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The Healing Power of Aesthetics in Music and Art
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 5, September 2021
Pages:
212-217
Received:
25 August 2021
Accepted:
17 September 2021
Published:
27 September 2021
Abstract: In this article, the author follows diverse aesthetic, therapeutic and educational facets of musical reception and production. From the levels of meaning of the aesthetic in art, music and music therapy, she draws a bridge to the analogy between the love of music and friendship. In music, art and friendship we can never say everything about them, there is always more to say that can be expressed in words. Because of their individual meaning for us they transcend the boundaries of our knowledge. The love of beauty and friendship opens up listening and musical activity as a physical performance in the devotion to music, in which reflection, experience and action are united. This bodily-aesthetic potential of music can support healing and identity finding in music therapy. Therapeutic work with the medium of music offers sound spaces and resonating spaces that can be experienced by the compulsion of the body and enables one to find one's own aesthetic meaning patterns. It is a matter of finding oneself in music and art with all our senses and to enter into a dialogue through resonance to our own world that we finally can answer the question: Who am I? How do I want to live? How do I want to be?
Abstract: In this article, the author follows diverse aesthetic, therapeutic and educational facets of musical reception and production. From the levels of meaning of the aesthetic in art, music and music therapy, she draws a bridge to the analogy between the love of music and friendship. In music, art and friendship we can never say everything about them, t...
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Voices from the Hearth: An Afro-Feminist Reading of Accad’s Wounding Words
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 5, September 2021
Pages:
218-224
Received:
18 July 2021
Accepted:
18 August 2021
Published:
30 September 2021
Abstract: This paper explores traces of African rooted feminisms in Evelyne Accad’s Wounding Words. Accad’s work explores the definition and boundaries of Lebanese/Arabic feminism. Accad’s Wounding Words is critically examined to assess how the central female characters exhibit and portray African centered feminist ideologies. This study holds the assertion that the particular literary tradition portrayed in Wounding Words seems to be patterned after has the feminist struggle in Africa. The study reveals that Arabic feminism appears to mirror African feminism closely. In the strive to dominate the feminist discourse and channel it to focus on their socio-cultural realities, Accad, just like African feminists, has practically theorized concepts which are inherent in Nego-Feminism, Snail Sense Feminism and Womanism among others. All these feminist theories are anchored on negotiation and complementarity as the primary tools of engagement in the fight for gender equality and equity. Finally, the study reveals the universality of female modes of suppression. It also highlights the institutionalized nature of the feminist struggle as well as the adopted stratagems to dismantle oppression.
Abstract: This paper explores traces of African rooted feminisms in Evelyne Accad’s Wounding Words. Accad’s work explores the definition and boundaries of Lebanese/Arabic feminism. Accad’s Wounding Words is critically examined to assess how the central female characters exhibit and portray African centered feminist ideologies. This study holds the assertion ...
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Autobiography and Scriptotherapy in Oluremi Obasanjo’s Bitter-Sweet and Funso Adegbola’s He Gave Me Wings
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 5, September 2021
Pages:
225-233
Received:
27 May 2021
Accepted:
11 August 2021
Published:
5 October 2021
Abstract: This study investigates how autobiographical narratives enhance wellness, and it pays a specific focus on Oluremi Obasanjo’s Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo and Funso Adegbola’s He gave Me Wings: Me and My Dad. The writers are two prominent Nigerian women. Both of them wrote about how a man’s influence significantly shaped their lives. While Oluremi Obasanjo presents her husband as a villain that almost maimed her, Funso Adegbola presents her dad as a hero that made her. Oluremi reveals how the syntax of her existence was only punctuated with momentary joys before her divorce, Funso unveils how her dad gave her wings to fly high above the common storms and limits of young women in a third world country. The study identifies the literary merits of the autobiographical narratives; it highlights the points of convergences and divergences between the two narratives understudied, as well as the inherent mental health benefits to the writers. The process of autobiographical writing is depicted as providing therapeutic authentication for the writers’ grieves. Both authors gained audibility and visibility through the instrumentality of writing. The process of writing these autobiographies became a resilience building device for their authors as they were able to negotiate their traumatic experiences by expressing themselves through writing. While Oluremi creates a positive public image for herself against the domineering political stature of Obasanjo in Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo, Funso re-enacts positive memories of her late father through writing to ‘re-member’ him to their community from which death exited him in He Gave Me Wings: Me and my Dad.
