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DIALOG KULTUR NA PRZYKŁADZIE DWUDZIESTU ODSŁON MIĘDZYNARODOWEGO FESTIWALU MUZYKI SAKRALNEJ GAUDE MATER W CZĘSTOCHOWIE (1991)2010)

Author(s): Marcin T. Łukaszewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2014

The paper describes the phenomenon of multiculturalism at the International Festival ofSacred Music Gaude Mater in Częstochowa. The festival has been running since 1991. Itincludes a variety of artistic events, most of them sacred music concerts (Gregorian chant, early music, Orthodox, Polish music from all historical periods, and premieres). The festival also promotes the musical culture of Jasna Góra. The special feature of the festival is its multiculturalism involving the presentation of non-Christian sacred music. In the years 1991-2010, the festival featured Jewish, Muslim, Egyptian, and African music. The dialogue between cultures also facilitates connections between high and mass culture. This is accomplished through various combinations of gospel, jazz, pop elements with classical music. In addition, the attempts of dialogue between different cultures furnish a number of non-musical events, such as theatre performance, arts exhibitions, and conferences.

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ПЕРМСКАЯ МОНУМЕНТАЛЬНАЯ РИТОРИКА МЕСТНОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ: ПАМЯТНИКИ, ЭМБЛЕМЫ И АРТ ОБЪЕКТЫ В ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ ГОРОДА

Author(s): V.V. Abashev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2015

The article considers public monuments in a rhetorical perspective – as manifestations of local identity, or statements about the nature and mission of the city. It is demonstrated that there exist two competing monumental rhetorics in the urban environment of Perm. The industrial-military rhetoric unites an extensive group of monuments dating back to the Soviet era and those newly erected. Such monuments inscribe Perm into the heroic discourse of the Soviet epoch. Although the soviet memorial policy used to be universal for the whole state, in Perm it is not lacking for local individuality. Here, in particular, instruments of production and sample armament are displayed in the function of monuments. An alternative to this industrial-military rhetoric could be viewed in that of ‘Perm the Great’ (Perm’ Velikaya). It aggregates monuments appealing to the archaic heritage and ancient history of Perm Krai. This group of monuments suggests an image of Perm as a successor to the ancient culture, a city that made a special contribution to the history of Russian culture. Rhetoric of ‘Perm the Great’ was actively developed in the 2000-s. One of its distinctive features is the motive of Permian animal style. These are employed both in sculpture and in architectural decorum. The article establishes that the urban environment development highlights the multi layered and multidimensional nature of the city identity and its irreducibilty to a common denominator. Likewise, territory images construction, though sometimes acquiring a form of the search for a metaphysical substance of a city, such as Genius Loci, is in fact a ground for struggle and competition of various social, professional and political groups.

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ПЕРВАЯ МИРОВАЯ ВОЙНА В СОВЕТСКОМ ПЕЧАТНОМ ДИСКУРСЕ 1920-1940-х гг.

Author(s): V.A. Kutdusova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2014

The article is about a relevant issue of national identity formation. The author is aiming to trace the mechanisms of national myth creation and construction of historical memory. The author considers it appropriate to research these processes using the memory of World War I as an example. Specifically, the ways in which the war was covered in Soviet press. The empirical material used includes: issues of the Soviet newspapers «Pravda» and its Perm counterpart — newspaper «Zvezda» that were released in the period from 1924 to 1948. The key evidence is the thesis that government discourse was used to affect the memory construction by speech influence on the general public. The author suggests that the Soviet government, which had the the print media production monopoly, formed the identity of Soviet people by giving emotional context to the events and characters of the past. The analysis showed that the Soviet newspapers provided significantly more coverage to the periods of anniversaries of the beginning of WWI than to those of its end. The end of WWI was replaced by the memory of the Great October Revolution and, later, of the civil war. The images of war in different periods are dissimilar to each other, they are constructed by newspaper columnists with consideration of the current situation in order to reflect the reality.

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An examination of Clara Schumann’s musical salons and the research problems that occurred

Author(s): Marlene Priller / Language(s): English Issue: 03 (30)/2016

Clara and Robert Schumann were connected very closely to the culture of the musical salons serving young and ambitious musicians and composers. Clara Schumann’s life is documented very well, but there is only a very small amount of literature dealing with her activities in the musical salon. This paper aims at providing an insight into the different circles Clara as well as her husband organised. The existent and non-existent source material is discussed and, by doing that, the current state of research on this subject is elaborated. Furthermore, this paper endeavours to point out the difficulties of research on this topic. That part is followed by a closer look at the characteristics of the private circles of the Schumanns during their years of marriage and the years after Robert Schumann’s death from 1856 to 1896.

