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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American popular music"”.
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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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Across the Pacific: the transformation of the steel guitar from Hawaiian folk instrument to popular music mainstay.
… from a Hawaiian folk instrument to a mainstay of American popular music. The steel guitar – here characterised as a prepared instrument and a performance style whereby a guitar is positioned face up on the lap of a seated player who stops the strings by means of a steel bar – is a late 19th …
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The Influence of Jazz on the Solo Trumpet Compositions of Eugène Bozza
… traditional elements of western European art music with innovations of American popular music. While Bozza holds a prominent role as a composer of solo trumpet literature in the mid-20th century, little has been written about the influence of jazz in his works. This paper traces the influences …
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Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and the Civil Rights Movement: A History and Analysis
… album, What’s Going On is a timeless work in American popular music. This thesis illuminates many of the intricacies that went in to the creation of the album and discusses its relevance during the Civil Rights Movement. Chapter 1 provides a background in popular music analysis and the genre …
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Bluesman, Guitar, And Migration
… each other and brought about transformations to American popular music, based upon scholarly works, magazine articles, and the sound recordings of the prewar blues performers. In popular theory, the blues sprang out of the cotton fields and articulated the life experiences of the oppressed people …
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Inspirations and Influences: Popular Composition Trends in the Contemporary Clarinet Repertoire (1996-2010)
… instrument that easily adapts to a wide range of musical styles, the clarinet is ideal for composers to utilize as they explore exciting new ways to create unique programmable works. From the incorporation of the more traditional folk sounds found in Jewish folk music to the assimilation of …
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“All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media
… as a symbol of sociosexual deviance in film and American popular music of the 1910s and ‘20s. Abbreviated from vampire, “vamp” came to be used as a term for sexually voracious and predatory women in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. Following the unprecedented success of the 1915 film <em>A Fool …
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A Historical Geography of the Music Industry
Innovative moments in the history of Anglo-American popular music occur at roughly ten year intervals and generally have come from socio-economically disenfranchised groups residing at the geographic periphery of the popular music industry. Before the 1970s, the physical and cultural isolation of …
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Música Tejana and the Transition from Traditional to Modern: Manuel “Cowboy” Donley and the Austin Music Scene
… component of Texas history, culture and music. Their vibrant musical heritage holds a central position in the Texas music narrative and by extension permeates the regional music of the Southwest and national music of the United States. Contemporary Texas-Mexican artists rely on electric …
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Spaces for togetherness: Jason Mraz and RKOPers in concert and online
… the relationships between twenty-first-century American popular musician, Jason Mraz, and the most active members of the internet-based Official Jason Mraz Discussion Board: Right Kind of Phrase (RKOPers and RKOP, respectively) as a case study that aims to understand what online social networks, …