Firstly, while the Yao people inhabit in wide geographic regions stretching across Southern China and South East Asia, even overseas, the Paiyao, a branch of the Yao who inhabits only in the Liannan district of the Guangdong province, is unique not only in their geographical inhabitancy but also cultural characteristics. / Secondly, while Yao people's Getang ritual is a wide spread ritual practice with local variations, there has not been any in-depth study on the Getang ritual of the Paiyao people. / The significance of this study are Three-fold. / The thesis aims to study the soundscape of Paiyao ethnic nationality's "Getang Ritual" in Guangdong Province. / Thirdly, with a musicological concern, this thesis approaches its subject from the perspective of "soundscape of the ritual enactment", (Tsao Penyeh 2006: 81) and aspires to reach an understanding of the wider meaning of the Getang ritual among the Paiyao people and their society. / This study consists of the following three processes: (1) Fieldwork to investigate and compile ethnographic texts from both the researcher's observation and insiders' oral narrations and relating to actions in the makings of the ritual soundscape. (2) Analysis of the ritual "sounds", in terms of themselves and their extra-musical factors. (3) Interpretation of the meaning of ritual sounds and their soundscape of Paiyao's Getang ritual within the framework of the belief system that consists of a trinity of sounds and soundscape, ritual enactment and belief. / This thesis has seven chapters, with its theoretical and methodological reverences indebted to ritual studies by Tsao Penyeh (his research of ritual and ritual soundscape of China's belief systems) and Clifford Geertz (his many writings on anthropological theory and methodology, as well as his study of "reinterpretation to other's interpretation"). / 周凱模. / Adviser: Pen-Yeh (Poon-Yee) Tsao. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 2945. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-317) and indexes. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Zhou Kaimo.

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In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the study of African popular arts and performance genres. In this study, I will focus on isicathamiya, a South African musical performance genre, and in particular the attempt of its practitioners to create new identities and a new sense of self through their own interpretation of the genre. This study will concentrate on the 'isicathamiya youth' in the semi-rural community of Emkhambathini (located about 30 kilometres east of Pietermaritzburg) and their strategies of self-definition in the New South Africa. Isicathamiya has strong roots in migrant labour and this has been the main focal point around which many researchers have concentrated. However, recent years have seen a movement of isicathamiya concentrated within rural and semi-rural communities such as Emkhambathini. The performers in these areas have a unique interpretation of the genre and use it to communicate their thoughts and identities to a diverse audience made up of young and old. In this study I will be looking at the 'isicathamiya youth' within three broad categories, the re-invention of tradition, the re-interpretation of the genre, and issues of masculinities. Each of these categories accounts for the three chapters within this study and serves to give a broad yet in-depth study of the 'new wave' of isicathamiya performers. The first chapter, entitled 'Traditional Re-invention', will deal with issues relating to the project of traditional 'redefinition' which the 'isicathamiya youth' are pursuing in Emkhambathini. I will show that tradition is not a stagnant concept, but is in fact ever-changing over time and place, a concept that does not carry one definition over an entire community. Through various song texts and frames of analysis I will attempt fto show how tradition is being used to further the construction of positive identities within Emkhambathini and give youth a place in Zulu tradition and in a multi-layered modernity. The second chapter will deal with how the 'isicathamiya youth' raise and stretch the boundaries of the genre in relation to a number of concepts. These concepts include topics of performance, women and popular memory and serve to give a broader view as to what the 'isicathamiya youth' are trying to achieve, namely a new positive self identity that seeks to empower the youth in the New South Africa. The last chapter will look at issues of masculinity and how the youth use different strategies to regain the masculine identities of their fathers and grandfathers and maintain patriarchal authority. Issues looked at within this chapter will include men's role within society and their perceptions of women. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.

