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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Ethnomusicologist"”.
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Exploring the Life and Music of Percy Grainger Through Transcription
… his life, such as a pianist, composer, and ethnomusicologist. In addition, the lecture included an analysis of five pieces by Percy Grainger: <em>Country Gardens, Eastern Intermezzo, Mock Morris, Spoon River, and Handel in the Strand</em>. Transcriptions of these pieces were performed and …
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Sonora’s Sacred Soundscapes --Sones Sagrados Sonorenses—
… made in 1944 in Desemboque, Sonora, by ethnomusicologist Henrietta Yurchenco. What starts as a general inquiry into cultural memory evolves into a deeper engagement with sound, place, and the enduring presence of ancestral knowledge. In reestablishing a living lineage between past and …
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If There's No "Fat Lady," When Is the Opera Over? An Exploration of Changing Physical Image Standards in Present-Day Opera
… has explored this topic. As both a singer and an ethnomusicologist, I have spent several years observing and interviewing singers at various stages. This thesis explores evidence supporting the focus on image within opera and examines how this emphasis impacts various facets of the opera …
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Songs of sand and grit : a collection of narrative literary journalism
… The Soul Searcher tells the story of the ethnomusicologist John Turest-Swartz who wants to promote the little known rural musician Louisa Steenkamp. It traces the development of an indigenous South African band over a period of one year. Thumeka in the Dunes is a career portrait in the …
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Tiberiu Brediceanu's Doine şi cântece poporale româneşti and folk-inspired art song
During the twentieth century, ethnomusicologist and composer, Tiberiu Brediceanu (1877 – 1968) was at the forefront of the development of the Romanian national school of music. Brediceanu created one of the largest collections of Romanian folksongs, assembling over two thousand melodies. In his …
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Cumbia Tejana: Synthesis Towards Unification in the Tejano Continuum
… here at work can be best understood through what Ethnomusicologist Fernando Ortiz theorized as, "Transculturation". This being the fluid and dynamic convergence of ethnicity and expression, i.e., the Mexican, American, and Pan-Latino influences on Tejano identity. The transcultural mediation that …
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Heinrich Bewerunge (1862–1923): A Critical Reassessment of His Life and Influence
… Irish traditional music as a preservationist and ethnomusicologist; and repositions his role in the development of secular music education in Ireland. To date, his reputation as a scholar has largely rested on his seminal critiques of the Vatican editions of plainchant. This research has …
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Rapping feminism, rapping the family: hip hop, the Mudawwana, and the monarchy in Morocco
… cooptation. Instead, drawing on the work of ethnomusicologist Cristina Moreno Almeida (2013), I examine hip hop groups and emcees as socially and politically active individuals whose music, lyrics, and music videos reflect their own creative agency as well as larger sociopolitical forces …
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Melodic variations : toward cross-cultural transformation
… melodic surfaces, it has been pointed out by ethnomusicologist Alan Thrasher that there is a high degree of similarity between their underlying structures. This enables a cross-cultural mapping at the structural level that ties together stylistically different melodic surfaces to exhibit a …
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Music in Urban La Paz, Bolivian Nationalism, and the Early History of Cosmopolitan Andean Music: 1936--1970
… general phenomenon theorized by ethnomusicologist Thomas Turino (2000). A secondary objective of this dissertation is to chronicle Bolivian public discourse regarding local musical practices that articulated, in an escalating manner from the late 1930s to the 1970s, with …
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AURAL SUBSTANCE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF REGIONAL BURN SOUNDSCAPES
… at seven different regional burns. I employ ethnomusicologist Steven Feld’s concept of “acoustemology,” or “sound as a way of knowing.” Through my observation, analysis of recordings, and interviews, I consider how the sounds at regional burns can signify the time, date, and location to burn …
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Music analysis: Erasure and beyond
… graphs). Her subject position – an Indian ethnomusicologist and analyst in Ireland – allows her to consider tonality through the lens of decolonisation debates and literature, by first focusing on a case-study from her home culture India. In chapter two, the thesis explores the scholarly …
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… environments, along the lines advanced by ethnomusicologist Regula Burckhardt Qureshi (1987). This study contains a Preface, and a Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew terminology, a Bibliography and a Discography
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… environments, along the lines advanced by ethnomusicologist Regula Burckhardt Qureshi (1987). This study contains a Preface, and a Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew terminology, a Bibliography and a Discography.