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Showing 1 to 20 of 282 for “""""The Tokyo Blues""""”.
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Sweetwater Blues
<p>A novel, "Sweetwater Blues," by the author.</p>
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The Same Old Blues Crap: Selling The Blues At Fat Possum Records
This thesis interrogates the marketing strategies of the Oxford, Mississippi-based record label Fat Possum, which was founded in the early 1990s by Matthew Johnson with the goal of recording obscure hill country blues artists. Fat Possum gained recognition for its raw-sounding recordings of …
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Detroit blues women
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>DETROIT BLUES WOMEN</p> <p>by</p> <p>Michael Duggan Murphy</p> <p>August 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. John J. Bukowczyk</p> <p>Major: History</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>"Detroit Blues Women" explores how African American "women's blues" survived the twentieth century …
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Rust Belt Blues
Alison Stine's Rust Belt Blues is a book-length work of linked creative nonfiction essays set in former manufacturing towns in Ohio, Indiana, and upstate New York. In pieces that range from autobiography to literary journalism, she focuses on abandoned places and people in the area known as the …
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Mokumitsu Districts in Tokyo
… with wooden structured buildings”. Many of these buildings are categorized as substandard housing because they were built legally in the last century but no longer fulfill the latest building codes. Mokumitsu districts are considered severely unsafe in case of an earthquake because the …
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The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
This study of the “Blues Aesthetic” both supplements and revises the now-dominant socio-aesthetic paradigm by introducing the perspectives of cognitive aesthetics to African-American vernacular literary criticism. New methods of scansion, informed by literary and linguistic prosody, are developed …
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
Focusing on interactions between Britain and the US in the field of popular song, this thesis explores the constitutive relationship between discourse, performance, and identity via critical and postcolonial theory. I interrogate how and why nostalgic and essentialising visions of alterity were …
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The Blues Is Alright: Blues Music as a Root for Cultural Tourism and Public History
With a focus on the Mississippi Delta, Elvis Presley's Graceland, and Austin, Texas, this thesis is an exploration of the successes, failures, and necessary re-imaginings of sites of music lore, places in which the blues have played a role in music tourism, and how public history is used in …
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Back to nature to beat the blues
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate a reduction in depressive symptoms in nursing home residents by using a pet therapy intervention to increase levels of social support and social interaction within the nursing home facility.;The target population in this study consisted of two nursing …
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Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues
<p>Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues demonstrates that the cultural phenomenon of the blues is an indigenous way of knowing that offsets the hidden logic of racialized dominance within modern Christian understandings of revelation. In distinction from the Christian, Religious, …
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Blues e emancipação em Angela Davis
… critical thinking is an important source for the uses of freedom and the comprehension of the limits. Even today, the freedom issue faces great precedents in philosophy. The main purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between the blues and emancipation through Angela …
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Blues Trope as a Cultural Intersection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
… bound historically through hundreds of years, the African-Native American relation has not received much attention by scholars of literature; hence, the emphasis of this thesis is to investigate the literary portrayal of the interethnic relation between African Americans and Native Americans …
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Twin cities : cyberspatial qualities of contemporary Tokyo
The cityscape of contemporary Tokyo is undergoing a dramatic transformation caused by a proliferation of technology, such as the rapid mass transit network and the advanced telecommunication system. On the one hand conventional urban design criteria such as physical proximity and spatiotemporal …
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Halls without walls : perpetuation, development & dissemination of the discourse on blues music and blues culture in the digital age (1996-2016)
This study presents an overview of the effects of technological mediation and specifically, digital remediation, on the discourse on blues music and blues culture since the introduction of the world-wide web in 1989, and the proliferation of computer-mediated communications (CMC) from 1996. In …
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Playing the Nation: 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Japanese Identity
This dissertation explores the performance and consumption of a reinvented Japanese national identity surrounding the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. This event marked an important psychological turning point for many Japanese, who saw it as marking their reemergence into the world community. National …
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Playing the Nation: 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Japanese Identity
This dissertation explores the performance and consumption of a reinvented Japanese national identity surrounding the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. This event marked an important psychological turning point for many Japanese, who saw it as marking their reemergence into the world community. National …
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Feasibility study for the retail complex in Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Creating community : designing for Futakotamagawa area in Tokyo
This thesis develops a master plan and design guidelines for the Futakotamagawa East-region Re-development Project, a 16 hectare speCUlative project located on the southwest edge of Tokyo. The thesis proposes an alternative method for the design of new housing developments in Tokyo where current …
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