Exploring musical acculturation: The musical lives of South Sudanese Australians, Filipino Australians and White Australians in Blacktown

The central aim of this thesis is to investigate the musical lives of three distinct ethnocultural community groups. Using ethnographic and grounded theory methods, this study explores the musical practices of South Sudanese Australians, Filipino Australians and White Australians in Blacktown, New South Wales. By researching musical participation in these three case study groups, this study aims to elucidate the relationship between various factors underlying individual and collective musical acculturation processes. Significant factors include the reasons for and attitudes towards cross-cultural contact, the sociohistorical and situational factors determining the context in which cross-cultural contact takes place, and the role of power and dominance in shaping cross-cultural interactions. Other determinants include the various ways ‘community’ is experienced, the maintenance and loss of heritage and homeland cultures, and the musical activities that generate and reflect participants’ understandings and experiences of the preceding. The interplay between these areas of inquiry positions this study at the nexus of music education, sociomusicology, ethnomusicology, acculturation psychology, intercultural relations and urban sociology. It was found that the types of musical activities with which participants engaged illustrated the importance they placed upon maintaining heritage traditions. This was often related to their attitudes towards multiculturalism and integration into mainstream Australian society. For all of the ethnocultural communities studied, nationalism and transnationalism played a major role in acculturation processes. The music with which South Sudanese Australian participants were occupied was significantly influenced by South Sudan gaining sovereignty during the project’s data collection phase. Many of the participants had migrated to Australia long before their new homeland country was declared an independent nation-state, and music was used to represent and facilitate debates surrounding South Sudanese nationalist discourse. In the Filipino Australian case study, it was found that the collective self-consciousness with which the participants assimilated into colonial cultural forms had a marked effect on the music with which they engaged. The contradictions in their music consumption patterns resonated with the ironies underlying Filipino nationalism generally. Finally, music was similarly significant in the renegotiation of cultural boundaries and identity reconstruction for participants in the White Australian case study. Within the highly diverse Blacktown region, interpretations of ‘Australian’ and mainstream music were seen to contribute to the notion of White Australia as the dominant community of the receiving society

Harmonisen ja perkussiivisen äänen erottelumenetelmä ja sen sovelluskohteet

Harmonisen ja perkussiivisen äänen erottelumenetelmällä jokin musikaaliseksi signaaliksi mielletty pyritään jakamaan sen harmoniseen ja perkussiiviseen komponenttiin. Harmonisen signaalin tulisi sisältää vain melodiset soivat äänet, kuten laulut, huilut, torvet ja viulut. Perkussiivisen signaalin taas tulisi sisältää erilaiset perkussiot kuten rummut. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan mihin HPSS-menetelmä perustuu ja minkälaisien ongelmien ratkaisuun sitä on käytetty. Tavoitteena on myös selvittää, onko HPSS-menetelmää mahdollista käyttää reaaliaikaisesti äänen käsittelyyn ja osana niin sanotun ”sampler-instrumentin” toiminnallisuutta. HPSS-menetelmän kannalta oleellisia työkaluja ovat erilaiset Fourier-muunnokset ja spektogrammi. Fourier-muunnoksen avulla äänidata saadaan siirrettyä aikatasolta spektri-tasolle, joka on tarpeellista, jos halutaan saada tietoa äänen sisältämistä taajuuksista. Spektogrammi voidaan ajatella olevan äänen visuaalinen esitys. Spektogrammin avulla voidaan tarkastella millaisia perkussiivisia ja harmonisia ominaisuuksia äänisignaalilla on ja soveltaa monia kuvankäsittelystä tuttuja algoritmeja kuten mediaanisuodatinta äänidataan. Fourier-muunnoksesta käydään läpi sen diskreetin esityksen periaatteet ja spektogrammi käydään läpi yleisellä tasolla. HPSS-menetelmästä esitetään yksi mahdollinen toteutus, jossa signaalin harmoninen ja perkussiivinen signaali erotellaan toisistaan mediaanisuodattimien ja binäärimaskien avulla. Tutkimus ei suoraan osoita, että reaaliaikainen äänenkäsittely on mahdollista, mutta viittaa siihen. Mediaanisuodattaminen ja STFT-muunnoksen (Short-Time Fourier Transform) käyttö harmonisen ja perkussiivisen signaalin erottelussa, vaikuttaisi olevan yksi tehokkaimmista vaihtoehdoista. Vaikka reaaliaikainen äänen käsittely ei olisikaan mahdollista, harmonisen ja perkussiivisen äänen erottelumenetelmää voisi käyttää osana ”sampler-instrumentin” toiminnallisuutta

