Sökning: "jazz literature"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden jazz literature.
1. Guldår & krisår : Svensk jazz under 1950- och 60-talen
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the history of jazz in Sweden during two dynamic and critical decades, the 1950s and ’60s. My analysis also discusses methodological challenges that a (Swedish) jazz historian can face. LÄS MER
2. The "New Negro" in the Old World : culture and performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen
Sammanfattning : I denna avhandling studeras europaskildringarna i James Weldon Johnsons The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fausets There Is Confusion (1924) och Nella Larsens Quicksand (1928) och hur dessa speglar afrikansk-amerikanernas roll i den västerländska civilisationen. I 1800-talets afrikansk-amerikanska litteratur figurerar Europa ofta som symbol för frihet och kultur. LÄS MER
3. Modernitet och intermedialitet i Erik Asklunds tidiga romankonst
Sammanfattning : Modernitet och intermedialitet is the first major study of the Swedish modernist writer Erik Asklund (1908-1980) and his works. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter and three close readings of Asklund’s early novels Kvinnan är stor (The Woman is Great, 1931), Lilla land (A Small Country, 1933), and Fanfar med fem trumpeter (A Fanfare with Five Trumpets, 1934). LÄS MER
4. The "New Negro" in the Old World: Culture and Performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the relationship between the “New Negro” moment of the early twentieth-century America and the Old World of Europe, as represented in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fauset’s There is Confusion (1924), and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928). In the nineteenth century, Europe functioned as a symbol of freedom, education and art in the African-American literary imagination. LÄS MER
5. Språk, musik och kultur : En studie av hur språkbruket i musikrecensioner speglar kulturella värderingar
Sammanfattning : Language and music are two forms of human communication with their own semiotic systems. The way in which language use concerning a certain kind of music is linked to the music in question, has been studied from a culture-theoretic perspective, i.e. LÄS MER
