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Viol, Claus-Ulrich. "Jukebooks: contemporary British fiction, popular music, and cultural value." Heidelberg Winter, 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2772862&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Bochanty-Aguero, Erica Jean. "Music that moves television music, industrial travel, and consumer agency in contemporary media culture /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1851096631&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Yuan, Xiaorong. "Chinese Minority Popular Music: A Case Study of Shanren, a Contemporary Popular Band." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461073565.
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Lord, Cristina Danielle. "The influence of popular music in the contemporary classical aesthetic." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10118887.
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Newsfeed is a composition for eight performers and electronics, written in 2016. It incorporates elements from popular music, namely in the form of borrowed instrumentation and influx of styles, in its aesthetic. A discussion of the ideologies behind the crossover of popular music within contemporary classical composition prefaces specific examples from recent composers that have also sought to bridge the gap between these two realms of music. The observations of musicologists, as well as artist statements from the composers themselves, justify the philosophical and cultural ramifications of the cross-pollination between popular and art music. The composers discussed in this report use a variety of methods to crossover the two realms, which range from instrumentation, incorporation of popular styles, and references to popular music and contemporary media within their works. Following this is a discussion of popular artists who have made a similar crossover into the art world.
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Nicholls, Matthew. "Interactions between contemporary American independent cinema and popular music culture." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367385/.
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In recent years, many American independent films have become increasingly engaged with popular music culture and have used various forms of pop music in their soundtracks to various effects. Disparate films from a variety of genres use different forms of popular music in different ways, however these negotiations with pop music and its cultural surroundings have one true implication: that the 'independentness' (or 'indieness') of these movies is informed, anchored and embellished by their relationships with their soundtracks and/or the representations of or positioning within wider popular music subcultures. Independent American cinema, often distinguished from mainstream Hollywood cinema in terms of the separateness of its production or distribution, or its thematic and/or formal transgressions, can also be seen as distinctive in terms of its musical expression. This thesis will investigate the impact that these popular music cultures have had on contemporary American independent film since the 1980s. The primary objective of this thesis is not to discuss how these films are positioned within the industry (this has been done elsewhere), nor is it the aim to scrutinise a film's independentness (or 'unindependentness') in terms of its production, but rather to assert how music functions in these films and how a notion of independence (indieness) can be measured from the relationship between the film, its soundtrack, and a wider music culture. This will involve textual analyses of how popular music has been used to score a selection of key independent films (ranging from Blue Velvet and Do the Right Thing through to Ghost World and Juno), how popular music trends and subcultures have been represented on screen (such as dance music culture in Go), and how the film and music worlds have interacted, particularly through collaborations between directors and pop musicians (such as Darren Aronofsky and Clint Mansell).
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Fu, Lok-yi Alice. "Contemporary Cantopop reception of crossover music in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39634334.
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Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008.Includes Chinese version of questionnaire (leave 132-133), transcript of interviewees in Chinese (leave 134-141) and Chinese texts of translated songs (leave 142-154). Also available in print.
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Luckman, Susan Heather. "Party people : mapping contemporary dance music cultures in Australia /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16686.pdf.
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Torres, Nora Gamez. "Living in transition : popular music and social change in contemporary Cuba." Thesis, City University London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.544452.
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Anderson, Lauren. "Investigating audience responses to popular music in contemporary romantic comedy films." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/cc4ece5f-c1df-4198-be56-c7afb3067dcb.
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Despite the rapidly growing body of critical academic writing around sound and music on screen, and studies of the increasing role of popular music within contemporary films, there has to date been little empirical exploration of audience responses to popular music in film. This thesis investigates how audiences hear and relate to popular music in romantic comedy soundtracks, specifically those of Love Actually (2003, dir. Richard Curtis), What Women Want (2000, dir. Nancy Meyer), and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, dir. Gil Junger). Building upon a detailed critique of existing theoretical approaches to audiences’ engagements with popular music soundtracks, the findings in this study are based on two rounds of semi-structured interviews. Initially, the selected films were discussed in four focus group interviews, recruited according to age and gender (under-25-year-old men and women, and over-45-year-old men and women). Four subsequent individual interviews with one participant from each focus group concentrated on one particular sequence from Love Actually. A key assumption underlying theorised audience responses within literature on film music is a dichotomy between knowing and not-knowing pre-existing pop music in films: ‘knowing’ the music is seen to result in a more complex reading of a scene, as well as a more critical, distanced mode of engagement with the film; ‘not-knowing’, on the other hand, means the viewer is more immersed in the film and more likely to adopt its ideological messages uncritically (see for example Kassabian, 2001; J. Smith, 1998). The present research challenges this position: interview analyses indicate that patterns of talk are not as unified or consistent as these existing theoretical models suggest. Participants drew on several different modes of engagement in making sense of popular music in film, including: evaluating the music according to a diverse range of criteria and categorisations; relating the music to life stages and personal memories; and managing perceived involvement with the films and their soundtracks. These findings do not easily fall within any singular model of proposed audience responses to film music, but instead suggest that a new way of thinking about film audiences must account for taste processes, accommodate audiences’ vernacular categorisations, and incorporate a broader conception of ‘knowledge’ and ‘ways of knowing’.
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Jones, Craig Owen. "Y cantorion newydd : a study of contemporary Welsh-language popular music." Thesis, Bangor University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534645.
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Weidhase, Nathalie. "Abject spectacles : a study of the postfeminist dandy in contemporary popular music." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Abject-Spectacles(64474fc6-f56f-4bdc-8fab-be706375904c).html.
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Padua, Daniel A. "The Family 'Playlist': Popular music, age and identity." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/110533/1/Daniel_Padua_Thesis.pdf.
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Popular music is central to the understanding of youth culture and has come to represent the so-called 'generation gap'. This thesis, however, argues that popular music is no longer just a signifier of generational tension. It is now an increasingly significant cultural resource that allows parents and their children to establish and maintain family relations. Using interviews from families who are fans of Queen or Taylor Swift, this research investigates how shared practices around popular music consumption contribute to a cohesive family identity.
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Bartlow, Dianne. "On the relationship between altruism and African-American women in contemporary popular music /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9992377.
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Turner, Gemma Bernadette. "Body movement and sound intensity in Western contemporary popular singing." Thesis, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17720.
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Rambarran, Sharadai Devi Amparo. "Innovations in contemporary popular music and digital media, and reconstructions of the music industry in the 21st century." Thesis, University of Salford, 2010. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26874/.
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The thesis investigates how certain types of contemporary popular music have played a prominent role in digital media, aided by ICTs (Internet, digital music distribution, consumption), music technology (sampling, remix, MP3) and creative artistic technology (music video, performance, virtual groups). As these technologies lie behind many innovations in popular music over the last decade, the focus, here, is on specific artists and producers who have successfully employed such technologies to compose music, and whose reception has been mixed in terms of the reaction from the industry and consumers. The dissertation, therefore, contains case studies of Danger Mouse, Gnarls Barkley and Gorillaz. The following all gained recognition from new media rather than the traditional radio plug: The Grey Album, the experimental and illegal mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z by Danger Mouse; 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley, which gained interest following a television advertisement; and Gorillaz, a virtual group, created by Damon Albarn of Blur. These projects were composed of a fusion of musical styles and visuals, and were made possible by digital technology. To understand the logic behind these projects, it is important to explore the contributions that assisted the success of the musicians in question. The cultural-social context of the music is analysed and theorized: the music and the performer (involving postmodern features such as authorship and genre-blending); its impact on the music industry (copyright, digital consumption); and the reception of the audience (digital music consumption, distribution technologies, activism). This thesis argues that the internal and external aspects of the compositions and arrangements by Danger Mouse, Gnarls Barkley and Gorillaz constitute innovative examples of contemporary popular music facilitated by digital media, and that this helped to reconstruct the music industry in the twenty-first century.
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Grecu, Diana-Andreea. "Popular Culture and Protest-Contemporary Protest Soundtrack : An Analysis of The Billboard Year End Rock Charts." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-120365.
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Display of disagreement in a public space under the form of strikes, rallies and not only, is not the sole form of protest. Popular culture can easily be used to send messages of discontent. The paper focuses on popular music by looking at one of the most representative music charts in the world: The Billboard Chart. By screening the Year End Billboard Rock Chart for a period of 5 years the paper tries to identify songs that can be labelled as protest songs and see what they are protesting against, what themes they address, what are their characteristics and how are the messages transmitted in both textual and visual narratives, in order to draw a picture of the contemporary protest song that is present in a popular chart. The theoretical framework of the paper discusses popular culture, the classical image of the protest song, the creational process of music within the music industry and its politic and economic sides. After a first screening of the charts with the help of content analysis, by using the concept of narrative, the paper examines the stories presented in the lyrics and, where possible, the videos made for the songs. The findings of the paper show that even if not respecting the theoretical characteristics of the classical protest song, The Year End Billboard Rock Chart has several songs with strong political messages either in lyrics or videos or in both at the same time.
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Strother, Eric S. "Unlocking the Paradox of Christian Metal Music." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/9.