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Czy pianiści to również aktorzy, czyli kilka refleksji nad gestem w muzyce

Author(s): Michał Bruliński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03 (26)/2015

Apart from the functional dimension, the pianist’s gesture, which cannot be compared to linguistic sign, is a medium of various meanings, therefore it plays an important role in the extraverbal process of communication between the pianist and the audience during the piano recital. It is stated that the agreement between pianists, as representatives of airtight world of classical music, and a crowd of aesthetically open-minded people, lies in the sphere of body and gesture. The author outlines some proposals on how to define a musical gesture and how to examine it. It is proved that the gesture is a powerful tool in the pianist's hands and that the arsenal of emotionally-communicative gestures during the piano performance process is enormous. Immensely important in the gestural context is coherence and naturalness. There exists a contradiction between the reflections derived from the modern performance practice and the common knowledge of the majority of piano teachers, caused by numerous 'historical misunderstandings'. A brief study of selected gestural cases (Franz Liszt, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Lang Lang, Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, Waldemar Malicki) was done.

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Od elektronicznej muzyki do elektronicznego obrazu. Exposition of Music – Electronic Television Nam June Paika

Author(s): Maryla Zając / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04 (31)/2016

Nam June Paik (1932–2006) is now considered to be the most influential creator in visual arts. He is said to be the first artist who presented television as a source of artistic experience. However, nowadays many people forget about his musical beginnings. Starting as a musician, he was inspired by, for example, John Cage, whose philosophical way of thinking had a positive impact on Paik’s future experiments with music and objects. Exposition of Music – Electronic Television (1963, Wuppertal) was artist’s symbolic transfer from music to visual arts, presenting prepared pianos together with prepared TV’s. The article presents the exhibition as well as the environment created by Paik, showing the equality, importance and impact of two not so different kinds of art.

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Емоційний інтелект персоналу як основа ефективного розвитку організації

Author(s): Maria Korman / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 24/2013

The objective of the article is a comprehensive research of correlation and interdependence between emotional staff intellect and efficient development of organization, differentiation of criteria for emotionally intellectual organization and its formation. The development of emotional intellect is directly linked to the formation and conditions for the emotional management. The emotional activities, from the viewpoint of emotional management, are directed to optimization of an organization’s emotional atmosphere being a responsibility and a competence of manager. Hence, the staff emotional intellect is essential for emotionally intellectual organization’s formation which is being possible if a number of conditions are available. The main problem here is definition of ways, instruments and methods to form the constituents of such organization.

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A Practical Approach to Ascertaining the Accuracy and Resolution of Post Rendered 3D Models Acquired Originally via 3D Digitization

Author(s): Feng Zhao,Soo Choon Loy / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

3D digitization is becoming the norm in the preservation of tangible cultural properties be it movable or immovable. In the case of mobile cultural objects, 3D models are normally acquired through non-destructive methods such as photogrammetry or 3D scanning using structured light or laser. The continuing improvements in scanning equipment which result in higher accuracy and resolution can be translated to mean higher level of 3D data acquired. At times, the quantity of 3D data of a single model can get too large and beyond what a normal work-station can process. This is where optimization comes in. However, the level of optimization will vary to suit the final purpose or usage of the 3D model. During optimization, the resulting optimized 3D model is bound to suffer from some level of data loss when compared to the original 3D model acquired directly from laser scanning. This paper discusses a practical method devised by Amber Digital Solutions in maintaining a high level of accuracy of the final optimized model for national archival purposes which requires the highest form of quality.

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Ojczyzna i obczyzna: Irlandia, Polska i Inni

Author(s): Declan Kiberd / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

The migrations into the Celtic Tiger (Ireland during its economic boom) seems to have occurred in two phases. The first (ca. 1996 to 2002) saw incomers who were proud of their culture of origin and curious about the Irish tradition. It was followed by a phase of ‘bling’ (2002 to the collapse in 2008) characterized by fast money and little cultural interchange. Society in general seemed more superficial and materialistic, and literature failed to embrace the ‘other’ as prelude to new fusions. This is surprising, given that many Irish classics – from Swift and Edgeworth to Joyce and McGahern – celebrate the encounter with the ‘other’. Fibered argues that Irish myths and experiences might still be reconfigured by incomers, even as their cultural narratives are enriched by their encounter with Ireland. The fusion of the various discursive traditions might lead to new forms in literature and culture, as well as a renewal of consciousness.

