UKRAINIAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN GLOBALISATION AND NATIONAL REVIVAL

Globalisation and the coordinating of work in multi-national audits

I should also declare my hand about two other matters that are pertinent to the following discussion. One is that I am only vaguely familiar with Giddens’ (1989; 1991) work, which the authors draw upon as their theoretical framework (more on this later). The other is that, although eclectic in research approach, I do tend towards positivism. Sacrilege, I know, to the type of esteemed colleague ...

SOVIET APPROACHES TO FOLK MUSIC PERFORMANCE : Revival or Appropriation ?

Developing National Open Access Policies: Ukrainian Case Study

Since January 2007 Ukraine has a law mandating open access to publicly funded researches. It was widely supported by most of the Parliament members. And it is already the second parliamentary inquiry mandating the Cabinet of Ministers to take actions on creating favourable conditions for developing open access repositories in archives, libraries, museums, scientific and research institutions wi...

Rhythmic Processes in Electronic Music

Electronic technology has liberated musical time and changed musical aesthetics. In the past, musical time was considered as a linear medium that was subdivided according to ratios and intervals of a more-or-less steady meter. However, the possibilities of envelope control and the creation of liquid or cloud-like sound morphologies suggests a view of rhythm not as a fixed set of intervals on a ...

Cultural Alternatives, Youth and Grassroots Resistance in Socialist Hungary – the Folk Dance and Music Revival

The paper aims to look at those community-organizing phenomena that provided alternatives to officially supported, mandatory youth activities and played a vital role in the everyday life of young people in socialist Hungary in the 1970s and 80s. The urban folk dance and music revival, the so-called táncház (dance house) movement, is highlighted. The authors argue that the dance house as a subcu...