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In 1984, Stryper released its first album The Yellow and Black Attack and introduced audiences to a different kind of heavy metal. Instead of lyrics about sex, alcohol, and Satan, Stryper sang about Jesus, salvation, and God. While there were a number of fans ready for this change more were not. Members of the Church as well as members of the metal subculture were in agreement that Christianity and heavy metal were incompatible. Despite these objections, however, more bands emerged, and Christian metal became a significant genre within the Christian music industry. These bands presented Christian-oriented lyrics within the full spectrum of metal subgenres.
This dissertation examines the ways in which Christian metal bands create an intersection between Christianity and the heavy metal subculture, infusing Christianity within the textual, visual, and musical structures of heavy metal. The author employs Deena Weinstein’s “metal code” to frame the analysis. The metal code includes the textual elements (band names, album and song titles, and song lyrics); the visual elements (band logos; album covers; and the various elements of the concert experience including the bands’ appearances, the staging, the interactions with the fans, and music videos); and the musical elements (timbre, modality, formal structure, and production of the songs and albums) that set metal apart from other musical genres. The dissertation also examines the concept of bands as “metal missionaries” that immerse themselves within the heavy metal subculture for the purpose of bringing the Christian message of hope and salvation. The author concludes that even though Christian metal bands modify aspects of elements that are otherwise incompatible with their Christian beliefs and message, they still maintain a sense of stylistic integrity that gives them credibility within the heavy metal subculture and allows them to fulfill their mission.
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McGuinness, Sara E. "Grupo Lokito : a practice-based investigation into contemporary links between Congolese and Cuban popular music." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14703/.
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There is a longstanding historical and cultural relationship between Congo and Cuba via the slave trade and the ‘return’ of Cuban music to Africa, a relationship that has apparently been very scantily documented. It is acknowledged that Congolese roots are present in Cuban music but there is little musical analysis of the actual elements concerned. This thesis addresses this imbalance. Using a performance-as-research methodology, it charts the formation and experience of the fusion band Grupo Lokito. Through bringing Congolese and Latin musicians together in a performance situation, I explore the ways in which musicians from the two traditions recognise and assimilate each other’s groove. This dissertation investigates whether the historic connections enable contemporary musicians from both worlds to recognise similarities in each other’s music. Also included is a historical overview of the Congolese arrival on Cuba, how Congolese musical practices were preserved and assimilated into Cuban music as well as an overview of the evolution of twentieth-century Congolese music. Existing research has focused on issues such as the return of Cuban music to Congo (Topp Fargion 2004), the emergence of rumba Lingala in the 1950s and 1960s (Kazadi 1970; Stewart 2000), and the subsequent development in the 1970s and 1980s of Congolese music away from the Cuban era (Stewart 2000; Ewens 1994). However, this thesis argues that, rather than diverging from the 1970s onwards as is frequently thought, Congolese and Cuban music retained commonalities that can be recognised by musicians immersed in the two styles. An analysis of the musical structure and instrumentation of well-known Cuban and Congolese songs is included, as well as original compositions by Grupo Lokito, with further audio and video available on the separate CD and video. The accompanying CD Rom details the process of creation of material and outlines relevant musical structures.
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Kazadi, Kanyabu Solomon. "A sociological analysis of the production, marketing and distribution of contemporary popular music by Zambian musicians." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018933.
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The purpose of this research was to gather information about the production, marketing and distribution of Zambian contemporary music by Zambian musicians. Very little information has been documented about the development of the Zambian music industry, particularly from the perspective of those within the industry. As a result this study attempted to add to this knowledge. To achieve this Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts of ‘fields’ and ‘habitus’ were used to gain an understanding of what affects the creation of art forms such as music as well as the structures and underlying processes within the music industry. The concept of ‘fields’ usefully framed an explanation of the struggles and connections within the various fields in the industry and a view of the Zambian music industry in relation to the international industry. To gather the data necessary for this research a qualitative approach was utilised involving semistructured in-depth questionnaires from twenty-three interviewees. These interviewees were selected from various sectors of the music industry in an attempt to gain a holistic perspective of the industry in the 21st century. There were four subgroups: the artists (singers, rappers and instrumentalists), managers, radio DJs, and a miscellaneous group made up of the remaining participants, a Sounds Arcade manager, a music journalist, the National Arts Council Chairperson, a Zambia Music Copyright Protection Society (ZAMCOPS) administrator, and the then President of the Zambia Association of Musicians (ZAM). With the limited exposure to formal musical, instrumental and production training, musicians, instrumentalists, managers and studio production personnel interviewed had had to learn their craft on-the-job. This limited knowledge appears to add to the hindrance of the development of careers and the industry, particularly in terms of how to register and distribute music correctly to earn royalties and protect their intellectual property against piracy. From an institutional level piracy is being addressed more forcefully with the introduction of holograms and the tightening of policies and structures to do with the music industry.
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White, Bradford James. "The Clinical Implications of Narcissistic Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Music From a Depth Psychological Perspective." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3737272.
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Psychologists across disciplines have examined narcissistic phenomena for over a century. Through the lenses of social constructivism and depth psychology, this dissertation illuminates the clinical psychological implications of narcissistic phenomena in American culture through an archival, phenomenological analysis of a specific cultural artifact: the lyrics of contemporary popular music. The importance of music and its critical, co-creating relationship with culture was also emphasized, and the history of narcissistic phenomena, music, and psychology were examined to lay the ground for an archival phenomenological psychological approach. An adaptation of Garza’s (2004; 2011) phenomenological thematic collative procedure was performed on the lyrics of five songs selected annually (between 2009 to 2013) for their cultural significance and potential for revealing narcissistic phenomena. The procedure for analyzing the data revealed a total of 40 thematic threads that were hermeneutically reduced into five primary interrelated categories grounded in the centrality of the speaker’s subjectivity. In each of the archived texts, the data revealed that the speaker was primarily engaged in a project to be above and apart from others. This project was sustained and maintained by the centrality of the speaker’s subjectivity. The hermeneutically reduced, distinct, related thematic threads were referenced and further elaborated upon in a cumulative thematic narrative that disclosed the horizons of narcissistic phenomena in our culture as revealed through popular, contemporary music. A depth psychological approach illuminated and acknowledged the existential crises of narcissistic phenomena, particularly emptiness and meaninglessness, through implicitly trusting that the patient’s own symptomology contains within it the rhizome of healing and wholeness, thus fostering the clinician’s genuine curiosity in the patient, which in turn may allow the patient finally to foster genuine curiosity in themselves, to begin to relate with themselves, and to develop an interest in empathically relating with other human beings.
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De, la Peza Maria del Carmen. "Songs, memories and identities : the bolero and sentimental education in contemporary Mexico." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1997. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9626.
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The confluence of singers, composers and audiences within contemporary Mexican culture, produces a "bolero effect" in which the bolero tradition of the popular love song is established as a complex network of relationships between actors and spaces. The relationships between public discourses about romance, courtship and self identities, is produced and secured by the deployment of a variety of codes and languages that together constitute love as a shared memory. Collective and personal memory are strongly related. The process of interpreting and responding to the bolero is rooted· not only in individual biography but also in the life of the community to which a person belongs, and which provides him/her with frames of reference within which to organise memory, a kind of mental map drawn up by language. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the complex and contradictory interplay between the public presentation and proliferation of the bolero, and the intimate, unique, experience of love. The first part of the thesis explores the public culture of the bolero as it travels along trajectories linking live performance to radio, cinema, records and television. The second part explores the experiences and responses of male and female subjects from two contrasting class locations in contemporary Mexico City.
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Jordan, Michael, and mjordan@iprimus com au. "Melodic Drumming in Contemporary Popular Music: An Investigation into Melodic Drum-Kit Performance Practices and Repertoire." RMIT University. Education, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091028.142803.
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This project is an investigation of melodic drum-kit practices in popular and contemporary music. The development of melodic drum-kit playing techniques has helped create a more inclusive role for drum-kit players within ensembles and has increased the potential for drum-kit players to present solo elements in performance. The project artefacts of my research are six compositions presented on CD. They demonstrate performance and compositional techniques that encourage a melodic approach to drum-kit performance. My research involved several methodological approaches these included: a) professional practice-based research, b) music composition and transcription, c) interviews with significant musicians familiar with drum-kit melodic practices and d) elements of autoethnography. I refer to particular drum-kit performance techniques and practices such as mirroring, thinking melodically, spatial relationships between drum-kit instruments and ensemble players, as well as, internalising melodic and harmonic ideas and being in the moment. I have shown in my compositional project that melodic elements in drum-kit performance and composition encourage a broader and more inclusive role for drummers in improvised performance. This is evident in the ensemble versions of compositions submitted as part of this study.
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Thomas, Sara Ann. "Subjectivity In American popular metal : contemporary gothic, the body, the grotesque, and the child." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/644/.
