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Exploring Sri Lankan Youth Culture: Promoting An Understanding Of Coping Strategies And Their Implications For Counselling Practice, Nisha Mehta
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This study explored the interpersonal challenges and ways of coping utilized by Sri Lankan youth. Participants included 1.5 generation youth aged 14-20 residing in a large Canadian city. All of the participants identified as Tamil, and either their parents or they themselves were bom in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has been in a state of civil unrest with ethnic conflict for several years and some participants had been exposed to large scale community violence before coming to Canada. A total of 12 semi-structured interviews organized around interpersonal challenges faced and ways of coping in the contexts of home, peers and …
Sound, Rhetoric, And The Fallacy Of Fidelity In Recorded Popular Music: Toward A Critical Approach To Timbrat Analysis, Kara-Lis Coverdale
Sound, Rhetoric, And The Fallacy Of Fidelity In Recorded Popular Music: Toward A Critical Approach To Timbrat Analysis, Kara-Lis Coverdale
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This thesis explores rhetorical and sonic manifestations of realism in recorded popular music from the acoustic era onwards. With reference to timbre, I investigate the commercial origins of fidelity, and describe, through various examples in history where arguments over what is “real” or is not “real” arise most articulately, how those records were made. By addressing the sounds themselves, I address how fidelity∕realism is a fluid standard that guides and shapes modes of aesthetic record production and consumption. I demonstrate how rhetorical analysis is useful for identifying ideologically maintained understandings of recorded sounds, but maintain that if musicologists are to …