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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Pop-rock"”.
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Pop/Rock Compositions Lyrically Targeting an "At-risk" Constituency
… messages of personal empowerment and agency. The pop song conventions of the compositions draw from the energy of alt-rock exemplars, Marianas Trench, Goo Goo Dolls, and Hedley, and also from the distinctive electronic dance music (EDM) textures found on current radio playlists. Musical …
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The effect of a pop/rock music repertoire on the music achievement and preferences of lower secondary school students
This research tested the effect of using a pop/rock repertoire to teach selected music skills to lower secondary school students in a conventional school setting. Two year 9 co-educational music classes from the same school were used for the experiment. The research was conducted in an …
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Bury me deep in isolation: A cultural examination of a peripheral music industry and scene
… each year between 1998 and 2009, songs by indie pop/rock acts from Perth have charted within national broadcaster triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown. Many of the albums from which these songs have been taken have sold in excess of 35,000 copies, and a number of successful and recognised Perth bands …
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"Producing ""Local"" Repertoire: Czech Identity, Pop Music, and the Global Music Industry"
… Group (Prague, London and New York) and Czech pop/rock music culture, it illuminates the factors that inform their structure, practices, and belief systems. I demonstrate how the socio-historical experience of communism continues to shape Czech music culture, and how the transition to …
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Music preferences, music and non-music media use, and leisure involvement of Hong Kong adolescents.
… genres, in descending order, were Western pop/rock, Cantopop/rock, Western classical; the disliked genres were jazz, Chinese, and non- Western/non-Chinese. Preference correlated strongly with genre familiarity. Pop genres were the most familiar to all adolescents. The students' preference …
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The Performance of Gender: Five Comparative Biographies of Women Performers in Musica Popular Chilena
… national icon and a dynamic performer of Chilean rock-n-roll, called la nueva ola. Rebeca Godoy performs for leftist organizations in the canto nuevo style originating from the dictatorship (1973--1990). Javiera Parra, the granddaughter of folklorist Violeta, leads the band Javiera y los …
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Pop goes the theory: incorporating popular music into the undergraduate music theory curriculum
Popular music is an increasingly common tool for music education, with a fresh enthusiasm for the pedagogical potential of this vast new repertoire. The goal of this dissertation is to provide extensive notated examples from popular music that music theory instructors can incorporate into their …
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Sing a New Song: Analyzing A Cappella Arrangements of Contemporary Worship Music
… indispensable to Christian worship services, and pop/rock-influenced contemporary worship music (CWM) serves an important role in modern worship. This thesis explores strategies for arranging CWM for a cappella settings by comparing the originals with two a cappella arrangements: one intended for …
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Jesus Paid It All: Combining Rock and Hymns in Contemporary Worship Music
… Worship Music (CWM) synthesizes elements of rock music and hymns. This thesis provides an analysis of four CWM songs, “Come Thou Fount,” “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us,” “Your Glory/Nothing but the Blood,” and “Jesus Paid It All,” outlining common characteristics and associations with …
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Harmony, voice leading, and drama in three Sondheim musicals
… approach that draws upon recent work by pop-rock and stage music analysts, it examines the intersection of melodic and harmonic events with dramatic occurrences in the text to determine how Sondheim heightens dramatic narrative within each song analyzed. Sondheim’s work has been a fixture …
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The New Manila Sound: Music and Mass Culture, 1990s and Beyond
… in the 1990s and continues to be the most popular style of musical entertainment in the country — a scene I dub the New Manila Sound. Through a combination of archival research, musical analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork, my examination focuses on its two major pioneers: the musical …
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A Correlational-Developmental Study of Sexual Symbols, Actions, and Themes in Children's Kinetic Family and Human Figure Drawings
… for clinic and non-clinic children. Hard rock, hobby, sex, and teen magazines, pop rock music, educational and romance movies or videos, children's TV shows, theater attendance, and higher sexual content media were significantly related to sexual characteristics.</p> <p>Conclusions. …
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The cyclical, reciprocal relationship between funk drumming and the hip-hop technologist
… a wide array of genres, specifically hip-hop, pop, and to a lesser extent, sample-based music genres.To date there exists very few scholarly materials that speak to the cyclical and/or reciprocal nature of funk drumming and its influence on or use in hip-hop music creation/performance. It the …
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Saudade e saudosismo na música moderna portuguesa: o caso dos Heróis do Mar
Na presente dissertação defende-se a tese de que a obra dos Heróis do Mar retoma alguns dos pressupostos defendidos pelo grupo da Renascença Portuguesa e da revista Águia, no qual a personalidade de Teixeira de Pascoaes se afigurava como tutelar. Há nos Heróis do Mar, como nos homens da Renascença, …