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Ziefel, Jenny. "A living instrument : the clarinet in jazz in the 1950s and 1960s /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11284.
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Thesis (D. Mus. Arts)--University of Washington, 2002.<br>Vita. Includes transcript of interview, vita and discography of Bill Smith (leaves 257-286). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-256).
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Breen, Edward George. "The performance practice of David Munrow and the early music consort of London : medieval music in the 1960s and 1970s." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.646010.
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Breen, Edward George. "The performance practice of David Munrow and the early music consort of London : medieval music in the 1960s and 1970s." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-performance-practice-of-david-munrow-and-the-early-music-consort-of-london(6153a225-144d-4664-96c4-125cd150f535).html.
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This thesis focuses on the musical contribution of David Munrow and his Early Music Consort of London (EMC) to the so-called early music revival of the 1960s and 1970s. By exploring the notion of shared cultural space in performances of medieval music by leading ensembles of the time, this thesis seeks to isolate aspects of performance practice unique to the EMC. An assessment of literary sources documenting the early music revival reveals clear nodes of discussion around Munrow’s methods of presenting early music in concert performance which are frequently classified as ‘showmanship’ with a focus on more scholarly performance practice decisions only evident in the post-Munrow period. Close readings of these sources are undertaken which are, in turn, weighed against Munrow’s early biography to map out the web of influences contributing to his musical life. Having established David Munrow’s intentions in performance, this thesis uses techniques of performance analysis to question whether he and the EMC achieved such stated aims in performance, and identifies how different approaches are made manifest in recordings by other ensembles. The findings, which seek to marry sonic analysis with reception history, are interpreted in the light of the New Cultural History of Music and reposition David Munrow, often seen as a showman who evangelized early music, as a musician who profoundly influenced the modern aesthetics and surface details of performance for subsequent generations of early musicians.
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Michaelsen, Garrett. "Analyzing musical interaction in jazz improvisations of the 1960s." Thesis, Indiana University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3599217.
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<p> Collaborative practices of music making abound in jazz improvisation. Nearly every jazz performance involves the coordination of numerous individuals in a dynamic group environment. Many music-theoretical approaches to jazz improvisation have emphasized the individual contributions of the improvising soloist; this emphasis tends to reinforce the widespread view of jazz as a soloist's art. To shift attention to collective dimensions of jazz improvisation, I propose an approach to group improvisation that takes interaction and exchange as crucial components of music making. </p><p> In the first chapter of part I, I examine previous analytical approaches in both the “psychological” (individual-centered) and “sociological” (group-centered) traditions, then develop a new theory of musical interaction in jazz improvisation in chapter 2. I construe interaction as the process by which one player intervenes in the unfolding performance of another. Their processes of “intervention” produce projections of musical continuations in the subsequent musical content or character of the other performers. An analyst may interpret the utterances of individual musicians as converging (projecting similar continuations) or diverging (projecting dissimilar continuations). Throughout the dissertation, I offer and analyze transcriptions of music taken from the decade of the 1960s, a decade in which interaction came even more to the fore due to the eclectic and vibrant combination of styles in jazz performance. </p><p> In part II of the dissertation, I extend the conception of interaction from the moment-based and player-to-player influenced level discussed in chapter 2 to three expanded “domains” of interactional activity: musical referents, roles, and styles of jazz practice. Chapter 3 introduces these domains and the Miles Davis quintet's influential recording <i>Live at the Plugged Nickel,</i> from which I draw the majority of musical examples in part II. Chapter 4 examines the influence pre-improvisational referents, such as tunes, arrangements, and prior performances, have on the performative actions of musicians. Musical roles (horns, bassist, drummer, and pianist) and functions (soloing, comping, and keeping time) and their impacts on musicians' utterances are the focus of chapter 5. To conclude part II, chapter 6 explores the real-time demands of jazz style, particularly its fundamental uncertainty about the music's future state and the ways in which style can motivate interactional dimensions of improvisation. </p><p> Part III of the dissertation introduces a method for analyzing entire performances using this theory of musical interaction. Chapter 7 focuses on an intriguing piano-trio recording <i>Money Jungle</i> by Duke Ellington, an infamous album for the at-times-prickly relationships it exhibits between Ellington and his bandmates Charles Mingus and Max Roach. I analyze transcriptions of two complete performances on the record, “Fleurette Africaine” for its predominantly convergent impulses, and “Money Jungle” for its divergent trajectories. In both analyses, I “improvisationally” shift between different musical aspects and interactional domains in order to fashion an analytical narrative of their interactional projections and resultant outcomes.</p>
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Ketema, Raymok. "ERITREAN SOUNDS OF RESISTANCE: A HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, and MUSICAL ANALYSIS ON THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1960s to 1990s." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524148034538656.
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Adelt, Ulrich. "Black, white and blue racial politics of blues music in the 1960s /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/128.
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Johan, Adil Bin. "Articulating a nation-in-the-making : the cosmopolitan aesthetics of Malay film music from the 1950s to 1960s." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/articulating-a-nationinthemaking(b536d96b-536c-466e-831c-7ce8feb64738).html.
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This thesis provides an in-depth study of the ‘Golden Age of Malay Film’ (1950s to 1960s) by analysing the musical practices and discourses of commercially-produced vernacular Malay films. In exploring the potency of such films and music, it uncovers the relevance of screened music in articulating the complexities and paradoxes of a cosmopolitan Malay identity within the context of mid twentieth-century capitalism, late British colonialism and Malaysian and Singaporean independence. Essentially, I argue that the film music produced during this period articulates a cosmopolitan aesthetic of postcolonial nation-making based on a conception of Malay ethnonationalism that was initially fluid, but eventually became homogenised as national culture. Drawing theoretically on how cosmopolitan practices are constituted within discursive and structural contexts, this thesis analyses how Malay film music covertly expressed radical ideas despite being produced within a commercial film industry. While non-Malay collaborators owned and produced such films that were subject to British censorship, Malay composers such as P. Ramlee and Zubir Said helmed the musical authorship of such films; thereby, enabling an expressive space for their Malaynationalist aspirations. Methodologically, the study unravels the complexities and paradoxes of emergent nation-making through an intertextual analysis of Malay film music; drawing on film narratives, musical and historiographical analysis, literature surveys, and ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that Malay film music from the independence-era could not be confined by rigid ethno-national boundaries when its very aesthetic foundations were pluralistic and contemporaneous with the history of constant change, exchange, interactivity and diversity in the Malay world. This thesis reveals that despite the forced homogeneity of Malay nationalism, Malay film music from the independence-era challenged a limited conception of ethno-national identity. The aspiring and inspiring cosmopolitan ‘frameworks’ of P. Ramlee’s and Zubir Said’s music reverberates in new interpretations of identity, independence, and musical expression in the Malay world.
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Thomas, Helen Christina. "Disturbing times : metaphors of temporality in avant-garde music of the 1960s." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.632545.
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Attili, Maurizio. "A Panoramic View of the Italian Beat Movement." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1289323378.
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Dauterive, Jessica A. "Picturing the Cajun Revival: Swallow Records, Album Art, and Marketing an Identity of South Louisiana, 1960s-1970s." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2138.
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In South Louisiana in the late 1950s, Ville Platte native Floyd Soileau joined a network of independent recording companies across the United States that provided an opportunity for local entrepreneurs and artists to profit from the global music industry. This paper analyzes the album covers of Floyd Soileau’s Cajun recording label, Swallow Records, during the 1960s-1970s. This period overlaps with a movement to subvert a negative regional identity among Louisiana Cajuns that is often referred to as the Cajun revival. Through a consideration of album covers as objects of business strategy and creative expression, as well as oral histories with individuals who worked with Swallow Records, this paper argues that Floyd Soileau shaped the perception of Cajun music and people through the channels of the global music industry. On the album covers of Swallow Records, Floyd Soileau marketed a Cajun identity that was rural, white, masculine, and French-speaking, and became an accidental facilitator of the social and political goals of leaders in the Cajun revival.
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Meynell, Anthony. "How recording studios used technology to invoke the psychedelic experience : the difference in staging techniques in British and American recordings in the late 1960s." Thesis, University of West London, 2017. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/3837/.
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This thesis focuses on a time in the mid-1960s where practice in the studio changed from a formal arena where previously rehearsed songs were recorded, to a playground where sonic possibilities were explored and sound manipulation became normal practice. This abuse of technology and manipulation of reality became part of the creative process in the studio, providing soundscapes that resonated with the counter-cultural ethos of upsetting the established order, and were adopted by the mainstream during the 1967 ‘Summer of Love”. Following a discussion of current literature, practice as research is applied to demonstrate how interaction with historical technology reveals the performative nature of the tacit knowledge that created many of the aural effects under consideration. The research then focuses through the prism of two case studies, “Eight Miles High” recorded by The Byrds in Los Angeles in January 1966, and “Rain”, recorded by The Beatles in London in April 1966. Through re-enactment of these historical recording sessions, I recreate the closed envirnment of the 1960’s recording studio. By interacting with historical technology and following a similar structure to the original sessions, I investigate how the methodology was influenced by collaborative actions, situational awareness and the demarcation of roles. Post session video analysis reveals the flow of decision making as the sessions unfold, and how interaction with the technological constraints recreates ‘forgotten’ techniques that were deemed everyday practice at the time and were vital to the outcome of the soundscapes. The thesis combines theory and practice to develop an understanding of how the engineers interacted with technology (Polanyi, 1966), often abusing the equipment to create manipulated soundscapes (Akrich and Latour, 1992), and how the sessions responded to musicians demanding innovation and experimentation, circumventing the constraints of established networks of practice (Law and Callon, 1986) during the flow of the recording session (Ingold, 2013).
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Hagen, Trever Thomas. "Musicking in the merry ghetto : the Czech underground from the 1960s to the 2000s." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3726.
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By investigating the case of the Czech Underground from the 1960s to the 2000s, this thesis seeks to explore ways in which an enacted cultural space enables acts of ‘togetherness’ and as such ‘protects’ or ‘immunizes’ individuals and groups from perceived forms of oppression. The data presented in this thesis is taken from an ethnographic and archival study of the Underground through interviews, participant observation and archival research in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. I describe how the term ‘Underground’ does not refer to a physical place but rather to a conceptual and symbolic space or set of occasions where dispositions are learned, maintained and adapted and where the world can be viewed, imagined and acted upon. I describe how that space was created through the location, arrangement and informal learning about how to appropriate a cluster of cultural practices and materials: physical appearances, actions, felt dispositions, mental states and objects. For those who became part of this Underground, to varying degrees, this cluster of cultural practices facilitated embodied, emotional and cognitive postures toward social and cultural life in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. These postures were in turn a platform for collective experience. I examine actors as they furnished this Underground cultural space through locating, opening up and crafting available aesthetic resources in local environments. My focus is on ‘non-official’ musicking practices in Czechoslovakia starting from the 1960s such as listening to the radio, seeking out records tapes, listening to LPs, growing long hair, illegal concerts, and home-studio recordings. Within these practices, I look to how aesthetic material—raw, un-tuned, heavy—took hold and provided a resource for the bases of community activity. Through these grounded examples, I show how a group of people assembled a parallel aesthetic ecology that allowed for acts of rejecting and communing, the doing of resistance. In this way, I attempt to show how resistance became a form of immunity or ‘cocooning’ against unwanted cultural material and thus a technology of health at the community level.