Black choral music composers in South Africa, inspired by the few opportunities available to them until recent times, have nonetheless attempted to establish, perhaps subconsciously, some choral tradition and, in doing so, incorporate African musical elements in their works. My research traces the foundations and historical development of choral music as an art amongst Vhavenda, and the contributions made thereto by a number of past and present Venda composers that this researcher could manage to identify and trace, to the music of the people. The selected composers are Stephen Maimela Dzivhani, Matthew Ramboho Nemakhavhani, Derrick Victor Nephawe, Joseph Khorommbi Nonge, Israel Thinawanga Ramabannda and Fhatuwani Hamilton Sumbana. Through the application of multiple methodological lenses, the study sets out to analyse, describe, and interpret Venda choral music. Of particular interest is the exploration of the extent to which the ”formal” education that was brought by the Berlin Missionaries influenced Venda choral musicians, particularly the selected Venda choral music composers. Also crucial to this research is the exploration and identification of elements peculiar to indigenous Venda traditional music in the works of these composers. The question is whether it was possible for these composers to realize and utilize their potentials fully in their attempt to evoke traditional Venda music with their works, given the very limiting Western tonic sol-fa notational system they were solely working with. The project also briefly traces the place of Venda choral music within the South African music context and its role within the search for cultural identity. The research has found that the majority of Venda choral music written so far has generally not been capable of evoking indigenous Venda traditional music. Whilst these composers choose themes that are akin to their culture, social settings, legend and general communal life, the majority of the music they set to these themes does not sound African (Venda in particular) in terms of the rhythms and melodies. The majority of the compositions under scrutiny have inappropriate settings of Venda words into the melodies employed. This can be attributed to the limitations imposed by the tonic sol-fa notational system, which was the only system they were taught in the missionary schools established around Venda and which, itself, was flawed as well as the general lack of adequate music education on the part of the composers themselves. Despite these limitations and the very few opportunities available to them, Venda choral music composers nonetheless managed to lay a foundation for choral music as an art amongst their people (Vhavenda). / Art history, Visual Ars and Musicology / D. Mus

Luiz Gonzaga tornou-se um dos maiores intérpretes e compositores populares de sua época. Sua voz, sua vestimenta, seu modo particular de falar, sua entonação fizeram com que se transformasse em um grande ícone nacional, o representante de uma identidade regional. Considerado um dos maiores divulgadores da cultura, costumes e crenças do Nordeste, suas canções tentam representar o contexto sociocultural e sociopolítico da região Nordeste. Alguns pesquisadores consideram suas canções, até hoje, como uma marca legítima e mantedora das raízes culturais e folclóricas da região. Após leitura parcial da literatura sobre a sua obra percebemos uma carência de estudos críticos lingüísticos vistos numa perspectiva da Semiótica-Social. Este estudo investiga de que maneira as canções de Luiz Gonzaga contribuem na constituição de uma identidade nordestina. A relevância dessa abordagem, consiste em colaborar para a construção do conhecimento acerca dos processos de constituição da identidade nordestina, através de uma leitura crítica das canções, rompendo com as práticas discursivas que favoreçam a criação de estereótipos nordestinos e conseqüentemente a unificação de uma identidade cultural regional. Foram escolhidas, de forma aleatória, vinte canções da obra musical de Luiz Gonzaga, as quais foram analisadas numa perspectiva da Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD), segundo o modelo tridimensional de Norman Fairclough (2001). As categorias utilizadas na análise foram: Transitividade na perspectiva da Lingüística Sistêmica Funcional (LSF), Ethos/Identidade culturais, Intertextualidade e a Interdiscursividade. Nas canções observam-se articulações dos traços culturais da região com a natureza e seus componentes particularmente regionais, instituindo sentidos à construção de uma realidade social. A seca, nessas canções, transforma-se no único grande problema do Nordeste. Dessa maneira, Luiz Gonzaga reproduz a prática discursiva estabelecida pela sociedade da época, aderindo à ordem do discurso do seu entorno. Assim, contribui para reforçar uma visão estereotipada, reduzindo a identidade nordestina ao flagelado da seca. As canções de Luiz Gonzaga além de reforçar esse estereótipo nordestino, reproduzem a ordem social da época em que viveu Luiz Gonzaga. Suas canções, de certa forma, faziam com que o Governo mandasse cada vez mais subsídios para socorrer a região, o que gerou a indústria da seca. O nordestino é representado como um povo escravizado e dependente economicamente do Governo, incapaz de perceber as lutas hegemônicas da sua região e reagir a elas. / Luiz Gonzaga has become one of the most important composers and interpreters of Brazilian popular music of his time. His voice, his clothing, his particular way of talking and his intonation made him become a great national symbol, a representative of a regional identity. Luiz Gonzaga is considered one of the most active men who spread out culture, costumes and beliefs of the Brazilian Northeast, and his songs try to portrait the socio-cultural and sociopolitical context of the Northeast. This very day, some researchers consider his songs as a genuine mar k that also keeps alive cultural and folkloric roots of the region. After reading part of the literature on his work, we realized that there were few linguistic critical studies based upon Social Semiotics. This study investigates the way Luiz Gonzaga.s songs contribute to establish a Brazilian northeastern people identity. This approach becomes relevant while it helps to improve the knowledge on the processes of construction of that identity, through a critical reading of the songs opposite to those discursive practices which tend to favor the creation of stereotypes related to Brazilian northeastern people, and so to the unification of a cultural identity in the region. We chose at random twenty songs by Luiz Gonzaga, which were analyzed according to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and based upon the threedimensional model proposed by Norman Fairclough (2001). The categories for the analysis were: transitivity - according to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Ethos/Cultural identities, intertextuality and interdiscourse. In the songs, it.s possible to see a connection between cultural aspects of the region, nature and its regional elements, what confers meanings to the construction of a social reality. The drought, in those songs, appears as the only big problem in the Brazilian Northeast. Thus, Luiz Gonzaga represents the discursive practice of the society of that time and adheres to the discursive order that surrounds him. Then, he reinforces a stereotyped point-of-view which reduces Brazilian northeastern people identity to those of who suffered with the drought. In addition, Luiz Gonzaga.s songs represent the social order of the time he lived. His songs in a certain way incited the Government to send more and more supplies to help people in the region, an attitude that generated the Brazilian drought industry. Brazilian Northeastern people are represented as slaves and economically dependent on the Government, unable to perceive hegemonic struggles of the region and to combat them.

