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 …
Reaching back to the apocryphal wanderings of Pythagoras, the artform of music has been indelibly tied to concepts of nature and the natural, principally that …
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: 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 …
This thesis discusses the design of a sensor-embedded data glove called alto.glove, created by the author and used in interactive performances involving string instrument playing …
Motivated by questions posed to the new media artist, concerning the difficulties with coming up with an innovative artistic style in interactive media performance, this …
Aphasia is a work of digital language art created for the Cave Writing workshop at Brown University, an immersive, interactive 3D-stereo audiovisual environment. The artist …
In this project I develop a critical framework for engaging with the role of vocality in different singular and collective scenes of subjectivation and resistance. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“Construction” intersects chance probabilities, experimental performance, and theoretical research through navigations of immersive environments. These navigations center around the Light Box, a new interface that …
Cubes is a work of digital language art created for the Cave Writing workshop at Brown University, an immersive, interactive 3D-stereo audiovisual environment. This immersive …
Dark Exhalation is a chamber opera-film for four vocalists, amplified ensemble (flute, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion), and pre-recorded sound …
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 …
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. …
Abstract of Diacousticon: Curation, Audience, and the Listening Machine by Stephan M. Moore, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. This thesis provides a thorough discussion of …