The teaching of jazz theory has long been linked to the use of modes and nontraditional scales that have enriched jazz improvisation and composition. Nevertheless, jazz scholars have not reached a consensus in regard to scale nomenclature, especially in relation to heptatonic synthetic scales or modes. The tendency to describe synthetic scales with proper nouns is becoming less frequent for one reason: a name like Hungarian or Jewish scale does not convey any musical information.

Art therapists have their own art and art-making available to them as an important resource for personal and professional containment, reflection and perseverance. Engaging in and with their own art-making and images can lead to further insights, and can serve as a reservoir to deposit complex reactions, ruminations and responses to a global pandemic. This article surfaces one artist/art therapist’s art-making through a visual exposé of his perspective on containment of circumstances that are essentially beyond his control.

In this paper, I argue that Takahata’s works possess aesthetic qualities that have not been addressed sufficiently, partly due to the lack of an overall recurring theme and specific visual traits that allow viewers to easily identify with the characters. The impact of Takahata’s work rests on their narrative meaning rather than centering on the personalities and visual charm of the key characters. The meaning stays within the animation itself, rather than branching out through merchandising or fan activity.

This article re-introduces the submerged 1968 performance Televanilla, an improvisational theatre dance piece that deployed analogue image-processing tools to establish a dialogical system with technological media. It argues that the performance anticipated principal concepts and strategies for real-time human-machine interaction, and the "virtual" representation of participants in mediated art environments. Although the performance received reviews from renowned critics in prominent New York newspapers and magazines, it disappeared from the historical records almost entirely.

Art therapy is a dynamic discipline that readily embraces opportunities to further develop and expand practices and applications. This can be observed in art therapy training pedagogy, initiatives, and projects. For those art therapy training programs that are new and/or are being developed in regions around the world, it is important that their contributions to the field are acknowledged and shared with a global audience. Art-based methodology supports the reflexive stance of this preliminary investigation and documents this initial phase of a larger research initiative.

Traditional Chinese Music in Contemporary Singapore is a collection of essays written by 12 esteemed contributors who are greatly involved in contributing to, building up and maintaining the world of traditional Chinese music in Singapore. Ranging from musicians and conductors to lecturers and educators, these essays present diverse perspectives and incisive insights into this particular sphere of music, and are both a useful entry point for the curious reader, as well as valuable companions to experienced enthusiasts.

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the ‘universal science’ of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique

This chapter focuses on the Serdang Folk Museum in the New Village of Serdang, Selangor, as a study of the performance of heritage by a community with a specific history and location. The museum asserts an alternative narrative of history to the official narrative presented by government museums, upholders and propagators of National Heritage. The exhibitions of the Serdang Folk Museum and its particular history are discussed against a backdrop of National Heritage via the institutions of the National Museum and the state museum of Selangor, the Sultan Alam Shah Museum.

Given Kahlo's special bond with San Francisco and the city's impact on her art and her fashion, presenting the exhibition in this venue carries special significance. Many iconic photographs that show Kahlo as a Tehuana (by Cunningham, Adams, Alvarez Bravo, and Weston) are from San Francisco, and her first self-portrait in full Tehuana attire was painted in San Francisco (now in the collection of SFMOMA). Frida Kahlo's encounters with "Gringolandia" (as she called the United States) were formative and complex.

The Embodied Art Therapy Process (TEATP) focuses on the co-creation of embodied artistic expressions to promote self-awareness and autonomy for children. A case study describes how TEATP was implemented to support a child in gaining self-awareness and autonomy. Awareness of her own body, sensations, and feeling allowed her to assert her voice and practice