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Blended Styles Of African American Folk Music, Joseph Johnson

Africana Studies Student Research Conference (2013-2019)

From childhood to the present, I have heard stories from my grandmother of growing up as an African American in rural North Carolina. As a young girl, she experienced a great deal of racial injustice, but she also told me of many of her most memorable experiences, mainly in relation to the church and old-time string band music. Through the musicological study of Rhiannon Giddens and The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jake Blount, and Valerie June, I will show how these performing artists in the U.S. keep the tradition of African American old-time music alive while blending it with other contemporary …

Africana Studies Student Research Conference 2019 Program, Bowling Green State University

Africana Studies Student Research Conference (2013-2019)

Program from the 21st Annual Africana Studies Student Research Conference & Luncheon.

May 2018 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Hear We Are: Investigating Sonic Inequality Within Bowling Green, Ohio, Declan Wicks

Honors Projects

Using the framework of Steven Feld’s “acoustemology,” Hear We Are examines the sonic structures of Bowling Green and their effects on, and representation of, diverse communities within Bowling Green. Through modeling the sonic landscape of Bowling Green, Ohio in relation to aggregated census data, Hear We Are explores how the city of Bowling Green has been spatially and sonically organized – whether along lines of class, race, or education. Ultimately, Hear We Are offers a narrative of sound within Bowling Green while reflecting on the consequences of living within different soundscapes, i.e., sonic inequality

Using the theoretical framework of placemaking …

Is It All In The Family?: What Does It Mean To Be “Fam” In The Jam Band Scene? A Case Study Of Northwest Ohio, Katelen Brown

Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies (2015-2021)

The concept of family or “fam” has been associated with the jam band scene and hippie movements since the 1960s, specifically in relation to the Grateful Dead, the Rainbow Family, and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. This concept’s significance has been widely debated by music journalists, biographers, and scholars. But what does family actually means to the musical experience of the individual? This paper is especially focused on the significance of musical and subcultural participation, as well as some of the complex intersectional issues of belonging to a family in the jam band scene. In this project, I will be …

“The Real Spice Girl, Hot Girl Power”: M.I.A. Singing The Subaltern Voice In The Euro-American Soundscape, Emma Niehaus

Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies (2015-2021)

Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak’s seminal work of Subaltern Studies, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” analyzed the predisposition of the “Western” academy to ultimately silence the voices, experiences, and cultures of colonized, “third world” and non- European “others”. Following Spivak’s work, other scholars examined subaltern speech as it manifested in various other cultural products for instance, music. Notably, subaltern scholars such as Rebecca Romanow and Amanda Weidman in “Can the Subaltern Sing” argued that aural space for the subaltern musician was shrinking in the face of a rapidly globalizing Euro-American music industry. My presentation argues that it is not a question of if …

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. …

August 2017 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Newsletter Spring 2017, Sandra L. Faulkner

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Newsletters

No abstract provided.

August 2016 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

May 2016 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Program Notes And Translations, Kelly Frailly

Honors Projects

This project consists of program notes about sixteen pieces of music that I publically performed on April 10th, 2016. These notes are comprised of research done about each piece on the program, its composer, the history of the era in which the song or aria was composed, and an analysis of the text. The pieces ranged from Baroque operatic arias all the way to twenty-first century musical theater works. I have also included translations of all of the foreign language pieces.

Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Newsletter Spring 2016, Sandra L. Faulkner

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Newsletters

No abstract provided.

August 2015 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Kaze No Daichi Taiko: Convergent Thoughts Colliding Sounds, William Gruber

Honors Projects

By composing original works for kumi daiko, a Japanese group drumming musical style, I answer questions about authenticity and appropriation as an outsider playing this world music.

August 2014 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

May 2014 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Ancient Greek Music: The Aulos And The Kithara, Carina Carbone

Honors Projects

The aulos was one of the foremost woodwind instruments in ancient Greece; likewise, the kithara was one of the foremost string instruments. They varied in both form and function throughout time and by region. Given the popularity of both instruments, there are many surviving art pieces which illustrate them and their uses. There are also surviving samples of the instruments themselves.

August 2013 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

December 2012 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Pro Musica Newsletter, Fall 2012, Bowling Green State University. College Of Musical Arts

Pro Musica Newsletters

No abstract provided.

August 2012 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

December 2011 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Variation On A Traditional Theme: The Question Of Racial And Ethnic Diversity In Mla, Mark A. Puente, Susannah Cleveland

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Following the findings from the MLA Survey of Personnel Characteristics, 2009 that pointed to discrepancies between the racial and ethnic diversity of MLA members and the general population, an analysis of the diversity of MLA’s patron base and an assessment of other organizations' efforts at diversity are analyzed. Recommendations for efforts by MLA to address these discrepancies as well as justification for making such efforts follow.

Survey Of Music-Library Personnel Characteristics, 2009, Susannah Cleveland, Mark A. Puente

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Results from the 2009 Music Library Association (MLA) Survey of Personnel Characteristics are presented and analyzed. Areas covered include education and training, status and salaries, professional activities, and demographics of MLA members. In each area, comparisons are made to results from the study of the same name conducted in 1997.

May 2011 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The Bg News April 8, 2011, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. April 8, 2011. Volume 101-Issue 133.

Pro Musica Newsletter, Spring 2011, Bowling Green State University. College Of Musical Arts

Pro Musica Newsletters

No abstract provided.

August 2010 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

August 2009 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.