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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"music festivals"”.
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Former High School Music Students’ Motivation To Persist Through Yearly Adjudicated Music Festivals
… to understand what motivated former high school music students who failed an adjudicated festival audition, their perseverance to improve, and their return to the audition process in following years. In direct connection, this study fills a gap in literature regarding why students remain …
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“Music moves Europe”: Music festivals, musicians, and transnational policy networks in the European Union
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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La gestión, organización y producción de eventos culturales. Un estudio de caso:: Festival Sónar. Music, Creativity & Technology (1994-2013)
… on one specific type within the cultural sector: music festivals. This cultural sector, especially when focusing on music festivals, is usually more organized and has more impact on the venues than other types. They present visible organizational phases that are being followed in order to achieve …
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Making Music Sustainable: The Case of Marketing Summer Jamband Festivals in the U.S., 2010
<p>Commercial music festivals in the United States have been growing in popularity since the 1960s. Today, many weekend-long music festivals are annual events spanning a variety of genres and often occur at the same locations each year. My research compares and contrasts how jamband music festivals …
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Festival Worlds: A Sociology of Culture, Collective Experience and Temporary Tribes.
… and highly social, leisure worlds of music festivals. It is concerned with the continued collective production of a culture and cultural practice which is no longer constitutes a sub-cultural gathering. Instead the research proposes that participation in populist music festivals is …
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Making Community in the Wilderness: A Case Study of Women's Land's Throughout the United States
… time at nine of the lands and two women's-only music festivals and interviewed 39 women. This dissertation is the result of those interviews and my copious field notes. Chapter one frames the question of community sociologically and examines why the lands often remained homogenous even though …
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Pedagogical literature for violists: selected studies from Lillian Fuchs's 16 Fantasy Études and corresponding orchestral excerpts
Few colleges and music festivals offer intensive orchestral studies programs as part of the string department curriculum, and those that do focus solely on excerpts and audition preparation. This dissertation proposes a post-graduate course to establish a comprehensive curriculum. The course …
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Dancing in the void: Electronic dance music festival attendance as a path to enchantment
… potential of contemporary electronic dance music festivals within the context of prevailing societal trends under neoliberalism, including secularism, individualism, hyperconsumption, and hyperproductivity. By synthesizing existing literature from sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies, …
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Audience segmentation and lineup influence at Iceland Airwaves
Music festivals are public celebrations of musical performances that preserve and evolve our culture and artistic expression. They are both a great platform for socialization and a strong contributor to tourism development and economic growth. Iceland Airwaves is Iceland's longest-established music …
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Key success factors in managing the visitor experience at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival
… One type of event that is growing immensely is festivals, especially music festivals such as the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. As a result of the fast growing pace of festivals, it has become crucial for a festival to sustain itself in the market place to stay competitive. The Cape Town …
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Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: social and cultural capital in the music festival experience
… the role of social and cultural capital in the music festival experience. It does so by gathering observations and post-festival accounts from attendees at three separate music festivals located in England. The data were analysed using Fairclough's approach to critical discourse analysis, …
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Sound-mediated environmentalisms in contemporary Tuscany: towards eco-ethnomusicological frameworks in central Italy
… remains limited—specifically, the role that music and sound may play in contributing to environmentalism. Given that the world's largest polluters are developed nations, research in these contexts is crucial for understanding how music can help address environmental challenges. This study …
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The evolution of the Canadian music festival movement as an instrument of musical education
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University
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Sounding Subjectivity: Music, Gender, and Intimacy
This dissertation centers on the role of musical experience in the production and maintenance of intimate, interpersonal relationships. Music acquires meaning in its ability to enable and amplify personal relationships among participants who share musical experience—not only through the semiotic …