Introduction: Festivals and Musical Life

Religious Festivals and Influenza

Objectives Influenza outbreaks have been widely studied. However, the patterns between influenza and religious festivals remained unexplored. This study examined the patterns of influenza and Hanukkah in Israel, and that of influenza and Hajj in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Oman and Qatar. Method Influenza surveillance data of these seven countries from 2009 to 2017 were downloaded from the Fl...

Introduction: Musical Research at IRCAM

This issue presents a snapshot of Musical Research at Ircam between 2008 and 2011, following the very first issue of this journal in 1984 on Musical Thought at IRCAM (Tod Machover, Editor). Within this time span, whereas the role of Ircam as an institution dedicated to scientific research for artistic creativity has remained unchanged, the context of such innovative endeavors, the role of the i...

Theodor Billroth and his musical life.

Community Festivals: involvement and inclusion

This paper presents a part of a more detailed study into the organisation of a community festival in the East Midlands of the UK. The focus is on how the central steering group imposed a restricted sense of culture onto the festival and how the local communities were distanced from the processes. The literature on festivals is critically reviewed before the issues of involvement and inclusion a...

Marriage Festivals and the Spread of Cholera

ease is otherwise when too many people collect in a village and use the tank both for bathing and drinking purposes. Moreover, when there is.a collection of people in a village, there is a chance of a carrier arriving from outside. It appears that something of the kind happened in this case. On the 24th February, which was the day of the marriage, two of the guests were attacked with cholera an...