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Fall 2010
In this thesis I consider the role of music in the construction of identity among West African Canadians, focusing on musical taste and performance. Drawing on themes from participant narratives, I look at how music can maintain connections with or reference identities from “home” cultures. ...
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New capitalization on old music: approaches to the use of Verdi's music in TV advertisements
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Advertisers use music in as much as 90% of television commercials. Classical and opera music play a special role in this medium, as classical music carries with it any number of already established inferences and meanings that may then be altered by the images in the commercial, or imparted upon...
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Fall 2020
Noneto is an electroacoustic composition for string quartet and a quintet of loudspeakers. Each one of these sound sources perform written music: instrumentalists play their lines following a visual clock while a Max patch performs the voice of the loudspeakers. The overall timbre of the piece is...
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Fall 2011
Non-chord tone generalized interval systems are a music theoretical tool for analyzing the roles and functions of non-chord tones in music, independent of the methods used to label non-chord tones. Based on David Lewin's GIS, they provide a way to conceptualize changes in textural and motivic...
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Paramashivan - A Treasure Trove of a Forgotten Theater Tradition Life, Music and Search for an Identity
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Modern Kannada theater refers to a very rich tradition of theater that evolved in the princely state of Mysore, British India. It was founded, supported and nurtured under the royal patronage of the erstwhile kings of Mysore, Mummadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar, Chamaraja Wodeyar, Krishna Raja Wodeyar...
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Fall 2022
Hard rock and heavy metal are male–dominated music genres, yet despite a low status of women, Japan has a larger percentage of women performing hard rock and heavy metal than any other country with significant numbers of such bands. One possible explanation might be that music in Japan is...
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Fall 2010
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) in South Africa experience a stigmatised HIV status which threatens to supplant their prior identities. This compounds the marginalization on multiple social levels experienced by those most vulnerable to infection as they cope with associations of death and...