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“The Dynamics Of Racial Politics In Louisiana’S German Coast”, Michael D. Stein
“The Dynamics Of Racial Politics In Louisiana’S German Coast”, Michael D. Stein
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Folie Et Stratégies D'Évasion Dans Les Romans Postcoloniaux Au Maghreb (Maroc-Algérie) Et À L'Île Maurice, Fouzilla Saady
Folie Et Stratégies D'Évasion Dans Les Romans Postcoloniaux Au Maghreb (Maroc-Algérie) Et À L'Île Maurice, Fouzilla Saady
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
My dissertation " Folie et stratégies d'évasion dans les romans postcoloniaux au Maghreb (Maroc-Algérie) et à l'Île Maurice." argues that madness is a universal theme in the postcolonial context by Maghrebian and Mauritian women authors such as Nadia Chafik, Leïla Marouane, Nina Bouraoui, Ananda Devi, Nathacha Appanah, Marie-Thérèse Humbert. We include Tahar Ben Jelloun, Patrick Chamoiseau and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio because of their approach to gender, feminine and masculine.
This research is not a question of making a psychoanalytic study of madness, but of a literary analysis of this theme in the texts of our corpus. We focus on …
The "Missing Audience": A Query Into The Future Of The Orchestra And The Potential Benefits Of Bringing Live Classical Music To The Community Through Informal Performances, Natalie Wei-Ting Chang
The "Missing Audience": A Query Into The Future Of The Orchestra And The Potential Benefits Of Bringing Live Classical Music To The Community Through Informal Performances, Natalie Wei-Ting Chang
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, I discuss the traditional organizational model adopted by symphony orchestras in the United States as non-profit arts organizations that are struggling to maintain solvency within the current philanthropic, political, and digital contexts. As part of the discussion, I conduct field research within the local area of the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in providing demonstrations of live and informal classical performance in various businesses and institutions while collecting data via surveys from willing adult participants (ages 18 and above) of all demographics, specifically lower income areas. The survey analysis gives important insights into public perception of symphony …
Francolouisianais In The 21st Century: Redrawing Identity Lines In A Community Experiencing Language Shift, Marguerite L. Perkins
Francolouisianais In The 21st Century: Redrawing Identity Lines In A Community Experiencing Language Shift, Marguerite L. Perkins
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The francophonie of south Louisiana today is characterized by a great deal of diversity - in terms of ethnicity, language practices, cultural practices, geography, and experience. The academic literature does not always reflect this diversity, however. Some ethnic groups are overshadowed by others in academic study, and the lines between them are often uncritically blurred. Discussions of language shift are regularly mired in assumptions of individuals’ complete linguistic and cultural assimilation based solely on their native use of English.
In this dissertation, I seek to problematize traditional accounts of assimilation and collective ethnic identity by highlighting the ways in which …
Producing "Fabulous": Commodification And Ethnicity In Hair Braiding Salons, Sylviane Ngandu-Kalenga Greensword
Producing "Fabulous": Commodification And Ethnicity In Hair Braiding Salons, Sylviane Ngandu-Kalenga Greensword
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Black women wearing fabulous braids are a striking feature of the Afro-diasporic cultural landscape. However, the braiders and salon owners who enable this aesthetic engineering are seldom acknowledged. This dissertation investigates the experience and role of Caribbean and West and Central African women in the hair braiding industry, a rapidly growing business in the U.S. I address the complexity of these women’s multiple social roles and the multiple consciousness (King, 1988) associated with their demographic characteristics (color, ethnicity, gender, nationality, and immigrant status). The commonalities between the braiders and their mostly African American customers contrast vividly with their perception of …
A Performer's Guide To Iosif Andriasov's "Concertino For Trumpet", Andrew K. Gerbitz
A Performer's Guide To Iosif Andriasov's "Concertino For Trumpet", Andrew K. Gerbitz
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Iosif Andriasov’s Concertino for Trumpet is an excellent candidate for study and assimilation into the standard trumpet repertoire. A significant composer of Armenian descent from the former Soviet Union, Andriasov wrote his Concerto for Trumpet in 1960 and dedicated it to Yuri Usov. Timofei Dokshizer performed it on an album released in 1978 under the Melodya label. After immigrating to the United States in 1979, the composer revised the work and retitled it as Concertino for Trumpet in 1995. IMMA Publishing Company in New York made the revised work commercially available in 2001. This paper is presented to increase awareness …
Precarious Democracy: "It Can't Happen Here" As The Federal Theatre's Site Of Mass Resistance, Macy Donyce Jones
Precarious Democracy: "It Can't Happen Here" As The Federal Theatre's Site Of Mass Resistance, Macy Donyce Jones
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The scholarly consensus of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) is that it was a massive undertaking set to employ theatre professionals during the Great Depression. That undertaking resulted in vibrant, relevant theatre that helped to build a theatre audience across the nation. Outside of the overview-style scholarship, specialized studies have delved into the FTP as a community-building enterprise, a site of racial/ethnic study, and an essential new play creator.