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Murphy, Nancy Elizabeth. "The times they are a-changin : flexible meter and text expression in 1960s and 70s singer-songwriter music." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/56193.
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The 1960s and 70s saw the flowering of the singer-songwriter style, which featured acoustic performances by artists who were the composers and lyricists of their own music. Reflecting their culture, their songs carried messages of personal and political significance. But their music is of technical as well as of social interest. Like classical art song, it often highlights lyrical meaning with various sorts of metric irregularities. In this dissertation, I closely analyze twenty-seven songs by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, and Cat Stevens, in order to characterize the metric style of their songwriting and demonstrate their use of meter as an expressive device. To describe meter in this music requires theories more flexible than those usually applied to groove-based music. The analyses in this dissertation draw not only from theories of meter as a hierarchy of beat streams, but also upon theories of metrical process and prosody, in order to create transcriptions, to describe precisely listeners' sensations of meter, and to propose expressive rationales for metric settings. As an introduction to the style and the theoretical issues, Chapter 1 considers the problems of conceiving of meter in the expressively timed context of Mitchell’s “The Fiddle and the Drum.” Chapter 2 examines the existing methods for analyzing meter in music and poetry, in order to find some productive ways to analyze this metrically fluctuant repertoire. Chapter 3 considers transcription as analysis, showing that one's conception of meter informs and constrains musical representation, and therefore interpretations of lyrical meaning. In Chapter 4, I position 1960s and 70s songwriting in its cultural and political environment, reviewing some stylistic precedents to understand their influence, and determine its original metrical techniques. In the remaining analytical chapters, I examine meter-text expression in songs by Simon, Sainte-Marie, and Stevens (Chapter 5), the expression of character and lyrical personae in the narratives of three solo-piano-accompanied songs by Mitchell (Chapter 6), and how Dylan adapted text-expressive metric techniques of earlier genres in a variety of original ways (Chapter 7).<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Music, School of<br>Graduate
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Sutton, Matthew D. "The Young, Clean-Cut America: The Hootenanny, Revisited." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2365.
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Mazey, Paul Adrian. "British Film Music, 1930s-1950s." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730833.
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Firca, Stefan. "Circles and Circuses: Carnivalesque Tropes in the Late 1960s Musical and Cultural Imagination." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306865194.
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Lee, Gui Hwan. "The Roots of Texture as a Structural Agent in Luciano Berio’s Sincronie for String Quartet (1964), as Seen in His Early 1960s Orchestral Works, Nones, Tempi Concertati, Allez-hop, and Epifanie as well as Late 1960s Work, Sinfonia." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504801778724386.
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Mendoza, Marisa B. "Canciones del Movimiento Chicano/Songs of the Chicano Movement: The Impact of Musical Traditions on the 1960s Chicano Civil Rights Movement." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/129.
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This thesis analyzes resistance songs as key representations of the identity and political formation that took place during the 1960s Chicano movement. Examining particular musical traditions, this thesis highlights the value of placing songs of the Chicano struggle in national narratives of history as well as in the context of an enduring and thriving legacy of political and social activism that continues to allow the Chicano community to recognize and validate their current social realities.
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Hogg, Anthony. "From 'Can't Buy Me Love' to 'How Deep is Your Love?' : an analysis examining key phases of development of the functions of popular music in U.K. and U.S. films of the 1960s and 1970s." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2017. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/5443/.
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This thesis aims to identify the extent to which popular music functionality in UK and US film can be regarded as a developmental process, and, in particular, the importance of the contribution of the 13-year period bounded by the films A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, UK, 1964) and Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, USA, 1977) to this. It also explores salient cultural, historical and industrial factors which may have influenced development. Both these areas have been largely neglected to date. Within the period identified above, three key phases have been recognized which each contributed to specific innovations and developments. These have been labelled ‘The British Invasion Phase’, ‘The New Hollywood Alienation Phase’ and ‘The Disco Phase’. For each of these a primary film text (A Hard Day’s Night, The Graduate and Saturday Night Fever respectively) is analyzed in detail, with reference to the work of Claudia Gorbman and Jeff Smith on the principles of musical function in film. In addition, these chapters are prefaced by an examination of a further stage, ‘The Classic American Musical Phase’, covering a period of relative inactivity, in respect of developments in popular music function, prior to the ‘British Invasion Phase’. Examples of two of Elvis Presley’s films, Girls! Girls! Girls! and It Happened at the World’s Fair, are examined to illustrate why innovation was lacking at this time. As this thesis is not only concerned with what innovations occurred but also why they manifested specifically during a particular phase, individual chapters extend beyond pure film analysis into a study of crucial elements of cultural and popular music history associated with aspects of The British Invasion, New Hollywood and Disco.
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Franks, Daniel. "Jazz in Hollywood (1950s – 1970s)." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/381456/.
