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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"banjo"”.
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Fiddle Songs and Banjo Songs: A Description Index
… texts associated with fiddle and banjo in the southern United States are described and then indexed for comparative reference. The fiddle songs are typically humorous, very brief, highly variable and disunified. The same is true of many banjo songs associated with the banjo. …
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Africa, Appalachia, and acculturation: The history of bluegrass music
… with the blues musician Arnold Shultz. The banjo playing of Earl Scruggs, an essential element of bluegrass, also owes a significant debt to African-American banjo styles found in Scruggs's native region of North Carolina.
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Hip Hop, Bluegrass, Banjos, and Solidarity: Race and Class Histories in Appalachia U.S.A
… country, and hip hop, through the history of the banjo and music industry. The banjo, an African instrument, links Appalachia with histories of both Black expression and racial oppression. From here, I argue that the history of the music industry provides a further understanding of racial …
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The Rise and Fall of the Hillbilly Music Genre, A History, 1922-1939.
… music and how instrumental the fiddle and banjo were in that development. Chapter 2 looks closely into the careers of recording artists who recorded what would later be called hillbilly music. Chapter 3 examines the string band and the naming of the hillbilly genre. Chapters 4 and 5 look at …
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A Sociotechnical Network Analysis of Bluegrass Practitioners and Instruments: Competing Definitions, Motivating Authenticities, and Tradition-Respecting Innovations
… to the instruments of bluegrass. It examines the banjo's history before bluegrass, showing how actors attempted to disentangle the banjo from its previous networks and place it into new musical and cultural networks, making changes both to the material instrument and to its meanings, thereby …
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Unsupervised gene regulatory network inference on microarray data
… Bayesian Network Inference with Java Objects (BANJO), and causality. For steady-state data tools such as ARACNe, Gene Network Inference with Ensemble of trees (GENIE3), Context Likelihood or Relatedness Network (CLR), and Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy (MRNET) are used. The performance of …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… with McKay’s novel of portside Marseilles, Banjo (1929), and considers the homosocial interactions of the vagabond collective. A comparison of North America and France as supposed exemplars of individual liberty highlights the unsuitability of nationalistic prerogatives to an internally …
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Representation theory of algebras related to the partition algebra
The main objective of this thesis is to determine the complex generic representation theory of the Juyumaya algebra. We do this by showing that a certain specialization of this algebra is isomorphic to the small ramified partition algebra, introduced by Martin (the representation theory of which is …
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A Comparison of Bluegrass Bands: 2013 Bands Versus the 1940s-1960s Bands
… is the only string band style which uses a banjo in a major solo role."1 Subjects for the present survey study were bluegrass bands (N=183) located across the United States. An online survey instrument was emailed to the 2400 bands listed as members of the ibluegrass association. One hundred …
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An Extended Ant Colony Optimisation Approach for the Mass Customisation Paradigm
Traditional manufacturing systems are based on large production volumes and repeatable high quality. Recently, with the emergence of Industry 4.0, increasing range of products variations introduced by Mass Customisation can make assembly processes more complex. By understanding complexity and the …
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Folk Influences of Aaron Copland and Britten
… However, instruments such as the dulcimer, banjo and the guitar slowly became associated with folk-song over time (Kingman 15). The distinguishing feature of the folk organism is the way of singing the song, which can differ depending on the location. Each area of a nation has a unique …
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Hearing Voices, Telling Tales: An exploration of the move from page to stage in the work of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch 1998 - 2018
… was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, Banjo (London: Picador, 2012) which was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Prize, a pamphlet Lime & Winter (Presteigne: Rack Press, 2014) shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award and my newest sequence Ling Di Long (Rack Press, 2018). Also …
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Co-Creating a Socio-Technical Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Crime-Reporting Mobile Apps in Urban Residential Communities
<p>Although mobile applications (apps) for crime reporting can enhance safety and foster social cohesion in urban communities, adoption of existing crime-reporting apps remains low because they overemphasize technological features at the expense of social realities. To address this problem, the …
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Development of cooperative behavioural model for autonomous multi-robots system deployed to underground mines
The number of disasters that occur in underground mine environments monthly all over the world cannot be ignored. Some of these disasters for instance are roof-falls; explosions, toxic gas inhalation, in-mine vehicle accidents, etc. can cause fatalities and/or disabilities. However, when such …