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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Ethnomusicology"”.
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Transcending the limitations of institutionalization through music: ethnomusicology in a nursing home
This is an ethnographic study of the music life of the English speakers in a 430-bed not-for-profit nursing home. Research took place between August 2006 and June 2008, and included participation in both musical and non-musical activities at the home, formal and informal interviews, volunteering …
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Bardic echoes: reconstructing ancient Celtic music, towards an ethnomusicology; or, an interdisciplinary study of Celtic musical identity
… or people, as defined by cultural lines, while ethnomusicology, for the sake of this paper, is the study of music particular to an ethnic group. Archaeology and ethnography remain the two main sources of evidence for understanding an ancient cultural identity, and they correspond respectively to …
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Samba in practice: motivations for joining the UIUC samba ensemble and an explicit theory of practice for ethnomusicology
This thesis addresses two primary topics. The first is an ethnographic study of the University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign Samba Ensemble that took place in the spring of 2008 in the framework of the Department of Music as one of the offered “ethno ensembles”. The ensemble drew in people from …
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Exploring ethnography and digital visualisation: a study of musical practice through the contextualisation of music related projects from the Seán Ó Riada Collection
… methodologies drawn from digital humanities and ethnomusicology may work in tandem or may be complementary. Practice theory is advanced as a suitable methodology for historical analysis, facilitating an investigation of musical practice in order to reveal evidence of change or continuity during …
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A música na capoeira regional como elemento de construção identitária
… the theoretical concepts of anthropology and ethnomusicology.
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Taarab Texts, Gender, and Islam in an Urban East African Context: Social Transformations Among the Waswahili of Mombasa, Kenya
… draws upon a combination of the disciplines of ethnomusicology, feminist anthropology, and performance studies. As such, I address the contemporary critical issue concerning the nature and role of anthropology in a world that has become smaller and less distinct as not only social and political …
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Timbre perception of cultural insiders : a case study with Javanese gamelan instruments
… to combine methodologies from the fields of ethnomusicology and psychoacoustics to address fundamental questions concerning music perception. Ethnomusicology emphasizes cultural context when examining the different ways musical sounds are organized. Psychoacoustics explores the relationships …
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Music as an educational tool for HIV/AIDS : a comparative study
… Music cognition, music philosophy, ethnomusicology, sociomusicology, and communication theory offer perspectives on why music is persuasive, emotive, and mnemonic. I present analyses of music HIV/AIDS education efforts from many different regions that employ different methods of …
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Organs and bodies : the Jew's harp and the anthropology of musical instruments
… them. Drawing on perspectives from organology, ethnomusicology, comparative musicology, ethnography, material culture, and the anthropology of the body, I situate my approach to the study of musical instruments as one that examines the object on three levels: physically (the interaction between …
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Hip life music: re-defining Ghanaian culture (1990-2012)
… period, I interconnect the domains of ethnomusicology, African/cultural studies, anthropology, popular music studies, and dance ethnography, drawing on relevant theories. The few studies dedicated solely to hip life in the ethnomusicology discipline at this time precipitate this study. …
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The complete works of Peter Louis van Dijk : a short biography, annotated catalogue and discussion regarding gestures derived from ideology associated with the San people of the Southern Kalahari in three of his major works
… be of interest to students of music composition, ethnomusicology or music historians intrigued with the history of one of South Africa’s most prolific composers.
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Music in Haiti: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide
… comes from an array of disciplines including ethnomusicology, musicology, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Generally, the topics covered relate primarily to the role of music in the shaping of the history of Haiti, though scholarly analysis of pieces composed by Haitian composers and of …
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The resilience of labrosones in coastal communities bordering the Indian Ocean
… Though previous scholarship in musicology and ethnomusicology have engaged these themes for music instruments in general, this thesis applies a geographically and culturally specific analysis for labrosones in particular. Through archival research of primary and secondary sources, the research …
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Somnatela: perspectivas etnomusicológicas sobre música e tecnologia
… Using participatory ethnography and engaged ethnomusicology (LÜHNING and TUGNY, 2016), feminist and anti-racist (ROSA, HORA and SILVA, 2013) as a methodology and through the applications for the practice of musical education. Many transversal themes were necessary to understand this study and …
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Song, State, Sawa: Music and Political Radio between the US and Syria
… developed in historical musicology and ethnomusicology, science and technology studies, and recent transnational ethnographic and media studies, as well as on theories of listening developed in the Arabic public discourse about popular music, my dissertation outlines the intersection of …
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Cyclical narratives and the power of three: Institutional histories and pedagogical practices of gamelan ensembles at the University of Illinois
… such as campus policies, the discipline of ethnomusicology, and national and transnational legacies and theories.
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World music in the elementary and junior high general music curriculum : an analysis from an ethnomusicological perspective
… training would obviously be helpful. Exposure to ethnomusicology, and training in the use and teaching of world music could make a significant impact on the quality of music education by making teachers less dependent on the texts as a source of didactic help, and more independent in structuring …
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ISSUES FOR MUSIC AND EDUCATION IN WEST AFRICA
… Africa and the article in the British journal of Ethnomusicology as well as the COs, 'Bewaare - they are coming' Dagaare songs and dances from Nandom, Ghana and 'In the time of my fourth great-grandfather ... ' Western Sisaala music from Lambussie, Ghana. These same publications also consider the …
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Indigenization of the music curriculum through Maskandi as a learning programme in two selected South African universities
… world view in music education. The study used Ethnomusicology and Constructivism as theoretical frameworks which underpin the study. Interpretivist paradigm was adopted as an appropriate paradigm for the study. Data was solicited through semi-structured interviews, document analysis and …
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The history and heritage of the Pinghu Pipa School
… a multi-method approach, combining historical ethnomusicology, archival analysis of critical scores, digital audio analysis of performance parameters (e.g., pitch, dynamics, tempo) and ethnographic fieldwork with contemporary inheritors. The analysis is structured around five pivotal historical …
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