This study examines the object biographies of musical instruments and the function of age in the cultural and material history of the lute. It follows the central question of why old instruments were valued more greatly than new ones and what measures had to be executed to adapt the objects to the ever-changing musical style. It traces the lute in its several cultural functions from the 17th to the 19th century: as a musical instrument, as a symbol, as a commodity, and as an object that had to be adapted, repaired, and altered by several generations of lute makers. This interdisciplinary approach uses a broad spectrum of sources from treatises, lute manuals, forewords in printed lute music, and depictions of lutes in literature, poetry, and visual arts to construct a narrative of the appreciation of old musical instruments. It investigates the material changes that were necessary to ensure their continued use by a profound study of more than 100 instruments in public and private collections. The different business models and prices in the trade of lutes are compared and connected to the common knowledge about old instruments and their brand characteristics among lute players. This study employs methods from musicology, organology, material culture studies, acoustics, economics, art history, technology, and digital humanities. This multivalent approach enhances the understanding of the general dynamics of commodities as status symbols, object biographies, and functional objects and connects them to the material and cultural history of objects using the lute as a case study. / Die Studie untersucht die Objektbiografien von Musikinstrumenten und die Funktion des Alters für die kulturelle und materielle Geschichte von Lauteninstrumenten. Sie geht der zentralen Frage nach, warum alte Instrumente höher geschätzt wurden als neue und welche Maßnahmen ergriffen werden mussten, um die Objekte an den sich ständig verändernden Musikstil anzupassen. Sie verfolgt die Laute in ihren verschiedenen kulturellen Funktionen vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert: als Musikinstrument, als Symbol, als Gebrauchsgegenstand und als Objekt, das von mehreren Generationen von Lautenbauern angepasst, repariert und verändert werden musste. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz nutzt ein breites Spektrum von Quellen wie Traktate, Lautenhandbücher, Vorworte in gedruckter Lautenmusik und Darstellungen von Lauten in Literatur, Poesie und bildender Kunst, um die Geschichte der Wertschätzung alter Musikinstrumente nachzuverfolgen. Anhand einer eingehenden Untersuchung von mehr als 100 Instrumenten in öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen werden die Eingriffe untersucht, die notwendig waren, um ihre weitere Nutzung zu gewährleisten. Die unterschiedlichen Geschäftsmodelle und Preise im Handel mit Lauten werden verglichen und mit dem Wissensvorrat unter Lautenisten über alte Instrumente und deren Markencharakteristiken in Verbindung gebracht. Die Studie verwendet Methoden aus der Musikwissenschaft, der Organologie, der materiellen Kulturwissenschaft, der Akustik, der Ökonomie, der Kunstgeschichte, der Instrumentenbautechnologie und der Digital Humanities. Der multivalente Ansatz verbessert das Verständnis der allgemeinen Dynamik von Waren als Statussymbole, von Objektbiografien funktionaler Objekte und verbindet sie mit der materiellen und kulturellen Geschichte der Objekte am Beispiel der Laute.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rita Morais de Andrade.pdf: 23449333 bytes, checksum: 74f47ffa48093966e3018dc47e55a7ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-20 / Universidade Anhembi Morumbi / This theses investigates the social and cultural circulation of a frock from its manufacture in a couture House atelier back in the 1920s Paris to its storage at Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo in 1993, where it was catalogued as Boué Soeurs RG 7091. Searching trhough some of this object paths its manufacturing, the people who wore it, the cities where it circulated this paper proposes the interpretation of objetcs as a method to elaborate a dress cultural biography. The material analyses of RG 7091, approached here as a historical document, allowed to question the idea of a totalitarian fashion hegemony over all forms of dress. Through the interpretation of certain material aspects, elements and articulation of the dress, I discuss some timely and spacially perceptions as well as youthness and modesty. The material evidences of people s interference but also of time, climate, storage and circulation conditions over textiled clothes indicate sensitive meanings in the ways to dress the body / Esta tese investiga a circulação social e cultural de um vestido desde sua confecção num atelier de alta-costura em Paris na década de 1920 até seu armazenamento na reserva técnica do Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo em 1993, quando ele foi catalogado como Boué Soeurs RG 7091. Percorrendo algumas trajetórias deste objeto sua confecção, os corpos que vestiu, as cidades por onde passou , esta pesquisa propõe um método interpretativo de objetos como método para a elaboração de uma biografia cultural do vestido. A análise material do RG 7091, tratado aqui como um documento histórico, permitiu colocar em xeque a idéia de hegemonia da moda sobre todas as formas de vestir. Através da interpretação de determinadas marcas, elementos e articulações do vestido, discutem-se aqui percepções de temporalidades e espacialidades, juventude e pudor. As evidências materiais das interferências dos sujeitos e outros atores (tempo, clima, condições de armazenagem) sobre as roupas feitas de tecido indicam formas sensíveis de vestir os corpos

