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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Call and response"”.
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Becoming Words of Witness: The Motif of Call and Response in Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore
… is a thematic exploration of the motif of call and response as it is articulated across the works of Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). By taking this call-response structure as my overarching hermeneutic, I seek to demonstrate how Iqbal and Tagore envision …
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-“Where are you, darling?” -“Here I am, darling!”: Call and Response as LGBTI Resistance Formation Before, During and After the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey
… to which the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual (LGBTI) movement in Turkey has been affected by its participation in the Gezi Park protests that took place across Turkey in May, 2013. I argue that a dialectic process of organization and interaction took place between the …
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The Journey of the Fool
Design in the civic realm demands opportunities to recognize commonality. Architecture, therefore, must provide a call and response between visitor and space. This intimate dialogue can only occur where landscape elements speak a universal language. Revelatory, Allegorical, Cosmological and …
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Towards interaction: Combining jazz techniques and idiomatic writing for Varied ensembles. A collection of musical works -and- An exegesis
… Classical tradition that only read notation, and, jazz soloists who improvise. Three works ‘Standing Ground’, ‘The Journey’ and ‘Matt versus the Zombies’ were composed for three ensembles each with an improvising soloist. These ensembles included a British style Brass Band, Brass Quintet and a …
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THIS NOW WHICH IS TO SAY YOU
… is a hybrid artifact; a book-length poem-essay and visual artwork. The driving movement propelling the piece forward is that of an imagined (or enacted) epistolary correspondence between myself and my undergraduate mentor, Monica Berlin—who passed away in November of 2022. The manuscript is set …
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Membranas
Organized around an installation called Membranas, this dissertation will explore alternative logics and modes of socialization through improvisatory encounters. Membranas is an infrastructure that stimulates call and response exchanges between humans, the wind, vibrations in the air, and a …
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LA FIESTA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO: AN ORIGINAL WORK FOR CHOIR, SOLOISTS, AND SMALL ENSEMBLE INFLUENCED BY THE SANTERIA MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN-DOMINICAN COMMUNITY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
… This musical tradition comes from the culture and religion of the Yoruba people who were brought as slaves from Africa, and features complex drum rhythms and call-and-response chants. This paper deals with the historical and social context of Santería music within the Dominican Republic, but …
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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
… poetic authority, to navigate collective loss, and respond to historical changes in poetic reception over the nineteenth century. Bringing together formalist and historicist approaches, its close readings trace Victorian experiments with the recovery of voice in the wake of loss in the poetry of …
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THE INFLUENCE OF JAZZ AND ITS PREDECESSORS ON PIANO CHAMBER MUSIC AFTER 1920
In the early 20th Century, jazz music and its predecessors, such as blues, ragtime, and stride piano, began to gain widespread popularity among audiences. Their defining characteristics including syncopated rhythms, improvisation, call and response, polyphony, distinctive harmony, and unique …
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Cumbia Tejana: Synthesis Towards Unification in the Tejano Continuum
… adoption of the Mexican (Cumbia Nortena) and Afro-Colombian Cumbia into the repertoire of the ensembles, music-cultures, and dance traditions of South Texas. Musically, Cumbia Tejana is not one interpretation of the Cumbia, but many. The Cumbia's dance and music traditions have deep ethnic …
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Storying Our Experiences: Caribbean Students at U.S. Universities
… encountered by young adult Caribbean students and focus on their perspectives and coping strategies as they negotiate the racial binary and sociocultural norms found in the United States. I present my research here in two manuscripts. In manuscript one, Transcultural Adaptations: Caribbean …
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So-journeying: creating sacred space in education
… meanings given to school, education, teaching and curriculum from an African/African American perspective. This inquiry is based on my experiences as an African American woman curriculum theorist committed to the education of African American youth. Drawing on the lifework of Sojourner Truth, a …
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Maize and the Call of Place: Practicing Reciprocity through Local Crop Adaptation
… ecological outcomes in food systems globally, locally appropriate practices are developing through the work of practitioners and communities in particular places. This dissertation focuses on local crop adaptation for low-input farming systems via open-pollinated plant breeding as one such …
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Analysis of two solo violin works by Hendrik Hofmeyr
… compositions Nelle Mani d’Amduscias (1996) and Luamerava(2000) by the South African composer Hendrik Hofmeyr are analysed regarding the programmatic, compositional and idiomatic content. The Luamerava uses an adapted African legend that is inscribed at the beginning and according to the …
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Fan Jing
… main ethnic groups in Taiwan: Min-nan, Hakka and aboriginal. As each of these groups has its own spoken language, folk music and musical style, each movement of the trilogy has its own character. Furthermore, different aspects of folk elements are foregrounded in each movement. The first …
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HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS
<p>This study responds to the need for an understanding of the relation of form and political critique within the sonnet form, and hopes to demonstrate that the sonnet can be used to effectively articulate the experience of racism, especially the Du Boisian concept of "double- consciousness," a …
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Singing knowledge: aesthetics, authority and gender in Skyrian music (Greece)
… of Skyrian vocal music. A small Aegean island with approximately 3,000 inhabitants, Skyros prides itself on a distinctive expressive culture that prominently features the masquerading and satirical performances of the pre-Lenten Carnival, for which the island is well known beyond Greece, as …
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When Pākehā Feminism Met the Movement for Māori Sovereignty, 1975–1990
… alliances between Pākehā (settler/New Zealand European) and Māori (Indigenous) women around the Māori sovereignty movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. It focuses on the febrile 1980s, a period marked by the Māori Renaissance (an enduring era of Indigenous revitalisation), nationwide …
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Reimagining the Collective: Black Popular Music and Recording Studio Innovation, 1970-1990
… distinct impact on styles marketed as R&B, soul, and funk. Multitracking in the 1950s and 1960s had paved the way for a transformed production process, one initiated by Les Paul’s and Sidney Bechet’s overdubbing experiments in the 1940s. The collective sound of instrumentalists and vocalists heard …
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