The late nineteenth century was a crucial moment in Japan, driven by new conceptions of authorship and literary narratives. An influential world of collecting and compilation gave birth to those changes, but its workings are still poorly understood. By showing how compilers assembled the 1894 Kōtei Saikaku zenshū (The Edited Complete Works of Sa…[Read more]

The MADDLAIN project aims to analyse the behaviour and the needs of different audiences with regard to digital access to the collections offered by the CegeSoma, the Royal Library of Belgium and the State Archives of Belgium. In the scope of this project, I presented some of the results of the qualitative survey conducted with professional…[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]

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]

Este artículo establece el carácter fundador de Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez en la constitución del canon de la literatura en Colombia. Se concluye que el ensayo “Satisfacción a un juicio poco exacto sobre la literatura y buen gusto, antiguo y actual, de los naturales de la ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá” (1792) constituye el primer antecedent…[Read more]

Report of a pilot study investigating the creation of a digital archive of medieval property transactions along the City waterfront

In this new ground-breaking book leading innovators from both sides of the Atlantic explore how museums can create an effective social media strategy to engage with new and existing audiences. This pioneering volume comprises of influential museum professionals explaining how to use social media to: reach new audiences; enhance access; increase…[Read more]

A study of conceptions of the body, self, and embodiment in the Sanskrit medical classics.

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]

A number of recent independent documentaries have entered into a new relationship with archives and archival practices. Rather than simply mobilizing archival materials in a transparent manner, these films figure the archive itself and thus simulate for the viewer the experience of being in an archive, of following and trying to make sense of…[Read more]

In recent years, “the archive” as both a concept and an object has been undergoing a transformation. The increased availability of still and video cameras, analog and then digital, has led to a proliferation of indexical documents outside of official archives and prompted questions about what constitutes an “archive,” and, hence, what constit…[Read more]