) and the fully musical radio play (musikalisches Hörspiel). First, I examine the discourse surrounding early radio plays and the way music shaped ideas about creating drama specifically for the radio. Second, I analyze Walter Goehr’s Malpopita (1931), Walter Gronostay’s Mord () and Glocken (1930s) and Eugen Kurt Fischer’s Trommel, Trommel, Gong (1932) as examples of early radio play productions.
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ItemNew Objectivity and the Middlebrow(Oxford University Press, 2022)There is much about the New Objectivity in music that might suggest understanding it as middlebrow. Emerging in the mid- to late 1920s, it combined elements of modern art music composition with jazz and popular culture in the name of accessibility, thus seeming to bring together Andreas Huyssen’s categories of modernism and mass culture. This chapter argues, however, that the New Objectivity’s emphasis on function and its rejection of the ideology of artistic autonomy disqualify it from the category of the middlebrow. It analyzes the New Objectivity as a middlebrow-like relational category between another “Great Divide” described by Huyssen: avant-garde and culture industry. This approach refocuses our attention on the relationship between Dada and the New Objectivity and also provides new insight into how the New Objectivity navigated the shifting cultural landscape of Weimar Republic Germany until its basic premises became untenable in the early 1930s.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMusic Therapy and Other Music-Based Interventions(Springer International Publishing, 2022)The interest in music and musical abilities of autistic children have been observed since the earliest descriptions of the condition. Music is a universal language known for millennia and music-based interventions including music therapy have found several applications in the fields of developmental psychology and mental health over the last decades. This group of complementary therapies aims to help the clients to optimize their health, using various facets of musical experience and the relationships formed through them. Several psychological theories and neurobiological models may explain the specific mechanisms through which music-based interventions work for autistic individuals. The present chapter aims to describe the sensorimotor, attentional, emotional, and social processes underpinning the potential effectiveness of music therapy in this population and to provide an overview of the most recent literature findings. At the end of the chapter, an account of the autistic giftedness and talent for music is presented.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableForeword by Dr. Grace Thompson [to Music Therapy with Autistic Children in Aotearoa, New Zealand](Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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ItemExploring the order and disjuncture of music projects in places affected by war(Routledge, 2022-11-04)This chapter explores the gap between the aspirations and actualities of musical-social projects in conflict-affected settings. Applying a conceptual lens of order and disjuncture and drawing on perspectives of participants from projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Timor-Leste, Kosovo, and Afghanistan, it examines three episodes where internal and external forces created a rupture in the idealised ‘order’ of a project. However, rather than seeing the resulting experience of disjuncture as anomalous, the chapter argues that disjuncture is more productively understood as the norm, and an important source of insight about the potential and limitations of music as an agent of change in complex and conflicted settings.
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ItemGraduate student online orientation program: A design-based research study(Athabasca Press, 2020-10)This book provides a comprehensive overview of current practices and opportunities for blended learning success.
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ItemDeveloping Teaching Presence in Online Learning Through Shared Stakeholder Responsibility(IGI Global, 2021)Transitioning from a face-to-face teaching environment to online teaching requires a shift in paradigm by stakeholders involved (i.e., instructors and students). This chapter provides an extensive literature review to help novice online instructors understand the nature of online teaching presence to help position their students towards more active participation. Premised on the Community of Inquiry framework (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000) and constructivism, we highlight a conceptual framework of four iterative processes for developing online teaching presence: preparations for facilitation, designing the facilitation, implementing the facilitation, and assessing the facilitation. Based on this framework, strategies are articulated for overcoming the challenges of online learning through shared stakeholder responsibility. This is a reprint of a chapter first published in the Handbook of Research on Innovative Pedagogies and Technologies for Online Learning in Higher Education (2016)
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ItemExpanding online education frontiers - needs, opportunities and examples(Nova Science, 2022)The Future of Online Education provides a vision of a fully successful online education future and practical ways to best turn this vision into a reality, and benefit from it, for online education decision makers, designers, educators and students. The book provides emerging online education knowledge, perspectives, issues and opportunities, and integrates these with practical ways for online education providers and recipients to fully benefit from their great new opportunities. The book is a valuable guide to achieving the best possible online education future and will comprehensively support online education development and implementation across courses and institutions. The Future of Online Education also provides a unique coming together of online education expert perspectives, ideas, examples and resources that will inform, inspire and support a whole-hearted entering into and advancing of our emerging online education world.
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ItemSynchronous Online Learning, Teaching, and Performing(Oxford University Press, 2022)Synchronous online learning, teaching, and performing in music is a fast-emerging innovation within the global higher education (HE) system. Advantages for including videoconferencing as a means for communication via high-performance networking technologies are: the expansion of international collaborations through live performances and masterclasses; possibilities for remote rehearsals in advance of events; development of new forms of teaching, learning, and performing; and lowered costs and reduction of carbon emissions due to decreased air travel. These benefits are recognized not only for music, but within the wider context of arts and humanities. Entry-level platforms, such as Skype, Zoom, and FaceTime, enable musicians to work from home. None come without challenges. Issues of latency, audio and video quality, acclimation to the technology, presence, communication, and adapting alternative teaching approaches are important issues that need to be addressed. This chapter provides a brief timeline on the emergence of the technology; outlines the substantial influence on teaching, learning, and performance from teacher, student, and professional performers’ perspectives; and highlights the necessary setup considerations for use in HE with practical examples from around the world. The chapter closes with the exploration of technology innovations that will soon be within reach for use in HE music.
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ItemPlaying Together: Designing Online Music Courses Using a Social Constructivist Framework(IGI Global, 2022-02-11)Music education, like many disciplines, is transitioning to the online environment, which impacts the learning landscape. This transition, along with a mindshift by instructors, requires careful consideration of the theoretical underpinnings needed to inform the design, facilitation and assessment to create conditions where students are actively engaged in learning and meaning making. The affordance of digital technologies (e.g., synchronous and asynchronous, multimedia) provides a means for creating and articulating knowledge. This chapter discusses online learning and explores the nature of constructivist and social-constructivist theories and how they can be applied in the design, facilitation, and assessment of online music education. Examples of constructivist learning in online music courses are shared for the purpose of examining how technology can be used to support the learning outcomes grounded on social constructivism. The chapter concludes with directions for future research and implications for practice.