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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"drumming"”.
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Bringing African Dance and Drumming to Rural Northern Colorado
… I was to propose and pilot a unit in African Drumming. My eventual goal was to have this class offered for the fall of 2008 in the student class handbook and be able to teach this course. I began my process in the summer of 2007 engaging in conversations with my future colleagues asking for …
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Bringing African Dance and Drumming to Rural Northern Colorado
… I was to propose and pilot a unit in African Drumming. My eventual goal was to have this class offered for the fall of 2008 in the student class handbook and be able to teach this course. I began my process in the summer of 2007 engaging in conversations with my future colleagues asking for …
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Rhythms of Power: Royal Drumming in Aburi -Akuapem, Ghana
Chapter I provides the historical and ethnographic background needed to understand the array of forces that have shaped court music and the chieftaincy in Akuapem since the late 19th century. Chapter II presents an overview of musical activity in Aburi and explains the mechanics of Akan speech …
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Drumming Trees and Stone Percussion: An Evolution of Rhythm
… The first half of the thesis focuses on buttress drumming in wild chimpanzees as a cultural communication system. The second half of the thesis examines rhythmicity in tool use and manufacture, culminating in an experimental archaeology study that assesses rhythm and Achulean hand-axe quality. …
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On Digital Drumming: Collaborative, Dyadic, Co-Located, Coordinated Interaction
… and interactions begin to arise. Digital Drumming is a series of three experiments that examined the impact of known computer participation as a partner in a dyadic creative, experience-driven task. The subjective processes associated with the task of rhythmic music production by …
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Celebrating African Drumming and Dance in a Rural Montana Classroom
… Arts and Education Celebrating African Drumming and Dance in a Rural Montana Classroom Chairperson: Karen Kaufmann Community is the key word when describing Lone Rock School, a rural, K-8 school located in the Bitterroot Valley in Montana, and my place of employment. Lone Rock takes …
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Celebrating African Drumming and Dance in a Rural Montana Classroom
… Arts and Education Celebrating African Drumming and Dance in a Rural Montana Classroom Chairperson: Karen Kaufmann Community is the key word when describing Lone Rock School, a rural, K-8 school located in the Bitterroot Valley in Montana, and my place of employment. Lone Rock takes …
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Beyond Batá: Documenting the Folkloric Lucumí Drumming Traditions of Matanzas, Cuba
… as the Villamíl family in maintaining distinct drumming practices linked to Lucumí religious life. It documents foundational patterns, lead drum improvisational vocabularies, instrument construction and tuning systems, and the ceremonial contexts from which these traditions operate. …
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The cyclical, reciprocal relationship between funk drumming and the hip-hop technologist
… It demonstrates how progenitors of funk drumming directly influenced decades of subsequent drummers, DJs, and beat producers across a wide array of genres, specifically hip-hop, pop, and to a lesser extent, sample-based music genres.To date there exists very few scholarly materials that …
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Drumming Up Health: A Case Study of Carleton University's West African Rhythm Ensemble
There is recent, compelling research that clearly documents the positive role that music-making plays in an individual’s and community's well-being (Stige 2006, Thaut 2013, Turino 2008). Rhythm, in particular, has been shown to connect people with each other, reduce stress and anxiety, and promote …
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Art and Drumming: A Study on Affect, Attachment and Self-Esteem within the Older Adult Population
… 15 participants in each of three groups: two drumming groups and a control group. Intervention group A (IGA) used commercial drums; intervention group B (IGB) painted a symbol of self on a self-made drum, and a control group, which received no intervention.</p> <p>A theoretical framework, …
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The mystic 'it' and the centre of culture : an ethnographic experience with a women's drumming circle
… is an ethnographic exploration of a women's drumming circle in Southwestern Ontario. The focus of the paper is to act as a conduit to open up a communication link between the women and their conceptions and perceptions of the multicultural construction of their ritual group; and a detailed …
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A Sensory-Based Program to Enhance Occupational Performance for Dementia
… of life. Sensory based interventions, such as drumming groups, have been hypothesized to be a non-pharmacological intervention for individuals with dementia. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of a sensory based intervention program, in this case participation in a drumming …
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The effectiveness of a transcription system within the context of learning West African jembe drumming ensemble pieces
… the need for a memory tool to assist jembe drumming students in Cape Town in retaining aural learning, specifically West African jembe drumming ensemble pieces. The need for this tool stems from the limited amount of access students have to accurate West African jembe ensemble repertoire, …
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Gendered Practices and Conceptions in Korean Drumming: On the Negotiation of "Femininity" and "Masculinity" by Korean Female Drummers
<p>Korean drumming, one of the most popular musical practices in South Korea, currently exists in a state of contradiction as drumming, historically performed by men, is increasingly practiced by women. Women drummers who enter this male-dominated realm confront the "masculinization" of the …
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History, Ethics, and Emotion in Ndau Performance in Zimbabwe: Local Theoretical Knowledge and Ethnomusicological Perspectives
"This dissertation is an ethnography of the dance/drumming practices of Ndau communities in Zimbabwe along the Mozambique border. I attend to the specific drumming practices of the spirit possession ceremonies central to local cosmological understanding, as well as the secular muchongoyo drumming …
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