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The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the
Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and
explanations of creativity as a social construct. While in
collectivist cultures the assimilation (but not the denial) of
individual authorship into the complexities of group production and
benefit has been a feature, the notion of the lone individual
creator has been persistent. Systems theories acknowledge the role
of others, yet at heart these are still individual views of
creativity - focusing on the creative individual drawing upon the
work of others rather than recognizing the mutually constitutive
elements of social interactions across time and space. Focusing on
the domain of music, the approach taken in this book falls into
three sections: investigations of the people, processes, products,
and places of collaborative creativity in compositional thought and
practice; explorations of the ways in which creative collaboration
provides a means of crossing boundaries between disciplines such as
music performance and musicology; and studies of the emergence of
creative thought and practice in educational contexts including
that of the composer and the classroom. The volume concludes with
an extended chapter that reflects on the ways in which the studies
reported advance understandings of creative thought and practice.
The book provides new perspectives to our understandings of the
role of collaborative thought and processes in creative work across
the domain of music including: composition, musicology,
performance, music education and music psychology.
The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the
Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and
explanations of creativity as a social construct. While in
collectivist cultures the assimilation (but not the denial) of
individual authorship into the complexities of group production and
benefit has been a feature, the notion of the lone individual
creator has been persistent. Systems theories acknowledge the role
of others, yet at heart these are still individual views of
creativity - focusing on the creative individual drawing upon the
work of others rather than recognizing the mutually constitutive
elements of social interactions across time and space. Focusing on
the domain of music, the approach taken in this book falls into
three sections: investigations of the people, processes, products,
and places of collaborative creativity in compositional thought and
practice; explorations of the ways in which creative collaboration
provides a means of crossing boundaries between disciplines such as
music performance and musicology; and studies of the emergence of
creative thought and practice in educational contexts including
that of the composer and the classroom. The volume concludes with
an extended chapter that reflects on the ways in which the studies
reported advance understandings of creative thought and practice.
The book provides new perspectives to our understandings of the
role of collaborative thought and processes in creative work across
the domain of music including: composition, musicology,
performance, music education and music psychology.
Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples,
tombs, and elite material and visual culture to households and
domestic life, to provide a crucial new perspective on everyday
dwelling practices and the interactions of families and individuals
with larger social and cultural structures. A focus on households
reveals the power of the everyday: the critical role of quotidian
experiences, objects, and images in creating the worlds of the
people who live with them. The contributors to this book share
contemporary research on houses and households in both Ptolemaic
and Roman Egypt to reshape the ways we think about ancient people's
lived experiences of family, community, and society. Households in
Context places the archaeology and history of Greco-Roman Egypt in
dialogue with research on dwelling, daily practice, and materiality
to reveal how ancient households functioned as laboratories for
social, political, economic, and religious change. Contributors:
Youssri Abdelwahed, Richard Alston, Anna Lucille Boozer, Paola
Davoli, David Frankfurter, Jennifer Gates-Foster, Melanie Godsey,
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Sabine R. Huebner, Gregory Marouard,
Miriam Müller, Lisa Nevett, Bérangère Redon, Bethany Simpson,
Ross I. Thomas, Dorothy J. Thompson
The 37th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 1-5, 1988, at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and
Conference Center, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As usual,
alternating with x-ray diffraction, the emphasis this year was
x-ray fluorescence, but as has been the pattern for several
occasions over the last few years, the Plenary Session did not deal
with that subject, specifically. In an attempt to introduce the
audience to one of the new developments in x-ray analysis, the
title of the session was "High Brilliance Sources/Applications,"
and dealt exclusively with synchrotron radiation, a topic which has
made a very large impact on the x-ray community over the last
decade. As the organizer and co-chairman of the Plenary Session
(with Paul Predecki), it is my responsibility to report on that
session here. The Conference had the privilege of obtaining the
services of some of the preeminent practitioners of research using
this remarkable x-ray source; they presented the audience with
unusually lucid descriptions of the work which has been
accomplished in the development and application of the continuous,
high intensity, tunable, polarized and collimated x-rays available
from no facility other than these specialized storage rings. The
opening lecture (and I use that term intentionally) was an
enthusiastic description of "What is Synchrotron Radiation?" by
Professor Boris Batterman of Cornell University and the Cornell
High Energy Synchrotron Sourc(! (CHESS).
