Thesis (M. S.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1997. / Bibliography: leaves 165-174.

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This thesis explores connections between British amateur singers and black South African choral music that, over the past fifty years, have grown in strength and significance. By concentrating on a set of representative case studies, it investigates how and why this music is learned, performed and rehearsed within a variety of choirs and ensembles of different styles and experiences. In addition, the thesis focuses on certain songs that have become popular within specific choral contexts, and discusses the reasoning behind their enthusiastic reception and attractive power. My approach is ethnographical, and the material I present is taken from my own participant-observations of choir rehearsals, workshops and performances, as well as from interviews I conducted with choir members and leaders. On a theoretical level, this thesis engages critically with ethnomusicological and anthropological debates surrounding cultural appropriation. Particularly pertinent to each chapter are discussions concerning authenticity, cultural authority and power relations, and I explore the politics and logistics that are associated with British singers’ encounters with black South African choral music. By discussing critically these different levels of encounter and engagement, I offer some new and intriguing standpoints from which to consider existing debates surrounding cultural appropriation and, in so doing, suggest approaches for theorising cross-cultural encounters through a more nuanced postcolonial lens.

Memoria para optar al título de Periodista / Curicó es una ciudad que cuenta con la particularidad de haber sido representada por cuatro clubes en el fútbol profesional chileno: Club de Deportes Alianza (1954-1960), Club Deportivo Luis Cruz Martínez (1962-1966), Bádminton (1970-1972) y Curicó Unido (desde 1973 hasta la actualidad). Una demostración de lo que el fútbol representa para la zona, así como también de una historia cargada de intentos por consolidar a una institución deportiva representativa de la ciudad.

Seminario para optar al grado de Ingeniero Comercial, Mención Administración / Este seminario de título es el producto de un trabajo conjunto de dos alumnos de la carrera de Ingeniería Comercial, cuyo objetivo ha sido la búsqueda de oportunidades de negocios en la Industria del Fútbol Amateur. El seminario se ha dividido en dos tomos. El TOMO I corresponde al análisis inicial donde se realiza un mapeo y análisis detallado de la industria del fútbol amateur. El TOMO II busca conocer y profundizar las tendencias del mercado y encontrar alguna oportunidad de negocios a desarrollar en la industria. El presente informe, que corresponde al Tomo II, ha encontrando como principal tendencia la digitalización de procesos en distintos tipos de Industria, en especial para la Industria del Fútbol Amateur se destaca poder darle uso en la Búsqueda y Reserva de Canchas, para lo que se presenta un modelo CANVAS para el negocios de Pidelacancha

La colonie de Passy est constituée d’hommes et de femmes issus du même cercle familial qui ont pratiqué la photographie, seuls ou de façon collective, depuis le début des années 1840 jusqu’au début des années 1860 : Léon de Laborde, Valentine de Laborde, Benjamin Delessert, Cécile Delessert, Edouard Delessert, Edouard Bocher… Au moins six praticiens amateurs, sans compter les modèles, sont identifiés au sein d’un cercle qui appartient à l’aristocratie ou à la haute bourgeoisie éclairée. Leur production, demeurée dans sa plus grande partie inédite jusqu’à notre découverte, révèle une pratique précoce du portrait. La liberté de pose affichée par les modèles ranche avec les premiers portraits, pour le moins figés, que l’on connaissait jusqu’ici. L’étude de cette production familiale incite même à réécrire l’histoire du portrait photographique, et à réévaluer la notion de « portrait intime » dont Félix Nadar passe pour être l’inventeur. Le cercle de Passy doit son nom à la commune située alors en périphérie de Paris où ses membres habitaient, sur les hauteurs de la Seine. Ce cercle joue également un rôle central – et méconnu – dans la promotion de la photographie juste après son invention : commandes publiques, créations de sociétés, projets de diffusion des oeuvres d’art, participations à des jurys, etc. L’étude des images et des archives familiales, toutes inédites, montre enfin que les traits d’une pratique amateur, telle que nous l’envisageons aujourd'hui – recherches ludiques, expériences et inventions, échanges d'images, constitution d’albums qui tiennent la chronique familiale – sont déjà en place au lendemain de l'invention de la photographie. / The Passy Circle consisted of men and women photographers from the same family circle who worked alone or collectively from the early 1840s to the early 1860s: Léon de Laborde, Valentine de Laborde, Benjamin Delessert, Cécile Delessert, Edouard Delessert, and Edouard Bocher…. No fewer than six photographers, plus models, can be identified in this group of upper-middle class, wealthy bourgeoisie. Their oeuvre, unknown until this current research, reveals some of the earliest existing works in portrait photography. The free, casual nature of the poses contrasts sharply with previously known portraits of the period, which were much more stiff. Knowledge of this family-based production may lead historians to rewrite the history of portrait photography, as well as to reassess the notion of the “intimate portrait,” thought to be an invention of Felix Nadar. The Passy Circle, which owes its name to the city where its members lived along the Seine (Passy was then situated on the Paris outskirts), also played a central but previously undiscovered role in promoting photography: public commissions, society foundations, projects for distributing artworks, jury participation, etc. Finally, their images and family archives, which have never before been investigated, reveal that the characteristics of amateur photography, as it is currently perceived, were already in place soon after photography’s invention: its members regularly exchanged photographs, created albums chronicling family history, and in their practice were daring, playful, experimental and inventive.

The thesis presents a project on the systematic development of possibilities of enhancing activities of amateur music bands in the Pardubice region. The goal is to investigate the situation of young bands with the regional scope of activities and based on the findings establish a project that would be able to support them in necessary areas. At the same time there is a goal to set project operation parameters so that the project would be economically stable. The thesis also surveys the possibilities of external financial support and proposes a strategy on the ways of obtaining these funds. The questionnaire survey which focuses on the project potential addresses concrete bands

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This study critically examines the political, social and institutional settings in which archaeology was introduced in Namibia. I re-examine the idea of archaeology as a scientific and objective discipline that could be practiced without input from the knowledge systems of local communities. Archaeology developed alongside colonialism in Africa. Archaeology became an apparatus for knowing about the strategic resources that could be found in Namibia. Through the processes of recording sites and artefacts archaeology provided information that was useful to the colonial administration.

Photogrammetric software today is at a level where it is accessible to the mainstream public and without larger effort is able to reconstruct digital 3D models from photographic input.  This thesis investigates the performance of photogrammetricly reconstructed models and evaluates them by comparing the results to their corresponding reconstructed models from a 3D laser scanner with a focus on smaller objects in an amateur environment. The evaluation is performed on four different objects, which are all individually compared to their scanned counterpart. They are compared both with a subjective judgment of quality and by numerically measuring the point-to-point distance on the models. From the results conclusions are drawn that the methods can produce similar results albeit there are many performance factors discovered for a good reconstructions with photogrammetry. The properties of the physical object and the quality of the visual input data stand out as the most important factors.

The Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) is an amateur radio packet network that has evolved over the last several decades in tandem with, and then arguably beyond, the lifetime of other VHF/UHF amateur packet networks, to the point where it is one of very few packet networks left on the amateur VHF/UHF bands. This is proving to be problematic due to the loss of institutional knowledge as older amateur radio operators who designed and built APRS and other AX.25-based packet networks abandon the hobby or pass away. The purpose of this document is to collect and curate a sufficient body of knowledge to ensure the continued usefulness of the APRS network, and re-examining the engineering decisions made during the network’s evolution to look for possible improvements and identify deficiencies in documentation of the existing network.