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Serious jazz can be found in places where it is least expected, in mainstream Hollywood films. This thesis aims to demonstrate how film composers (such as Henry Mancini, Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin) challenged established conventions in the music and film industries between the late 1950s and the late 1970s. During this period, film composers were producing jazz for a global audience; their musical contribution is integral to our current understanding of jazz history. It is by viewing the history of film music through the various ways in which it is received (in music journals, performances, publications, recordings, films) that a new perspective on jazz history will be achieved. Giving focus to individual film scores, using detailed analysis and transcription, this thesis will highlight key moments in history that reveal how important film composers are to the story of jazz. With the study of journalistic and academic publications, it will also show how wider changes in American society were represented by jazz composers in film scores. Considering the history of jazz through the reception of Hollywood film scores enables new ways to define the genre. For instance, by taking into account the future performance life of a composition, this thesis will provide a new perspective on the fundamental characteristics of a jazz composition. These new ways to consider the genre demonstrate why film music should be included within the jazz-historical canon.
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Liao, Yen Jen Yvonne. "Western music and municipality in 1930s and 1940s Shanghai." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2017. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/western-music-and-municipality-in-1930s-and-1940s-shanghai(aafa1e93-7c19-44d9-8c77-df226ed5d568).html.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the complex relationship between western music and municipality in 1930s and 1940s Shanghai. The objective is to carry out an inquiry into musical venues, municipal policies and ideas of musical sound in a fragmented administrative geography. Music historians have yet to research in tandem municipalities of the British and French settlers, Japanese military and the Chinese Nationalists—an alternative historical modelling that nuances studies of 1930s and 1940s Shanghai as a global and colonial metropolis. In terms of the evidence, the thesis draws on documentary sources in Chinese, English, French and German from Shanghai’s treaty port, war and postwar years. Surviving materials extend from concert programmes, used scores and musical advertisements to venue licences and tax correspondence. The four main chapters function as case studies; each is located in a specific municipality. Chapter One discusses the International Settlement: British settlers’ sonic values and the aural phenomenon of the Shanghai Municipal Brass Band in the parks. Chapter Two discusses the French Concession: the sonic regulation of the French Municipal Council and the jarring but no less ‘French’ entertainment of eateries. Chapter Three discusses ‘Little Vienna’ in Japanese-occupied Shanghai: the landscape of European Jewish cafés and their sound worlds of Unterhaltungsmusik in the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees. Chapter Four discusses Nationalist Shanghai: eateries’ claims of a distinct musical sound in the context of an anti-music tax policy. The Epilogue shifts from ‘1930s and 1940s Shanghai’ as a matter of music history to matters of historiography, first exploring reproduction maps and repositories, then outlining some further directions for an archival musicology. In terms of its overall contribution, the thesis brings to light not only Shanghai’s western musical venues and municipal policies, but also the peculiar geography of a city of cities, multinational yet divided.
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Piotrowski, Stephanie Anne. ""All I've got to do is act naturally" : issues of image and performance in the Beatles' films." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/51353.
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In this thesis, I examine the Beatles’ five feature films in order to argue how undermining generic convention and manipulating performance codes allowed the band to control their relationship with their audience and to gain autonomy over their output. Drawing from P. David Marshall’s work on defining performance codes from the music, film, and television industries, I examine film form and style to illustrate how the Beatles’ filmmakers used these codes in different combinations from previous pop and classical musicals in order to illicit certain responses from the audience. In doing so, the role of the audience from passive viewer to active participant changed the way musicians used film to communicate with their fans. I also consider how the Beatles’ image changed throughout their career as reflected in their films as a way of charting the band’s journey from pop stars to musicians, while also considering the social and cultural factors represented in the band’s image. Such elements in the Beatles’ carefully constructed image reflected youth culture and countercultural thoughts and beliefs. Finally, through a close analysis of the Beatles’ musical sequences I have shown how experimentation with artistic synergy enabled the band to produce new and innovative films and lyrics while allowing each member to develop as individual musicians. This experimentation and willingness to undermine traditional film and pop music practices helped to change artists’ approaches in the entertainment industries.
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Jansson, Fredrik. "Frijazz äntrar scenen : Något nytt som skapar debatt och dess plats i den svenska jazzdiskursen." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-168930.
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When a new type of jazz, later often referred to as free jazz, entered the Swedish jazz scene at the time when the 1950s became the 1960s, an intense debate occurred within the Swedish jazz community. A debate between those in favor of the new style, its expressions and the direction in which jazz was moving towards in general, versus those who disliked this new development, thought that it was too extreme and was not in line with the traditions of jazz. This essay will bring this debate to light and analyze different aspects of it, with a similar controversy in mind which took place at the time of the arrival of bebop, approximately fifteen years earlier. The primary aim is to integrate free jazz into the Swedish jazz narrative, something that has been neglected in earlier research. Through discourse analysis, contemporary thoughts and values are brought to the surface. In part to better understand how and why these different opinions came to be, but above all, if they were part of other contemporary discussions, strives and struggles within the Swedish jazz community. The findings point towards the fact that free jazz played an important role in both the contemporary Swedish jazz discourse and the development of jazz at large. Free jazz expanded the spectrum of expression within the genre and helped jazz in general to reach a status of high culture, a strive that had existed for a long time.
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Richardson, Gerry. "Where did the music come from? : maintaining and extending the 1960s hard bop legacy of Hammond organ practice in a large ensemble context at the beginning of the 21st century." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442215.
