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Resonant Texts: The Politics Of Nineteenth-Century African American Music And Print Culture, Paul Fess
Resonant Texts: The Politics Of Nineteenth-Century African American Music And Print Culture, Paul Fess
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Resonant Texts: the Politics of Nineteenth-Century African American Music and Print Culture, investigates musical sound as a discursive tool African American writers and activists deployed to contest enslavement before the Civil War and claim citizenship after Emancipation. Traditionally, scholars have debated the degree to which nineteenth-century African American music constituted evidence of black culture and marked a persistent African orality that still abides within African American textual production. While these trends inform this project, my inquiry focuses on the ways that writers placed elements of musical sound—such as rhythm, melody, choral singing, and harmony—at the center of their …
Party On, Derrida!: A Queer, Deconstructionist Look At Wayne's World, Glam, And The Losers Of Rock And Roll, Michelle A. Arp
Party On, Derrida!: A Queer, Deconstructionist Look At Wayne's World, Glam, And The Losers Of Rock And Roll, Michelle A. Arp
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
What do you get when you mix a girl from Long Island, critical theory, a movie based on a Saturday Night Live sketch, David Bowie, and alternative rock of the early 2000s? A lot of losers, a lot of queerness, and plenty of room for deconstruction.
Part performance studies, part queer studies, and part memoir, this study is a cross-genre and experimental analysis of postmodern ideologies, rock and roll, and comedy. More specifically, I use Jacques Derrida’s notion of “the slash” (Of Grammatology, 1967) in relation to high and low culture via comedies, such that of Wayne’s World …
Undated Book Of Poetry, Songs, And Sheet Music, Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau
Undated Book Of Poetry, Songs, And Sheet Music, Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau
Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau
Undated book of poetry, songs, and sheet music written by Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau in French and English.
Songbook 2, Thérèse Laurendeau
Songbook 2, Thérèse Laurendeau
Thérèse Laurendeau
Songbook compiled by Thérèse Laurendeau, undated. Text in French.
Songbook 1, Thérèse Laurendeau
Songbook 1, Thérèse Laurendeau
Thérèse Laurendeau
Songbook compiled by Thérèse Laurendeau, undated. Text in French.