Mémoire en recherche-création / Si Athènes occupe une place particulière dans l’imaginaire occidental pour son passé prestigieux, la capitale moderne est dernièrement associée à une crise sociale et économique sans précédent, à des mesures d’austérités délétères et aux luttes. La ville occupe une place privilégiée dans l’étude des cultures et des sociétés car elle concentre de nombreux enjeux économiques, sociaux et matériels. Ces enjeux s’imbriquent dans les imaginaires urbains au cœur de négociations importantes avec le passé et les projections futures. Si les phénomènes urbains font souvent l’objet d’études et de planifications systématiques, cette recherche a pour objectif de dévoiler des imaginaires paradoxaux qui font partie tant de l’histoire que de l’espace de cette ville. Elle s’inscrit au croisement des études des cultures matérielles et des études médiatiques pour aborder les imaginaires en s’intéressant aux matières qui la composent. Le béton, le marbre et le bigaradier se font à la fois médiateurs de ces imaginaires et supports d’interventions informelles sur la ville. Les méthodes de la flânerie, du collage et du zine sont toutes choisies pour leur dimension tactique (De Certeau, 1990), c’est-à-dire comme alternative aux méthodes et formes hégémoniques. L’approche recherche-création accentue la praxis dans une optique de réappropriation de la ville. La collecte de matériels est inspirée par des flâneries dans la ville et dans des sources variées pour arriver à un assemblage non exhaustif de textes et d’images philosophiques, poétiques, historiques, et personnelles. Ce matériel est rassemblé selon les techniques et la logique du collage pour le présenter sous la forme d’un zine. Le béton, le marbre et le bigaradier engagent des réflexions dans la construction d’une identité culturelle et dégagent des notions plus larges comme les relations de pouvoir, le rapport à la nature, à la connaissance, au commun et à l’altérité. / If Athens holds a special place in the Western imagination because of its prestigious past, the modern capital has recently been associated with an unprecedented social and economic crisis, with harmful austerity measures and with struggles. The city occupies a key place in the study of cultures and societies because it concentrates many economic, social and material matters. These matters are embedded in urban imaginaries that are central to important negotiations with the past and future projections. While urban phenomena are often the subject to systematic studies and planning, this research aims to reveal paradoxical imaginaries that are embedded in both the space and history of the city. It stands at the crossroads of material culture studies and media studies to approach the imaginary by focusing on the materials that make it up. Concrete, marble, and sour orange trees are both mediators of these imaginations and vehicles for informal interventions in the city. The methods of flânerie, collage and zine are all chosen for their tactical dimension (De Certeau, 1990), i.e., as an alternative to hegemonic methods and shapes. The research-creation approach emphasizes praxis in a perspective of reappropriating the city. The collection of materials is inspired by strolls through the city and various sources to arrive at a non-exhaustive assemblage of philosophical, poetic, historical, and personal texts and images. This material is gathered using the techniques and logic of collage to present it in the form of a zine. The concrete, marble and sour orange tree trigger reflections in the construction of a cultural identity and release broader notions such as power relations, the relationship to nature, to knowledge, to the common and to otherness.

Mestrado em Arte Multimédia / Biografia e Autobiografia Universal: para um modelo de análise dos rituais de produção e consumo na arte multimédia trata do estudo e análise de formas alternativas que questionam o modo como criamos a nossa memória cultural colectiva por meio de objectos e rituais. O campo de investigação aqui exposto permanece distinto da História ou Crítica da arte. A abordagem aos rituais é realizada pelo do ponto de vista sócio-cultural, ambicionando reconhecer um modelo de profusão cultural. Inicialmente, é analisado o papel da memória na construção de conteúdos culturais. Com esse intuito, é discutida a validade de dispositivos externos, como a hermenêutica e os rituais nessa construção. Abordando temas gerais como a Memória, Cultura e Linguagem estabelecem-se dicotomias entre Hermenêutica e Rituais, Texto e Imagem, de modo a perceber uma evolução dos rituais tradicionais para rituais contemporâneos em actividades artísticas. É questionado, nos rituais contemporâneos, o seu potencial de, como manifestações performativas, que se centram no indivíduo, constituírem o formato privilegiado para uma linguagem transversal, independente de religiões, nacionalidade, ou grupo. Sendo a investigação desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado em Arte Multimédia, avançou-se por uma análise de propostas artísticas que discutem a amplitude dos conceitos de multimédia e performance. A presença do subtítulo Para um modelo de análise dos rituais de produção e consumo na arte multimédia representa um enquadramento da dinâmica presente nos rituais contemporâneos em manifestações de trabalho artístico de tendência biográfica e autobiográfica. A reflexão sobre o modelo de interpretação e análise é realizada perante o corpo de trabalho das artistas: Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum e Morgan O Hara, procurando indagar se os seus trabalhos têm a capacidade de se caracterizarem como dispositivos de memória. / Universal Biography and Autobiography: for a model of analysis of the rituals of production and consumption in multimedia art regards the study and analysis of alternative forms of questioning how we create our collective cultural memory through objects and rituals. The field of investigation here shown stands apart from areas of History or Art criticism. The approach to rituals is made from the Socio-cultural view point, aspiring to recognize a model of cultural profusion. Foremost, the role of memory in the construction of cultural content is here analyzed. With that intent, the validity between external devices, such as hermeneutics and rituals, is discussed on that construction. Approaching broad themes such as Memory, Culture, Language, dichotomies between Hermeneutics and Rituals, Text and Image are established to understand an evolution from traditional rituals to contemporary ones in artistic activity. It is questioned and suggested that contemporary rituals, with their potential of being performative manifestations that centre on the individual, constitute a privileged format for a transverse language, independent of religion, nationality or group. Being the investigation developed in the scope of the Master in Multimedia Art, an analysis of artistic proposals was followed, that discusses the breadth of the multimedia and performance concepts. The presence of the sub-heading For a model of analysis of the rituals of production and consumption in multimedia art , represents a framing of the dynamic which is present on contemporary rituals in biographical and autobiographical artistic work. Pondering about the model of interpretation and analyses is made in the presence of the body of work of the artist: Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum and Morgan O Hara, seeking to inquest if their work can be characterized as a memory agent.