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Afro-Cuban Jazz Concert, Lawrence University Jazz Workshop, May 31, 2017, Lawrence University

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Harper Hall

A Recipe For Black Girl Magic: A Critical Study Of The Mise-En-Scene In Beyoncé’S Visual Album Lemonade As A Radical Representation Of Black Women, Tatiyana Jenkins

Lawrence University Honors Projects

Lemonade, a visual album released by pop icon Beyoncé Knowles Carter in 2016, crafts a mise-en-scene that redefines the way that black women are allowed to feel and exist in media culture. Contrary to the negative stereotypes and misrepresentations perpetuated in media, Lemonade is a radical attempt to provide audiences with an alternative representation of the experiences of black women. For this honors project, I address the controversy surrounding the visual album’s radical representations of black womanhood. To inform my understanding of the visual album I examine the various creative contributions such as the film Daughters of the Dust directed …

We Are One: Singing, Sisterhood, And Solidarity In Appleton-Area Women's Choirs, Lauren Vanderlinden

Lawrence University Honors Projects

Despite its relatively small population, the city of Appleton has a large and thriving women’s choir community. Between the Lawrence Academy of Music Girl Choir, which serves hundreds of girls every year, and Cantala, the women’s choir at Lawrence University, opportunities for involvement in nationally-recognized female-voice ensembles range from second grade all the way through to college graduation. Using the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler, Green, and Bentham, this project explores the women’s choir culture of Appleton in an attempt to discover the core values of these two influential programs. I accomplished this by conducting ethnographic research in the form …

Looking Through The Glass: An Album Of Original Music And Accompanying Artist Book, Sam Genualdi

Lawrence University Honors Projects

“Looking Through the Glass” is a 12 track, 38-minute long album of original songs accompanied by a hand-bound artist book. The book houses the CD as a well as an accordion-structure text block of original prints. The content and form of the work draw upon the experiences of the author to create a unique and personal take on memory as a human experience. Sam Genualdi composed and produced all of the music as well as created all of the art.

Classical Vibe, Viking Bassoon Ensemble, May 28, 2017, Lawrence University

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Harper Hall

Lawrence University Saxophone Studio Recital, May 28, 2017, Lawrence University

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Harper Hall

Lupé (Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble), May 28, 2017, Lawrence University

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Memorial Chapel

String Chamber Music Recital, May 28, 2017, Lawrence University

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Harper Hall

Program; 2017-05-28, The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus

Concert & Event Programs

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Sound Sketches, Lawrence University Symphonic Band, May 27, 2017, Lawrence University

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Memorial Chapel

Spring Choir Concert, Lawrence University Choirs, May 26, 2017, Lawrence University

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Memorial Chapel

Generations In Jazz: A Special Tribute To Composer And Pianist John Harmon, May 24, 2017, Lawrence University

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Memorial Chapel

Carpenter, Howard R., 1919-2016 (Mss 613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 613. Manuscript orchestral music for several pieces composed by Howard R. Carpenter, a music professor at Western Kentucky University from 1953 to 1984.

Establishing Connectivity Between The Existing Networked Music Notation Packages Quintet.Net, Decibel Scoreplayer And Maxscore, Stuart James, Cat Hope, Lindsay R. Vickery Dr, Aaron Wyatt, Ben Carey, Xiao Fu, Georg Hajdu

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

In this paper we outline a collaboration where live internet-based and local collaboration between research groups/musicians from Decibel New Music Ensemble (Perth, Australia) and ZM (Hamburg, Germany), was facilitated by novel innovations in customised software solutions employed by both groups. The exchange was funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and Universities Australia. Both groups were previously engaged in the research and performance of similar musical repertoire such as John Cage's 'Five' (1988) and 'Variations I — VIII' (1958-67) among others, the performances of which utilise graphic, animated and extended traditional Western music notation. Preliminary steps were taken to achieve communication …

Spring Term Keyboard Department Area Recital, May 23, 2017, Lawrence University

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Memorial Chapel

Lawrence Classical Guitar Studio Presents: Songs, Dances And Meditations, May 21, 2017, Lawrence University

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Harper Hall

Flute Studio Recital, May 21, 2017, Lawrence University

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Harper Hall

Composition Studio Recital, May 21, 2017, Lawrence University

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Harper Hall

World Music Series, Balinese Gamelan Concert, May 21, 2017, Lawrence University

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Memorial Chapel

Between Rock And Breeze, Lena Schmid

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis project consists of a series of works on paper and songs about the collusion of the body and nature. I use a lens that both distorts and makes clearer the ineffable ways our bodies shake their boundaries, moving without us and within us.

