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Book Reviews & Books Received, Howard A. Snyder, Timothy J. Christian, Brian Shockey, Jeremy B. Griffin, Moe Moe Nyunt, Nicholas W. Carpenter, Robert Danielson, Grant Miller, Benjamin J. Snyder, Jeremy B. Griffin, Taylor S. Brown, Robert Danielson

The Asbury Journal

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Floating Christian Endeavor As A Model For Mission To Migrants, Robert Danielson

The Asbury Journal

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The Kingdom Life And The Witness Of The Church, Art Mcphee

The Asbury Journal

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Praxis, Phenomena, And Spirit Reception In Luke-Acts: A Study Of Shared Elements In Luke’S Corporate Baptism Of The Holy Spirit Accounts, Thomas Lyons

The Asbury Journal

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Multi-Point Nonlinear Spatial Distribution Of Effects Across The Soundfield, Stuart James

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This paper outlines a method of applying non-linear processing and effects to multi-point spatial distributions of sound spectra. The technique is based on previous research by the author on non-linear spatial distributions of spectra, that is, timbre spatialisation in the frequency domain. One of the primary applications here is the further elaboration of timbre spatialisation in the frequency domain to account for distance cues incorporating loudness attenuation, reverb, and filtration. Further to this, the same approach may also give rise to more non-linear distributions of processing and effects across multi-point spatial distributions such as audio distortions and harmonic exciters, delays, …

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Rhizomatic Approaches To Screen-Based Music Notation, Lindsay R. Vickery

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The rhizome concept explored by Deleuze and Guatarri has had an important influence on formal thinking in music and new media. This paper explores the development of rhizomatic musical scores that are arranged cartographically with nodal points allowing for alternate pathways to be traversed. The challenges of pre-digital exemplars of rhizomatic structure are discussed. It follows the development of concepts and technology used in the creation of five works by the author Ubahn c. 1985: the Rosenberg Variations [2012], The Last Years [2012], Sacrificial Zones [2014], detritus [2015] and trash vortex [2015]. this paper discusses the potential for the evolution …

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Tectonic: A Networked, Generative And Interactive, Conducting Environment For Ipad, Lindsay R. Vickery Dr, Stuart James

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This paper describes the concept, implementation and context of Tectonic: Rodinia for four realtime composer-conductoors and ensemble. In this work, an addition to the reqertoire of the Decibel Scoreplayer, iPads art networked together using the bonjour protocol to manage connectivity over the network. Unlike previous Scoreplayer works, Rodinia combines "conductor view" control interfaces, "performer view" notation interfaces and an "audience view" overview interface, separately identified by manual connection and yet mutually interactive. Notation is communicated to an ensemble via scores independently generated in realtime in each "performer view" and amalgamated schematically in the :audience view" interface. Interaction in the work …

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Origins Of Jazz In America, Megan Macfalane

A with Honors Projects

Jazz music was born in America in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the early 20th century. Founded from blues music, which was based off of African American slave’s hymns and field hollers sang out as they worked, it led to the creation of new American musical genres, like bebop and rock and roll. Despite critics’ attempts to discourage it, jazz also was one of the first types of music that people could really swing dance to, causing many integrated social gatherings. The history of Jazz music, how Jazz has influenced today’s society and music as it is currently known and how …

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My Experience In Bharata Natyam (Indian Dance), Camillia Mbo Ngubani

A with Honors Projects

Have you ever thought of learning a new style of dance? Or exploring a new way to consider a particular dance or music? Well! Let me suggest that you try an Indian dance class, particularly "Bharata Natyam," and push yourself out of your common dance style. In addition, you will rediscover some hidden talents and expand your circle of friends. Those aspects are what I found during my journey in Bharata Natyam, Indian dance.

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Eight Ten, Delaney Walsh

A with Honors Projects

For this honors project, the student composed an original piece for piano accompanied with a reflection paper on the composition process.