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This PhD submission consists of two discrete parts: Part one is a thesis which examines some of the current debates of cultural and critical theory as a background to my own practice and looks in particular at some of the ways in which music production and performance in this period relates to my own work as a composer and performer. For this, I draw on the work of a number of authors including Barthes, Becker, Frith, Goodwin, Hesmondhalgh, Jameson, and Toynbee and pay particular attention to the relationship between contemporary notions of creative production in a so-called `postmodern' environment. I do this with special reference to the Hard Bop of Black America in the 1960s and, more broadly, the practices and procedures of musicians working in the aural traditions of Jazz and Popular music. In the latter part of the thesis a semi-autobiographical approach is taken in order to examine and deconstruct my creative process; here I look in particular at some of the issues relating to collective cultural production and collective authorship. The thesis also contains as an appendix a number of short commentaries on my works. Part two is a portfolio of 18 recordings and scores of a collaborative nine-piece, improvising Hammond organ-lead ensemble. The ensemble consists of 3 reeds (saxophones and flute in various combinations), 2 trumpets doubling flugelhorn, trombone, organ, guitar and drums. I composed all of the music in the portfolio and arranged 14 of the pieces. Anthony Adams arranged the other 4 compositions. The recordings have a collective running time of approximately 110 minutes and are performed by the `first call' professional musicians of northern England. 14 of the compositions were recorded `live' with an audience and the 4 most recent recordings were produced in studio conditions. The starting point for this long-term, on-going project was the Hard-Bop tradition of 1960s/70s Hammond organ practice (sometimes known as `Acid jazz') but the aim has been to extend and develop this approach by using a number and juxtaposition of more recent styles, combinations of instruments and harmonic procedures to create a surprising synthesis.
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Vlčková, Petra. "Hudba jako výraz životního stylu ve Velké Británii v šedesátých letech 20. století. Příspěvek k evropské konzumní společnosti po roce 1945." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124637.
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This thesis focuses on the British music scene in the 1960s. Popular music was one of the main manifestations of consumerism and influenced the behavior of most young people. The aim of the thesis is to explain the extent in which popular music played a role in the establishment of a consumer society and, above all, the impact caused by interpreters and music groups on the lifestyle of their listeners and audiences.The thesis also examines how the British music developed in the Sixties and how it was characterized.The thesis is based on the assumption that the 1960s' is a key decade in the postwar history of modern society, a time when fundamental changes occurred in the value systems of most Western societies, notably the British. New generations of young people associated with economic prosperity surfaced at that time, fostering the development of the phenomenon of consumer society, thus changing people's lifestyles.The first part of the thesis is dedicated to economic and social assumptions of the development of the consumer society. The second part of the thesis addresses the social structure of the British society, focusing on the youth - arguably, the social extract that was most appealed by popular music. The core part of the thesis analyses the British music scene in the 1960s, with focus on the music groups and also the music industry and its impal on the lifestyle of youth.
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Yip, Ka-man. "A study of Hong Kong popular song lyrics from 1970s to 1990s." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22199731.
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Chen, Szu-Wei. "The music industry and popular song in 1930s and 1940s Shanghai : a historical and stylistic analysis." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/202.
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In 1930s and 1940s Shanghai, musicians and artists from different cultures and varied backgrounds joined and made the golden age of Shanghai popular song which suggests the beginnings of Chinese popular music in modern times. However, Shanghai popular song has long been neglected in most works about the modern history of Chinese music and remains an unexplored area in Shanghai studies. This study aims to reconstruct a historical view of the Shanghai popular music industry and make a stylistic analysis of its musical products. The research is undertaken at two levels: first, understanding the operating mechanism of the ‘platform’ and second, investigating the components of the ‘products’. By contrasting the hypothetical flowchart of the Shanghai popular music industry, details of the producing, selling and consuming processes are retrieved from various historical sources to reconstruct the industry platform. Through the first level of research, it is found that the rising new media and the flourishing entertainment industry profoundly influenced the development of Shanghai popular song. In addition, social and political changes and changes in business practices and the organisational structure of foreign record companies also contributed to the vast production, popularity and commercial success of Shanghai popular song. From the composition-performance view of song creation, the second level of research reveals that Chinese and Western musical elements both existed in the musical products. The Chinese vocal technique, Western bel canto and instruments from both musical traditions were all found in historical recordings. When ignoring the distinctive nature of pentatonicism but treating Chinese melodies as those on Western scales, Chinese-style tunes could be easily accompanied by chordal harmony. However, the Chinese heterophonic feature was lost in the Western accompaniment texture. Moreover, it is also found that the traditional rules governing the relationship between words and the melody was dismissed in Shanghai popular songwriting. The findings of this study fill in the neglected part in modern history of Chinese music and add to the literature on the under-explored musical area in Shanghai studies. Moreover, this study also demonstrates that against a map illustrating how musical products moved from record companies to consumers along with all other involved participants, the history of popular music can be rediscovered systematically by using songs as evidence, treating media material carefully and tracking down archives and surviving participants.
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葉嘉敏 and Ka-man Yip. "A study of Hong Kong popular song lyrics from 1970s to 1990s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952896.
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Purba, Mauly 1961. "Musical and functional change in the gondang sabangunan tradition of the Protestant Toba Batak 1860s-1990s, with particular reference to the 1980s-1990s." Monash University, Dept. of Music, 1998. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8596.
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Olson, Ted. "Perspectives on the Location Concept of Country Roots Recording Sessions in the 1920s and 1930s." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1116.
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Laux, Katie M. "Songs in the key of protest how music reflects the social turbulence in America from the late 1950s to the early 1970s /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1184767254.
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Pruvost, Céline. "La chanson d’auteur dans la société italienne des années 1960 et 1970 : une étude cantologique et interculturelle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040227.
