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This dissertation explores the ways in which the thematic content and performance practices of country music have historically implied notions of protection and safety, while paradoxically enabling instances of violence on both...
There are four main topics that drive conversations in small towns: births, weddings, deaths, and rumors. In my hometown, in the dead-center of Florida, most rumors revolve around strange deaths and murders. This fascination with the...
This study investigates the concept of community in our modern world so that we may more fully recognize what community is, how the term is being appropriated by the digital world, how the use of the term in the digital is altering our...
In order to avoid repeating the patterns of past failed technology initiatives, eschew various types of paralyzing blame cultures, capitalize on the momentum offered by outside stakeholder interest, and maintain the agency to stay...
The portrayal of Russia in Western popular culture has served various purposes, particularly between 1945 and 1991. With a few exceptions, Soviet citizens, particularly Russians, have been shown as, alternatingly, backwards peasants and...
This thesis explores values, identities, and practices found within community organizations and academic institutions that are mediated and made manifest in old-time ensembles and their surrounding music communities. The multi-site study...
This dissertation argues that representations of masculinity in the Hollywood war/combat films of the Vietnam film cycle reflect the changing and changed mores of the era in which they were made, and that these representations are so...
Utilizing the foundational concepts posited in the work of Tania Modleski, Janice Radway, and Andreas Huyssen, my dissertation project proposes a new method of receptive reading which prioritizes balanced textual examinations that...
Since their formation in 1965, the Grateful Dead have consistently captivated audiences, both young and old, on such a large scale that the Dead fanbase have their own, unique label and subculture. Though scholarship on the Dead and the...
This dissertation examines new interventions into the historiography of chattel slavery. In reading several texts by Black women authors and artists—including Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling (2005), Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017...
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