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The Diy Ethic In Richmond, Virginia’S Underground Music Community, Calvin Sloan
The Diy Ethic In Richmond, Virginia’S Underground Music Community, Calvin Sloan
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This project seeks to examine Richmond, Virginia’s underground music community through the analytical perspective of sociocultural anthropology. I argue that Richmond’s underground music community is guided by a governing ideology I refer to as the “DIY ethic”. The application of the DIY (Do It Yourself) ethic helps to explain the community’s unique practices, including moshing and the formation of new, niche genres. This ethnographic approach includes interviews with community members and my own firsthand observations of music venues and other subcultural spaces. This research is part of my undergraduate honors project at the College of William & Mary.
“Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage:” Theology In The Organ Music Of Paul Manz, Justin Oei
“Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage:” Theology In The Organ Music Of Paul Manz, Justin Oei
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Through an investigation of the organ music of the American composer Paul Manz (1919-2009), this study will seek to link sacred music with the composer’s theological convictions, as well as with external circumstances that inform compositional practices. Manz’s organ works are widely performed in church and concert settings, especially in the American Lutheran tradition, and his motet E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come has become a staple of the sacred choral repertoire, selling over a million copies since its publication in 1954. Despite this, very little scholarship has been produced on his life and work. Broadly, this provides an avenue …
An Examination Of High School Music Course Offerings In Virginia: A Mixed Methods Study, Natalia Goodloe
An Examination Of High School Music Course Offerings In Virginia: A Mixed Methods Study, Natalia Goodloe
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
High school music education is not mandated by the Standards of Quality, the Virginia state educational law, and courses offered on the high school level vary among Virginia school divisions. This explanatory mixed methods dissertation study provides an overview of history of development of high school music education in Virginia, reveals what high school music courses currently offered in Virginia school divisions (N = 131), and surveys approaches to development of programs of studies of a representative sample of Virginia school divisions (n = 14). The study generated three major findings. First, 29 various courses are offered among Virginia school …
Theology In African American Spirituals And White Protestant Hymnody: A Comparative Study, Justin Oei
Theology In African American Spirituals And White Protestant Hymnody: A Comparative Study, Justin Oei
Undergraduate Research Awards
"The spiritual is one of the most significant windows into the religious experiences of Black Americans. This paper will analyze the theological content of the spiritual, and 19th/20thcentury Black religious practice more broadly, alongside that of contemporary white Protestant hymnody. Fundamentally, the African American Christian experience is based around the promise of liberation from oppression by the Messiah; it seeks justice for the downtrodden and a Kingdom of God based on equity.
I posit that, through a comparative analysis of selected Black spirituals and contemporaneous white hymnody, the spiritual’s theological content will be more focused on liberation as expressed through …
The Music Of Neoliberalism: “Only You” In Roger King’S A Girl From Zanzibar, R. Benedito Ferrão
The Music Of Neoliberalism: “Only You” In Roger King’S A Girl From Zanzibar, R. Benedito Ferrão
Arts & Sciences Articles
Excerpt from the article:
"Marcella D’Souza arrives in England from Zanzibar with a vision. The Goan-Arab protagonist of Roger King’s A Girl from Zanzibar dreams of herself upstairs in “a fashionable London house..."
Dame Ethel Smyth And The Prison: Gender, Sexuality, And The "Bonds Of Self", Mary Shannon
Dame Ethel Smyth And The Prison: Gender, Sexuality, And The "Bonds Of Self", Mary Shannon
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This research investigates the use of personal gender and sexuality references in Ethel Smyth’s composition The Prison. Smyth’s last major work, The Prison (1929-1930), is a choral symphony that follows a dialogue between a Prisoner and his Soul as the Prisoner works to understand his own mortality and accept death. This study explores the question: How does Ethel Smyth use intertextuality, the subversion of expectations, and the idea of the “bonds of self” in The Prison to position the work within her gender and sexuality experiences? A focus is placed on the sociolinguistic notions of identity and desire, seeking to …
“‘É De Acordo Com A Música’: Descentralizando O Ritmo Através Da Análise Melódica Do Samba No Recôncavo Baiano”, Michael Iyanaga
“‘É De Acordo Com A Música’: Descentralizando O Ritmo Através Da Análise Melódica Do Samba No Recôncavo Baiano”, Michael Iyanaga
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
No abstract provided.
Call And Response: Sem President’S Roundtable 2016, “Ethnomusicological Responses To The Contemporary Dynamics Of Migrants And Refugees”, Anne K. Rasmussen, Angela Impey, Rachel B. Willson, Ozan Aksoy, Et Al.
Call And Response: Sem President’S Roundtable 2016, “Ethnomusicological Responses To The Contemporary Dynamics Of Migrants And Refugees”, Anne K. Rasmussen, Angela Impey, Rachel B. Willson, Ozan Aksoy, Et Al.
Arts & Sciences Articles
"The privilege of organizing the SEM President’s Roundtable in 2016 and 2017 provided an opportunity to call attention to a topic that has concerned my teaching and research since graduate school. For the first iteration of “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees” I convened a panel of people whose perspectives I admire. I wanted to learn from them, and I did. As someone who has been involved with Middle Eastern and more specifically Arab music and culture within my own academic and regional community, I was making new efforts in the fall of 2016 toward engaged …
Leitura De Partitura E Prática De Conjunto: A Formação De Uma Orquestra Brasileira No Cecult Ufrb, Michael Iyanaga, Fabrício Dalla Vecchia
Leitura De Partitura E Prática De Conjunto: A Formação De Uma Orquestra Brasileira No Cecult Ufrb, Michael Iyanaga, Fabrício Dalla Vecchia
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
No abstract provided.
2017-2018, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
Songsters And Film Scores: Civil War Music And American Memory, Ari Marie Weinberg
Songsters And Film Scores: Civil War Music And American Memory, Ari Marie Weinberg
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This thesis consists of two separate essays both concerned with affect, memory, and music of the Civil War. The first examines the production, use, and purpose of a booklet called The Soldier’s Friend, with an emphasis on the mission of its producer, the United States Sanitary Commission and the needs of the readers of the booklet. In addition, I highlight the explicit connections that the organization made in this document between health and music by bringing cultural and psychological theories to the study of music. While many scholars have emphasized the ubiquity and importance of music during the War (and …
Women Out Loud: Hearing Knowledge And The Creation Of Soundscape In Islamic Indonesia, Anne K. Rasmussen
Women Out Loud: Hearing Knowledge And The Creation Of Soundscape In Islamic Indonesia, Anne K. Rasmussen
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listening is the first step not only in translating sound into words but also in compassionate scholarship.
Rulan Chao Pian 卞赵如兰 (1922–2013), Emily E. Wilcox
Rulan Chao Pian 卞赵如兰 (1922–2013), Emily E. Wilcox
Arts & Sciences Articles
Rulan Chao Pian, who taught Chinese and music at Harvard University from 1947 to 1992, was a pioneer in the fields of Chinese Song dynasty musical history and ethnomusicological studies of Peking opera and Sinophone popular performance.
2015-2016, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
On Flogging The Dead Horse, Again: Historicity, Genealogy, And Objectivity In Richard Waterman's Approach To Music, Michael Iyanaga
On Flogging The Dead Horse, Again: Historicity, Genealogy, And Objectivity In Richard Waterman's Approach To Music, Michael Iyanaga
Arts & Sciences Articles
In a critical appraisal and expansion of the historical methodology championed by ethnomusicologist and anthropologist Richard Waterman, this essay reconsiders the historicity of musical performance and demonstrates ways in which treating ethnography genealogically may serve as a means of doing what Thomas Solomon calls “postcolonial music history.” This essay is broadly divided into three parts: a review of Waterman’s work, a theoretical revamping and an abbreviated case study taken from my own research on Catholic patron saint rituals in Bahia, Brazil.
"Members, Don't Git Weary": Max Roach, "Treme", And The Sound Of Resistance, Brian Edward Jones
"Members, Don't Git Weary": Max Roach, "Treme", And The Sound Of Resistance, Brian Edward Jones
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Apresentação Do Dossiê Música E Festa, Carlos Sandroni, Michael Iyanaga
Apresentação Do Dossiê Música E Festa, Carlos Sandroni, Michael Iyanaga
Arts & Sciences Articles
No abstract provided.
2014-2015, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
2013-2014, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
The Flap-O-Phone, A Site-Specific Turntable, Christopher Delaurenti
The Flap-O-Phone, A Site-Specific Turntable, Christopher Delaurenti
Articles
This article gives an overview of the author's site specific turntable, the flapophone. Supplemental attached files include images, audio, and video of the flapophone being played by the author.
2012-2013, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
Learning How To Listen': Analyzing Style And Meaning In The Music Of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone And Cassandra Wilson, Lashonda Katrice Barnett
Learning How To Listen': Analyzing Style And Meaning In The Music Of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone And Cassandra Wilson, Lashonda Katrice Barnett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Learning How to Listen': Analyzing Style and Meaning in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson examines the similarities of singing styles and core narrative traits in the original songs of three African American women vocalist-composers celebrated within the jazz idiom. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, including over 150 hours of personal interviews with musicians, attendance of jazz concerts and festivals both domestic and abroad, and a three-year listening journal (based on live performances and recordings), 'Learning How to Listen' is an Africana cultural studies product informed by vibrant multidisciplinary scholarship that bridges Jazz studies, Linguistics …
2011-2012, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’
Storyville: Discourses In Southern Musicians' Autobiographies, Matthew Daniel Sutton
Storyville: Discourses In Southern Musicians' Autobiographies, Matthew Daniel Sutton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study utilizes many of the tools of the literary critic to identify and analyze the discursive conventions in autobiographies by American vernacular musicians who came of age in the American South during the era of enforced racial segregation. Through this textual analysis, we can appreciate this seemingly amorphous collection of books as a continuing conversation, where descriptions of the South and its music by turns confirm, contradict, and complicate each other. Ultimately, the dozens of southern musician autobiographies published in the last fifty years engage in a valuable and revealing dialogue, creating a virtual "Storyville"; ostensibly disparate works share …
Setting The Scene, Anne K. Rasmussen
Setting The Scene, Anne K. Rasmussen
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and where an extraordinary diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also performed by women, flourishes. Based on unique and revealing ethnographic research beginning at the end of Suharto's “New Order” and continuing into the era of “Reformation,” the book considers the powerful role of music in the expression of religious nationalism. …