Abstract: This study investigates how autobiographical narratives enhance wellness, and it pays a specific focus on Oluremi Obasanjo’s Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo and Funso Adegbola’s He gave Me Wings: Me and My Dad. The writers are two prominent Nigerian women. Both of them wrote about how a man’s influence significantly shaped their lives. While Ol...
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The Translation and Interpretation of Tujia Love Songs “Adieu: A Tujia Love Duet” and “Visiting Sweetheart Solo” in Enshi
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 5, September 2021
Pages:
234-241
Received:
13 September 2021
Accepted:
29 September 2021
Published:
12 October 2021
Abstract: Tujia Love songs, as a means of expressing love, are one of the important parts of the folk songs in Enshi, Hubei Province. The love songs are the exposure of Tujia’s history, life, beliefs and values, as well as the reflection of their specific needs, national psychology, national survival relationship and life concept. It reflects the national emotion and personality characteristics. The research on it is of great value for the development of national culture and intercultural communication. This article focuses on the translation and interpretation of two representative love songs, “Adieu: A Tujia Love Duet” and “Visiting Sweetheart Solo” to interpret the typical artistic characteristics and cultural images and promote communication and understanding across cultures. By using case-studying method, these two love songs are used as models to dig out the characteristics of Tujia love tradition and Tujia love songs in common. While in translating these songs, cultural images, metaphors, terms of addresses and lining words are the most important parts which need to be closely studied, lingered on and treated with. Thus the artistic conception, dialect characteristics and cultural context can be disclosed through the process of translation, with the goal of readability and reader acceptability being realized as well as the combination of information and cultural atmosphere being reconstructed. In a word, the unique language artistic characteristics by using lining words is the result of dialect characteristics; rich and diverse rhetorical devices are the common means to make folk songs more vivid, humorous and interesting; different performance methods are adopted to perform diverse and wonderful folk songs; while the culture images and the terms of address have made rich cultural connotation. The love songs are the window of displaying the beautiful soul of Tujia people and also the accumulation of Tujia history and culture. Their pursuit of free love “with songs as the match-maker” is in line with the contemporary concept of freedom in marriage and love.
Abstract: Tujia Love songs, as a means of expressing love, are one of the important parts of the folk songs in Enshi, Hubei Province. The love songs are the exposure of Tujia’s history, life, beliefs and values, as well as the reflection of their specific needs, national psychology, national survival relationship and life concept. It reflects the national em...
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A Study on Chinese Export Porcelain’s Religious Culture in Ming and Qing Dynasty
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 5, September 2021
Pages:
242-250
Received:
18 September 2021
Accepted:
12 October 2021
Published:
19 October 2021
Abstract: Chinese export porcelain was a great wonder in the long history of the world. During Ming and Qing dynasty, it was exported in large quantity beyond China, which led to a taste for Chinese designs and made different cultures encountered, exchanged and integrated. At the same time, Chinese export porcelain actively influenced passively recipient foreign consumers, which made the world civilization be promoted. The utensils are used to convey Daoism. While spreading Chinese culture, Chinese export porcelain carried the world's religious culture such as Christian culture, Islamic culture, Buddhist culture and Chinese local Taoist culture, bursting with colorful light. By collecting a large number of images of the Chinese export porcelain in religious culture during Ming and Qing dynasty, this article uses historical research method and the method of anthropology to make a specific and comprehensive analysis of the religious culture on exported porcelain so as to reappear the splendid global history. This article also elaborated on the design semantics, acceptance, and innovative development of religious culture on exported porcelains during the Ming and Qing Dynasties under the environment of the source language and target languages in China and beyond China. This article also analyzes the transportation routes and specific loading methods of porcelains during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which better reflects the movement of Chinese Ceramics and its appropriation in world history. The methods of iconology are used in this article and the narrative stories on porcelains are analyzed. Chinese exported porcelain is functional and its spiritual enlightenment is appreciated by human-beings. The world civilization, human-being’s wisdom, spiritual connotation, communication integration and mutual development of all the world’s nations are witnessed by Chinese export porcelains in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Abstract: Chinese export porcelain was a great wonder in the long history of the world. During Ming and Qing dynasty, it was exported in large quantity beyond China, which led to a taste for Chinese designs and made different cultures encountered, exchanged and integrated. At the same time, Chinese export porcelain actively influenced passively recipient for...
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