The Implementation of Batia Strauss's Method of Active Listening to Music with Didactic and Therapeutic Aims during Music Classes in Polish Public Schools

The article chronicles the implementation of Active Listening to Music, a pedagogical method developed by Batia Strauss that has become extremely popular in Poland in recent years. Strauss, working at Levinsky College for Teachers in Tel Aviv and managing the Branch of Music Teaching at the Jerusalem Music Academy, led workshops for a wide circle of participants worldwide. This article includes aims and forms of music therapy as used in Polish schools, a description of the method of Batia Strauss, particularly its therapeutic features, and means of implementation of elements of Strauss’s method through a variety of music therapy techniques as adapted in Poland

Spectropolitics and invisibility of the migrant : on images that make people ‘illegal’

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'Barbarians' and 'Radicals' against the Legitimate Community? - Cultural Othering through Discourses on Legitimacy of Human Rights

This article focuses on the mutations of rights from instruments of inclusion to instruments of exclusion. It focuses on multiple exclusionary interpretations of legitimacy of international human rights law that create and propagate otherness. The text analyses the understanding and role of ‘legitimate community of rights’ in contemporary crises of recognition and critically evaluates how this notion excludes those deemed too different to belong. The article does so primarily in light of managing religious difference and argues that European human rights regimes have created two distinct categories of dissidents seen as subversive and a priori excluded from the protection of rights – the ‘barbarians’ and the ‘radicals’. This analysis begins with a discussion of the theoretical notions of rights and legal legitimacy and their application in contemporary human rights case-law. It subsequently theorises the consequences of legitimising a homogenously constructed ‘community’ as the ultimate authority and its impact on reversal of the emancipatory potential of rights

Backlash or Widening the Gap?: Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Twenty-First Century

This article examines legal challenges to women’s reproductive rights in Ireland and the United States, arguing that backlash against reproductive rights is a consequence of the long unsettled position of women’s reproductive freedom in liberal democracies and the catalogue of rights. It examines the legal foundations of reproductive rights and their perceived conflicts with other values, such as religion, and focuses on the current legal challenges to women’s bodily autonomy regarding choice and motherhood. It demonstrates the many contexts in which women have not acquired full reproductive freedom, and explores the nature of the current backlash. It argues that the nature of the backlash is not simply a reclamation of what has been legally guaranteed, but instead a deepening of the preexisting divides within reproductive justice globally

Trzy wiersze Jacka Kaczmarskiego inspirowane malarstwem polskim. Z muzyką Zbigniewa Łapińskiego i Przemysława Gintrowskiego

Tekst jest opracowaniem interdyscyplinarnym. Traktuje o związkach malarstwa, poezji i muzyki. Trzy obrazy polskich malarzy (Jacek Malczewski, Wigilia na Syberii, Bronisław Wojciech Linke, Kanibalizm, Jerzy Krawczyk, Birkenau) stały się inspiracją dla poezji Jacka Kaczmarskiego, jego zaś wiersze (odpowiednio: Wigilia na Syberii, Kanapka z człowiekiem, Birkenau) zostały umuzycznione przez Zbigniewa Łapińskiego i Przemysława Gintrowskiego. Artykuł – mający charakter analityczny – odsłania drogę przekazu artystycznego od obrazu, poprzez słowo poetyckie, do ujęcia muzycznego.Three Poems by Jacek Kaczmarski, Inspired by Polish Painting. With Music by Zbigniew Łapiński and Przemysław GintrowskiSUMMARYThe article is an interdisciplinary study, which discusses interrelations between painting, poetry and music. Three pictures by Polish painters – Wigilia na Syberii [Christmas Eve in Siberia] by Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929), Kanibalizm [Cannibalism] by Bronisław Wojciech Linke (1906-1962), and Birkenau by Jerzy Krawczyk (1921-1969) – became the inspiration for Jacek Kaczmarski’s (1957-2004) poetry; his poems in turn, as poetic reactions to the foregoing paintings, Wigilia na Syberii (1980), Kanapka z człowiekiem [Sandwich with a Man] (1980) and Birkenau (1981) respectively – were musicalized by Zbigniew Łapiński (b. 1947) and Przemysław Gintrowski (1951-2012), and performed by the trio of Kaczmarski, Łapiński, and Gintrowski (Wigilia na Syberii in 1981) and by Przemysław Gintrowski alone (Kanapka z człowiekiem in 2009, Birkenau in 1991). The three-part, analytical article reveals the process of artistic communication: from a picture, to the poetic word, to a songster’s interpretation.

Obrazy wojny i holocaustu w muzyce i sztuce. Szkic do edukacji interdyscyplinarnej

The main premise of the presented study is to show the impact of World War Two events on the creative achievements of selected artists who treated these dramatic events as the direct source of inspiration. The primary object of interest are selected musical pieces composed in the twentieth and twenty-fi rst centuries, analyzed at the same time from the perspective of their correspondence with other domains of art: painting, sculpture, poetry, and partly with fi lm. The article discussed Arthur Honegger’s Second and Third Symphony, compositions: Diffrent Trains by Steve Reich, and Diaries of Hope by Zbigniew Preisner, and in the fi eld of fi ne art: inter alia the painting works by Izaak Celnikier, Xawery Dunikowski, Bronisław Wojciech Linke, and Andrzej Wróblewski, selected monument sculptures (e.g. in the Majdanek Concentration Camp in Lublin), and with special emphasis on works devoted to the tragedy of the Holocaust. An important aim of the paper is to show the possibility of utilizing the presented content in interdisciplinary teaching provided for in the Ministry of National Education’s core curriculum for general education in art subjects and the subject Knowledge of Culture.Brak streszczenia w języku polskim

Dydaktyka uniwersytecka Beaty Dąbrowskiej. Przywołania chwil minionych

The article presents the teaching work of Beata Dąbrowska (1960-2016) at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Institute of Music. During over 30 years of her work at the University, Beata Dąbrowska – a conductor and teacher – educated several dozen graduates. As part of her teaching duties, she taught courses in choral conducting, reading the scores, vocal band, methodology of conducting vocal band, and in choir and choral literature. The classes in these subjects focused on choral music, which she liked the most. This text presents the methods and the style of her work during classes in choral conducting, reading the scores and choral literature. The description of her teaching, including, inter alia, manual and technical aspects of conducting, repertoire and interpretative issues, has been complemented with the remembrances by her students: graduates of the Institute of Music: Milena Lis and Izabela Urban and students – Kinga Rdzak and Jagoda Pondel. These memories confirm that Professor Dąbrowska – a person of great personal culture – conducted her classes with extreme calm and self-control. She was a demanding teacher but at the same time she created a warm and cordial atmosphere