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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Songwriter"”.
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Integrated Marketing Communications Plan For Singer-Songwriter Alexa James
… marketing communications plan for singer-songwriter Alexa James are to refine and promote the brand of Alexa James, enhance marketing techniques and increase Alexa James' online fan base. Despite a limited budget there is a great opportunity to increase awareness of Alexa James and help …
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Song, Songwriting and the Songwriter in the English Folk Song Revival
… be in three parts; a study of four professional songwriters, an analysis of the creative process using myself as a case study and a synopsis of the significant points.
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The Process of Becoming a Songwriter: A Qualitative Analysis of Self-Perceptions and Early Environmental Experiences
Becoming a songwriter implies a process through which someone must experience specific things indigenous to the social world of songwriters. This research focused on the process someone goes through to become a songwriter. The process as described by the actor is influenced by both the actor and …
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The Artist as Troubadour: Exploring Creative Encounter through Song, Travel and Story
… practice as a performing singer-songwriter and visual artist. The live performances I have made as a singer-songwriter provide the context for my research investigation into a relationship between performer, audience and environment developed in real-time. Research is …
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Music and interpersonal communication: An in-depth view of Ani DiFranco and her lyrics
… by examining how independent singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco's music lyrics provide her listeners with a foundation for relationship formation based on empathy and self disclosure. This study divides DiFranco's song lyrics into three categories of folk music, more specifically, …
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SongGen: Framework for Controllable AI Song Generation through Interactive Songwriting and Artist Emulation
… features a chat interface with a trained AI songwriter assistant, emulating the traditional back-and-forth of human collaboration. The system offers enhanced capabilities for greater control over the songwriting process, including concept ideation, lyric generation and editing, real-time song …
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Homage to Eleanora: A Musical Journey through the Billie Holiday Songbook
<p>Billie Holiday was a singer, songwriter, vocalist, bandleader and composer in the fields of music, black culture and more specifically the genre of jazz. The primary focus of this study is Billie Holiday’s discography, music, and compositions as treated in relation to the black culture of …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… in 1961 and the expulsion of the German poet and songwriter Wolf Biermann in 1976. By analyzing the authors' concrete strategies, the thesis demonstrates that their plays articulate both the European literary tradition and the (East) German socialist project.
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Baptism
… I am now a husband, worship leader, singer-songwriter, and college writing instructor, struggling to capture fragments of who I was before I was any of these things, and hoping to shed some light on how I came to be who I am today. If you need the entirety of the story, read no further. But …
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Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie
… political significance of a number of lyrics by songwriter and political activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. By drawing on both the singer's personal experiences and relevant American history, I lay out how larger political and cultural forces in society impacted Guthrie's songs. Although …
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The Life And Songwriting Of Vic Chesnutt
… member of an international group, but a southern songwriter whose rural Georgia upbringing was paramount to his work. He has often been compared in music journals to the southern gothic schoolmates of William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers, placing his songs in the context of …
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The Social and Cultural Changes that Affected the Music of Motown Records From 1959-1972
… as a whole. Gordy began his musical career as a songwriter and wrote "Lonely Teardrops," a song sung by Jackie Wilson, and Motown's first hit record. He decided that to make a substantial profit, he had to own the publishing and produce the records. With this addition of publishing to the label, …
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Diversifying the Canon of American First World War Poetry
… B. Watkins and African American citizen poet and songwriter Andy Razaf. Similarly, American women and LGBTQ soldiers had invisible experiences in the First World War that can be seen in their poetry. Charles Harding Divine, who was prolifically published during and after the war, and John Allan …
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Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019
… Knowles-Carter (a contemporary singer-celebrity, songwriter, and producer), this study re-imagines the archive of Black singer-celebrities by centering Black women’s performances and voices to illuminate the diverse, nuanced representations of resistance and empowerment that Black women and …
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It's All Been Done
… Initially inspired by a lawsuit that singer/songwriter Tom Waits filed against a large corporation for using an impersonator in a commercial, It’s All Been Done is an exploration of style, sense memory and the compositional process. It’s All Been Done begins with a parody of Waits’ own style. …
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Dancing about Architecture in a Performative Space: Discourse, Ethics and the Practice of Music Education
British singer/songwriter Elvis Costello once said, “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a really stupid thing to want to do” (in Brackett, 1995, p. 157). In this thesis I talk not only about music but I also talk about talk about music, perhaps an even stupider thing to …
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The life and legacy of Harold David (Hal) Shaper (1931-2004)
… fourteen, that he decided that he wanted to be a songwriter. Even while studying in Cape Town to be a lawyer, he confidently and determinedly set about achieving his song-writing ambitions. Chapter Three follows Shaper's move to London, and his development as a lyricist, which resulted in his …
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The Power of the Voice: Listening to Mexican and Central American Immigrant Experiences (1997-2010)
… group Tex Bronco, and the Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Flor Urbina. Finally, my conclusion sets the stage for future work on representations of immigrant experiences to better understand the movements and migrations that continue to foster encounters between different cultures throughout the …
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Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact
… of executive consultant, adviser, international songwriter and cultural diplomat over the past two decades. The five outputs (projects) explored are drawn from a large catalogue of more than 20 publications and over 100 credited original musical releases. The commentary explores my methodology, …
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Marginal/minority popular music : the concept of the "third space" and the case for "hybridities" of cultures/identities /
… voice" is used not to denote the voice of the songwriter, but rather the collective voice of a marginal racial/cultural group). This dual function fits with Hall's and Bhabha's idea that cultural identity emerges out of cultural antagonism, cultural struggle. Bhabha's Third Space is also …
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