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Twórczość Polaków na Wyspach Brytyjskich. Transnarodowy zwrot w polskiej literaturze

Author(s): Joanna Kosmalska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

The article refers to a selection from over 80 books of poetry, prose and drama published since 2004 by Polish authors who have lived (or still live) in the UK and Ireland. Kosmalska focuses on how the ‘new’ aspects of transnationalism (advances in transportation, the breaking down of barriers to the flows of people, development of electronic media, and globalization of economic and social relationships) have influenced writing by Polish migrants. The texts in this corpus were conceived from the clash between the writers’ national context and other, alien contexts, and they illustrate how the driving forces of transnationalism have shaped contemporary Polish literature.

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Some Thoughts on the Development of Comparative Education in Japan: Consumer or Producer?

Author(s): Yutaka Otsuka / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

This study intends to examine the position of fieldwork in comparative studies of education in Japan. For this purpose, the content of articles in the Japan Comparative Education Society’s journal over the past 40 years is analyzed. Then, the implications, significance as well as apprehension surrounding doing fieldwork are discussed. The classification based on a full reading of 625 articles indicates 128 (20.48%) are found to be based on the data and information collected by the researchers themselves with the various techniques in their fields. While studies about Western advanced countries account for a majority, those utilizing fieldwork remain limited at 27. The rest of the fieldwork-based articles concern developing countries. Interestingly, not only has the speed of increase been accelerating, but the quality of the fieldwork seems to have been improving. Investigated countries and areas have been diversifying. Perhaps the most salient phenomenon is that studies centering on advanced Western countries are coming to adopt fieldwork. These recent trends may indicate that comparative education studies in Japan are coming into their own: what was long considered a ‘peripheral’ or ‘consumer’ position in academia is now being replaced with hope for making original and active contributions to the field

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Дидактически измерения на четивната грамотност на учениците от един и същи випуск в Бургаски регион, съотнесена към критериите на PISA

Author(s): Tanya Borisova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The article traces the results of a longitudinal study of the dynamics in the level of reading literacy of students from the same class in Burgas district correlated with the criteria of PISA. A ninth grade class has been tested in the national external assessments and according to the criteria of PISA. State educational requirements and the criteria for reading literacy of PISA have been compared. The aggravation of the reading literacy of the students is objectively observed and the reasons of it are being discussed.

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Characteristics of Interactivity and Using the Interactive Technologies in System North+

Author(s): Galya Georgieva-Tsaneva,Galina Todorova Bogdanova,Negoslav Subev / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

The present study examines the interactivity, categories and levels of interactivity and its various forms in the digital environment. The issue of the characteristics of interactive learning communication has been investigated. The study outlines the specificities of ensuring the integration and interactive representation of cultural heritage artifacts in the North+ region. The problems of people with visual difficulties in accessing interactive systems and digital cultural heritage are being addressed.

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Expanding the Knowledge Base and Development of New Skills of Museum Specialists in Line with the Digital Era

Author(s): Radovesta Stewart,Mariya Monova-Zheleva,Yanislav Zhelev / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

The absence of adequate training is one of the main problems for museum specialists in the process of digitalization of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The first part of the paper presents the main results of a survey related to the topic among the staff of Regional historical museum Burgas. The second half discuss-es the paradigm of Massive open online courses (MOOC) as one innovative and flexible solution for continuing vocational education and training. Presented are the results of a large scale research conducted in the framework of BizMOOC project regarding the usage of MOOCs for corporate training in European organizations including cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, archives etc.

