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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:
- Vaporwave is a form of electronic music that samples 80’s elevator music, muzak, disco, and R&B, drenching them in reverberation and distorting them in the …
- Year:
- 2022
- Contributor:
- Nicolas Gascon (creator)
- Gerhard Richter (advisor)
- Brown University. Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (research program)
- Genre:
- posters
- Subject:
- Critical theory
- Auditory scene analysis
- Music
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
- Derrida, Jacques
- Postmodernism
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Postmodernism--Social aspects
- Continental philosophy
- Jameson, Fredric
- Vaporwave (Music)
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Summer Research Symposium
- Description:
- This selection of poems includes the pieces titled: Where Your Mouth Delays the Cut, I Smoke my Dead Cigarette in too Much Haste, And There …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- Accardi, Millicent Borges (author)
- Genre:
- poetry
- Subject:
- Poetry
- Portuguese American poetry
- Fishing > Poetry
- Intertextuality
- Music
- Multiculturalism in literature
- Saudade (The Portuguese word)
- Collection:
- Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
- Journals@BDR
- Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2023
- Contributor:
- Bentz, Nicholas (creator)
- Cheung, Anthony (Advisor)
- Nathan, Eric (Reader)
- Caplan, Lindsay (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Computer Music and Multimedia Composition (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Music
- metamodernism
- organicism
- Doctrine of the affections
- Schenkerian analysis
- Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
- Webern, Anton, 1883-1945
- Musical analysis
- Collection:
- Music
- Computer Music and Multimedia Composition
- 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:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2018
- Contributor:
- Thorn, Seth Dominicus (creator)
- Rovan, Joseph Butch (Advisor)
- Winkler, Todd (Reader)
- Evens, Aden (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Music (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Machine Learning
- Music
- Signal processing--Digital techniques
- physical computing
- Arduino (Programmable controller)
- max msp
- max for live
- musical expression
- Violin
- Viola
- Critique of Reason
- Resistance
- Gaming Theory
- Proceduralism
- Style
- Musical Gesture
- Data Gloves
- Hyperinstrument
- Poetics of Gesture
- Collection:
- Music
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Baseball (Standing in a River)
- Year:
- 2022
- Contributor:
- Puopolo, Henry (Creator)
- Subject:
- Music
- Standing in a River
- Collection:
- Music
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- In this interview, Becky Scheusner, Brown University class of 2018, MPH 2026, and Office of Military Affiliated Students Program Coordinator, discusses her 11-year career in …
- Contributor:
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Scheusner, Becky (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Children
- Gender Expectations
- Music
- Music Education
- Resumed Undergraduate Education
- September 11, 2001
- Staff/Faculty
- Women in the Military
- 2010s
- Local ID:
- bdr:1110073
- Language:
- eng
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Bell sound has an enduring presence in classical music. This dissertation analyzes how composers evoke the sound of a bell in their music and how …
- Year:
- 2026
- Contributor:
- Chinilina, Inga (creator)
- Nathan, Eric (Advisor)
- Dolan, Emily (Reader)
- Cheung, Anthony (Reader)
- Wang, Lu (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Music (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Music
- Bells
- Bells in art
- Murail, Tristan
- Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
- Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908
- Mahler, Gustav
- Collection:
- Music
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- In this interview, Carmen Louw discusses her work with the Women on Farms Project, the conditions on farms for women specifically, and the worker’s uprising …
- Year:
- 2023
- Contributor:
- Brown University. Ruth J Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (Creator)
- Iziko Museums of South Africa (Creator)
- National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) (Creator)
- Everton, Daniel (editor of moving image work)
- Louw, Carmen (interviewee)
- Pillay, Maganthrie (videographer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary genre)
- Subject:
- 2012 Farmworker’s Uprising
- Apartheid
- Black consciousness
- Cape Town (South Africa)--History--20th century.
- Cape Town (South Africa)--History--21st century.
- Cape Town (South Africa)--Race relations.