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Cette thèse de doctorat analyse un objet culturel spécifique, la chanson d’auteur en Italie, entre 1958 et 1980. L’approche méthodologique choisie, la cantologie, consiste à croiser des analyses de texte, de musique et d’interprétation. L’étude s’intéresse également aux liens entre les chansons et le contexte culturel et social italien, ainsi qu’aux influences d’autres cultures, à travers les chansons francophones et anglophones.La première partie apporte une série de repères. Retracer l’émergence du néologisme « cantautore » et de l’expression « chanson d’auteur » permet de définir précisément le champ de l’étude. Une mise en perspective historique est complétée par des éléments géographiques et biographiques sur les auteurs du corpus. La deuxième partie rassemble des réflexions d’ordre méthodologique et esthétique, en proposant une synthèse d’approches innovantes et pluridisciplinaires qui permettent de ne pas réduire l’étude de la chanson à celle de son texte, et d’éviter ainsi l’assimilation encore trop fréquente avec la poésie. Une analyse comparée de traductions chantables et non-chantables démontre que l’écriture musicale conditionne profondément l’écriture textuelle. La troisième partie analyse les principales innovations introduites par les cantautori : l’évolution des contenus thématiques est d’abord mise au regard des évolutions législatives italiennes, pour aller ensuite vers une focalisation sur l’intérieur de la forme chanson, complétée par une étude de l’agencement des chansons entre elles. Ce cheminement débouche sur l’analyse d’interactions du genre chanson avec d’autres langages, à travers des formes incluant l’image, comme le cinéma ou l’opéra rock<br>This doctoral thesis analyzes a specific cultural object, the songs by singer-songwriters in Italy, between 1958 and 1980. The chosen methodological approach, cantology, consists in crossing analysis of text, music and interpretation. The study also looks at links between songs and Italian cultural and social context in which they were created, as well as and influences from other cultures, with francophone and anglophone songs.The first part provides a series of benchmarks to seize this object. Redrawing emergence of the neologism "cantautore" and expression "canzone d’autore" allows to precisely define the field. Historical perspective is given, as well as geographical and biographical elements regarding the authors of the corpus. The second part gathers methodological and aesthetic reflections, by offering a synthesis of innovative and multidisciplinary approaches which allow not to reduce the study of the song to that of its text, thus avoiding yet too frequent assimilation with poetry. An analysis comparing singable and non-singable translations shows how writing music deeply affects writing texts. The third part analyzes the major innovations introduced in the song in these two decades : at first considering thematic content changes with regard to the Italian legislative changes, then focusing inside of the song, and finally studying the layout of these songs. This path leads to the study of song genre interactions with other languages, through forms including image, such as film or rock opera
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Laux, Katie. "SONGS IN THE KEY OF PROTEST: HOW MUSIC REFLECTS THE SOCIAL TURBULENCE IN AMERICA FROM THE LATE 1950S TO THE EARLY 1970S." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1184767254.
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Gerolamo, Ismael de Oliveira 1987. "Arte engajada e música popular instrumental nos anos 60 : o caso do Quarteto Novo." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285266.
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Previous issue date: 2014<br>Resumo: O objeto desta dissertação é a produção musical do grupo Quarteto Novo registrada no LP homônimo lançado pela gravadora Odeon em 1967. Partindo de análises de fonogramas do disco, verificou-se que o grupo produziu uma linguagem híbrida, operando com elementos musicais regionais, principalmente aqueles identificados com a cultura sertaneja nordestina, articulados a procedimentos de outros gêneros e estilos associados a repertórios cosmopolitas. A investigação partiu de duas hipóteses: a possibilidade do ideário nacional-popular dos anos 60 ter balizado as escolhas estéticas dos músicos, orientando-os na retomada de tradições musicais brasileiras; e a de que a ruptura com o jazz, expressa nos discursos dos músicos, é relativa, uma vez que há sinais evidentes de procedimentos típicos do gênero norte-americano na construção da sonoridade característica do quarteto. O projeto artístico que orientou a produção do referido LP refletiu, na opinião dos próprios músicos, a preocupação com o "nacionalismo musical" e a busca de uma sonoridade "tipicamente brasileira". Tudo isso se traduziu em aspectos de arranjo, instrumentação e improvisação que se remetem às tradições musicais populares. A proposta do Quarteto Novo estava inserida num contexto de grande efervescência política e cultural impulsionada por artistas e intelectuais sintonizados com o que Ridenti definiu como "brasilidade revolucionária", uma construção simbólica que se constituiu numa maneira específica de auto-compreensão do Brasil naqueles anos, com forte conotação utópica. A brasilidade revolucionária serviu de parâmetro para a mobilização de uma geração de intelectuais e artistas que protagonizou uma das mais importantes experiências de arte engajada da história brasileira. Nessa conjuntura, a idealização de um autêntico "homem do povo", com raízes rurais, sertanejas, orientou boa parte da produção artística daqueles anos, da qual o disco Quarteto Novo pode ser considerado um exemplo significativo<br>Abstract: The object of this work is the musical production of the Brazilian group Quarteto Novo recorded on the homonymous LP released by Odeon in 1967. Based on analysis of phonograms disk has been found that the group produced a hybrid language, working with regional musical elements, especially those identified with the Brazilian Northeastern culture, articulated to techniques from other genres and styles. The investigation started with two assumptions: the possibility of national-popular ideology of the 60 Tues christened the aesthetic choices of the musicians, guiding them in the recovery of Brazilian musical traditions; and that the idea of rupture with jazz, expressed in the speeches of their own musicians, is relative, since there is very clear signs of typical procedures of jazz in the sonority of the Quarteto Novo. The aesthetic project that guides the production of that LP reflected, in the opinion of the musicians themselves, the concern with the "musical nationalism" and the search for a sound "typically Brazilian". All this has translated into aspects of arrangement, instrumentation and improvisation which refer to the popular music traditions. The proposal of the Quarteto Novo was embedded in a context of great political and cultural ferment stimulated by artists and intellectuals in tune with what Ridenti defined as "revolutionary Brazilianness," a symbolic construction that was a specific way of self-understanding of Brazil in those years, with a strong utopian connotation. The "revolutionary Brazilianness" served as a parameter to mobilize a generation of intellectuals and artists who starred in one of the most important experiences of activist art of Brazilian history. At this conjuncture, the idealization of a real "man of the people" with rural roots oriented much of the artistic production of those years, of which the disc Quarteto Novo is one of the most significant examples<br>Mestrado<br>Fundamentos Teoricos<br>Mestre em Música
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Mikkonen, Simo. "Music and power in the Soviet 1930s : a history of composers' bureaucracy /." Lewiston, N.Y. [u.a.] : Mellen, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017397006&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Anderson, Shana C. "Ideal Performance Practice for Silent Film: An Overview of How-to Manuals and Cue Sheet Music Accompaniment from the 1910s – 1920s." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30223.
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This thesis argues that how-to manuals and cue sheets are indicative of ideal performance practice amongst musicians from the silent film era. Pre-scored music was widely practiced amongst musicians. How-to manuals and cue sheets helped the musician accurately and consistently accompany a film. Authors of period manuals include W. Tyacke George, Edith Lang and George West, Ernst Luz and George Tootell. Compilers of cue sheet include James C. Bradford, Ernst Luz, Edward Kilenyi and Michael P. Krueger. Cue by cue analyses of The Cat and the Canary and The Gaucho show a high repetition of music, establishing continuity between the music played and the image on the screen. This shows how compilers associated music and film. These manuals and cue sheets prove that the musician community strove for a close connection between the image on screen and accompaniment. By 1920, arbitrary improvisation was unacceptable.
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Kleppinger, Stanley V. "Tonal coherence in Copland's music of the 1940s /." Abstract, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1225126531&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=12010&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Curran, Terence William. "Recording classical music in Britain : the long 1950s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2340cf56-c2be-4c0b-b5a6-2cfe06c22fe4.
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During the 1950s the experience of recording was transformed by a series of technical innovations including tape recording, editing, the LP record, and stereo sound. Within a decade recording had evolved into an art form in which multiple takes and editing were essential components in the creation of an illusory ideal performance. The British recording industry was at the forefront of development, and the rapid growth in recording activity throughout the 1950s as companies built catalogues of LP records, at first in mono but later in stereo, had a profound impact on the music profession in Britain. Despite this, there are few documented accounts of working practices, or of the experiences of those involved in recording at this time, and the subject has received sparse coverage in academic publications. This thesis studies the development of the recording of classical music in Britain in the long 1950s, the core period under discussion being 1948 to 1964. It begins by considering the current literature on recording, the cultural history of the period in relation to classical music, and the development of recording in the 1950s. Oral history informs the central part of the thesis, based on the analysis of 89 interviews with musicians, producers, engineers and others involved in recording during the 1950s and 1960s. The thesis concludes with five case studies, four of significant recordings - Tristan und Isolde (1952), Peter Grimes (1958), Elektra (1966-67), and Scheherazade (1964) - and one of a television programme, The Anatomy of a Record (1975), examining aspects of the recording process. The thesis reveals the ways in which musicians, producers, and engineers responded to the challenges and opportunities created by advances in technology, changing attitudes towards the aesthetics of performance on record, and the evolving nature of practices and relationships in the studio. It also highlights the wider impact of recording on musical practice and its central role in helping to raise standards of musical performance, develop audiences for classical music, and expand the repertoire in concert and on record.
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Osiebe, Garhe Victor. "Political music genres in postcolonial Nigeria, 1960-2013." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6812/.
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This thesis attempts an intervention in popular music classification. It argues that popular musicians do not only choose the titles to their works, but go further to define the genres of these works. The dynamic at play is such that most popular musicians claim to produce works of different and new genres with each new work they create. By engaging with the works of a selection of Nigerian popular musicians, the thesis demonstrates that the disorderliness in popular music branding can be restricted. Through a critical discourse analysis of the textual elements of the material and of ‘alternative’ audience contributions, the thesis advocates a new genre of popular music, namely the genre of ‘political music’. This distinctive genre is extractable from the otherwise conventional genres of popular music, and is composed of three comprehensible subgenres namely protest political music, unity political music and terrestrial praise political music. The study’s selection is made of popular music material from hip hop, reggae, afro-beat, and juju genres. They are delivered in popular Nigerian languages ranging between Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, English and Pidgin English.
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Bidgood, Lee, and Doctors and Outlaws. "Celebration of 1970s Country-Rock-Grass Fusion." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1063.
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A one-time celebration of the 1970s country-rock-grass fusion of Crowe, Parsons, the Rices, the Burritos, etc. View the YouTube videos below:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbWzeKhdbus
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrFFCPPXw4
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je5oXBpDGmU
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkNjD079QFQ
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Dorsch, Juliane Verena. "Nostalgia and modernism in puppet music of the 1920s." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531310.
