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 …
This dissertation concerns two interrelated areas of cultural policy in Turkey: the curation of an official broadcast repertoire of folk music at the state broadcasting …
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 …
Abstract of Defamiliarizing the Cart: Art as Interventionist Practice in the Age of Cyberdelic Consumerism, by Martim S. Galvão, Degree A.M., Brown University, May 2017. …
Lossy Recollections is a set of five film and video pieces that investigate frictions produced when the past encounters forms and methods of documentation, and …
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 chronicles the development of Ming Mecca, an experimental modular synthesizer and videogame console designed and engineered by the author. Modular synthesizers are a …
This essay is a thorough documentation of the live music performance "Pulsations [Bitumen]" realized under the author's artist moniker 'Marcel Zaes' in 2018. The author …
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 …
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 …
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 is a regionally centered study of black popular religion and music in the Dominican Republic. Salves and palos performance are described and interpreted …
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 …
This paper outlines a creative, practice-based approach to exploring the entanglements between people and information technologies, especially as it relates to the role of surveillance …
This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of house music, the rhythmically-focused electronic dance sound born in the post-industrial “maroon” spaces of Chicago’s queer, black, and …