has been essential in understanding the art of this time which has sparked us to create this years exhibit. We find it vital to the art community as well as the common museumgoer that this information be displayed. We find this collection to be important to our gallery because the impressionist style was that of emotion, radicality, and at the time, derogatory content. We feel that the harsh backlash of the mainstream consensus to the style makes it far more important in how art was to be considered and
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Thompson, L. (2001). Japanese sports: A history. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Guttmann gives an all-inclusive survey of Japanese Sports in general. He talks about how fascinating Sumo is and is attentive to the complex interaction of traditional and modern elements. He goes further to explain why he is cynic about the use of the samurai tradition to explain Japan’s success in sports. Nihon Sumō Kyōkai. (1986). Sumo. Japan: Nihon-Sumo-Kyokai Nihon explains in details how important Sumo
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with producer Benny Blanco (Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry) and members of the non-profit arts organisation OMG Everywhere to create new charity single 'Power in Me'. Together they managed to write and record a brand new song in a single day without the use of traditional instruments. The project is to raise awareness of OMG Everywhere, an American charity that hosts free art workshops for children.”(Corner,Lewis). Through the art workshops for the children, children in Florida were able to relieve stress
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assistance and voice to her Chicano/a community, that has been deprived of representation in institutional histories, and the right to make its own documented histories. Therefore, by centering Chicano/a cultural, familial, and spiritual practices in her art, Mesa-Bains remakes a new history of the feminine position. Particularly, she is recording a history of the Chicana woman. Overall, this view unites the authenticity of the worries and fruits of the bicultural reality that Chicanos occupy, neither fully
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Katherine Dunham was influential because she chose to break away from what was traditional in America to explore and share the culture of other countries. She began doing so in college, when she was working on research as she was studying anthropology. Dunham always tried to find ways of connecting dance to what she was studying because dance was her passion. She traveled to third world countries such as Haiti, Martinique, Africa, Cuba, and she toured many other places as well with her dance company
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This category of industries mainly uses traditional skills and is related with tradition, art and I culture. These industries utilize specific skills and locally available raw materials. Examples of cottage industries include units producing agriculture and forest-based goods, nurseries, and tree farms, value-added wood products (carvings and furniture). Cottage industries also include small-scale production of textiles, hand woven carpets, handicrafts (wood and metal), alcohol, household appliances
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of understanding, allowing for performers to explore non-traditional notions of gender and sexuality. Research indicates that both gender and theatre are both socially constructed, performative acts. This study aims at investigating how certain performers interpret these contradictory aspects of theatre and the interplay between theater and gender performance. More specifically, as a researcher I am interested in how students at liberal arts
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Strategy and non-technological innovation Assignment for part-time MBA Competitive Strategies, week 6 October 4, 2012 This paper describes the consequences of a non-technical innovation for the strategy of a firm that operates in cultural industry. The example chosen is that of the company Stage Entertainment. In the first part of this paper we will provide a brief history of Stage Entertainment, single out two non-technological innovations and discuss how these innovations have affected
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strumming across guitar strings. Although music can be defined as the art or science of combining instrumental, vocal or both instrumental and vocal sounds together to produce beauty and harmony, many pieces of music are neither beautiful nor harmonious. The lack of harmony has been described as a rebellion against traditional European musical values. Ambient music, a term coined by Brian Eno in the mid-1970s, refers to non-traditional music that can be listened to or ignored. Used as soundtracks for
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