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In a seminal essay, Lila Abu-Lughod addresses “The Romance of Resistance,” suggesting that widespread scholarly interest in unlikely and quotidian forms of resistance [...]
14 March 2024 |
Music |
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Around 1750, various elements came together to turn Berlin from a musical backwater to one of the leading European centers of music in both practice and theory. This diss [...]
2024-03 |
Music |
Dissertation |
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<p>We investigated whether acoustic variation of musical properties can analogically convey descriptive information about an object. Specifically, we tested whether [...]
16 October 2013 |
Music; Psychology |
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In this thesis, I will examine modern reggaeton through a combination of musical analysis and interviews. Although there have been significant writings on reggaeton, its [...]
2021-04 |
Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Music |
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This dissertation examines how the analog-digital transition influenced the development of extreme metal, interpreting its present obsession with fine sub-generic distinc [...]
2023-08 |
Music |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation explores trans femme cultural performance forms in the shadow of queer social representation and stratified civic incorporation in USAmerican public lif [...]
2023-06 |
Music; Theater and Performance Studies |
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Amnesia is a continuation of my ongoing exploration in the interaction of different sounds and the manipulation of rhythm, texture, and timbre to create evocative soundsc [...]
2023-06 |
Music |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation investigates the cultural context and implications of British colonial elites and metropolitan musicians engaging with song as a material practice and a [...]
2023-06 |
Music |
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“Spectacles of a Nuclear Empire: Opera and Film in the American Atomic Age, 1945–2018” examines the unique power of spectacle to produce and reproduce narratives of [...]
2023-06 |
Music |
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<p>For the Grossman ensemble</p><p>Commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition</p><p></br>For a Whil [...]
2023-06 |
Music |
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In this dissertation I explore common spaces and intersections of the sacred and secular in contemporary Jewish Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork from 2015-2021, [...]
2022-12 |
Music |
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New Orleans and Havana, once nodes on the same circum-Caribbean circuit for trade and travel, both profit from their musical reputations in economies that are greatly dep [...]
2022-12 |
Music |
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This dissertation explores the earliest extant works of music theory printed in England, beginning in the 1590s and continuing into the 1630s. I focus on commercially ava [...]
2022-08 |
Music |
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Over the past several decades, the city of Istanbul has been transformed under Turkey’s Islamic populist regime by processes of economic and cultural liberalization tha [...]
2022-08 |
Music |
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TESSERACT, ACT I, my dissertation piece and research project at the University of Chicago, is a work for amplified soprano saxophone quartet and octophonic (8-channel) fi [...]
2022-06 |
Music |
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For centuries, Kurds have lived at the edges of empire. This liminal status has often resulted in the suppression or outright decimation of Kurdish language, culture, and [...]
2022-06 |
Music |
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Nineteenth-century pianist-composers like Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann were able to practice for improvisation (and for composition) by using exemplar-based practice me [...]
2021-08 |
Music |
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tap for percussion trio, tape, DMX lighting instruments, and video was commissioned by Line Upon Line Percussion Ensemble (Austin, TX) and is scored for three percussioni [...]
2021-08 |
Music |
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This dissertation explores the role of music and visual art in commemorative events in Europe throughout the seventeenth century. Following the lead of medievalists, I lo [...]
2021-08 |
Music |
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A composition for a 13-piece chamber orchestra, Workaround is concerned with the labor and agency of the performers. The piece is structured around a repeated “rondo” [...]
2021-06 |
Music |
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"stain, bloom, moon, rain" is a work for thirteen musicians, premiered by the Grossman Ensemble in March 2020. The piece is divided into three movements: i. stain; ii. bl [...]
2021-06 |
Music |
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saha araştırması (fieldwork) is an attempt to make sense of composition in an academic context and “composing a dissertation.” As such, the music is accompanied by [...]
2021-06 |
Music |
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This dissertation explores the persistence of Romanticism in contemporary soundtracks and easy listening. Drawing from a transnational archive of recent music for films a [...]
2021-06 |
Music |
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Throughout Western music from the 1960s until today—in genres and epochs ranging from concert music, to experimental albums in popular music, to goofy YouTube videos— [...]
2021-06 |
Music |
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In this dissertation, I argue that listeners’ ability to apprehend the expressive power and stylistic signature of late eighteenth- and early ninteenth-century music li [...]
2020-08 |
Music |
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