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Found Objects and Assemblage in The Health

Description:: In this paper, I analyze a piece of music that I wrote called The Health, a 90-minute musical ceremony that comprises speech, action, video projections, costumes, lights, chant, song, recomposed hold music, diagnostic exams, and renaissance magic. I wrote the piece for Mocrep and myself to perform, the initial run...
Keyword:: Collaboration, Music Composition, Assemblage, Ceremony, Chicago, and New Discipline
Subject:: Musical composition
Creator:: Scranton, Sam R
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_976119 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16464

Food in the Lives of Paris and Chicago Residents

Description:: The dissertation’s topic is the creation of quotidian judgements and practices related to food, amid the enduring social and spatial stratification of everyday life. The sites are two large and diverse cities: Paris and Chicago. The method is ethnographic and contextual.Chapter 1 documents the dietary tastes and culinary practices of...
Keyword:: food, Paris, Chicago, and ethnography
Subject:: Sociology and Cultural anthropology
Creator:: Ferrant, Coline
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_795897 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15468

Tired Bodies and Traveling Women: Gender and Economy in the Bosnian Refugee Migration to the United States, 1992-2005

Description:: Bosnian women war refugees are not only trauma survivors, but are actively engaged in economic and social practices that shape their American sites of relocation. These economic activities--wage labor, and unremunerated volunteer and kin labor--are embedded in a moral framework of mutual obligation rooted in the concept veze / connections,...
Keyword:: Migration, Gender, Refugees, Chicago, Moral Economy, and Bosnia
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Christiana Croegaert
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/26/2018
Date Modified:: 06/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Darkness of a Different Color: Mexicans and Racial Formation in Greater Chicago, 1916-1960

Description:: This dissertation examines the history of Mexicans' changing racial status in the Chicago metropolitan region, a place where race has traditionally been understood in strictly black and white terms. From World War I through the 1930's whites violently resisted Mexicans moving into their neighborhoods in Chicago, East Chicago, and Gary,...
Keyword:: immigration, housing, Mexican Americans, whiteness, race, and Chicago
Subject:: History
Creator:: Michael T.M. McCoyer
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/27/2018
Date Modified:: 08/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-11-20
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A Mixed Methods Portrait of Urban Instrumental Music Teaching

Description:: The purpose of this mixed methods study was to learn about the ways that instrumental music teachers in Chicago navigate the urban landscape. The design of the study most closely resembles Creswell and Plano Clark's (2007) two-part Triangulation Convergence Mixed Methods Design, with the addition of an initial exploratory focus...
Keyword:: mixed methods, urban, music education, Chicago, music teaching, and instrumental music
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Kate R. Fitzpatrick
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/07/2018
Date Modified:: 09/07/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Talking Drum: Chicago’s WVON Radio and the Sonorous Image of Black Lives, 1963-1983

Description:: My dissertation, “Talking Drum: Chicago’s WVON Radio and the Sonorous Image of Black Lives, 1963-1983,” studies WVON radio as a mediating institution of the black public sphere in Cold War Chicago. “Talking Drum” explores how WVON celebrated, represented, and mobilized black public life in the mid-twentieth century amid a dominant...
Keyword:: WVON, Black History, Media History, Mass Communication, Chicago, and Cold War Radio
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Zachary William Mills
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/22/2018
Date Modified:: 10/22/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Impacts of Restoration and Management on Plant Communities and Belowground Processes in the Chicago Region

Description:: Ecological restoration is a land management tool for biological conservation in areas where ecosystems are subject to a suite of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. This approach is particularly critical in urban areas where disturbances are often frequent and substantial. Restoration projects aim to re-establish an entire ecosystem, including the native...
Keyword:: invasion, soil, restoration, urban ecology, and Chicago
Subject:: Plant Biology and Conversation
Creator:: Lauren Umek
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/25/2019
Date Modified:: 02/25/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Representational Scales: Latinx Media Production in Chicago, 1953-2012

Description:: Like the majority of media studies, research on Latinx media is characterized by a focus on a single medium. As an alternative, this dissertation provides a media ecology of the city's Latinx mediascape between the years 1953 and 2012. This dissertation investigates four case studies: (1) Univision's former television affiliate,...
Keyword:: Latinx, Convergence, Latino, Intermedia, Ethnic, and Chicago
Subject:: Screen Cultures
Creator:: Roger Frank Almendarez
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/14/2019
Date Modified:: 10/14/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Catholicism(s) on Chicagos Southside: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Among Early-Generation Irish and Mexican Americans

Description:: This dissertation aims to understand the ways that the social, specifically race, ethnicity, and neighborhood, intersects with the religious identity, beliefs, and practices of early-generation Americans in Chicago. This dissertation asks at the most general level: What is the relationship of race, ethnicity, and religion for early-generation Americans? More specifically,...
Keyword:: sociology, Catholic studies, race, religion, Chicago, and ethnicity
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Christopher R Carroll
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/18/2019
Date Modified:: 11/19/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Mass Public: Gods Word, the Peoples Language, and U.S. Catholic Liturgical Reform 1940-1974

Description:: In 1964 the Second Vatican Council encouraged a switch from Latin Mass, celebrated by Roman Catholics across the globe in standardized form since the 16th century, to Mass in the languages spoken by the local people and with some adaptation to local circumstances. This event is familiar to scholars of...
Keyword:: Liturgical Reform, Religion and Culture, U.S. Catholicism, Ritual, Religion and Politics, and Chicago
Subject:: Religious Studies
Creator:: Jennifer Ann Callaghan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/18/2019
Date Modified:: 11/19/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Food in the Lives of Paris and Chicago Residents

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Darkness of a Different Color: Mexicans and Racial Formation in Greater Chicago, 1916-1960

A Mixed Methods Portrait of Urban Instrumental Music Teaching

Talking Drum: Chicago’s WVON Radio and the Sonorous Image of Black Lives, 1963-1983

Impacts of Restoration and Management on Plant Communities and Belowground Processes in the Chicago Region

Representational Scales: Latinx Media Production in Chicago, 1953-2012

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