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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"rock music"”.
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Passion in science and rock music : a comparison of two faiths
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1986
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Rocking the Regime: The Role of Argentine Rock Music in a Changing Socio-Political Context (1970--1985)
"I further posit that the rock nacional phenomenon had a collaborative authorship, articulated through the (often unintended and unwilling) interaction of many individuals and institutions, including state, artists and public. Both the military men so demonized by many Argentines as well as the …
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The effect of a pop/rock music repertoire on the music achievement and preferences of lower secondary school students
This research tested the effect of using a pop/rock repertoire to teach selected music skills to lower secondary school students in a conventional school setting. Two year 9 co-educational music classes from the same school were used for the experiment. The research was conducted in an …
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Three Rock Music Compositions and the Groups that Inspired Them: The Beatles, Yes, and Led Zeppelin, From 1967 to 1972
This thesis presents three of my popular music compositions and places these works in their historical context. The discussion spans the years 1967 to 1972, when British popular music in general and the Beatles in particular reached their zenith of creativity. In this era, the Beatles absorbed and …
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"Black, not grey : Ankara rocks!" : a creative practice-based investigation of the Ankara rock music scene of the 1980s and the 1990s through documentary filmmaking
… a substantial influence on the Turkish popular music culture, which is an outcome of a strong rock music scene in Ankara, especially in the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. This research project is composed of two components: audiovisual and written. The audiovisual component is the feature …
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The effect of rock music as a source of auditory distraction on the reading comprehension of undergraduate college students and the relationship between distractibility and achievement
… research study were to (a) examine the effect of rock music as a source of auditory distraction on the reading comprehension of sixteen undergraduate college students; and (b) assess the relationship between distractibility and achievement. Participants in the study were given two reading …
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Rock Becomes Jazz: Interpretations of Popular Music by Improvising Artists in the 1960s
The advent of rock and roll changed the jazz world’s relationship to itself and its musical public. The popularity of jazz, in decline since the rise of bebop in the mid-1940s, was further eroded by rock and roll’s rise to prominence in the mid-1950s. By the mid-1960s, the jazz world seemed to be …
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Jesus Paid It All: Combining Rock and Hymns in Contemporary Worship Music
Much of Contemporary Worship Music (CWM) synthesizes elements of rock music and hymns. This thesis provides an analysis of four CWM songs, “Come Thou Fount,” “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us,” “Your Glory/Nothing but the Blood,” and “Jesus Paid It All,” outlining common characteristics and …
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More buildings about songs and food: A case study of Omaha's Slowdown project.
The success of independent rock music ("indie rock"), once a marginalized sub-genre of the rock idiom and now a globally recognized cultural force, has impacted the urban landscape of Omaha, Nebraska via the mixed-use urban redevelopment project, "Slowdown" - a result of cultural production by the …
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Pipe up the volume : the role of the flute in progressive rock
… the use and the effect of the flute within rock music. I focus upon the period 1965-1975, the era that saw the development of progressive rock - a genre in which the importation of instruments from other musical traditions formed an important compositional device.My primary concern is how …
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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 effects of congruent versus incongruent music styles and high and low cognition ad copy on AAd and ABrand
This study examines the effects of music styles, which are congruent and incongruent with brand image, on attitude towards the advertisement (A$\sb{\rm Ad}$) and attitude towards the brand (A$\sb{\rm Brand}$). The intervening effects of high and low cognition processing situations are also …
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Bury me deep in isolation: A cultural examination of a peripheral music industry and scene
… have had a strong presence within the Australian music scene. Primarily, each year between 1998 and 2009, songs by indie pop/rock acts from Perth have charted within national broadcaster triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown. Many of the albums from which these songs have been taken have sold in excess …
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Dee: A Feature Length Drama
… about a young addict who pursues a career in music in an attempt to keep her brother’s memory alive after his untimely death tears her family apart. The story explores how the characters deal with drug abuse, loss, broken families, toxic relationships, and pursuing one’s dreams. The film will …
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Fugitive Phrases: Arcade Fire, Music, and the Amorous Subject
… Jacques Lacan and Slavoj iek to demonstrate that music plays a vital role in the construction of amorous subjectivity in Western culture. The music of Canadian rock band Arcade Fire, with its concern with ideas of emotion and authenticity, provides a vehicle for revealing the process of becoming …
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Creating non-representational art by students who are severely intellectually disabled through a pictorial and musical program
… the worth of a recently developed Pictorial and Musical art program for severely intellectually disabled students, and to compare the non-representational art work produced by lower primary students in a special education school to similar art work being produced by lower primary students in a …
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Performing class in British popular music
… signification operates within British popular music. Notably, British rock music has forged a connection between working class experience and signification and notions of the authentic . This has been reinforced both within the disciplines of sociology and cultural studies by a focus on the …
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<em>¡¿Y Que?!</em>: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture
… and popular culture who participate in rock music subcultures as a resistive tool for navigating the intercultural experiences of Latinxs living in the U.S. and beyond. Subcultures like punk, goth, and Morrissey fandom are zones of contact and crossover, spaces where Latinxs world-travel …
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"Now, Then, Then:" An Original Composition and Examination of the Influence of Blues, Bluegrass, and Rock in Western Concert Music
… focusing on connections to bluegrass, blues, and rock music in each. The pieces are <em>Raphael</em> by Bryce Dessner, <em>Cognitive Consonance II: Westering</em> by Christopher Trapani, <em>Bog Bodies and other Macabre Miniatures</em> by Nicolas Lell Benavides, and “Three Dots and a Dash” by …
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Exploring the Experiences of Young Adult Rock Musicians Through an Occupational Lens
… the occupational experiences of young adult rock musicians using first-hand accounts solicited through semi-structured interviews. Participants included 9 male rock musicians ages 19 to 35 who actively participated in an income-generating rock band. A grounded theory approach was used for …
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