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This thesis examines the subject in Popular American Metal music and culture during the period 1994-2004, concentrating on key artists of the period: Korn, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Tura Satana and My Ruin. Starting from the premise that the subject is consistently portrayed as being at a time of crisis, the thesis draws on textual analysis as an under appreciated approach to popular music, supplemented by theories of stardom in order to examine subjectivity. The study is situated in the context of the growing area of the contemporary gothic, and produces a model of subjectivity specific to this period: the contemporary gothic subject. This model is then used throughout to explore recurrent themes and richly symbolic elements of the music and culture: the body, pain and violence, the grotesque and the monstrous, and the figure of the child, representing a usage of the contemporary gothic that has not previously been attempted. Attention is also paid throughout to the specific late capitalist American cultural context in which the work of these artists is situated, and gives attention to the contradictions inherent in a musical form which is couched in commodity culture but which is highly invested in notions of the ‘Alternative’. In the first chapter I propose the model of the contemporary gothic subject for application to the work of Popular Metal artists of the period, drawing on established theories of the contemporary gothic and Michel Foucault’s theory of confession. The second chapter focuses on instances of violence to the body and the recurrent themes of pain and violence, which are explained through the model of corporeal verification and consensual violence. In the third chapter I explore the contemporary gothic subject in the tradition of the grotesque and the monstrous, drawing on theories of the gothic monster, to suggest that the subject is engaged in a negotiation of the boundaries between self and other. The fourth chapter concentrates on the figure of the child, drawing on theories of horror film and fiction and the tradition of the Evil Innocent and the Gothic child. The final chapter is a case study of Marilyn Manson, exploring his role as a paradigmatic example of contemporary gothic subjectivity.
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Hall, Margaret. "Today’s Song for Tomorrow’s Church: The Role Played by Contemporary Popular Music in Attracting Young People to Church." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365393.
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This thesis is a phenomenology highlighting the phenomenon of declining youth attendance at mainstream churches where traditional church music is used in worship and the emergence of megachurches where young people are attending and contemporary popular styles of music is used in worship. An Australian Broadcasting Authority survey in 1999 revealed that music is a major influence in the lives of youth, assisting in their identity creation, in their making friends, and in relieving their stress. The survey also notes that youth prefer contemporary popular music and, in particular, rock. This is in stark contrast to the traditional music played and sung in mainstream churches, which tends to be neither meaningful nor relevant to youth, largely because they do not identify with it. An increasing proportion of youth are rejecting the mainstream traditional churches such as Anglican, Catholic, Baptist, Uniting Church. National Church Life Surveys in Australia show that by 2001, only fourteen percent of church attenders were young adults. Young non-attenders complained they found church services boring and unfulfilling. This declining youth membership does not auger well for the mainstream church’s future. It is clearly evident that, in Australian society a culture gap has emerged between the secular world and the mainstream Christian church. This thesis examines the role of contemporary popular music in attracting young people to church. Although, in comparatively recent times there has been some movement towards contemporizing worship services in mainstream churches, the change has met strong resistance, but that resistance is based on invalid arguments and the mainstream church is yet to respond effectively to the increasing culture gap and growing alienation of the young. Mainstream congregations are not adequately encouraged to participate in singing praise and thanks to God. Although the lyrics of songs that focus on thanks and praise can teach a Christian message, as well as promote an awareness of the presence of God, the importance of this aspect of worship appears to have been overlooked, even though music has always been a part of worship, with multiple biblical scriptures cementing its pivotal role. In 1980 twelve people began Christian City Church (CCC), a new church which was not one of the mainstream churches, with a vision to communicate the Christian message to the whole of Sydney. CCC used contemporary music as a vehicle to make their message relevant. That church has been strikingly successful, and had grown to five thousand members by 2004. This thesis focusses on a case study of the music of CCC to test a hypothesis that the use of contemporary popular styles of music, with a focus on thanks and praise, can play a significant role in attracting young people to join and remain as members, and that such music can be influential in communicating an experiential understanding of the Christian message. The aim of the case study was to discover whether the music was similar in style to young people’s preferred styles of music, whether they actively participated in its performance, whether it communicated to them, whether the lyrics conveyed a Christian message, and finally whether the congregation was both increasing and retaining young people as members. The songs examined in the study revealed that the music and paramusical aspects of the songs were similar to those of contemporary popular songs. The lyrics of the songs included themes of thanks and praise to God, and as such conveyed a Christian message. Thirty percent of the worship service was devoted to music praising God, and forty-nine percent of the church’s 5,000 members in 2004, were under twenty-five years. Further, the congregation participated enthusiastically in singing, an emphasis on belonging to small groups encouraged fellowship, and sermons addressed problems relevant to young people. It is proposed that CCC provides a pattern that mainstream churches could adapt, including the encouragement of congregational singing and worship, creation of effective small groups, relevant preaching, education opportunities, and culturally appropriate music. It is clear that contemporary and culturally appropriate music has played a significant and vital role in CCC’s successful development. To attract and retain youth membership, music needs to be contemporary, and culturally appropriate, thereby filling the gap between the secular world and the church. Contemporary popular music could provide today’s song for tomorrow’s church.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Popular Music
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Hall, Margaret, and N/A. "Todays Song for Tomorrows Church: The Role Played by Contemporary Popular Music in Attracting Young People to Church." Griffith University. School of Popular Music, 2007. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070912.141700.
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This thesis is a phenomenology highlighting the phenomenon of declining youth attendance at mainstream churches where traditional church music is used in worship and the emergence of megachurches where young people are attending and contemporary popular styles of music is used in worship. An Australian Broadcasting Authority survey in 1999 revealed that music is a major influence in the lives of youth, assisting in their identity creation, in their making friends, and in relieving their stress. The survey also notes that youth prefer contemporary popular music and, in particular, rock. This is in stark contrast to the traditional music played and sung in mainstream churches, which tends to be neither meaningful nor relevant to youth, largely because they do not identify with it. An increasing proportion of youth are rejecting the mainstream traditional churches such as Anglican, Catholic, Baptist, Uniting Church. National Church Life Surveys in Australia show that by 2001, only fourteen percent of church attenders were young adults. Young non-attenders complained they found church services boring and unfulfilling. This declining youth membership does not auger well for the mainstream churchs future. It is clearly evident that, in Australian society a culture gap has emerged between the secular world and the mainstream Christian church. This thesis examines the role of contemporary popular music in attracting young people to church. Although, in comparatively recent times there has been some movement towards contemporizing worship services in mainstream churches, the change has met strong resistance, but that resistance is based on invalid arguments and the mainstream church is yet to respond effectively to the increasing culture gap and growing alienation of the young. Mainstream congregations are not adequately encouraged to participate in singing praise and thanks to God. Although the lyrics of songs that focus on thanks and praise can teach a Christian message, as well as promote an awareness of the presence of God, the importance of this aspect of worship appears to have been overlooked, even though music has always been a part of worship, with multiple biblical scriptures cementing its pivotal role. In 1980 twelve people began Christian City Church (CCC), a new church which was not one of the mainstream churches, with a vision to communicate the Christian message to the whole of Sydney. CCC used contemporary music as a vehicle to make their message relevant. That church has been strikingly successful, and had grown to five thousand members by 2004. This thesis focusses on a case study of the music of CCC to test a hypothesis that the use of contemporary popular styles of music, with a focus on thanks and praise, can play a significant role in attracting young people to join and remain as members, and that such music can be influential in communicating an experiential understanding of the Christian message. The aim of the case study was to discover whether the music was similar in style to young peoples preferred styles of music, whether they actively participated in its performance, whether it communicated to them, whether the lyrics conveyed a Christian message, and finally whether the congregation was both increasing and retaining young people as members. The songs examined in the study revealed that the music and paramusical aspects of the songs were similar to those of contemporary popular songs. The lyrics of the songs included themes of thanks and praise to God, and as such conveyed a Christian message. Thirty percent of the worship service was devoted to music praising God, and forty-nine percent of the churchs 5,000 members in 2004, were under twenty-five years. Further, the congregation participated enthusiastically in singing, an emphasis on belonging to small groups encouraged fellowship, and sermons addressed problems relevant to young people. It is proposed that CCC provides a pattern that mainstream churches could adapt, including the encouragement of congregational singing and worship, creation of effective small groups, relevant preaching, education opportunities, and culturally appropriate music. It is clear that contemporary and culturally appropriate music has played a significant and vital role in CCCs successful development. To attract and retain youth membership, music needs to be contemporary, and culturally appropriate, thereby filling the gap between the secular world and the church. Contemporary popular music could provide todays song for tomorrows church.
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Zheng, Yu. ""The Screaming Successor": Exploring the Chinese Metal Scene in Contemporary Chinese Society (1996-2015)." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479453595002855.
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Montano, Edward James. "DJs, clubs and vinyl the cultural commodification and operational logics of contemporary commercial dance music in Sydney /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/19792.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of Contemporary Music Studies, 2007.Bibliography: p. 291-313.
Introduction -- "Back to this subculture thing": literature review and methodology -- "The crowd went berserk": dance music and club culture in Sydney and Australia -- "Once you find a groove you've got to keep it locked": the role and significance of the DJ -- "There's a great myth about that": DJ culture in Sydney -- "You're not a real DJ unless you play vinyl": technology and formats: the progression of dance music and DJ culture -- "What is underground really?": defining the structure, significance and meaning of dance culture -- "Where are they going to go next?": shifting the focus of dance music studies.
The development of contemporary, post-disco dance music and its associated culture, as representative of a (supposedly) underground, radical subculture, has been given extensive consideration within popular music studies. Significantly less attention has been given to the commercial, mainstream manifestations of this music. Furthermore, demonstrating the influence of subculture theory, existing studies of dance culture focus largely on youth-based audience participation, and as such, those who engage with dance music on a professional level have been somewhat overlooked. In an attempt to rectify these imbalances, this study examines the contemporary commercial dance music scene in Sydney, Australia, incorporating an analytical framework that revolves mainly around the work of DJs and the commercial scene they operate within.--An ethnographic methodological approach underpins the majority of this thesis, with interviews forming the main source of research material. Beginning with a discussion of the existing academic literature on dance culture and dance scenes, an historical context is subsequently established through a section that traces the development of dance culture from an underground phenomenon to a mainstream leisure activity, both within and outside Australia.--The ideas, opinions and interpretations of a selection of local DJs and other music industry practitioners who work in Sydney are central to the analysis of DJ culture herein. Issues discussed include the interaction and relationship between the DJ and their crowd, the technology and formats employed by DJs, and the DJ's multiple roles as entertainer, consumer and educator. The final part of the study gives consideration to the structure of the Sydney dance scene, in regard to the frequently used, but rarely critically analysed, terms 'underground' and 'mainstream'. The thesis concludes with a discussion that challenges the structural rigidity imposed by subcultural theory and scene-based analysis, arguing instead for a greater degree of fluidity in the theoretical approaches taken towards the study of contemporary dance music scenes.
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Nilsson, Jimi. "The geographies of Swedish musicians’ work practices : How, when and where Swedish musicians perform work and creativity in the contemporary popular music industry." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-231164.
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Over the recent years, technological changes in the music industry have altered the geography of music production and non-creative music work. Progress in information and communication technology has lead to decreasing revenues from record sales, which in turn has affected traditional income models for musicians, in particular income from record sales. Therefore, contemporary musicians need to spend longer periods on tour, thus being spatially fragmented in a multitude of geographies while performing artistic work practices. In light of such changes, new music geographies have started to gain the attention for performing artistic work, in particular temporary geographies at popular music festivals as well as digital online communities.This dissertation explores these spaces of music work and creativity, and the roles played by such spaces for Swedish musicians’ working lives. By using a triangulation of methods, this dissertation addresses three important features of the contemporary music profession. First, I explore the geographies of networks and network relations, and the role of networks for coping with contemporary working conditions. Second, I pay attention to the spaces of non-creative work, particularly in festival backstage areas. Third, I focus on how, when and where musicians perform creative work, and the relation between traditional studio locations and new opportunities for creative work while being on tour. Based on interviews, observations and netnographies, I argue that contemporary musicians perform much non-creative work in temporary festival backstage areas and in online communities while creative work preferably is located to traditional studio environments. I also argue that while female musicians and new-established musicians at large, due to increasing competition, have started to explore online communities, established musicians benefit from networking in face-to-face gatherings in order to gain job opportunities. Thus, there is a distinction between different groups of musicians based on career stage and gender.
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Alberto, Rita Sofia Grácio. "Gender distorting genre distorting gender : exploring women's rock musicking practices in contemporary Portugal." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33397.
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This work explores the everyday uses of rock music by women rock musicians, fans and DJs (amateurs), in a specific place (Portugal) and time (1990s-2014). Drawing on the work in the two main fields of music sociology and gender studies and its performative perspective to both gender and music (but also taking contributions from techno-feminist studies, science and technology studies, sociology of work, leisure and sports), this research takes a ‘music-in-action’ approach. This approach understands music as a social activity, as a network of connections between people, materials, discourses and activities. Rock music is best understood as a genre-in-action (not just as a semiotic text or reflection), as socio-material practice, in its collective, relational, performative, situated contexts of use - as rock musicking. As such, there are socio-material processes that constrain and enable women (as a minority group) doing and being in a masculinist rock music world. Taking a ‘mutual shaping’ approach to genre and gender, this research also takes into account how people use aesthetic materials in the processes of performative gendered identity making and relationship with others, as well as world building. The data consists of sixty in-depth interviews with Portuguese rockers (between 2012 and 2014), and supplementary field observations and follow-up interviews. The research found that girls and women’s musical opportunities are more restricted, but that they are also actively negotiated. Parental support and the presence of rock fathers in early years, as well as participation in male networks – whether or not a woman is romantically involved with ‘one of the boys’ – throughout the life course are pathways into rock musicking, as documented in other studies. Adding to the literature, this research highlights how not only in early years, but throughout the life course, rock musicking practices are dependent upon specific aesthetic (musical and visual) gender performances. From female masculinity to alternative femininities, rock music and its visual and material cultures are ‘active ingredients’ in doing and undoing gender. In Portugal, the absence of a strong riot grrrl movement and the lack of female/feminist networks, turns membership in male bands the norm. Consequently, either the “girl in the band’ or girl/female bands have to deal with their ‘novelty’ value. These rockers negotiate the labels of riot grrrl, feminist and grunge within a ‘girl power’ discourse, but mostly, struggling not to let their musical skills and value be obscured by their sex/ualization – developing high standards of musicianship, managing on-stage bodily disclosure, naming and praising their peers, aligning with an Anglo-Saxon rock female canon, but also othering female fans. In male bands, due to male skill ascription, women are segregated into traditional female musical roles, the singer, the bass player. On the other hand, women drummers get token value. At the expenses of instrument specialization, women undertake multi-instrumental pathways. Becoming musical agile selves and re-valuing (traditionally female) musical roles, playing conventions and body techniques. Women also appropriate mixers to spread their love for rock music. These women creatively expand rock music’s material culture, crafting it with clothes, acessories and even food. For rockers who are mothers, rock musicking becomes a technology of mothering. Taking Portuguese women rockers and their socio-musical practices, at both the everyday level and on the “spectacular” rock stage, this research adds to the international and growing body of work on gender and (rock) music across different disciplinary fields (sociology, popular music studies, feminist studies). It extends the traditional focus within popular music scholarship on Anglo-American rock culture, feminist mo(ve)ments, and subcultures, to place emphasis instead on an age group and place that has otherwise been overlooked.
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Fu, Lok-yi Alice, and 傅樂怡. "Contemporary Cantopop: reception of crossovermusic in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39634334.
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Thompson, Shirley J. "Towards a new aesthetic in contemporary instrumental ensemble, vocal and chamber opera composition." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13862.
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This submission for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy focuses on works for large instrumental ensemble in conjunction with the voice. Instrumental ensemble and vocal mediums such as the orchestral art song, the song cycle and the opera in one act, provide platforms to explore the expressiveness of the lyrical dramatic voice and the dialectic tension between composing for the solo voice with a range of instrumental ensemble forces. The portfolio of compositions includes the orchestral song, The Woman Who Refused to Dance; the orchestral song trilogy, Spirit Songs; and the opera in one act, Queen Nanny of the Maroons. Issues of composition technique, vocal expression and operatic narrative are examined and in addition the three named works explore notions of post-colonial heroic representation of subjects that might not usually attract ideological recognition in Western European art music contexts. Methods for developing inclusive, post-modern musical language for the mixed instrumental and vocal ensemble are explored; including the employment of spoken word expression and the integration of popular music idioms within contemporary Western European art music contexts. In the writing of lyrics for the songs and libretto for the opera, increased responsibility is assumed in the completion of vocal works in addition to musical consideration to find the effects on the works when the roles of composer and writer are combined. With the opera in one act for solo voice, forming the major contribution to the portfolio, critical components that lead to effective music drama are assessed.
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Gómez, Sobrino Isabel. "Poesia hecha cancion: adaptaciones musicales de textos poeticos en España desde 1960 hasta el 2010." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367937390.
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Lifter, Rachel. "Contemporary indie and the construction of identity : discursive representations of indie, gendered subjectivities and the interconnections between indie music and popular fashion in the UK." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2012. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5681/.
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This thesis presents a historicized account of the construction of identity within contemporary indie. Indie emerged as a music scene in the early 1980s, and existing scholarly accounts of it focus on practices of music production and consumption. Indie has expanded and diversified over the last 30 years, however. Crucially, in the UK it has become increasingly interconnected into popular fashion – a development that has transformed indie from being a space solely for the construction of masculine identities, as it was in the 1980s, into a space for the construction of both masculine and feminine identities. These transformations within indie have not been addressed, and one of the contributions of this research is to fill this gap. This thesis contributes to the field of youth cultural studies by providing new knowledge on the relationship between youth culture and popular fashion. Drawing on the Bourdieuian concept ‘field’, the thesis explores the relationship between the sub-field of indie music and the field of popular fashion in the UK, arguing that contemporary indie forms at the points of overlap between these two fields: where their value systems are mutually informative and where their value systems diverge. Drawing on Foucault’s concepts ‘discourse’ and ‘practices of the self’, this thesis explores the way in which this complex popular cultural formation creates a space for the construction of identities. Through an analysis of media representations, it considers the discursive constitution of indie, and through an analysis of participant observation and interviews, it explores the ways in which those people participating in this formation construct the self. The thesis contributes to the field of fashion studies in that it draws together these two methodologies into an examination of the construction of identity and, more specifically, gendered identities.
