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Circling Opera in Berlin

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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 ...
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2009
Contributors:
Chaikin, Paul Martin (creator) Subotnik, Rose (director) Titon, Jeff (reader) Gooley, Dana (reader) Rosen, Philip (reader) Brown University. Music. Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
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Berlin aesthetic autonomy Theodor Adorno Walter Benjamin Operas Aura
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Community Powered Resistance: Radio, Music Scenes and Musical Activism in Washington, D.C.

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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 ...
Copyright Date:
2008
Contributors:
Loughran, Maureen Elizabeth (creator) Titon, Jeff (director) Smulyan, Susan (reader) Miller, Kiri (reader) Spitzer, Nicholas (reader) Brown University. Music. Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
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music scenes musical activism punk activism Radio Gentrification Punk culture Applied ethnomusicology
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New England Country & Western Music: Self-Reliance, Community Expression, and Regional Resistance on the New England Frontier

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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 multi-ethnic ...
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2008
Contributors:
Murphy, Clifford R. (creator) Titon, Jeff (director) Post, Jennifer (reader) Buhle, Paul (reader) Subotnik, Rose (reader) Brown University. Music. Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
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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
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