... realized or consummated in the moment of performance, with the presence of and the interactions with audience members, who socially recognize the performance as this culminating moment. South African isicathamiya music serves as a case study. value musical performance media of value isicathamiya ...

... Pretend as we might that technological acceleration and the transition to a computational civilization leads to salvation, the history of humanity on Earth seems already to have been consummated. Time itself may well have lost all potentiality. The ecological system has been so badly damaged...

... This chapter describes the author’s transformation from consummate activist to the lead American diplomat in South Africa. It had been a long journey for Nelson Mandela, who went from prison to president, but it was no small step for Joseph, who went from anti-apartheid “trouble maker,” once...

... This letter is concerned with the sense in which Stuart Hall was consummately oriented toward a responsiveness to the present rather than to abstract theoretical issues. It aims to show the role of “contingency” in his thinking and acting, especially its relation to his idea of a “conjuncture...

..., this chapter examines her as the consummate artist that she is, as a musician’s musician. It examines how she faced demands from nearly every corner of the social spectrum in Puerto Rico, in contrast to her own relationship to the voice as the pursuit of truth or thought. In the 1960s, Lucecita was first...

...The 1990s<subtitle>Moral Lessons from South Africa</subtitle> This chapter describes the author’s transformation from consummate activist to the lead American diplomat in South Africa. It had been a long journey for Nelson Mandela, who went from prison to president, but it was no small step...