Malay folk genre pantun: traditions and modernity

String Methods for Folk Tune Genre Classification

In folk song research, string methods have been widely used to retrieve highly similar tunes or to perform tune family classification. In this study, we investigate how various string methods perform on a fundamentally different classification task, which is to classify folk tunes into genres, the genres being the dance types of the tunes. A new data set Dance-9 is therefore introduced. The dif...

Bundeli Folk-Song Genre Classification with kNN and SVM

While large data dependent techniques have made advances in between-genre classification, the identification of subtypes within a genre has largely been overlooked. In this paper, we approach automatic classification of within-genre Bundeli folk music into its subgenres; Gaari, Rai and Phag. Bundeli, which is a dominant dialect spoken in a large belt of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh has a ri...

Vitality and Modernity: Defining the “Folk” in Early Twentieth Century China

As usual, the 2005 Chinese Rooster New Year celebrations in Beijing highlighted the annual Earth Temple Fair (Ditan Miaohui) as an indispensable attraction. In recent years, this entertaining space featuring red lanterns, lion dances, and revived folk performances has been widely and officially advocated as an occasion and place to appreciate “national culture (minzu wenhua)” and to experience ...

Medicinal plants and food medicines in the folk traditions of the upper Lucca Province, Italy.

An ethnopharmacobotanical survey of the medicinal plants and food medicines of the northern part of Lucca Province, north-west Tuscany, central Italy, was carried out. The geographical isolation of this area has permitted the survival of a rich folk phytotherapy involving medicinal herbs and also vegetable resources used by locals as food medicine. Among these are the uncommon use of Ballota ni...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity