Search for dissertations about: "Alf Björnberg"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Alf Björnberg.

  2. 1. Melody Beyond Notes : A Study of Melody Cognition

    Author : Sven Ahlbäck; Karl Olof Edström; Jan Ling; Alf Björnberg; Carol L Krumhansl; Kungl. Musikhögskolan; []
    Keywords : Melody; Cognition; Melodic segmentation; Melodic Parallelism; Pitch Structure; Meter; Rhythm; Grouping; Swedish Folk Music; Music Theory; Computer-aided analysis;

    Abstract : Abstract Melody beyond notes - a study of melody cognition Keywords: Melody, Cognition, Melodic segmentation, Melodic Parallelism, Pitch Structure,Meter, Rhythm, Grouping, Swedish Folk Music, Music Theory, Computer-aided analysis This thesis is a music theoretical approach to cognition of surface structure in monophonic melodies. It can briefly be described as a study into what extent we may acquire a common experience of melodic structure, such as phrase structure, only from listening to a melody. READ MORE

  4. 2. Taking it as a Man? : Music, Youth, and Gender, Outside and Within Mainstream Media Cultures

    Author : Linus Johansson; Lars Berglund; Alf Björnberg; Johan Fornäs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Internet; mediatization; popular culture; ideology; persona; discourse; hegemony; articulation; authenticity; intersectionality; gender; youth;

    Abstract : Since the establishment of the Internet as an aspect of everyday life in the Western world, popular culture has generated new prospects for artists and other cultural agents to disseminate their creative outcomes. This thesis focuses on the early years of the new millennium, a time of pessimism and conflict around file-sharing and other illegal activities, but also a time for renewed thinking and enthusiasm regarding the potential of the prospering information and communication age. READ MORE

  5. 3. Swingin' Swedes: The Transnational Exchange of Swedish Jazz in the US

    Author : Mischa van Kan; Alf Björnberg; Bruce Johnson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; jazz; Sweden; Swedish jazz; music history; record industry; critics; transnationalism; cultural insiders; record covers; liner notes; borealism; racial imagination; hipness; nationality; ethnicity; race; gender; Musikvetenskap;

    Abstract : The thesis analyzes the dissemination and reception of Swedish jazz in the United States in the period of 1947 to 1963.... READ MORE

  6. 4. Music, mind and the serious Zappa : the passions of a virtual listener

    Author : Ulrik Volgsten; Alf Björnberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; affect; attunement; categorization; cognition; Daniel Stern; Donald Davidson; Eleanor Rosch; emotions; mood; ideology; imagination; metaphor; sympathy; Zappa; multimodal analysis; Musicology; musikvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation argues that music is always ideological. For this thesis two lines of argument are given. The first states that music is always ideological because it requires verbal discourses about itself. The second line of argument states that music is always ideological because it influences the listener affectively. READ MORE