The University of Denver and its staff members deserve much credit
for organizing and operating this Denver X-ray Conference year
after year, for there seems to be no doubt that it and the yolumes
that result from it are filling a need. The interests covered by
the papers at one of these conferences vary from year to year and
as a whole cover a wide spread of topics. This is as it should be.
Old problems that have been with us for many years are being
attacked again with new and more effective tools, new problems are
continually arising, and new methods of great power are being
developed. These developments are occurring in each of the fields
covered, as may readily be seen by a glance at this twelfth volume
and other recent volumes of this series. It seems clear that the
policy of having these conferences and these volumes cover a wide
field rather than a single one such as, for example, structure
determination, or fluorescence analysis, is a policy that meets
with general approval and should be continued. I understand there
is every intention to do so. C. S. Barrett It is customary to
acknowledge in each volume the invited session chairmen of the
three-day meeting. They and the sessions at which they presided
(21-23 August 1968) were as follows: CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND
DIFFRACTION. C. S. Barrett, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois. METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS. B. C. Giessen,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means
to interrogate research questions in music education, offering
music education researchers indispensible information on the use of
qualitative research methods, particularly narrative, as
appropriate and acceptable means of conducting and reporting
research.
This anthology of narrative research work in the fields of music
and education builds on and supports the work presented in the
editors' first volume in "Narrative Inquiry in Music Education:
Troubling Certainty" (Barrett & Stauffer, 2009, Springer). The
first volume provides a context for undertaking narrative inquiry
in music education, as well as exemplars of narrative inquiry in
music education and commentary from key international voices in the
fields of narrative inquiry and music education respectively.
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The 35th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 4-8, 1986, on the campus of the University of
Denver. Since the previous year's conference had emphasized x-ray
diffraction, this year the Plenary Session spotlighted x-ray
fluorescence, with the title "Trends in XRF: A World Perspective,"
featuring renowned speakers from three major areas. XRF IN NORTH
AMERICA, by Prof. D. E. Leydon, from Colorado State University,
dealt specifically with developments in the fields of
instrumentation, data treatment and applications in that part of
the world. Prof. H. Ebel, from the Technical University of Vienna,
discussed XRF IN EUROPE, concentrating on subjects including total
reflection, improved fundamental parameters, quantitation without
standards and imaging techniques. Tomoya Arai, of the Rigaku
Industrial Corporation in Japan, in considering XRF IN THE FAR
EAST, described the scientific activity in XRF and the applications
thereof, primarily in Japan and China. These plenary lectures were
interspersed with short discussions of PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS on the
subject by the co-chairmen of the SeSSion, Ron Jenkins and myself.
The intent of this session was to bring the audience up-to-date on
the status of the field in various parts of the world, and to give
some feeling concerning where it is likely to go in the immediate
future. Hopefully, the publication of the written versions of those
presentations in this volume will make the authors' thoughts
available to many who could not be present at the conference.
The 33rd Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held July 30-August 3. 1984. on the campus of the University of
Denver. Following the recent tradition of alternating plenary
lecture topics between X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence at
the confer ence. the plenary sessions dealt with topics of X-ray
fluorescence. Prof. H. Aiginger presented a plenary lect re on
TOTAL REFLECTANCE X-RAY SPECTROMETRY which admirably described this
relatively new technique. J. C. Russ discussed XRF AND OTHER
SURFACE ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES which gave an excellent overview of
the role XRF plays in a modern analytical laboratory. J. E.
Taggart. Jr. described THE ROLE OF XRF IN A MODERN GEOCHEMICAL
LABORATORY and presented many case histories of the configura tion
of analytical equipment in several geochemical laboratories. The
plenary lectures demonstrated both the dynamic nature of research
in X-ray fluorescence. and the important role X-ray spectrom etry
plays in the arsenal of analytical methods found in modern labora
tories. Total reflectance X-ray spectrometry takes advantage of con
sideration of the geometry of the X-ray optics. Potentially. new
sample types may be considered as X-ray fluorescence specimens
using this technique."
