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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 91 avhandlingar innehållade orden popular music.
21. Claiming Space: Discourses on Gender, Popular Music, and Social Change
Sammanfattning : This compilation (portfolio) thesis explores how language is used in the context of gender-equity music initiatives to construct ideas about gender, popular music, and social change. More specifically, it examines the use of spatial metaphors and concepts revolving round the idea that girls and women need to “claim space” to participate in popular music practices. LÄS MER
22. Ulf Björlin - dirigenten, kompositören, arrangören
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the Swedish conductor, composer and arranger Ulf Björlin (1933-1993). As no systematic inventory of Björlin’s work has previously been made, a comprehensive collection of his compositions, arrangements, recordings, concerts and work as a producer has been undertaken here. LÄS MER
23. Authenticity and its Contemporary Challenges : On Techniques of Staging Bodies
Sammanfattning : In this thesis I investigate what ‘authenticity’ means in a contemporary popular context and how it is used in the staging of bodies. Furthermore, I analyse works of dance and fashion from the past fifteen years with a focus on their strategies of challenging the notion of ‘bodily authenticity’. LÄS MER
24. Textens Transfigurationer
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the opera text enlightened from four different perspectives: the translator, the librettist, the composer and finally the singer, based on the author’s thirty years of professsional practice, in the spirit of Donald A. Schön’s study from 1983: The Reflective Practitioner; How professionals think in action. LÄS MER
25. Magical Flutes : Music Culture and Music Groups in a Changing Bolivia
Sammanfattning : The main part of this dissertation consists of an ethnographic study of three music groups which are part of an urban music movement in Bolivia. I describe the groups Los Masis, Inkallajta and Flor Tani Tani, their experiences and their ideas about music-making. LÄS MER