Re-orientations : East Asian popular cultures in contemporary Vietnam

Vietnamese-Australians live in Australia, a large island continent. The physical contrast between Vietnam and Australia is remarked upon by many Vietnamese in their migration stories. Whereas Vietnam is remembered as an interlinked sensual and social world, Australia is often viewed as a harsh, spacious, empty, dry continent. Australia is located in a regional Asian context, but this location has always been culturally and politically problematic, as it historically attempted to define itself as a "white" European nation in the Southern Hemisphere (Ang, 2000, p. xiii; McNamara & Coughlan, 1997, p. 1). During the Gold Rush period in the late 1800s, when there was widespread opposition to Chinese labor, Australia implemented a "White Australia" policy, although there were historically a significant number of Australians of Asian background. This exclusionary immigration policy was effectively overturned in the 1970s with the acceptance of a large number of refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in 1975. Vietnamese-Australians live predominantly in urban areas with over three quarters living in Sydney and Melbourne, the two largest cities. Within these two cities they are also highly concentrated in ethnically diverse suburbs, most living in areas with more than 1,000 residents born in Vietnam (Viviani, 1996, p. 49). However, Jupp (Jupp et al., 1990; Jupp, 1993) has argued that these areas are also zones of transition, with much movement in and out.

Cultura popular, cultures populars i escola. 'Cultura popular, culturas populares y escuela'.

Resumen basado en el de los autores

Sounds of the suburb

Sounds of the Suburb was a commissioned public art proposal based upon a brief set by Queensland Rail for the major redevelopment at their Brunswick Street Railway Station, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. I proposed a large scale, electronic artwork to be distributed across the glass fronted structure of their station’s new concourse building. It was designed as a network of LED based ‘tracking’ - along which would travel electronically animated, ‘trains’ of text synchronised to the actual train timetables. Each message packet moved endlessly through a complex spatial network of ‘tracks’ and ‘stations’ set both inside, outside and via the concourse. The design was underpinned by large scale image of sound waves etched onto the architecture’s glass and was accompanied by two inset monitors each presenting ghosted images of passenger movements within the concourse, time-delay recorded and then cross-combined in realtime to form new composites.----- Each moving, reprogrammable phrase was conceived as a ‘train of thought’ and ostensibly contained an idea or concept about popular cultures surrounding contemporary music – thereby meeting the brief that the work should speak to the diverse musical cultures central to Fortitude Valley’s image as an entertainment hub. These cultural ‘memes’, gathered from both passengers and the music press were situated alongside quotes from philosophies of networking, speed and digital ecologies. These texts would continually propagate, replicate and cross fertlise as they moved throughout the ‘network’, thereby writing a constantly evolving ‘textual soundcape’ of that place. This idea was further cemented through the pace, scale and rhythm of passenger movements continually recorded and re-presented on the smaller screens.

Third space in cyberspace : Indigenous youth, new technologies and literacies

This chapter analyses the affordances and constraints of an online literacy program designed for Indigenous Australian youth through a partnership between the Indigenous community, university staff and local schools. The after-school program sought to build on the cultural resources and experiences of the young people through a dialogic process of planning, negotiating, implementing, reflecting, and renegotiating the program with participants and a range of stakeholders. In the majority of cases, students presented themselves as part of pervasive global popular cultures, often hot-linking their webpages to pop icons and local sports stars. Elders regarded their competency as a potential cultural tool and community resource.

Chopper: From the Inside: Discourses of the "Celebrity" Criminal Mark Read

Popular culture has been inundated with stories and images of True Crime for a long time, which is testament to people’s enduring fascination with criminals and their deviant actions. In such stories, which present actual cases of notorious crimes in a style that often resembles fiction, criminals are either reviled as monsters or lauded as cultural icons. More recently, popular autobiographical accounts by criminals themselves have begun to emerge within this True Crime genre. Typically self-celebratory in nature, such representations construct a rather glamorized public image of the author. This article undertakes a multimodal analysis of what has been classed as one typical example of this True Crime sub-genre, Australian Mark Brandon Read’s autobiographical account Chopper: From the Inside. It thereby seeks to demonstrate that the book, while glamorizing and mythologizing its protagonist, simultaneously offers scope for a qualitative understanding of Read’s life of crime and the sensual dynamics of his violent offending. To this end, the analysis focuses on some of the linguistic and pictorial strategies Read employs in constructing a public image of himself that alternates between the dangerous ‘hardman’ and the ‘larrikin’ criminal hero. However, it is also shown that Read’s account reveals a degree of critical self-reflection. In addition to the multimodal analysis, the article also endeavours to explore the link between celebrity and crime, thereby engaging with the nature of popular culture’s fascination with celebrated criminals.

