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Description:: In the wake of Hurricane Katrinas dramatic demographic changes, scholars, journalists, and politicians have discussed Mexican migration to New Orleans as a new phenomenon and an unwelcome threat to the citys social order, rich culture, and tourist economy. This dissertation challenges these ideas and demonstrates some of the myriad ways...
Keyword:: Cultural Brokers, Borderlands, Music, Mexico, and New Orleans
Subject:: History
Creator:: Valeria Priscilla Jimanez
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/19/2019
Date Modified:: 11/19/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Learning to play an instrument requires the progressive tuning almost all of a student's senses. He trains his ears to hear consonance and dissonance and eyes to read sheet music or read other musicians' body language, for example. The protracted training that is required to become a musician has been...
Keyword:: EEG, Plasticity, Language, Speech, Brainstem, and Music
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology and Learning Disabilities
Creator:: Gabriella Musacchia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/08/2018
Date Modified:: 09/08/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Musical theater is a discipline that, by its very nature, engages several disciplines, specifically music, visual art, theater, and dance. The elementary classroom is a viable setting for the study of the arts in an interdisciplinary manner, yet the number of studies examining interdisciplinary instruction with regard to elementary music...
Keyword:: Music Education, Elementary Education, Music, and Fine Arts
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Kelly Roberts
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-07-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This document gives a brief history of classical music (Western art music) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a focus on recent events and developments from the beginning of the siege (1992) to the present. Further focus is placed on the effects of Sarajevo's cultural pluralism on the city's largest...
Keyword:: Sarajevo, Cultural exchange, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cultural Resistance, Music, and dma project
Subject:: Oboe Performance
Creator:: Megan Elizabeth Robbins
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 2014-06-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004), one of the most inventive composers of his generation, created a musical language that draws inspiration from a multifaceted array of sources, including the technological landscape of daily life, the visual arts, poetry, literature, and philosophy. Furthermore, from early in his career, Romitelli incorporated elements in his...
Keyword:: Analysis, Music, and Romitelli
Subject:: Music theory and Musical composition
Creator:: Arrellin, Mathew
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16376 and etdadmin_upload_947312

Description:: This paper discusses the role of the Secondary Rainbow Synthesizer in Catherine Lamb’s composition Prisma Interius IX. This instrument is a MIDI keyboard that controls a computer program consisting of a bank of resonant band-pass filters, which are tuned to specific frequencies and can be opened or closed to varying...
Keyword:: Composition, Sound, Music, Electronic Music, and Experimental Music
Subject:: Music and Musical composition
Creator:: Jenkins, Noah Fletcher
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_872461 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15893

Description:: In this dissertation I leverage new data from the global music recording industry to study the social foundations of creativity and the relationship between product novelty, gender, and commercial success. In Chapter 1, I investigate how different kinds of social connection influence the creation of novel cultural products. Using data...
Keyword:: Cultural Markets, Social influence, Creativity, Networks, and Music
Subject:: Management, Sociology, and Organization theory
Creator:: Mauskapf, Michael Gerard
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14959 and etdadmin_upload_711355

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