- Cape Town (South Africa)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Cape Town (South Africa)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Colonization
- Culture
- Employee rights
- Feudalism
- Freedom and freedom-making
- Music
- Patriarchy
- Political activism
- Progressive Federal Party
- Protest
- Racial identity
- Slavery
- Women on Farms Project
- Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa)
- De Doorns (South Africa)
- South Africa
- Local ID:
- Louw_C Day 13
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Geographic Emphases
- The University and Beyond
- Global Curatorial Project
- GCP South Africa
- Description:
- Choreorobotics 0101 emerges from the intersection of dance and robotics, offering an interdisciplinary, exploratory framework for students to develop dances / projects as choreographer-technologist scholars. …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Rachel Ma (creator)
- Yu, Qinan (creator)
- Arian, Khosrow (creator)
- Begor, Flynn (creator)
- Chen, Ivery (creator)
- Emerson, Chance (creator)
- Ross, Zabari (creator)
- Gessner, Megan (creator)
- Idrees, Ifrah (creator)
- Rosen, Eric (creator)
- Greenberg, Madeline (creator)
- Sydney Skybetter (advisor)
- Brown University. Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (research program)
- Genre:
- posters
- Subject:
- Neural networks (Computer science)
- Computer science
- Ethics
- Music
- Robotics
- Interdisciplinary research
- Dance
- Robots
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Summer Research Symposium
- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes the connections between Jorge de Lima's 1938 poem "O grande circo místico" and a group of songs that Edu Lobo and Chico …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Ribeiro, Guilherme Trielli (creator)
- Valente, Luiz (Director)
- Vieira, Nelson (Reader)
- Sobral, Patricia (Reader)
- Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Jorge de Lima
- Edu Lobo
- Chico Buarque
- Brazilian literature
- Music
- Lima, Jorge de > 1893-1953
- Lobo, Edu
- Buarque, Chico > 1944-
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Collection:
- Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- In this interview, Clarice LaVerne Thompson discusses her educational and professional path to becoming a visiting professor in Africana Studies and Music Director at Brown …
- Contributor:
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Straker, Diane (interviewer)
- Thompson, Clarice LaVerne (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Music
- Music Education
- Performance Arts
- Providence
- Theatre
- 2000s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728107
- bdr728107
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- 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
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- “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 …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Park, Caroline (creator)
- Winkler, Todd (Advisor)
- Rovan, Joseph (Advisor)
- Osborn, Ed (Reader)
- Greenlee, Shawn (Reader)
- Mallia, John (Reader)
- Brown University. Music: Computer Music and Multimedia Composition (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- performance
- Digital media
- Aleatory music
- Computer interfaces
- Electronic music
- Music
- MEME
- Experimental
- Improvisation (Music)
- Multimedia (Art)
- Structured improvisation
- Light
- Digital
- Construction
- Collection:
- Music
- Computer Music and Multimedia Composition
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 2022
- Contributor:
- Vistein, Amber (creator)
- Nathan, Eric (Advisor)
- Dolan, Emily (Reader)
- Lu, Wang (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Music (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Music
- New materialism
- contemporary opera
- Collection:
- Music
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- In this oral history captured over the course of four interviews, Diane Straker, the Pembroke Center’s administrative assistant, details her experiences living in various states …
- Contributor:
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Straker, Diane (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Black faculty/staff
- Children
- Employment
- Family
- Music
- Providence
- Urban renewal
- 2000s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728108
- bdr728108
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Elegies is a collection of creative non-fiction essays about motherhood, mourning, and early childhood death. Each essay combines the author's personal experience and family history …
- Year:
- 2023
- Contributor:
- Brand-Wolf, Gemma (creator)
- Readey, Jonathan (thesis advisor)
- Quashie, Kevin (thesis advisor)
- Abramowitz, Sophie (reader)
- Brown University. Independent Concentrations (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Neonatal intensive care
- Personal narratives
- Obstetrics
- Bereavement
- Constitutional law
- Music
- Death
- Maternal and infant welfare
- Memory
- Grief
- Motherhood
- Family history
- trauma studies
- United States. Supreme Court
- Beloved (Morrison, Toni)
- Death (Dying)
- Loss (Psychology)
- mourning
- Critical legal studies
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Office of the Dean of the College
- Independent Concentrations
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Carly Rae Jepsen isn’t your average pop star, and "EMOTION" (written here on out as “Emotion” for simplicity’s sake) isn’t your average pop album. In …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- O'Neill, Michael (creator)
- Imbriglio, Catherine (thesis advisor)
- Readey, Jon (reader)
- Golaski, Adam (reader)
- Brown University. English (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Music
- Popular music
- Jepsen, Carly Rae, 1985-
- Carly Rae Jepsen
- Popular culture
- Women in popular culture
- Emotion
- Album
- Pop music
- pop
- Pop Culture
- Michael O'Neill
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- English
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- Review of FISCHER, Claudia J. (2025). Fernando Pessoa no Espelho de Celan. Lisboa: Tinta-da-china. 199 pp. [ISBN: 978-989-671-912-8].
- Year:
- 2026
- Contributor:
- Lemos, Vera San Payo de (Author)
- Genre:
- reviews (documents)
- Subject:
- Pessoa, Fernando > 1888-1935
- Celan, Paul
- Translation and interpretation
- Music
- Literary criticism
- Tradução
- Música
- Crítica literária
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Collection:
- Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
- Journals@BDR
- Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies