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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"American music"”.
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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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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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Asian and Asian American music therapists’ experiences with racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and microaggressions: A convergent parallel mixed methods study
… xenophobia, and microaggressions Asian and Asian American music therapists may experience in the field. A total of 25 participants completed the survey and five participants completed the interview. Respondents from the survey noted experiencing aspects of racism throughout their academic training …
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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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An Annotated Bibliography of the Rare and Unusual Musical Materials in the American Music Research Center at Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
… summary of the rare and unusual holdings of the American Music Research Center at Dominican College, San Rafael.</p> <p>The American Music Research Center (AMRC) was founded in 1968 by Sister Dominic Ray, O.P., and is one of three centers in the United States which have as their main purpose the …
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Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains: Media, Technology, and Native American Music in the Late Twentieth Century
*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.
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A Historical Analysis of Living Blues Magazine
… through its stated cultural focus on African American music.
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The music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes; harbinger of American art music's transition into the modern age
… era of twentieth-century internationalism for American music. Rather than restrict himself to writing American nationalistic or German romantic music like most American composers of his time, Griffes built upon his classical background to write eclectic new music that incorporated ideas from …
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Making America's music: jazz history and the Jazz Preservation Act
… the process by which jazz has been shaped by the music industry and government and their ideas of the place of jazz within American culture and society. The examples demonstrate that the history and traditions of jazz are not fixed entities, but rather constructions used to understand and utilise …
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American Verismo?: insights into The Padrone, and opera by George Whitefield Chadwick (13 November 1854 - 4 April 1931)
… Chadwick (13 November 1854 – 4 April 1931) to American music comes in many forms: composer, teacher, conductor, pianist and organist. A leading figure of the Second School of New England composers, Chadwick was also largely responsible for the effective reorganization of the New England …
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Finding the "Indian" in Amy Beach's Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet, op. 80.
Music that is categorized as part of the Indianist movement in American music (ca. 1890-1925) typically evokes Native American culture, ritual, story, or song through compositional gestures. It may also incorporate Native American tunes. Amy Beach (1867-1944) is considered to have composed five …
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Toward a business history of the string quartet: How the string quartet became a career path in the United States
At their origins, American string quartets achieved a high standard of performance through full-time commitments made financially possible through individual patrons. As the American music scene matured through the twentieth century, the string quartet profession integrated performance and …
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Leonard Bernstein's Piano Music: A Comparative Study of Selected Works
<p>Much of Leonard Bernstein’s piano music is incorporated in his orchestral and theatrical works. The comparison and understanding of how the piano works relate to the orchestral manifestations validates the independence of the piano works, provides new insights into Bernstein’s compositional …
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Diálogos latino americanos: composições e arranjos a partir da hibridização entre gêneros musicais brasileiros e de outros países da América Latina
… in the Professional Postgraduate Program in Music (PPGPROM) at the Federal University of Bahia. It comprises a Memorial, Article, and Product. In the Memorial, I describe my musical journey, emphasizing pivotal moments that led to the development of the research project, including musical …
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Raymond Francis Dvorak: His life and career in music
… through his contributions to the wind band, music, music education professions and civic organizations as an entertainer, innovator, and leader. This historical study, is drawn from artifacts and correspondence housed within the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music on the campus of …
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Social Skills in Music Therapy Practice: A Content Analysis on AMTA Journals from 1964-2024
… used to teach or improve social skills in music therapy practice. A history of interdisciplinary research on social skills is presented, followed by an in-depth analysis of 181 journal articles published in the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) journals. These publications were …
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Selected Non-Indianist Works of Charles Sanford Skilton: The Witch's Daughter - A Cantata for Soprano and Baritone Soli, Chorus and Orchestra (1918) and Electra - Music of the Electra of Sophocles, Composed for Women's Chorus and Orchestra (1920)
… as an exponent of the Indianist Movement in musical composition, which was important from about 1880 to 1920. Little investigation has been completed on his works outside of his Indianist interest, leaving many gaps in our knowledge of his music. While compiling materials for this thesis, it …
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Piano works by Latin American women composers born between 1850 and 1950: an anthology and recording
The works and knowledge of predigital age Latin American women composers are rapidly disappearing. Only a few such women were able to overcome the regional societal norms and actively compose music. Unfortunately, their contributions are moving into obscurity in part due to the lack of exposure and …
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The Songs of Lori Laitman: An Analysis of Sunflowers and Early Snow
<p>The music of American composer, Lori Laitman, has charmed and impressed many art song enthusiasts, inspiring both admiration and devotion. Having written over 200 art songs, the American composer has continually earned the respect of critics as well as other composers, and perhaps most of all, …
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