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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1956
CULTURAL RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS DESCRIBE THE CULTURAL, ARTISTIC, SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE IN THEIR COUNTRIES, EXPLAINING THE VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORKS, THE LISTENING PATTERNS AND TASTES OF THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE PROBLEMS THEY HAVE ENCOUNTERED. THESE INCLUDE PROBLEMS OF MULTIPLE LANGUAGES,…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Conferences, Cultural Activities, Educational Radio
Hoffman, Carl – Appalachia, 1993
During the 1920s, Walker Calhoun learned traditional songs and dances from his uncle, Will West Long, spiritual leader of the Big Cove Cherokees. Nine years ago, Calhoun began teaching them to his grandchildren and other young people. Calhoun has received numerous honors for his work to preserve Cherokee culture. (LP)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indians
Pratt, Alice; Bennett, Ruth, Ed. – 1981
Traditional and contemporary Hupa songs as sung by a Hupa medicine woman in her 70's are collected in this booklet. Songs are presented in Hupa and English on facing pages that are illustrated with pen and ink drawings. The four songs are "Flower Dance Song" and "Kick Dance Song" (both for traditional religious ceremonial…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Languages, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Cultural Activities
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Jaffa, Herbert – Social Education, 1984
Cultural freedom involves the ability to recognize and participate imaginatively in the exploration of one's own environment for the sake of one's self and one's people and the ability to transcend that environment and speak to all people. Australian artists, writers, poets, music, and oral literature are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Artists, Australian Literature, Authors
Wiesand, Andreas J.; Schroer, Carl Friedrich; Schulze-Reimpell, Werner – Bildung und Wissenschaft (Bonn), 1996
This serial issue is devoted to examining the artists of Germany, their cultural economy, and their increasing dependence on public agencies for support. The prospects for the up-and-coming generation of artists are examined and the available training institutions, teaching staff, study programs and qualifications for professional prospects and…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Cultural Activities, Dance
Harney, John O. – Connection: New England's Journal of Higher Education and Economic Development, 1998
New England's college- and university-based arts programs feed both the imagination and the economy. The region has 5% of the nation's population, but awards arts and music degrees to 8% of the nation's graduates, garners 7% of National Endowment for the Arts funding, supports over 1000 commercial arts-oriented businesses, and 10,000 nonprofit…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Activities, Degrees (Academic), Economic Impact
Brown-Danquah, Benita Binta – 1994
This guide provides history, format, contact names, addresses, and phone numbers of some African dance and African American marching units in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). The working papers are divided into two categories. "Part One: Movements of African Dance in Philadelphia" begins with a sensitive, detailed explanation of the…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Art Education, Black Culture, Blacks
Waterman, David; And Others – 1987
This report examined media audiences for the arts using data gathered in the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPA) covering approximately 18,000 U.S. adults in 1982 and 16,000 adults in 1985. The SPA questionnaire covers the use of television, radio, and recordings as a means to participate in seven particular arts activities, which…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Audience Participation, Audiences, Cultural Activities
Mittenthal, Richard A.; McAdam, Terry W. – 1978
This presentation has a four-fold purpose: (1) to highlight the importance of the arts in New York City; (2) to mention the major problem areas facing cultural institutions today; (3) to examine the contribution to New York City cultural institutions made by Federal, State, and local agencies; and (4) to suggest a strategy that has been developed…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Community Resources, Cultural Activities, Dance
Tapia, Ivan, Ed. – Bildung und Wissenschaft, 1994
This special-issue volume examines music education in the two Germanies and how music has had a great influence in the culture of the nations. The presentation is a professional and objective portrayal of music training and cultivation in Germany in the last decade of the present century. The articles attempt to outline the problems and tasks that…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Fine Arts, Folk Culture
Kennan, William R.; Hill, L. Brooks – 1978
Recent research into the "forty-nine" songs and singing of the Kiowa Indians in southwestern Oklahoma is described in this paper. The paper first outlines the value of a process oriented approach to communication analysis that accents three primary variables: indexicality (the inherent situational nature of communicative acts),…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Communication Research, Cross Cultural Studies
Nye, Russel – 1970
This book is a study of certain of the popular arts in American society, that is, the arts in their customarily accepted genres. "Popular" is interpreted to mean "generally dispersed and approved"--descriptive of those artistic productions which express the taste and understanding of the majority and which are free of control, in content and…
Descriptors: Art, Art Products, Attitudes, Cultural Activities
Wolf, Thomas – 1991
This handbook for organizing performance presentations, designed for professional organizations and volunteer or not-profit organizations, focuses on how to manage a presenting organization. The volume features 40 specific rules to guide groups presenting performances. The rules include: (1) get organized, (2) know the law, (3) remember performers…
Descriptors: Administration, Art, Artists, Arts Centers
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Leamon, Patricia – Educational Leadership, 1999
Describes a French teacher's efforts to substitute interactive video/computer technologies for textbook materials. She designed special language-lab events to introduce eighth graders to the vocabulary of animals, colors, simple adjectives, fruits, flowers, and natural landscapes and to cultural artifacts, such as paintings, arias, poems, and…
Descriptors: Art, Cultural Activities, French, Grade 8
Carlton, Elizabeth B.; Weikart, Phyllis S. – 1994
This book focuses on how teachers can guide children to acquire ownership of musical concepts through their personal construction of knowledge. It is intended for teachers of grades K-3, music educators, and preservice teachers. The book contends that music and movement are important to the development of the whole child and can be integrated…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cultural Activities, Fine Arts, Motor Development
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