Expansions, Lawrence University Wind Ensemble, May 20, 2017, Lawrence University

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Memorial Chapel

Iglu (Improvisation Group Of Lawrence University), Found Objects And Invented Instruments, May 22, 2017, Lawrence University

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Shattuck Hall 163

Interdisciplinary Arts As An Agent For Community Building In A U.S. Public School, Ida Pappas

Educational Studies Dissertations

The aim of my dissertation research is to understand the relationship between interdisciplinary arts experiences and the establishment of a community culture in a mainstream public high school in northeast United States. With this research, I hope to provide evidence to support the inclusion of interdisciplinary arts projects in the fabric of students’ high school curricular and extra-curricular experiences. Through engagement in design, art, video, music, dance, theater and the close study of a minority culture, high school participants provided regular responses to planned survey questions and open-ended survey questions (Experience Sampling), as well as through interviews, written prompts and …

Flesh And Blood, Clayton Petras

Graduate School of Art Theses

In my work, I look for ways to visualize and document the degenerative mental disease of Parkinson’s and transform it into portrayals of the disease itself, its effects, and those it afflicts. Being a physical breakdown of the body, both popular culture and my own corporal understanding influence my interpretation and representation. This document outlines those influences and their buildup towards a shared understanding of the interests behind the work, as well as implies what the work does through these contexts.

How do we give identity to a disease that is difficult to diagnose or view on medical technology, currently …

Spring Opera Scenes '17, May 18, 2017, Lawrence University

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Stansbury Theatre

Lawrence University Jazz Band, Brazilian Jazz Concert, May 17, 2017, Lawrence University

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Memorial Chapel

Bendablesound: An Elastic Multisensory Surface Using Touch-Based Interactions To Assist Children With Severe Autism During Music Therapy, Franceli L. Cibrian, Oscar Peña, Deysi Ortega, Monica Tentori

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

Neurological Music Therapy uses live music to improve the sensorimotor regulation of children with severe autism. However, they often lack musical training and their impairments limit their interactions with musical instruments. In this paper, we present our co-design work that led to the BendableSound prototype: an elastic multisensory surface encouraging users to practice coordination movements when touching a fabric to play sounds. We present the results of a formative study conducted with 18 teachers showing BendableSound was perceived as “usable” and “attractive”. Then, we present a deployment study with 24 children with severe autism showing BendableSound is “easy to use” …

Piano Studio Recital Of Chi Yong Yun, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2016-2017

Students of Chi Yong Yun featuring works by Chopin, Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn, Gershwin, Chopin, Schumann, Bach and Scriabin.

Environmentalism And The Music Of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Karen Olson

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Music critics and scholars frequently present British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) as a green composer, but little work has been done to determine the kinds of environmentalism his music supports. This dissertation focuses on the relationship between Davies’s music and British environmentalism, both as protest music and as government policy. Drawing on such diverse fields as philosophy of the environment, British political history, and environmental aesthetics, I examine how Davies’s music responded to the political climate of its times, and how its reception changed as certain environmental models, such as sustainable development, gained political relevance. Over the course …

Who Benefits From Blackness? The White Compulsion For Capital, Akira Milligan

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

This project will examine the change in representations of blackness and black character in commercially successful hip hop music through music videos directed by Hype Williams from 1995 to 2005. This research will use a womanist approach to address the significant historical influence of storytelling in the black narrative and how the emerging concepts of hypermasculinity and the degradation of the black body have seemingly become the new normal. These concepts largely contribute to the negative stereotypical perceptions of black identity that keeps black bodies marginalized because there is little diversity in the public representations of blackness while there exists …