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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Aurality."”.
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Trad Jazz: Pre-War Aurality in the Postmodern City
… this dissertation argues that “Pre-war Aurality” – a youth oriented aesthetic that lauds the live performance of pre-World War II popular and vernacular music – is a hegemonic, postmodern aesthetic in contemporary capitalism. Expanding upon methods and theories from the anthropology of …
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Figures in air : multiplicity and aurality as social architecture
These texts can be understood as potential documentation of my activities from 2002-2012. They can also be read as a constellation of theoretical statements relating to: art, music, thinking, economy, being, governance, psychology, music cognition, audio, diagrammatics, speculation, technology, …
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'There's the siren! aurality and respresentation of the sounds of (Australian) football
… in performance studies is to consider the aurality of (Australian) football: the sounds that are heard and produced by those who play (considering all participants to be players). In so doing it addresses problems that arise when sound is approached as the object of understanding, and …
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Dirty Ears: Hearing And Hearings In The Canadian Liberal Settler Colony
… a silencing technique, mobilizing the field of aurality to place limits on the expression of indigenous dissent. The research is based on two years of ethnographic work among activists fighting oil and gas development in Vancouver, and indigenous sovereigntists resisting pipelines in the …
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Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature
… project demonstrates that the tension between aurality and the printed word motivates much of the political work that African American literary texts accomplish. By excavating the various strategies that black writers use to resolve this tension I argue that sound, especially music, functions …
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Handel As Arranger And Producer: Listening To Pasticci In Eighteenth-Century London
… my project reconsiders baroque opera’s aurality as paradigmatic of pre-Enlightenment reading and listening practices. Drawing on methodologies and concepts from the fields of material texts and performance studies, my research expands previous musicological literature—which focused …
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Material words for voicing dancers: a practice-led inquiry into the role of voice for the improvising dancer
… an enlivened acoustic space drawing on theatre aurality. Working through these stages (‘accessing’, ‘arranging’ and ‘amplifying’) aims to discern and differentiate the way voicing and dancing can be considered a potentially unified but situated act, as well as offer an analytical model for …
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A Queering of Memory, Temporality, Subjectivity: Subversive Methods in Audiovisual Practice
… Love: 2007; Blanco and Peeren: 2013). Haptic Aurality builds on established theories of cinematic embodiment (Sobchack: 1992, 2004; Marks: 2000, 2002, Barker: 2009), by attending specifically to sound (Voegelin: 2010; Leimbacher: 2017) and breath (Quinlivan: 2012, 2015). Diffractive Listening …
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Adam Naming And Aesop Fabling: Artist-figures In The Prose Works Of Dylan Thomas
… concerns, but in a genre that foregrounds its aurality and temporality. Blending lyric and narrative strategies, Thomas abandons his earlier solipsism in favour of democratized art.;A study of the prose also casts light on themes and techniques in the poetry. Most studies of the poems to date …
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Towards a Practitioner Model of Mobile Music
… that draws upon theories of mobile-mediated aurality, rhetoric on the practice of walking, relational aesthetics, and urban and natural environments as sites for musical performance. The aim is to question the spaces commonly associated with electronic music – where it is situated, listened …
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Copyright and Technology: Hearing the Dissonance
… immerses itself into a soundscape, and thus ‘aurality’ becomes a sensible manner for answering the guiding research question of what is the actual dissonance between copyright and technology. Ultimately, it argues that this manner of displacement provides new passages of investigation that go …
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Headphone Theatre (performances & experiences): a practitioner’s manipulation of proximity, aural attention and the resulting effect of paranoia.
… subjects such as aural attention, theatre aurality and theory behind radio drama. I discuss how the manipulation of proximity and paranoia within Darkfield’s Séance in Chapter One, exploring how the pair operates within sound design and space to intensify and heighten drama. I explore how …
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Cinema and the Urdu Public Sphere: Literary imaginaries in the making of film cultures in north India (1930-50)
… shift. The thesis demonstrates how cinematic aurality ensured that the Urdu imaginaire blossomed within the film texts through the strategic evocation of the semantics of authority, romance and reform. I employ speculative research trajectories to contextualize the place of the Urdu imaginaire …
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Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
<p>This dissertation contends that sound and aurality ought to be more fully integrated into how gender and sexuality are thought. The dissertation’s title, “Partial Figures,” refers to its aims: not to exhaustively document the status of sound within discourses of sexual difference and dissidence, …
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Of (un)Sound Mind: Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the Phenomenology of Reading and Perception
… move in literary studies toward questions of aurality and voice, I turn to the phenomenology of reading. The thesis’ overarching theoretical approach is heavily informed by recent developments in the cognitive sciences, especially those which emphasise the paramountcy of prior experiences, …
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“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… may be, it is often the protesting body’s aurality that first signals its presence to passersby. Music, from spontaneous to studio creations, are core to protest soundscapes and the efforts of contentious political actors to reconstruct place. Illustrated through original and appropriated …
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Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in "12 years a day Django".
This thesis examines the rhetoric of 12 Years a Day Django, a contemporary written rap battle performance by rapper Daylyt. Three major arguments are advanced. First, written rap battling is a genre worthy of greater scholarly scrutiny. Second, a rapper's style of flow can be racialized, meaning …
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Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro
<p>This dissertation is an attempt to elucidate some aspects of one of the central issues in the history of lyric poetry, which is the complicated interlace of connections between poetry and music. It focusses on the case of early modern Spain, and it studies a large corpus of poetry in Spanish …
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Post-Pandemic Theatre: The Transformation of the Literary Form Through the Digital Landscape
The digital landscape has had a significant impact on literature and the way in which it is consumed, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift towards digital operations has enabled the rise of digital literary forms, such as audiobooks and electronic literature, which have opened up …