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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"pop music"”.
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Irish Pop Music in a Global Context
… 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 much about them in the media and because …
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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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"Producing ""Local"" Repertoire: Czech Identity, Pop Music, and the Global Music Industry"
… creativity relate to the corporate production of music transnationally. Utilizing a multi-sited ethnography to examine the relationships between the Bertelsmann Music Group (Prague, London and New York) and Czech pop/rock music culture, it illuminates the factors that inform their structure, …
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The Influence of Weimar Culture on Pop Music in the 1970s and ‘80s
… influence of Weimar Berlin’s culture on British popular music of the 1970 and 1980s. The two eras are studied historically and artistically though the constant and ever-changing backdrop of the city of Berlin. The retrospective significance in postmodern terms is examined through music of David …
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Street of rock'n'roll dreams : the story of a pop music school for Washington, D.C.
… entwined through the creation of a new school of popular music there. The story of the characters, related in comics format, tells of the genesis and realization of the Whynot School of Contempo Music, an institution whose campus finally be comes the street. In the telling we are reminded of the …
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"I'm Your Biggest Fan, I'll Follow You ... " Lady Gaga, Little Monsters and the Religious Dimension of Fandom in Pop Music
… examines the religious dimension of fandom in popular music, taking as an object of reflection Lady Gaga and her fans. I combine fan studies with theories of immanence as well as Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the process of becoming, and provide a theoretical reading of the relationship …
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This is All It Is for Treble Voice and Fixed Media
… mission to combine her most admired genres of music. All five songs feature homages toward both pop music and electroacoustic traditions, however, the odd-numbered movements more closely reflect modern contemporary classical art music, while the even-numbered works explore popular music sounds …
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Clockwork Plums
… Joshua Bradford, Clockwork Plums is an original musical work that integrates techniques and ideas from composers and different cultures. The accompanying essay about the work includes a summary of the story, "Clockwork Plums," some historical background covering 30 years of pop music, an analysis …
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Rock, Rhythm, and Rap
… an alternative approach to teaching general music/music appreciation to students in grades 7-12 that incorporates the history of rock and roll and pop music. An approach to teaching rhythm reading skills through rap music is also suggested using Rockin ' Rhythm Raps by Cheryl Lavender (1998). …
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My generation: examining the music tastes and commercial opportunities within the new audience of 40-59 year olds in the UK
… contribution to the academic discourse regarding music taste. It also offers commercial recommendations relating to the use of rock/pop music in engaging the current cohort of middle class consumers aged 40-59 in the UK. The continuing academic debate regarding music taste has largely revolved …
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Stepping your game up : technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop
Hip-hop is a competitive form of popular culture characterized by an on-going process of aesthetic renewal and reproduction that is expressed through carefully selected media and communications technologies. Hip-hop is also a segment of the pop music industry that manufactures a wide range of …
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Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
… history of the early twentieth century music controversy as it appeared in the popular press and as it articulated the assumptions and contradictions of progressive social thought. Through close textual analysis, the author illustrates the ways in which musical spaces, musical sounds, …
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Invited to the feast?: Problems of hospitality, coloniality and identity in the music classroom
… curriculum and curricular objects in one junior music classroom in Ontario. This work was taken up under Derridas call for cities of refuge in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness while mindful of the ways in which colonial structures can appear cosmopolitan, as in the trope of music as universal …
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Music Listening as Therapy
<p>Music is a universal phenomenon and is a real, physical thing. It is processed in neural circuits that overlap with language circuits, and it exerts cognitive, emotional, and physiological effects on humans. Many of those effects are therapeutic, such as reduced symptoms of physical and mental …
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Eclectic Compositional Styles in the Piano Works of Craig Walsh
… Walsh (b. 1971) is an American composer whose music has earned him a worldwide reputation. His versatile output includes electronic music, instrumental music and the combination of the two. While modernism and pop music engage his compositional attention, a wider variety of musical styles that …
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A study of the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Richard Danielpour
… successful and acclaimed composers today. His music is often described as neo-romantic: full of grand gestures, highly accessible, brilliantly orchestrated, and rhythmically powerful and exciting. His music is based on the traditions of European classical music; however, it also combines the …
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The expansion of television in the 1950's and 1960's: institutions, society and culture.
… of programmes including action adventure series, pop music and women's programmes. It also demonstrates how television promoted class and cultural conflict in its individual programmes such as situation comedies and dramas, and through juxtaposition of high and low cultural vales, themes and forms …
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The self-conscious chanson : creative responses to the art versus commerce debate
… chanson. It examines,in particular, French popular songs that question and problematise the chanson form and the role of the chanson artist. While certain forms of self-consciousnessc an be traced back to the troubadours, this thesis will argue that the specifically self interrogatory nature …
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Pleasures and Powers of Affective Disorientation: Iconoclastic Ambivalence and Polyvalence in the NDW
… the rich affective dynamics characterizing the music of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) and its ambivalent critical reception, with a particular focus on gender representation. It argues that NDW music expresses the conflicted structures of feeling (Williams) that characterize the era, so that the …
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