La danse comme outil d'intervention sociale : exploration pratique et théorique de l'intervention sociale auprès de préadolescents et adolescents

Plusieurs hypothèses planant autour de la danse, des cultures juvéniles et de l’intervention permettent de repérer l’existence d’une multiplicité de regards, mais sans rapport apparent entre eux. Les tenants du courant humaniste s'intéressent à la forme et à la structure de la danse en tant qu'art dans les pays de culture occidentale. Les tenants de l’approche anthropologique y voient un instrument de socialisation qui permet de créer, refléter ou renforcer des liens entre les participants, tout en transmettant les valeurs de la culture héritée (Blacking: 1963, Spencer: 1985, Ward: 1993, Bourdieu: 2002). D’un point de vue somatique, la danse permet la prédominance du corps sur l’esprit, car l’apprentissage se fait généralement par imitation (Guilcher: 1963, Faure: 2004). Dans ce cas, les participants sont appelés à « s’ouvrir à autrui » en montrant et en apprenant des autres, créant une circularité dans leurs échanges sur un rythme qui « unit » les participants (Schott-Billman: 2001, Hampartzoumian : 2004). Ce projet se pose comme une réflexion sur le ou les sens de la danse comme outil d’intervention sociale auprès de jeunes amateurs amenés à vivre des inégalités sociales. En privilégiant un contexte d’atelier, où certains ajustements sont tolérés par l’enseignant, un espace de créativité s’organise de manière informelle face à un objectif donné : une représentation publique dansée. Cet angle d’approche s’inspire de « la métaphore du bricolage » au sujet des cultures populaires par M. De Certeau (1980), où la créativité populaire est repérable dans « les manières de faire avec » les produits imposés par la culture dominante, la politique, l’économie et les enjeux sociaux dominants. Ainsi, le participant qui « perturbe » les règles d’usage d’une intervention prescrite n’est pas un sujet en marge de la société. C’est par des actions pareilles qu’il prend sa place comme acteur social. Cet événement permet « d’in-corps-porer » le double discours existant entre les danses de représentation et les danses populaires chez les participants.

Modelos de realizações discursivas nos benditos populares e nas novenas

With the purpose of contribute to the understanding of oral texts constituent processes, we seek, with this work, verify how formulaicity processes in the benditos and novenas , religious intangible heritage, are established. For this, we made an overview on the performance of repetitions which are established in the corpus collected for the study, considering the presence of Discourse Traditions in the analyzed texts. It is noteworthy that the corpus consists of benditos and novenas collected in the municipality of Lajes, Rio Grande do Norte. This material is part of the differential corpus of the Project for the History of Brazilian Portuguese (PHPB-RN). Regarding the theoretical framework used to guide the research, we based our analysis on Discourse Traditions (DTs) theoretical assumptions, with the ideas defended by Johannes Kabatek, besides taking into consideration the assumptions of Paul Zumthor about orality in popular religious texts, among other authors cited throughout the work. In the context of popular cultures, the existence of oral texts serves to various interactive objects and this is not different in popular benditos and novenas (cf. Sá Júnior, 2009). In this sense, focusing the gaze through Discourse Traditions (DTs), we can verify that the texts/discourses present discursive regularities or textual forms already produced by society, in earlier times, which remain or are modified throughout its existence, as shows Johannes Kabatek (2001, 2003, 2005 and 2006). Also in this sense, Paul Zumthor (1993) presents us the idea that talk about using "word" in memory, in its real sense, implies admitting it as something which has an immeasurable power, which is able to decide directions in world, and from that is established the "wealth of oral traditions"

Música de câmara e pós-modernismo: os grups Syntagma (CE) e Anima (SP)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A prática coral juvenil transitando em ambientes formais e não formais: perspectivas aplicadas à educação musical

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

La semantizacion de cuentos maravillosos en la narrativa de Juan Draghi Lucero

En los volúmenes de cuentos Las mil y una noches argentinas y El loro adivino, Juan Draghi Lucero, escritor mendocino (1897-1994), recupera los códigos culturales de la sociedad cuyana del siglo XIX. En el espacio de la escritura de estos cuentos a los que considero texto artístico único, se entrama un código oral que les sirve de cañamazo y los semantiza al inscribirlos en la virtualidad del acto de contar para un auditorio. De este modo, el escritor construye un sistema equivalente al de la lengua oral natural, hecho que coloca los cuentos en la frontera de confluencia de dos lenguajes no traducibles uno en otro: el escrito y el oral. La creolización de la escritura activa en el lector la memoria cultural regional anclada en la oralidad, códigos en los que se transmitieron los saberes de la comunidad criolla que fundaron la cuyanidad en el siglo XIX.

Maragogipinho - as vozes do barro: práxis educativa em culturas populares

Este trabalho apresenta uma observação acurada do universo da cerâmica no povoado de Maragogipinho, Bahia. A pesquisa revela quem são os mestres e mestras do barro, dá a conhecer o seu processo criativo e educativo. Esses homens e mulheres são protagonistas do patrimônio cultural imaterial brasileiro, eles detêm e socializam conhecimentos que perpassam gerações, saberes tecidos em práticas de ensino não sistematizadas e nem legitimadas pelas culturas hegemônicas. A educação artesanal está fundada na ancestralidade, na repetição e na invenção, no constante diálogo entre a tradição e a emergência da modernidade: novas formas de criação e antigos segredos de ofício se misturam, numa tensão permanente entre transformação e conservação. O artesão e a artesã vivem o seu legado cultural e o mantêm vivo, reinventando-o e atualizando-o eternamente. Essa herança conserva a conexão com o passado, mas se reveste de novos símbolos e significados no presente para fortalecer a identidade dos autores e de suas comunidades, e para dar sentido ao futuro.

Educação, criação e autoria nas manifestações tradicionais das culturas populares : as manifestações da Festa do Divino de Pirenópolis – GO

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, 2015.