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Brennan, Matthew. "Down beats and rolling stones : an historical comparison of American jazz and rock journalism." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/222.
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Jazz and rock have been historically treated as separate musical traditions, despite having many similar musical and cultural characteristics, as well as sharing significant periods of interaction and overlap throughout popular music history. The rift between jazz and rock, and jazz and rock scholarship, is based on a set of received assumptions as to why jazz and rock are different. However, these assumptions are not naturally inherent to the two genres, but are instead the result of a discursive construction that defines them in contrast to one another. Furthermore, the roots of this discursive divide are to be found in the history of popular music journalism. In this thesis I challenge the traditional divide between jazz and rock by examining five historical case studies in American jazz and rock journalism. My underlying argument is that we cannot take for granted the fact that jazz and rock would ultimately become separate discourses: what are now represented as inevitable musical and cultural divergences between the two genres were actually constructed under very particular institutional and historical forces. There are other ways popular music history could have been written (and has been written) that call the oppositional representation of jazz and rock into question. The case studies focus on the two oldest surviving and most influential jazz and rock periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. I examine the role of critics in developing a distinction between the two genres that would eventually be reproduced in the academic scholarship of jazz and rock. I also demonstrate how the formation of jazz and rock as genres has been influenced by non-musicological factors, not least of all by music magazines as commercial institutions trying to survive and compete in the American press industry.
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Burns, Robert, and n/a. "Transforming folk : innovation and tradition in English folk-rock music." University of Otago. Department of Music, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080701.132922.
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From a mixed methodology perspective that includes ethnology, musicology and cultural anthropology, I argue that, despite initial detachment from folk revivalism, English folk-rock has moved closer to aspects of tradition and historical status and has embraced a revivalist stance similar to that of the folk revivals that occurred earlier in the twentieth century. Whereas revivalism often rejects manifestations of mass culture and modernity, I also argue that the early combinations of folk music and rock music demonstrated that aspects of preservation and commercialisation have always co-existed within this hybrid musical style. English folk-rock, a former progressive rock music style, has emerged in the post-punk era as a world music style that appeals to a broad spectrum of music fans and this audience does not regard issues such as maintenance of authenticity and tradition as key factors in the preservation process.
Rock music has remained a stimulus for further change in folk music and has enabled English folk-rock to become regarded as popular music by a new audience with diverse musical tastes. When folk music was adapted into rock settings, the result represented a particular identity for folk music at that time. In a similar way, as folk music continues to be amalgamated with rock and other popular music styles, or is performed in musical settings representing new cultures and ethnicities now present in the United Kingdom, it becomes updated and relevant to new audiences. From this perspective, I propose that growth in the popularity of British folk music since the early 1970s can be linked to its performance as English folk-rock, to its connections with culture and music industry marketing and promotion techniques, and to its inclusion as a 1990s festival component presented to audiences as part of what is promoted as world music. Popularity of folk music presented at world music festivals has stimulated significant growth in folk music audiences since the mid-1990s and consequently the UK is experiencing a new phase of revivalism - the third folk revival.
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Stafford, Andrew. "Pig city : from The Saints to Savage Garden." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004.
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She comes from Ireland, she's very beautiful
I come from Brisbane, and I'm quite plain Pig City
- The Go-Betweens, Lee Remick
If popular music really is a universal language, it's curious how easily a song - even a commercially obscure one - can come to symbolise a city's identity. The stories of
London, Liverpool, Manchester, Dunedin, Detroit, Memphis, Nashville, New York, New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle are inextricably entwined with the music made there. Robert Forster, however, could never have imagined that his self-deprecating paean to an actress would become so fabled in his home town.
This is understandable. Queensland's often stifling subtropical capital doesn't exactly spring to mind when discussing the world's great musical cities. Partly this comes down to Australian pop and rock's poor-relation status next to the United States and
the United Kingdom. Inside Australia, too, Brisbane for decades wore a provincial reputation as a big country town, at least in the southern capitals of Sydney and Melbourne.
Of course, one of the most successful bands in recording history began life in Brisbane in the late 1950s. But the Bee Gees didn't so much outgrow the city as outgrow Australia. Struggling for recognition, the Brothers Gibb began an exodus of musicians out of the country when they left for their native UK at the beginning of 1967, the year before a peanut fanner, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, took control of
Queensland's ruling Country Party (later the National Party).
The literature on Australian pop is only beginning to accumulate, so again it is understandable that Brisbane, so far, has rated little more than a footnote. The bigger problem is that the footnote has remained the same, recycled in various contexts by various authors: that music in Brisbane especially the punk scene of the late '70s -
was overwhelmingly a reaction to the repression of the Bjelke-Petersen era.
This is partly true. Bjelke-Petersen's rule of Queensland between 1968 and 1987 was nothing if not iron-fisted. Public displays of dissent were often brutally suppressed;
the rule of law was routinely bent to the will of those charged with its enforcement; minorities were treated as simply another obstacle on the path to development. To top
it all off, the electoral system was hopelessly rigged in favour of the incumbents. 'Here,' writes Rod McLeod, 'in a city practically under police curfew, you fucked and
fought, got stoned, got married, or got out of town.'
But it makes little sense to give a politician too much credit for the creation of a music scene. Major cultural movements result from an intersection of local, national and
international factors. The Saints were not so much a reaction to living in a police state as they were a response to the music of not just the Stooges and the MC5, but the Easybeats and the Missing Links. And it's doubtful the national success of a string of Brisbane acts in the '90s - from Powderfinger to George - could have happened
without the nationalisation of the Triple J network.
Of course, it would be naïve to suggest that growing up in a climate of fear and loathing did not heavily distort the prism through which these artists saw the world. As Saints guitarist Ed Kuepper says, 'I think the band was able to develop a more obnoxious demeanor, thanks to our surroundings, than had everyone been really nice.' In the words of Australian music historian Ian Mcfarlane, 'That Australia's most conservative city should give rise to such a seditious subcultural coterie is a sociological phenomenon yet to be fully explored.
This book is my attempt to document the substantial yet largely unsung contribution that Brisbane has made both to Australian popular culture and to international popular
music. In doing so, I aimed to chart the shifts in musical, political and cultural consciousness that have helped shape the city's history and identity. In its broadest
sense, Pig City is the story of how Brisbane grew up.
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Guy, Stephen. "The nature of community in the Newfoundland rock underground /." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81493.
