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Showing 1 to 20 of 242 for “"sing"”.
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To Sing Of Mountains
To Sing of Mountains is a collection of lyric poetry that consists of twenty-six free verse poems and one ghazal. The poems call upon the ancient mountains as witnesses to civilizations of past and present, using them to trace the cycles of cultural and geographic change that occur throughout the …
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Reframing as Reclamation: Trauma Theory, African Spiritualism, and Ecocriticism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
… theory intersect within Jesmyn Ward’s novel <em>Sing, Unburied, Sing </em>(2017) to tackle the complex act of collective healing. Trauma, and its subset transgenerational trauma, have often been a focal point for critical analysis of other African American texts that engage with ghosts and …
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"To make a poet black then bid him sing"
… this thesis, “To make a poet Black then bid him sing,” comes from the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen’s, “Yet do I Marvel,” a poem that questions God’s intentions in placing a curse on a man, then requiring him to sing. This to me was a dichotomy that seemed to underpin my own work as it …
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Why we sing : an ode to our musical origins
Music is part of human culture and has been around for several thousand years. In spite of its strong emotional appeal, the history of this human characteristic, and the source of its allure remain elusive. This thesis is a report from the front lines of research into the origins of human music, …
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Estudio de integración de las ERNC al SING: caso eólico
… la intermitencia de la generación eólica en el SING sobre los requerimientos de regulación de frecuencia en el año 2020. Para ello se proponen dos objetivos. El primero es cuantificar la modificación de las reservas energéticas primaria y secundaria, producto de la inyección de los …
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Sing Together! Choral Singing as a Supplementary Training Method for Actors
… vocal training of the musical theatre or opera singer. The separation in philosophy and practice by trainers of actors and singers reflects the resultant capabilities and proclivities of our performers. Those performers generally sing or act, and if asked, will sometimes do both, but may damage …
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"DO WE NOT SING THESE TEXTS?": PRESENCE EFFECTS IN PERFORMANCE ART
In this dissertation I explore the phenomenon that Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht calls "presence effects" as it is illuminated through encounters with performance art. In Chapter One I describe what is meant by materialities of communication and outline three heuristic features of materiality. In Chapter …
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Sing a New Song: Analyzing A Cappella Arrangements of Contemporary Worship Music
<p>Music is indispensable to Christian worship services, and pop/rock-influenced contemporary worship music (CWM) serves an important role in modern worship. This thesis explores strategies for arranging CWM for a cappella settings by comparing the originals with two a cappella arrangements: one …
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They, Too Sing America : Braided Narratives About Immigrants and the American Dream
<p>This collection explores issues of immigrant identity such as otherness, loneliness, and unhomeliness, and analyzes the pervasiveness of the American Dream in American culture. This work uses the vocabulary of Race theory and Postcolonial theory to offer a fuller understanding of the challenges …
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Does the caged bird sing? Outgroup empathy and the politics of cooperation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Silence for the one about to sing: selected short lyrics from two collections
Silence for the One about to Sing contains a chapbook of 30 poems (selected from two collections) and a prologue. In the prologue, I discuss my influences and inspirations, and explain the creative and critical devices I use throughout my art. Inspired by the Portuguese music genre of fado and its …
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I, TOO, SING AMERICA: IMMIGRANT PERCEIVED ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION AND (DIS)IDENTIFICATION WITH NATIONAL BRANDS
… forces that are changing the world by promising worldwide opportunities and challenges in the century ahead. Immigration and immigrants are altering the sociocultural and economic fabric of societies across the globe, affecting the majority/minority balance and inducing profound changes in …
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The Song We Sing: Negotiating Black Nationalism And Queerness In James Baldwin's Late Novels
… identity categories. His handling of these opposing arguments allows Baldwin to recognize social constructions of race, gender, and sexuality and their power and to challenge their constraints. Considering Baldwin's Another Country and Just Above My Head, I argue for the reappraisal of these …
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"Now sing from the mouth and from the heart": The Spiritual Folksongs of Cyrillus Kreek
… is a country with a rich history full of music, singing, and ancient traditions. The Estonian composer Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) had a passion for the folk songs and traditions of his country, as he collected them, catalogued them, and used them prolifically in his own compositions. While …
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Studies on the composition and nutritional value of the cultivated mushroom, agaricus bisporus (Lange) Sing.
… nutritional quality of Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Sing. were investigated. Variation in composition was found between different classes of sample. Sampling techniques were standardised to allow for major variations in the different developmental stages and culture ages. Fruitbodies were found to be …
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Where the crawdads sing: Examining biogeographic patterns of burrowing crayfish through diet and habitat use
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Why can't I sing: the impact of self-efficacy enhancing techniques on student self-efficacy beliefs
… and posttest with teacher intervention of using self-efficacy enhancing teaching methods in the classroom. Participants were currently enrolled music students in middle or high school (N = 242) and their respective music teachers (N = 5) in one school district in West Virginia. Results were …
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Getting the colours to ‘sing’: exploring pupils’ creative engagement with contemporary text-making in a literacy classroom
… and 12-year-old pupils in their literacy lesson using 1:1 iPad devices, this study has exposed not only the range of modes they were using, but also a knowledge of text-making that was not taught in school. Through uncovering these pupils’ sophisticated responses to their meaning-making and …
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I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs of Where: Contemporary Alt-folksong and Articulations of Place
… (Hayman 2011; Collyer 2010), characterising the relationship between traditional music and contemporary Alt-folk. Chapter 2 introduces psychoanalytic theory (Lacan 1977; Minsky 1998) in locating the three places within development of the subject. Each place is subsequently addressed …
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Language, Orthography and Buddhist Manuscript Culture of the Tai Nuea - an apocryphal jātaka text in Mueang Sing, Laos
The focus of this study is a single manuscript in a Tai Nuea village near Mueang Sing in northwestern Laos, copied in 1935 and entitled Pukthanusati (Pali buddhānussati) ‘the Recollection of the Buddha.’ It is written in the Tai Nuea language and Lik Tho Ngok or ‘Bean Sprout’ script, and is in the …
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