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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"musical culture"”.
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Renewal of Ogu Musical Culture Through Jazz Intervention
… discusses a possible method of forestalling the musical decay and restoring the integrity of Ogu music through the intervention of the jazz genre. Given the reality of globalization, mass transculturation, and the adoption of Western educational system by African States, musical syncretism cannot …
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The German Moment in English Musical Culture, 1820-1859
… German moment crystallised in English musical culture between the 1820s and 1850s. Across these four decades, music written by German and Austrian composers went from being received as an esoteric and essentially foreign cultural import to becoming a core part of the middle-class …
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Secular urban musical culture in Provence and Languedoc during the late Middle Ages
… secular music, scholarship concerning its urban musical culture is generally limited to a few publications by nineteenth-century local historians; in contrast, several recent comprehensive studies building on scholarship of the past two centuries exist for the Low Countries and Germany. This …
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Between Two Giant Sounds: Jamaican Politics, Nationalism, and Musical Culture in Transition, 1974-1984
… to considerable changes in Jamaican political culture and nationalism. Inextricable from changes in the nation's political culture, however, were changes in its popular culture, namely, the transition in popular music from reggae to what became known as "dancehall." The history of reggae and …
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Still Dreaming of You: Selena's Discourse with and Continuing Impact on American Musical Culture
… Perez continues to circulate in popular culture, including MAC cosmetic lines, a Netflix series, and podcasts. As a result, her cultural influence continues to be passed on and shared with future generations. This thesis focuses on three aspects of Selena and Selena y Los Dinos: Selena’s …
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The Role of Shape-Note Singing in The Musical Culture of Black Communities in Southeast Alabama
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Listening to Decatur: Musical Ethnography in an Illinois City, 1992--1997
Listening to Decatur: Musical Ethnography in an Illinois City, 1992--97 explores values, organization, stratification, and coherence in the musical lives of individuals and institutions in Decatur, a small city in central Illinois. Individual chapters are devoted to the various forms of …
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Doctoral thesis recital (collaborative piano) lecture
… Dietz (Antoine Titz) in the context of the musical culture of late 18th-century Russia]
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Choctaw Indian musical cultures in the twentieth century
… the tribe became geographically separated; the musical culture of each group subsequently changed in different ways. Ethnomusicological fieldwork was undertaken among Choctaw communities in Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi, to compare the processes and products of musical change in each of …
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The Saxophone in Puerto Rico: History and Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
… a historical overview of the saxophone in the musical culture of Puerto Rico and explores reasons for the delay on saxophone classical performance to develop. In an attempt to help promote the local performance and composition of new works, the author provides an annotated bibliography of music …
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The study of African rhythm as a model for understanding rhythm in two representative twentieth-century American works
… that the attention paid to broader issues of musical context in a tradition which is not Western may offer new systems of categorization. Here, categories derived from theories of African rhythm suggest questions to ask about rhythm in a different musical culture: the 20th-century American art …
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The Role of Women in Music in Nineteenth-Century Dublin
… women went from participating in the city's musical culture as performers to participating as teachers, composers, organisers, performers and writers. In the first half of the century, private music teachers such as Mrs Allen represented women's first steps into promoting Irish music. With …
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A Historical Geography of the Music Industry
… the physical and cultural isolation of the musical culture groups in cities like Memphis and Liverpool helped them create a sound that was significantly different than that considered most marketable among industry officials in New York and London. Since the 1970s however, physical isolation …
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Bringing Kurdish Music to the West
… important influences and elements of their musical styles. Because Kurdish music is not well known outside of Kurdistan, the document will also provide a brief history of Kurdistan and its musical culture to give the reader some context. This will include a short description of Middle …
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Hindi filmigit: On the history of commercial Indian popular music
This study traces the musical development of the Hindi film song from the beginning of Indian sound film in 1931 to the present day, with an emphasis on the years 1931-55. Based largely on fieldwork carried out within the Bombay film industry in 1982-83, this dissertation addresses questions that …
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Secondary Level Music Teacher Training Institutions in Jamaica: A Historical Study
… Commonwealth Caribbean, is known for its rich musical heritage that has made its impact on the international scene. The worldwide recognition of Jamaica's music reflects the creative power of the country's artists and affects many sectors of the island's economy. This has lead to examination …
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The music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes; harbinger of American art music's transition into the modern age
… thesis looks at the composer in terms of the musical culture in which he lived. It considers issues which affected American musicians and highlights many of the ways Griffes transcended the stylistic limitations of early twentieth-century American music. Analyses of the Piano Sonata of 1917 …
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The Aquitanian Sacred Repertoire in Its Cultural Context: An Examination of Petri clavigeri kari, In hoc anni circulo, and Cantu miro summa laude
… region in terms of its politics, religion, and culture, and these interrelated aspects of life created a fertile environment for musical production. A rich manuscript tradition has facilitated numerous studies of Aquitanian sacred music, but to date most previous research has focused on one …
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The history of the Cape Town Orchestra : 1914-1997
… on the development of orchestral music and musical culture not only in Cape Town but throughout South Africa.It was the first professional orchestra in South Africa and came into existence on 28 February 1914. The Orchestra's history has been divided into two main periods. During the first …
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Keys to a Russian national composer: An introduction to Georgy Sviridov
A national musical culture is defined by its traditions. Georgy Sviridov (b. 1915) is the strongest contemporary link to Russia's great musical heritage. The perennial Russian themes run through his work in abundant clarity and force: patriotism, depiction of nature and peasant life in all their …
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