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Epistemological Foundations Of Objectivist And Interpretivist Research, James Hiller

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

At the heart of music therapy research, as in any field, is a search for knowledge. For centuries, researchers in a remarkable range of disciplines have conducted research and published findings in a vast array of professional journals and books. It therefore seems reasonable to suppose that we ought to know by now how to go about conducting research, and more importantly what it means to have gained knowledge. Yet problems have persisted along the way and have at various times proven quite challenging and even inconvenient for researchers and their claims to knowledge (Kuhn, 2012). Of particular significance are …

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Developing An Attitudinal Model Of Collaborative Consumption: Moderating Effects Of Consumer Traits And Situational Factors, Alyssa Dana Adomaitis, Caroline Kobia, Diana Saiki

Publications and Research

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Advances In Promoting Literacy And Human Rights For Women And Girls Through Mobile Learning, Helen Crompton, Judith Dunkerly-Bean

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

This article is taken from a larger review of extant research from a chapter titled “The role of mobile learning in promoting global literacy and human rights for women and girls” from the Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media. In this article we review the fairly recent advances in combating illiteracy around the globe through the use of mobile phones and e-readers most recently in the Worldreader program and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) mobile phone and reading initiatives. Utilizing key human rights publications and the lens of transnational feminist discourse, which …

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#Iftheygunnedmedown: Postmodern Media Criticism In A Post-Racial World, Christopher P. Campbell

Faculty Publications

After the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American man, by a White police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, some news organizations included in their immediate coverage a photo of Brown taken from his Facebook page. In a now iconic image, Brown stands in a Nike tank top, unsmiling, and flashing a peace sign (misidentified by some news organizations as a gang sign). Later, less incendiary photos from Brown’s Facebook page surfaced. Within a few days of Brown’s death, the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown appeared on social media. Young African Americans posted two photos of themselves, representing positive and …

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Animism Among Western Buddhists, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

Myriad instances of animist phenomena abound in the Buddhist world, but due to the outdated concepts of thinkers such as Edward Tylor, James George Frazer, and Melford Spiro, commonly scholars perceive this animism merely as the work of local religions, not as deriving from Buddhism itself. However, when one follows a number of contemporary scholars and employs a new, relational concept of animism that is based on respectful recognition of nonhuman personhoods, a different picture emerges. The works of Western Buddhists such as Stephanie Kaza, Philip Kapleau Roshi, and Gary Snyder express powerful senses of relational animism that arise specifically …

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The Maternal Personhood Of Cattle And Plants At A Hindu Center In The United States, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

Religious experiences with sacred nonhuman natural beings considered to be “persons” remain only vaguely understood. This essay provides a measure of clarification by engendering a dialogue between psychoanalytic self psychology on one side and, on the other, religious experiences of cattle and Tulsi plants as holy mothers at a Hindu cattle sanctuary in the United States. Ethnographic data from the Hindu center uncover experiences of sacred maternal natural beings that are tensive, liminal, and colored with affective themes of nurturance, respect, and intimacy, much like psychoanalytic maternal selfobjects. Devotees protect cattle and ritually venerate plants because these actions facilitate a …

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Groundhog Oracles And Their Forebears, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

Groundhog Day animal weather forecasting ceremonies continue to proliferate around the United States despite a lack of public confidence in the oracles. This essay probes religio-historical and original ethnographic perspectives to offer a psychological argument for why these ceremonies exist. Employing Paul Shepard’s notion of a felt loss of sacred, intimate relationships with nonhuman nature, as well as Peter Homans’ concept of the monument that enables mourning, this essay argues that groundhog oracles serve as monuments that allow humans experientially to attempt to heal lost sacred relationships with animals like weather forecasting bears, hedgehogs, and badgers

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Headline Grabs For Music: The Development Of An Ipad Score Generator, Cat Hope, Stuart James, Aaron Wyatt

