Oral history provides important sources of information when looking at the development of a particular genre of music. This idea becomes more pronounced when the genre of music in question may be tentatively considered a popular music. While one has to be careful in labelling a genre of music ‘popular’, in this case labelling extreme metal and mor…[Read more]

R. J. Palacio’s Wonder offers an engaging look at the challenges a child with facial deformities encounters when attending school for the first time. Told from multiple perspectives, the novel emphasizes kindness, acceptance of differences and the common anxieties associated with fitting into a social group. Narrative fiction has been shown to p…[Read more]

Funded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
The project aims to foster cooperation and mutual support between…[Read more]

Funded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
The project aims to foster cooperation and mutual support between…[Read more]

Funded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
The project aims to foster cooperation and mutual support between…[Read more]

Considerations on how VestAndPage facilitate a workshop on Performance art.

Text published in: “How We Teach Performance Art: University Courses and Workshop Syllabus”, Edited by Valentin Torrens. Outskirts Press, July 2014.

The book offers 42 different approaches to transmit the generative source of creativity in live action by…[Read more]

Sound and space—however one defines these terms—are phenomenologically and ontologically intertwined.

The Muslim-dominated “Swahili Coast”has always served as a conceptual as well as physical periphery for post-colonial Kenya. This article takes Kenyan youth music under the influence of global hip-hop as an ethnographic entry into the dynamics of identity and citizenship in this region. Kenyan youth music borrows from global hip-hop culture the…[Read more]

The Muslim-dominated “Swahili Coast”has always served as a conceptual as well as physical periphery for post-colonial Kenya. This article takes Kenyan youth music under the influence of global hip-hop as an ethnographic entry into the dynamics of identity and citizenship in this region. Kenyan youth music borrows from global hip-hop culture the…[Read more]

An introduction to twenty Persian musical texts written in India which included both Persian and Indian music

This article focuses on recording Persian music by the German record companies during the interwar period and social, economic, and political motivations behind it.

This article focuses on the history of European military music in Persia and shows how this history was twisted by French/Artesian patriotism and self-promotion. In order to provide an alternative history, this article explores various sources and introduces several European musicians who worked in Persia in the nineteenth century, including the…[Read more]

When examining a particular creative work, one has to be aware of a number of hidden relationships embedded within that work as a whole. Who created this work? What was their goal in doing so (if there ever was an established goal)? How am I supposed to interpret this work, given the nature in which it was created? Going down these paths of…[Read more]

ABSTRACT Joon Park takes a closer look at Steven Strunk’s innovative application of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz to jazz. Strunk reinterprets neo-Riemannian transformations as geometric reflections—as opposed to more conventional group theory operations—showing his understanding of jazz performance practice. Park clarifies the difference between con…[Read more]

This article presents the results of implementing a musical/multimodal/multilingual pedagogical approach to foster literacy practices in an ESL composition classroom at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus. Based on the students’ written reflections, multimodal texts, and subsequent interviews, this qualitative research study hi…[Read more]