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Twenty-five years of independent, underground, or punk rock music-making in St. John's, Newfoundland, have been defined by geographic isolation. In tracing a historical record of the small city's punk/indie scene, this project seeks to evaluate recent academic discussion surrounding the role of collectivity in artistic 'independence' and examine the impact of prevailing international aesthetics and changing communication technologies on local practice. The self-containment and self-sufficiency of the St. John's music community, largely the product of the city's isolated position on the extreme eastern tip of a large island off the east coast of North America, provide a unique backdrop against which to foreground a discussion of the distance between indie/punk rhetoric and reality. I contend that 'scene' in popular and academic use refers to the casual aggregation occasioned by similar interest and shared location, while 'community' hints at effort, co-operation and productive support.
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Bozelka, Kevin John. ""Getting beyond" : SPIN magazine in the late 1980s." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82688.
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The Eighties were a time in Western popular music that seemed to exist only by virtue of it coming after something else---namely, the 1960s counterculture and the punk rock of the 1970s. Inheriting both the failure of permanent cultural revolution and the intense cynicism that is punk's strongest legacy, youth cultures in the 1980s found it increasingly difficult to live in the present. This thesis labels this historical dilemma postmodern. It will show how SPIN magazine attempted to move past this dilemma in order to assert a unique identity for 1980s popular music and youth cultures. In particular, John Leland, a columnist for SPIN, appropriated a pop aesthetic as an identity marker and, in the process, questioned the supposed ineffectiveness of pop music for a political postmodernism. An analysis of Leland's writing uncovers what accounts of this era tend to ignore: the social function of postmodernism.
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Dymock, Laura. "No compromise with their society : the politics of anarchy in anarcho-punk, 1977-1985." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101878.
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In order to analyze the relationship of punk to anarchy, this thesis will investigate the discursive function of "anarchy" both in contemporaneous accounts of punk and in subsequent histories. Beginning with the genesis of British punk and the first references to anarchy in different media during the late 1970s, subsequent chapters focus on the seminally influential anarcho-punk band Crass in order to discern their impact on the evolution of the anarcho-punk genre and its relationship to anarchism up through the mid-1980s. Several other anarcho-punk bands will also be considered for their contributions to this genre. In addition to providing an in-depth study of anarcho-punk, which has been largely ignored by scholars, the present work seeks to enhance understanding of the role of anarchy in punk discourse and hopes to offer a starting point for analysing recent developments in other politicised subcultures.
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王湖. "沉悶的聲音 : 中國搖滾樂的情感政治 = Sounds of boredom : the affective politics of Chinese rock 'n' roll." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/621.
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DiGiallonardo, Richard L. (Richard Lee). "Musical Borrowing: Referential Treatment in American Popular Music." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277911/.
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This thesis examines the relationships between popular contemporary musical styles and classic-era art music. Analysis of pop-rock songs, and their referential treatment in art rock, classical music, and society will be examined. Pop-rock musicians borrow from the masters of the past and from each other. Rock guitarists such as Eddie Van Halen employ a virtuosic technique suggestive of Liszt and Paganini. The group Rush borrowed freely from opera seria. Frank Zappa referenced contemporary musicians as well as classical techniques. Referential treatment in popular music and the recent advancements in technology, have challenged copyright law. How these treatments and technologies affect copyright legislators and musicians will be discussed.
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Kearney, Meghan Andrea. "Every Town Is All the Same When You've Left Your Heart in the Portland Rain: Representations of Portland Place and Local Identity in Portland Popular Lyrics." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1489.
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This study looks at how place and local identity of Portland are described within music lyrics from Portland, Oregon popular indie-rock artists. Employing a constant comparative analysis on a set of 1,201 songs from 21 different popular Portland indie-rock artists, the themes of landscapes and climate were found to represent place, and themes of lifestyles and attitudes represented local identity. Reviewing the uncovered themes showed a strong connection between representations of place and local identity within lyrics and common stereotypes or understandings of the city of Portland and its indie-rock music scene. The results of this study illustrate how place and local identity are communicated through popular but locally-tied music lyrics and how these lyrics may describe cities.
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Klopper, Annie Elizabeth. "Die opkoms van Afrikaanse rock en die literêre status van lirieke, met spesifieke verwysing na Fokofpolisiekar." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2201.
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Thesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.The aim of this study is to examine the rise of Afrikaans rock music and the literary status of Afrikaans rock lyrics, with Fokofpolisiekar as example. An investigation is done into how the specific sociopolitical context within which Afrikaans rock music developed manifests in lyrics and musical style. The implications of Afrikaans rock with regards to the identity of Afrikaner youth in the new millennium are also explored. A case study of the Afrikaans punk rock group Fokofpolisiekar is done by way of demonstration of this interdisciplinary and contextual investigation. Not only the formation and impact of the group are examined, but a considerable section of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of this group’s lyrics, which are viewed and explored from a literary point of view. In this process certain questions regarding the position of lyrics in the Afrikaans literary system comes under scrutiny. The analysis and interpretation of the lyrics of Fokofpolisiekar are therefore aimed towards examining the literary status of this group’s lyrics. It will be proved that the sociopolitical context within which Fokofpolisiekar’s lyrics came to be formulated, impacted on the character and themes thereof. The thematic struggle with issues like liberation (redemption) and identity in the lyrics are shown to bear relation to the sociopolitical context of the Afrikaner youth after the Afrikaner’s loss of power in 1994 and the postmodern condition at the turn of the millennium. This postmodern condition is characterized by the continuing fragmentation of identity. The conclusion is made that Afrikaans popular music sets up a space within which new ideas with regards to ‘truths’ of identity can be formulated. In other words, the punk rock music of Fokofpolisiekar offers an opportunity for the re-articulation of Afrikaner identity. By incorporating the polysistem theory (and other relevant theories) in investigating the creation and reception of Fokofpolisiekar’s lyrics, it is shown that the Afrikaans literary system holds a place for Afrikaans lyrics. Although similar, lyrics should not be regarded as synonymous to poetry. Seeing that the creation and reception thereof differs from that of other literary forms, I argue that lyrics are lyrics and should be regarded as such in order for it to come to its full right in literary study.
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Feitosa, Therence Santiago Alves. "O pop rock brasileiro nos anos de 1980: mídia, produção de sentidos e a representação de uma geração." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21392.
