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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"world music"”.
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World music technology : culturally sensitive strategies for automatic music prediction
Music has been shown to form an essential part of the human experience-every known society engages in music. However, as universal as it may be, music has evolved into a variety of genres, peculiar to particular cultures. In fact people acquire musical skill, understanding, and appreciation …
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The real deal: professional klezmer musicians on a London world music scene
The Real Deal is a term often used by musicians to describe people they perceive to be more authentic than them. Over the past seven or eight years, I have performed music from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey and beyond under the umbrella of World Music in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in …
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Responses of elementary students and their teachers to a world music preference survey
… listening preferences towards examples of music from around the world. The study of characteristics of music from different cultures is included in the school music curriculum, and music is an excellent medium with which to introduce multicultural lessons to school-aged children. By …
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'Living in Both Sides of the World': Music, Diaspora, and Nation in Trinidad
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.
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World music in the elementary and junior high general music curriculum : an analysis from an ethnomusicological perspective
… the only determinants of whether the teaching of world music makes its potential contribution to the goals of music education and the education process in general. It must be used and taught effectively. At present the music teacher's primary source of information concerning world music and how to …
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‘A Balm for the Incurable Wound of the World’: Music and the Pictorial Mode in the Writing of E. M. Forster
… ‘is no doubt that E. M. Forster is our most musical novelist’. Although Britten argues that Forster shows ‘a most sensitive reaction to music’, he notes (and disapproves of) Forster’s ‘curious tendency to mock at any intellectual approach on behalf of the listener’. Forster favours a critical …
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The interaction between copyright, neighbouring rights and international licensing procedures: The high-wire balancing act of rights management in the digital age - past, present and future of music licensing
… progressing digital transformation of the music market and an ever more complicated music licensing process is frustrating the user's demand for faster, easier and unlimited access to the entire world music repertoire, providing impetus for concern. This dissertation traces the development …
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Uno Studio Comparativo della Produzione Artistica tra l'Opera di Pechino e il Melodrama Italiano
… are important treasures in the history of world music, not only witnessing the development of Chinese and European music respectively, but also gradually developing into the most important musical forms in China and Europe, occupying an important position in the “hall” of world music. The …
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Improving music mood classification using lyrics, audio and social tags
The affective aspect of music (popularly known as music mood) is a newly emerging metadata type and access point to music information, but it has not been well studied in information science. There has yet to be developed a suitable set of mood categories that can reflect the reality of music …
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Evaluation and modelling of perceived audio quality in popular music, towards intelligent music production
… essential to the very foundations of intelligent music production, this thesis argues that they have not been sufficiently addressed in previous studies. An important contribution is the questioning of previously-held definitions of a 'mix'. Experiments were conducted in which participants used …
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Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India
This dissertation examines how a contested musical practice makes the problems of modernity in India audible. In particular, I look at the relationship between South Indian "fusion" musicians and India's recent economic and cultural growth attributed to the economic reforms of 1991. Fusion is the …
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The impact of having a choir in the community
… a community choir is to sing for the love of music and because they are not under any institution, community choirs face many challenges that include but not limited to, the money. Amongst those challenges is the lack of knowledge about the important reason why the choirs exist, which is to …
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Links between school music clubs and student attendance
… was to examine the association of before-school music clubs with school attendance in third- to fifth-grade at one public elementary school in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America. At the time of the study, this school had a total student population of 516, an approximately 65% …
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Re-centering Indigenous Knowledge Systems into Contemporary Jazz Bass
… to determine how one can incorporate indigenous music and performance practices into contemporary jazz using the double bass and bass guitar as tools for mediation. It specifically investigates the Southern African and the Middle-Eastern regions via the Indian Ocean connection. This project …
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Brazilian percussion in the music conservatory
… to understand the benefits of studying a foreign musical tradition. This project aims to develop a methodology to allow student musicians to explore a music tradition by way of observing, discussing, and playing music. These type of courses have various derivatives throughout higher-educational …
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High-resolution sinusoidal analysis for resolving harmonic collisions in music audio signal processing
Many music signals can largely be considered an additive combination of multiple sources, such as musical instruments or voice. If the musical sources are pitched instruments, the spectra they produce are predominantly harmonic, and are thus well suited to an additive sinusoidal model. However, due …
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Hip life music: re-defining Ghanaian culture (1990-2012)
African music is full of life ... we have different ethnic groups, different languages and cultures, moods, shades; it's so dynamic, and we have a message. (Diana Hopeson, p.c. 2006) My research documents the hip life popular music story from 1990 to 2012, from pre-through post-inception, as driven …
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Music as a birthright: Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and participatory music making in the twenty-first century
The Old Town School of Folk Music (OTSFM), founded in 1957 on Chicago’s North Side, has over the course of its history developed pedagogies and social practices to transform its urban, cosmopolitan students from music consumers to music participants. By the 2000s, it had become the largest …
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Kuduro, rap and resistance: Politics of music and activism in ‘new’ hegemonic Angola
Keywords: kuduro, rap, music, diasporic, resistance, neoliberalism, seductive power, necropower, frozen citizenship, electronic capitalism, visibility, human rights I introduce kuduro music as a vantage point to uncover the political landscape of Angola where critical voices do not emerge with …
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Colores Mexicanos: The Mexican Art Song and Setting Mexican Texts to Music
In the Western art music tradition, we typically associate the art song genre with French, Italian, and German music traditions. However, since the rising of Miguel Ponce and his other, 20th-century contemporaries, the Mexican art song tradition has established its own, unique place and role within …
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