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This thesis is about musicians in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, and how they pursue professional careers through the performance of a diverse range of musics in a wide range of settings. The subjects of this research are mostly...
This dissertation provides a comprehensive history of the American collegiate percussion ensemble and assesses how institutional and gendered practices have influenced the size, style, and aesthetic of the genre’s repertoire in...
This dissertation is a study of the Deaf hip hop movement in the United States. It examines the trajectories of major figures in the development of this movement who have been brought together by way of their expression of music from a...
This dissertation is an examination of music and healing in the Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra in San Fernando, Trinidad. The potential roles of music in health and healing are explored through three perspectives. The first perspective...
This dissertation explores musical exchanges between Cuba and the United States during a four-year period from 2009 to 2013. The work focuses specifically on international music festivals in Cuba and on international tours involving...
Simon Bikindi was once the most famous and popular musician in Rwanda. In 1993 and 1994, the pro-genocide radio station, RTLM (Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines), incorporated his songs into a propaganda campaign used to incite...
This study investigates the influence of the major American radio networks on music, especially new compositions specifically written for broadcast. It focuses on two initiatives by the networks--NBC's Orchestral Awards (1932) and CBS's...
This thesis is a study of the functions of music and dance in Zumba classes held at the Forest Meadows Park community center in Tallahassee, Florida. It examines how music and dance are the generative mechanisms of communitas in this...
This dissertation asserts that members of Ile Asho Funfun, the Lucumí spiritual house at the center of the research, is comprised of members who have undergone the process of converting to the spiritual practice of Lucumí and, as such, ...
The rapid development and adoption of personal computers and the Internet at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century have brought significant changes to popular musical culture and amateur music-making. In the...
The practice of call-and-response devotional chant, known as kirtan, has been transformed from its original religious contexts and has found new meaning in secular communities throughout yoga studios across North America. Participants of...
Electronic Dance Music (EDM), a musical genre left relatively unexplored in music theory offers music theorists numerous exciting opportunities for analytical inquiry. This paper focuses on the rhythms and formal structures encountered...
This thesis focuses on the growth and healing experiences of seventy-five women in Womansong--an all-female community choir that is based in Asheville, NC. Founded in 1987, Womansong celebrated its 25th anniversary with a concert in...
The folia de reis is a popular Brazilian tradition of folk Catholicism that involves a group of participants who, between Christmas and Epiphany, go on a journey asking for alms for social-religious purposes. The tradition refers to...
One of the most important roles of the online instructor is to insure successful teaching by keeping students' interactions and discussions focused on topic, adding knowledge and expertise, and maintaining group harmony. Therefore, the...
This thesis explores the ways that practitioners in orisha worshipping traditions conceptualize aché in relation to the function of music and performance in spirit possession ceremonies. Aché is a concept generally defined as divine...
Ritual healing has fascinated ethnographers and historians for several decades. Over the last twenty-five years, ethnomusicologists have begun to examine the cognitive, performative, and phenomenological aspects of ritual and trance....
This dissertation explores a Bakhtinian approach to genre and musical-social interaction, and the ways in which they serve the invention of various categories of identity, as evident in the milling frolic. The milling frolic is a social...
This thesis analyzes selected dream ballets, examining their appearances and investigating how they were used throughout their existence, offering a new perspective on an often-neglected dramatic device of American music theater. Each...
A growing number of global civil society organizations commonly referred to as nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, have proliferated throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, and especially Kenya, since the mid-1980s. Drawing from...
Community musical theater actively engages individuals in music-making and dramatic performances across the United States. Musical experiences in the realm of community musical theater afford individuals opportunities for meaningful...
This thesis explores the healing capabilities of musical improvisation using a two-fold approach. First, it proposes a theoretical framework to understand improvisation as a preventive or curative event. Second, it employs the proposed...
In this dissertation, I present an ethnography, social history, musical analysis, and discussion of Afro-EcuadorianBombain its relation toafrochoten∼oidentity based on ethnographic field-research conducted in the Chota-Mira valley, and...
The Western art music ("classical") guitar tradition flourished in Europe during the mid nineteenth century. Guitarists like Andrés Segovia contributed to a revived interest in the tradition in the early twentieth century and stimulated...
Just be yourself. This seemingly banal platitude can mean any number of things, depending on the context in which it is to be done: I could be unique and distinguish a singular subject, I could behave as I normally would and embody "my...
The steelpan is historically significant to the people of Trinidad and Tobago as it shapes our identity and evokes a sense of national pride. Among many performative practices within this community, the steelpannists are governed by a...
Industrial music was born in 1976 in London, England with the creation of Industrial Records. Originally, industrial music referred to the musical output of the label, which included a variety of experimental, electronic, often noise...
The rapid decline of regional American identity throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a subsequently increasing recognition and interest in America's cultural past have resulted in the promotion of small-town America as...
Duende has long been a fixture of the gitano lifescape in Andalusia, Spain, and is often invoked in relation to flamenco performance with such variance in meaning that it is difficult to attain an understanding of what duende really is, ...
There are many examples of small communities where members of the population took action to fill a cultural void; one is Charleston, West Virginia. A critical figure in the development of Charleston's active performing community was...
Ritual healing has fascinated ethnographers and historians for several decades. Over the last twenty-five years, ethnomusicologists have begun to examine the cognitive, performative, and phenomenological aspects of ritual and trance....
In the public spaces of New Orleans, street musicians construct soundmarks, or sonic landmarks, in the locations where they commonly perform. The maintenance and preservation of New Orleans music is often achieved through performance...
This thesis explores the experiences of a South Florida klezmer ensemble known as the Holocaust Survivor Band. The group was co-founded by Saul Dreier, then an 89-year-old resident of Coconut Creek, Florida, and Reuwen "Ruby" Sosnowicz, ...
Spirit mediumship and spirit possession are fairly common practices in Sub-Saharan Africa, both in traditional religions and in Christian contexts. Interlacustrine East Africa has long been home to a set of religious practices called...
This dissertation takes an organological, historical, and ethnographic approach to the study of innovative violin making in the twenty-first century. The violin is a long-established icon as well as a tool for the production of sound, ...
Since the eighteenth century modern Scotland has attracted the attention of a large audience of foreigners, curious about this place of intriguing scenery, history, and culture. For these onlookers, music portraying Scotland has created...
The purpose of this dissertation is to ascertain, explore, and document how music and dance have been used as a means and method of healing, survival, and celebration in Native American communities. This work does not focus solely upon...
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