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Отглеждането на застрашени от изчезване местни породи в европеизираща се България: фактори, стратегии, наративи

Author(s): Nacho Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The ecological turn in the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU places strong emphasis on biodiversity and conservation of genetic resources and creates opportunities for subsidized raising of endangered landraces. In Bulgaria, these developments have led to the increase of the number of the certifying breeding associations and the farmers within this particular business niche as well as of the breeds and the total number of the animals of each breed. Recently, growing numbers of actors become interested in the attractive subsidies and further involved in the processes of conservation, recovery, imagination and invention of landraces. However, the subsidies are a scarce resource so the access to them creates competition and conflicts. The actors apply various strategies in order to obtain subsidies; they strive to build a convincing, legitimate narrative about the origin, the authenticity, the risk status and even the cultural value of the animals while at the same time trying to discredit and de-legitimize the breeds of their competitors. As a result, the struggle for access to the subsidies takes the form of a struggle of narratives.

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Традиционни практики и европейски изисквания: превъплъщения на традицията в регионално означени месни специалитети в България

Author(s): Nikolay Vukov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The article is dedicated to the relationships between traditional and modern, local and European – from the viewpoint of the procedures of certifying food products with traditional character or designated geographical origin. On the basis of examples from the production, distribution and promotion of meat products, such as Gornooryahovski sudjuk, Elenski but and Smyadovska lukanka, the article analyzes the role of food in forming notions of local specificity, which is based on the idea of traditional practices and tastes, whilst being in accordance with the European regulations and standards of producing certified traditional products.

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Икономиката среща традицията. Конструиране и употреба на културно наследство в стопански контекст

Author(s): Ivanka Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The global consumption tendency leading to the increase of the share of natural and organic products could be illustrated by the growing internal attitudes and demands in Bulgaria for handmade bread prepared in small bakeries. The owners of such bakeries claim that in the course of their work and through their results they endeavor at filling a particular market niche – for healthy and environment-friendly nutrition. While focusing on the use of raw materials of the highest quality in the production of bread, they also apply cultural techniques to construct the image of bread as cultural value inherited from the past and conceptualize the technologies and ways of production as social actions signifying ‘return to traditions’. Thus the entrepreneurs stage the production and supply of a product with enormous symbol value exceeding its market price or even disproportionate to it and engage themselves in the production of cultural heritage. Of course, parallel to that the cultural valuation of hand-made bread also aims at its economizing. The text presents the narrative strategies of several bakers owning small bakeries in Bulgaria, who represent the process of production of hand-made bread by investing it with the characteristics of cultural heritage. The author analyses these strategies alongside with the examining of the self-representation of the members of Bulgarian Guild of Bakers branch organization during their participation in the Spring Fair of Crafts in Plovdiv between 23 and 26 April 2015.

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Просвещението и културното развитие на Перущица в края на ХIХ-тото и първите години на ХХ-тото столетие

Author(s): Kresa Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5-6/2015

After Bulgaria’s Liberation, Perushtitsa, during the late 19th and early 20th century, endeavours to revive its traditions in the economical and spiritual development, inherited from the Bulgarian Revival Period. The statistical data and the lists of students in the school books of the three schools in Perushtitsa at that time, show the striving of Perushtitsa’s population for education. The Council of Elders, with its insisting on the procurement of textbooks and other school materials, and most of all, the hiring of well-educated teachers, practicing educational techniques contemporary for the time, predetermine the optimal results in the schools and the appearance of the village.

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The First Information Day: Serious Games as Contemporary Tools for New Educational Applications

Author(s): Desislava Paneva-Marinova,Radoslav Pavlov,Detelin Luchev,Malvina Rousseva,Boyan Bontchev / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

In technology-enhanced education, the “serious games” method is accepted as a research, pedagogic, and evaluative tool. The method helps instructors to motivate student learning, curiosity, creative and logical thought, as well as develop a variety of skills and competencies. Serious educational games aim to cultivate better comprehension strategies, creative thinking, learning-by-doing (production, authorship), and students’ engagement in their own cognition and learning processes. The first information day will present the scholarly and scholarly-practical outcomes of the Serious Education Games as Contemporary Tools for New Educational Applications project, Contract DSD-2/05.04.2017, between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, activity Introduction of Contemporary Methods in Educating and Fostering Young Talent (PMC №347).

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„Строителите на съвременна България”: въвеждане извън национализма

Author(s): Ventseslav Sholce / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 01/2017

The aim of this paper is to make an inquiry into the structure of Introduction to Bulgarian author and diplomat Simeon Radev’s book of history Builders of Modern-day Bulgaria (1910). The inquiry conceives a certain problematization of the supposedly self-evident meaning of the text by showing its irreducible ambiguity. The paper tries to propose a new theoretical framework for future analyses on nationalist discourse in Bulgarian context.

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