My scholarship fills a hole that previous FTP scholarship has left open. The FTP was a political machine engaged in producing pro-American propaganda. That aspect of production has been largely left …
From Savage To Noble Savage: Understanding The Changing Role Of Native Americans Within The United States' National Story, Caitlyn Bender
From Savage To Noble Savage: Understanding The Changing Role Of Native Americans Within The United States' National Story, Caitlyn Bender
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Free Trade Bugaboo: Reassessing The Role Of Henry George In The Political Culture Of The Late Gilded Age, Logan Stagg Istre
The Free Trade Bugaboo: Reassessing The Role Of Henry George In The Political Culture Of The Late Gilded Age, Logan Stagg Istre
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Northern Music Culture In Antebellum New Orleans, Warren Keith Kimball
Northern Music Culture In Antebellum New Orleans, Warren Keith Kimball
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In the three decades before the Civil War, immigrants from the Northern United States flooded into New Orleans in search of new economic opportunities. These newcomers brought to the Southern city many elements of Northern life, such as Protestant churches, English-language newspapers, public schools, and distinct political views. They also brought with them musical practices specific to that region: Protestant church music, amateur choral societies, instrumental concerts, music publication, and English-language opera all flourished from the late 1830s until the late 1850s. This dissertation situates the musical practices of New Orleans during the decades preceding the Civil War within the …
An Impossible Direction: Newspapers, Race, And Politics In Reconstruction New Orleans, Nicholas F. Chrastil
An Impossible Direction: Newspapers, Race, And Politics In Reconstruction New Orleans, Nicholas F. Chrastil
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis examines the racial ideologies of four newspapers in New Orleans at the beginning and end of Radical Reconstruction: the Daily Picayune, the New Orleans Republican, the New Orleans Tribune, and the Weekly Louisianian. It explores how each paper understood the issues of racial equality, integration, suffrage, and black humanity; it examines the specific language and rhetoric each paper used to advocate for their positions; and it asks how those positions changed from the beginning to the end of Reconstruction. The study finds that the two white-owned papers, the Picayune and the Republican, while political opponents, both viewed …
How Neoliberalism Failed Public Housing In New Orleans, Mckenzie Lemaire
How Neoliberalism Failed Public Housing In New Orleans, Mckenzie Lemaire
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Restorative Rhetoric And Community Action In Response To The 2016 Baton Rouge Flood, Madeline Elizabeth Munch
Restorative Rhetoric And Community Action In Response To The 2016 Baton Rouge Flood, Madeline Elizabeth Munch
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Rewriting Reality: The Interplay Of Journalism And Literature In Mid-Twentieth Century America, France, And Mexico, Victoria Sidener Primeaux
Rewriting Reality: The Interplay Of Journalism And Literature In Mid-Twentieth Century America, France, And Mexico, Victoria Sidener Primeaux
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
“Whate’Er I Be”: The Body Liminal And The Permeable Limits Of Sovereignty In Early Modern Drama, Linda Anne Riley
“Whate’Er I Be”: The Body Liminal And The Permeable Limits Of Sovereignty In Early Modern Drama, Linda Anne Riley
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Diversity And Development In Early Christian Gnostic Thought: An Analysis Of Chaos, The Salvific Function Of Humanity, And The True Nature Of The Rulers In The Secret Book Of John, The Nature Of The Rulers, And On The Origin Of The World, Mikaela Shayne Allen
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
“What About Hal?”: Imagining A Queer Physicality In Stanley Kubrick’S 2001: A Space Odyssey, Camille E.B. Boechler
“What About Hal?”: Imagining A Queer Physicality In Stanley Kubrick’S 2001: A Space Odyssey, Camille E.B. Boechler
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Aave Be-Deletion In Quotative Be Like, Hayley Franklin
Aave Be-Deletion In Quotative Be Like, Hayley Franklin
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
“Their Decision, It Didn’T Take Place”: The Forced Sterilization Of Native American Women In The United States, Emily Marie Owen
“Their Decision, It Didn’T Take Place”: The Forced Sterilization Of Native American Women In The United States, Emily Marie Owen
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Limbo: An Exploration Of The Spaces Between, April Ahmed
Limbo: An Exploration Of The Spaces Between, April Ahmed
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Recipe For Holiness: Civilizing Saints In Early Modern Spain, Celia Crifasi
Recipe For Holiness: Civilizing Saints In Early Modern Spain, Celia Crifasi
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Critical Companion To The Performance: The Three Selves, Joseph St. Cyr
Critical Companion To The Performance: The Three Selves, Joseph St. Cyr
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
St. John Publishing Business Plan, Nicholas Leo
A Performer's Guide To Joelle Wallach's A Revisitation Of Myth, Lauren Brown
A Performer's Guide To Joelle Wallach's A Revisitation Of Myth, Lauren Brown
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this document is to serve as a performance guide to Joelle Wallach’s A Revisitation of Myth, a song cycle containing four songs scored for viola, piano and medium voice. Discussed within this guide will be important characteristics found in the songs, overview and analysis of each song, as well as performance recommendations. According to Wallach, this cycle has never been successfully performed to completion. This document will include biographical information about the composer, Joelle Wallach, as well as commentary about the four poets, Luann Keener, Muriel Rukeyser, Denise Levertov, and Delmore Schwartz, whose texts are set in …
