http://hdl.handle.net/2123/763 Search the Channel search http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5729 Title: Making over the Talent Show<br/><br/>Authors: Redden, Guy Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5389 Title: THE LAST BIWA SINGER: A Japanese Blind Musician in History, Imagination and Performance<br/><br/>Authors: de Ferranti, Hugh<br/><br/>Abstract: This book concerns the traditions of Japanese blind musicians and ritualists who accompanied themselves on the biwa, as embodied in the music and identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901-1996). Yamashika was the last person to have earned his income from performing a repertory of musical tales, songs and rites with biwa (a four-stringed lute), and to many seemed like a twentieth-century apparition of the blind bards who first performed the Tale of the Heike and other canonical medieval narratives. Yamashika’s identity as a musician and individual was far more complex, but he became well known as "the last biwa hōshi" and was the subject of books, media programs, and a feature-length documentary film. An apparent living relic of a Japan long vanished, Yamashika even appeared in the New York Times in his last years. The author draws upon approaches from Japanese historical and literature studies, performance studies and ethnomusicology in an examination of history, which yielded on the one hand images of blind singers that still circulate in Japan and on the other a particular tradition of musical story-telling and rites in regional Kyushu, of representations of Yamashika in diverse media, of his experiences training for and making a living as a professional performer and ritualist from the 1920s on, and of the oral compositional process in performances made between 1989 and 1992.<br/><br/>Description: Item HDF1-YY46-A from the Paradisec archive - Yamashika performance of the second dan of the tale "Shuntokumaru", recorded March 7th, 1989. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5341 Title: In The Public Interest? : Investigative Journalism and Fourth Estate Philosophy Within the Australian Press<br/><br/>Authors: Lenffer, Heidi<br/><br/>Abstract: The tradition of ‘investigative journalism’ has come to denote the most lauded qualities of the journalistic profession, and has an impressive history of producing social reform in Australia. However, its grounding in Fourth Estate principles arguably promotes an adversarial, top-down approach to journalism, which has served to position the journalist as a removed ‘watchdog’ gaurdian of public interests, rather than as a professional who facilitates the public’s expressions of politcal, social and cultural interest. This thesis uses a case study of the National Times newspaper (1971-1986) to illustrate the form and effect of a particular manifestation of investigative journalism, and seeks to contextualise the tradition within a historical account of the development of Fourth Estate philosophy within Australia. This thesis aims to contribute to contemporary debates surrounding the role of journalism by situating this research within a broader discussion of the changing relations between the media and the citizenry within the contemporary public sphere. Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5323 Title: Sexual and Gender Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Framework: Towards a Resolution of the Debate?<br/><br/>Authors: Morgan, Lucy<br/><br/>Abstract: The UN Declaration on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, adopted on the 18th of December 2008, marked a milestone in UN history, formally placing the concerns of sexual and gender minorities on the General Assembly’s human rights agenda for the first time. However, immediately following the Declaration, a counter-statement was issued by 57 member states, opposing the mere mention of the “so-called notions of sexual orientation and gender identity”. The Declaration and counter-statement bring to the fore an issue which has long been a concern of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex (LGBTI) rights movement – the capacity of international human rights law to uphold the rights of sexual and gender minorities. Human rights violations based on actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity remain prevalent in virtually every country and as awareness of these violations has grown, sexual orientation and gender identity have been increasingly promoted by human rights advocates. Such arguments have often been grounded in the emerging paradigm of sexual and gender rights, but the idea of sexual and gender rights remains highly contested and deeply controversial. Many analysts have questioned whether the United Nations framework is an appropriate mechanism for advancing the concerns of sexual and gender minorities. This dissertation contributes to this movement by presenting a case for the enshrinement of sexual and gender rights in UN human rights law.<br/><br/>Description: Examination of the recognition of gender rights in the United Nations human rights system. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:14:01 GMT