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10 Ways Music Is Intrinsically Linked to Our Cultural Identity

By Chantal Ford — 2020

Do we realize just how much of an influence music really has on us and our cultural identity?

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Managing the Flames of Conflict

Conflict doesn’t mean the end of your remarriage, and can actually make it stronger. There are always going to be disagreements; you cannot avoid them entirely. What you can do, however, is become skilled at recovering from disputes by talking about your perspectives afterwards.

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Terry Gaspard
2022
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Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate

Culture change needs to happen through a movement, not a mandate. To create a movement in your organization, start by framing the issue in terms that stir emotion and incite action; then mobilize more supporters by demonstrating quick wins.

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Bryan Walker, Sarah A. Soule
2017
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Understanding the Four Stages of the Creative Process

Any creative process is a dance between the inner and the outer; the unconscious and conscious mind; dreaming and doing; madness and method; solitary reflection and active collaboration.

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Carolyn Gregoire
2019
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Art x Music: How Collaborations Between Artists and Musicians Bring Forth New Sounds

As the world of art broadens its borders and sets its sights on all realms of culture, ARTnews surveyed collaborations of various kinds for the August/September issue of the magazine.

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Andy Battaglia
2021
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On Collaboration

When I’m attending to another in poetic collaboration, I’m brought open to possibility, to new bonds and intimacies. Collaboration is for me a way of being permeable and open to change.

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Alli Warren
2014
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Artist Collaboration Fuels Creative Exploration

Some the most groundbreaking artistic works have resulted when artists with knowledge and experience from distant genres and unrelated forms collide and spark new ideas.

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Amit Gupta
2013
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7 Great Artist Duos that Shaped Art History

“I believe that collaboration is the solution and may bring us the harmony which would liberate art from its boundless confusion” - Jean Arp

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Alexxa Gotthardt
2016
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Collaborating with Creative Peers

Artists feel pride in producing work that bears their unique stamp. As a result, some resist incorporating others’ ideas into their projects, even when those suggestions address problems they’d like to solve.

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Kimberly D. Elsbach, Brooke Brown-Saracino, Francis J. Flynn
2015
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The Creative Collectives Finding Strength in Numbers

The 1960s and ’70s stand as an era of artistic community — of collectives: musicians and writers, artists and architects, photographers and filmmakers listening, arguing and creating with each other. Now they're rediscovering their power.

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Adam Bradley
2021
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Against Persuasion

Philosophers aren’t the only ones who love wisdom. Everyone, philosopher or not, loves her own wisdom: the wisdom she has or takes herself to have. What distinguishes the philosopher is loving the wisdom she doesn’t have.

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Agnes Callard
2021
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