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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"jazz music"”.
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Jazz Music and Architecture, The Jazz Community Performance Center
The Jazz Community Performance Center explores the intersection between music and architecture. The thesis project poses the question, "How can music form architecture?" The project examines the connection of music and architecture through rhythm, harmony, melody, and form and how these elements …
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Creative implications of deconstruction: the case of jazz music, photography, and architecture
… with regard to three aesthetic fields, namely jazz music, photography, and architecture. The thesis consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on deconstruction and jazz music. First, the analysis draws a comparison between the linguistic sign and the musical sign in the light of Derrida's …
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An Appraisal of Collegiate Jazz Performance Programs in the Teaching of Jazz Music
… of inconsistency between learning to perform jazz in the indigenous climate as opposed to the formal realm. Discussion focused on problematic areas of administration, hiring, politics, selectivity of students, personal qualities, experiences, curriculum, and teaching methodology. In the …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
“Mobilizing Jazz Communities” presents a historical examination of the role culture has played in developing and sustaining African American socio-political movements during the twentieth century, and has a particular emphasis on the New Negro and Civil Rights Movements. Informed by the …
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Graduate Recital, Piano
My recital will feature jazz music from different decades in the 20th century. The program will feature well known jazz standard tunes from influential artists such as John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Miles Davis, Steve Swallow, and others. The program will include both solo jazz arrangements for …
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What Makes Nikolai Kapustin's Classically-oriented Works Sound Like Jazz Improvisation by Deconstruction of His 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op.53 and Concert Etudes, Op.40
… who is considered a composer of classical and jazz fusion. His compositions mainly focus on keyboard literature, chamber music, and big band music. Despite Kapustin's music sounding similar to jazz music and jazz improvisation, he historically denied the role of jazz in his compositions and saw …
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Urban Rhythms of Washington DC
… I could explore these questions. As a trained jazz drummer, I desired to create a place that could become a laboratory for jazz music and performance, while simultaneously serving the artist, student, patron and neighborhood. The streets of DC have a rhythm, a genetic code. How can this code be …
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The role of the saxophone embouchure in the production of the South African jazz sound : a study of nine jazz saxophone players
… Africa is known for having its own distinctive jazz music sound of which the saxophone is a significant feature. The saxophone has often been recognised world-wide as a symbolic jazz instrument and has also played an important role in South African jazz. As the embouchure of the saxophone is …
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Jazz and the cultural transformation of America in the 1920s
In the early twentieth century jazz was a regionally based, racially defined dance music that featured solo and collective improvisation. Originating in New Orleans, jazz soon spread throughout the country as musicians left the South for better opportunities-both economic and social-elsewhere in …
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Germinal Ideas and Processes within plies (2002): A Chamber Work for Eleven Players
… and eventual dissolution of two separate musical strands. The pitch material of each strand is determined from synthetic scales whose intervalic content duplicates at the following intervals: Perfect 12th, Diminished 12th, Minor 9th, Perfect 8ve, and Major 7th. A proportional means of …
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"Modern Primitive: Parody, Ambivalence, and Paradox in Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir"
… celebratory, racist, and colonialist ideas about jazz music, dance, and blackness in Paris during the 1920s. Because the portfolio often demonstrates conflicting tropes for representing people of African American descent, for example minstrelsy vs. New Negro imagery, this thesis uses several …
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"Listen to the Wild Discord": Jazz in the Chicago Defender and the Louisiana Weekly, 1925-1929
… both occupied a primary place in the history of jazz, in many ways jazz was initially met with ambivalence and suspicion. The struggle between the desire to highlight black achievement in music and the effort to adhere to tenets of middle class respectability play out in their columns. Despite …
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Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
… history of the early twentieth century music controversy as it appeared in the popular press and as it articulated the assumptions and contradictions of progressive social thought. Through close textual analysis, the author illustrates the ways in which musical spaces, musical sounds, …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… Since the Baroque, when secular vocal music became popular, vocal music has challenged the singer with diverse styles in order to demonstrate expressivity. For instance, in the Baroque the vocalist was expected to provide ornamentation such as trills and appoggiaturas, while in Spanish …
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Pathétique: a tale of two rabbys
… incorporates a variety of contrasting styles and musical material in an attempt to unify them under the same work while maintaining a unique sound. Since I began composing, I've heard this collaboration in my head between the rock music that I listened to growing up with the contemporary classical …
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Jazz reception and rejection in India 1935 to 1947
… report explores the reception and rejection of jazz in India from 1935 to partition in 1947. Of central focus is the impact of the global political enviornment leading up to and during World War Two as well as the possible impact of British control of mass media during the 1930s and 1940s. …
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Growing Communities: Urban Agriculture In Post-Katrina New Orleans
… is known for many things, from Mardi Gras and jazz music, to the rich union of French, Spanish, southern and Creole cultures. Recently, urban agriculture has come to the city as part of the rebuilding process following Hurricane Katrina. Many groups have sprung up across the city to create …
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New Orleans to Bop and beyond : a comprehensive jazz instructional programme for secondary level students
Jazz music has, in its short history, risen to become an accepted art form in western society. Many universities which a short while ago only offered courses in classical music now also confer degrees in jazz. However, at the secondary level, when many young musicians are beginning their studies in …
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