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Exploring Trauma, Healing, And Accountability Through Music, Mieke Johanna Doezema Oct 2019

Exploring Trauma, Healing, And Accountability Through Music, Mieke Johanna Doezema

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

My composition recital and honors project involved compositional works that I wrote to explore trauma, healing, and accountability in cases of sexual violence through music with guest speakers Tracey Pyscher and DVSAS.


Analysis And Utilization Of Hip-Hop Techniques In Classical Music, William Francis Montgomery May 2019

Analysis And Utilization Of Hip-Hop Techniques In Classical Music, William Francis Montgomery

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

As of January 4th, 2018, R&B/Hip-Hop (including rap) had overtaken rock and roll as the most popular genre among music fans. Nielsen Music reported that rap had surpassed rock in terms of total consumption with rappers such as Drake and Kendrick Lamar leading the charge. This would lead to the second-highest growth of any genre of music, spiking at 25% over the previous year.[1] This came as a very big surprise to many, especially when we take into consideration the rocky at best relationship that rap has had with public perception.

There are many misconceptions and …