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This paper-demonstration provides an overview of an generative music score adapted for the iPad by the Decibel new music ensemble. The original score `Loaded (NSFW)’ (2015) is by Western Australian composer Laura Jane Lowther, and is scored for ensemble and electronics, commissioned for a performance in April 2015 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. It engages and develops the Decibel Score Player application, a score reader and generator for the iPad as a tool for displaying an interactive score that requires performers to react to news headlines through musical means. The paper will introduce the concept for the player, …

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Measuring The Value Of Cultural Activity In Regional Western Australia, Helen Rusak

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This research represents the collaboration between Country Arts Western Australia (CAWA) and Edith Cowan University (ECU) to measure the intrinsic value of presenting cultural programs that have benefitted from the Royalties for Regions investment in regional WA. This investigation is informed by value-based methodologies. It has thus far involved developing data gathering instruments to measure the intrinsic value of cultural activities supported by CAWA in 2016 and test them in four of the nine regions of WA. It involves capturing public values data on the contribution of the arts in regional WA. In doing so it seeks to articulate the …

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Concert Recording 2016-11-19, Ashlyn Berry, Helena Aung

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Wir eilen mit schwachen from Cantata 78 / J.S. Bach -- [04:57]. Dein Angesicht / Robert Schumann -- [06:59]. Der Schmetterling / Franz Schubert -- [08:30]. Mai ; Automne / Gabriel Fauré -- [13:15]. Panis angelicus / Cesar Franck -- [16:09]. The medium. The black swan ; Monica's waltz / Gian Carlo Menotti.

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The Need For A Teacher Librarian To Take A Leadership Role In The Implementation Of Supplemental Reading Program Initiatives To Achieve Desired Student Outcomes, Mindy M. Reimer

Graduate Research Papers

Education stakeholders recognize the importance of establishing a culture of reading within a school. Many schools are using supplemental reading programs, like Accelerated Reader (AR), to support reading instruction and to encourage independent reading opportunities with their students (What Works Clearinghouse, 2010). These programs offer schools a system to manage, monitor and measure students’ independent reading. The high percentage of schools in the nation implementing supplemental reading programs necessitates that school librarians serve a leadership role in the implementation of such reading programs. Although these programs often entail controversy, proper implementation of these reading programs requires structure and support best …

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Concert Recording 2016-11-09, Andrew Chu, Elizabeth Lyon, Judd Burns, Sandy Nieves

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Sonata for piano and violin no. 1 in G major, op. 78 / Johannes Brahms -- [27:03]. Selections from Dichterliebe, op. 48. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai ; Aus meinen Tränen sprießen ; Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne ; Ich will meine Seele tauchen ; Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome ; Ich grolle nicht ; Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen ; Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen ; Ich hab' im Traum geweinet ; Aus alten Märchen winkt es / Robert Schumann -- [51:27]. Sonata for clarinet and piano / Francis Poulenc.

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A Master's Recital In Clarinet, Stacia Kay Fortune

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Stacia Kay Fortune performed a graduate clarinet recital at 6 o’clock in the evening on Friday, February 26, 2016 in Davis Hall at the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. The recital was presented in partial fulfillment of a Master of Music in clarinet performance. The program opened with Mozart’s Parto! Ma tu ben Mio, an aria for soprano and clarinet obbligato from La Clemenza di Tito. The second piece on the first half was Claude Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano. Following intermission, the later part of the twentieth century was explored beginning with Shulamit Ran’s For an Actor: …

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Graduate Recital In Conducting, John Chiles

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This abstract describes the graduate recital of John Chiles which was performed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree in conducting. The recital was presented in two separate concerts: the first on October 22, 2015 at 7:30 pm, and the second on November 11, 2015 at 7:30 pm. Both concerts employed the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, and the November concert also included the Northern Iowa Youth Orchestra. The concerts were performed in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on the University of Northern Iowa campus. The primary goal of the recital was to demonstrate knowledge of …

