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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"beatles"”.
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Three Rock Music Compositions and the Groups that Inspired Them: The Beatles, Yes, and Led Zeppelin, From 1967 to 1972
… when British popular music in general and the Beatles in particular reached their zenith of creativity. In this era, the Beatles absorbed and reflected their cultural environment while exercising a strong influence on younger musicians. While social context is important to any discussion of the …
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Coming of age : focusing the human rights lens on older men and older women
… 64 today. I therefore feel empowered to quote a Beatles' song that asks, on behalf of all older persons, and I quote: Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64? I trust the answer is yes, older people will be provided for, and yes, older people will be needed in the twenty-first …
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Making musical magic live : inventing modern production technology for human-centric music performance
… what it meant to make a record album. The Beatles revolutionized the recording process using technology to achieve completely unprecedented sounds and arrangements. Until then, popular music recordings were simply faithful reproductions of a live performance. Over the past fifty years, …
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Psychedelic music in San Francisco : style, context, and evolution
… began in 1964 with the arrival in America of the Beatles. Psychedelic music is examined in relation to an original, seven-stage model of style evolution that is developed in the thesis. It looks beyond the heyday of the music, tracing the legacy of its decline and eventual revival in the present. …
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The medium is the medium : the convergence of video, art and television at WGBH (1969)
… manipulated imagery set to the music of the Beatles to an attempt at communication between four separate locations through audio-visual technology. As the narrator, David Oppenheim, the cultural executive producer for the Public Television Laboratory, intones at the beginning of the show, …
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Estado Islámico: terrorismo en HD y jihad 2.0 Narrativa y encuadre del grupo que quiso instaurar un califato global en el siglo XXI
… y con un apodo, Jihadi John, que surge de The Beatles. Una serie de videos presentados en capítulos como si fuera un reality show ofrecido en un Netflix del terror. El uso de hashtags en Twitter que hacen referencia al Mundial de Fútbol y al cumpleaños de la cantante estadounidense Demi Lovato. …
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Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
… and baroque-inspired covers of songs by the Beatles, in addition to her ongoing experiments with extended vocal techniques. She also created her own widely acclaimed compositions. Based primarily on archival research, this dissertation examines Berberian's contributions to avant-garde musical …
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The long and winding road to reflexology: A post-structural narrative inquiry
… inquiry, eliciting synchronic narratives. Beatles song titles have been used as headings, bringing into focus my own intertextuality to capture the spirit of Derridean thought which emerged during the era reflexology was presenting as a popular practice. The study contributes to furthering …
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Exilic Vision and the Cinematic Interrogation of Britain: The Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter Collaboration
… part, to the international popularity of the Beatles, James Bond, and the fashion of designer Mary Quant. Yet this veneer of sex appeal and economic prosperity veiled ongoing class and racial tension, gender inequality, homosexual oppression, and a dissolving Empire. Losey and Pinter …
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Rock Becomes Jazz: Interpretations of Popular Music by Improvising Artists in the 1960s
The advent of rock and roll changed the jazz world’s relationship to itself and its musical public. The popularity of jazz, in decline since the rise of bebop in the mid-1940s, was further eroded by rock and roll’s rise to prominence in the mid-1950s. By the mid-1960s, the jazz world seemed to be …
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Radiohead's subterranean jazz structuralism: the music of Louis Armstrong, Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus in ten compositions by Radiohead
"The objective of this dissertation is to define the undocumented jazz lineage of Radiohead's musical evolution that has been overlooked in the current academic discourse. Drawing on ten examples from Radiohead albums OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac and The King of Limbs, I hope to show their jazz …