1. A piece that uses actual light as a medium. (hint: there’s a really cool one under the street connecting the two buildings.) The Light Inside‚ James Turrell‚ 1999 2. A piece that is by an Asian artist. White Porcelain Jar with Cloud and Dragon Pattern‚ Joseon Dynasty‚ 19th Century 3. A piece that is of an idealized form.(hint: the Greeks tended to do this in their sculpture) Standing Yaksi‚ Kushan Empire‚ Mathura‚ 2nd-3rd centuries 4. A piece that plays with scale. Apollo Flaying
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Western Influences on Folk-custom in Shanghai The change of Folk-custom is an important part of the change of society. As a metropolis in China‚ Shanghai combines her own features with many other country’s history and culture. As a result‚ the Folk-customs in Shanghai have changed a lot due to the impact of western culture. The influences on proprieties As a traditional city in China‚ Shanghai paid much attention to the etiquette and custom when people met together in the old days. At that time
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Gabrielle Marie C. Prado English 10 The Reflected Values in Filipino Folk Dance Introduction Many Filipinos do not appreciate the Philippine dance culture because they always see hip hop‚ ballet‚ ballroom and other dance genre. What if they could be wondering how are the Filipinos interpreting their dance? Let’s recall from more than three hundred years ago‚ the Spaniards came and made a huge influence to the Filipinos. Spain brought with them many different aspects of their culture to the Philippines
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The Cunning Folks’ Unexplored Power The fear of witches and their powers of witchcraft existed in all levels of society during the seventeenth century. Both historical and contemporary research on black and harmful magic‚ its practitioners and their persecutions received a considerable amount of academic interest throughout history. However‚ the practice of white magic‚ the origins of the cunning folk and their powers attracted less attention and historical investigation. One of the apparent reasons
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first African American to be given a Ph.D. from the University of Harvard. After his Ph.D. he started teaching economics and history at the University Of Atlanta and in the early 1900’s he published his first ground breaking book The souls of Black Folks. Which the book contained attacks on Booker
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M. Hall Sociology 101 – 010 Professor Matthew Corshu Due October 11‚ 2011 Book Review analysis The Souls of Black Folk‚ W.E.B. Du Bois‚ 1903 I have decided to do my 5 page paper on a sociological perspective of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois‚ (1903). I was unable to find book reviews in the library’s Book Review Digest because their volumes did not go back as far as 1903. Based on the racial discrimination that Dr. Du Bois experienced during his professional career in America
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Authentic works of folk literature versus manufactured ones differ in many ways. The definition of folklore was changed from an “‘oral cultural tradition of a specific group of people’” to an “‘oral poetic creation of the broad folk masses’” (Miller 5). The concept of tradition and cultural origin which is usually ingrained in the authentic folklore is void in the more modern‚ manufactured ones. Manufactured folktales also have much more thought put into to them in terms of “controlling” the folktale
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“Greenbriar County.” Struthers is not from the state she sings about‚ West Virginia‚ although her music may sound like it. She grew up in New Jersey performing with her father Alan who is a blue grass musician. She says she learned music in the same way that folk and norajanestruthers.com traditional music has been learned for Nora Jane Struthers ages -- by playing and singing with family members. She started writing her own songs in high school and performed in college. She later recorded an album with her
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CRITIQUE ON TEACHING PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCES Dance education involves teaching of the tradition‚ techniques‚ style and the methodologies of teaching the dance itself. Tradition is taught in and out of the school‚ making dance both as an academic discipline and a social practice or custom. The school teaches formally with syllabi and systems whereas the society teaches in communal activities from rites to games‚ from work to celebrations. Both serve to perpetuate tradition‚ by both hows‚ and whys
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Pandanggo sa Ilaw Luzon Folk Dance (Candle Dance) Pandanggo sa Ilaw - This popular dance of grace and balance comes from Lubang Island‚ Mindoro in the Visayas region. The term pandanggo comes from the Spanish word fandango‚ which is a dance characterized by lively steps and clapping that varies in rhythm in 3/4 time. This particular pandanggo involves the presence of three tinggoy or oil lamps‚ balanced on the head and the back of each hand. . It is said to have originated from Mindoro‚ the seventh-largest
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