Victorian Bands and their Dissemination in the Colonies

From the late 1840s, amateur brass bands and professional military bands became widespread in Europe and America due to the sudden availability of low-priced valve instruments. Band music also became an important feature of colonial life. Towards the end of the century, the indigenous populations of colonized countries started playing brass instruments, often with the encouragement or teaching of colonizers. The resulting cultural assimilation in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific is discussed

Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologists and Uncomfortable Truths

The panel, “Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologists and Uncomfortable Truths,” presented at the Forty-third ICTM World Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, grew out of informal conversations common among ethnomusicologists. As practitioners in our discipline, we are involved in complex webs of experience, relationships, and representations focused around music, broadly defined. Our work is inherently social and, when in the field, we develop close relationships with our teachers and consultants as we become comfortable in our sites of research. We are grateful for priceless access to communities and individuals. The intensity and combination of certain relationships and circumstances, however, can lead to conflicting expectations, unanticipated misunderstanding, and situations of personal and professional conflict

Capítulo 42. A construção duma tradição portuguesa em Malaca

Sunday Mail, 3 de Julho de 1977 — Há que reconhecer. Quando se trata de sacar da viola e tirar os sapatos, esta gente deve ser o que há de mais natural. Parece que nasceram com a música nas suas almas e que dançar faz parte da sua natureza. (…) A tradição parece correr nas suas veias. Conscientes de que são uma parte especial, embora algo distante, da história do seu país, e em particular da de Malaca, estes pobres mas orgulhosos descendentes dos navegadores/conquistadores [sic] portugueses (..

Evaluation of counsellor training in Gestalt methods

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a Gestalt training group designed to train counsellors in the influencing skills of Gestalt therapy. The study involved eleven experimental group counsellors, a matched control group and four coached clients. A pre-test post-test research design was used. Counsellors in both groups were tested for similarity at pre-treatment levels. The dependent variables being examined were counsellor response to a split: actual use of the influencing skills of direct guidance, open question and non-verbal referent: intended use of the influencing skills of direct guidance, open question and non-verbal referent; and degree of personal growth goal attainment. Post-test measures were used as an indication of the effectiveness of the treatment. In the pre-test, each counsellor had a counselling session with a client coached to present a conflict split. The Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed Ranks test of significance was used to analyze the counsellor response to a split and intended use of influencing skills. The dependent t-test was used to measure actual use of influencing skills. At the end of the training experience a Chi square test of independence was used to compare both groups on their degree of personal growth goal attainment. A Chi square goodness of fit was used to measure the experimental group on their degree of training goal attainment. Results indicated that the experimental group counsellors responded to a split with the Gestalt two-chair operation significantly more than did the control group. The experimental group used significantly more of the influencing skills of direct guidance and open question. In addition, they reported that they intended to use non-verbal referent significantly more than the control group. In the degree of attainment of personal growth goals the two groups were not shown to be different. The experimental group was found to have achieved their training goals. In summary, it appears that this Gestalt training group was successful in training counsellors in influencing skills.Education, Faculty ofEducational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department ofGraduat

Music, identity, and the impact of tourism in the Portuguese Settlement, Melaka, Malaysia

"Historical Melaka," a key theme in Malaysia's most rapidly expanding industry--tourism--is dominated by the romantic picture of adventurous Portuguese seafarers who arrived in 1511, were captivated by local beauties, and left a human legacy that has survived against all odds. In this dissertation, I examine how a distinct Portuguese community has, in fact, been constructed over the last half century and how its members have manipulated their "rediscovered" cultural identity only after being relocated from an ethnically mixed hamlet by colonial administrators concerned with preventing their imminent assimilation.Simultaneously, with independence looming, upper-class Eurasians attempted to distance themselves from their adopted British roots. For them, Portuguese identity also proved an acceptable compromise: it had historical legitimacy, yet, by association with the "poor Settlement fisherfolk," was acceptable within the emerging nation. The chance visit of a Portuguese government minister provided an occasion to display their new affiliation publicly. Portuguese folk music and dances learned from a book were performed in his honor.As the Settlement community blossomed and engulfed the upper class, the adopted dance groups proliferated at the expense of older hybrid musical genres. "Cultural groups" became a politically acceptable means of stating ethnic difference within the nation. Their contribution to the burgeoning tourist economy has led to many improvements, including increased visibility as a national minority. The groups have now become so entrenched within the community that young people, like the tourists, consider their music and dance to be "traditional."Through tourism, the Settlement has become a forum within which diverse messages compete and speak simultaneously to different audiences, constituting a potential opportunity that the government--adept at manipulating all kinds of symbols in the process of nation building--has been quick to exploit. Viewed in this light, the government's marketing of the Portuguese Settlement becomes a clear attempt to convert it from a rather unusual housing estate into an historical monument. Promoting the Settlement under the guise of tourism, the government has covertly coopted it for political gain, symbolically displaying their power over exoticized, make-believe Europeans.U of I OnlyETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissio