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Dfense et illustration d'un universel mauricien
Authors: Boutaghou Maya
Published: April 2011

This article analyses the representation of Creole culture in Mauritius, mainly in Ananda Devi's novels and in the movie,The Cathedral(2006), adapted from one of her short stories by Harrikrisna Anenden. It brings out the paradox in the use of the termCreole, which refers both to a precise ethnic community and to the language and culture of all Mauritians. The notion of rhythm is used here to understand the representation of two main components of this culture, sga dance and the Creole language. Rhythm organizes what is commonly perceived as chaotic, and the article focuses on the link between Creole culture and the capital city, Port Louis. This city is a privileged site where the creolization process occurs, with its dynamic tensions between cohesion and territorialization, understood as the slippages that mark the invisible borders of various ethnic communities. Devi's work foregrounds the question of becoming Creole in relation to the violent consequences of ethnic encounters and their transgressions. Inve de ses dcombres, a homoerotic relationship serves as metaphor for ethnic transgressions. It is a way of denouncing and countering the prohibitions against interethnic relationships on this plural island.
Mapping territories of affective communities in the Indian Ocean
Authors: Lindo Karen U
Published: April 2011

The preponderance of studies on shame during the past 30 years has coincided with a radical transformation in literary studies, particularly in the wake of an increasing volume of trauma literature. In a theoretical climate, plagued by the post phenomenon, following the historical atrocities
of slavery, the Holocaust, colonization, apartheid and recurring genocides with which present day history contends, testimonial literature is singularly symptomatic of transnational human sufferings. Shifting away from the commonplace themes of ethnicity, religion and language, which tax the
heterogeneous Mauritian society, Shenaz Patel, in Sensitive (2003), places at the centre of the narrative the verbal, physical and sexual abuses inflicted upon an 11-year-old girl. This article examines how the author illuminates the fundamental role that shame plays in structuring
identity. It suggests a semantic shift in the vocabulary used to determine identities and configures new affective territories which connect humans from within.
Figures fminines et construction identitaire dans les romans de Shenaz Patel
Authors: de Grissac Guillemette Jeudi
Published: April 2011

This article examines the representation and function of female characters in the fiction of Shenaz Patel, who belongs to the new generation of Mauritian writers. Three novels depicting recent social disruptions on the island are analyzed: Le Portrait Chamarel (2001), Sensitive
(2003) and Le Silence des Chagos (2005). Each novel explores more or less explicitly a quest for identity. The identity may be both asserted and questioned as in Le Portrait Chamarel, denied and reclaimed as in Le Silence des Chagos or confused and uncertain as in Sensitive.
This analysis of Patel's writing brings to light patterns of meaning and their symbolic and poetic images in particular, the significance of proper names and faces and the recurring link between voice and silence. The article shows how the female characters deal with the difficulties they
encounter in their identity construction and the answers they devise: a utopia of multi-coloured insularity, a utopia in reverse or revolt and violence. These solutions and the critical approach used here show that ethical considerations are inseparable from questions of literary aesthetics.
L'exprience de la violence dans le roman mauricien francophone de la nouvelle gnration
Authors: Jean-Franois Emmanuel B
Published: April 2011

Francophone Mauritian literature has been occupied, for some years now, by the question of violence. A new generation of writers is engaged in redefining the poetics of insular space, from both an aesthetic and an ethical point of view, focusing on the violence that marks and mars postcolonial
Mauritian society. This article discusses the poetics of this new writing as seen in the works of Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel and Carl de Souza. It addresses first the representation of violence and describes how this new writing deconstructs clichs as well as formulaic
descriptions of the island, while providing more realistic descriptions of contemporary Mauritian society, with its episodes of violence that can sometimes be extreme. The article will then address the violence of writing itself, and the subversive aspects of language and of the novel in a
contemporary literary context that is increasingly subject to ethical and aesthetic transgression.
Malcolm de Chazal, pote et artiste intgral
Authors: Furlong Robert
Published: April 2011

This article presents one of the most important artists of Mauritius, Malcolm de Chazal, and explains why international criticism has up to now been unable to offer a fully comprehensive analysis of his work. The fact is that Chazal has made use of different media (aphorisms, metaphysical
and political economy essays, theatre, painting, newspaper chronicles). Besides, a large number of his 57 books (54 during his lifetime) have been published in Mauritius and often printed in 100 copies only. For these reasons, no critic outside Mauritius has up to now done a thorough analysis
of Chazal's work and most of them stick to the few books published in Paris or available in some libraries abroad (Bibliothque Nationale de France, United States Library of Congress, National Library of Australia). His work still remains to be discovered, and this article insists on a necessary
holistic approach of the different media used. The author believes that Chazal wrote for the future rather than for the past.
Malcolm de Chazal: De la rception la dception, ou comment devenir metteur mauricien
Authors: Russo Adelaide
Published: April 2011

Malcolm de Chazal (12 September, 1902 to 1 October, 1981) was educated in the United States at Louisiana State University. He returned to his island home in 1925 and remained there until his death. Chazal played an important role in French literary history when he sent his self-published
Sens-Plastique II to a number of French writers, artists and intellectuals. This article contains a detailed description of Chazal's exchanges with Jean Paulhan, Georges Duhamel, Francis Ponge, Aim Patri and Jean Dubuffet in the period from 1947 to 1949. It relates the reception of
his work in France and Chazal's subsequent disappointment when this interest was not sustained. The postWorld War II context of French literary life had bearing on his initial positive reception. The particularity of his frames of reference and the inability to assimilate him to literary movements
in the French metropolitan context led to his disfavour. Chazal, undiscouraged, turned to Mauritius for his inspiration and continued to be highly productive for the next four decades. The episode is important for following generations of Mauritian writers because it brought Mauritius and
the specificity of its literary tradition to the attention of the Francophone world. Moreover, Malcolm de Chazal's writings, especially Sens-Plastique, are canonical elements of the twentiethcentury French literature.
Maurice, tiers monde de la bande dessine?
Authors: Cassiau-Haurie Christophe
Published: April 2011

Known for its abundant literary production endowed with solid and well-established publishing houses, bestowed with a long tradition of caricatures and editorial cartoons, the island of Mauritius has, nevertheless, done little to recognize bandes dessines or BDs. This situation is not,
however, the result of an absence of graphic or visual talent, for the country is teeming with painters and other artists. Rather, the main reason stems from the status of the BD in the country, undervalued by many and seen as destined for a young audience that is typically ignored by publishing
houses.
Mauritian cinema and global spectators
Authors: Lindo Karen U
Published: April 2011

This introductory essay addresses the reception of The Cathedral (2006) by filmmaker Harrikrisna Anenden. It focuses on the way in which the visualized Creole culture translates and transmits a specific Mauritian way of life that appeals to a global spectatorship. The essay is
followed by an interview with the director who speaks about the process of cinematic adaptation of the short story La Cathdrale (1977) by Ananda Devi. He explains the challenges he faced during the production of his first feature film in Mauritius.
Theatre in education: More than just a health message
Authors: Wooster Roger
Published: April 2011

The author of this article worked for fifteen years as a Theatre in Education (TIE) actor and, after moving into Further and then Higher Education, continues to work with young people to create educational projects touring all education sectors. Most of the themes for these TIE programmes
have encompassed historical and social themes, and some have addressed health issues directly. It is a sad reflection upon either society or the education system (or probably both) that the demand for such social health projects continues to increase.

In September 2009, The University of
Northampton hosted for the second time an international conference about the interaction of arts and health; testament to the acceptance of the fact that the arts can have a transformational effect on the health of individuals and society. Arts-related therapies are increasingly a part of
the menu from which we may seek to attain emotional or social good health. This article accepts that the arts can be transformational in promoting good health and, specifically, in forming positive attitudes towards health issues. What follows identifies the nature of Theatre in Education,
considers how these approaches have been used in Theatre in Health Education (THE) to promote health, and whether the best use is now being made of TIE techniques. It questions the effectiveness and validity of THE programmes that seek only to portray dire situations without allowing the space,
through participation and reflection, for audiences to relate their own lives to those being set before them.
Prison, music and the rehabilitation revolution: The case of Good Vibrations
Authors: Mendona Maria
Published: April 2011

In a time of structural upheaval in the prison system, this article draws attention to the positive and ongoing contribution of arts projects to the debate surrounding effective and transformative prison education. The focus here is on Good Vibrations, a music project involving the
Javanese gamelan ensemble that has been active with considerable success in male and female prisons, young offenders' institutions and secure hospitals in England and Scotland since 2003. This article takes an ethnographic approach and reviews the particular impact of this project from several
perspectives, including prisoners, prison administrators and teachers, placing the project in the larger context of the role of the arts and education in dealing with the social problem of reoffending.
Narrative jewellery: The journey
Authors: Pond Jo
Published: April 2011

This article focuses on a design process of artistic enquiry into a condition of mental health. Explored through narrative jewellery, this enquiry employs symbolic representation to convey tacitly the emotional focuses of the sufferers of body dysmorphic disorder. By generating a stimulating
aesthetic and inherently visible narrative, we are able to consider the function of jewellery and its potential to entice an enquiring mind to create an awareness and understanding of a mental health condition.
The Artsbridge group
Authors: Barzilay-Shechter Keren
Published: April 2011

This article traces a programme set up in the summer of 2008 with Israeli and Palestinian teenagers who volunteered to participate in the Artsbridge summer camp. One of the main purposes of this camp was to enable the students to spend three weeks together in the United States to foster
a sense of understanding for the lived experience of the other. Descriptions of the expressive therapies meetings, which had been conducted along this period, are presented in this article. Using psychodramatic and other expressive techniques, the group's members faced intra and interpersonal
conflicts and dealt with themes such as trust, courage and forgiveness. The healing powers of these expressive methods enabled alternative ways to explore and process historical controversies and well-rooted negative emotions.
After Mrs. Rochester: Rewriting as re-vision
Authors: Macedo Ana Gabriela
Published: April 2011

Departing from a play by the London based playwright and director Polly Teale entitled After Mrs. Rochester (2003), this essay focuses on the intricate network of intertexts that construct it and the manifold discourses that traverse it. Issues of rewriting, revision and adaptation
are the main focus of this essay, given that the play consists of the revisitation of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Rhys's own biography by Carole Angier, Jean Rhys (1985), Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre: an Autobiography (1847), while it also openly revisits Paula
Rego's series of lithographs and pastels Jane Eyre (200102), as well as her composition Wide Sargasso Sea (2000).

The analysis of this text, which is so densely permeated by the memory of other texts and literally haunted by past heroines and the echo of their voices, draws
on the understanding that intertextuality, as Susan Stanford Friedman (1991) argues, is essentially a dialectical, conflictual and anti-hegemonic process rooted, via the work of Julia Kristeva, in the Bakhtinian notions of heteroglossia and dialogism. Moreover, it suggests, as Ziva Ben-Porat
(2003) claims, that the strategy of rewriting is a trigger of a particular reading pact with wide potential functionalities. My own understanding of re-writing as both a reforming and a writing back to (a wrighting process which undertakes a critical-interpretive gesture, to borrow
a term coined by Chantal Zabus), as tested on this polyphonic case-study, shares these concerns.
After Cyclops: Appropriating the chorus of Euripides when scriptwriting for applied drama
Authors: Dickenson Sarah Jane
Published: April 2011

The contention of this article is that effective appropriation of the device of chorus of ancient Athenian drama can be a powerful dramatic device for applied drama purposes. I will primarily deal with effective appropriation of the device of chorus for participants in scripted applied
drama. I have taken, as a starting point, aspects of the device of chorus as employed by Euripides but then developed the device for the medium of applied drama and to appeal to and be utilized by the client groups I write for. I would suggest that the desire of a writer to adapt or appropriate
what has gone before is connected to a desire to engage with transformational learning. I would contend that in order to make effective applied drama we need to focus on the special interplay between chorus, audience and action by placing the chorus firmly back as a central device of the play.
To illuminate my thinking, I will concentrate on the writing and development of one of my plays for young people: The Tipping Point. It explores the Eastern European economic-migrant experience in Britain. In the writing of the play I appropriated aspects of the use of chorus from the
satyr play Cyclops by Euripides. The Tipping Point as an appropriation of Cyclops is not about linear functioning belatedness (Sanders 2006: 159) but an appropriation more magpie in its intent. I would contend that the appreciation of the varieties and potential of the
original form also made the appropriation richer and more effective in the final creative product. As Lee (2001: 28) observes, Greek tragedy may have died when the significance of the chorus was lost and the special emotional interplay between audience, chorus and action, compromised.
Understanding Arab women's role in media industries An empowerment-based perspective
Authors: Ayish Muhammad I
Published: April 2011

This article aims to draw on the empowerment perspective as a key sociological concept to define our understanding of Arab women's transitions from the traditionally prescribed private sphere of the family to the emerging public sphere of the community. Female empowerment is viewed here as a multi-dimensional and multifaceted process of power re-distribution in society, and therefore its realization is conceived as a function of the interplay of progressive gender-based societal and legal advocacy actions, as well as institutional reforms. The proposed framework suggests that female empowerment in psychological, social, cultural, political, legal, economic and institutional contexts would generate wide-ranging outcomes with significant social and moral implications that go beyond media workplace boundaries.
More than a Parrot The Case of Saudi Women Journalists
Authors: Mellor Noha
Published: April 2011

This article closely examines the status of female Saudi journalists and the development of their professional role that began in women's magazines, and now is more pronounced on satellite TV channels. The article discusses this development in light of the notion of empowerment, which
is loosely defined as a process of change. Despite the abundant opportunities for female Saudi journalists, particularly those working as TV presenters, their presence, as I argue here, is still conjured and superficial rather than a reflection of genuine change in women's status inside the
kingdom. Thus, it is difficult to measure female empowerment in the media field, unless we consider the particularity of the Saudi context by taking into account the different circumstances that Saudi women deal with inside and outside the Saudi Kingdom.
Iraqi women journalists' challenges and predicaments
Authors: Al-Rawi Ahmed Khalid
Published: April 2011

This article aims at reviewing the condition of Iraqi female journalists specifically after the US invasion in 2003 by using different Arabic and English sources. The study argues that female Iraqi journalists enjoyed new freedoms of speech and got new opportunities to improve professionally after 2003, but many of them were harmed because of the spread of lawlessness, and thus they were mostly drawn to their sect or ethnic group as a protective measure to secure them from outside threats. After the US invasion, some journalists who wanted to cover the events in a balanced manner were threatened, kidnapped or assassinated by armed groups, militias and political parties. This fact has further enhanced the polarization of these journalists. Iraq has become known as the worst place for journalists to live and work; thus, it is not surprising that the circumstances Iraqi female journalists go through are probably some of the worst in the world.
Islamic feminism in new Arab media Platforms for self-expression and sites for multiple resistances
Authors: Khamis Sahar
Published: April 2011

This article deals with the growing phenomenon of Islamic feminism and its multiple manifestations through many new media avenues in the Arab world today. It begins by defining the term Islamic feminism and the many ambivalences and paradoxes surrounding it. The article then maps the transformative socio-political landscape in the Arab world, with a special focus on the rising tide of (re)Islamization and its complex causes and implications. It also maps the equally transformative media landscape in the Arab world, especially the impact of the proliferation of satellite television channels and Internet websites on the degree of freedom, plurality and diversity that is permitted and exhibited throughout the Arab region. The article provides specific examples of this New Wave of Islamic feminism as it manifests itself through various satellite channels and Internet websites exhibiting different forms of self-expression and multiple resistances.
Kenya's indigenous radio stations and their use of metaphors in the 2007 election violence
Authors: Wachanga D. Ndirangu
Published: April 2011

The article focuses on the use of metaphors during the 2007 pre- and post-election violence in Kenya that left at least 1400 people dead and more than 350,000 internally displaced. During and after the violence, vernacular radio stations, though not entirely responsible for the violence,
were highly chastised for constructing and disseminating narratives of hate, using embellished metaphors.

This article acknowledges the presence of these metaphors and the ethnicized stereotypical humour they provided before the election. But it is the political tension that provided the
context for the deployment of metaphors in a way that framed their meaning and potency of use. Whether these metaphors contributed to fanning ethnic passion cannot be quantitatively assessed. However, their potency was not in themselves, but in the meaning imbued in them; which was as fluid
and transient as the context changed. Metaphors, therefore, became substitutes for past ethnic grievances. They served as a rallying cry and a call to arms, not because of the totality of what can be inferred from them, both positive and negative, but their signification of the aspects of
difference. It is this difference, which was exploited during the election violence, not because of the metaphors but in spite of them. With the background of the political tension that suffocated the country, metaphors became materials to propagate ethnic identities and a basis for ethnic
nomenclature.
Book Reviews
Authors: Ndlela Martin Nkosi , Jacobs Sean
Published: April 2011

HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: ENGAGING WITH SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, LUUK LAGERWERF, HENRIK BOER AND HERMAN WASSERMAN (EDS) (2009) Pretoria: UNISA Press and Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, 306 pp., ISBN: 978 90 3610 137 0 (NL)/978 1 86888 574 9 (SA),
28.50

RETHINKING THIRD CINEMA: THE ROLE OF ANTI-COLONIAL MEDIA AND AESTHETICS IN POSTMODERNITY, FRIEDA EKOTTO AND ADELINE KOH (EDS) (2010) Berlin: Lit Verlag, 256 pp., ISBN-10: 3825818047; ISBN-13: 9783825818043, $32.98
The myth of press freedom in Botswana: From Sir Seretse Khama to Ian Khama
Authors: Tutwane Letshwiti B. B
Published: April 2011

This article argues that for all the plaudits that it has received Botswana is not a true example of democracy. It only continues to shine because of its historical context and the elaborate machinations of the ruling party. It supports Good's (1996) thesis of Authoritarian Liberalism
as an apt description of this style of leadership. The article articulates this by examining Botswana's media policy against the leadership of its first leader, Sir Seretse Khama (19651980), famous across the globe for his democratic credentials. Reference will also be made to the Masire (19801998)
and Mogae (19982008) eras. It argues that the current climate of media tyranny and democratic erosion is a legacy of Khama's foundation.
State-sanctioned discrimination and media discourses on homosexuality in Namibia
Authors: Strand Cecilia
Published: April 2011

The article critically discusses the events arising from the finalization of the Namibian National HIV/AIDS Policy of 2007. A series of consultative meetings throughout Namibia produced a progressive draft policy that recognized individuals engaged in same-sex sexual relationships and
emphasized the distinct vulnerabilities of the group. However, despite solid epidemiological support and stakeholders' endorsement of inclusion, the key section dealing with same-sex relations never made it into print. By using document analyses, interviews and media content analysis, the
article concludes that state-sanctioned discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) individuals, outlined in existing Namibian criminal laws, also resulted in a denial of their rights to health in the new HIV/AIDS policy. Moreover, the study found that the state-sanctioned
discrimination is reproduced in the state-owned print media, and that LGBT individuals are dependent on the independent media for visibility. The implications of the media discourses are discussed using an agenda setting perspective.
Global flows, media and developing democracies: The Ghanaian case
Authors: Avle Seyram
Published: April 2011

This article presents a combination of factors as a framework for examining how globalization and media impact developing democracies in the Global South. In particular, it pays attention to the interplay of changing technologies, regulatory regimes and local entrepreneurs with global expertise (obtained primarily through education overseas) and their combined impact on the media ecology in such countries. Using a historical analysis of the trends that started in the early 1990s, the article shows how countries like Ghana took advantage of key changes in globalization to create a vibrant media ecology that directly impacts the role of citizens. Specifically, the author posits that in Ghana the liberalization of the broadcast industry, the expertise of glocal entrepreneurs, and the explosion of new communication technologies like the Internet and mobile phones have led to a reconstitution of the public sphere and the creation of a new cultural elite.
Book Reviews
Authors: Iosifidis Petros , Michalis Maria , Starks Michael
Published: April 2011

Reinventing Public Service Television for The Digital Future, Mary Debrett (2010) UK: Intellect, 256pp., ISBN: 978-1841503219, Hardback, 29.00

Television in the Multichannel Age: A Brief History of Cable Television, Megan Mullen (2008) Malden MA, USA and
Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 238pp., ISBN: 978-1-4051-4970-9, Paperback, 19.99

Sounds of Your Life, The History Of Independent Radio in the Uk, Tony Stoller (2010) New Barnet: John Libbey Publishing Ltd, 362pp., ISBN: 9780 86196 690 5, Hardback, 22.50
The politics of television policy: The case of digital switchover in the United Kingdom
Authors: Smith Paul
Published: April 2011

Over the last twenty years, the nature of UK television policy-making has been transformed. Key developments, such as the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union and the development of digital broadcasting technology, have led to the emergence of a much more complex system
of policy-making, incorporating numerous new policy stakeholders and political institutions. This article highlights how recent research within political science on the so-called shift from government to governance can be used to gain a greater understanding of contemporary television policy-making.
Specifically, using digital switchover policy in the United Kingdom as a case study, the main issue to be addressed in this article is the extent to which the shift from government to governance can be seen as synonymous with reduced government power. Essentially, a detailed analysis of the
making and implementation of UK digital television policy suggests that although increasingly challenged, the UK government remains able to achieve most, if not all, of its preferred policy outcomes.
Co-regulation, video-on-demand and the legal status of audio-visual media
Authors: Sthigh Daith Mac
Published: April 2011

Media regulation in the United Kingdom has traditionally seen a division between State regulation (in the case of broadcasting) and self-regulation (in the case of newspapers), both subject to laws of general application. However, co-regulation has emerged as a significant feature of
contemporary regulation of the media, particularly in relation to video-on-demand (VOD). This article considers the various stages of consultation and implementation of the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) in the United Kingdom. A proposal for a new approach to
categorizing and analysing relevant statutory provisions and regulatory arrangements that pertain to audio-visual media including VOD is made. Other issues are explored, including methods of regulation, technological and organizational developments in the media industries, and the impact on
community media and the film industry. It is argued that the AVMSD did not resolve all issues in relation to the scope of regulation, and that even the most recent developments in the launch of co-regulation highlight the diverse forms of media regulation now in force.
Digital television in Germany
Authors: Kleinsteuber Hans J
Published: April 2011

Digital television in Germany is not really the subject of national-level policy. Initiatives are left to the broadcasters and to the Landesmedienanstalten, the fourteen bodies that regulate broadcasting in each of Germany's sixteen Lnder (regional states). The explanation for this
lies in the history of German broadcasting. Government attempts to strengthen Germany's role in the electronics industry during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were broadly unsuccessful. When digital television became a possibility, the broadcasters and the state-level regulatory bodies took the
initiative, with Berlin pioneering digital terrestrial switch-over. Analogue terrestrial switch-off was completed in 2008, but terrestrial reception accounts for a very small proportion of households, and cable and satellite remain a mix of analogue and digital technology. Today the major
players have their commercial strategies, but the national government has given up on media policy, and the electronics sector has mostly disappeared.
The positioning and current situation of Taiwan's digital TV
Authors: Ko Hsien-Tang , Chang Chi , Chu Nan-Shiun
Published: April 2011

Regulatory and content issues have hindered the development of Taiwan's digital TV, however, recently it has started to boom, with a penetration rate of 33.1 per cent in 2009. Survey findings on digital TV function and service demands indicate that high definition (HD), digital video
recording, and the electronic programme guide are the three most essential product functionalities of digital TV in Taiwan, with the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) application services surveillance, video-on-demand and healthcare in most demand. Competition among platforms and cooperation
between content providers and broadcast network operators has been evident for years in Taiwan and, as digital convergence continues, new entrants and business models will pose a big challenge to existing operators. Analogue terrestrial switch off in Taiwan is targeted for the end of 2012.
This article aims to present the digital transition process of television in Taiwan, to analyse customer demand and satisfaction levels for digital TV, and to analyse the competitive relationships among platforms and the cooperation between network operators and content providers.
Sounds, agents, works and listeners; A model of computer music performance
Authors: Stansbie Adam
Published: April 2011

This article places computer music directly into Stan Godlovitch's Model of Musical Performance; an idealized conception of musical performance based on four fundamental constituents: sounds, agents, works and listeners. Godlovitch's model was originally intended to promote the
unique value (Godlovitch 1998: 4) of scored instrumental music; as a result, one is not surprised to find computer music excluded on the grounds that it is not performed; it is played back (Godlovitch 1998: 100). Following a brief introduction to the Godlovitch model, this claim is rejected;
performance is central to the computer music tradition and aesthetic, a fact that is frequently overlooked by those unfamiliar with the genre. In order to prove this point, a model of computer music performance is presented and defended; this may be seen as a direct challenge to Godlovitch's
central thesis. However, it also represents a genuine attempt to align computer music with the performing arts and, in doing so, provide a framework through which the performance of such music can be accurately located and discussed.
The value of placements to undergraduate BSc (Hons) Music Technology students
Authors: Priest Roy
Published: April 2011

This article explores the potential of the placement year for students on the BSc (Hons) Music Technology at Birmingham City University. Focusing on the value of placements to students, the research also explores the approach to assessment. Although various reports have investigated
the value of student placements, specific studies centred on the importance of placements for students studying Music Technology are not available. Following a mixed methods case study paradigm, statistical data along with material drawn from interviews and questionnaires was analysed. The
key findings were as follows: Students and employers are very positive about the benefits of placements, in particular in terms of employability and networking. Although widely seen as beneficial to academic performance, statistical analysis comparing the marks of non-placement students with
ex-placement students is inconclusive. Approaches to assessment are considered and the importance of developing reflective practice is highlighted.
Reviews
Authors: Emmerson Jean , Rinta Tiija , Anderson Joseph , Wilde Howard , Oliver Rowan
Published: April 2011

Music and Mind in Everyday Life,Erik Clarke, Nicola Dibben and Stephanie Pitts (2010)Oxford: Oxford University Press, 224pp., ISBN 978-0-19-852557-8, Paperback, 19.99

Communicative Musicality Exploring the Basis of Human Companionship,Stephen Malloch and Colwyn Trevarthen (2010)UK: Oxford University Press, 627 pp, ISBN: 978-0-19-856628-1, 65.00

The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music,Miller Puckette (2007)Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 348 pp., ISBN: 978-981-270-077-3, Hardback, 76

Protest Music in France: Production, Identity and Audiencesby Barbara Lebrun (2009)Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 192pp., hardcover, ISBN 978-0-7546-6472-7

The New Guitarscape in Critical Theory, Cultural Practice and Musical Performance,Kevin Dawe (2010)Aldershot: Ashgate, 227pp., ISBN: 9780754667759, Hardback, 55.00
Transparency or drama? Extending the range of academic writing in architecture and design
Authors: Roudavski Stanislav
Published: April 2011

Discourses on epistemology in a variety of disciplines have established the need for diverse and case-specific approaches to writing. This need is as actual in practice-based research, and the relevant fields would benefit from better support of creative experimentation with academic
expression. In order to demonstrate that advances in this area are necessary, this article examines advice and criteria for writing offered by a typical writing guide. The discussed examples demonstrate that while the recommendations of such guides are useful, their emphasis on standardization
is also limiting. The article contrasts the advice common to writing guides and other prescriptive documents with the current state-of-the-art practice in qualitative research, pointing out productive alternative approaches.
The cave: Writing design history
Authors: Huppatz D. J
Published: April 2011

The beginnings of design histories are inconsistent. While industrial design histories tend to begin with European industrialization in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries, other design disciplines claim a longer genealogy. Art, interior design and graphic design narratives
each claim the Paleolithic caves in Southern France and Spain as their mythical birthplace: Altamira, Lascaux and/or Chauvet are used as a conventional starting point in standard textbook histories. A close analysis of the beginnings of several conventional design histories provides a starting
point for addressing the cave's place in design history. While historical writing is rarely considered as a poetic practice, in this article, I will examine the poetic construction of the cave as a space for both the projections of contemporary ideas about design and, more importantly, the
starting point of a narrative that anxiously binds progressive civilization to specifically European cultural roots.
Everyday Practice as Design
Authors: Raff Jan-Henning , Melles Gavin
Published: April 2011

Everyday practices in a range of public and private settings have been the subject of research and reflection in anthropology, sociology and education; such practices exhibit both routinized and individual behaviors. Examing everyday practices from a design perspective is less well
developed in the literature. As contribution to the practice turn the concept of everyday design is proposed as practice that builds conditions and structures for everyday activity. This practice is not limited to pragmatic action but also embraces cognitive processes. Gathering several theoretical
and empirical findings we offer a conceptual framework that presents purposes, subjects, objects and processes of everyday design.
Reviews
Authors: Butler Sarah , Edwards Harriet
Published: April 2011

The Secret Lives of Buildings, Edward Hollis (2009) New York: Metropolitan Books, ISBN-10: 0805087850 ISBN-13: 978-0805087857 Hardback RRP: $28.00 [For the UK: Portobello Books Ltd ISBN-10: 1846271282 ISBN-13: 978-1846271281 Paperback RRP: 9.99]

On Creative
Writing, Graeme Harper (2010) (Series Editor, Graeme Harper), Bristol, UK, New Writing Viewpoints, ISBN 978-1-84769-256-6, (125 pages), 19.95
Reflect on this!
Authors: Orr Susan , Richmond Jules Dorey , Richmond David
Published: April 2011

In this article we reflect on reflection. To do this, we share examples of pedagogic approaches used in undergraduate performance programmes at York St John University that re-situate reflective practice within creative practice. For example, we explore the creative, multimodal use
of a catalogue document that two of the authors used to encourage students to reflect as part of the B.A. (Hons) Theatre level 2 modules entitled performing the self & artist as witness. These modules aim to encourage students to consider themselves in some sense auteurs of themselves
and their art practice. The case study illustrates that we need to go beyond the familiar if we are to be reflexive about the role of reflection in creative practice education.
Creative visual art storytelling and concept development
Authors: Lord Anne
Published: April 2011

This article presents practice-based research in visual arts undergraduate subjects. Pedagogical approaches in the Visual Arts strand of the Bachelor of New Media Arts (BNMA), School of Creative Arts (SoCA) are outlined as motivational strategies, where stories emerge as the basis for
issue-driven projects. Curriculum design was based on the premise that visual artists in a university will access specific software programmes to suit their interests and skills. While students are required to build on skills and knowledge, the lecture programme targets creative art projects
with emphasis on conceptual development and digital presentation. Teaching to develop individual pathways in creative arts practitioners at tertiary level has demonstrated benefits and students provided strong appraisal in student feedback for teaching (SFT).

Lectures present ways that
artists consider a story, along the lines of a plot or storyboard, providing scope for the concept that the character is to expose. Hull and Katz (2006, Crafting an Agentic Self: Cases Studies of Digital Storytelling, 41:1) refer to storytellers becoming their agentic selves in terms
of personal development. One subject combines ideas about storytelling with contemporary visual arts and, in the context of relational aesthetics (Bourriaud 2002), connectivity occurs between visual and issue-driven art. The subject design involves broad issues as well as reflexivity,
and merges with the scenario of how artists become involved with exposing universal concerns.

Students demonstrate potential for research in artworks where visual interpretation of characters involves storytelling and documentation. Artists' statements contextualize the work on display.
Students reference web links and identify Computer Learning Technologies (CLT) crucial to their work. They write about software and links to online tutorials to explicate new knowledge and technical advancement.
Out of our minds: Exploring attitudes to creative writing relating to art and design practice and personal identity
Authors: Tappenden Curtis
Published: April 2011

This research project, now at the end of its third and evaluative year, primarily seeks to support Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) art and design students' critical/reflective awareness and literacy skills through creative writing as relating to multidisciplinary art
and design practices, and offers help to develop confidence and greater ownership of learning and participation in dynamic group activities. Through the undertaking of activities, learners explore the relationship between words and pictures and consider the intersections and boundaries where
these art forms cross and meet. As a trained teacher, author/illustrator and performance poet who extends his identity into the classroom as part of his pedagogy (Connoisseurship and Criticism. Eisner, 1998), the author encourages learners and peers to also express individual and collective
identities through innovative uses of images and words. An extracurricular writing group attended by FE, HE, Postgraduate and Access learners and staff has provided greater opportunity to explore many areas of writing relating to art and design practice to enhance and improve independent learning
and communication within the university culture and without it, feeding into the secondary school 1419 agenda, thereby addressing strategic Widening Participation targets. The results: a 50-session teaching pack written and delivered; papers presented at the 2008 University for the Creative
Arts (UCA) Teaching and Learning conference, London; Learning and Skills Research Network (LSRN) conference, London 2008; 1419 Agenda Seminar, Kings College University, London; HE Academy Annual conference, Manchester, 2009. Learners, having found greater identity within a community (Communities
of Practice, Lave and Wenger, 1998), continue to work with the author in co-facilitation roles to disseminate its findings into the wider educational community, and its challenging impact has led to the embedding of creative thinking and writing into FE, Access and BA (hons) Graphic Communication
Courses at UCA, Kent and Surrey. The project has now entered the final phase of evaluation.
CLTAD International Conference, 1213 April 2010, Berlin Creative partnerships: Helping creative writing and visual practice students to make links between their creative processes and their personal, vocational and academic development
Authors: Reading Christina , Moriarty Jess
Published: April 2011

This article reports on a research project that investigated students' experiences of creativity at the University of Brighton. It found that students' creativity was effectively supported if opportunities were provided for them to identify the things within their experiences, memories
and even within themselves that inspire their creativity. By developing workshops that helped to improve students' confidence and ownership of ideas, and to create spaces in which to discuss their creativity away from their assessed work, this project aimed to provide a model of best practice
that would enhance students' creativity and their personal, vocational and academic development. Ultimately, the paper suggests that students' creativity is best supported by embedding workshops into the curriculum that provide opportunities for students to gather the confidence and motivation
to discuss their creativity and the factors that inspire it.
How can we use writing as a tool for collaboration across disciplines at Ph.D. level?: Co-writing fictional versions of the truth about someone else
Authors: Lockheart Julia
Published: April 2011

This article will describe some of the key tools used throughout a series of collaborative writing workshops. These are part of my ongoing Ph.D. research in the Design Department, entitled, (How) Could co-writing help designers to develop a non-specialist, more comprehensive model
of practice (i.e. Metadesign)? Collaborative writing can be a tool to enable incommensurate and heterogeneous writers to work together to develop deep-level team synergy. It can generate unusual and surprising team synergies leading to a shared propensity to dream future scenarios rather
than remain within existing contexts. This longitudinal pilot study engaged four Ph.D. students, from different departments at Goldsmiths, University of London, over an extended period of nine months. The outcome of the writing was a set of fictional scenarios about the participants, entitled,
Fictional Versions of the Truth about Someone Else. The Ph.D. students, who went on to complete the writing, consisted of one student from each of the following disciplines: Education, Fine Art, Psychology and Media and Communications.

The process, which was co-designed and grew
organically, began by developing a team synergy through tools developed to build core values, and resulted in the participants benefiting in their confidence and ability to write. They learnt from each other and became both writers of their own fictional stories, as well as editors and critics.
An examination of the Journal used as a vehicle to bring about a synthesis between theory and practice in Art and Design higher education
Authors: Camino Minacha
Published: April 2011

This article outlines a mini piece of empirical study that examines the Journal used in two B.A. (Hons) courses, one Fine Art and the other Design. This qualitative research includes questionnaires and interviews with educators and final year students from one Higher Education College
in the United Kingdom. The questions were designed to find out whether the Journal brings about a synthesis between Critical Studies and students' own practice.

Responses range from the staff perspective that the Journal confuses the students, through to the view that it has the potential
to be of great use and the opinion of most students' that it supports their studio practice.

The outcomes suggest further research in relation to the key issues raised: approaches to teaching and learning (specifically writing) and the lead-up to the final-year Critical Studies curriculum
content.
Review
Authors: Wildgust Patrick
Published: April 2011

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne, introduced by Will Self (2010) London: Visual Editions, ISBN: 978-0-9565692-0-2, 15.
The digital era and alternatives for human and communications development in Latin America
Authors: de Alcazar Migdalia Pineda
Published: April 2011

The current study will first of all summarize the documentation and critical revision of authors like Ander Egg (2006), Cimadevilla (2008), Infante and Otros (2007), De Roberti and Pascal (2007), Jenkins (2008), Pineda (2009), Pisani and Piotet (2009) and Wolton (2006), among others. It approaches the subject of whether there are some alternatives and opportunities in the era of digital culture appearing in Latin American countries for the benefit of human and communications development. In order to fulfil this task, the investigation will focus on the development proposals that have circulated in the field since the end of the 1950s until the present time, and which highlight the necessity of their reformulation in the light of technological transformations. Furthermore, the role of communications within present challenges of development will be examined, since human development remains a qualitative problem unsolved. Later, a review will be made of the possible alternatives in the digital environment, concluding with a set of proposals on human and communications development in the region.