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The present investigation focuses on analyzing some songs produced in the 1980s by the bands Legião Urbana, Titãs, Barão Vermelho and Engineers of Hawaii. The research, through the lenses of pop rock, presents discussions about some cultural, social and political scenarios that were part of Brazil at that time. The idea is to develop "certain cartographies" of the period, from analyzes of the internal structures and contents of the lyrics of these songs. The thesis intends to show the pop rock of the 1980s, as a translating instrument in relation to what some young people (rockers) lived at the time. A part of the Brazilian media of that moment "discovered" this "new" phenomenon and dedicated itself to divulge this musical genre (BASTOS, 2005). The 1980s in Brazil were presented as a period of clear transition, since in that decade a military dictatorship that lasted approximately 20 years ended (RAMOS, 2010). In the music scene a genre gained strength, voice and form: pop rock. As a hypothesis it is possible to argue that it is precisely in the cultural spheres that symbolically the daily relations are configured (LÓTMAN, 1981), that is, in day-to-day practices, space is opened for representations, as well as for the construction of series of languages. According to Lótman (1978), every artistic work is within its own context of producing subjectivity. Barbero (2013) advocates communication as a process, therefore, it is understood that the communicative nature happens in a fluid way, in constant and intertwined movements that transpose in the scope of culture. At that moment there were several dialogues between media, artists and the public, this took place in miniature movements that approached subjects of culture, objects of culture and nature / environment. In this thesis, it is intended to propose how the context of the songs were related to certain processes of exploitation of the different materials of the culture available in Brazil. As theoretical foundation, research of a qualitative nature is mainly used as references of the semiotics of culture, communication and anthropology
A presente investigação se concentra em analisar algumas canções produzidas nos anos de 1980 pelas bandas Legião Urbana, Titãs, Barão Vermelho e Engenheiros do Havaí. A pesquisa, através das lentes do pop rock, apresenta discussões sobre alguns cenários culturais, sociais e políticos que faziam parte do Brasil naquela época. A ideia é desenvolver “certas cartografias” do período, a partir de análises das estruturas internas e dos conteúdos das letras dessas canções. A tese possui a intenção de mostrar o pop rock da década de 1980, como um instrumento tradutório em relação ao que viviam alguns jovens (roqueiros) na ocasião. Uma parte da mídia brasileira daquele momento “descobriu” esse “novo” fenômeno e dedicou-se a divulgar esse gênero musical (BASTOS, 2005). Os anos de 1980 no Brasil se apresentaram como um período de clara transição, pois nessa década acabava uma ditadura militar que havia durado aproximadamente 20 anos (RAMOS, 2010). No cenário musical um gênero ganhava força, voz e forma: o pop rock. Enquanto hipóteses é possível defender que é justamente nas esferas culturais que simbolicamente as relações cotidianas são configuradas (LÓTMAN, 1981), ou seja, nas práticas do dia a dia é que se abre espaço para as representações, bem como para a construção de séries de linguagens. Segundo Lótman (1978), toda obra artística está dentro do seu próprio contexto de produção de subjetividade. Barbero (2013) defende a comunicação como processo, portanto, entende-se que a natureza comunicativa acontece de maneira fluída, em constantes e entrelaçados movimentos que transitam no âmbito da cultura. Naquele momento ocorreram diversos diálogos entre mídias, artistas e público, isso se deu em movimentos miniaturais que aproximaram sujeitos da cultura, objetos da cultura e natureza/ambiente. Na referente tese é pretendido propor como as contexturas das canções estavam relacionadas a certos processos de aproveitamento dos diversos materiais da cultura disponíveis no Brasil. Enquanto fundamentação teórica, a pesquisa de natureza qualitativa serve-se principalmente de referências da semiótica da cultura, comunicação e da antropologia
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Akers, Mary Elizabeth. "A cultural studies analysis of the Christian women vocalists movement from the 1980's to 2000: Influences, stars and lyrical meaning making." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3266.
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This study examines popular female Christian vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s, their images and their contemporary Christian music (CCM) lyrics. This literature illustrates how music becomes popular, and also how it becomes a powerful source of communication, which prompts popular culture and society to buy into its style and lyrics. The implications of this study illustrates the importance of image and lyrics and how certain female CCM vocalists had greater influences, impact and had the ability to make changes within their female audiences towards Christianity.
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Souza, Gisele da Silva. "“Somos quem podemos ser”: Engenheiros do Hawaii - jovens, rock, sensibilidades e experiências urbanas (1985-2003)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21533.
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This dissertation investigates the work of Engenheiros do Hawaii and the emergence of the generation of young people in the 1980s, leading to a discussion on rock and issues involving the young at this time. The research was developed from songs and analysis of the covers of the 18 official discs of the group, in which we can observe various themes, among them the youth and the city. The analysis is organized in three moments. In the first one, he recovers the trajectory of rock, its arrival in Brazil and the formation of the rock generation of the 1980s, as well as marketing issues, cultural circularity and social and political criticism in the songs of Engenheiros do Hawaii observing the tensions experienced in the country during this period. Thereafter, discussions about the cities and the youth are incorporated, bringing representations such as the flâneur, dândi, nihilism, existentialism, experiences of urban violence representations such as the flâneur, dândi, nihilism, existentialism, experiences of urban violence generating fear, insecurity, solitude and anguish. Including also the existential yearnings of the young, their discouragement and the issue of consumption, either alcohol or drugs, attempts to face pain and regrets, forget loves and void relationships. Other issues addressed are the concerns about the expansion of technology, its physical and social impacts, hopelessness in the face of wars and violence
Esta dissertação investiga a obra dos Engenheiros do Hawaii e o surgimento da geração de jovens nos anos 1980, realizando uma discussão sobre o rock e as questões que envolviam os jovens nesse momento. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir de canções e da análise das capas dos 18 discos oficiais do grupo, nas quais é possível observar diversas temáticas, entre elas a juventude e a cidade. A análise encontra-se organizada em três momentos. No primeiro, recupera a trajetória do rock, sua chegada ao Brasil e a formação da geração roqueira dos anos 1980, assim como as questões mercadológicas, circularidade cultural e a crítica social e política presente nas canções dos Engenheiros do Hawaii, observando tensões vivenciadas no país nesse período. Na sequência, incorporam-se as discussões acerca das cidades e da juventude, trazendo representações como o flâneur, dândi, niilismo, existencialismo, experiências de violência urbana, gerando medo, insegurança, solidão e angústia. Incluindo também os anseios existenciais dos jovens, seus desalentos e a questão do consumo do álcool e de drogas, as tentativas de enfrentar as dores e mágoas, esquecer amores e relações vazias. Outras questões abordadas são as inquietudes frente à expansão da tecnologia, seus impactos físicos e sociais, a desesperança frente às guerras e à violência
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Escoubet, Stéphane. "La légitimation d’une pop "indépendante" en France : The Divine Comedy d’après Les Inrockuptibles, une étude de cas." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040153.
