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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Black music"”.
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Performing samba: Aesthetics, transnational modernisms, and race
… Janeiro became an important hub of an emerging Black Atlantic entertainment industry. Cariocas—the people who lived in Rio de Janeiro—listened to samba in ways that challenged and produced racial categories, celebrated the creativity of Black musicians and reinforced primitivistic notions of …
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Sacred Freedom: Sustaining Afrocentric Spiritual Jazz in 21St Century Chicago
… headwaters of a certain form of Great Black Music that I call Afrocentric spiritual jazz in Chicago. However, that label is quickly expended as the work begins by examining the resistance of these Black musicians to any label. I theorize that this resistance is due to the experiences of …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… 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 resolves around the question, How can the …
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From Segregation To Integration: A Historical Study Of Music Education In The Colored School In Louisville, Mississippi Through 1970
What was music like, if it existed, in black schools before integration, and what happened to black music educators after integration? To properly address this, the history of segregation, major court rulings and other noteworthy attempts at integration, must be mentioned. This study reveals the …
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The Song We Sing: Negotiating Black Nationalism And Queerness In James Baldwin's Late Novels
Despite his exclusion from the Black Arts Movement, James Baldwin includes in his later novels many elements of Black Nationalism, including a focus on black communities, black music, Pan-Africanism, and elements of separatism. In his inclusion of queer sexuality, Baldwin pushes against the typical …
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Mapping the beat, beating the map : the religious work of Hip Hop, Reggae and Kwaito in South Africa
… Firstly, I explore the ways in which the popular musical forms of Hip Hop, Kwaito and Reggae in South Africa are contributing to the forging of a global African identity which challenges Eurocentric conceptions but also inserts an implicit response into recent debates about the limitations of an …
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Disharmony of empire: Race and the making of modern musicology in colonial North Africa
… of Empire: Race and the Making of Modern Musicology in Colonial North Africa” focuses on the early to mid-20th-century colonial history of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, with a particular emphasis on Morocco during the French Protectorate period of 1912-1956. I examine the initiatives by …
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Landscapes of the invisible: sounds, cosmologies and poetics of space
… installation and sound art performance Astro Black Morphologies/Astro Dub Morphologies (2004-5), the sound installation and performance Invisible (2006-7), the web art archive and performance presentation project promised lands (2008-10), and two related texts, Astro Black Morphologies: Music …
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The Same Old Blues Crap: Selling The Blues At Fat Possum Records
… different from and superior to all other blues music. This thesis argues that while Fat Possum claimed to be a disruptive force in the blues world, the label actually repeated marketing strategies that have been used to sell the blues since the genre was first sold during the 1920s race records …
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The life and work of Khabi Mngoma
… life and work of Khabi Mngoma, protagonist of black music education in South Africa (latter half of the twentieth century), with reference to historical, socio-political, anthropological, educational and musicological aspects. His musical development from a mere participator in musical …
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Reimagining the Collective: Black Popular Music and Recording Studio Innovation, 1970-1990
… developments in the production practices of black popular music in the recording studio from 1970 to 1990. The year 1970 marked a transition in the recording practice of popular music that had a distinct impact on styles marketed as R&B, soul, and funk. Multitracking in the 1950s and 1960s …
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Country Quares: (Dis)identification Discourse in Black Country Aesthetic
The purpose of this study is to explore the ways Black women and queer artists and their audiences employ country music as a way to facilitate a reclamation and complication of (Black) Americanness. The data for this study emerges from a qualitative content analysis of six music videos by Black …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
Richard Wagner is a pre-eminent figure in musical history, but little is known about the influence of his librettos and poetic style in English-speaking contexts. This PhD dissertation corrects this situation. Its main argument engages nineteenth-century poetry, revealing how Wagner affected …
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Code-switching Through Music and Performance: An Exploration of How Black High School Band Directors Navigate Dual Expectations
… examines the experiences and challenges faced by Black high school band directors who utilize HBCU-influenced marching and performance traditions. Grounded in the conceptual framework of code-switching, the research explores how these directors navigate tensions between culturally authentic HBCU …
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A Critical Survey of the North German Oratorio Passion to 1700
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:21:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7414545.pdf: 15424895 bytes, checksum: 91d6f076e071109f7d05e326e20245f7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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From Greenfield to Warfield: A survey of African-American concert singers
My father, Henry L. Nettles, is the possessor of a deep, rich bass voice. If given the chance he would have dedicated his life to the world of song. To a certain extent he has. However, he never achieved the acclaim and just rewards a person with his talent truly deserves. To whom do you turn to …
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Radiohead's subterranean jazz structuralism: the music of Louis Armstrong, Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus in ten compositions by Radiohead
… the undocumented jazz lineage of Radiohead's musical evolution that has been overlooked in the current academic discourse. Drawing on ten examples from Radiohead albums OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac and The King of Limbs, I hope to show their jazz structural modeling in three episodes of …