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James, Douglas Goff. "Luigi Rinaldo Legnani: His life and position in European music of the early nineteenth century, with an annotated performance edition of selections from 36 Capricci per Tutti I Tuoni Maggiori E Minori, Opus 20." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186632.
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Luigi Legnani (1790-1877) was an important guitarist/composer of the early nineteenth century Italian Romantic school. In addition, he was also a highly skilled singer, violinist, and luthier. Legnani's guitar compositions represent the logical next step after Giuliani; fully evocative of the operatic vocal style characterized by Rossini, and technically adventurous in much the way Paganini's compositions were for the violin, although not to the same degree. His contributions to guitar literature form an important link in the chain of compositional and technical development during the nineteenth-century. This study is in two parts. The first will present as concise a biography as possible, particularly regarding Legnani's concert itineraries, contributions to guitar construction, and relationship with Paganini. An examination of little-known contemporary reviews of his performances will serve as a means of both documenting his concertizing and developing a concept of Legnani's performance style. The second part, an annotated performance edition of selections from Legnani's most famous composition, 36 Capricci per tutti i tuoni maggiori e minori, opus 20, will provide a basis for the understanding and successful performance of Legnani's music by modern guitarists. In conclusion, Legnani's unique contributions to both guitar composition and construction are reevaluated, and an up-to-date list of compositions appended.
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Bert, Alison. "The influence of Flamenco on the guitar works of Joaquin Turina." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185487.
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Flamenco is a passionate style of song and dance accompanied by guitar. Its origin may be traced to the Moorish occupation of Spain, which began in the eighth century, and it continues to flourish in the southern Spanish region of Andalucia. This treatise will explore the structure and character of Flamenco and show how it influenced the twentieth-century Spanish classical composer Joaquin Turina in his five guitar works:(UNFORMATTED TABLE FOLLOWS): Fantasía Sevillana, Op. 23 (1923). Fandanguillo, Op. 36 (1926). Ráfaga, Op. 53 (1930). Sonata, Op. 61 (1931): Allegro, Andante, Allegro vivo. Homenaje a Tárrega, Op. 69 (1932): Garrotin, Soleares. (TABLE ENDS)
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Willett, Toby T. "California as Music to American Ears: Migration, Technology, and Rock and Roll in the Golden State, 1946-2000." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2010. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/264.
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Migrations and technological advances in California following World War II, spurred radical changes in the production and development of popular music, most notably rock and roll. California largely lacked the entrenched traditions of the American Northeast, and in many ways its exploding population translated into the growth of a culture built around embracing newer methodologies, whether technological innovations or radical artistic departures. In large part owing to its increasing ethnic diversity during the economic expansion, California was uniquely poised to become a center of incredible postwar dynamism, especially when seen in the production, consumption, and stylistic development of music. Nevertheless, many of the radical departures in American music were contingent upon the contributions of a small group of inter-connected musical equipment manufacturers and musicians in California from the 1940s through the 1960s. As the United States experienced dramatic changes during the awesome postwar boom, Californian artists, merchants, and equipment makers exploited opportunities, making the Golden State the national trendsetter in musical developments both technological and stylistic. In particular, the invention, development, and further refinement of solid bodied electric guitars and basses in Southern California permanently changed how music would be made. The transformation of West Coast music would produce differing reactions nationally, while foreign developments would impact California, challenging its hegemony.
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Brennan, Matthew. "Down beats and rolling stones : an historical comparison of American jazz and rock journalism." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/222.
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Jazz and rock have been historically treated as separate musical traditions, despite having many similar musical and cultural characteristics, as well as sharing significant periods of interaction and overlap throughout popular music history. The rift between jazz and rock, and jazz and rock scholarship, is based on a set of received assumptions as to why jazz and rock are different. However, these assumptions are not naturally inherent to the two genres, but are instead the result of a discursive construction that defines them in contrast to one another. Furthermore, the roots of this discursive divide are to be found in the history of popular music journalism. In this thesis I challenge the traditional divide between jazz and rock by examining five historical case studies in American jazz and rock journalism. My underlying argument is that we cannot take for granted the fact that jazz and rock would ultimately become separate discourses: what are now represented as inevitable musical and cultural divergences between the two genres were actually constructed under very particular institutional and historical forces. There are other ways popular music history could have been written (and has been written) that call the oppositional representation of jazz and rock into question. The case studies focus on the two oldest surviving and most influential jazz and rock periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. I examine the role of critics in developing a distinction between the two genres that would eventually be reproduced in the academic scholarship of jazz and rock. I also demonstrate how the formation of jazz and rock as genres has been influenced by non-musicological factors, not least of all by music magazines as commercial institutions trying to survive and compete in the American press industry.
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Le, Cocq Jonathan. "French lute-song, 1529-1643." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a712369-836c-45e4-9f84-91045f297b3f.
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A study of French-texted solo songs and duets with lute or guitar accompaniment notated in tablature, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Connected repertoires include the Parisian chanson, psalm, voix de ville, dialogue, and air de cour. Sources are examined in terms of their background, composers represented in them, relationship to concordant and other musical sources, repertoire, and musical conception. Foreign and manuscript sources are included. Literary references indicating the status of sixteenth-century lute-song, its importance to humanists (including its role in the Académie de Poésie et de Musique), and its position in theatrical works, are considered. Issues of notation, musical and poetic form, prosody, rhythm, ornamentation, lute pitch and tuning, relationship to polyphonic versions, to the ballet de cour, to dance forms, and to solo instrumental styles such as stile brisé are examined. Early references to continuo practice and to the theorbo are noted. Several arguments are developed, including 1. that the sixteenth-century Le Roy publications were conceived primarily as solo lute music, 2. that from the late sixteenth-century onwards lute-songs were initially conceived as melody-bass outlines, and may to an extent be regarded as continuo realisations, and 3. that rhythmic features of the air de cour commonly related to the influence of musique mesurée may also be explained with reference to earlier attempts to adapt the voix de ville to humanist goals, and also to the influence of the Italian villanella. Includes tables and bibliographies. Musical examples, facsimiles, and transcriptions are included in a separate volume.
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Burns, Robert, and n/a. "Transforming folk : innovation and tradition in English folk-rock music." University of Otago. Department of Music, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080701.132922.
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From a mixed methodology perspective that includes ethnology, musicology and cultural anthropology, I argue that, despite initial detachment from folk revivalism, English folk-rock has moved closer to aspects of tradition and historical status and has embraced a revivalist stance similar to that of the folk revivals that occurred earlier in the twentieth century. Whereas revivalism often rejects manifestations of mass culture and modernity, I also argue that the early combinations of folk music and rock music demonstrated that aspects of preservation and commercialisation have always co-existed within this hybrid musical style. English folk-rock, a former progressive rock music style, has emerged in the post-punk era as a world music style that appeals to a broad spectrum of music fans and this audience does not regard issues such as maintenance of authenticity and tradition as key factors in the preservation process.
Rock music has remained a stimulus for further change in folk music and has enabled English folk-rock to become regarded as popular music by a new audience with diverse musical tastes. When folk music was adapted into rock settings, the result represented a particular identity for folk music at that time. In a similar way, as folk music continues to be amalgamated with rock and other popular music styles, or is performed in musical settings representing new cultures and ethnicities now present in the United Kingdom, it becomes updated and relevant to new audiences. From this perspective, I propose that growth in the popularity of British folk music since the early 1970s can be linked to its performance as English folk-rock, to its connections with culture and music industry marketing and promotion techniques, and to its inclusion as a 1990s festival component presented to audiences as part of what is promoted as world music. Popularity of folk music presented at world music festivals has stimulated significant growth in folk music audiences since the mid-1990s and consequently the UK is experiencing a new phase of revivalism - the third folk revival.
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Stafford, Andrew. "Pig city : from The Saints to Savage Garden." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004.
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She comes from Ireland, she's very beautiful
I come from Brisbane, and I'm quite plain Pig City
- The Go-Betweens, Lee Remick
If popular music really is a universal language, it's curious how easily a song - even a commercially obscure one - can come to symbolise a city's identity. The stories of
London, Liverpool, Manchester, Dunedin, Detroit, Memphis, Nashville, New York, New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle are inextricably entwined with the music made there. Robert Forster, however, could never have imagined that his self-deprecating paean to an actress would become so fabled in his home town.
This is understandable. Queensland's often stifling subtropical capital doesn't exactly spring to mind when discussing the world's great musical cities. Partly this comes down to Australian pop and rock's poor-relation status next to the United States and
the United Kingdom. Inside Australia, too, Brisbane for decades wore a provincial reputation as a big country town, at least in the southern capitals of Sydney and Melbourne.
Of course, one of the most successful bands in recording history began life in Brisbane in the late 1950s. But the Bee Gees didn't so much outgrow the city as outgrow Australia. Struggling for recognition, the Brothers Gibb began an exodus of musicians out of the country when they left for their native UK at the beginning of 1967, the year before a peanut fanner, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, took control of
Queensland's ruling Country Party (later the National Party).
The literature on Australian pop is only beginning to accumulate, so again it is understandable that Brisbane, so far, has rated little more than a footnote. The bigger problem is that the footnote has remained the same, recycled in various contexts by various authors: that music in Brisbane especially the punk scene of the late '70s -
was overwhelmingly a reaction to the repression of the Bjelke-Petersen era.
This is partly true. Bjelke-Petersen's rule of Queensland between 1968 and 1987 was nothing if not iron-fisted. Public displays of dissent were often brutally suppressed;
the rule of law was routinely bent to the will of those charged with its enforcement; minorities were treated as simply another obstacle on the path to development. To top
it all off, the electoral system was hopelessly rigged in favour of the incumbents. 'Here,' writes Rod McLeod, 'in a city practically under police curfew, you fucked and
fought, got stoned, got married, or got out of town.'
But it makes little sense to give a politician too much credit for the creation of a music scene. Major cultural movements result from an intersection of local, national and
international factors. The Saints were not so much a reaction to living in a police state as they were a response to the music of not just the Stooges and the MC5, but the Easybeats and the Missing Links. And it's doubtful the national success of a string of Brisbane acts in the '90s - from Powderfinger to George - could have happened
without the nationalisation of the Triple J network.
Of course, it would be naïve to suggest that growing up in a climate of fear and loathing did not heavily distort the prism through which these artists saw the world. As Saints guitarist Ed Kuepper says, 'I think the band was able to develop a more obnoxious demeanor, thanks to our surroundings, than had everyone been really nice.' In the words of Australian music historian Ian Mcfarlane, 'That Australia's most conservative city should give rise to such a seditious subcultural coterie is a sociological phenomenon yet to be fully explored.
This book is my attempt to document the substantial yet largely unsung contribution that Brisbane has made both to Australian popular culture and to international popular
music. In doing so, I aimed to chart the shifts in musical, political and cultural consciousness that have helped shape the city's history and identity. In its broadest
sense, Pig City is the story of how Brisbane grew up.
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Guy, Stephen. "The nature of community in the Newfoundland rock underground /." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81493.
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Twenty-five years of independent, underground, or punk rock music-making in St. John's, Newfoundland, have been defined by geographic isolation. In tracing a historical record of the small city's punk/indie scene, this project seeks to evaluate recent academic discussion surrounding the role of collectivity in artistic 'independence' and examine the impact of prevailing international aesthetics and changing communication technologies on local practice. The self-containment and self-sufficiency of the St. John's music community, largely the product of the city's isolated position on the extreme eastern tip of a large island off the east coast of North America, provide a unique backdrop against which to foreground a discussion of the distance between indie/punk rhetoric and reality. I contend that 'scene' in popular and academic use refers to the casual aggregation occasioned by similar interest and shared location, while 'community' hints at effort, co-operation and productive support.
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Welch, Chapman. "Tele using vernacular performance practices in an eight channel environment /." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2003. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20032/welch%5Fchapman/index.htm.
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Stanek, Mark C. "Guitar in the opera literature : a study of the instrument's use in opera during the 19th and 20th centuries." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1285408.
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This dissertation is a study of the use of guitar in opera. Ten operas were chosen from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century as a representative cross section of operas that use the guitar. The operas studied are: The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber, Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti, Beatrice and Benedict by Hector Berlioz, Otello and Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi, La vida breve by Manuel de Falla, The Nightingale by Igor Stravinsky, Wozzeck by Alban Berg, and Paul Bunyan by Benjamin Britten. The study examines the technical aspects of each guitar part and how the guitar relates to the libretto and to the other instruments of the orchestra.The study finds that, with some exceptions, the guitar parts are idiomatic and not difficult to execute. There is some need on the part of the guitarist to edit the parts for technical and historical reasons and editorial suggestions are made by the author. The guitar is often related to the libretto and often appears onstage, yet it is almost always used as a prop and the performing guitarist is placed offstage or in the orchestra pit. There are significant problems found concerning the guitar's lack of volume. Composers tend to limit the number of instruments in use with the guitar. They do not, however, tend to give the guitar louder dynamics when other instruments are used at the same time. The guitar is generally used in outdoor scenes, to evoke a folk idiom, or when specifically referred to in the libretto. The use of the guitar is found to be mostly limited to simple accompaniments which do not utilize the full resources of the instrument.School of Music
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Amelkina-Vera, Olga. "Solo lyra viol music of Tobias Hume (c. 1579-1645): Historical context and transcription for modern guitar." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9125/.
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The seventeenth century in England produced a large and historically significant body of music for the viola da gamba played "lyra-way." Broadly defined, playing "lyra-way" on the viol meant playing from tablature notation in a polyphonic style. Most players of plucked strings such as lute and guitar are familiar with tablature and, as a result, have a decisive advantage when attempting to explore this music. Other factors that make lyra viol repertory potentially attractive to the modern guitarist are its chordal textures, similarities in physical properties of the instruments, and many points of connection regarding the principles of left hand technique. The purpose of this study is two-fold: 1) to illuminate the historical and cultural context of the seventeenth-century English lyra viol music in general and that of Tobias Hume (c. 1579-1645) in particular; and 2) to present an idiomatic transcription for the modern guitar of four representative pieces from Hume's 1605 collection Musicall Humours. Musicall Humours, published in London in 1605, is one of the first and most significant collections of music for the lyra viol. The collection is both ambitious and groundbreaking, being the largest repertory of solo music for the lyra viol by a single composer in the early seventeenth century. Since the modern guitar, although not as contrapuntally facile as the keyboard, is nevertheless capable of executing two- or three-voice polyphony, reconstruction of the polyphonic implications of solo lyra viol music becomes the first step in creating an idiomatic arrangement. The differences in acoustical properties and technical capabilities between the viol and the modern guitar have to be taken into consideration when deciding on the degree to which harmony must be filled in. Generally, thinner textures of the lyra viol music, when transferred directly to the guitar, tend to sound incomplete. The arranger's musical sensitivity and intimate familiarity with both instruments must guide the final stages of the transcription process.
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Bozelka, Kevin John. ""Getting beyond" : SPIN magazine in the late 1980s." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82688.
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The Eighties were a time in Western popular music that seemed to exist only by virtue of it coming after something else---namely, the 1960s counterculture and the punk rock of the 1970s. Inheriting both the failure of permanent cultural revolution and the intense cynicism that is punk's strongest legacy, youth cultures in the 1980s found it increasingly difficult to live in the present. This thesis labels this historical dilemma postmodern. It will show how SPIN magazine attempted to move past this dilemma in order to assert a unique identity for 1980s popular music and youth cultures. In particular, John Leland, a columnist for SPIN, appropriated a pop aesthetic as an identity marker and, in the process, questioned the supposed ineffectiveness of pop music for a political postmodernism. An analysis of Leland's writing uncovers what accounts of this era tend to ignore: the social function of postmodernism.
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Dymock, Laura. "No compromise with their society : the politics of anarchy in anarcho-punk, 1977-1985." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101878.
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In order to analyze the relationship of punk to anarchy, this thesis will investigate the discursive function of "anarchy" both in contemporaneous accounts of punk and in subsequent histories. Beginning with the genesis of British punk and the first references to anarchy in different media during the late 1970s, subsequent chapters focus on the seminally influential anarcho-punk band Crass in order to discern their impact on the evolution of the anarcho-punk genre and its relationship to anarchism up through the mid-1980s. Several other anarcho-punk bands will also be considered for their contributions to this genre. In addition to providing an in-depth study of anarcho-punk, which has been largely ignored by scholars, the present work seeks to enhance understanding of the role of anarchy in punk discourse and hopes to offer a starting point for analysing recent developments in other politicised subcultures.
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王湖. "沉悶的聲音 : 中國搖滾樂的情感政治 = Sounds of boredom : the affective politics of Chinese rock 'n' roll." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/621.
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Todd, Richard. "The Sarabandes from J. S. Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello: An Analysis and Interpretive Guide for the Modern Guitarist." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3606/.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to present a comparative analysis of the sarabandes from the six cello suites. Six individual analyses each address the following elements: harmonic reduction, the relationship between the large-scale harmonic and metrical structures, the melodic elaboration of the harmonic-metrical structure, and the type and prevalence of sarabande rhythm. A summary at the end of each analysis provides a cumulative comparison of the results. Knowledge gained from this exercise will provide insight into Bach's conception of the genre by identifying both those features that stylistically unify the sarabandes as well as those that make each unique. In addition, the author will demonstrate the relationship between analysis and interpretation, using the sixth sarabande as an example. This interpretive process will also take into account the idiomatic nature of the guitar.
