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Listening to Bi-Musical Blackness
| Title: | Listening to Bi-Musical Blackness: Towards Courageous Affirmation of Black String Musicians in Predominantly White Institutions. |
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| Name(s): |
Davis, Danielle, author Gunderson, Frank D., Professor Directing Thesis Bakan, Michael B., Committee Member Bugaj, Kasia, Committee Member Punter, Melanie, Committee Member Florida State University, degree granting institution College of Music, degree granting college |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: |
Text Master Thesis |
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| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 2019 | |
| Publisher: | Florida State University | |
| Place of Publication: | Tallahassee, Florida | |
| Physical Form: |
computer online resource |
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| Extent: | 1 online resource (129 pages) | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | This project investigates Black American string players’ experience of racism, bi-musicality, and multi-musicality in their musical and personal lives within the context of higher education. The project brings into focus the identities and experiences of Black string students leading to the development of nigrescence, racial contextualization, and code-switching in predominantly white institutions. I argue that the bicultural experiences of Black American string musicians at Florida State University generate a bi-musicality that is complicated by marginalization, isolation, and racism in college music programs. Using ethnographic fieldwork, bi-aural analysis, and interviews with students, this project gives voice to Black string musicians who may not have had the courage or awareness to recognize and address this phenomenon. I apply methodologies from music education, ethnomusicology and other disciplines using ethnography, archived materials, visual media, print, and web sources to help professors and students foster a broad sense of Black musical identity. I advocate for a pedagogy that constructs culturally affirming worlds of musical experience–e.g., Old Time, Indian (Hindustani and Carnatic), and Afro-Peruvian musics– for Black string musicians to navigate using their bi-musical Blackness. | |
| Identifier: | 2019_Spring_Davis_fsu_0071N_15213 (IID) | |
| Submitted Note: | A Thesis submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. | |
| Degree Awarded: | Spring Semester 2019. | |
| Date of Defense: | April 3, 2019. | |
| Keywords: | bi-aurality, bi-musicality, Blackness, identity, Racism | |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references. | |
| Advisory Committee: | Frank Gunderson, Professor Directing Thesis; Michael B. Bakan, Committee Member; Katarzyna Bugai, Committee Member; Melanie Punter, Committee Member. | |
| Subject(s): | Music -- Instruction and study | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2019_Spring_Davis_fsu_0071N_15213 | |
| Host Institution: | FSU |
Davis, D. (2019). Listening to Bi-Musical Blackness: Towards Courageous Affirmation of Black String Musicians in Predominantly White Institutions. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2019_Spring_Davis_fsu_0071N_15213