Disease, Bread, Efficiency: Rhetorics Of Victorian Education Reform, Vicki Jean Davis
Disease, Bread, Efficiency: Rhetorics Of Victorian Education Reform, Vicki Jean Davis
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Disease, Bread, Efficiency: Rhetorics of Victorian Education Reform arose from my observation that, historically speaking, Anglo-American schools have always been “in crisis.” I argue that the crisis of the “failing school” is a rhetorical problem rather than an economic problem as most scholarship suggests. Much like the cultural myth of “the One True Love,” education reform debates tend to position the school as an institution that can rescue the nation from all perceived social ills. Not only is this unrealistic, the patterns of language are inconsistent as ideas about the purpose of school are translated into policy. This causes further …
Joshua: Symphonic Suite No. 2 And James Aikman, The Violin Concerto, And The Principle Of Limited Economy, Chad Edward Hughes
Joshua: Symphonic Suite No. 2 And James Aikman, The Violin Concerto, And The Principle Of Limited Economy, Chad Edward Hughes
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The objective of this dissertation is to present an original work that represents this writer’s perspective as a composer and to examine the work, Violin Concerto No.1, by American composer and educator, James Aikman. The first component of this dissertation is this writer’s composition Joshua: Symphonic Suite No. 2. This work, which portrays the Old Testament Bible story of Joshua, son of Nun, is a neo-tonal ballet, which features the violin extensively. The ballet is divided into four movements, each of which corresponds to a segment of Joshua’s story, including “Joshua and Caleb,” “Rahab and the Spies,” “The River Jordan,” …
"In The School, Not Of The School": Co-Performing Critical Literacies With English Amped, Anna Catherine West
"In The School, Not Of The School": Co-Performing Critical Literacies With English Amped, Anna Catherine West
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to explore the possibilities and limitations of “amplifying” critical literacy practices within an urban high school English and creative writing class. This action research project defamiliarized English education and created conditions for participants to imagine and perform alternative possibilities by bringing together critical research, community involvement, creative writing and performance in an extended class with high school, university, and community-based collaborators. Participants were high school juniors, partnering teachers, university-based student teachers, and community members who collaborated to form the English Amped program in the 2014-2015 academic year. Ethnographic methods were used to collect data …
The Machine Gun Hand: Robots, Performance, And American Ideology In The Twentieth Century, Benjamin Michael Phelan
The Machine Gun Hand: Robots, Performance, And American Ideology In The Twentieth Century, Benjamin Michael Phelan
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Twentieth-century Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser argued in his famous essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” that capitalism reproduces itself by interpellating individuals as subjects. For Althusser, the subject has a dual definition: a person who imagines him or herself to be a free subject who then “chooses” capitalism, and a person who, once they have “chosen” capitalism, gives up their free will to the Subject (Law, God, Authority, the State). This dual definition of the subject mirrors the dual definition of “robot.” A robot is both a mechanical being that moves on its own and a person who acts in …
A Vast Injustice: The Public Debate And Legislative Battle Over Compulsory Eugenic Sterilization In Louisiana, 1924 -- 1932, Adelaide Hair Barr
A Vast Injustice: The Public Debate And Legislative Battle Over Compulsory Eugenic Sterilization In Louisiana, 1924 -- 1932, Adelaide Hair Barr
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
From 1924 to 1932, Louisiana lawmakers considered five bills that would have granted superintendents of state institutions and some private hospitals the authority to forcibly sterilize their patients. Based on similar legislation passed in thirty-six other states, the bills cited eugenics as evidence that stripping these patients of their ability to reproduce would prevent the conditions such as feeblemindedness from passing on to the next generation. Although none of the bills passed both houses of the Louisiana legislature, a couple of them came dangerously close to becoming law. The debate among legislators, professionals, and social reformers provides a greater understanding …
The Rhetoric Of Hospitality: Conditions Of Death In America, Margaret Anne Callahan
The Rhetoric Of Hospitality: Conditions Of Death In America, Margaret Anne Callahan
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Right of Hospitality: Conditions of Death in America calls Western biomedicine’s approach to death into question. Death unifies all human experiences and is always possible, despite the human tendency to deny its existence and, instead, orient the self towards a futurity that is always out of reach. This project investigates the structures influencing how death in America occurs, and traces the roots of Western culture’s rejection of death to the execution by hemlock of Socrates’ immortalized in the Phaedo. Western biomedicine’s institutionalization of medicine requires that both patients and doctors enter into imbalanced hospitable relationships, and these pressures, along …