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Santos, Andre Domingues dos. "Cinco cantos de vanguarda: populares e eruditos em luta pela brasilidade moderna." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-08052014-105549/.
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A presente tese analisa historicamente cinco diferentes momentos em que músicos populares e intelectuais eruditos brasileiros estabeleceram intercâmbios e trabalharam em parceria na construção de discursos sobre o ser nacional, sob influência marcante de um ideário de vanguarda. Para cada um desses momentos, elegeram-se parcerias representativas a serem estudadas. Os momentos abordados, compreendidos entre 1924 e 1969, foram o modernismo, o regionalismo baiano, a bossa-nova, a música de protesto da década de 1960 e o tropicalismo, tendo como representantes escolhidos, respectivamente: Marcelo Tupinambá e Mário de Andrade; Dorival Caymmi e Jorge Amado; Antônio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto e Vinícius de Moraes; Carlos Lyra e Gianfrancesco Guarnieri; Caetano Veloso e Rogério Duprat.This thesis examines five different historical moments when Brazilian popular musicians and high culture intellectual established exchanges and worked together in the construction of discourses about the national being, under strong influence of a cutting-edge set of ideas, ranging between 1924 and 1969. For each of these moments, were elected one representative partnership to be studied. The moments discussed were modernism, Bahias regionalism, bossa-nova, protest song movement of the 1960s decade and tropicalism, whose main representatives artists chosen were, respectively: Marcelo Tupinambá and Mário de Andrade; Dorival Caymmi and Jorge Amado; Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and Vinícius de Moraes; Carlos Lyra and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri; Caetano Veloso and Rogério Duprat.
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Zevallos, García Hugo André. "El impacto de la teatralidad dentro de los conciertos de música popular contemporánea de género rock psicodélico, glam y progresivo (1970 – 2019)." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653208.
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El término teatralidad es una de las palabras más utilizadas dentro del mundo espectáculo. Sin embargo, existe cierta confusión o ambigüedad a la hora de separar la utilización de este recurso dentro de distintas ramas artísticas. Así pues, si no es bien generalizado, es desatendido por el común artista musical; como consecuencia se ha desestimado el impacto que se puede ocasionar en el espectador, a partir de la mera corporalidad de los participantes de una puesta en escena. Por estos motivos, se ha contenido dentro del presente documento el uso y la transformación de este recurso dentro de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, de manera que se ha investigado la adopción de esta técnica por múltiples artistas a lo largo de las décadas; con el fin de poder esclarecer términos afines y dar a conocer uno de los avances artísticos musicales más elaborados dentro de nuestra coetaneidad. La teatralidad en la música es el resultado de una visión literaria dentro de la misma, por la cual se expanden los modos de composición, producción y ejecución. Así pues, esta viene a ser la introducción de nuevas formas en la lírica y en la narrativa. Se plasman personajes ficticios en la búsqueda de representar dramáticamente un nuevo espectáculo musical; el sonido, el material visual del escenario y la performance de sus componentes físicos son ahora herramientas en pos de consolidar un nuevo conjunto visual y sonoro, compartido entre artista y espectador.The term theatricality is one of the most used words in show business. However, there is some confusion or ambiguity when it comes to separating the use of this resource within different artistic branches. Thus, if it is not well generalized, it is neglected by the common musical artist; as a consequence, the impact that can be caused on the viewer, from the mere corporality of the participants of a staging, has been dismissed. For these reasons, the use and transformation of this resource within the second half of the twentieth century has been contained in this document, so that the adoption of this technique by multiple artists over the decades has been investigated; in order to clarify related terms and publicize one of the most elaborate musical artistic advances within our contemporary age. Theatricality in music is the result of a literary vision, through which the modes of composition, production and execution are expanded. Thus, this comes to be the introduction of new forms in the lyric and in the narrative. Fictional characters are depicted in the quest to dramatically represent a new musical show; the sound, the visual material of the stage and the performance of its physical components are now tools in order to consolidate a new visual and sound set, shared between artist and spectator.
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Stevens, Nicholas David. "Lulu's Daughters: Portraying the Anti-Heroine in Contemporary Opera, 1993-2013." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1497460068959016.
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Park, Hyunju. "The global and the vernacular: the appropriation of transnational cultural imagery and the reconstruction of cultural identities in the realm of contemporary Korean popular music." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404802.
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Allen, Matthew. "The belt’s got soul! an investigation into the vocal characteristics of r&b/soul singing and the production of the ‘belt voice’ within this style." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2024. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2766.
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The dissertation investigates and defines the vocal characteristics of rhythm and blues (R&B)/soul singing within contemporary commercial music (CCM). Over the course of more than 80 years, the R&B/soul style of singing has evolved to become a prominent and influential component of the music landscape. This research addressed the question of whether the ‘belt’ voice is an integral part of R&B/soul singing and investigated the skills required for its sustainability. Furthermore, the project explored, through rigorous acoustic analyses and computed tomography (CT) scanning, the physiological events occurring at the laryngeal level during ‘belting’ by R&B/soul singers.
The study commenced with a comprehensive survey analysis of performances by five pioneering R&B/soul singers, assessed by a panel of recognised industry practitioners and pedagogues from across the globe. Through this evaluation and the accompanying questionnaire, the vocal characteristics of R&B/soul singing were examined and refined. The outcomes challenge and extend the scope of existing literature and reveal the belt voice as the most challenging characteristic of R&B/soul singing to acquire.
The investigation narrowed its focus to the belt voice as a crucial characteristic, leading to five in-depth interviews with renowned practitioners and educators. The findings of these interviews unveiled a novel perspective on the timbral nuances of the R&B/soul belt voice, distinguishing it from traditional belt voices observed in music theatre. This notion acted as a catalyst for the final phase of the study, in which the biomechanical aspects of R&B/soul belting were explored.
A groundbreaking experiment involving CT scanning of 10 vocalists during both comfortable and belted pitches uncovered pivotal insights into vocal fold lengthening, larynx positioning and pharyngeal wall mobility. These results contribute to the emerging understanding of the physiological mechanisms behind R&B/soul belting and highlight its uniqueness within the broader spectrum of vocal styles.
In summary, this research establishes a comprehensive framework for understanding the vocal characteristics of R&B/soul singing, with a significant focus on the belt voice. By fusing artistic analysis, expert surveys, questionnaires, interviews and cutting-edge imaging techniques, this study advances our understanding of the vocal complexities that define this style, shedding light on both its artistic essence and the physiological events that underscore the R&B/soul singer’s performance.
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Ekanayaka, Tanya Nissani Ilangakkone. "Theorising the practice of language mixing in music : an interdisciplinary (linguistic and musicological) investigation of Sri Lanka's leading genre of contemporary popular song and its community." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5518.
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This thesis represents the first ever study of Sri Lanka’s leading genre of contemporary popular song covering a period of over twelve years, and how its artists and principal audience interpolate ‘global’ and ‘local’ (linguistic and musical) elements in their invention and negotiation of the genre. The central objective is to articulate the collective linguistic identity of the genre’s artists and principal audience. They are shown to constitute a community of over 5.5 million youth and young adults of Sinhala ethnicity, more than a quarter of the country’s population. Notably, this is also the first ever study of macrosocietal linguistic identity in a musical context involving an interdisciplinary linguistic and musical-structure based approach. Underlying the central objective the thesis addresses broader questions about whether our perception of and response to language/language-mixing in music differs from our perception of and response to language mixing (language) in non-musical (i.e. conversational) contexts and if so, how such differences might be explained in terms of linguistic and/or musico-linguistic structure. The genre explored is termed ‘Post 1998 Leading Sri Lankan Popular Song’ (98+LSLPS): 1998 marks the symbolic year in which the first songs of the genre emerged and became hugely popular in Sri Lanka. At present, it includes around 300 songs. A community of practice model (Wenger 1998) is used to describe the three-way relationship between the artists, audience and songs. The song data analysed are in audio format. Musically, the songs are heterogeneous involving blends of styles, ranging from indigenous Sri Lankan folk tunes to hip hop rhythms to western classical melodies. These are delivered through four presentational techniques among which rap and singing are dominant. It is English and Sinhala mixed language lyrics which distinguish the songs as a genre. Not surprisingly, there is evidence that the community regard the songs as ‘mixed’: however, they are also found to regard the songs as simultaneously ‘not-mixed’. The portrait corresponds to the community’s identification of the songs as simultaneously homogeneous Sinhala and Sinhala-Sri Lankan systems on the one hand and heterogeneous multicultural systems on the other. Exploring the salience of this portrait at the level of the songs’ lyric organisation constitutes the major part of the thesis and is a crucial forerunner to articulating the collective linguistic identity of the community, which is based on interpreting the findings. Accordingly, I advance a novel musico-linguistic analytical framework based on the notion of the musical rhythm derived ‘line’ for analysing the songs. The framework is also a response to the fact that the song lyrics are in audio format rather than being assigned a predetermined structure by transcription. The analyses demonstrate that the songs’ lyric structure is entirely congruent with the portrait assigned to the songs by their community. Interpreted in relation to the community’s collective linguistic identity, it is described as representing a form of overarching monolingualism, deriving from active multilingualism in music. Drawing on the relationship between Sinhala ethnicity and the Sinhala language and the fact that the community members are of Sinhala ethnicity, the study concludes by suggesting that this linguistic profile may be indicative of the community’s definition of the ‘Sinhala’ language in this musical domain. Overall, the study establishes that musical structure governs the organisation of language/language mixing in music and that this is reflected in how communities perceive language/language mixing in music.
