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 …
This dissertation describes four associated musical compositions and represents an effort to advance electroacoustic musical compositional practices by examining and innovating two key technologies: listening …
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 …
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 …
This dissertation examines how practitioners of capoeira Angola develop sensory knowledge as a mode of racial politics. The ethnographic study focuses on master-teacher Mestre Cláudio’s …
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 …
Florianopolis, the island capital of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is home to endemic traditional music genres. Surrounding these genres are fraught areas of disagreement regarding traditions’ …
This dissertation examines the lived experiences and revitalized ceremonies of Bhutanese-Nepali Kirat Rai refugees recently resettled in Vermont in order to make a larger argument …
My project analyzes the intersection of listening, disability, and popular music in the twenty-first century United States. In particular, I focus on competing and contemporary …
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, …
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 …
Drawing on fieldwork in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, this dissertation examines how sound mediates (anti)social and translocal relations in the soccer culture of Latin America’s …
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 …
This dissertation traces changing understandings of indigeneity in highland Peru, articulated in the ways people have adapted music alongside new media technologies over the last …