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11	The Honest Merchant: Rethinking History, Criteria, and Memory in the Study of the Historical Muhammad Samnani, Rahim January 2021 (has links) Over the last fourteen-hundred years, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah (d. 632) has been depicted and portrayed in a variety of ways by numerous scholars, theologians, and polemicists. My dissertation offers a unique approach to the “historical Muhammad” as it develops a new method to examine extant primary sources related to his life. I include available sources that provide pertinent information on Muhammad’s life, including the Qur’an, hadith literature, sira-maghazi (biographies and expeditions), and non-Muslim accounts. My research is original because it adopts current historical Jesus scholarship, particularly modern cognitive studies of memory, and uses it on extant sources related to Muhammad’s life. More specifically, I explore how memory, oral tradition, and oral transmission play vital roles in understanding how Muslims remembered their Prophet and how the circumstances of later generations shaped and influenced their commemoration of his life. By adopting this scholarship, which will be contextualized to examine early Muslim literature, I offer a new perspective on surviving sources, the context of seventh-century Arabia, and the function of memory for the nascent Muslim community. I also apply my method on eight significant, polemical, or neglected events that are traditionally believed to have taken place during Muhammad’s life in Mecca and Medina. In sum, my dissertation offers a dynamic cross-disciplinary venture, encompassing the intersection of innovative, modern critical inquiry and early Islamic literature. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation examines the field of the “historical Muhammad” and applies a new method on extant primary sources related to Muhammad’s life. I conduct a literature review of scholars’ reconstructions of his life, beginning as early as the seventh century. I also explore numerous primary sources on Muhammad, pointing out their benefits and disadvantages. Next, I overview the quests for the historical Jesus and analyze methods that were established over the last hundred years. In my dissertation, I adopt historical Jesus scholarship, namely memory studies, to develop an original method that provides a unique understanding and fresh perspective of the historical Muhammad. Over the last two chapters, I conduct eight case studies employing my method on events from Muhammad’s life in Mecca and Medina. This dissertation demonstrates that we could reconstruct a reasonably coherent picture of events surrounding Muhammad’s life.
12	Vi ta´re på örat : En intervjustudie om folkmusiklärares tolkningar av begreppet gehör. / Let’s play it by ear : A interview study of folk music teachers rendering of the term by-ear learning. Grafström, Ronja January 2020 (has links) Syftet med denna studie är att utreda vilka kunskaper och färdigheter olika lärare i folkmusik tolkar tillhör begreppet gehör och i detta belysa hur de själva använder sitt gehör i eget musicerande samt i sin undervisning. Tidigare forskning visar att gehör kan betraktas från många olika vinklar; både som metod eller strategi i undervisning och inlärning, som ämne i olika skolformer och som medfödda eller förvärvade kunskaper och färdigheter. Semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts för att insamla data som sedan analyserats tematiskt. Resultatet visar att lärarna delar uppfattningen om att en musiker som lyckas sammanföra musikteoretiska och genrespecifika kunskaper med speltekniska färdigheter i det egna spelet och i musicerande med andra har ett gott gehör. I detta är medvetenhet, reflektion och kommunikation viktiga parametrar. Diskussionen behandlar de viktiga gehörsmässiga kunskaper och färdigheter som informanterna presenterat. Detta i relation till olika skolformers undervisning och hur den sociala kontexten runt den svenska folkmusiken skapar värde i mötet mellan människor och musik. / The main goal with this study is to get closer to an understanding for what knowledge and skills that different teachers in Swedish folk music reads in to the word by-ear learning and/or oral skills as well as to shine a light upon how they use their own oral skills when playing music and when teaching. Earlier studies show that oral skills can be looked upon from different angles; both as a method or strategy in education or learning, as a subject in different forms of schools and as inherited or acquired skills and knowledge. Semi structured interviews has been used to collect data that has been analyzed thematically. The results of the study show that the teachers share the opinion that a musician who successfully is able to combine knowledge of music theory and genre specifics with instrumental technical abilities when playing solo and with others has well developed oral skills. Self awareness, reflection and communication are key elements in this process. In the discussion of the study the different knowledge and skills presented by the teachers are put in relation with how differents schools in Sweden structure their teaching of oral skills. The chapter also discusses how the social context surrounding Swedish folk music creates value in the correlation between people and music. by-ear learning qualitative interview study hermeneutics oral transmission oral skills folk music memorizing music gehör kvalitativ intervjustudie hermeneutik gehörsmusik spela på gehör gehörspraxis folkmusik gehörstradering memorera musik Music Musik
13	Medieval Minstrels and Folk Balladeers: An Analysis of Orfeo in Celtic Music and Literature Heredos, Rosemary M. 13 May 2016 (has links) No description available. Music Folklore Literature Medieval Literature Middle Ages Orfeo Sir Orfeo Breton lay Breton lai Auchinleck Manuscript Medieval Middle English Minstrels Medieval Performance Singing Harp Child ballad King Orfeo balladeer oral transmission Irish penny whistle fairies storytelling Scots-English
14	Fragmentation and Restoration: Generational Legacies of 21st Century Māori Malcolm-Buchanan, Vincent Alan January 2009 (has links) The content of this thesis is premised on a reflexive examination of some historical juxtapositions culminating in critical aspects of being Māori in the twenty first century and how such aspects have informed contemporary indigenous identity. That is, the continuing acknowledgement and exponential public recognition of critical concepts which inextricably link indigenous and civic identity. The theoretical sources for this research are, in the main, derived from anthropological and religious studies, particularly on the significance of mythologies and oral histories, as well as from the oral theorising of elders in Aotearoa New Zealand. A very significant contribution from one such elder, a senior Māori woman academic, has been included in the form of the transcript of an interview. She herself had collected the views of a number of elders on myth, creating a rare and valuable resource. In the interview she married her reflections on these with her own experiences and her cogent analyses. From the outset, it was necessary to be discerning so as to ensure the thesis workload was manageable and realistic. For this reason the selected critical aspects that have been used to frame this research are (1) a developing Western validation (that is, acknowledgement and respect) of Māori, Māori culture and their mythology; (2) oral history (genealogy) and traditions that have remained constant despite the influences of modernity; and (3) notions of fluidity, negotiation and pragmatism regarding kinship legacies and cultural heritage. The thesis is comprised of six chapters starting from a subjective narrative leading through increasingly objective discourses that culminate in a conclusion which supports a belief that modern Māori require a balancing of critical aspects of cultural heritage, with a broad understanding of the world of the 'other', in order to realise and develop their contemporary indigenous identity. Ultimately, indigenous ideologies, practices and knowledge recorded and examined in the world of academia today, become potential resources for tomorrow. The intention of this research is to aggregate and discuss intrinsic aspects of the Māori past as well as developing aspects of the present, in order to better understand the significance of the future, and to add to the growing corpus of indigenous worldviews. Maori Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand Te Ao Maori intergenerational nation building diffused Christian Ratana Te Arawa Tuhoe Ngati Pikiao Ngati Whare spatial temporal historical juxtapositions myth oral histories indigenous knowledge ideologies pre-literate society pre-contact Maori worldview autochthonous New Zealand Waitangi Tribunal whaikorero whakapapa marae whanau hapu iwi ethnocentrism institutional marginalisation discrimination post-colonial kinship generational continuity dis-continuity fragmentation restoration universals historical redress oral transmission knowledge transfer social control icocnoclasm religion anthropology history cultural memory eponymous unified transitional stratified

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