Les chansons populaires grecques sont imprégnées d’une profonde religiosité qui apparaît à la fois comme cadre et comme vecteur d’action. Le poète populaire entretient une relation multidimensionnelle avec le Dieu de la Bible et de l’Ancien Testament et fait des saints et des anges des personnages actifs et récurrents dans les textes ; ils évoluent parallèlement avec les héros et leurs destinées s’entrecroisent. Charos est une figure mythique qui joue un rôle fondamental dans l’ensemble des chansons. Personnage mythologiquement et symboliquement sophistiqué, Charos constitue le pilier des mirologues. Ses relations ambiguës avec la divinité déterminent celles qu’il entretient avec l’homme et fait de lui un être à part. A la fois incarnation du mal et agent de la mort, son riche parcours historique dévoile ses nombreuses facettes, ainsi que ses liens avec certaines figures héroïques ambigües telles que Digenis ou Tsamados. La nature et les animaux détiennent un rôle significatif, caractérisé d’une sacralité profonde, et ils accompagnent l’homme des chansons dans tous les aspects de sa vie personnelle et sociale. Leur capacité de métamorphose et leur rôle d’annonciateurs dans les ballades, placent les animaux sur le devant de la scène et leur accordent un rôle de première importance dans le déroulement de l’action. Le poète accorde une importance particulière à l’aspect social du sacré en explorant la notion de la trahison divine mais également celle de l’obéissance de l’homme à son dieu. La vie monacale et le clergé comme l’altérité religieuse, deviennent l’objet d’une critique d’ordre social et une source d’humour. Les chansons populaires véhiculent en les adaptant un nombre important de mythes qui ont une logue présence sur le territoire hellénique : le mythe de Tantale, de Calypso et d’Adonis en font partie. L’héritage antique de l’expression publique du deuil, du rachat du mort et du tombeau du héros vient former les bases de la philosophie populaire et fait de la mort un véritable croisement de cultures. / Greek folk songs are infused with a profound religiosity that appears both as a framework and as a means of action. The folk poet has a multidimensional relationship with the God of the Bible and of the Old Testament and makes saints and angels active and recurrent personalities in his texts; they evolve in parallel with the heroes, and their destinies intertwine. Charos is a mythical figure that plays a fundamental role throughout the songs. A mythologically and symbolically sophisticated personality, Charos is the pillar of the lament songs. His ambiguous relationship with the divine determines his relationship with man, and makes him a separate being. Both incarnation of evil and agent of death, his rich historical journey reveals his many faces, as well as his links with some heroic and ambiguous figures such as Digenis or Tsamados. Nature and the animals hold a significant role, characterised by a profound sacredness, and they accompany man in all aspects of his personal and social life. Their ability to transform and their role as announcers in the ballads, place the animals on the front of the stage and grant them a major role in the unfolding of the action. The poet attaches particular importance to the social aspect of the sacred by exploring the notion of divine betrayal but also that of obedience of man to his god. Monastic life and the clergy, as well as religious diversity, become objects of social criticism, and a source of humour. Folk songs preserve an important number of myths by adapting them, that have a literary presence in the Hellenic territory: the myths of Tantalus, Calypso and Adonis belong to them. The ancient heritage of the public expression of grief, of the redemption of the dead and of the hero's tomb, forms the basis of folk philosophy and makes death a true crossroads of cultures.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:24:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_betania_silva.pdf: 3348387 bytes, checksum: 8eefb4ab41d3a138519d44f5678f240d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-01 / Luiz Gonzaga has become one of the most important composers and interpreters of Brazilian popular music of his time. His voice, his clothing, his particular way of talking and his intonation made him become a great national symbol, a representative of a regional identity. Luiz Gonzaga is considered one of the most active men who spread out culture, costumes and beliefs of the Brazilian Northeast, and his songs try to portrait the socio-cultural and sociopolitical context of the Northeast. This very day, some researchers consider his songs