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- Description:
- Organized opposition to immigration, globalization, and minority groups in Sweden exploded during the 1980s and 1990s, energized in large part by the spread of skinhead …
- Year:
- 2013
- Contributor:
- Teitelbaum, Benjamin R (creator)
- Perlman, Marc (Director)
- Titon, Jeff (Reader)
- Miller, Kiri (Reader)
- Tucker, Joshua (Reader)
- Bohlman, Philip (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- extremism
- immigration
- Nationalism
- Music
- Radicalism
- Emigration and immigration
- Racism
- Sweden
- Scandinavia
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines differences in affective response to music among players of Appalachian old-time music, primarily in Appalachian Virginia and North Carolina. While a small …
- Year:
- 2015
- Contributor:
- Wood, David H (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (Director)
- Perlman, Marc (Reader)
- Miller, Kiri (Reader)
- Steele, Kenneth (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- music revivals
- music psychology
- Revivals--Songs and music
- Ethnomusicology
- Music--Psychological aspects
- Personality
- Old-time music
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Abstract: This dissertation concerns the politics of musical projects, institutions, and events in Sarajevo and the effect of efforts by donors in Bosnia and Herzegovina's …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Haskell, Erica Jordan (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (Director)
- Sugarman, Jane (Reader)
- Keith, Brown (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- post-conflict
- post-war
- international development
- festivalization
- patronage
- post-socialist
- PSYOPS
- Music
- Cultural policy
- Applied ethnomusicology
- Civil society
- Record labels
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- On a typical night at the opera, the musico-dramatic synthesis that takes place on stage is saturated in atmosphere, but the proceedings off-stage are no …
- Year:
- 2009
- Contributor:
- Chaikin, Paul Martin (creator)
- Subotnik, Rose (director)
- Titon, Jeff (reader)
- Gooley, Dana (reader)
- Rosen, Philip (reader)
- Brown University. Music. Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Berlin
- aesthetic autonomy
- Theodor Adorno
- Walter Benjamin
- Operas
- Aura
- Adorno, Theodor W. > 1903-1969
- Benjamin, Walter W.
- Germany--Berlin
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Theses and Dissertations
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation is an ethnographic study of contemporary Kaapse klopse (“Clubs of the Cape”) practice in Cape Town, South Africa. Situating sound and embodied practice …
- Year:
- 2016
- Contributor:
- Inglese, Francesca (creator)
- Miller , Kiri (Director)
- Tucker , C. Joshua (Reader)
- Gooley , Dana (Reader)
- Jeppie , Shamil (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- south africa
- cape town
- heritage
- coloured identity
- Ethnomusicology
- Music
- Performance
- Dance
- Race
- South Africa
- South Africa--Cape Town
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores of various modes of musical activism within the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Music is an important aspect of life in …
- Year:
- 2008
- Contributor:
- Loughran, Maureen Elizabeth (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (director)
- Smulyan, Susan (reader)
- Miller, Kiri (reader)
- Spitzer, Nicholas (reader)
- Brown University. Music. Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- music scenes
- musical activism
- punk
- activism
- Radio
- Gentrification
- Punk culture
- Applied ethnomusicology
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Theses and Dissertations
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This critical history of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music centers on their formative years from 1946 to 1960. Musicologist Wolfgang Steinecke founded …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Wetters, Brent Andrew (creator)
- Bergeron, Katherine (Director)
- Kleinberg, Ethan (Reader)
- Rovan, Joseph (Reader)
- Gooley, Dana (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Maderna
- Nono
- Barrett
- Boulez
- Adorno
- serialism
- aleatory
- Darmstadt Summer Courses
- philosophy of music
- Morinda citrifolia
- Serialism (Music)
- Aleatory music
- Poetics
- Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the musical and ideological entanglements of the Soviet-Cuban alliance following the 1959 Revolution. Despite a growing body of work on Soviet influence …
- Year:
- 2026
- Contributor:
- Hardan, Alexander (creator)
- Dolan, Emily (Advisor)
- Tucker, Joshua (Advisor)
- Ramos, Iván (Reader)
- Lambe, Jennifer (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ethnomusicology
- performance studies
- Critical pedagogy
- Materiality
- Slavic studies
- Musicology
- Cuban history
- global music history
- timbre studies
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- This dissertation investigates Estonian hip-hop artists’ engagement with concepts of national suffering, character, and anxieties by examining the play of collective social norms and individuality …
- Year:
- 2014
- Contributor:
- Vallaste, Triin (creator)
- Miller, Kiri (Director)
- Tucker, C. (Reader)
- Perlman, Marc (Reader)
- Daughtry, J. (Reader)
- Tucker, Joshua (Reader)
- Daughtry, Martin (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- post-Soviet
- Hip-hop
- Popular music
- Identity politics
- Popular culture
- Nationalism
- Globalization
- Estonia
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This project tells the story of the revitalization of a community musical tradition. The music is the old-time string band music of Surry County North …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Ruchala, James R (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (Director)
- Perlman, Marc (Reader)
- Carter, Thomas (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- old-time
- fiddle
- revitalization
- Music
- Old-time music
- Violin
- Banjo
- Folklore
- Dance
- Revivals
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation is the first ethnographic study of mashups and the mashup community. I have tried to represent the music and its makers on their …