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Griffin, Stephanie A. "A qualitative inquiry into how romantic love has been portrayed by contemporary media and researchers." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1149001149.
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Senger, Saesha. "Gender, Politics, Market Segmentation, and Taste: Adult Contemporary Radio at the End of the Twentieth Century." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/150.
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This dissertation explores issues of gender politics, market segmentation, and taste through an examination of the contributions of several artists who have achieved Adult Contemporary (AC) chart success. The scope of the project is limited to a period when many artists who figured prominently in both the broader mainstream of American popular music and the more specific Adult Contemporary category were most commercially viable: from the mid-1980s through the 1990s. My contention is that, as gender politics and gendered social norms continued to change in the United States at this time, Adult Contemporary – the chart, the format, and the associated music – was an important, if overlooked or even trivialized, arena in which these shifting gender dynamics played out. This dissertation explores the significance of the Adult Contemporary format at the end of the twentieth century through analysis of chart performance, artist image, musical works, marketing, and contextual factors. By documenting these relevant social, political, economic, and musical factors, the notable role of a format and of artists neglected by scholars becomes clear.
I explore these issues in the form of lengthy case studies. Examinations of how Adult Contemporary artists such as Michael Bolton, Wilson Phillips, Matchbox Twenty, David Gray, and Mariah Carey were produced and marketed, and how their music was disseminated, illustrate record and radio industry strategies for negotiating the musical, political, and social climate of this period. Significantly, musical and lyrical analyses of songs successful on AC stations, and many of their accompanying promotional videos highlight messages about musical genre, gender, race, and age. This dissertation ultimately demonstrates that Adult Contemporary-oriented music figured significantly in the culture wars, second and third wave feminism, expressions of masculinity, Generation-X struggles, postmodern identity, and market segmentation.
This study also illustrates how the record and radio industries have managed audience composition and behavior to effectively and more predictably produce and market music in the United States. This dissertation argues that, amid broader social determinations for taste, the record industry, radio programmers, and Billboard chart compilers and writers have helped to make and reinforce certain assumptions about who listens to which music and why they do so. In addition, critics have weighed in on what different musical genres and artists have offered and for whom, often assigning higher value to music associated with certain genres, socio-political associations, and listeners while claiming over-commercialization, irrelevance, aesthetic insignificance, and bad taste for much other music.
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Linhares, Maria Juliana Figueredo. "O fazer artístico de Escurinho sob perspectiva etnomusicológica." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2015. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/8408.
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Research on the artistic career of the composer, percussionist and singer Jonas Epifânio dos Santos Neto, known as Escurinho present in the urban music scene in João Pessoa since the late 1980s. To interpret how to weave the threads of popular music during the life of a performer, the theoretical and methodological bases of ethnomusicology (BLACKING, 1995 MUKUNA, 2008, MERRIAM, 1980) dialogue with the bases of the interpretive anthropology (GEERTZ, 2008), history of life (CHIZZOTTI, 2006), the sociological "structuralist constructivism" (BOURDIEU, 1996), philosophy (BAKHTIN, 2006), and visual anthropology (HARTMANN, 2001). The work seeks to understand the history of life, not just as an individual artistic saga, but as a reflection of the trends of urban social movements in local and global level. The results it’s a tour by the music scene of the city of João Pessoa, through Escurinho reports, and the analysis of his work.
Pesquisa exploratória qualitativa, sobre a trajetória artística do compositor, percussionista e cantor Jonas Epifânio dos Santos Neto, conhecido como Escurinho, presente na cena de música urbana de João Pessoa, desde o início dos anos 1980. Para interpretar de que forma se tecem as tramas da música popular no decurso da vida de um sujeito, as bases teórico-metodológicas da etnomusicologia (BLACKING, 1995, MUKUNA, 2008, e MERRIAM, 1964, entre outros) procuraram dialogar com as bases da antropologia interpretativa (GEERTZ, 2008), da história de vida (CHIZZOTTI, 2006), do “construtivismo estruturalista” sociológico (BOURDIEU, 1996), da filosofia (BAKHTIN, 2006). O trabalho busca compreender essa história de vida, não apenas como uma saga artística individual, mas como um reflexo das tendências de movimentos sociais urbanos em nível local e global. O resultado é um perpassar pela cena de música underground da cidade de João Pessoa, através dos relatos de Escurinho, e pelas análises de sua obra.
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Cás, Lauro Edson da. "Aspecto lírico-religioso das canções marianas: um estudo sobre as metáforas e metonímias que representam Maria." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2009. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/415.
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Este trabalho analisa o aspecto lírico-religioso de três canções marianas, recolhidas do Cancioneiro Popular do imigrante italiano na Região de Colonização Italiana e se propõe revelar, sob o aspecto das metáforas e das metonímias, a representação de Maria. Para tanto, este estudo dialoga com temas imprescindíveis para a obtenção de resultados, como História, Cultura, Identidade, Regionalidade, Mariologia, Metáforas, Metonímias (a Teoria de Metáforas Conceituais) e música. Assim sendo, a dissertação está estruturada sobre quatro capítulos que norteiam a análise e a interpretação. A saber: o Primeiro Capítulo entrelaça a História e a Cultura, procurando fazer uma revisão de aspectos relevantes da história da imigração italiana na RCI na Região Nordeste do Estado, focando a importância da religião e ou da fé desde os primórdios desse processo. A partir disso, há a análise sobre Região, Identidade e Religiosidade. O Segundo Capítulo destaca o Cancioneiro Popular e assim, o aspecto da Tradição Oral Popular. Aprofunda o aspecto da cultura popular expressada com o canto e traz em evidência a caracterização do Canto Mariano (origens, ritualismo e devoção do imigrante italiano). Demonstra, ainda, aspectos da devoção mariana, tão presente e viva junto ao imigrante, pois Maria é descrita como sendo a mãe que está sempre presente e junto aos seus filhos (povo). O Terceiro Capítulo, por sua vez, concentra a análise dos aspectos da Teoria da Metáfora Conceitual, da Simbologia e, também, da interpretação e pesquisa sobre as Virtudes, objetivando a análise da figura da mulher idealizada , ou ainda, da representação da mãe - Maria (Madonna). Por fim, no Quarto Capítulo, tem-se a Metodologia e a Análise das canções marianas, ou seja, a análise do corpus das canções: Beléssa di Maria; Maria Consolatrice; O Bèla mia Speransa, que motivam este estudo. Esta parte segue o método da análise semântica com base em George Lakoff (e colaboradores) que permeiam o estudo das metáforas conceituais. Há, também, a posição etnográfica, onde é destacada a pesquisa de campo realizada para conhecer opiniões e perspectivas do povo, indo além da análise do pesquisador. Após isso, é feita a síntese com os resultados obtidos pela pesquisa/estudo.Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-28T17:29:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Lauro Edson da Cas.pdf: 660533 bytes, checksum: 67162060ee2c9127d36245efbaca0ad2 (MD5)
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This study analyzes the religious lyrical aspect of three Marian songs, collected from the book Cancioneiro Popular do Imigrante Italiano na Região de Colonização Italiana, and also intends to clarify, using metaphors and metonymies, the representation of Mary. To do that, this study takes into consideration imprescindible issues such as History, Culture, Identity, Religiosity, and Mariology, Metaphors, Metonymies (Conceptual Metaphor Theory) and music. This dissertation is structured upon four chapters as follows: the first chapter links History and Culture, trying to revise some relevant points of the history of the Italian immigration on the RCI in the Northeast Region of our state, focusing on the importance of religion and/or faith since the beginning of that process. Therefore, there is the analysis about the Region, Identity and Religiosity. The second chapter highlights the Cancioneiro Popular and then, the Popular Oral Tradition. Also, it deepens the aspect of popular culture expressed by the songs and brings into evidence the characterization of the Marian Songs (origins, ritualism and devotion of the Italian immigrant). Moreover, it shows some aspects of the Marian devotion, so present and alive within the immigrant, because Mary is described as the mother who is always with her children (the people). The third chapter, in turn, focus on the analysis of aspects of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory , of the Symbolism, and also of the interpretation and research regarding the Virtues, aiming at analyzing the idealized woman´s portrait , or still, the representation of the mother Mary (Madonna). At last, presented in the fourth chapter are the Methodology and the Analysis of the Marian Songs, that is, the analysis of the corpus of songs: Beléssa di Mary, Mary Consolatrice and O Bela mia Speransa that motivate the study. This part follows the method of semantic analysis, based on George Lakoff (and collaborators) that permeates the study of the conceptual metaphors. There is the ethnographic position as well, where is emphasized the field work carried out to know opinions and perspectives of the people, going beyond the researcher´s analysis. After that, the synthesis is done with the obtained results by the research/study.
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Melo, Webert Guiduci de. "O que será que será... a visão do Brasil no projeto literário de Chico Buarque de Hollanda." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2013. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1169.
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Essa dissertação focaliza as canções e a literatura de Chico Buarque de Hollanda, um intelectual e um artista totalmente vinculado à produção cultural brasileira das últimas cinco décadas. Chico Buarque construiu uma obra que repensa o Brasil e, ao mesmo tempo, desenha a utopia de uma sociedade mais democrática. Procurou-se, então, identificar as continuidades entre o compositor e o escritor de romance, visto que esta dualidade de persona artística leva a uma tensão interna da crítica em relação ao conjunto de sua obra. Analisamos como a sociedade brasileira é representada socialmente e culturalmente e como os elementos estéticos e críticos, já presentes em suas primeiras canções, permanecem constantes em sua produção artística. Na leitura de Leite Derramado, o destaque será para a representação e função do narrador, e de elementos e personagens, em paralelo com aspectos da estrutura cultural e social brasileira. Ou seja, observando gêneros, forma e temas, buscamos refletir como Chico Buarque de Hollanda pensa o Brasil e expressa esse pensamento em sua obra.
This dissertation focuses on the songs and literature of Chico Buarque de Hollanda, an intellectual and artist totally tied to Brazilian cultural output of the past five decades. Chico Buarque constructed a work that rethinks Brazil and at the same time, draws the utopia of a more democratic society. It was attempted to identify the continuities between the composer and writer of romance, since this duality of artistic persona leads to an internal tension of criticism over the set of his work. We have analyzed how Brazilian society is socially and culturally represented, and how critical and aesthetic elements, already present in his first songs, remain constant in their artistic production. When reading Leite Derramado, the highlight will be for the representation and role of the narrator, and elements and characters, in parallel with aspects of Brazilian social and cultural structure. I.e. observing genres, forms and themes, we reflect how Chico Buarque de Hollanda thinks Brazil and expresses this thought in his work.
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Klein, Eve Elizabeth. "The pomegranate cycle : reconfiguring opera through performance, technology & composition." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/51175/1/Eve_Klein_Thesis.pdf.
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The Pomegranate Cycle is a practice-led enquiry consisting of a creative work and an exegesis. This project investigates the potential of self-directed, technologically mediated composition as a means of reconfiguring gender stereotypes within the operatic tradition. This practice confronts two primary stereotypes: the positioning of female performing bodies within narratives of violence and the absence of women from authorial roles that construct and regulate the operatic tradition. The Pomegranate Cycle redresses these stereotypes by presenting a new narrative trajectory of healing for its central character, and by placing the singer inside the role of composer and producer.
During the twentieth and early twenty-first century, operatic and classical music institutions have resisted incorporating works of living composers into their repertory. Consequently, the canon’s historic representations of gender remain unchallenged. Historically and contemporarily, men have almost exclusively occupied the roles of composer, conductor, director and critic, and therefore men have regulated the pedagogy, performance practices, repertoire and organisations that sustain classical music. In this landscape, women are singers, and few have the means to challenge the constructions of gender they are asked to reproduce. The Pomegranate Cycle uses recording technologies as the means of driving change because these technologies have already challenged the regulation of the classical tradition by changing people’s modes of accessing, creating and interacting with music.
Building on the work of artists including Phillips and van Veen, Robert Ashley and Diamanda Galas, The Pomegranate Cycle seeks to broaden the definition of what opera can be. This work examines the ways in which the operatic tradition can be hybridised with contemporary musical forms such as ambient electronica, glitch, spoken word and concrete sounds as a way of bringing the form into dialogue with contemporary music cultures. The ultilisation of other sound cultures within the context of opera enables women’s voices and stories to be presented in new ways, while also providing a point of friction with opera’s traditional storytelling devices.
The Pomegranate Cycle simulates aesthetics associated with Western art music genres by drawing on contemporary recording techniques, virtual instruments and sound-processing plug-ins. Through such simulations, the work disrupts the way virtuosic human craft has been used to generate authenticity and regulate access to the institutions that protect and produce Western art music. The DIY approach to production, recording, composition and performance of The Pomegranate Cycle demonstrates that an opera can be realised by a single person. Access to the broader institutions which regulate the tradition are not necessary. In short, The Pomegranate Cycle establishes that a singer can be more than a voice and a performing body. She can be her own multimedia storyteller. Her audience can be anywhere.
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Spielmann, Line. ""On ne va pas se mettre en arrêt pour ça." : les arrêts maladie, pratiques, discours et représentations dans les secteurs des musiques actuelles et de l'aide à domicile." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01E042/document.
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Cette thèse se propose d’aborder les représentations et pratiques des arrêts maladie, essentiellement à partir des discours des travailleurs et d’observations in situ, dans l’aide à domicile et les musiques actuelles. L’hypothèse développée est celle d’une pratique polysémique, intelligente, et morale. Polysémique, car les travailleurs donnent des sens multiples aux arrêts maladie, en font un usage varié : les arrêts protègent leur santé dans des environnements astreignants ; ils servent aussi de message pour alerter collègues ou hiérarchie, en vue d’améliorer le bien-être collectif, de s’élever contre des logiques arbitraires ; ils peuvent enfin être interprétés comme une sanction, au sens de conséquence logique d’une situation (notamment les conditions de travail), et au sens de punition, à l’égard de l’employeur ou du travailleur lui-même. Intelligente, car les travailleurs mènent une réflexion avant de recourir aux arrêts, évaluant leur impact, analysant le contexte, les usages. Ils s’adaptent aux normes en vigueur aux niveaux local et macro-social, essaient à l’occasion de modifier la donne. Ils évoluent dans leurs représentations et leurs actes, apprennent de leur expérience, modifient leurs positions tout au long de leurs carrières (de travailleur, de malade, carrière familiale, …), selon les rôles sociaux qui leur incombent. Morale enfin, car les travailleurs tiennent compte des conséquences de leurs arrêts, dans une attitude de « loyauté » envers leurs collègues, leurs clients, leur travail ou leur entreprise. Ils jugent de la légitimité des arrêts et y recourent, ou non, dans le respect ou la lutte pour un ordre plus juste et conforme aux valeurs du métierThe purpose of this current doctoral thesis was to investigate sick leave practices and representations, mainly through workers’ discourses and field observation, in the home care and contemporary popular music sectors. The hypothesis is that sick leave is a polysemous, intelligent and moral practice. Polysemous, in the sense that workers give sick leaves various meanings and use them in many different ways: sick leaves protect their health from demanding work environments. They serve as warnings for colleagues and hierarchy, in an attempt to improve collective welfare, to speak out against employer’s hegemony. They can be interpreted as a logical outcome of a given context (mainly poor working conditions and organization), as well as a punishment for the employer or the worker himself. Intelligent, because workers think carefully before they have recourse to sick leave, they assess their ins and outs, analyze the situation, the common practices. They adapt to social norms, at both local and macro-social levels, try when possible to be game changers. Their views and behaviors about sick leaves change over time, they learn from their experience, rethink their positions along their careers (within illness, work, family…), according to the social roles they are expected to endorse. Eventually, sick leaves are a moral practice as workers take into account the consequences of their leave : they behave with « loyalty » towards their colleagues, their clients, their work or their company. They evaluate the legitimacy of sick leaves and use them or not according to this judgment, in the respect or the fight for equity, and the defense of their professional identity and values
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Bécue, Aurélien. "Rock et littérature : à l'écoute d'un espace littéraire contemporain : bruits, distorsions, résonances." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00831257.
