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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Musical innovation"”.
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A Historical Geography of the Music Industry
… the physical and cultural isolation of the musical culture groups in cities like Memphis and Liverpool helped them create a sound that was significantly different than that considered most marketable among industry officials in New York and London. Since the 1970s however, physical isolation …
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Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher’s Britain
… individuals. During this period, artistic and musical innovation offered a creative sense of catharsis, subversion, and self-expression, which represented and validated a spectrum of queer experiences. As electronic music continued to flourish into new subgenres such as Hi-NRG and house, the …
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The Makhweyane bow of Swaziland: music, poetics and place
… and 1970s, little study has been devoted to this musical instrument. The makhweyane is played by a handful of people, each appearing to consider him or herself the last bearer of this tradition. Despite this, however, musical bows have been co-opted as icons of Swazi national identity, and, along …
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From popular music to the film score: innovation, interrogation, corporeality
This thesis explores innovation in contemporary film scoring practice, specifically as it relates to the sonic output of composers and musicians with a background in popular music. In so doing, it investigates significant and distinctive work in this intriguing domain of artistic endeavour, and …