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DiGiallonardo, Richard L. (Richard Lee). "Musical Borrowing: Referential Treatment in American Popular Music." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277911/.
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This thesis examines the relationships between popular contemporary musical styles and classic-era art music. Analysis of pop-rock songs, and their referential treatment in art rock, classical music, and society will be examined. Pop-rock musicians borrow from the masters of the past and from each other. Rock guitarists such as Eddie Van Halen employ a virtuosic technique suggestive of Liszt and Paganini. The group Rush borrowed freely from opera seria. Frank Zappa referenced contemporary musicians as well as classical techniques. Referential treatment in popular music and the recent advancements in technology, have challenged copyright law. How these treatments and technologies affect copyright legislators and musicians will be discussed.
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Klopper, Annie Elizabeth. "Die opkoms van Afrikaanse rock en die literêre status van lirieke, met spesifieke verwysing na Fokofpolisiekar." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2201.
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Thesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.The aim of this study is to examine the rise of Afrikaans rock music and the literary status of Afrikaans rock lyrics, with Fokofpolisiekar as example. An investigation is done into how the specific sociopolitical context within which Afrikaans rock music developed manifests in lyrics and musical style. The implications of Afrikaans rock with regards to the identity of Afrikaner youth in the new millennium are also explored. A case study of the Afrikaans punk rock group Fokofpolisiekar is done by way of demonstration of this interdisciplinary and contextual investigation. Not only the formation and impact of the group are examined, but a considerable section of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of this group’s lyrics, which are viewed and explored from a literary point of view. In this process certain questions regarding the position of lyrics in the Afrikaans literary system comes under scrutiny. The analysis and interpretation of the lyrics of Fokofpolisiekar are therefore aimed towards examining the literary status of this group’s lyrics. It will be proved that the sociopolitical context within which Fokofpolisiekar’s lyrics came to be formulated, impacted on the character and themes thereof. The thematic struggle with issues like liberation (redemption) and identity in the lyrics are shown to bear relation to the sociopolitical context of the Afrikaner youth after the Afrikaner’s loss of power in 1994 and the postmodern condition at the turn of the millennium. This postmodern condition is characterized by the continuing fragmentation of identity. The conclusion is made that Afrikaans popular music sets up a space within which new ideas with regards to ‘truths’ of identity can be formulated. In other words, the punk rock music of Fokofpolisiekar offers an opportunity for the re-articulation of Afrikaner identity. By incorporating the polysistem theory (and other relevant theories) in investigating the creation and reception of Fokofpolisiekar’s lyrics, it is shown that the Afrikaans literary system holds a place for Afrikaans lyrics. Although similar, lyrics should not be regarded as synonymous to poetry. Seeing that the creation and reception thereof differs from that of other literary forms, I argue that lyrics are lyrics and should be regarded as such in order for it to come to its full right in literary study.
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Kearney, Meghan Andrea. "Every Town Is All the Same When You've Left Your Heart in the Portland Rain: Representations of Portland Place and Local Identity in Portland Popular Lyrics." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1489.
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This study looks at how place and local identity of Portland are described within music lyrics from Portland, Oregon popular indie-rock artists. Employing a constant comparative analysis on a set of 1,201 songs from 21 different popular Portland indie-rock artists, the themes of landscapes and climate were found to represent place, and themes of lifestyles and attitudes represented local identity. Reviewing the uncovered themes showed a strong connection between representations of place and local identity within lyrics and common stereotypes or understandings of the city of Portland and its indie-rock music scene. The results of this study illustrate how place and local identity are communicated through popular but locally-tied music lyrics and how these lyrics may describe cities.
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Pierce, Justin. "A Performance Guide to David Kechley's "In the Dragon's Garden" with an Investigation of the Saxophone-Guitar Duo Genre." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609135/.
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American composer David Kechley was profoundly impacted by a 1990 trip to the Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto, Japan. The composer describes the finely raked, small white stones in the midst of fifteen large rocks in the Japanese Zen garden as "planned randomness." Kechley's inaugural composition for saxophone-guitar duo, In the Dragon's Garden, reflects his experience at the Ryoan-ji Temple. The use of minimalistic compositional techniques without literal repetition in the work represents a departure from the first generation of Minimalist composers, such as LaMonte Young, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, and John Adams. An analysis of minimalistic compositional elements, combined with an interview with the commissioning ensemble, the Ryoanji Duo, provides insights into the interpretation and preparation of this complex work. Furthermore, this document contains helpful information pertinent to the saxophone-guitar duo. Details on balance and amplification, orchestration, and collaboration with the composer will supply performers and composers with essential knowledge needed to participate in this growing musical medium.
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Feitosa, Therence Santiago Alves. "O pop rock brasileiro nos anos de 1980: mídia, produção de sentidos e a representação de uma geração." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21392.
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The present investigation focuses on analyzing some songs produced in the 1980s by the bands Legião Urbana, Titãs, Barão Vermelho and Engineers of Hawaii. The research, through the lenses of pop rock, presents discussions about some cultural, social and political scenarios that were part of Brazil at that time. The idea is to develop "certain cartographies" of the period, from analyzes of the internal structures and contents of the lyrics of these songs. The thesis intends to show the pop rock of the 1980s, as a translating instrument in relation to what some young people (rockers) lived at the time. A part of the Brazilian media of that moment "discovered" this "new" phenomenon and dedicated itself to divulge this musical genre (BASTOS, 2005). The 1980s in Brazil were presented as a period of clear transition, since in that decade a military dictatorship that lasted approximately 20 years ended (RAMOS, 2010). In the music scene a genre gained strength, voice and form: pop rock. As a hypothesis it is possible to argue that it is precisely in the cultural spheres that symbolically the daily relations are configured (LÓTMAN, 1981), that is, in day-to-day practices, space is opened for representations, as well as for the construction of series of languages. According to Lótman (1978), every artistic work is within its own context of producing subjectivity. Barbero (2013) advocates communication as a process, therefore, it is understood that the communicative nature happens in a fluid way, in constant and intertwined movements that transpose in the scope of culture. At that moment there were several dialogues between media, artists and the public, this took place in miniature movements that approached subjects of culture, objects of culture and nature / environment. In this thesis, it is intended to propose how the context of the songs were related to certain processes of exploitation of the different materials of the culture available in Brazil. As theoretical foundation, research of a qualitative nature is mainly used as references of the semiotics of culture, communication and anthropology
A presente investigação se concentra em analisar algumas canções produzidas nos anos de 1980 pelas bandas Legião Urbana, Titãs, Barão Vermelho e Engenheiros do Havaí. A pesquisa, através das lentes do pop rock, apresenta discussões sobre alguns cenários culturais, sociais e políticos que faziam parte do Brasil naquela época. A ideia é desenvolver “certas cartografias” do período, a partir de análises das estruturas internas e dos conteúdos das letras dessas canções. A tese possui a intenção de mostrar o pop rock da década de 1980, como um instrumento tradutório em relação ao que viviam alguns jovens (roqueiros) na ocasião. Uma parte da mídia brasileira daquele momento “descobriu” esse “novo” fenômeno e dedicou-se a divulgar esse gênero musical (BASTOS, 2005). Os anos de 1980 no Brasil se apresentaram como um período de clara transição, pois nessa década acabava uma ditadura militar que havia durado aproximadamente 20 anos (RAMOS, 2010). No cenário musical um gênero ganhava força, voz e forma: o pop rock. Enquanto hipóteses é possível defender que é justamente nas esferas culturais que simbolicamente as relações cotidianas são configuradas (LÓTMAN, 1981), ou seja, nas práticas do dia a dia é que se abre espaço para as representações, bem como para a construção de séries de linguagens. Segundo Lótman (1978), toda obra artística está dentro do seu próprio contexto de produção de subjetividade. Barbero (2013) defende a comunicação como processo, portanto, entende-se que a natureza comunicativa acontece de maneira fluída, em constantes e entrelaçados movimentos que transitam no âmbito da cultura. Naquele momento ocorreram diversos diálogos entre mídias, artistas e público, isso se deu em movimentos miniaturais que aproximaram sujeitos da cultura, objetos da cultura e natureza/ambiente. Na referente tese é pretendido propor como as contexturas das canções estavam relacionadas a certos processos de aproveitamento dos diversos materiais da cultura disponíveis no Brasil. Enquanto fundamentação teórica, a pesquisa de natureza qualitativa serve-se principalmente de referências da semiótica da cultura, comunicação e da antropologia
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Gavito, Cory Michael. "Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto scherzo and the climate of Venetian popular music in the 1620s." Thesis, view full-text document, 2001. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20012/gavito%5Fcory/index.htm.
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Akers, Mary Elizabeth. "A cultural studies analysis of the Christian women vocalists movement from the 1980's to 2000: Influences, stars and lyrical meaning making." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3266.
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This study examines popular female Christian vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s, their images and their contemporary Christian music (CCM) lyrics. This literature illustrates how music becomes popular, and also how it becomes a powerful source of communication, which prompts popular culture and society to buy into its style and lyrics. The implications of this study illustrates the importance of image and lyrics and how certain female CCM vocalists had greater influences, impact and had the ability to make changes within their female audiences towards Christianity.
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Souza, Gisele da Silva. "“Somos quem podemos ser”: Engenheiros do Hawaii - jovens, rock, sensibilidades e experiências urbanas (1985-2003)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21533.
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This dissertation investigates the work of Engenheiros do Hawaii and the emergence of the generation of young people in the 1980s, leading to a discussion on rock and issues involving the young at this time. The research was developed from songs and analysis of the covers of the 18 official discs of the group, in which we can observe various themes, among them the youth and the city. The analysis is organized in three moments. In the first one, he recovers the trajectory of rock, its arrival in Brazil and the formation of the rock generation of the 1980s, as well as marketing issues, cultural circularity and social and political criticism in the songs of Engenheiros do Hawaii observing the tensions experienced in the country during this period. Thereafter, discussions about the cities and the youth are incorporated, bringing representations such as the flâneur, dândi, nihilism, existentialism, experiences of urban violence representations such as the flâneur, dândi, nihilism, existentialism, experiences of urban violence generating fear, insecurity, solitude and anguish. Including also the existential yearnings of the young, their discouragement and the issue of consumption, either alcohol or drugs, attempts to face pain and regrets, forget loves and void relationships. Other issues addressed are the concerns about the expansion of technology, its physical and social impacts, hopelessness in the face of wars and violence
Esta dissertação investiga a obra dos Engenheiros do Hawaii e o surgimento da geração de jovens nos anos 1980, realizando uma discussão sobre o rock e as questões que envolviam os jovens nesse momento. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir de canções e da análise das capas dos 18 discos oficiais do grupo, nas quais é possível observar diversas temáticas, entre elas a juventude e a cidade. A análise encontra-se organizada em três momentos. No primeiro, recupera a trajetória do rock, sua chegada ao Brasil e a formação da geração roqueira dos anos 1980, assim como as questões mercadológicas, circularidade cultural e a crítica social e política presente nas canções dos Engenheiros do Hawaii, observando tensões vivenciadas no país nesse período. Na sequência, incorporam-se as discussões acerca das cidades e da juventude, trazendo representações como o flâneur, dândi, niilismo, existencialismo, experiências de violência urbana, gerando medo, insegurança, solidão e angústia. Incluindo também os anseios existenciais dos jovens, seus desalentos e a questão do consumo do álcool e de drogas, as tentativas de enfrentar as dores e mágoas, esquecer amores e relações vazias. Outras questões abordadas são as inquietudes frente à expansão da tecnologia, seus impactos físicos e sociais, a desesperança frente às guerras e à violência
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Crossley, Jonathan Mark. "The cyber-guitar system: a study in technologically enabled performance practice." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25212.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 2017This thesis documents the development and realisation of an augmented instrument, expressed through the processes of artistic practice as research. The research project set out to extend my own creative practice on the guitar by technologically enabling and extending the instrument. This process was supported by a number of creative outcomes (performances, compositions and recordings), running parallel to the interrogation of theoretical areas emerging out of the research. In the introduction I present a timeline for the project and situate the work in the field of artistic practice as research, explaining relationship between the traditional and creative practices. Following on from this chapter one, Notation, Improvisation and the Cyber-Guitar System discusses the impact of notation on my own education as a musician, unpacking how the nature of notation impacted on improvisation both historically and within my own creative work. Analysis of fields such as graphic notation led to the creation of the composition Hymnus Caesus Obcessiones, a central work in this research. In chapter two, Noise, Music and the Creative Boundary I consider the boundary and relationship between noise and music, beginning with the futurist composer Luigi Russolo. The construction of the augmented instrument was informed by this boundary and aimed to bring the lens onto this in my own practice, recognising what I have termed the ephemeral noise boundary. I argue that the boundary line between them yields the most fertile place of sonic and technological engagement. Chapter three focuses on the instrumental development and a new understanding of organology. It locates an understanding of the position of the musical instrument historically with reference to the values emerging from the studies of notation and noise. It also considers the impacts of technology and gestural interfacing. Chapter four documents the physical process of designing and building the guitar. Included in the Appendix are three CDs and a live DVD of the various performances undertaken across the years of research.
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"Three case studies of "Chineseness" in Chinese rock." 2013. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5549328.
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如果將崔健的專輯《新長征路上的搖滾》視為中國搖滾樂的正式開端，中國搖滾樂儼然已有近三十年的歷史。作為一種西方另類文化產品的追隨者，中國搖滾樂並沒有簡單複製西方搖滾樂史；作為一種流行次文化現象，中國搖滾樂生動地反映和再現着中國社會的面貌及其歷史變遷，而這一在中國文化語境下的反映和再現則正是中國搖滾樂作為一種風格的原創性所在。本文試圖探討中國搖滾樂中的「中國元素」。為了能夠縱觀這三十年的歷史，筆者特意挑選崔健、唐朝樂隊、二手玫瑰樂隊作為三個「十年」的突出代表來進行考察。作為中國搖滾樂的先驅者，在崔健的音樂作品中保留著一種「紅色情結」，一些革命年代的印記依舊會在他的歌曲中顯現；另外，崔健的一句「一無所有」喊出了那一代青年人的心聲，這種直白地表達在當時不自覺地帶有了一種比較嚴肅的政治含意，也因此使中國搖滾樂的命運同西方搖滾樂一樣，最先以一種反叛的不安分子形象示人；唐朝樂隊是中國搖滾樂「黃金時代」的代表，對中國古代輝煌歷史時期的追憶，加之重金屬音樂風格的衝擊力，使其再造了一個理想的中國陽剛之氣──「文武雙全」；創新性地將搖滾和東北二人轉風格元素相結合使二手玫瑰樂隊成為近期中國搖滾樂的一朵奇葩， 他們既娛樂又嚴肅的反諷風格豐富了中國搖滾樂的語匯。通過對這三例的並置對比，本文意在論證三十年間中國搖滾樂中的「中國性」在體現方式上的微妙變化以及其風格演變的過程。
Having a history of nearly thirty years, Chinese rock is not only a term that indicates a regional genre, but also a specific music style. Its originality lies in its intimate relation with the particular social and economic conditions of China. This thesis focuses on “Chineseness“ in Chinese rock, which covers musical characteristics, political identity, traditional and ancient culture and regional performing arts. In order to demonstrate its historical development, I choose and discuss three musical acts from each decade in Chinese rock history. They are Cui Jian in the 1980s, Tang Dynasty in the 1990s and Second Hand Rose after 2000.
Widely regarded as the forerunner of Chinese rock, Cui Jian’s music has a “red“ ideology; meanwhile, his brave expression of the inner youth voice of that generation also give Chinese rock a rebellious image from the very beginning. Tang Dynasty represents Chinese rock’s “golden age“. Through invoking a glorious period in China’s ancient history, they build an ideal Chinese masculinity in their style of heavy metal. Second Hand Rose innovatively absorbs elements from secular performing art in their music, criticizing new societal conditions in an ironic way. This thesis concludes with the view that the expression of “Chineseness in Chinese rock has been continually transforming throughout the decades, and those Chinese rock musicians’ attitudes toward an “ideal“ conceptualization of China have likewise also gradually changed.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Ren, Shaoren.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and discographies.
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Abstract --- p.ii
Table of Contents --- p.iv
List of Figures --- p.v
Chapter Chapter I --- Introduction --- p.1
Initial Research and Methodology --- p.2
Chinese Rock in Historical Context --- p.5
The “Chinese in Chinese Rock --- p.6
Literature Review --- p.9
Limits of This Study --- p.16
Thesis Outline --- p.17
Chapter Chapter II --- Cui Jian and Chinese Rock’s First On the New Long March --- p.19
Alternative Military Song on the New Long March --- p.20
“On a Stretch of Exhausted Earth, We Harvest Meager Hopes“ --- p.28
Chapter Chapter III --- Tang Dynasty and Chinese Masculinity --- p.39
China Calling for Heavy Metal --- p.40
Tang Dynasty and Chinese Masculinity --- p.43
Patriotism and Idealism --- p.57
Chapter Chapter IV --- Second Hand Rose and Ironic Aesthetic --- p.62
Spring Festival Gala and Twirling Duet --- p.64
Twirling Duet Rock --- p.68
“Big Bro, You’re Playing Rock, But What the Heck For?“ --- p.72
Chapter Chapter V --- Conclusion --- p.83
Maintaining Chineseness --- p.83
Shifting Styles of Chineseness and Understanding “Ideals“ --- p.86
Bibliography --- p.89
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Moon, Shinwon. ""A marginalized music?" : underground rock music culture in Seoul since the mid-1990s." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11755.
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Van, der Meulen Lindy. "From rock'n'roll to hard core punk : an introduction to rock music in Durban, 1963-1985." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5019.
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This thesis introduces the reader to rock music in Durban from
1963 to 1985, tracing the development of rock in Durban from
rock'n'roll to hard core punk. Although the thesis is
historically orientated, it also endeavours to show the
relationship of rock music in Durban to three central themes,
viz: the relationship of rock in Durban to the socio-political
realities of apartheid in South Africa; the role of women in
local rock, and the identity crisis experienced by white,
English-speaking South Africans. Each of these themes is explored
in a separate chapter, with Chapter Two providing the bulk of
historical data on which the remaining chapters are based.
Besides the important goal of documenting a forgotten and ignored
rock history, one central concern pervades this work. In every
chapter, the conclusions reached all point to the identity crisis
experienced both by South African rock audiences and the rock
musicians themselves. The constant hankering after international
(and specifically British) rock music trends both by audiences
and fans is symptomatic of a culture in crisis, and it is the
search for the reasons for this identity crisis that dominate
this work. The global/local debate and its relationship to rock
in South Africa has been a useful theoretical tool in the
unravelling of the identity crisis mentioned above.
Chapter Four focusses on the role of women in the Durban rock
scene and documents the difficulties experienced by women who
were rock musicians in Durban. This is a small contribution to
the increasing field of womens' studies, and I have attempted to
relate the role of women in rock in Durban to other studies in
this field.Thesis (M.Mus.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1995.
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"Hong Kong indie music in mediations: a study of cultural prosumer." 2005. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892372.
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Fung Chui Bik.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 1-7 (3rd gp.)).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Introduction --- p.1
Chapter Chapter One: --- Literature Review --- p.5
Chapter Chapter Two: --- Methodology --- p.23
Chapter Chapter Three: --- Historical Background
Chapter 3.1 --- The emerging of Indie music in Hong Kong --- p.26
Chapter 3.2 --- New wave of DIY --- p.31
Chapter Chapter Four: --- The Mediations & Active Prosumers --- p.38
Chapter 4.1 --- The Mediations of Producers-consumers --- p.40
Chapter 4.2 --- The Mediations of Professional-consumers --- p.52
Chapter 4.3 --- The Mediations of Media workers --- p.62
Chapter Chapter Five: --- Different Modes of Indie Prosuming --- p.70
Chapter 5.1 --- Disciple --- p.73
Chapter 5.2 --- Practitioner --- p.77
Chapter 5.3 --- Critical Prosumer --- p.83
Chapter Chapter Six: --- Conclusion一 A New Indie Culture --- p.86
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"Rock music and the morals and values of teenagers : a Christian perspective." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12680.
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M.Ed. (Education)During the last two decades there has been a definite lowering of moral standards among the children of the West. This also pertains to the youth in South Africa. Among the many influences the child experiences in society, rock music, with its themes of sex, drugs, satanism, rebellion, materialism, secular humanism, suicide, nihilism, hedonism, blasphemy and profanity is possibly the most negative. Add to the above-mentioned, subliminal mind control and backward masking and it becomes clear why the Christian educator and the Christian parent must address the problem of rock and roll. Furthermore, rock music has directly or indirectly been responsible for much of the anti-social behaviour of present day youth. Tragically, modern day society is responsible for promoting the rock culture (with the help of modern technology), by making available to the youth of today records, videos and magazines, without realising the spiritual and moral damage they are causing. The modern day music entrepreneur has motives that are not honourable and not Christian as it is m?ney that makes the music go around. A very extensive literature study confirmed the above. As norms and values differ from culture to culture, the Christian norm was chosen as the irrevocable absolute norm rooted in the Word of God, to judge the morals upheld by the propagators of rock and roll. On the basis of the literature study done, an empirical investigation, formulating items obtained from the study for inclusion in the questionnaire, was conducted. The sample consisted of English speaking boys and girls in standard 7 and standard 9 from four high schools on the near East Rand. Cluster sampling was done by randomly selecting a class group from each of the standard 7 and standard 9 class groups of the four high schools concerned...
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Salmon, Shawn M. "Imitation, assimilation and innovation : Charlie Christian’s influence on Wes Montgomery’s improvisational style in his early recordings (1957-1960)." 2011. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1660957.
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Much of guitarist Wes Montgomery’s study of jazz improvisation came from imitating Charlie Christian’s guitar solos. The purpose of this study is to identify and examine significant improvisational traits that Wes Montgomery developed as a direct result of his imitation and assimilation of Charlie Christian. The dissertation investigates the musical traditions in Christian’s playing that were absorbed into Montgomery’s playing and how Montgomery was able to use these traits to foster new musical traditions.
The solo transcriptions are limited to Montgomery’s early recordings between 1957 and
ending with his 1960 album The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery. The study
also examines the relationship imitation has with creativity in jazz and how originality is
influenced by the past.
