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Gamelan & Mental Health: Experiential Music Making In University Communities, Ethan Roger Rohl

Masters Theses

Gamelan ensembles in North American institutions, have served as a pedagogical tool in music curriculums since their initial proliferation abroad in 1960, with Mantle Hood’s (1960) concept of “bi-musicality” serving as the primary motivation. I argue that the usage of these ensembles needs to grow beyond the original pedagogical agenda that brought them here, and that universities and scholars should acknowledge the benefits these ensembles provide beyond Hood’s term of bi-musicality.

In recent years, the rapid decline in mental health, has constituted what some scholars call a crisis, or an epidemic of loneliness. This decline is especially present among millennials …

Relocating Community To The Virtual: Sound Knowledge, Affective Listening, And The (Dis)Embodying Of Sound And Space, Zachery D. Coffey

Masters Theses

Music within Protestant church communities frequently reduces the distinction between performers and audience, emphasizing the collective, participatory role of all congregation members, in manners of music making similar to those discussed by Thomas Turino. This dynamic helps establish individual and communal identities. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, church communities saw changes in their services, music, and ways of life. Meeting in a physical building proved impossible due to the dangers of COVID-19 and many churches mitigated these dangers by streaming, recording, and posting services online. Between 2020 and 2022, I observed and participated in changes to technological production …

Proactive Punk: Music's Agency In The Knoxville Punk Community, Paula Danielle Propst

Masters Theses

This ethnography investigates the collective identity of the Knoxville punk community. I argue that punk rock culture in Knoxville exists as a proactive open community, and frame the discussion with the psychoanalytical work of collective identity by Jacques Lacan, notions of discourse described by James Gee, as well as definitions of community explored by Will Straw and David Hesmondhalgh. Knoxville punk musicians promote the sense of community with music through the value of cultural knowledge, providing physical areas for social space creation, and instructing young women musicians. Each factor provides a distinct element for the proactive movement in Knoxville punk. …