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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"music-centered"”.
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Performing Identities, Performing Possibilities: A Music-Centered and Relational Perspective on Performance in Community Music Therapy and Music Education
All humans are born with musical capacity, yet many individuals have minimal access to active music-making and its affordances. This integrated-article dissertation explores the impact of participation in musical performance as it pertains to self-identity and relationship for participants who face …
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Music Speaks, We Listen: A Teacher's Guide for Using Music in the Adult ELL Classroom
… to using popular songs to teach English. Music-centered curriculum offers rich, authentic and culturally-relevant material for use in the adult ESL classroom. This project explores research in second language acquisition and the neuro-cognitive and psychological benefits of using music in …
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Music therapy as discourse and discipline : a study of 'music therapist's dilemma'
… research perspective on the question of how music therapists talk about music therapy and how much a metalanguage relates to music therapy as an evolving discipline and profession. I ask whether there is a discourse of music therapy, and what the implications of this might be. Common to music …
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"Loving me and My Butterfly Wings:" A Study of Hip-Hop Songs Written by Adolescents in Music Therapy
… components of eleven songs including their musical elements, the compositional techniques, the affective-intuitive qualities, and the interaction between the music and the lyrics. An arts-based research design, rooted in the ethos of Hip Hop, was employed to gain a holistic understanding of …
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Music, musicians, and social advocacy: Environmental conservation, knowledge-sharing, and cultivating a culture of wisdom in northern Tanzania
Popular music and musicians in Tanzania play an important role in identifying and confronting a variety of locally relevant concerns. Prior research in the region has focused especially on the relationship between hip hop and social problems such as poverty and drug-use among urban youth. While …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… – by way of Ralph Waldo Emerson – and the black music-centered theories of black aesthetics elaborated in the cultural and literary criticism of Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten, proposing a turn away from music as a central trope in African American critical theory. The first two …