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Pride festivals are both political and celebratory in nature and often include parades, marches, street fairs, musical performances, and dance club events. Many view pride festivals as spaces used to create a unified group identity....
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the convent of St. Mary's at Helfta, Saxony, represented one of the greatest literary, artistic, and spiritual centers of medieval Germany. Helfta was also the site of a flowering mystical...
Irony is an important discursive mode and literary trope. It invites a debate about meaning and significance, creates a feeling of community among perceivers (even if, on the surface, it excludes), and draws them into morally active...
Throughout the course of history, numerous works of art have stood at the forefront of their respective genres. British indie band My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is one such work. Their unique sound on the album defined a sub-genre of...
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement, offers a highly accessible approach to Indian spirituality in contemporary American culture. Among the most intriguing facets of Hare...
The Quechua community of Q'eros in the Andes of southeastern Peru is renowned in the Cusco region and within various circles (layman, scholarly, esoteric, tourist). The Q'eros are also known nationally and internationally for their...
Research in disability and music is a recent movement within musicology that is comprised of scholars who have an interest in the various ways disabilities and bodily/ability differences intersect with music. These music scholars differ...
Angelo Notari (1566?-1663) was an Italian composer and lutenist to Prince Henry Stuart, King Charles I, and King Charles II of England. During his long life Notari only published one collection of music, his Prime musiche nuove of 1613....
By looking at the life, career, and music of renowned female Mongolian long song singer Norovbanzad (1937-2003), surveying vocal principles espoused by her students, and analyzing a specific piece in the long song repertory, this thesis...
The Flower Drum and Other Chinese Songs is a book of Chinese folk songs and culture that was created by Chih-Hsiang Chen, Chin-Hsin Yao Chen and published in 1943. This thesis is comprised of three major chapters, each dealing with a...
A quintessential example of the synthesis of Taiwanese and Western musical elements can be found in the Zheng Concerto--Dots, Lines, and Convergence by Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee.
In this thesis, I use huayin (the left-hand bending techniques on the zheng) as a tool to discuss the evolution and continuity of modern zheng music. My focus is on bringing out ancient aesthetic and philosophical meanings that are...
The music of Scott Walker (b. Noel Scott Engel, January 9, 1943) continues to influence multiple generations of respected figures in popular music from David Bowie to Radiohead, yet Walker has not set foot on stage to perform since the...
This thesis provides an ethnomusicological study of the role of music within the lives of resettled refugees located within a community in the south hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Broadly, this work explores the concept of 'music as...
The music of American composer David Maslanka (b. 1943) is informed by his deep connection to the natural world. This connection permeates his music and results in powerful works imbued with a wealth of spiritual and environmental...
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...
This dissertation is a study of migrant youths in Duisburg, a city in the heart of Germany's industrial northern Rhine region. It draws together various threads of inquiry – an ethnographic study of the Duisburg-Bruckhausen hip-hop crew...
There is an interconnective relationship between African-American music of the past and contemporary rap. The past and present along with their accompanying music genres are linked through an important practice called cultural memory....
This thesis is a study of the merging of gay and straight dance club subcultures through an analysis of selected nightclubs in the city of Tallahassee, Florida. Fieldwork was conducted in two straight dance clubs that have incorporated...
This thesis examines the expressive and philosophical content in Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (1908), as well as the intellectual journey of the speaker whose voice is heard throughout the work. Das Lied von der Erde contains...
ABSTRACT According to sources from the Haitian consulate in both the Dominican Republic and Cuba, there are approximately 800, 000 to 1.2 million self-identified HIDs (Haitian immigrants and their descendants) living in each of these...
In this thesis, I explore social and musical processes between participants of old-time jam sessions in Tallahassee, Florida. As an alternate perspective to the song-and artist-oriented scholarship of old-time music, I propose a...
Sesame Street, the longest continuously-running children's television show in the United States, has become iconic because of its characters and skits, but also for its music. For several generations, viewers of Sesame Street not only...
One of the primary aspects of Hare Krishna worship is the practice of kirtan, or the musical chanting of sacred texts with particular emphasis on the Maha Mantra, a mantra composed of names for Krishna. Devotees teach that chanting...
Gamelan music and its associated performing arts are central to the unique social structures and religious practices that define cultural life on the island of Bali, Indonesia. However, hundreds of Balinese gamelan ensembles also exist...
Slavi Trifonov and the Commodification of Nationalism: Popular Culture, Popular Music, and the Politics of Identity in Postsocialist Bulgaria, 1990-2005
This dissertation is a study of the cultural meanings ascribed to the postsocialist Bulgarian pop-folk musician and television personality Slavi Trifonov. Since the early 1990s, Trifonov's career and popularity have been intricately...
In this thesis I argue that a weekly baile (dance) in Quincy, Florida, constitutes a symbolic process of unification in the Mexican diaspora and that music functions as a symbol of shared substance in the creation of kinship. I examine...
Building on literature dealing with memory and hermeneutics as they relate to music and musical experience, this thesis explores the role of music and memory in the negotiation of place within the context of displacement through the life...
The history of music scenes is a topic that has been misunderstood. Scholarship has tended to focus on sociological theory as a basis for understanding how and why music scenes exist and motivate youth. While accomplishing important work...
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