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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Public performance"”.
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Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus : private space, public performance and torture
… of other Petrarchan sequences. Her resistance of performance involves the reinvention of the Diana/Actaeon myth, the reconstitution of the male gaze, and the elimination of the blazon. As well, the thesis examines how Pamphilia to Amphilanthus manifests the power of the court through the figure of …
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Changes in attitudes of high school girls towards dance subsequent to public performance opportunities
… teacher-student relationships and dance performances are elements which cause different students to react in different ways in the classroom.</p><p>In the interviews cited in the Introduction, the following questions were posed relative to gaining the best results from teaching dane: (1) …
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Contesting for power in public performance: hegemonic struggles in the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival
… of Morgan City, Louisiana-through the annual performance of the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival of that city. The information utilized in this study was assembled from a variety of sources: newspaper reporting from 1935 to 1999, chronicling the Festival and related subjects; works of …
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The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Saving Canada’s Democracy and Building Trust With the Public Through Planning, Public Performance Reporting, and Citizen Engagement
… of a representative democracy is a commitment to public accountability and transparency to the public it serves. The need for governments to demonstrate accountability and transparency to the public is increasing, particularly in times when financial resources are not abundant and public needs and …
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Digital audio watermarking for broadcast monitoring and content identification
… consistently overlooked in DRM developments is 'Public Performance'. The research described in this thesis analysed the administration of public performance rights within the music industry in general, with specific focus on the collective rights and broadcasting sectors in Ireland. Limitations …
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Rakyat Malaysia : contesting nationalism and exceptional multiculturalism
… Asal activism, contemporary literature/film, public performance, and state narratives. As an interdisciplinary project focusing on questions of race, nationalism, and identity, my dissertation bridges critical conversations in English Literary and Cultural Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and …
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"I Can Hear Her Breathing…": Second-Generation Sri Lankan Tamil Womyn Reflect on the 2009 Toronto Tamil Protests
Public activism in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora was demonstrated by the mass protests held in Toronto in 2009, in the months leading to the end of civil war Sri Lanka. Following the protests, research focusing on increased transnational participation, public performance of Tamil identities, and …
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Pencils of Light: Family, Photography, and Performance
… the ways in which the photograph is an act of performance. Not only does the photograph serve as a photograph for its audience, the photograph's viewer uses the photograph to perform for his or herself. This relationship between photograph and viewer is most often explored within the family …
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`SHE WILL NOT SUBMIT TO BE IGNORED': KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND PERFORMING AMERICAN FEMININITY AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
… early twentieth-century American culture via the public performance of self. This dissertation explores how Wiggin performed her different personae throughout her life, how she shifted between the different roles she personified, and how the fluctuation of the definition of "appropriate" feminine …
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Middle school students' engagement in music ensembles and their development of social responsibility
… with students and teachers suggested that public performance, music teacher mentorship, and shared in-group responsibilities contribute to fostering development of social responsibility in music students.
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Diary of A Runagate
… combined elements were presented as part of a public performance of Janáček’s masterpiece of art song, <em>Zápisník zmizelého</em>, on March 12, 2018.</p>
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A School for the Chinese Martial Arts
… secondary functions such as administration and public performance. The architecture of the school should express the culture and history that created this system of martial arts. Therefore, principles of Chinese architecture, as well as relevant philosophies such as feng-shui, should be …
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Performative monuments : public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe
… as I term an emergent genre of interactive public actions, rests on a new notion of agency in public space, in which political responsibility is performed by historically aware individuals in acts of commemoration. This dissertation argues that public performance art starting in the 1960s …
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VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction and Performance with the Singing Voice
… plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments, ranging from strings to brass to percussion, involve some coupling of the “feel” of the instrument in the hands and the corresponding sound produced. The singing voice, however, is one of few musical …
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Organ compositions for pedals alone
… publishers, and an examination of the general performance literature, method books and etude books.The study included works for organ solo which are primarily for pedals alone. A work with a few manual chords was not excluded, but a work which consistently uses the manuals, even in the most …
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Robert Schumann and the Gesangverein: The Dresden Years (1844 - 1850)
… and, more importantly, back to private and public performance.
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Playing code: Interacting with computers through rhythm
This research project involved the production and public performance of eight audio-visual art works and a corresponding reflective commentary. The aim in creating the artworks was to slow down and translate digital information, in the form of the rhythms and patterns of computer processes, into …
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Paranoid-Schizoid, Manic Defensive Society: Kleinian Psychodynamics in Contemporary Political Culture
… angry and conspiratorial reasoning within public perception of political affairs urgently needs identification and questioning. Building on Bollas’ (1979) work on the internal mood, public mood can be defined as “mood of a certain age, the mood of an audience which jointly attends to a …
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Luciano Berio's Sequenza III: The Use of Vocal Gesture and the Genre of the Mad Scene
… mid -1960s and is widely available for study and performance, but how can this work be defined? Is it a series of sounds, or phonemes, or the anxious mutterings of a woman? Is it performance art or an operatic mad scene? Sequenza III could be all of these or something else entirely. Writing about …
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Hip hop in South Tel Aviv: third space, convergent dispossession(s), and intercultural communication in urban borderlands
… social aspects of the music-making process and public performance. My investigation shows how intercultural elements are negotiated in Hip Hop performances in contemporary Israeli urban space. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I propose and apply several theoretical frames of analysis. This …
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