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Electronics And The Music Of Miles Davis, Darren E. Shekailo
Electronics And The Music Of Miles Davis, Darren E. Shekailo
Theses and Dissertations
Miles Davis produced a wealth of music relying on the use of electronic instruments and new technology. With their adoption, the famous trumpeter began his “electric” period. Examining the electric period of Davis’s career helps us trace the profound impact of electronic instruments and technological advances on his music.
The Musicality Of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
The Musicality Of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This work analyzes the musical knowledge and aesthetics acquired by improvisatory social salsa dancers who hone close listening skills through corporeal means. The connections that these dancers construct between music, self, and partner make evident an engagement with musicality that can be seen through their demonstration of kinesthetic entrainment, structural feeling of hypermetric conventions, and enactment of expressive microtiming within beat and metric structures. I introduce the concept of timespace to explain how dancers manipulate this physiological experience to create different feelings in a dance, addressing issues that dancers raised in our feedback interviews such as feel, flow, and play. …