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Trax On The Trail 2020: An Interactive Campaign Music Website For Educators, Scholars, And The Public, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Naomi Graber, James Deaville Jan 2020

Trax On The Trail 2020: An Interactive Campaign Music Website For Educators, Scholars, And The Public, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Naomi Graber, James Deaville

Faculty and Staff Works

Trax on the Trail is a website where scholars, educators, journalists, students, and the general public can learn about American presidential campaign music and gain insight into how sound participates in forming candidate identity.


Gender And Labor Markets In Tunisia's Lagging Regions, Lucie Hanmer, Edinaldo Tebaldi, Dorte Verner Nov 2018

Gender And Labor Markets In Tunisia's Lagging Regions, Lucie Hanmer, Edinaldo Tebaldi, Dorte Verner

Economics Faculty Book Publications

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From Swing King To Swing Kids: The Jazz Era Of ‘Big Band Orchestras’ In World War Ii, Katie Victoria Burnopp Apr 2018

From Swing King To Swing Kids: The Jazz Era Of ‘Big Band Orchestras’ In World War Ii, Katie Victoria Burnopp

Student Scholar Showcase

Known as the ‘King of Swing’, clarinetist and band leader Benny Goodman (1909-1986) threatened the Nazi cause during WWII. With intent of improving music pedagogy, the purpose of this research was to investigate swing music during World War II. The particular problems of this study were to: (1) identify how the swing music of Benny Goodman (1909-1986) influenced adolescents in the United States of America, United Kingdom, and Germany; (2) explore the Nazi party view on ‘swing’ music of the era; (3) examine how the music of Charlie and his Orchestra became used as a tool for Nazi propaganda; and …


A Glance At Astor Piazzolla's Histoire Du Tango: Lecture Recital, Elizabeth Ritter Nov 2017

A Glance At Astor Piazzolla's Histoire Du Tango: Lecture Recital, Elizabeth Ritter

Honors Projects

This project is a lecture recital including the performance of four musical works from different countries as well as a lecture Astor Piazzolla's Histoire Du Tango. The four pieces performed in this recital were Eldin Burton's Sonatina for flute and piano, the first movement of Astor Piazzolla's Histoire Du Tango, Hirota's Shikararete, and Bela Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances for piccolo and piano. Before performing the Piazzolla, there was a lecture which included the teaching of the musical aspects of the tango within this piece, a short biography of Piazzolla, and a historical look at the four movements of this piece. …