The continuing success of the Denver X-Ray Conference is, it seems
to me, the consequence of three equally important facets of each
meeting. These are: 1) the collegial atmosphere and workshops at
which experts and novices mix, talk, and informally share
information at many levels; 2) the plenary session at which
information is presented that intentionally brings new ideas to
attendees to broaden the scope of the field; and 3) the traditional
sessions in which interesting reports on current research and
applications are presented in a timely and professional way. The
first and last of these are discussed separately by Paul Predecki
and are organized (no small task ) by the entire advisory board.
This requires much more than deciding whether yet another workshop
on specimen preparation is needed and whom to prevail upon to
organize and present it. In fact, few attendees at these workshops
ever appreciate the level of effort that Paul and his staff expend
to make sure everything comes off smoothly, even when hundreds of
copies of handouts need to be whipped off at the last moment,
travel problems arise, or unusual audio visual aids are suddenly
needed. But my topic here is the second of the three facets listed
above - the plenary session. Organizing this falls to a single
individual, on the theory that one person can then approach enough
others as speakers to put together a unified and yet diverse
program of related and interesting review papers."
Margaret S. Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer We live in a "congenial
moment for stories" (Pinnegar & Daynes, 2007, p. 30), a time in
which narrative has taken up a place in the "landscape" of inquiry
in the social sciences. This renewed interest in storying and
stories as both process and product (as eld text and research text)
of inquiry may be attributed to various methodological and
conceptual "turns," including the linguistic and cultural, that
have taken place in the humanities and social sciences over the
past decades. The purpose of this book is to explore the "narrative
turn" in music education, to - amine the uses of narrative inquiry
for music education, and to cultivate ground for narrative inquiry
to seed and ourish alongside other methodological approaches in
music education. In a discipline whose early research strength was
founded on an alignment with thesocialsciences,
particularlythepsychometrictradition, oneofthekeychallenges for
those embarking on narrative inquiry in music education is to
ensure that its use is more than that of a "musical ornament," an
elaboration on the established themes of psychometric inquiry,
those of measurement and certainty. We suggest that narrative
inquiry is more than a "turn" (as noun), "a melodic embellishment
that is played around a given note" (Encarta World English
Dictionary, 2007, n. p. ); it is more than elaborationon a
position, the adding of extra notes to make a melody more beautiful
or interesting.
Margaret S. Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer We live in a "congenial
moment for stories" (Pinnegar & Daynes, 2007, p. 30), a time in
which narrative has taken up a place in the "landscape" of inquiry
in the social sciences. This renewed interest in storying and
stories as both process and product (as eld text and research text)
of inquiry may be attributed to various methodological and
conceptual "turns," including the linguistic and cultural, that
have taken place in the humanities and social sciences over the
past decades. The purpose of this book is to explore the "narrative
turn" in music education, to - amine the uses of narrative inquiry
for music education, and to cultivate ground for narrative inquiry
to seed and ourish alongside other methodological approaches in
music education. In a discipline whose early research strength was
founded on an alignment with thesocialsciences,
particularlythepsychometrictradition, oneofthekeychallenges for
those embarking on narrative inquiry in music education is to
ensure that its use is more than that of a "musical ornament," an
elaboration on the established themes of psychometric inquiry,
those of measurement and certainty. We suggest that narrative
inquiry is more than a "turn" (as noun), "a melodic embellishment
that is played around a given note" (Encarta World English
Dictionary, 2007, n. p. ); it is more than elaborationon a
position, the adding of extra notes to make a melody more beautiful
or interesting.