as a genuine mar k that also keeps alive cultural and folkloric roots of the region. After reading part of the literature on his work, we realized that there were few linguistic critical studies based upon Social Semiotics. This study investigates the way Luiz Gonzaga.s songs contribute to establish a Brazilian northeastern people identity. This approach becomes relevant while it helps to improve the knowledge on the processes of construction of that identity, through a critical reading of the songs opposite to those discursive practices which tend to favor the creation of stereotypes related to Brazilian northeastern people, and so to the unification of a cultural identity in the region. We chose at random twenty songs by Luiz Gonzaga, which were analyzed according to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and based upon the threedimensional model proposed by Norman Fairclough (2001). The categories for the analysis were: transitivity - according to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Ethos/Cultural identities, intertextuality and interdiscourse. In the songs, it.s possible to see a connection between cultural aspects of the region, nature and its regional elements, what confers meanings to the construction of a social reality. The drought, in those songs, appears as the only big problem in the Brazilian Northeast. Thus, Luiz Gonzaga represents the discursive practice of the society of that time and adheres to the discursive order that surrounds him. Then, he reinforces a stereotyped point-of-view which reduces Brazilian northeastern people identity to those of who suffered with the drought. In addition, Luiz Gonzaga.s songs represent the social order of the time he lived. His songs in a certain way incited the Government to send more and more supplies to help people in the region, an attitude that generated the Brazilian drought industry . Brazilian Northeastern people are represented as slaves and economically dependent on the Government, unable to perceive hegemonic struggles of the region and to combat them. / Luiz Gonzaga tornou-se um dos maiores intérpretes e compositores populares de sua época. Sua voz, sua vestimenta, seu modo particular de falar, sua entonação fizeram com que se transformasse em um grande ícone nacional, o representante de uma identidade regional. Considerado um dos maiores divulgadores da cultura, costumes e crenças do Nordeste, suas canções tentam representar o contexto sociocultural e sociopolítico da região Nordeste. Alguns pesquisadores consideram suas canções, até hoje, como uma marca legítima e mantedora das raízes culturais e folclóricas da região. Após leitura parcial da literatura sobre a sua obra percebemos uma carência de estudos críticos lingüísticos vistos numa perspectiva da Semiótica-Social. Este estudo investiga de que maneira as canções de Luiz Gonzaga contribuem na constituição de uma identidade nordestina. A relevância dessa abordagem, consiste em colaborar para a construção do conhecimento acerca dos processos de constituição da identidade nordestina, através de uma leitura crítica das canções, rompendo com as práticas discursivas que favoreçam a criação de estereótipos nordestinos e conseqüentemente a unificação de uma identidade cultural regional. Foram escolhidas, de forma aleatória, vinte canções da obra musical de Luiz Gonzaga, as quais foram analisadas numa perspectiva da Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD), segundo o modelo tridimensional de Norman Fairclough (2001). As categorias utilizadas na análise foram: Transitividade na perspectiva da Lingüística Sistêmica Funcional (LSF), Ethos/Identidade culturais, Intertextualidade e a Interdiscursividade. Nas canções observam-se articulações dos traços culturais da região com a natureza e seus componentes particularmente regionais, instituindo sentidos à construção de uma realidade social. A seca, nessas canções, transforma-se no único grande problema do Nordeste. Dessa maneira, Luiz Gonzaga reproduz a prática discursiva estabelecida pela sociedade da época, aderindo à ordem do discurso do seu entorno. Assim, contribui para reforçar uma visão estereotipada, reduzindo a identidade nordestina ao flagelado da seca. As canções de Luiz Gonzaga além de reforçar esse estereótipo nordestino, reproduzem a ordem social da época em que viveu Luiz Gonzaga. Suas canções, de certa forma, faziam com que o Governo mandasse cada vez mais subsídios para socorrer a região, o que gerou a indústria da seca . O nordestino é representado como um povo escravizado e dependente economicamente do Governo, incapaz de perceber as lutas hegemônicas da sua região e reagir a elas.

