Pencak Silat is widely known as the martial art originating from the IndoMalayan Archipelago. It is a generic name for an enormous variety of homegrown styles of self-defence, performance art and cultural knowledge. As a product of internationalization, organisations such as the IPSI and PERSILAT have tried to collate and unify Pencak Silat from across the archipelago for a more marketable syst...

Unlike in the constitutions of other African countries such as Botswana and Lesotho, where relationship between High Court courts martial is stipulated, Ugandan Constitution 1995 (the Constitution) does not deal with this relationship. The also silent on question whether have jurisdiction over civilians. Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces Act UPDF Act) creates different types varying jurisdictions ...

play is an ancient literary form in the history of human art which has undergone different developments. different ears during which this human art has developed could be classified as: greek, roman, middle ages, classic era, romantic era and realism era. play appeared with preliminary dances and music in religious ceremonies and has developed into modern plays and movies after all the mentione...

In Western music, the major mode is typically used to convey excited, happy, bright or martial emotions, whereas the minor mode typically conveys subdued, sad or dark emotions. Recent studies indicate that the differences between these modes parallel differences between the prosodic and spectral characteristics of voiced speech sounds uttered in corresponding emotional states. Here we ask wheth...

African societies have always used traditional music and dance to celebrate events, interface, connect with divinity, especially during communal ceremonies. The central thesis of this paper is that are transforming agents by Xhosa healers ceremonies gain insights into the nature a society’s experiences supernatural beings. This study, therefore, investigates functional role healer’s ceremonies,...

adi - ben - zaid al- ebadi is one of the well-known poets in jaheli age who lived in court of sasanied kings and heerem's kings who were appointed and backed up by them. as such his life was away from tribal war and bedouin life. he had a good command of both arabic and persian languages. this poet was court scribe and ambassador of anoshirvan to seizer and his poetry was different from ot...

one of the cultural elements which effects of our life is music. music as a social-cultural phenomenon reflects feelings, habits, tastes, desires and in general cultural system of a particular ethnic group or nation. folkloric music has an important role in ethnic life. it makes happiness and sad for its people. from this point of view, folk music in our country with its unique local traditions...