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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....
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...
In this thesis, I adopt the musical concept of "groove" to characterize the experience of steelband in local contexts and the related ideas circulating within broader cultural contexts. Each chapter is an ethnographic portrait and...
Anton Webern first attempted dodecaphonic composition in the summer of 1922 when he wrote twelve-tone sketches for the poetic text "Mein Weg geht jetzt vorueber." Although he completed the song as an atonal work, Webern continued...
Honduras Rosewood (Dalbergia Stevensonii) is a wood of high value for today's percussionist and for the percussion industry. It is used as the primary timber for the production of marimba and xylophone bars, and it is also used to build...
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...
One of the most prolific German composers of the 20th. century, Hanns Eisler was a communist who sought to blend politics, advanced musical techniques, and folk elements into compositions that would five a powerful voice to Europe's...
This thesis explores the phenomenon of synesthesia through recent psychological research and the writings of Olivier Messiaen. Synesthesia is a "union of the senses" by which a stimulus in one sensory mode elicits a response in another....
Claude Debussy participated in the world of literature, especially that of French symbolist poetry, throughout his life. His associations with important literary figures, his correspondence, and his music all make clear the significance...
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...
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...
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...
This thesis presents a new interpretation of Johannes Brahms's Vier ernste Gesänge, op. 121. Foundational information is provided on Brahms's spirituality and knowledge of the Bible, his personal life surrounding the composition of the...
In 1938, Stewart Hall Holbrook lamented that he had not seen any decent academic study of the American lumberjack, reason enough for his writing the book Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack. Now nearly seventy...
This thesis explores the integral role of taratîl, the most prevalent genre of non-liturgical devotional music among Coptic Christians. Specifically, this study concerns the role of taratîl in evoking nostalgia, and through the narrative...
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...
Faced with a collapse of orthodox religious ideals precipitated by the technological revolution in the mid-nineteenth century, Satie and many in the Western world took refuge in unorthodox occult religions during the fin-de-siècle. Avant...
Sacred Music of Baldassare Galuppi in the Context of Eigtheenth Century Venetian Culture, with an Emphasis on Music Written for the Mendicanti and the Incurabili
This dissertation examines selected sacred music of Baldassare Galuppi (1706-85) in the wider context of Venetian culture and explores problems of questionable attribution arising from Galuppi's popularity in Venice and abroad. Galuppi...
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...
Hugo Wolf's short but fruitful career has left an indelible impression on the lied tradition, yet little scholarly attention has been given to the songs left unpublished during his lifetime. Thirty-six of these songs, chosen from over...
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...
Ruth Page and Jerome Moross's Frankie and Johnny was first performed under the auspices of the WPA Federal Theatre Project in 1938 Chicago. It was well-received, winning comments such as "a wow with audiences" and "the best thing Mr....
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...
Goth was a subculture derived from England's punk movement, and it served as a pessimistic cultural and artistic response to The Cold War, and to the social and economic upheavals in Britain during the 1980s, and as an alternative form...
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 Italian composer Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) had a profound impact on the development of opera buffa and on Venetian musical life for nearly forty years. Less widely known is the fact that he also exercised considerable influence...
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