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Record W4411816302 · doi:10.59998/2025-14-1-2309

Filming The Sunjata Story – Glimpse of a Mande Epic

2025· article· en· W4411816302 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Ely Lyonblum

Bibliographic record

Venue˜The œworld of music/˜Theœ world of music · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSoutheast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersCape Breton University
KeywordsEPICArtHistoryLiterature

Abstract

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This article summarizes the research creation activities as part of Singing Storytellers in 2014, and subsequently the development of knowledge dissemination outputs through deep collaboration with scholars and artists. Over the past decade, the field of research creation has brought together academics and practitioners across institutes of higher education, the arts sector, and the creative industry in Canada and internationally. My work as a documentary filmmaker and sound artist has expanded to a curatorial practice that centers community engagement, in no small part due to the connections with artists and scholars, training opportunities, and mentorship from which I benefited during this project while I was a graduate student. While collaborations between the musicians and scholars involved in Singing Storytellers have thrived since and resulted in multiple initiatives, this article reflects on the initial collaboration that brought a novel approach to the Sunjata epic performance accompanied by poetic translation to the public through multimedia. Here, I reflect on the process of filming, editing, and presenting The Sunjata Story – Glimpse of a Mande Epic drawing on methods from visual anthropology and ethnomusicology. I conclude with a consideration of how acts of reciprocity can create more sustainable relationships between artists and scholars – a practice I now incorporate into my own scholarship today.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.707
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.304
Teacher spread0.272 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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