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The Ten Tribes Of Wier In America - Accession 715 No. 6, Family History - Wier Family, William Swansea Wier

Manuscript Collection

The Ten Tribes of Wier in America was compiled and printed by William Swansea Wier in Atlanta, Georgia in 1933. The book covers the family and descendants of Thomas and Mary Withrow Wier from the 1700s through 1933. They eventually settled in Greenwood, S.C. There are handwritten notes in the book presumably added by the author. Other surnames found in the volume include: Blake, Britt, Dunbar, Gregg, Peden, McDill, McDowell, Mull, and Scott. The book includes photographs and a folding generational chart. Please see the attached document.

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The Blue Ridge Railroad: Letters Of Mr. George A. Trenholm And Mr. William Gregg On That Subject - Accession 1208 - M575 (628), Blue Ridge Railroad, George A. Trenholm, William Gregg

Manuscript Collection

The collection consists of a booklet of letters to the editor from George A. Trenholm and William Gregg concerning The Blue Ridge Railroad. This railroad was to be built to complete the connection of the line that was to run from Charleston, SC to Cincinnati, Ohio. This line would have run from Anderson, SC to Knoxville, TN. Construction began in 1854 and ceased just before the beginning of the Civil War. The railroad was never completed. The letters appeared in the Edgefield Advertiser, Charleston Courier, and Charleston Mercury in 1860.

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Miriam Williford Papers - Accession 157, Miriam Williford

Manuscript Collection

The Miriam Williford Papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, lecture and teaching materials, research notes, professional files, rough notes and drafts of publications, copies of historical manuscripts from other repositories, and other Papers, The collection pertains to Willifords’ teaching and publishing activities, and to her involvement with professional organizations and seminars such as the Latin American Studies Association (1975). Her research files include extensive material on Jeremy Bentham and his interest in Latin America, and includes correspondence with Simon Bolivar and other leaders of Latin American independence; papers on the administration of Mariano Galvez, Chief of State of Guatemala from …

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Extending Writing In The Disciplines (Wid) To Train Mechanical Engineering Gtas To Evaluate Student Writing, Nancy Barr

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Beyond first-year composition, the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum provides few opportunities for students to develop technical writing skills. One underutilized path for students to strengthen those skills is the required sequence of laboratory courses, where students write reports that are evaluated by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), many of whom speak English as a second language. Historically, engineering GTAs have not been trained in formative assessment techniques to help students improve their technical writing skills. This dissertation details a comprehensive study of a GTA training program implemented in a large mechanical engineering department. Situated within the field of Writing Across the …

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Engaging Practice In Communication Education: Institutional Politics, Knowledge Economy, And State Power, Wincharles Coker

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

A grave concern in communication education scholarship is that research in practice plays second fiddle to theory. Little is known about the phenomenology of practice in communication pedagogy, and how it shapes and is shaped by programmatic assessment in particular. This dissertation attempts to explore the complexity of practice in communication education in a non-Western culture. The project demonstrates that the organizational culture that gives rise to the work of communication program administrators is always filtered and enacted through the interplay of institutional politics, the global knowledge economy, and state power. Using two public universities in Ghana, I argue, based …

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Clusivity In Presidential Discourse: A Rhetorical Discourse Analysis Of State-Of-The-Nation Addresses In Ghana And The United States, Stephen K. Dadugblor

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

This thesis examines the ways in which rhetors in presidential discourse simultaneously associate with and dissociate from their audiences in an attempt to consolidate power while subtly masking their actions. Drawing on comparative rhetoric and Andrus’ (2013) Rhetorical Discourse Analysis (RDA) that combines rhetoric and (critical) discourse analysis, I analyze the expressive values of selected lexical items, and the inclusive and exclusive uses of “we” in selected State of the Nation/Union Addresses in Ghana and the United States. I argue that presidents’ unique position during these speeches as both heads of nations and heads of their political parties presents a …

