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Cultural Appropriation In Classical Music: Annotated Bibliography, University Of Denver Nov 2018

Cultural Appropriation In Classical Music: Annotated Bibliography, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

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Electronic Dance Music: Is It Art? Selected Annotated Bibliography, University Of Denver Nov 2018

Electronic Dance Music: Is It Art? Selected Annotated Bibliography, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

Electronic Dance Music, or EDM, is a genre of music that has enjoyed success. Although it grew out of art music in the twentieth century, EDM is considered popular music. But, is the future of EDM confined only within popular music or is there potential for it to influence or become art music? Or perhaps, is EDM already a form of art regardless of whether or not it is commonly seen as such? In response to such quandaries, this paper will form a method of critique to analyze EDM in comparison to art music. To do so, an overall understanding …


There Has Been A Certain Type Of Demographic That Has Consistently Attended Classical Music Performances, But At The Same Time The Classical World Can Broaden Its Group Of Audience Members, University Of Denver Nov 2018

There Has Been A Certain Type Of Demographic That Has Consistently Attended Classical Music Performances, But At The Same Time The Classical World Can Broaden Its Group Of Audience Members, University Of Denver

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

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Ron Carter's Influence On Miles Davis' Quintet From 1963 - 1968, Bob Songster Nov 2018

Ron Carter's Influence On Miles Davis' Quintet From 1963 - 1968, Bob Songster

Musicology and Ethnomusicology: Student Scholarship

How Ron Carter influenced Miles Davis’ 1963-1968 quintet, and how this quintet influenced Ron Carter’s playing style. Compare and contrast both Carter's work before and after the Davis quintet, and Davis’ work before and after the quintet.


Seeing The God Of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure And The Optic Of Enchantment, Olivia Jayne Mann Jan 2017

Seeing The God Of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure And The Optic Of Enchantment, Olivia Jayne Mann

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines 20th century American writer Mary Austin's last novel, Starry Adventure (1931), a work unjustly ignored by most Austin scholars, yet touted by the photographer Ansel Adams (in a letter to Austin) as "the greatest thing I have ever read." This thesis will be particularly concerned with the concept of vision in the novel and the connections between Austin's fiction and the New Mexican modernism/primitivism movement in the visual arts. I explore what I call Austin's "optic of enchantment," a visual experience of divinity that is uniquely tied to the New Mexican landscape. I break down this optic …


Soundboard Scholar No. 2 (Complete) Dec 2016

Soundboard Scholar No. 2 (Complete)

Soundboard Scholar

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Henry Worrall (1825–1902): Anglo-American Guitarist, Robert Ferguson Jan 2016

Henry Worrall (1825–1902): Anglo-American Guitarist, Robert Ferguson

Soundboard Scholar

Anglo-American guitarist Henry Worrall appeared on the American scene just as the guitar reached a plateau of popularity. As vital as the guitar itself, the prevailing social, philosophical, and aesthetic tenets of Worrall's era also wove a unifying thread through his life, career, and oeuvre. His immersion in both the graphic and musical arts; his straddling of vernacular and high culture; his connection to nature and especially agriculture; his nationalist and regionalist sympathies; and his fondness for folk, popular, and heroic musical themes all drew from and evinced a Romantic worldview. Here, Ferguson discusses Worrall's professional life.


Lifting The Veil On Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach To Analysis, Maria A. Souliotis Jan 2015

Lifting The Veil On Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach To Analysis, Maria A. Souliotis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis seeks to augment previous scholarly research on Hindi film song through the presentation of a multivalent approach to thoroughly understanding and interpreting Hindi film song sequences. In a case study of the song sequence “Pardā Haı̃ Pardā” ("There Is a Veil,"? from Manmohan Desai's 1977 film Amar Akbar Anthony), the three essential elements of these sequences (on-screen visuals, text, and music) are connected to the context of South Asian history and culture to demonstrate how scholarly approaches to music, film, and cultural studies can be united to create a more interdisciplinary approach to analysis. The approach also …


If There's No "Fat Lady," When Is The Opera Over? An Exploration Of Changing Physical Image Standards In Present-Day Opera, Emily L. Stephenson Jan 2012

If There's No "Fat Lady," When Is The Opera Over? An Exploration Of Changing Physical Image Standards In Present-Day Opera, Emily L. Stephenson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Though present-day American society generally assumes opera is one of the few remaining entertainment fields where talent matters more than physical appearance, as the 2004 firing of Deborah Voigt demonstrates, present-day opera singers are increasingly being held to stricter image standards. In 2004, Covent Garden dismissed Voigt from their production of Ariadne auf Naxos, in which Voigt was supposed to reprise her critically acclaimed interpretation of the title role. According to Voigt, Covent Garden's casting director Peter Katona felt that she was too large to fit into the black dress the new production required of the character. Voigt's removal …