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Spring 2018
Although music scholarship has addressed queer topics in the past, a focus on lived experiences and community interactions has been notably absent in the literature. This work considers some of the challenges that may be inhibiting the emergence of a queer focus for fieldwork-based music studies:...
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"Singing I Go Along Life's Road": A Musician's Grapple with Theory and Surrender to Practice
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I would like the reader to accept the word “grapple” as the key piece of the title of this thesis, or at least as the most succinct and accurate descriptor for what it is and what it does. It applies reflection and storytelling to lay bare a research process that became the topic of the research...
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Beyond Listening: A study on the audience’s motives for attending live Hindustani classical concerts
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Hindustani classical music audiences are considered to be an active and engaging group at live concerts. This thesis aims to explore the motives of different types of concert goers for attending live Hindustani concerts and their role in sustaining the tradition of live Hindustani...
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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...