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Croisant deux sphères artistiques dont les relations ont été quelque peu ignorées et dont les antagonismes ont été parfois fantasmés, cette étude se propose d'analyser les résonances croisées, fécondes et réciproques existant entre le rock et la littérature. Ouvrant un champ de recherche quasiment vierge, elle est confrontée à l'instabilité d'un mot insaisissable (le rock) qui est peut-être en cela une métaphore de l'imaginaire contemporain. Critique et vecteur du spectacle, bruit apparemment informe dont il est difficile de parler, le rock résonne dans les productions littéraires comme il est influencé par elles. A l'aune de cette problématique, nous avons cherché à manifester un espace littéraire à l'écoute du rock, espace hétérogène constitué par des rock-fictions ou fictions du rock, la critique rock, les écrits des artistes, une poésie électrique ou encore des oeuvres littéraires sans cesse citées par les musiques populaires. Outre une cartographie de cet espace, nous avons observé la manière dont les textes fantasment leur proximité, leur appartenance ou leur rejet du rock et, ou, du littéraire, dans autant d'échos et de distorsions poétiques, esthétiques et axiologiques. Dès lors, eu égard à la disparité formelle du rock et à sa volatilité sémantique, cette analyse dépasse nécessairement les bornes d'une réflexion musico-littéraire. La métaphore de l'écoute qui l'a guidé ne vise donc pas (simplement) à réconcilier amateurs ou littératures des musiques savantes et des musiques populaires, mais elle est le modèle d'une posture d'écoute qui conjugue aussi bien la distraction face aux résonances (littéraires) du rock que l'attention face aux dissonances du réel
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Reraki, Fotini. "La musique imaginaire : discours, identités et représentations dans l’enseignement grec contemporain." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040018.
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La présente thèse explore l’espace formel de l’enseignement de la musique en Grèce actuelle en tant qu’un espace de confrontation et de négociation de sens autour du musical. L’introduction de la musique traditionnelle au sein de cet espace sert de paradigme à une étude sur « la gestion de l’altérité musicale » à partir d’une enquête ethnographique de terrain (observation participante et entretiens non directifs), qui s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux conditions de cohabitation entre des enseignants-musiciens aux parcours différents, aux conditions donc de cohabitation entre des pratiques d’apprentissage, des discours et des imaginaires qui tantôt s’entrecroisent, tantôt se concurrencent. L’objectif ultime de ce travail est, à cet égard, de mettre en évidence que les façons dont les individus se représentent la musique et tout ce qui s’y rattache, forment un système symbolique qui renvoie à la manière dont ils se définissent eux-mêmes et ils se situent envers les autresThe present thesis explores the formal space of music education in Greece as an area of confrontation and negotiation of meanings around music. The introduction of Greek traditional music in this educational space serves as a paradigm for a study on “the management of musical otherness”, based on a field survey (participant observation and non-directive interviews) which focuses in particular on the conditions of cohabitation between teachers-musicians with different musical trajectories, thus on the conditions of cohabitation between learning practices, discourses and imaginaries which sometimes intertwine, sometimes they compete with one another. In this regard, the ultimate aim of this work is to bring to light that the ways individuals represent music and everything related to it, form a symbolic system referring to the manner in which they define and situate themselves in relation to others
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Menezes, Potiguara Curione. "Que som é esse? Diálogos culturais refletidos em processo composicionais na música brasileira contemporânea." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27158/tde-31052017-114521/.
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O tema deste trabalho é a inter-relação de compositores eruditos com culturas musicais ao redor do mundo, a partir do século XX. O foco incide nos aspectos composicionais que se desenvolveram a partir desse intercâmbio. O recorte principal da pesquisa é a produção dos compositores brasileiros, a partir dos anos 1980. Adicionalmente, foram comentados outros períodos, para tratar dos processos envolvidos nas inter-relações culturais de forma mais ampla, seja em termos de inspiração, influência, apropriação e representação de elementos dessas culturas, seja no que tange à questões conceituais de afetividade, originalidade, autenticidade, identidade e dominação sociocultural. Com esse intuito, primeiramente, debateram-se impasses relacionados aos modos de interrelação e de incorporação e às terminologias encontradas na literatura. Em seguida, foi proposto um panorama contextual das ocorrências desses intercâmbios no repertório erudito, nacional e internacional. Finalmente, apresenta-se uma série de análises de obras de autores brasileiros, compostas nos últimos 35 anos. Pretende-se demonstrar que - num contexto de extrema interação cultural, emaranhado pela pluralidade de ideias relacionadas aos processos de globalização - tanto as possibilidades criativas quanto a discussão crítica das questões decorrentes desses encontros entre culturas se expandem em igual proporção, seja em sua potencialidade e complexidade, seja em seu caráter paradoxal e de controvérsia.The theme of this work is the interrelation of art music composers with musical cultures around the world, from the 20th century onwards. The focus concerns on the compositional aspects that were developed from this exchange. The main research cutting is the production of the Brazilian composers from the 80s. Additionally, other periods were commented on, to deal with the processes involved in the cultural interrelations in a broader way, be it in terms of inspiration, influence, appropriation and representation of elements of theses cultures, or in what concerns to conceptual questions of affectivity, originality, authenticity, identity and sociocultural domination. For this purpose, primarily, bottlenecks related to the modes of interrelation and incorporation, as well as to the terminologies found in the literature were discussed. Next, a contextual panorama of the occurrences of these exchanges in the erudite repertoire, national and international, was proposed. Finally, a series of Brazilian authors\' work analyses is presented, composed in the last 35 years. It is intended to demonstrate that both the creative possibilities and the critical discussion of the issues arising from these encounters among cultures expand in equal proportion, be it in its potentiality and complexity, or in its paradoxical and controversial character. And that happens in a context of extreme cultural interaction, entangled by the plurality of ideas related to the processes of globalization.
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Corneloup, Bernard. "Génération MPB : filiations, dialogues et ruptures : Mouvements musicaux et dynamique socioculturelle dans le Brésil contemporain." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20087/document.
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1958, au Brésil, surgit un genre musical nouveau, la Bossa Nova, qui s'annonce comme une révolution dans le paysage musical traditionnel. Vingt ans plus tard, 1978 est l'année de "l'Ouverture" politique, Chico Buarque, poète musicien qui a dominé la décennie autant à travers ses chansons qu'à travers son attitude de résistance contre la dictature, lance un disque dans lequel il enregistre des musiques jusqu'alors interdites par la censure. Cet événement conclut une période de grande créativité artistique, ponctuée de bouleversements sociaux et culturels, de déclarations d'intentions, de ruptures, de prises de position en rapport avec la vie politique ou culturelle du pays, qui souvent ne fait qu'une. Ces vingt années ont vu apparaître les figures les plus marquantes de la chanson brésilienne du XXe siècle, en même temps que le sigle par lequel la chanson urbaine a reçu ses lettres de noblesse : MPB, initiales de Música Popular Brasileira. S'ancrant dans la tradition tout en s'en défendant, dialoguant avec les influences extérieures qu'elle influence également, se démarquant jusqu'à la rupture des mouvements qui lui étaient les plus proches, cette génération nous apparaît aujourd'hui beaucoup plus unie et limitée dans le temps qu'elle n'en avait conscience. C'est pourquoi le temps est venu, avec le recul historique, de s'interroger avec un regard nouveau sur la production musicale de cette époque, afin d'en définir les caractéristiques qui la soudent et la distinguent à la foisIn 1958, a new musical genre appears in Brazil: the Bossa nova, which looks like a revolution in the traditional musical landscape. Twenty years later, 1978 is the year of political openness, Chico Buarque, poet musician who dominated the decade through his songs as well as his resistance against the millitary dictatorship, launches an album on which he records some songs that were censored until then. This event puts an end to a period of great artistic creativity, punctuated with social and cultural changes, statements of intents, ruptures, standpoints on the political or cultural life of the country, which often are one. These twenty years witnessed the appearance of the most striking figures of Brazil’s 20th century music scene, and of the acronym whereby the urban song gained respectability: MPB, initials of Música Popular Brasileira. Rooted in tradition though defending itself from it, exchanging with outside influences which it influences as well, distancing itself till the rupture of the movements of which it was the closest, today this generation seems to us much more united and limited in time than it thought it was. That’s why the time has come, with historical perspective, to look at the musical production of that period with fresh eyes, in order to define the characteristics that unite and distinguish it at the same time
1958, nasce no Brasil un gênero musical novo, a Bossa Nova, que se anuncia comme uma revolução na paisagem musical. Vinte anos depois, 1978, é o ano da "Abertura" política, Chico Buarque, poeta músico que dominou a década tanto pelas suas canções como pela sua atitude de resistência contra a ditadura, lança um disco no qual ele grava músicas até então proibidas pela censura. Esse acontecimento conclui um período de intensa criatividade artística, acompanhada por grandes mudanças sociais e culturais, declarações de intenções e rupturas, tomadas de posição em relação com a vida política ou cultural do país, que muitas vezes faz uma só. Esses vinte anos viram emergir as figuras mais marcantes da canção brasileira do século XX, concomitantemente à sigla pela qual a canção urbana moderna foi consagrada : MPB, iniciais de Música Popular Brasileira. Ancorando-se na tradição sem reivindicá-lo, dialogando com as influências externas que ela influencia por sua vez, demarcando-se até à ruptura dos movimentos que lhe eram próximos, essa geração nos aparece hoje muito mais unida e circunscrita no tempo do que ela o percebia. Por essa razão, o tempo veio, com o recuo histórico, de questionar com um olhar novo a produção musical daquela época, para definir as características que a unificam e distinguem ao mesmo tempo