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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 1African Music
- 1Attractions to Zimbabwean Music
- 1Authenticity
- 1Central Asia
- 1Ethnojazz
- 1Gender in Greece
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Fall 2015
Traditional music revivals on the island of Rhodes, Greece, are accepted as a socially condoned space for women to expand on and contest traditional gender models locally. In examining the distinct ways in which two, professional, female singers, Xristína Kóza and Matína Mástora, engage with...
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Spring 2022
Abstract The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the transnational social impact of ethnojazz, the synthesis of traditional music with jazz and contemporary music, as a grass-roots musical collaboration across the Central Asian context. Although fusions between traditional music and jazz...
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Spring 2013
Zimbabwean traditional music of North America has gone through notable transformation since its arrival over 40 years ago. The world has been dominated by a patriarchal view of itself in general, but as I observed and mingled with people, I witnessed a male- dominated music practice in Zimbabwe...