CLAT Step 3 - Select Effects, Content, Genre, and Events

Question 1

Choose desired effects: The people of community X will… (4 options)

Answer 1

think differently, act differently, feel solidarity with others, and/or experience emotions like hope, joy, remorse, etc.

Question 2

Choose content by identifying. . .

Answer 2

. . .truths to be communicated (biblical, medical, etc.).

Question 3

Choose a genre that has the capacity. . .

Answer 3

. . .to communicate the content and produce the desired results.

Question 4

Choose an event that could. . .

Answer 4

. . .include a performance of new works in the genre that would produce the effects in its experiencers.

Question 5

(4) things to remember about communication between people during artistic communication events

Answer 5

1. People interact in artistic events by directing messages through various artistic genres to other communicators at particular places and times.
2. Some genres allow communication in more predictable, regular ways.
3. Other genres allow communication in more variable, improvisatory ways.
4. Communication is always (eventually) reciprocal, sometimes feeding back into the performance itself and affecting it (emergence).
   
   • stable vs. malleable during performances:
     
     • • Bauman (1975)—every performance is new due to differing contexts = emergent
         
         • Beeman (1997)—reinforces idea of emergence due to environment [context]; also considers artistic communication events as the primary means by which people understand the world around them: conservative (confirming), or transformative (challenging)
         • Lord (2000)—oral formulaic theory explains how emergence can happen
         • Maranda (1971)—success of riddles has less to do with exact words and more with the Lau culture’s “rules of formation and transformation”
     • Schrag (2013a)— malleable structures infuse new energy into the stable structures]]

Question 6

Stable vs. malleable (sources)

Answer 6

Harris (2012/2017); Bauman (1975); Beeman (1997); Lord (2000); Maranda (1971); Schrag (2013a)

Question 7

Harris (2012/2017)

Answer 7

Emergence theory (from Bauman 1975)

Question 8

Bauman (1975)

Answer 8

Based on Lord (1974/2000), every performance is new due to different environment = emergent

Question 9

Beeman (1997)

Answer 9

Reinforces the idea of emergence due to environment; also considers artistic communication events to be the primary way people understand the world around them: artistic communication events can be conservative (confirming), or transformative (challenging) to experiencers

Question 10

Lord (1974/2000)

Answer 10

His oral formulaic theory explains how emergence can happen

Question 11

Maranda (1971)

Answer 11

The success of riddles (among the Lau) has less to do with exact words and more with cultural “rules of formation and transformation”

Question 12

Schrag (2013a)

Answer 12

malleable structures infuse new energy into the stable structures

Question 13

(4) steps in choosing an event:

Answer 13

Together:

1) List all kinds of possible events that the new artistic genre works could be a part of;
2) Remind yourselves of your choices thus far: effects, content, and genre;
3) Choose a few of the event types that you came up with and briefly describe them in terms of their communication components;
4) Choose one or two events that would be likely goals for co-creative activities.