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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Music videos"”.
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The interpretation of music videos : an interactive relationship between medium and viewer
… why certain people interpret media, such as music videos, differently than others. Jensen's concept of reception analysis describes the relationship between the medium and the audience, and thus remains a strong focus within this study. Differences in the interpretation of music videos were …
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Music video viewing and adolescents' perceptions of movie musicals
The study of movie musicals has led some communication scholars to note the similarities between this film genre and music videos. Other researchers have noted that music videos could be the final destruction of the nearly extinct Hollywood musical. No empirical studies were found that focused on …
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Country Quares: (Dis)identification Discourse in Black Country Aesthetic
… 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 artists released on YouTube between January 2016 and December 2022 …
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Predictors of Abstinence, Safer Sex & Higher Risk Sexual Behaviors At A Historically Black College & University
… of hours per day students' listened to rap music and viewed rap music videos, and the extent rap music or rap music videos influenced their sexual attitudes were variables examined using backward logistic regression. Additionally, the investigator examined religiosity and students' …
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Infusing music in an academic curriculum
… teacher research was to examine the effects of music on student comprehension, cooperative learning and the surrounding learning community. This study was conducted within a third grade inclusion classroom. The students were exposed to educational songs in mathematics, writing and science. The …
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Discovering Eternal Sunshine: Storytelling Functions of Vocal Timbre and Layering in Ariana Grande’s 2024 Album
… the album and its related media, including music videos, additional album releases, a short film, and interviews with insights from Grande. Chapter 2 realizes Peaches as the narrator of the album, demonstrates how the lyrics of each track of the album connect to the film <em>Eternal Sunshine …
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"I'm Your Biggest Fan, I'll Follow You ... " Lady Gaga, Little Monsters and the Religious Dimension of Fandom in Pop Music
… the religious dimension of fandom in popular music, taking as an object of reflection Lady Gaga and her fans. I combine fan studies with theories of immanence as well as Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the process of becoming, and provide a theoretical reading of the relationship between Lady …
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Addressing gender stereotypes in Egypt and the impact of gender-based violence in film and media
… of women in film and other media such as music videos and television shows highlight the problems in the way women are treated in Egypt. As a signatory country to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Egypt is obligated to promote gender …
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Lifecycle of viral YouTube videos
… the first site visited when looking for songs, music videos, TV shows, or just general entertainment. Along with the sharing potential provided by social media like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and more, YouTube videos have the potential to spread like wildfire. A term that has been coined to …
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The minstrelising discourse of 21st century rap music
… some critics of 21st century rap andhip hop music. This discourse evokes the imagery and terminology of the 19th centuryentertainment form of blackface minstrelsy with varying motives and effects. Moreover,it is communicated via various media; from music videos to films, from literature …
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WHO YOU CALLIN' A BITCH? A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGES USED TO PORTRAY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN RAP MUSIC
<p>Rap music has been a major force in American culture since the 1970s. It can be political, uplifting, and celebratory. It can also be misogynistic and degrading to women, the focus of the current research. This paper begins with a brief history of the importance of music in the African American …
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The construction of meaning in Hollywood and music video editing aesthetics: A comparison between the pre-television and music television generations.
… audiences construct meaning. Since the advent of music videos, traditional Hollywood editing conventions have been evolving into a new form characterized by quickly changing, almost dizzying, images. Evidence of this evolution has surfaced in contemporary television commercials, television …
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Dialogic Convergences of Spatiality, Racial Identity, and the American Cultural Imagination
… analyzes the visual imagery and lyrics in two music videos - “APES**T” by The Carters and “This is America” by Childish Gambino. This analysis provides a take on how racial and spatial issues have manifested in social and cultural spaces, and how contemporary, popular culture has, in turn, …
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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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Rapping feminism, rapping the family: hip hop, the Mudawwana, and the monarchy in Morocco
… This thesis looks to contemporary hip hop in the music of Fnaire and MC Soultana to present a more cohesive picture of Moroccan feminism, political dissent, and engagement with the regime in the early twenty-first century. I frame my analysis in the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who …
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Canadians Redefining R&B: The Online Marketing of Drake, Justin Bieber, and Jessie Reyez
… to accept, include, and institutionalize R&B music as part of Canadian culture, musical artists Justin Bieber, Drake, and Jessie Reyez have successfully broken-down barriers by having successful careers as racially diverse Canadian R&B artists. This qualitative study surveys the literature on …
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Stereotypes And The Self-Perceptions Of Black Women: How Places And Identity Strategies Matter
… Whether it is magazines, television shows, or music videos, controlling images are established in the preservation of hegemonic power and to condone the remaining marginalization of black women. Black women are seen mostly sexually exploited in hip-hop. Black women are continuously being …
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Interactivity and authenticity in AI-augmented videos
… colour the underlying information in the videos? In such a world, would the viewer be able to tell apart the synthesized from the real? This thesis begins with a series of explorations that apply existing computer vision algorithms to modify the content in a video. I create artistic …
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Egyptian Hip Hop and the January 25th Revolution
… and protest chants but also through art and music. In the past decade, hip hop music in particular has become one of the most visible outlets through which Egyptian youth are negotiating modern identities and engaging with local sociopolitical issues in their communities. Along with Egypt’s …
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