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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"Popular music"”.
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Performing class in British popular music
… class signification operates within British popular music. Notably, British rock music has forged a connection between working class experience and signification and notions of the authentic . This has been reinforced both within the disciplines of sociology and cultural studies by a focus on …
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Mbalax: Cosmopolitanism in Senegalese Urban Popular Music
… identity and cosmopolitanism through urban dance music. My central argument is that local popular culture thrives not in spite of transnational influences and processes, but as a result of a Senegalese cosmopolitanism that has long valued the borrowing and integration of foreign ideas, cultural …
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James Jamerson: From Jazz Bassist to Popular Music Icon
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The Lived experience of the popular music festival-goer.
… the lived experience of people that attended a popular music festival in the UK. The research is grounded in the philosophical roots of both experience and descriptive phenomenology. Phenomenological research is about “going back to people’s specific experiences and letting the concepts come …
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Revealing The Heart: The Popular Music Industry In Yangon, Burma
… dissertation is an ethnography of the Burmese popular music scene, which is centered in Yangon, Burma. The author attended concerts, rehearsals, recording sessions and music classes to develop the data discussed in the dissertation. She conducted seventy-seven individual interviews with members …
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From popular music to the film score: innovation, interrogation, corporeality
… 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 parses out compelling aspects of the film music and sound contributions of figures like …
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Rock Formation: Popular Music and the Technology of Sound Recording
… of the changes in the relations of production of popular music due to technological change, and the experience of technology and technological change by composers and musicians. The way technology affects the creation, composition and realization of popular music is investigated via interviews …
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Hindi filmigit: On the history of commercial Indian popular music
This study traces the musical development of the Hindi film song from the beginning of Indian sound film in 1931 to the present day, with an emphasis on the years 1931-55. Based largely on fieldwork carried out within the Bombay film industry in 1982-83, this dissertation addresses questions that …
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‘Knowing Yourself Through Others’: peer assessment in popular music group work
… of group work involving cohorts of undergraduate popular music students over a five-year period. Working within the context of band rehearsing and performing, the enquiry focuses on how intra-peer assessment impact on students’ personal attributes and their learning.</p> <p>The literature review …
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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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From Homer to Hip-Hop: Using Popular Music to Teach Composition
… write about something they care about is to use popular culture, particularly music, as a basis for writing assignments.</p>
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The articulation of difference and identity in alternative popular music practice
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Marketing and consumption of popular music : the case of New Model Army.
… of literatures from marketing, consumer studies, popular music studies and cultural studies. The key notions of "circuit of culture" and "text" were adapted to help guide the inquiry, and combined with social identity theory and branding theory. A broadly ethnographic approach, harnessed to a …
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Creating salsa, claiming salsa: Identity, location, and authenticity in global popular music
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Composing Malaysian popular music for the Orchestra in the early 21st century
This music composition practice-based thesis is aimed at documenting and analysing my professional context as a popular music orchestral composer in Malaysia. Out of the 120 minutes of music I had composed, conducted and recorded during my doctoral study in London, I have selected four pieces to be …
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Approaching sound: a sonicological examination of the producer’s role in popular music.
… and contribution to the overall sound of the popular recorded song. A literature review has revealed that the producer’s role is a particularly under- researched area within academic studies of popular music, therefore, the thesis offers a definition of the role within the dual parameters of …
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Reimagining the Collective: Black Popular Music and Recording Studio Innovation, 1970-1990
… in the production practices of black popular music in the recording studio from 1970 to 1990. The year 1970 marked a transition in the recording practice of popular music that had a distinct impact on styles marketed as R&B, soul, and funk. Multitracking in the 1950s and 1960s had …
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Student-centred partnerships between Dutch vocational popular music schools and music companies.
… system currently includes 11 vocational music academies with around 1,200 students enrolled in a popular music course. This high number of music students makes the schools interesting talent pools for music companies. Additionally, the academies are government-funded and music companies …
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Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher’s Britain
… investigation into the role of British popular music in catalysing a rise in mainstream gay male visibility during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership (1979-1990). I examine how popular music afforded a radical space within this seismic cultural and socio-political context that permitted …
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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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