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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"song texts"”.
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Filled With the Spirit: The Musical Life of an Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
… in relation to the church's music. Speech and song both attest to the specialized and formulaic character of Pentecostal language, and a reservoir of favorite song texts clearly facilitates verbal performance among congregants. Song texts further provide a fundamental means of communicating the …
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"The dramaturgical integration of text and music in Brecht's ""Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg"""
… and artistic landmark. In it, Brecht's song texts and Eisler's music serve multiple socially-critical functions. While the song texts provide a means for the ""little man"" to counter the threat of totalitarianism, the versatile score uses ironical, incongruous, and unexpected musical …
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Angelic airs/subversive songs: Music as cultural discourse in Victorian literature and society
… goals were undermined by political tensions in song texts or ""immoral sensuality"" promoted by the ""spectacle"" of live music-making. Chapter Two explores representations of music by a variety of Victorian novelists and poets."
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Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
… is a study of metaphors of emotion in rebétiko song texts. Rebétiko is a major popular-music style of modern Greece, consisting mostly of melancholic songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree …
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Ritual ceremonial life: song text and spirit manifestation among the Zezuru People of Hwedza, Zimbabwe
… bira rematendo, (a ritual ceremony) in which songs are performed to pacify ancestral spirits. This thesis examines how song text fosters spirit manifestation in a Zezuru bira rematendo ceremonial performance. I further report on the origin of songs performed at bira rematendo ritual ceremonies …
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English diction for singers : a self-instructional course of study utilizing the international phonetic alphabet with self-test materials
… XIthe preparation of complete song texts, applyingall the knowledge and skills learned in the course.Each chapter has accompanying exercises which require the student to use information contained in that particular chapter; self-tests for each chapter are provided at the end of …
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National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth century Ireland
… the medium of popular culture specifically song lyrics throughout the nineteenth century. The English language songtexts that this work is based on provide evidence of the process of Anglicisation which, some would have it, began with the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the twelfth century, …
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From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Politics in Colombia, 1966-2016
… of <em>canción protesta </em>(protest song) in Colombia in the 1960s, and tracks its evolution in subsequent decades. At the turn of the 1970s, songwriters affiliated with a grassroots <em>canción protesta </em>movement in Bogotá used music as a vehicle for disseminating leftist …
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Ladakhi Traditional Songs: A Cultural, Musical, and Literary Study
… dissertation examines the place of traditional songs in the Tibetan Buddhist culture of the former Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh. I look at how Buddhism and pre-Buddhist religion informed the texts and performance contexts of traditional songs, and how Ladakhi songs represent cultural self-images …
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Sekgapa : a culture-based study of a musical tradition of BaPedi women of Mailula, Mmamabolo district, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… There are also accounts ofSekgapa performance contexts and their social functions. Chapter 3 looks at some requirements of Sekgapa performance style (including dancing dress and delivery of Direlo Praises), something of the concepts underlying the musical action, and correlations between certain …
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A "nihilistic dreamboat to negation"? : the cultural study of death metal and the limits of political criticism.
… to disengage the literal content of musical texts from their ‘real’ social values, practices and beliefs. As a result, any reluctance to use this music as a platform for political engagement need not be seen as a deficiency or oversight to be changed in the interests of a more politically …
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Jose Siqueira's Oito canções populares brasileiras : an analytical and interpretative study
… Populares Brasileiras (Eight Popular Brazilian Songs), published in 1955 for voice and piano. The analyses show how the composer used musical materials from Northeastern folklore, Native Brazilian culture, and popular urban musical traditions in the composition of this song set. The author also …
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The past in the present : a study of some aspects of the politics of music in Belfast
… the political developments relating to the rebel song tradition which occurred in that domain during my period of fieldwork, directed the main focus of study to Catholic working class areas of the city. While the notion of community plays an important role in the analysis the study is not a …