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La réflexion proposée par ce travail s’inscrit dans le contexte d’une ascension symbolique du rock au sein du paysage culturel français, qui peut être rapprochée de celle que connaît le jazz de plus longue date. Ainsi le public français de la pop dite « indépendante » (ou indie pop) a-t-il principalement été recruté au sein d’une population étudiante, ou de jeunes actifs, qui peut être qualifiée de cultivée, partageant une même aspiration à se distinguer du goût le plus commun. Le point de départ de notre questionnement est néanmoins celui d’un hiatus entre ce profil culturel et l’apparente trivialité du genre pop : l’attachement de ce public pour le genre a-t-il quelque rapport avec des dispositions légitimes (en dépit des apparences), ou traduit-il au contraire une franche distance vis-à-vis des traits historiques de la culture légitime ? C’est par le biais d’une étude de cas que cette thèse tente d’apporter des éléments de réponse ; celui d’un magazine, Les Inrockuptibles (l’une des principales instances de légitimation de la pop indépendante en France), et de l’un des groupes britanniques que ce dernier a le plus contribué à promouvoir durant les années quatre-vingt-dix, The Divine Comedy. Au terme de cette étude se dessine un ordre de légitimité hybride, qui tient à la fois de valeurs enracinées dans le monde de l’art légitime et de registres hétérodoxes portés par des instances de consécration concurrentes. Cette étude interroge également la relation entre les représentations ainsi associées à The Divine Comedy et les caractéristiques musicales des opus, esquissant une approche musicologique de l’œuvre à l’aune de sa médiationThe subject of this work falls into the broader context of a symbolic rise of rock in the French cultural landscape, comparable to the similar longstanding evolution of jazz. The French audience of so-called "independent" pop (or indie pop) has been found mainly within a population of students or young workers one might refer to as "educated", and who have aspired to distinguish themselves from the most common musical tastes. Still, the starting point of our concern is that of a gap between this cultural profile and the apparent triviality of the pop genre: has this audience’s fondness anything to do with legitimate dispositions (despite appearances) or, on the contrary, does it step away from the historical features of "legitimate culture"? This thesis attempts to provide answers through a joint case study of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles (one of the main legitimizing institutions of indie pop in France) and one of the British bands it had most contributed to promoting during the 1990s, The Divine Comedy. What this study ultimately reveals is a hybrid type of legitimacy, which holds both the fundamental values of the art world and the heterodox registers of competing legitimizing institutions. This study also investigates the relation between the representations thus associated with The Divine Comedy and the musical features of the opus, sketching a musicological approach of the musical work through its mediation
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Stephens, Vincent Lamar. "Queering the textures of rock and roll history." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2444.
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Thackray, Jeremy A. "The slow death of Everett True: A metacriticism." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95504/1/Jeremy_Thackray_Thesis.pdf.
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In print environments, popular music critics are customarily seen as gatekeepers of ‘cool’ and arbiters of taste. This research project asks whether the same holds true in Web 2.0 environments in which audiences have access to the same sources of information through which critics derive their knowledge, authority, and influence. The investigation is carried out through an act of metacriticism grounded in the researcher’s experience as an internationally successful popular music critic for major print publications including NME, Rolling Stone, and Melody Maker. The thesis concludes that there are four major roles of relevance to the critic in the new media environments: bespoke criticism, music critic as fan, music criticism as entertainment, and the music critic as ‘firestarter’.
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Ethen, Michael. "A spatial history of Arena Rock, 1964-79." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106299.
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This dissertation traces a history of popular music and explores problems in social space theory from the perspective of the genre called Arena Rock. Many of the popular music practices between 1964 and 1979 have been the work of performers who attracted enormous live audiences, and the 1970s has been called "the age of the arena." Yet problems of live performance are neither confronted by the prevailing theories of social space nor adequately foregrounded in popular music historiography. The case of Arena Rock presents a unique opportunity to address these urgent historical and theoretical issues, because it marks the moment at which chroniclers of popular music recognized the importance of performance venues to the definition of a genre. An indispensable but neglected area in popular music history, Arena Rock constitutes a fundamentally nodal genre that encompassed performers of diverse aesthetic priorities, from the reputed British originators the Beatles and Led Zeppelin to the American bands Styx, Kiss, and Boston, and spanned a range of geographic locations and venue types, from rural farmland to urban and suburban stadiums and arenas. Through close interpretations of the developmental contexts of Arena Rock, this study demonstrates how the genre came to represent a contentious field of popular culture riven by divergent views on the construction of social space. In doing so, this study charts a history of musicians, critics, and fan communities that grappled with questions of commercial music and live performance, with chapters that focus on the relationship between rock concerts and characteristic uses of urban space; Led Zeppelin's practice of designing compositions suitable for and redolent of reverberant stadiums; the politics of improvisation and routine in the music of Grateful Dead; the complex interconnectedness in the early 1970s of the faltering rock festival industry and the burgeoning urban field of arena rock; and the hoary question of authenticity around 1977, when rock critics began using, in a fairly consistent manner, the genre term Arena Rock.Cette thèse retrace l'histoire de la musique populaire et examine les problèmes de théorie en terme d'espace social — dans la perspective du genre musical appelé «Rock d'aréna». Plusieurs formules de musique populaire se retrouvent dans les œuvres de performeurs sur scène qui, entre 1964 et 1979 attiraient des publics énormes. Les années 1970 sont ainsi devenues «l'âge de l'aréna». Mais les problèmes de performance en direct ne sont pas confrontés aux théories qui prévalent dans l'espace social, ou encore mis en valeur dans l'historiographie de la musique populaire. Le cas du Rock d'aréna présente une opportunité urgente et unique de confronter ces problèmes historiques et théoriques, parce que cette époque marque le moment auquel les chroniqueurs de musique populaire ont reconnu l'importance des lieux de performances dans la définition d'un genre musical. Un genre incontournable mais négligée par l'histoire de la musique populaire, le Rock d'aréna constitue un catégorie fondamentalement nodale qui comprenait des performeurs aux priorités esthétiques diverses, en commençant par les Beatles et Led Zeppelin – présumés créateurs anglais du Rock d'aréna – en passant par les groupes américains comme Styx, Kiss, et Boston et tout cela dans une variété d'endroits géographiques et de types de scène – à partir des fermes rurales jusqu'aux stades et aux arènes des villes et de leurs banlieues. À travers l'interprétation méticuleuse des contextes développementaux du Rock d'aréna, cette étude démontre comment le genre a évolué pour représenter un domaine controversé d'une culture populaire tourmentée par des points de vue divergents dans la construction de l'espace social. Pour ce faire, cette étude trace l'histoire des musiciens, des critiques, et des communautés d'amateurs confrontés à des questions de musique commerciale et de performance en direct, dans des chapitres qui font le point : sur les relations entre les concerts rock et les usages caractéristiques d'espace urbain; sur la pratique du groupe Led Zeppelin de développer des compositions qui évoquent les stades réverbérant; sur les pratiques routinières d'improvisation dans la musique des Grateful Dead; sur l'inter-connectivité complexe au début des années 70s d'une industrie des festivals rock en déclin malgré la demande urbaine croissante du Rock d'aréna; et sur la question déformée de l'authenticité quand les critiques de rock ont commencé à utiliser, autour de 1977, le terme générique «Rock d'aréna» de manière plus ou moins consistante.
