Search for dissertations about: "jazz"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the word jazz.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. Jazz in Worship and Worship in Jazz: Exploring the musical language of Liturgical, Sacred, and Spiritual Jazz in a Postsecular Age

   Author : Uwe Steinmetz; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religious Jazz; Postsecularity; Spiritual Jazz; Christian Music; Sacred Music; George Russell; Twelve Tone Tonality in Jazz;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to identify musical elements that contribute to the generation of religious meaning in jazz performance and to explore how religious experience can inspire jazz composition. In this study, the history of jazz, specifically tailored to the aspects of my inquiry is imbricated with relevant theories and musical interventions from my own artistic practice in composition and performance. READ MORE

5. 3. Making music together : An interactionist perspective on small-group performance in jazz

   Author : Peter Reinholdsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Musicology; small-group contexts; jazz performers; face-to-face relationships; interactionist perspective; bricolage; emics; etics; field-recorded materials; regular quintet; ad-hoc trio; Musikvetenskap; Music; Musikvetenskap; Musicology; Musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates and discusses music-making among players in contemporary small-group contexts in the world of jazz performance. It focuses on how jazz performers symbolically create meanings in their consciousnesses sociomusically and sociovisuaily in face-to-face playing situations which continuously flow into one another. READ MORE

6. 4. Storytelling in Jazz Improvisation : Implications of a Rich Intermedial Metaphor

   Author : Sven Bjerstedt; Teaterhögskolan i Malmö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; jazz improvisation; storytelling; narrativity in music; intermedial metaphor; improvisation;

   Abstract : The phenomenon of intermedial conceptual loans is central to our understanding of the time-based arts. This thesis focuses on the usage of the term storytelling with regard to jazz improvisation. The aim of the investigation is to clarify how this concept is used by Swedish jazz practitioners. READ MORE

7. 5. A Field of Possibilities: Designing and Playing Digital Musical Instruments

   Author : Per Anders Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Digital musical instruments; improvisation; experimental music; jazz; free improvisation; music of sounds; computer music; interaction design; design time – play time; practicing; play; game and sports; self-organization; rules; affordances; predeterminations; artistic research;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on a set of digital musical instruments I have designed and developed with ensemble improvisation in mind. The intention is not to create a universal improvisational instrument, but rather to create a set of instruments which each realize one musical idea. READ MORE