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Musical Artists As Entrepreneurs: Assessing Popular Artists’ Brand Partnerships, Social Media Usage, And Performance Of Identity Politics, Amara Pope

FIMULAW

Today’s popular music artists have the potential power to shape hegemonic ideologies of identity categories across multiple media and industries. This position of power is unique to modern musical artists due to recent changes in the music industry’s business model and the introduction of social media. Record sales have diminished. Labels and artists have adapted in new and creative ways with a heavier reliance on brand partnerships. I wish to fill a gap in the literature that explores how brand partnerships may affect modern musical artists’ performances of identity politics through three case studies: Drake, Post Malone, and Cardi B.

See It And Believe It: Imagery For Singers, Brianna Desantis

FIMULAW

Detailed semi-structured interviews were conducted with six male and female high-level singers. This pilot study is primarily based on Nordin and Cumming’s Professional Dancers Describe Their Imagery: Where, When, What, Why, and How (2005). Some similarities and some unique differences emerged between the current study and its dance model. Interviews were based on the 4 Ws framework (Munroe, Giacobbi, Jr., Hall, & Weinberg, 2000). This involved Where, What, Why, and When singers image. Singers mainly used imagery for improving vocal technique, performance anxiety, and character development.

Modernizing Links Between Text And Music: Connecting The Sentiment Properties Of Text With Those Of Spectral Music, Jeff Lupker

FIMULAW

My current research is an attempt to investigate and standardize the links between the sentiment of text and music by creating a software program which can connect these sentiment properties with those of spectral music. This is an attempt to modernize the way in which a composer writes music based on any given text by cross-referencing each word with quantitative ranking of words in terms of sentiment properties. The result will be a multimedia experience whereby the observer can listen to the sounds that are intrinsically linked the words viewed in real-time.

The Impact Of Infertility On Female Vocalist Identity, Laura Curtis

FIMULAW

This qualitative research study explores the impact on female singers’ musical and gender identities when confronted with the issue of infertility. Based on interviews with female vocalists (N=2), and reflections of my personal experiences as a singer and voice instructor experiencing infertility, this research explores the physiological, emotional, and social impact that infertility has on female singers' identities. The sensitive nature of infertility impedes open discussion regarding its impact on singers' physiological and emotional health; an issue I wished to address in this research. While each participant’s experience with infertility was unique, analysis of personal interview transcripts revealed a common …

Grime And Spirit: On A Hype!, Monique Charles

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

Grime is a genre of Black British music originating from London at the turn of the twenty-first century. In this article, I explore responses to moments of Grime music making and engagement in live performance settings. I make connections between Grime, Black music streams (Lena), Black Atlantic (Gilroy) practices, the Black Public Sphere (Baker) AND how engagements at these intersections are connected to spiritual practice in the context of live performance. The power in Grime live performance settings; where the spiritual is found, connects to the sonic characteristics deployed, embodied and emotive responses and cultural practice. Spirituality, through cultural practice, …

Symphonic Winds, March 22, 2019, Anthony C. Marinello, Marykatheryne E. Kuhne, Rachel Maxwell, Zachary Hilligoss

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
March 22, 2019
Friday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Graduate Recital: Hayley Koch, Soprano; March 22, 2019, Hayley Koch

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 22, 2019
Friday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Recital 7: Sonatas Nos. 27–29: Program, Peter Bloom

A Beethoven Cycle, Jiayan Sun, piano

No abstract provided.

Piano Studio Recital Of Dr. Chi Yong Yun, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Students of Dr. Chi Yong Yun featuring works by Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, Debussy, Clementi, and Bach.

2018-2019 Performance Forum - March 21, 2019, Tyler Coffman, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Virginia Mangum, Joshua Cessna, Shuyi Wang, Kevin Karabell, Yiming Tang, Melanie Riordan, John Antisz, Michael Puryear, Kristine Mezines

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Sigma Alpha Iota And Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Spring Recital: Julie Coggiola And Thomas Keeping, Music Directors, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Julie Coggiola, Thomas Keeping

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Objectification Of Women In Bollywood Item Numbers, Zahabia Z. Slatewala

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Although sexual objectification is commonplace in media culture, music videos provide the most potent examples of it. The current investigation makes an important contribution to the relevant literature regarding the objectification of women in song lyrics while simultaneously broadening the content used to assess objectification. It reflects the ways of objectification of women in India by analyzing Bollywood rap and item songs. Based on objectification theory, one of the primary goals in the present study was to measure differences between visual and behavioral sexual objectification, drawing on theoretically derived indicators of sexual objectification. It also concentrated on measuring the change …

Faculty Recital: Angelo L. Favis, Guitar; March 20, 2019, Angelo L. Favis

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 20, 2018
Tuesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Isu Faculty Jazz Ensemble: Paul Nolen, Saxophone; Kevin Hart, Piano; Bill Koehler, Bass; Tom Marko, Drums; March 20, 2019, Paul Nolen, Kevin Hart, Bill Koehler, Tom Marko

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 20, 2019
Wednesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Piano Studio Recital, March 19, 2019, Brooke Ward (Performer), Beth Baker (Performer), Robert Stahl (Performer), Joel Sanford (Performer), Nicole Dorobanov (Performer), Rebecca Raydo (Director), Marilyn Forman (Director), John Toomey (Director), Andrey Kasparov (Director)

Faculty Recitals

Brooke Ward, from the studio of Professor Raydo

Beth Baker, from the studio of Professor Forman

Robert Stahl, from the studio of Professor Raydo

Joel Sanford, from the studio of Professor Toomey

Nicole Dorobanov, from the studio of Professor Kasparov

James "Rev Cool" Carter: Dayton Music History Project, James Carter, Matthew Mercer

Dayton Music History Project Records (MS-607)

Video interview with James Carter aka “Rev Cool”, well-known music promoter, producer, and long-time DJ at WYSO in Yellow Springs. Best known for his radio show, “Around the Fringe”, and his music label, “I WANNA Records”.

Faculty Recital: Elizabeth Thompson, Voice; March 19, 2019, Elizabeth Thompson

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 19, 2019
Tuesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

2018-2019 Junior Recital - Chase Decarlo (French Horn), Chase Decarlo, Guzal Isametdinova, Bailey Michelle Collins

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Warning: Music Therapy Comes With Risks, James Hiller, Susan Gardstrom

Department of Music Faculty Publications

Bob Marley sings, “One good thing about music—when it hits you, you feel no pain.” Although this may be the case for some people and in some circumstances, we dispute this statement as a global truth. After all, couldn’t any phenomenon commanding enough to alleviate human pain (ostensibly instantaneously) also harbor the potential to catalyze undesirable, even injurious, effects? And couldn’t this influence then logically extend to music employed within the context of a therapeutic process? As music therapist and Concordia University Associate Professor Dr. Laurel Young writes, “the ‘miraculous’ effects of music as featured in popular media along with …

Student Recital: Maria Stanley, Cello, Maria Stanley, Joe Ritchie, Nicole Lessard

Student Recitals

Maria Stanley is a student of Leslie Frittelli. This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music, Music Education degree.

Maria Stanley, Cello

Joe Ritchie, Piano

Nicole Lessard, Cello