Die Arbeit beginnt mit einer kritischen Rekonstruktion des Gedenk- und Forschungsdiskurses über ,Herder in Riga‘. Dabei werden drei Schwerpunkte gesetzt: Erstens werden ,Denkmäler‘ seit der Einweihung des Herder-Denkmals in Riga 1864 auf ihre kulturpolitischen Implikationen hin befragt. Zweitens werden ,Werkausgaben, Briefwechsel und Lebensbilder‘ seit der ersten postumen Gesamtwerkausgabe untersucht. Drittens werden ,Neuere Ansätze zur Edition und Interpretation‘ seit der Neuerschließung des handschriftlichen Nachlasses betrachtet. Im Zusammenspiel dieser drei Betrachtungsebenen wird die rückblickender Verfertigung verschiedener Bilder von ,Herder in Riga‘ metareflexiv nachvollzogen. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt dann auf einer konzentrierten Relektüre der Schriften der Rigaer Jahre 1765 bis 1769. Blickleitend ist dabei die These, dass Herder in diesen Texten ein zentrales Problem bearbeitet, das Problem der Volksbildung. Dieses wird erstmals im philosophischen Diskurs der sogenannten ,Philosophieschrift‘ identifiziert, um in angrenzenden Diskursfeldern weiter bearbeitet zu werden. Ein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei den Feldern der praktischen Bildungsarbeit von Homiletik (,Der Redner Gottes‘), Pädagogik (,Von der Gratie‘) und Politik (,Publikumsabhandlung‘). Darüber hinaus wird das Projekt einer ,Revitalisierung der Poesie‘ nachgezeichnet, wie es in den poetologischen und literaturkritischen Reflexionen der Rigaer Jahre skizziert wird (,Dithyrambische Rhapsodie‘, ,Odenfragmente‘, ,Literaturfragmente‘). Analog dazu werden die Ansätze zu einer ,Reform der Prosakultur‘ rekonstruiert, wie sie im literaturkritischen und ästhetischen Diskurs entwickelt werden (,Literaturfragmente‘, ,Torso von einem Denkmal‘, ,Viertes Kritisches Wäldchen‘). Den Fluchtpunkt der Studie bildet das Volksliedprojekt: Im Ausgang der Rigaer Konstellation wird das Volkslied als privilegiertes Medium der Volksbildung entdeckt (,Briefwechsel über Ossian‘, ,Alte Volkslieder‘, ,Volkslieder‘). / The study begins with a critical reconstruction of the memorial and research discourse on 'Herder in Riga'. Three focal points are set: First, the monument culture, beginning with the Herder monument in Riga 1864, is examined with regard to its political implications. Secondly, the philological disourse on Herders life and letters since the first posthumous edition of his complete works is considered. Thirdly, new approaches on edition and interpretation since the new catalogization of Herder’s ,Nachlass‘ are evaluated. In the interplay of these three levels of observation, the retrospective production of various images of 'Herder in Riga' is retraced. Departing from these observation, the study develops a series of close-readings of the writings of the Riga years 1765 to 1769. The guiding thesis is that Herder continuously works on a central problem in these texts, the problem of popular education (,Volksbildung‘). The study argues that this topic is discovered in the so-called ,Philosophieschrift‘ and subsequently processed in adjacent fields of discourse. A focus lies on the practical fields of popular education in homiletics ('Der Redner Gottes'), pedagogics ('Von der Gratie') and politics ('Publikumsabhandlung'). In addition, the project of a 'revitalization of poetry' is retraced, as outlined in the poetological and literary-critical reflections of the Riga years ('Dithyrambische Rhapsodie', 'Odenfragmente', 'Literaturfragmente'). Analogously, Herder’s approaches to a 'reform of the prose culture' are reconstructed, as developed in literary criticism and aesthetic discourse ('Literaturfragmente', 'Torso von einem Denkmal', 'Viertes Kritisches Wäldchen'). The last chapter is dedicated to the folk song project: The study argues that folk songs are finally discovered as the ideal medium of popular education and can thus be considered as the ,telos‘ of the Riga project of ,Volksbildung‘ ('Briefwechsel über Ossian', 'Alte Volkslieder', 'Volkslieder').

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