The dissertation examines the two guitarists’ use of five harmonic and melodic
devices over dominant harmonies: scales, arpeggios, use of chromatic pitches, formulas
and enclosures, and harmonic substitutions. The study focuses on how Montgomery’s
melodic and harmonic treatment of dominant harmonies has been influenced by his imitation and assimilation of Christian’s improvisations. The study examines how Montgomery differentiated himself in his improvisations from Christian’s. A strong emphasis is given to the significance of these differences and how these differences are
connected to Montgomery’s originality and innovation. This dissertation confirms that
Montgomery’s innovation was strongly linked to his imitation of Charlie Christian. It
also suggests that devotion to the imitation of past artists is needed in developing an
original voice in jazz.Biographical history and musical development of Charlie Christian -- Biographical history and musical development of Wes Montgomery -- Stylistic traits of Charlie Christian over dominant-seventh harmonies -- Stylistic traits of Wes Montgomery influenced by Charlie Christian -- Conclusion.
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Nell, Wendy Desre. "Afrikaanse liedtekste in konteks : die liedtekste van Bok van Blerk, Fokofpolisiekar, the Buckfever Underground en Karen Zoid." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18832.
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Text in AfrikaansDie doel van hierdie studie is om op die liedtekste van die kunstenaars, Bok van Blerk, Fokofpolisiekar, The Buckfever Underground (en Toast Coetzer) en Karen Zoid te fokus en om te bepaal wat hulle funksie in die eietydse Afrikaanse kultuurlandskap is, en wat hulle rol in die definiëring van kulturele identiteit is. In hierdie studie sal daar ook klem gelê word op die sosiopolitieke faktore wat tot die opbloei van die Afrikaanse musiekbedryf gelei het. Deur die analise van dié kunstenaars se lirieke, sal ek vasstel of hulle wel betekenisvolle werk van literêre gehalte lewer. Ek het spesifiek hierdie musikante gekies omdat hulle jong eietydse musikante is.
The purpose of this study is to focus on the song texts of artists, Karen Zoid, Fokofpolisiekar, The Buckfever Underground (and Toast Coetzer) and Bok van Blerk and to determine their function in today’s cultural reality, and whether these musicians and their music have an influence on today’s youth and their search for a Cultural Identity. This study will also focus on the socio-political factors that led to the rise of the Afrikaans Music Industry. By analyzing these artists’ lyrics, I want to determine whether they are significant works of literary quality. These musicians were chosen because they are regarded as young contemporary musicians.
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Ehlebracht, Simon. "Lobpreis- und Anbetungslieder: eine kritisch-wurdigende Analyse der aktuellen Hillsong-Lieder." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25694.
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Abstract in German and EnglishDie Masterarbeit untersucht die 20 meist gespielten Hillsong-Lieder aus dem Jahre 2016 in Deutschland. Untersuchte Aspekte sind die Hauptthemen der Liedtexte, die Sänger- / Adressat-Perspektive, die Einordnung in das gesamtbiblische Narrativ sowie die Funktionen der Lieder innerhalb des Gottesdienstes. Anhand dieser Aspekte wird der Kritik, die an die Lieder gerichtet wird, begegnet. Kritisiert wird unter anderem die theologische Substanzlosigkeit der Lieder, das verzerrte Gottesbild, fehlende Themen wie Leid, Klage, Soziale Gerechtigkeit oder die Fokussierung auf das Individuum anstatt auf Gott. Die Arbeit weist nach, dass die Kritik an mangelndem Inhalt erechtfertigt ist. Die Lieder kommunizieren darüber hinaus ein einseitiges Gottesbild, das Jesus im Fokus hat. Es wird dargestellt, dass die Themen Leid, Klage und Soziale Gerechtigkeit unterrepräsentiert sind. Auf der grammatikalischen Ebene weisen die Lieder einen starken Fokus auf das Individuum auf. Durch die Untersuchung der Funktionen wird jedoch gezeigt, dass die meisten Lieder trotz einer Ich-Perspektive stark gemeinschaftsstiftend sind. Das liegt vor allem an der koinonialen Funktionen sowie der Kombinationen von diakonischer und seelsorgerlicher Funktion mancher Lieder. Neben diesen Funktionen übernehmen die Lieder oft noch die kerygmatische, missionarische und pädagogische Funktion.
The master thesis examines the 20 most played Hillsong songs from 2016 in Germany. Aspects examined are the main themes of the lyrics, the singer-/ addressee perspective, the classification into the biblical narrative as well as the functions of the songs within the worship service. Based on these aspects, the criticism directed at the songs is met. Criticized are, among other things, the theological lack of substance of the songs, the distorted image of God, missing topics like suffering, lamentation, social justice or the focus on the individual instead of God. The work proves that the criticism of lack of content is justified. In addition, the songs communicate a one-sided image of God that strongly focuses on Jesus as an addressee. It shows that the issues of suffering, lamentation and social justice are nderrepresented. On the grammatical level, the songs have a strong focus on the individual. Examining the functions, however, shows that most of the songs, despite a first-person perspective, are strongly community-building. This is mainly due to the koinonial function and the combinations of diaconal and pastoral function of some songs. In addition to these functions, the songs often take on the kerygmatic, missionary and pedagogical function.
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Sadlier, Richard J. "The PR of the U.K. invasion : a historical case study of the Beatles' 1964 U.S. tour." 2012. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1678829.
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This study examines the public relations efforts surrounding the popular music group the Beatles’ first United States tour in February of 1964. The evidence, acquired through the composition of a thorough case study of events, suggests that a combination of factors is responsible for their unprecedented international success: the group’s innate talent (both in terms of their craft and their ability to interact with key and intercessory publics); cultivation and maintenance of a specifically-designed image emphasizing their physical appearance, musicianship, wit, and working class background; understanding by the group’s management of the necessity of record label and major media support; the expert knowledge by said management of the media landscape, publicity opportunities, and a keen sense of appropriate timing by which significant publicity is attained.Department of Journalism