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Governing Sufi Sound, Empowering the Subaltern Singer: Raagi Faqirs On the Edge of Modernity in Contemporary Sindh, Pakistan
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In the 18th century, a Sufi mystic and poet in Sindh region of pre-colonial India showed his devotees (the raagi faqirs) the Sufi path by reciting verses that the faqirs memorized and sang. This corpus of sung verses called the Shah jo Raag stands distinctly for its poetic, melodic and structural...
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Spring 2014
Harry Somers’ music of the 1940s and 1950s presents a wide range of historical and contemporary compositional influences. This historical syncretism is widely understood in stylistic terms as the juxtaposition of heterogeneous tonal and atonal idioms representing a musical past and present. In...
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Fall 2021
Franz Liszt’s symphonic poems Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo and Mazeppa portray expressions of heroic masculinity and creative genius in the nineteenth century. Both compositions are based on historical figures whose lives were reimagined to emphasize the larger socio-cultural meanings of what it...
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Hidden Words and Sounds: Tracing Iranian Legacies and Traumas in the Music of the Bahá’ís of North America
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This dissertation examines music in North American Bahá’í communities and artistic contexts by focusing on the Faith’s legacy of Persian culture, aesthetics, and history of religious persecution. As such, it provides a reinvigorated look into the development of Bahá’í devotional life from its...
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Spring 2015
The full thesis for this degree consists of an audio recording, a public recital, and notes to accompany the recorded and live performance. The recording includes the following works: Johann Sebastian Bach, Largo from the Trio Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529, arranged for piano by Samuel...