Sökning: "Music and Literature"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 67 avhandlingar innehållade orden Music and Literature.
16. Högt och lågt : Smak och stil i ungdomskulturen
Sammanfattning : The thesis contributes to the understanding of modern youth cultures. The study consists of three parts. The first part explores the development of youth culture research. In the second part a theoretical perspective is developed on taste and style that can be applied to contemporary youth cultures. LÄS MER
17. The Movement of a Musical Work : Ernst Krenek’s Opus 20 in the Interwar Years
Sammanfattning : The dissertation studies how one ‘modern’ piece of music from the early 20th century became conceptualised as an idealised musical work: the Third String Quartet, opus 20 (op. 20) by Austrian composer Ernst Krenek (1900–1991). LÄS MER
18. Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of metaphors of emotion in rebétiko song texts. Rebétiko is a major popular-music style of modern Greece, consisting mostly of melancholic songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree attitude to life. LÄS MER
19. Dylan i 60-talet. Tematiken i Bob Dylans sångtexter och dikter 1961-67
Sammanfattning : Bob Dylan (b. 1941) became known as an enfant terrible and a regenerator of rock lyrics already in the tumultuous 60´s. His constantly shifting roles as musician and songwriter, combined with his notable reserve, have led to the growth of a plethora of myths surrounding his person and work. LÄS MER
20. 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
