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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Independent Music"”.
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You get what you pay for : independent music and Canadian public policy
… how corporate concentration within the global music industry specifically affects the Canadian music industry's ability to compete for its own national audience as well as audiences worldwide. Federal public policies, regulatory regimes and subsidies are considered within the context of the …
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Steeltown scene : genre, performance and identity in the alternative independent music scene in Hamilton, Ontario
This thesis examines the independent alternative music scene in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, also known, with reference to its industrial heritage, as "Steeltown." Drawing on the growing literature on the relationship between place and popular music, on my own experience as a local musician, …
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New potentials for "independent" music : social networks, old and new, and the ongoing struggles to reshape the music industry
This thesis explores the evolving nature of independent music practices in the context of offline and online social networks. The pivotal role of social networks in the cultural production of music is first examined by treating an independent record label of the post-punk era as an offline social …
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"Get Listenin' Kids!": Independence as Social Practice in American Popular Music
… to the creation, distribution and consumption of music that actively resist cultural hegemonies--as an ongoing tradition in American popular music. While previous studies of independence have focused on specific independent record labels or eras, this project views independence as a historical …
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The effect of male timbre vocal modeling in falsetto and non-falsetto on the singing and pitch accuracy of second grade students
… 90 students in four second-grade general music classes.</p> <p>During the 12 week treatment period, students in the control and experimental groups received the same music instruction; however, the vocal stimuli for these two groups differed.</p> <p>At the conclusion of the 12 week …
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An experimental study of tonal pattern training and learning modalities on the pitch accuracy of first grade students
… song and their performances were judged by two independent music teachers. Interjudge reliabilities for the pretest and posttest were .67 and .70, respectively. The researcher failed to find statistically significant differences for the interaction and main effects.</p> <p>Based on the data …
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The record industry and competition law in the twenty-first century
… the record industry as a tool to demonstrate how independent music labels contribute to diversity in a record business dominated by four major players. Whilst some scholars have advocated the inclusion of cultural issues under competition law, no concrete suggestions have been made as to how …
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Indie Music in Post-bomb Bali: Participant Practices, Scene Subjectivities
This dissertation focuses on music practices that have been largely uncharted in Balinese music studies. In the twelve years following the 2002 terrorist bombings, during which time an economic downturn and subsequent accelerated tourism development and urbanization transformed southern Bali, …
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The individual and collective programmatic characteristics of five selected string academies in the United States
… Zweig of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The curriculum, available at stringpedagogy.com, is heavily influenced by the work of Paul Rolland and Shinichi Suzuki. The research focused on six characteristics of the academies: instructional program, geographic and physical setting, …
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A history of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association: 1959-2009
… the need for leadership in school instrumental music and gave teachers the power to govern activities that affected their students through debate and the democratic process. The primary goal of the founders was to raise standards of musical performance through "competition-festivals." The …
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We Didn't Get Famous: the Story of the Southern Music Underground, 1978-1990
… examines the emergence of the Southern indie music scene in the 1980s as both a rejection of the broader punk scene that had swept America and the UK in the 1970s and the blues and country inflected Southern Rock that preceded it in the 1970s. I first had the idea of doing a project on this …