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Tietze, Gwendolyn Veronika. "Writing the middle ages : medieval music in the 1920s." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420993.
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Foreman, Lewis. "English music 1860-1960 : its reception, revival and recording." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2005. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54335/.
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This submission, under the regulations for PhD by published works, consists of fifty articles by the author, together with the second edition of the book Bax: a composer and his times. These are presented in facsimile in three volumes together with a supporting essay and personal bibliography. The subject is the reception of British music, with special emphasis on the first half of the twentieth century. Three broad themes are considered: general and local musical histories, studies of recording and broadcasting, and the discussion of specific genres and specific works of British composers from the period. Specific composers include Sir Arnold Bax (1883-1953), Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946), Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Alan Bush (1900-1995), Frederick Delius (1862-1934), Thomas F Dunhill (1877-1946), Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Berthold Goldschmidt (1903-1996), Trevor Hold (1939-2004), Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Sir William Walton (1902-1983) and Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) (1894-1930). The over-riding theme is the reception, performance history and promotion of new music by British composers in the first half of the twentieth century, and the roots of the musical life in the in the nineteenth century. Notable concerns are the role of recording, broadcasting, the press, and the impact of composer trusts in promoting the music of specific composers. The BBC Written Archives at Caversham have been the principal source, and the central role of the BBC is one of the major concerns. The nature of 'Englishness' in music (including the importance of English literature, folksong and landscape) is another, as is the impact of contemporary events, significantly the two world wars. British music is set in context by reference to wider subjects, such as the second Vienna School including Anton Webern, the conductor Oskar Fried, and the emigre composers who settled in England before and during the Second World War.
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Kim, Patricia Costa. "Making music their own : school music, community, and standards of excellence in Seattle, 1960-75 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11294.
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Dewe, Michael. "The skiffle craze : a popular music phenomenon of the 1950s." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441052.
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Moon, Krystyn R. "Yellowface creating the Chinese in American popular music, 1850s-1920s /." Available to US Hopkins community, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/dlnow/3068189.
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Vaughn, Erin M. "Harmonic Resources in 1980s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Music." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1449012267.
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Age, Alessander Henrique. "Musica no alvo : um estudo da musica publicitaria nas decadas de 1950 e 1960 no Brasil." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284761.
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Previous issue date: 2006<br>Resumo: A presente dissertação de mestrado aborda a inserção da música na linguagem publicitária e sua influência no processo de comunicação. Através de um levantamento histórico e analítico, procura-se entender como a música atuou dentro do contexto publicitário nas décadas de 1950 e 1960. Para tanto, com base na teoria da publicidade e música de cinema, foram analisados filmes publicitários e anúncios de rádio produzidos nas cidades de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro nesse período<br>Mestrado<br>Mestre em Música
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Önen, Ufuk. ""Black, not grey: Ankara rocks!" : a creative practice-based investigation of the Ankara rock music scene of the 1980s and the 1990s through documentary filmmaking." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/44340/.
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Ankara, with its population of nearly 4.5 million, is the second largest city in Turkey after İstanbul. İstanbul is widely accepted as the centre of trade, finance, business, art and entertainment, whereas Ankara, being the capital city, is usually associated with politics only. Due to its weather and the vast number of government buildings, Ankara is deemed to be 'grey' and considered as 'lifeless', 'soulless' and 'dull' by some people. Although labelled as a 'city of politics', a 'grey city' or a 'grey city of politics', Ankara has a substantial influence on the Turkish popular music culture, which is an outcome of a strong rock music scene in Ankara, especially in the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. This research project is composed of two components: audiovisual and written. The audiovisual component is the feature length documentary, titled <I>Black, Not Grey: Ankara Rocks!</I>, which investigates the Ankara rock music scene, and the relationship between the city and rock music, in the above-mentioned period in Ankara. This occurs through personal recollections and narratives, first-hand experiences and collective memories of rock musicians and related persons. The documentary draws on traditions of ethnographic filmmaking practices. The written component is the PhD dissertation which questions and discusses the form and the narrative style of the practical outcome of this research project, the documentary, that serves as a record of a music scene in a particular and significant period in Turkey's history.
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Gabrillo, James. "The New Manila Sound : music and mass culture, 1990s and beyond." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286224.
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This dissertation provides the first detailed account of the mass musical culture of the Philippines that originated in the 1990s and continues to be the most popular style of musical entertainment in the country - a scene I dub the New Manila Sound. Through a combination of archival research, musical analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork, my examination focuses on its two major pioneers: the musical television programme Eat Bulaga! (Lunchtime Surprise) and the pop-rock band Aegis. I document the scene's rise and development as it attracted mostly consumers from the lower classes and influenced other programmes and musicians to adapt its content and aesthetics. The scene's trademark kitsch qualities of parody, humour, and exaggeration served as forms of diversion to au- diences recovering from the turbulent dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos from 1965 to 1986, when musical works primarily comprised of state-commissioned nationalist anthems, Western art music, and protest songs. In the second part of the study, I trace the New Manila Sound's contemporary revival in popularity through the aid of digital technology, resulting in an expansion of the modes of content-creation, dissemination, and audience participation in the country's entertainment industry. Eat Bulaga! and Aegis hold a significant place in Philippine culture: not only have they influenced the tastes and identities of their audience, their brand of entertainment has also trickled down to the musicality of everyday social contexts in the country. As the first study of contemporary Philippine musical traditions that combines historical documentation and the ethnographic study of performers and audiences, my research expands our understanding of the country's popular music industry as an influential force that has bestowed on its mass audience assurances of cultural and social authority.