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Showing 1 to 20 of 679 for “""""cosmic American music""""”.
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The cosmic challenger : what American evangelicals think about Islam and why
… the question, "What do twenty-first century American evangelical Christians think about Islam and why do they think that way?" The dominant perception of these Christians is that Islam is a cosmic challenger to Christianity. In other words, Islam and Christianity are in an existential …
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The Influence of Music on American Poetry
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:51:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0004003.pdf: 27878410 bytes, checksum: bed3ba0a2fa7dd5509341de2fa666798 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1952
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Polish-American Music in Detroit: Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries
… includes third and fourth generation Polish-Americans as well as post-World War II emigres. The disparate backgrounds and political orientations of the pre- and post-World War II immigrants and their descendants have resulted in a community which, despite its members' common national …
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Asian American identity in the collegiate music school setting
… was to examine the experiences of three Asian American students in a collegiate music school setting. Semi-structured interviews were utilized to discuss how their families influenced their decision of pursue a career in music and how they might have experienced discrimination, both within and …
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Accounting for taste: The early American music business and secularization in music aesthetics, 1720--1825
<p>This study redefines popular music in early America as sacred music sung and performed in most churches and, starting in the 1790s, theater music imported from England. Rather than more static secular ballads and traditional dance pieces customarily understood as popular music, sacred and …
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Soul City: Indianapolis' African-American Community and Soul Music, 1968-1974
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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Folk Music As A Cultural Signifier In the Contemporary American South
<p>Given the continued success of a Southern folk music tradition that makes it a priority to maintain its distinctive regional and historical markings in the postmodern world, the music itself presents interesting possibilities for the evolving conceptions of Southern identity, particularly in in …
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"Get Listenin' Kids!": Independence as Social Practice in American Popular Music
… to the creation, distribution and consumption of music that actively resist cultural hegemonies--as an ongoing tradition in American popular music. While previous studies of independence have focused on specific independent record labels or eras, this project views independence as a historical …
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"""Smooth as Butter"": Practices of Music Learning Amongst African-American Children"
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer. Please note that the CDROM content is not available on this digitized version. See link to catalog …
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ASPECTS OF AMERICAN MUSICAL LIFE AS REFLECTED IN THE NEW MUSIC REVIEW AND CHURCH MUSIC REVIEW, 1901-1935
… was a time of growth and important change in American musical life. However, many aspects of our national musical culture during this period remain largely unexplored. Among these is The New Music Review and Church Music Review (NMR) which from 1901 to 1935 offered a detailed chronicle of …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… stiff or un-poetic in their attitudes toward the American truisms “individualism,” “blackness” and “invention.” Beginning with William Carlos Williams’ formulation of descent (as a practice necessary for establishing national literary identity) in <em>In the American Grain</em>, the project …
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Trends In Music Therapy Since Unification: A Review of the American Music Therapy Association’s National Conference Proceedings 1998-2011
… was to analyze information in the 1998-2011 American Music Therapy Association National Conference proceedings for prevalent categories and trends. A total of 2450 presentations, titles and abstracts, were examined with the use of content analysis methodology regarding types of presentations, …
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Adapting Orff Schulwerk to the American elementary music program : a creative project
The purpose of the study was to determine the composition and characteristics of employer and employee negotiating teams during initial stages of legislated collective bargaining for public schools in Indiana. Study participants included superintendents and trustees and 204 presidents of identified …
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Songs of the soul: an exploration of music by African American composers
When considering the breadth of American song literature, the works of African American composers are not as commonly found within the standard repertoire. When songs by African American composers are performed in a recital, they are typically limited to arrangements of spirituals. While these …
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The music teaching and learning process in an African-American Baptist church
The purpose of this study was to describe the musical experience of an African-American Baptist church including its music teaching and learning process, music literature and materials, and contextual aspects such as the following: (a) spatial relationships/physical placements, (b) performance …
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Exercising the Cosmic Race: Mexican Sporting Culture and Mestizo Citizens
… including winning the right to host the Pan-American Games in 1955 and the Olympics in 1968. Scholars have debated the importance of sports in politics and society for decades, but even though Mexican historians have extensively analyzed revolutionary cultural programs, study on sports has …
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American women composers of band music : a biographical dictionary and catalogue of works
Throughout the history of band music, works by women have received little, if any, acclaim. While some of the reasons for this lack of acknowledgment are grounded in the historical development of the band and the social restrictions of the times, an even greater problem has been the lack of …
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From the Shadows: a Collection of Flute Music by Living Black American Composers
… composers of color have been left out of our music history books, performances, and recordings. One of the major problems that I notice with my Black students is a simple disconnect from the music. Many students find Classical music boring, and they usually do not grow up listening to art …
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