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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Popular music studies"”.
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Marketing and consumption of popular music : the case of New Model Army.
… a range 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 …
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"Copies without Originals": Manipulation, Mediation, and Mediatization in Performance and Recording Practices
This thesis examines case studies and historical accounts taken from different periods of the history of recording technology, and addresses questions concerning the impact of mediatization, manipulation, and mediation on listeners' and performers' approaches to music. The project considers the …
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A gendered musicological study of the work of four leading female singer-songwriters: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, and Tori Amos
This thesis investigates the role of gender in popular music, exploring the possibility of a feminine mode of writing. It focuses on the work of four leading female singer-songwriters, namely Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Tori Amos, whose songs are analyzed as textual entities. Building …
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Performing fandom on the British Northern soul scene : competition, identity and the post-subcultural self
… American soul records and the relocation of this music into an alien locality. The records - often poor emulations of the Motown sound - were disregarded, and subsequently discarded, by intended audiences. With a treasure trove of rare records laid forgotten, the Northern Soul record collector …
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Sampling India: examining cultural appropriation, intercultural exchange, and the Othering of Indian music in hip-hop and reggaeton
… binary analysis of ‘Orient and Occident’. In popular music studies, India is primarily explored through its influence on psychedelic rock (Lavezzoli, 2007; Bakrania, 2013), or the impact of bhangra in shaping diasporic South Asian identities (Sharma, 1996; Dudrah, 2002). However, the role of …
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Singing out Together: Towards a Queer Ethnography of Music and Sexuality.
… seeks to understand the relationship between music and sexuality within the context of urban lesbian and gay music and music-making practices. Theoretically, I am mainly informed by queer musicology, popular music studies, cultural and subcultural studies, and the sociology of music. Building …
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Radiohead and the Uses of Genre – A Stylistic Evaluation
The thesis explores uses of genre in the music of the band Radiohead and presents a new theoretical approach for studying popular music genres by combining text-based and discourse-based methods of analysis. Genre is a controversial and ambiguous concept that plays an important role in the ways in …
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Heteroglossia and ‘hagiography’: authorship, authorisation and the collective/ individual couplet in different every time and associated public works
… including my authorised biography of the British musician Robert Wyatt. The contribution to knowledge is twofold. Firstly, there is the fact that, despite his status as a musician, mine is to date the only Robert Wyatt biography, while one of my journal articles has at least begun to fill the gap …
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Mosh pits and mental health: metal communities and emerging adults' well-being
… I will examine relationships between metal music and community participation and the mental well-being of so-called "emerging adults" within these communities. Building upon previous research on these relationships, I examine how emerging adult mental well-being is affected – both positively …
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Hip life music: re-defining Ghanaian culture (1990-2012)
African music is full of life ... we have different ethnic groups, different languages and cultures, moods, shades; it's so dynamic, and we have a message. (Diana Hopeson, p.c. 2006) My research documents the hip life popular music story from 1990 to 2012, from pre-through post-inception, as driven …
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Understanding 'It': Affective Authenticity, Space, and the Phish Scene
… many American, cultural, and performance studies scholars as well as numerous anthropologists, sociologists, and both musicologists and ethnomusicologists, I treat performance as a ritual and posit Phish scene participants can be seen to achieve a social efficacy in their performance of …