The 37th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 1-5, 1988, at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and
Conference Center, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As usual,
alternating with x-ray diffraction, the emphasis this year was
x-ray fluorescence, but as has been the pattern for several
occasions over the last few years, the Plenary Session did not deal
with that subject, specifically. In an attempt to introduce the
audience to one of the new developments in x-ray analysis, the
title of the session was "High Brilliance Sources/Applications,"
and dealt exclusively with synchrotron radiation, a topic which has
made a very large impact on the x-ray community over the last
decade. As the organizer and co-chairman of the Plenary Session
(with Paul Predecki), it is my responsibility to report on that
session here. The Conference had the privilege of obtaining the
services of some of the preeminent practitioners of research using
this remarkable x-ray source; they presented the audience with
unusually lucid descriptions of the work which has been
accomplished in the development and application of the continuous,
high intensity, tunable, polarized and collimated x-rays available
from no facility other than these specialized storage rings. The
opening lecture (and I use that term intentionally) was an
enthusiastic description of "What is Synchrotron Radiation?" by
Professor Boris Batterman of Cornell University and the Cornell
High Energy Synchrotron Sourc(! (CHESS).
The 37th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis
was held August 1-5, 1988, at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and
Conference Center, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As usual,
alternating with x-ray diffraction, the emphasis this year was
x-ray fluorescence, but as has been the pattern for several
occasions over the last few years, the Plenary Session did not deal
with that subject, specifically. In an attempt to introduce the
audience to one of the new developments in x-ray analysis, the
title of the session was "High Brilliance Sources/Applications,"
and dealt exclusively with synchrotron radiation, a topic which has
made a very large impact on the x-ray community over the last
decade. As the organizer and co-chairman of the Plenary Session
(with Paul Predecki), it is my responsibility to report on that
session here. The Conference had the privilege of obtaining the
services of some of the preeminent practitioners of research using
this remarkable x-ray source; they presented the audience with
unusually lucid descriptions of the work which has been
accomplished in the development and application of the continuous,
high intensity, tunable, polarized and collimated x-rays available
from no facility other than these specialized storage rings. The
opening lecture (and I use that term intentionally) was an
enthusiastic description of "What is Synchrotron Radiation?" by
Professor Boris Batterman of Cornell University and the Cornell
High Energy Synchrotron Sourc(! (CHESS).
Psychedelic therapies are gaining traction as potential treatments
for a wide range of indications, but the structure and delivery of
psychedelic therapies are a sharp departure from more traditional
models of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for psychiatric and
other medical disorders. This may be critical to their success. The
current volume provides a comprehensive review of the state of the
science of psychedelic therapies, including discussion of models
and approaches to psychedelic therapies as well as the current
status of safety and efficacy data for mood, substance use, trauma,
obsessive-compulsive, neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative
disorders, neurological, and inflammatory disorders.
For the first time in a thousand years, Americans are experiencing
a reversal in lifespan. Despite living in one of the safest and
most secure eras in human history, one in five adults suffers from
anxiety as does one-third of adolescents. Nearly half of the US
population is overweight or obese and one-third of Americans suffer
from chronic pain - the highest level in the world. In the United
States, fatalities due to prescription pain medications now surpass
those of heroin and cocaine combined, and each year 10% of all
students on American college campuses contemplate suicide. With the
proliferation of social media and the algorithms for social sharing
that prey upon our emotional brains, inaccurate or misleading
health articles and videos now move faster through social media
networks than do reputable ones. This book is about modern health -
or lack of it. The authors make two key arguments: that our
deteriorating wellness is rapidly becoming a health emergency, and
two, that much of these trends are rooted in the way our highly
evolved hardwired brains and bodies deal with modern social change.
The co-authors: a PhD from the world of social science and an MD
from the world of medicine - combine forces to bring this emerging
human crisis to light. Densely packed with fascinating facts and
little-told stories, the authors weave together real-life cases
that describe how our ancient evolutionary drives are propelling us
toward ill health and disease. Over the course of seven chapters,
the authors unlock the mysteries of our top health vices: why
hospitals are more dangerous than warzones, our addiction to sugar,
salt, and stress, our emotionally-driven brains, our relentless
pursuit of happiness, our sleepless society, our understanding of
risk, and finally, how world history can be a valuable tutor.
Through these varied themes, the authors illustrate how our social
lives are more of a determinant of health outcome than at any other
time in our history, and to truly understand our plight, we need to
recognize when our decisions and behavior are being directed by our
survival-seeking hardwired brains and bodies.
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