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Kirilov, Kalin Stanchev. "Harmony in Bulgarian Music." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13533.
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555 pagesThis study focuses on the development of harmonic vocabulary in Bulgarian music. It analyzes the incorporation of harmony in village music from the 1930s to the 1990s, "wedding music" from the 1970s to 2000, and choral and instrumental arrangements (obrabotki, creations of the socialist period (1944-1989). This study also explains that terms which are frequently applied to Bulgarian music, such as "westernization," "socialist-style arrangements," or "Middle Eastern influence," depict sophisticated networks of codified and non-codified rules for harmonization which to date have not been studied. The dissertation classifies different approaches to harmony in the above mentioned styles and situates them in historical and cultural contexts, examines existing principles for harmonizing and arranging Bulgarian music, and establishes new systems for analysis. It suggests that the harmonic language of the layers of Bulgarian music is based upon systems of rules which can be approached and analyzed using Western music theory. TV1y analysis of harmony in Bulgarian music focuses on representative examples of each style discussed. These selections are taken from the most popular and well-received compositions available in the repertoire.
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Piepho, Scott R. Piepho. "And the Law Won: A History of Rock 'n' Roll in Lawsuits." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1523176340522117.
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Hamilton, John C. "Rubber Souls: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10873.
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This dissertation explores the interplay of popular music and racial thought in the 1960s, and asks how, when, and why rock and roll music "became white." By Jimi Hendrix's death in 1970 the idea of a black man playing electric lead guitar was considered literally remarkable in ways it had not been for Chuck Berry only ten years earlier: employing an interdisciplinary combination of archival research, musical analysis, and critical race theory, this project explains how this happened, and in doing so tells two stories simultaneously. The first is of audience and discourse, and the processes through which a music born of interracialism came to understand whiteness as its most basic stakes of authenticity. This is a story of the deeply ideological underpinnings of genre formation, and the ways that the visual imagination of race is strangely and powerfully elided with the audible imagination of sound. The second story is of music's own resistance to such elisions, and examines a transatlantic community of artists including Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and others to fashion an interracial counter-history of Sixties music, one that rejects hermetic ideals of racial authenticity while revealing the pernicious effects of these ideologies on musical discourse. Ultimately, this dissertation provides a new way into the topic of race and popular music--long dominated by essentialist claims of cultural ownership on one hand, and a romantic "colorblindness" on the other--by demonstrating that racial thought is both a producer and product of expressive culture. Rarely has this been truer than in the 1960s, when both popular music and racial ideology underwent explosive transformations that were never entirely separate from each other. Rock and roll music, I argue, did not become white as a result of the music that people made, but rather as a result of discursive forces that surrounded, celebrated, and too often drowned out the music that people heard.
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Schmitt, Jason. "Like the last 30 years never happened understanding Detroit rock music through oral history /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1214237279.
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Ram, Deepak. "A portfolio of original compositions exploring syncretism between Indian and western music." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002320.
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In this dissertation, overviews and detailed examinations of three compositions are presented. These compositions which constitute the portfolio of the M.MUS degree, are an attempt to explore syncretism between Indian and western music. Two of these works are written for a flute quartet (flute, violin, viola and cello) accompanied in part by a mridangam (Indian percussion instrument). The third work is written for a jazz quartet (piano, saxophone, double bass and drums). Syncretism between western and Indian music can take on a variety of forms, and while this concept is not new, there exists no suitable model or framework through which these compositions can be analysed. The approach used In this dissertation IS therefore guided solely by the compositions themselves. The syncretism in these works lies in the use of melodic, rhythmic and timbral elements of Indian music within two ensembles which are essentially western. This dissertation describes each of these elements in their traditional context as well as the method of incorporating them into western ensemble playing.
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Churton, Wade Ronald. "Alternative music in New Zealand,1981-2001 definitions, comparisons and history." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1030.
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Alternative music was a cultural practice, which became a significant feature of New Zealand's local and national history over the last two decades of the twentieth century. Features of technology, economics and music culture influenced the creation and course of local independent music scenes, along with factors such as cultural remoteness. This thesis isolates and collates key factors and time periods of international music industry history, and refracts the information through alternative music in general, providing a coherent definition of the term. The history and definitions of New Zealand's alternative music history are then assessed for the period 1981-2001, with especial reference to the Flying Nun label and 'Dunedin Sound'.
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Schmid, William A. (William Albert). "An Analysis of Elements of Jazz Style in Contemporary French Trumpet Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332815/.
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French trumpet works comprise a large portion of the contemporary standard repertoire for the instrument, and they frequently present unique stylistic and interpretive challenges to performers. The study establishes the influence of jazz upon Henri Tomasi, André Jolivet, Eugène Bozza and Jacques Ibert in their works for solo trumpet. Idiomatic elements of jazz style are identified and discussed in terms of performance practice considerations for modern-day trumpeters.
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MacLeod, Alexander. "Between a rock and a soft place : postmodern-regionalism in Canadian and American fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19527.
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This study calls for a re-evaluation of contemporary regionalist literary theory. It argues that traditional models of the discourse have been too heavily influenced by nineteenth century realist aesthetics and political ideologies. Because most scholars continue to interpret regionalist texts according to a resolutely empirical reading of geography, literary regionalism has fallen out of touch with the new kinds of "unrealistic," generic landscapes that now dominate North American culture in the postindustrial era. Drawing heavily on recent work by postmodern geographers such as Edward Soja, David Harvey, Michael Dear and Derek Gregory, this project updates regionalist theory by "re-placing" the artificially stabilized reading of geography that dominated the nineteenth century with a more self-consciously spatialized reading of what Soja calls our contemporary "real-and-imagined" places. By grafting together traditional regionalism and postmodern spatial theory we improve on both contributing discourses. In a "postmodern-regionalist" literary criticism, traditional regionalism sheds its reputation for theoretical naivete, while the elusive abstractions of postmodern theory gain a real-world referent, and a specific geographical index. When we "read postmodernism regionally" - - when we aggressively interrogate where this kind of fiction comes from and the places it represents - - we realize that the canons of postmodern fiction in Canada and the United States have been influenced by two very different spatial epistemologies. Rather than being "determined" by their real geographies, Canadian and American postmodernism have been more directly influenced by two different readings of geography. Works by Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo demonstrate that American postmodernism often interprets social space according to what Henri Lefebvre calls the idealistic "the illusion of transparency," while texts by Canadian postmodernists such as Robert Kroetsch, Wayne Johnston and Guy Vanderhaeghe tend to fall under Lefebvre's more materialistic "illusion of opacity." The ambiguous figure of Douglas Coupland - - a Canadian writer most critics treat as an American - - puts the spatial conventions of postmodernism in both countries in sharp relief. In an American postmodernism, dominated by generic suburban settings, regions will almost always be seen as imaginary projections, while in a Canadian postmodernism, dominated by the Prairies, regions will almost always retain some sense of their material reality.
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Brownlee, Jane. "The Transmission of Traditional Fiddle Music in Australia." Master's thesis, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13919.
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Brownlee, Jane. "The transmission of traditional fiddle music in Australia." Master's thesis, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7913.
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Williams, Stephanie E. (Stephanie Evangeline). "On folk music as the basis of a Jamaican primary school music programme." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63211.
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Walden, Geoffrey Alan. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll But I Like It : A history of the early days of rock 'n' roll in Brisbane... as told by some of the people who were there." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15791/1/Geoffrey_Walden_Thesis.pdf.
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The music history that is generally presented to students in Queensland secondary schools as the history of music is underpinned by traditions associated with the social and cultural elite of colonialist Europe. On the other hand, contemporary popular music is the style with which most in this community identify and its mass consumption by teenagers in Brisbane was heralded with the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s.
This project proposes that the involvement of the music education system in, and the application of digital technology to, the collection and storage of musical memories and memorabilia with historical potential is an important first step on the journey to a music history that is built on the democratic principles of twenty-first century, culturally and socially diverse Australia rather than on the autocratic principles of colonialist Europe. In taking a first step, this project focused on collecting memories and memorabilia from people who were involved in an aspect of the coming of rock 'n' roll to Brisbane. Memories were collected in the form of recorded conversations and these recordings, along with other audio and visual material were transferred to digital format for distribution.
As an oral history focusing its attention on those who were involved with the coming of rock 'n' roll to Brisbane in the mid to late 1950s and the early 1960s, this project is intended as a starting point for that journey. Even as a starting point however, some interesting findings emerged. For example:
* Early Brisbane rock 'n' roll was a suburban affair.
* Dancers were just as important in bringing rock 'n' roll to Brisbane as were the musicians.
* Musicians not only had to learn new music on new instruments, they had to, in many cases, make their own instruments.
* The rock 'n' roll story as promoted by the newspapers of the day was very different to how it is remembered by the participants.
* Community institutions such as family, school and church played a vital support role in the lives of young rock 'n' roll musicians.
* Brisbane's rock 'n' roll musicians generally reflected the conservative nature of their community.
* Brisbane's very early rock 'n' roll musicians were strongly influenced by country and western music.
* Once the commercial viability of rock 'n' roll became evident, it became more accepted as an entertainment format.
Of the many thousands of people who lived in Brisbane during the 1950s and who had an interest in or were affected by the coming of rock 'n' roll, only a very small percentage were involved in this project. This would indicate that there is a significant body of untold memories and stories waiting to respond to the interest of Queensland music students.
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Walden, Geoffrey Alan. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll But I Like It : A history of the early days of rock 'n' roll in Brisbane... as told by some of the people who were there." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15791/.
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The music history that is generally presented to students in Queensland secondary schools as the history of music is underpinned by traditions associated with the social and cultural elite of colonialist Europe. On the other hand, contemporary popular music is the style with which most in this community identify and its mass consumption by teenagers in Brisbane was heralded with the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s. This project proposes that the involvement of the music education system in, and the application of digital technology to, the collection and storage of musical memories and memorabilia with historical potential is an important first step on the journey to a music history that is built on the democratic principles of twenty-first century, culturally and socially diverse Australia rather than on the autocratic principles of colonialist Europe. In taking a first step, this project focused on collecting memories and memorabilia from people who were involved in an aspect of the coming of rock 'n' roll to Brisbane. Memories were collected in the form of recorded conversations and these recordings, along with other audio and visual material were transferred to digital format for distribution. As an oral history focusing its attention on those who were involved with the coming of rock 'n' roll to Brisbane in the mid to late 1950s and the early 1960s, this project is intended as a starting point for that journey. Even as a starting point however, some interesting findings emerged. For example: * Early Brisbane rock 'n' roll was a suburban affair. * Dancers were just as important in bringing rock 'n' roll to Brisbane as were the musicians. * Musicians not only had to learn new music on new instruments, they had to, in many cases, make their own instruments. * The rock 'n' roll story as promoted by the newspapers of the day was very different to how it is remembered by the participants. * Community institutions such as family, school and church played a vital support role in the lives of young rock 'n' roll musicians. * Brisbane's rock 'n' roll musicians generally reflected the conservative nature of their community. * Brisbane's very early rock 'n' roll musicians were strongly influenced by country and western music. * Once the commercial viability of rock 'n' roll became evident, it became more accepted as an entertainment format. Of the many thousands of people who lived in Brisbane during the 1950s and who had an interest in or were affected by the coming of rock 'n' roll, only a very small percentage were involved in this project. This would indicate that there is a significant body of untold memories and stories waiting to respond to the interest of Queensland music students.
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Sarmast, Ahmad Naser. "A survey of the history of music in Afghanistan, from ancient times to 2000 A.D., with special reference to art music from c.1000 A.D." Monash University, School of Music-Conservatorium, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9685.
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Schmitt, Jason M. "Like the Last 30 Years Never Happened: Understanding Detroit Rock Music Through Oral History." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1214237279.
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Papanikolaou, Dimitris. "Singing poets : literature and popular music in France and Greece /." London : Legenda, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016510046&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Warner, Simon. "Rock and the written word : essays on popular music, literature, language, and cultural history." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550346.
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This thesis gathers work on a number of popular music-related areas but with connecting themes and threads. The relationship of the Beat Generation writers of the 1950s to the popular music culture that followed is explored and the connections that were forged between that gathering of anti-establishment novelist and poets and the counterculture that would take shape in the 1960s are investigated. Chapters reflecting on Beat activity and its association with the rise of rock'n'roll, the emergence of the Beatles and its continuing impression on performers from . the post-Sixties period are included. The impact on the rock underground, in part a legacy of the Beat influence, are further addressed in sections on the Summer of Love of 1967 and the Wood stock Festival. But there is also an over-riding theme that makes links between the power of language and the expressions of popular music's artists and groups. Whether we are reflecting on the influence of literature on music-makers, the power of the lyric, or the very words that are utilised to describe or critique popular music, the role of language is often central. This thesis explores that inter-section from a range of angles.
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Strahle, Graham. "Fantasy and music in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs896.pdf.
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Schmitz, Michael David. "Oriental influences in the piano music of Claude Achille Debussy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187118.
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This paper explores the influences of Vietnamese and Indonesian music in the piano compositions of Claude Debussy. A brief background of Debussy's formative years and of pertinent social trends in Paris at the turn-of-the-century is provided. This paper then looks at two specific musical events that affected the way Debussy composed for the piano: the Javanese and Annamite exhibits at the Exposition Universelles de 1889 and 1900 in Paris. The musical styles and timbres of these two countries are explored, backed up by accounts of what Debussy actually experienced at the Expositions. Following a look at specific musical effects used by Debussy that reveal the influence of the Orient, this paper surveys an extensive body of his piano music chronologically, focusing on compositional techniques that were learned from the Asian ensembles at the cultural exhibits of the Paris Expositions. This paper reveals the depth of the Oriental influence in Debussy's piano music.
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Willett, Toby T. "California as Music to American Ears: Migration, Technology, and Rock and Roll in the Golden State, 1946-2000." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2010. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/264.
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Migrations and technological advances in California following World War II, spurred radical changes in the production and development of popular music, most notably rock and roll. California largely lacked the entrenched traditions of the American Northeast, and in many ways its exploding population translated into the growth of a culture built around embracing newer methodologies, whether technological innovations or radical artistic departures. In large part owing to its increasing ethnic diversity during the economic expansion, California was uniquely poised to become a center of incredible postwar dynamism, especially when seen in the production, consumption, and stylistic development of music. Nevertheless, many of the radical departures in American music were contingent upon the contributions of a small group of inter-connected musical equipment manufacturers and musicians in California from the 1940s through the 1960s. As the United States experienced dramatic changes during the awesome postwar boom, Californian artists, merchants, and equipment makers exploited opportunities, making the Golden State the national trendsetter in musical developments both technological and stylistic. In particular, the invention, development, and further refinement of solid bodied electric guitars and basses in Southern California permanently changed how music would be made. The transformation of West Coast music would produce differing reactions nationally, while foreign developments would impact California, challenging its hegemony.
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Lau, Man-chun, and 劉文俊. "A study of Hong Kong popular music industry (1930-2000)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4389608X.
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Chapman, Christopher Adam 1964. "Regional traditions of Lao vocal music : lam siphandon and khap ngeum." Monash University, School of Music-Conservatorium, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7867.
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Peter, Timothy Layne. "Johann Mattheson's "Das Lied des Lammes": Progressive tendencies in the evangelist recitatives." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186414.
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This document examines the compositional style of Johann Mattheson's passion, Das Lied des Lammes. Specifically, this document will examine the stile recitativo of Italian opera seria in Hamburg during Mattheson's years at the Domkirche. Mattheson's ideas regarding the role of the recitative in his passions are verified in Mattheson's article entitled "Des fragenden Componist" (1724), which appeared in the fifth volume of his journal Critica Musica, thus giving clear evidence supporting a non-emotional approach with the evangelist recitatives. These new approaches found in Critica Musica, derived from Italian opera in connection with Mattheson's writings, are in comparison to the musical devices in recitatives used by Mattheson's predecessors Schutz, Bernhard, Theile, and Keiser. The results of these comparisons show a natural progression of stylistic changes in recitatives in passion settings up to Mattheson's years at the Domkirche in Hamburg.
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Kent, David Martin, and n/a. "The Place of Go-Set in Rock & Pop Music Culture in Australia, 1966 to 1974." University of Canberra. Professional Communication, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050509.095456.
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This is the first academic examination of the place and history of works produced by
Go-Set Publications in studies of contemporary Australian teenage culture.
Go-Set (Go-Set Publications, Melbourne) is perhaps the single most significant musicbased
newspaper in the history of Australian teenage popular culture. Go-Set reflected
the teenage culture of the period 1966 to 1974, helping create a dynamic
independently thriving Australian rock music scene from 1969. It was independently
owned and operated, set its own agendas and defined its own place in Australian
teenage society.
Go-Set's history is given as a biography (following van Zuilen (1977) in distinct
stages from birth till death, highlighting the important landmarks of its life. In
particular Go-Set led culturally by developing the first National Top-40 song chart. It
provided musicians and non-musicians with weekly updates on the nature of the
Australia's teenage music-based societal culture. It led in the development of a
teenage counter-culture by keeping readers informed about alternative thinking and
ideologies through the views of pop/rock stars, and later, more editorially directly,
through its radical sister publication Revolution.
Go-Set survived because readers continued to support it. It both entertained and
informed. It gave young Australians the necessary knowledge, instruction, and advice
to keep them up-to-date in a changing social scene
To explain why Go-Set was so important to its readers, this thesis postulates a series
of six speculative models describing how readers might have used the newspaper.
These models suggest a process of usage relevant to teenage socialisation, by defining
the criteria for acceptance of Go-Set's content as sets of instructions, or codes, of
particular social relevance, namely the codes of personal life, music, fashion, and
alternative lifestyle. The models postulate some sociological and psychological
reasons for reading Go-Set, and suggest why the magazine was so successful during a
period when other, similar, magazines failed.
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Sanchez, Luis Adan. "To catch a wave : The Beach Boys and rock historiography." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7954.
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From the release of their first single “Surfin’” in 1961 to the release of the album Pet Sounds in 1966, rock history traces the arc of the American rock group the Beach Boys in broad terms of the early-sixties Southern California surf music trend and the revolutionary effects of the Beatles’ stateside arrival in 1964. Typical claims for progress, autonomy, the significance of the album, and myths of authenticity in the study of the emergence of the rock concept, however, tend to promote an essentialist understanding of what rock music is about and what it is for. This study proposes an alternative narrative in which the regulating dichotomies of rock—art versus commerce, seriousness versus schlock, the authentic versus the inauthentic— are historicized, in the case of the Beach Boys’ transition from surf band to a complex studio recording project, as matters of creative practice and conflicting sensibilities. Questioning the conventional wisdom of rock history, this project suggests a counter-story about the significance of creative achievement, failure, and advancement
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Matambo, Lotta Eleonoora. "The solo piano music of Einojuhani Rautavaara." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002311.
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Einojuhani Rautavaara's oeuvre is characterised by four distinctive creative periods, each demonstrating a remarkable variety of compositional idioms and styles. His application of multifaceted elements, often within a single work leading to notions of postmodernism, is derived from multifarious sources, such as (Finnish) folklore, Orthodox mysticism and a wide variety of standard twentieth century compositional techniques. Furthermore, Rautavaara regularly quotes from his own material, thus creating elements of auto-allusions within his oeuvre; a predisposition which forms an essential part of his compositional aesthetic. Analyses of eight piano works (1952-2007) provide a cross-section of Rautavaara's output which, together with a consideration of biographical factors and analytical focus on the intertextual elements of his writing, offers a rationale for determining the development of his musical identity. The analyses conclude that intertextual elements, which appear through a diverse array of expressive modes (such as mysticism, nationalism and constructivism) are an essential part of Rautavaara's eclectic compositional style and contribute to an understanding of the on-going development of his musical identity.
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Smith, Mandy J. "“Primitive” Bodies, Virtuosic Bodies: Narrative, Affect, and Meaning in Rock Drumming." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1589971850375113.
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Pietschmann, Franziska. "A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale: Reconstructing Punk Rock History." Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-62981.
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Embedded in the transatlantic history of rock ‘n’ roll, punk rock has not only been regarded as a watershed moment in terms of music, aesthetics and music-related cultural practices, it has also been perceived as a subversive white cultural phenomenon. A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale challenges this widespread and shortsighted assumption. People of color, particularly black Americans and Britons, and Latina/os have pro-actively contributed to punk’s evolution and shaped punk music culture in the United States and England. Examining why people of color are not linked to the punk rock genre and culture in normative discourse, this paper first scrutinizes the continuously unaddressed racialization of Anglo-American popular music itself and explores how the historical development and discursive construction of racial boundaries impacted the historiography of Anglo-American popular music. Building on these premises, the second central field of inquiry probes how the music press, aided and abetted by academic texts, constructs punk as a white music mono-culture that such discourse historicizes, analyzes, and maintains. Both popular (journalistic) and academic publications have largely ignored or underrepresented the presence of people of color, especially black (American) as well as Latina/o participants, in punk rock culture. The thesis’ third major focus imagines punk as a fluid social and musical convergence culture that continuously crosses unstable boundaries of genres, races, and genders. A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale thus indicates an emerging awareness of how popular and academic discourse can become more sensitive to punk's multiracial, inclusive, and participatory mores.
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Aritonovich, Dana. "The Only Common Thread: Race, Youth, and the Everyday Rebellion of Rock and Roll, Cleveland, Ohio, 1952-1966." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1276093554.
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Card, Patricia Pierce. "The influence of klezmer on twentieth-century solo and chamber concert music for clarinet with three recitals of selected works of Manevich, Debussy, Horovitz, Milhaud, Martino, Mozart and others /." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2002. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20023/card%5Fpatricia/index.htm.
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Burns, Kristine Helen. "The history and development of algorithms in music composition, 1957-1993." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/902512.
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This dissertation traces the history and development of algorithms in musical composition from ca. 1957 to 1993 and attempts to clarify related terminology from the contexts of computer science, information science, and music theory and composition.The first of three sections begins with an extensive definition of the term algorithm. Because this term is relatively new to musical vocabulary, the definition appearing in this dissertation will include both musical and non-musical applications.Historically and currently, there are three major approaches to algorithmic composition with computers: 1) algorithms for sound synthesis; 2) algorithms for compositional structure; and 3) algorithms for the correlation of sound synthesis with structure. Consideration will be given to the latter two approaches, algorithms for the generation of the micro- and macrostructural elements of musical composition.Several different processes exist under the umbrella of algorithmic composition. Included in the body of this dissertation are detailed explanations and descriptions of specific software and hardware from the following processes: stochastic, chaotic, rule-based, grammars, and artificial intelligence.Second, an historical survey of musical compositions and related written literature covering musical and non-musical resources organized into three chapters: 1957-1972, 1973-1982, and 1983-1993. These compositions and written resources have had significant impact on determining how subsequent composers made use of computers for composition.In the third section an annotated study of the algorithmic compositions from ca. 1957-1993 will be presented. Special emphasis has been placed on information garnered from personal correspondence and interviews.Five appendices are devoted to relevant cross-disciplinary information from the fields of computer science, information science, and music theory and composition; included are: 1) a list of terms; 2) an alphabetical listing of algorithmic compositions; 3) a discography; 4) a bibliography of relevant information from the disciplines discussed; and 5) a list of algorithmic computer systems, languages, and programs covered in this research. There is significant overlap in the use of computer algorithms by the scientific and the musical communities, therefore, the inclusion of definitions and terminology is necessary for a deeper understanding of the musical applications.School of Music
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Forward, David William. "The keyboard repertory as a reflector of art nouveau in music /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phf745.pdf.
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Rhodes, Carol Shirley. "The dance of time: The evolution of the structural aesthetics of the prepared piano works of John Cage." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187153.
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John Cage, (1912-1992) pioneer in new music, innovator, inventor of the happening and philosopher, writer and artist was one of the most creative forces of the twentieth century. His earliest works were 25-tone contrapuntal compositions. He later developed a strong interest in writing for percussion ensembles and collected instruments that were both found and made. He conducted his own percussion orchestras and discovered that they were the answer to his philosophy of the sounds of the future. He considered percussion music the transition from keyboard-influenced music to music which allowed for all sounds and silences. From 1939-1951 John Cage composed several works for prepared piano that used time as a structural device. Many of these works were written for the dance in collaboration with Merce Cunningham. This document addresses the historical significance of these works and relates Time to other areas that influenced Cage--including Zen and the Dance. This document provides descriptive analyses of Bacchanale, Music for Marcel Duchamp and selected Sonatas from the Sonatas and Interludes. To this writer's knowledge there have not yet been any analyses of Bacchanale or Music for Marcel Duchamp. The analyses reveal Cage's primary structural techniques in which he uses duration of spaces of time. Time lengths and the square root method appear to be the most important. These techniques first appeared in Imaginary Landscape #1 and First Construction in Metal--both dating from 1939. A brief description of all his prepared piano works is included to demonstrate Cage's commitment to rhythmic structuring. All of these works have been studied by this writer and several have been performed in concert by this writer. These include: Music for Marcel Duchamp, Primitive, For a Valentine Out of Season, A Room, Prelude for Meditation, Amores (Movements I and IV), and selected Sonatas from Sonatas and Interludes. A section has been included which explains the nature of materials used for preparations and their timbral effects. A Conclusion is provided demonstrating that Cage chose rhythm over harmony to structure his music. This information is drawn from the influences on Cage, his early percussion works, procedures employed in the percussion works and transferred to the prepared piano and the influence of dancers and Oriental philosophy. An Appendix is included with charts of the Sonatas. A Bibliography which shows the references consulted is included.