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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

Book Reviews & Books Received, Howard A. Snyder, Timothy J. Christian, Brian Shockey, Jeremy B. Griffin, Moe Moe Nyunt, Nicholas W. Carpenter, Robert Danielson, Grant Miller, Benjamin J. Snyder, Jeremy B. Griffin, Taylor S. Brown, Robert Danielson

The Asbury Journal

Floating Christian Endeavor As A Model For Mission To Migrants, Robert Danielson

The Asbury Journal

The Kingdom Life And The Witness Of The Church, Art Mcphee

The Asbury Journal

Praxis, Phenomena, And Spirit Reception In Luke-Acts: A Study Of Shared Elements In Luke’S Corporate Baptism Of The Holy Spirit Accounts, Thomas Lyons

The Asbury Journal

Multi-Point Nonlinear Spatial Distribution Of Effects Across The Soundfield, Stuart James

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Rhizomatic Approaches To Screen-Based Music Notation, Lindsay R. Vickery

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Tectonic: A Networked, Generative And Interactive, Conducting Environment For Ipad, Lindsay R. Vickery Dr, Stuart James

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Origins Of Jazz In America, Megan Macfalane

A with Honors Projects

My Experience In Bharata Natyam (Indian Dance), Camillia Mbo Ngubani

A with Honors Projects

Eight Ten, Delaney Walsh

A with Honors Projects

Epistemological Foundations Of Objectivist And Interpretivist Research, James Hiller

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Developing An Attitudinal Model Of Collaborative Consumption: Moderating Effects Of Consumer Traits And Situational Factors, Alyssa Dana Adomaitis, Caroline Kobia, Diana Saiki

Publications and Research

Advances In Promoting Literacy And Human Rights For Women And Girls Through Mobile Learning, Helen Crompton, Judith Dunkerly-Bean

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

#Iftheygunnedmedown: Postmodern Media Criticism In A Post-Racial World, Christopher P. Campbell

Faculty Publications

Animism Among Western Buddhists, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

The Maternal Personhood Of Cattle And Plants At A Hindu Center In The United States, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

Groundhog Oracles And Their Forebears, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

Headline Grabs For Music: The Development Of An Ipad Score Generator, Cat Hope, Stuart James, Aaron Wyatt

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Measuring The Value Of Cultural Activity In Regional Western Australia, Helen Rusak

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Concert Recording 2016-11-19, Ashlyn Berry, Helena Aung

Concert Recordings & Programs

The Need For A Teacher Librarian To Take A Leadership Role In The Implementation Of Supplemental Reading Program Initiatives To Achieve Desired Student Outcomes, Mindy M. Reimer

Graduate Research Papers

Concert Recording 2016-11-09, Andrew Chu, Elizabeth Lyon, Judd Burns, Sandy Nieves

Concert Recordings & Programs

A Master's Recital In Clarinet, Stacia Kay Fortune

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Graduate Recital In Conducting, John Chiles

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The Ten Tribes Of Wier In America - Accession 715 No. 6, Family History - Wier Family, William Swansea Wier

Manuscript Collection

The Blue Ridge Railroad: Letters Of Mr. George A. Trenholm And Mr. William Gregg On That Subject - Accession 1208 - M575 (628), Blue Ridge Railroad, George A. Trenholm, William Gregg

Manuscript Collection

Miriam Williford Papers - Accession 157, Miriam Williford

Manuscript Collection

Extending Writing In The Disciplines (Wid) To Train Mechanical Engineering Gtas To Evaluate Student Writing, Nancy Barr

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Engaging Practice In Communication Education: Institutional Politics, Knowledge Economy, And State Power, Wincharles Coker

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Clusivity In Presidential Discourse: A Rhetorical Discourse Analysis Of State-Of-The-Nation Addresses In Ghana And The United States, Stephen K. Dadugblor

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports