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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"exoticism"”.
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Wild Music: Ideologies of Exoticism in Two Ukrainian Borderlands
… bear the stigma of such entrenched histories of exoticism. This ethnographic project focuses on music as a medium for challenging and reinforcing ideologies of exoticism, demonstrating how insiders and outsiders in both cases draw upon indigenous musical tropes to express or subvert stereotypes …
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The American Indian as a Souvenir: Antiquarianism, Exoticism, and Sentimentalism in Cooper's "The Pioneers"
… of the literary devices of antiquarianism, exoticism, and sentimentalism to transform the American Indian into an international souvenir.
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Representações do lado sombrio (Dark exoticism) da cultura chinesa em Macau: 1850-1915. Alteridade, interculturalidade e construções do corpo
… do exotismo numa vertente sombria (dark exoticism) no século XIX encontra-se presente na grande maioria das narrativas ocidentais/europeias sobre a China, assim como nas representações visuais através de fotografias, gravuras, desenhos. É no século XIX que ocorrem os (des) encontros mais …
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Social Discourse in the Savoy Theatre's Productions of The Nautch Girl (1891) and Utopia Limited (1893): Exoticism and Victorian Self-Reflection
As a consequence to Gilbert and Sullivan's famed Carpet Quarrel, two operettas with decidedly "exotic" themes, The Nautch Girl; or, The Rajah of Chutneypore, and Utopia Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress were presented to London audiences. Neither has been accepted as part of the larger Savoy …
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Adoration, Appropriation, or Approximation? Rethinking the Exotic in Western Music
… has been given voice by composers by way of exoticism. The ability to depict the exotic has, for centuries, held the fascination of listeners and composers alike. In spite of this, the identification and study of exoticism as an aesthetic trend in music has not been given nearly as much …
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Maurice Ravel and Exoticism. A study of the exotic in he vocal works of Maurice Ravel with special reference to L'Enfant et les sortileges and the Trois Chansons Madecasses
… subtle humour, his fascination for travel and exoticism, his interest in animals and children and his keen observations of nature are mirrored in his art, as are the disorientation and tragedy of World War One. Behind all these multificatious threads lies the composer's sovereign conscience …
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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… focuses upon Fredric Jameson's essay 'Exoticism and Structuralism in Wallace Stevens', which concerns the American poet's writings and their relevance to contemporary culture. ... This paper ultimately supports Fredric Jameson's assertion that Stevens cultivated a style that favours …
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The Impact of Racial Microaggressions on Black Athletes: Implications for Counseling and Sport Psychology
… White cultural values and communication styles, exoticism, second class citizenship, assumed universality, denial of individual racism, coping strategies, and underdeveloped incidents and responses dealing with racial microaggressions.
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A Performer's Analysis of Maurice Ravel's Chansons madécasses: A Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of B. Britten, R. Schumann, S. Barber, T. Pasatieri, F. Poulenc, G. Verdi, T. Arne, and Others
… twentieth-century musical experimentation and exoticism with the late nineteenth-century style characteristics present in the vocal elements and instrumentation. Because early twentieth-century music appears to be closely connected to modern concerns, performers may tend to dismiss the style …
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Developments in Viennese operetta in Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, and Robert Stolz.
… elements of the genre, namely the waltz, exoticism, and local color, and compared how each composer used these common building blocks in their most successful operettas.
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What's mine isn't yours, but what's yours is definitely mine: University student use of Cherokee Indian culture in identity formation
… I determined the narratives of Ancient Peoples, Exoticism and Romanticism, and Civilized and Uncivilized Peoples most significantly impacted student identity formation. My results demonstrated how students' newspaper articles intertwined campus identity narratives with a perpetuation of …
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Resisting the Historical and Geographical “Other”: The Role of Expertise in Video Game Music
… to explore. Game developers have often utilized exoticism, allowing players to experience the “Other” from the comfort of home. Music is a powerful tool to evoke Otherness and can reinforce stereotypes about the past and different cultures. This thesis looks at recent games where developers have …
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From Skeletons to Orchards
… at this time, largely in terms of imaginative exoticism and figurative energy. The third section of this thesis, titled "Graffiti in the Orchard," is an exploration of my current work as a poet. In this phase, Rainer Maria Rilke was the primary influence as I began to develop a more fluid and …
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The Sociopolitical Construction Of Race And Literary Representations Of The Biracial Subject
… biracial subjectivity, racial passing, primitive exoticism, and the intersections between race, class and gender. I conclude that a study of the interracial theme in literature is a dive into the chasm between margin and center, the enunciative split between the binary racial signifiers black and …
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
… the constitutive paradoxes of the discourse of exoticism, especially when this discourse takes the Arab figure as its subject. I avail myself of "postexotic Arabness" as a tropological descriptor for such an engagement. Postexotic Arabness thus designates the creation of narrative dystopias that …
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The Orientalism of Edgar Allan Poe: The Allure of the Middle East in Al-Aaraaf
… The thesis centers on the elements of Oriental exoticism, Qur'anic imagery, Middle Eastern geography, ancient cities, local traditions, and intertextual relationships. The body of the thesis is mainly made up of three parts. The first part gives a brief survey of the definition of Orientalism …
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Travelling in Language and Image: Representing Alterity in French Romantic Fiction, Travel Narrative, Journalism, and Art, 1830--1870
… M. Bakhtin's term, indicate that the theme of exoticism and travel did not represent an end in itself, but rather served as a vehicle for discussions on contemporary esthetics, human nature, subjectivity, artistic mission, and the role and place of visual culture in modern society."
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Multimodal representation and translation of the official UK tourism website into Chinese
… be used cautiously to avoid detrimental loss of exoticism and cultural uniqueness, which are the attractive pulling factors enhancing travel motivation of international tourists.
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The case of the Indian detective: Native American mystery novels
… dual impulses of the “Dialectic of Diversity,” exoticism and assimilation. Non-Indian readers want Indians to be both different (strange, mystical, more in tune with nature, etc.) and the same (sharing recognizable desires, worldviews, motivations, etc.). The genre that teases with the unknown …
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