Music on the Move

Digital materials related to this title can be found on the Fulcrum platform via the following citable URL: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9853855Additional materials and teacher resources can be found at http://musiconthemove.orgThis book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: https://openmonographs.org.Migration. Colonialism in Indonesia: Music Moving with an Occupying Force; The Romani Diaspora in Europe: Mutual Influences; The African Diaspora in the United States: Appropriation and Assimilation -- Mediation. Sound Recording and the Mediation of Music; Music and Media in the Service of the State -- Mashup. Composing the Mediated Self; Copyright, Surveillance, and the Ownership of Music; Localizations: Mediated Selves Mixing Musics -- Conclusion: Violence, Difference, and Peacemaking in a Globalized World

Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specific national and indigenous film contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, film festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifies how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the historical legacy of binary thinking and intellectual norms and are working to champion new ecocritical, intersectional, decolonial, queer, feminist, Indigenous, vitalist, and other emergent theories and cinematic practices. The collection also demonstrates the unique ways that cinema studies scholarship is actively addressing environmental injustice and the climate crisis. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocritical film and media studies, production studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies

Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specifc national and indigenous flm contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, flm festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifes how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the historical legacy of binary thinking and intellectual norms and are working to champion new ecocritical, intersectional, decolonial, queer, feminist, Indigenous, vitalist, and other emergent theories and cinematic prac-tices. The collection also demonstrates the unique ways that cinema studies scholarship is actively addressing environmental injustice and the climate crisis. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocritical flm and media studies, production studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1181/thumbnail.jp

Music on the Move

"Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music’s travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.

Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specific national and indigenous film contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, film festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifies how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the historical legacy of binary thinking and intellectual norms and are working to champion new ecocritical, intersectional, decolonial, queer, feminist, Indigenous, vitalist, and other emergent theories and cinematic practices. The collection also demonstrates the unique ways that cinema studies scholarship is actively addressing environmental injustice and the climate crisis. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocritical film and media studies, production studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies

Licensed to Care: Inhabiting the Transnational Economy of Global Pinoy

The Philippines’ experience in international labour migration is widely considered a success – an observation endorsed by international bodies such as the World Health Organisation. As an active source of professional nurses to the developed world, the country continues to produce more nurses than the local nursing market can employ; a labour strategy that is promoted, facilitated and supported by the Philippine state and nursing educational system. This thesis interrogates Filipino nurse migration through the methodological prism of autoethnography, drawing on first-hand experience and reflexive accounts, interviews, photographs, policy documents and material cultural artefacts, to critically examine and challenge the country’s institutionalised migration regime. The thesis further argues that while the Philippines\u27 culture of migration has been widely reported, understanding this complex phenomenon calls for further and deeper excavation of the social, cultural, political and historical processes that continually shape Filipinos\u27 personal motives and desires. Situated within the fields of cultural studies, media studies and the interdisciplinary field of contemporary migration and diaspora studies, Licensed to Care comprises of an introduction and five chapters. Chapter one tracks the considerations that encouraged me to pursue an autoethnographic genre of writing about Filipino nurse migration by exploring the relationships between myself and my object of study; my life story and my ethnographic practices; and my personal desires, motives and experiences and those of my social actors. To find out how a culture of migration is effectively sustained in the Philippines, I examine the social, cultural and political circumstances of the country in chapter two. In chapter three, I turn my attention to the Americanisation of Philippine nursing education in order to examine the role of the Philippine nursing educational system in shaping the students’ desire to migrate, thus serving to reinforce the identity formation of the ‘global Pinoy’. Utilising the method of visual analysis, I unpack the way in which nursing is marketed through the aggressive use of marketing and advertising brochures in chapter four. In chapter five, I examine critically how several stakeholders cited in the migration literature – international organisations, governments, professional associations, trade unions and researchers – attempt to regulate the migration of nurses from the poorer regions of the world under the guise of an ‘ethical recruitment’ framework. Drawing from previous chapters, I problematise the concept of the brain drain phenomenon with specific reference to the experience of the Philippines as a source country