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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Riffs."”.
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Riffs and Solos: Jazzing My Way through Writing
Corporate, sports, and creative writing.
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Musical process and the structuring of riffs in Metallica.
… the harmonic and melodic nature of Metallica's riffs and examines how musical processes help shape the formal structures of these riffs. Drawing upon Robert Hopkins's and Wallace Berry's ideas of progression, recession, and stasis as fundamental musical processes, this study explores how certain …
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Electroacoustic music composition: myth, symbol and image
… as follows: Chapter 9, Urbis #2 'passing moments/riffs & raffs' for bass clarinet and tape; Chapter 10, Urbis #3 'Alter ego' for electric guitar, live electronics and tape; Chapter 11, Urbis #4 for tape. In this section I address the use of modern urban culture symbols in order to create a …
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Constructing Music of Rebellion in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States
… dissonant melodic intervals into power-chord riffs, as exemplified in the music of the band Los Crudos. Some bands, such as Aus-Rotten, adopted a propaganda aesthetic, employing the conventions of crust-punk and dis-core—such as sloganeering lyrics, down-tuned guitars, and dissonant pitch …
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Jamming as a Curriculum of Resistance: Popular Music, Shared Intuitive Headspaces, and Rocking in the "Free" World
… and critical statement as the songs and riffs move along together to tell why an arts-based musical way of being can be a choice and alternative in our lives. A riff, though a musical phrase played by a musician, is considered an idea from whoever is being cited to add to the flow of the …
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Understudy
… features a contemporary epic titled “Moly” that riffs off the structure and imagery of Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em>. “Moly” engages with and subverts traditions of Western poetics and cultural ideas about heroic identity, violence, grief, forgiveness, love, family, and resolution. In this poetry …