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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Popular song"”.
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I Won't Be Reconstructed: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, And Popular Song
The following thesis traces the life of a song generally known as “I'm a Good Old Rebel” to explore the impact of popular culture on the creation of Civil War memory. Penned in the aftermath of Lee's surrender and containing lines like, “I hate the Yankee Nation / And everything they do; / I hate …
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Gonna Spread the News all Around: Early, African-American Popular Song as Spoken Newspaper
… have generally relied on more conventional songs about male-female relationships in this research, largely ignoring the subset of topical blues songs that related information about current events. Given the widespread illiteracy among African Americans during the height of the blues' …
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The politics of the traditional Korean popular song style T'ŭrot'ŭ
T’ŭrot’ŭ, a traditional Korean popular song style, has existed in the South Korean music scene for more than eight decades. Nowadays, the song style may not be the most popular song style in South Korea in terms of media popularity, which is mostly oriented towards teenaged listeners. However, …
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Contemplating identity and genre in Greek popular song: The Theatrical Compositions of Manos Hadjidakis Between 1944 and 1966
… cultural identity in general as well as Greek popular music of the mid-twentieth century in particular. My examination of the role of such works in the construction of Greek national and cultural identity focuses on the relationship of Hadjidakis with Greek literary modernism and its …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… band arranging; the Afro-Latin influence; and popular song form. But his music also makes use of ideas that were rare in jazz at that time, such as suite form, dissonant counterpoint, pantonality, and the modal (scalar) approach to composition and improvisation his own theory had informed. This …
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Campaign songs as a factor in American politics
… itself as a nation, the prevailing type of popular song was naturally patriotic. Walt Whitman in his article “Slang in America” observes that folk songs, like language, are not an abstract construction of the learned, bu something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, …
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"""Jazzy Belle Retell/tale"": toward a framework of sonic black girlhood"
… of the creation and performance of the song “Jazzy Belle Retell/tale” created by Jessica Robinson, a member of the black girl band, We Levitate. This thesis explores the making of the retell/tale of a popular song by the hip hop group, OutKast as a practice of black girlhood music …
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Popular working-class song in industrial Lancashire c. 1832 - 1862: An investigation of local, political and gender identities
… here is intended to demonstrate the value of popular working-class song toward the understanding of ordinary labouring people in 19th century Lancashire, particularly in the cotton trade. The chronology represents three decades of the century spanning a period of growing class awareness, …
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Rhetorical and musical synthesis and the strategies for inter-generational resonance in Queen's Bohemian rhapsody
<p>This study critically examines the popular rock anthem Bohemian Rhapsody to understand why the song has remained a lasting and eminently compelling standard for the progressive rock genre and why it has appealed through an inter-generational scope. Through the use of Close Textual Analysis …
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Hindi filmigit: On the history of commercial Indian popular music
… 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 relate to …
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Capital
… This is expressed by the pop band. Each popular song chosen for this piece was published in the same years as the original publication dates of Das Kapital: 1867, 1885, and 1894.
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Pathétique: a tale of two rabbys
… amalgamation of a chamber ensemble, operatic and popular song vocals, spoken word, and rock quartet. My approach to writing the music was to create a world in which all of these elements work together, without sounding as if a series of styles and genres were simply spliced back to back.
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Echoes of the Russian Revolution In Greek Wartime, Resistance, and Post-War Music
… Theodorakis, as well as the Greek guerrilla songs heard during the Nazi Occupation, known as *andártika*. This thesis intervenes in the scholarship occupied by discussions of Greek musical nationalism and confronts that which is shaped by the politics of anti-communism and the binary …
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New Arrangements of Selected Taiwanese Popular Songs for the Early-Elementary Piano Student
… presents ten personal arrangements of Taiwanese popular song melodies for solo piano with teacher accompaniment parts. Should teachers wish to create music they believe their own students would enjoy, this project can also be used as a guide to the compositional process. This collection of pieces …
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An Investigation of the Relationship between Popular Music and Analytic Cubist Paintings in Prewar Paris
… connection between Analytic Cubist paintings and popular music culture in pre-World War I Paris. In particular, it focuses on popular music, performance, song lyrics, music iconography and its connected poster advertising as each relates to the Analytic Cubist paintings of Braque and Picasso. …
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
… between Britain and the US in the field of popular song, this thesis explores the constitutive relationship between discourse, performance, and identity via critical and postcolonial theory. I interrogate how and why nostalgic and essentialising visions of alterity were used to resist mass …
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An action research study of promoting students’ confidence in speaking English
… were: Self- Introduction, an English Movie, a Popular Song, My Favourite Story, Foreigner Interview and a Coffee-break Discussion. The second cycle followed the reflection on the first cycle to further develop materials, activities, teaching techniques and teacher’s roles. It involved a further …
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Computational lyricology: Quantitative approaches to understanding song lyrics and their interpretations
… focused on audio-related facets of music, while song lyrics have been rarely considered. Based on the observation that most popular songs contain lyrics, whose different levels of complexity contribute to the overall music complexity, this dissertation research investigates song lyric complexity …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… band arranging; the Afro-Latin influence; and popular song form. But his music also makes use of ideas that were rare in jazz at that time, such as suite form, dissonant counterpoint, pantonality, and the modal (scalar) approach to composition and improvisation his own theory had informed. This …
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