- Year:
- 2010
- Contributor:
- McGranahan, Liam R (creator)
- Miller, Kiri (Director)
- Marshall, Wayne (Reader)
- Perlman, Marc (Reader)
- Titon, Jeff (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Mashup
- mash-up
- remix
- dispersed community
- Mashups (Music)
- Copyright
- Remixes (Music)
- Internet
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This work examines New England Country & Western music as a series of frontiers that construct and reinforce regional working-class community and identity in a …
- Year:
- 2008
- Contributor:
- Murphy, Clifford R. (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (director)
- Post, Jennifer (reader)
- Buhle, Paul (reader)
- Subotnik, Rose (reader)
- Brown University. Music. Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Country & Western
- Dick Curless
- Yodeling Slim Clark
- Tombstone Every Mile
- frontier
- working-class
- truck driving music
- Hal Lone Pine
- Betty Cody
- community
- hillbilly
- Maritime Canada
- social capital
- minstrelsy
- Franco-American music
- Country music
- Borderlands
- Working class
- Social capital (Sociology)
- Self-reliance
- Curless, Dick > 1932-1995
- Clark, Slim > 1917-2000
- Lone Pine, Hal
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Vermont
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Massachusetts
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Theses and Dissertations
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines African and Afro-diasporic music in the contemporary world music industry. It looks specifically at Orchestra Baobab and AfroCubism, two world music bands …
- Year:
- 2014
- Contributor:
- Whitmore, Aleysia K (creator)
- Miller, Kiri (Director)
- Perlman, Marc (Reader)
- Pacini Hernandez, Deborah (Reader)
- Tucker, Joshua (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ethnomusicology
- Black Atlantic
- World music
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines son jarocho in southern Veracruz as an adaptive, participatory musical practice through which social worlds are assembled in sound. Rather than approaching …
- Year:
- 2026
- Contributor:
- Loomis, Jay (creator)
- Tucker, Joshua (Advisor)
- Dolan, Emily (Reader)
- Preucel, Robert (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Mexico
- African diaspora
- Ethnomusicology
- sound studies
- Sones jarochos
- Fandangos
- Participatory Music
- Afro-Latin American Studies
- Musical instruments
- Ecomusicology
- Instrument manufacture
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the co-development of improvised rock music and live sound engineering during formative periods. It is both an extended case study of a …
- Year:
- 2014
- Contributor:
- Reeder, Nicholas Clark (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (Director)
- Miller, Kiri (Reader)
- Gooley , Dana (Reader)
- Cacicchi, Daniel (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Improvised Rock
- Live Sound
- Sound Engineering
- Studio Recording
- Audience Culture
- Jambands
- Grateful Dead
- Popular Music
- Acoustical engineering
- Live recordings
- Jam bands
- Popular music
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation discusses the musical thought and practice of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932�1982). I focus on three main issues: Gould�s embrace of music technology, …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Mantere, Juha M (creator)
- Subotnik, Rose (Director)
- Williams, James (Reader)
- Perlman, Marc (Reader)
- Josephson, David (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Glenn Gould
- Performance studies
- Criticism
- Gould, Glenn
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- The online bluegrass community is under continuous development, engaging with the Internet as front porch, classroom, and marketplace. Bluegrass music balances between tradition and modernity …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Leonard, Katy E (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (Director)
- Perlman, Marc (Reader)
- Zdonik, Stan (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- bluegrass
- community
- virtual
- Bluegrass music
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the recent emergence of the phenomenon of women’s drumming in postcolonial West Africa through the lens of Ewe …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Hunter, Julie Erin (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (Director)
- Miller, Kiri (Reader)
- Burns, James (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- African music
- West Africa
- Ewe music
- Ewe culture
- Ewe songs
- Ewe religion
- ethnography
- gender
- gender performance
- drumming
- women's drumming
- music and politics
- life story
- musical change
- postcolonial society
- bobo
- hayeye
- fefe
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Africa, West
- Ewe (African people)--Music
- Folk songs, Ewe
- Ewe (African people)--Religion
- Ethnology
- Women's music
- Sex
- Drum--Performance
- Kpegisu
- Africa
- Ghana
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Heritage designation is everywhere today—attached to buildings, monuments, landscapes, expressive practices, and entire ways of life. Official institutions hurry to stamp places, traditions, and people …
- Year:
- 2014
- Contributor:
- Hanson, Bradley A. (creator)
- Titon, Jeff (Director)
- Rankin, Tom (Reader)
- Miller, Kiri (Reader)
- Perlman, Marc (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- heritage
- lived experience
- barn dance
- narrative ethnography
- Memory
- Radio
- Country music
- Bluegrass music
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation is a regionally centered study of black popular religion and music in the Dominican Republic. Salves and palos performance are described and interpreted …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Piper, Daniel Clifford (creator)
- Perlman, Marc (Director)
- Austerlitz, Paul (Reader)
- Miller, Kiri (Reader)
- Titon, Jeff (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Caribbean
- gender
- modernization
- emergence
- Music
- Religion
- Blacks
- Sex
- Urbanization
- Caribbean Area
- Dominican Republic
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Music
- Ethnomusicology
- Theses and Dissertations