Aims: Cultural activities, including music, singing and dance, have often been conceptualised as enhancing well-being as well as promoting mental and physical health. This paper focuses on partnered dance in the context of 'cultures of fitness'. Its purpose was to investigate the dancers of tango...

This study provided the first test of the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism with respect to dancers' goals for dancing in competitive dance. Four hundred twenty-five young female North American competitive dancers (M: 1 1.33 years; SD = 2.14) completed questionnaires assessing multidimensional...

This contribution is about the role of laboratories and workshops in the development of independent films (especially documentaries) in North American film festivals. These small, invited gatherings within the larger cultures of film festivals influence the development of the next generation of ...

This article revisits an ethnographic essay written 25 years ago on the author's experience of attending an event generally seen as the first North American festival of independent films: the Sundance Film Festival. It addresses three key questions. The first is about the very definition of a ...

Research Question: In recent years, global mixed martial arts organization Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has experienced ups and downs with respect to North American pay-per-view (PPV) sales. A prevailing belief suggests the volatility of demand for the league's primary revenue stream is...

This paper reflects on my several attempts to integrate the African music and dance in my teaching practices particularly in North America. It emerges from personal experiences and serves as a response to the needs and demands of some institutions. It focuses on the method of designing integrated...

The opening of the World Cultures galleries in Edinburgh in 2011 marked the renewal of the well-loved, much visited, and rebranded National Museum of Scotland, a museum that has long envisaged its role in national and international terms. Tracing an episodic trajectory over 150 years, the article...

Research that involves a large and broad sample of museums can produce a representative picture of the entire museum sector and lead to global insights that may not be attainable through a more local lens. However, many museum research projects use a small sample of museums, meant to represent the...

This report provides some background information on music festivals and describes the current music festival scene in different countries of Europe, North America and the rest of the world. Also examined are: the profile of the music festival tourist; the economic benefits of the festival sector;...

This paper explores the wider political economy surrounding the opening of Capitol Records' first Canadian record pressing plant in 1976. This celebrated facility encapsulates much of the optimism for Canadian music during this period. As a site of research it reveals a great deal of the complex...