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Showing 1 to 20 of 476 for “"pop"”.
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Gutter Pop
This research project revolves around wax, an inherently mercurial and unstable medium, porous to contaminants, sensitive to temperature, and preservative by nature. In a series of artworks and a minor dissertation, I engage with wax as both material and metaphor; an analogy with which to explore …
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Gossip pop: A performative investigation of the role of pop in contemporary art practice
By broadening and redefining “pop,” this thesis intends to demonstrate pop’s potential to be considered in a manner that is productive for and applicable to contemporary art theory and practice. The research will be presented as a final survey or diachronic exhibition that will demonstrate the …
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O trono do pop em jogo: tensionamentos discursivos entre crítica, fãs e haters sobre divas pop no metacritic
… fãs e haters em relação aos sentidos de “diva pop”. A análise se dá a partir dos comentários e avalições deixadas no site Metacritic e tem como pressupostos teóricos e metodológicos perspectivas advindas dos estudos culturais, como as noções de cultura pop, gênero musical e afetos, e o conceito …
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California Native American Baskets Pop-Up Exhibit
… my capstone project, my plan is to create a pop-up exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences that focuses on California Native American baskets from the Academy's Anthropology research collection. The California Academy of Sciences, located in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, …
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Using American pop songs in EFL classrooms
<p>This project has an aim to provide effective learning environment through music resources by reducing negative feeling. Student will get away from boring classroom and have some positive energy to boost motivation on language acquisition during learning activities because music is a power to …
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Irish Pop Music in a Global Context
There are a number of reasons that motivate the undertaking of research on the topic of the music section of the culture industry in its present form. In Ireland today it is very hard for people not to have heard of some of the bands, which are going to be examined in this thesis because we hear so …
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Pop Rhetoric: A Thesis in Four Movements
Music and language.
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K-Pop Girlies: an Investigation into Photocard Collecting
… of girlies have predominantly existed in the K-pop fandom space. However, girlies have long been ignored in academic spaces as their practices are seen as temporal, with effects limited to the fleeting nature of youth and popular culture. This qualitative thesis seeks to understand who K-pop …
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Queer-Diva Collaboration in 20th Century Pop Music
… collaboration” as it pertains to the work of pop music icons Grace Jones and Annie Lennox. Queer-Diva collaborations are a surprisingly common yet undertheorized artistic phenomena wherein female pop singers co-create music and art with members of the LGBTQ community. My study argues that …
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Being out of the loop on pop culture
… satisfaction when they are out of the loop on pop culture (Iannone, Kelly, & Williams, in preparation). Five studies expanded on previous research by exploring theoretical issues and potential boundary conditions. Study 1 developed a new method and explored theoretical foundations of being out …
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Viðskiptaáætlun fyrir Reykjavik Pop Museum. Upplifun í hjarta Reykjavíkur
… að kanna fýsileika tónlistarsafnsins, Reykjavik Pop Museum, með gerð viðskiptaáætlunar fyrir safnið og safnbúð þess og hins vegar greiningar á því hvernig nýta megi kenningar og aðferðir upplifunarhagkerfisins við hönnun og rekstur safnsins. Í upplifunarhagkerfinu er lögð áhersla á að hafa skýrt …
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Anxieties and artificial women: disassembling the pop culture gynoid
… feminine-presenting robot, or gynoid, in three popular sci-fi texts: The Stepford Wives (1975), Ex Machina (2013), and Westworld (2017). Centralizing a critical feminist rhetorical approach, this thesis outlines the symbolic meaning of gynoids as representing cultural anxieties about women and …
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Pop/Rock Compositions Lyrically Targeting an "At-risk" Constituency
… messages of personal empowerment and agency. The pop song conventions of the compositions draw from the energy of alt-rock exemplars, Marianas Trench, Goo Goo Dolls, and Hedley, and also from the distinctive electronic dance music (EDM) textures found on current radio playlists. Musical …
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Oh, What a Novelty! The Paradoxical Pop-Up Book
… thesis, I argue that the familiar novelty of the pop-up book, in the century since its invention, has become the most vivid icon of ‘children’s literature’ in contemporary Anglo American culture – a recognisable shorthand for the book made for the child, the childlike or childish story, or the …
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El humor social, la cultura pop y los mercados bursatiles
… llamado El humor social, la cultura pop y los mercados bursátiles pretende estudiar la relación existente entre el humor social, que representa la situación de optimismo o pesimismo de una sociedad en un momento dado, la cultura pop, definida como las expresiones artísticas y …
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Generating vectors for pop-up cards from three-dimensional models
Pop-up cards are greeting cards that have a three-dimensional representation of an object that, when the card is opened, stands up on its own. Grid-based pop-up cards are the most difficult to design manually due to their complexity and number of pieces that must fit together accurately. In order …
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Young South African consumers’ impulse intentions toward visiting pop-up stores
Pop-up retail was first introduced as a new marketing concept in 2003, but it only appeared in South Africa in 2008. Pop-up retail is still viewed as an innovation in South Africa. It entails the opening of a tentative store, located in a unique space or venue, offering the opportunity for product …
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Discourses of Fusion and Crossing: Pop Culture in Korea and Japan
English crossing serves as the entry point for young Koreans and Japanese into a global economic order and is positioned as a positively valued strategy of individuals. In particular, bilingualism and linguistic versatility in the form of crossing into languages other than one's own can be viewed …
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The contribution of visual working memory to priming of pop-out
Priming of pop-out (PoP) refers to the facilitation in performance that occurs when a target-defining feature is repeated across consecutive trials in a pop-out singleton search task. While the underlying mechanism of PoP has been at the center of debate, a recent finding (Lee, Mozer, & Vecera, …
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