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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"jazz studies"”.
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A comparison of jazz studies curricula in master's programs in the United States
… identified as offering (a) formal degree(s) in jazz studies to music majors at the master's degree level.This writer has identified: common areas of study, similarities in jazz studies departmental core requirements, and school of music core requirements, ensemble participation required of …
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A conceptual method of learning jazz improvisation through studying the music of J. S. Bach
… exceptional source material for learning jazz improvisation. This research document has three sections. Chapter 1 is a concise review of respected jazz studies literature. Chapters 2 through 4 introduce a jazz improvisation methodology with Bach's music as its source material. The appendix …
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KinaeSonic Frameworks: Practicing dramaturgical thinking in dance and music improvisation-as-performance from a Rhythm Tap practitioner perspective
… the intersection of dramaturgy, improvisation studies and dance and music collaborative practices, viewed from a Rhythm Tap practitioner perspective. A broad scope of dance and music improvisation-as-performance practices are considered through the lens of dramaturgical thinking to highlight …
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The sound of Korea: twenty first century Korean choral music
… Poetry Settings, Church Anthems, Elements of Jazz, and Elements of Traditional Korean Music. Korean composers often ensure that the meaning of texts is intricately connected to their musical settings. The Korean poetry settings included on this album typify how music and poetry both have …
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Listening at the Edges: Aural Experience and Affect in a New York Jazz Scene
<p>In jazz circles, someone with "big ears" is an expert listener, one who hears the complexity and nuance of jazz music. Listening, then, figures prominently in the imaginations of jazz musicians and aficionados. While jazz scholarship has acknowledged the discourse on listening within various …
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Facilitating Euro-Moroccan Musical Encounters: the Process and Politics of Jazz Interculturalism in and beyond Morocco
This thesis explores the role of jazz in and from Morocco as a vehicle for interculturalism and cultural diplomacy framed by the wider context of Euro-Moroccan cultural and geopolitical relations. While providing a historical outline of early jazz encounters in Morocco, it focuses on the …
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TRANSNATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES: AURAL AESTHETICS AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC FICTION
This dissertation examines the influence of jazz and blues on African Diasporic fiction. While the influences of jazz and blues on African American cultural production have received critical attention for many decades, I contend that literary criticism neglects to recognize that jazz and blues are …
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Jazzvertising: Music, Marketing, and Meaning
This dissertation examines jazz from the perspective of advertisers and marketers that have used the music with a view to unraveling the complicated web of cultural meanings and values that attend to jazz in the 21st century. Advertising is a critically important and profoundly complex medium for …
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Jazz and Visual Abstraction: The Artworks of Mongezi Ncaphayi
… study aims to theorize the intersections between jazz music and abstraction in the visual arts. Its focus is to analyse phenomenological aspects in the selected works of South African contemporary visual artist and jazz saxophonist Mongezi Ncaphayi (b.1983), as a means to understand the nature of …
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Gendered Representations of Jazz Vocal Artists: A Critical Discourse Analysis of CD and Performance Reviews, and Interviews
This study of contemporary jazz discourse and gender applies the techniques of critical discourse analysis, inspired by M.A.K. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics and Norman Fairclough's qualitative critical discourse analysis, to explicate the unequal distribution of power in society as …