Search for dissertations about: "popular music"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words popular music.

  2. 6. Raising Voices : Singing repertoire and practices in Swedish schools

    Author : David Johnson; Lärare (Musikhögskolan); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Singing; Repertoire; Children; Schools; Survey; Ethnomusicology; Cantometrics; Microevolution;

    Abstract : This doctoral study aims to (i) investigate current song repertoire and singing practices in Swedish elementary school music education and (ii) to critically assess what factors may be seen to affect singing practices and repertoire choice. It looks to map out how much young students are singing in the general music classroom, what they sing, and how they sing, and to discuss possible implications for pedagogical practice from an ethnomusicological perspective. READ MORE

  4. 7. Vocal Figurations : Technique, Technology, and Mediation in the Gendering of Voice in Twenty-First-Century Pop Music

    Author : Veronika Muchitsch; Lars Berglund; Elizabeth Gould; Nina Eidsheim; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pop Music; Pop Music Analysis; Music Criticism; Sound Studies; Auditory Cultures; Voice; Vocal Technique; Studio Technology; Electronic Media; Pop Music and Gender; Pop Music and Intersectionality; Feminist Figurations; Postfeminism; Popular Feminism; Lana Del Rey; Anohni; Antony and the Johnsons; Beyoncé; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the gendering of voice in twenty-first-century pop music and music criticism through the concept of vocal figurations. Embodying a thoroughly relational understanding of voice, it articulates vocal technique, studio technology, and electronic mediation as three primary dimensions through which voices come to signal gender as it intersects with other vectors of social identity. READ MORE

  5. 8. Claiming Space: Discourses on Gender, Popular Music, and Social Change

    Author : Cecilia Björck; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; space; spatiality; popular music; girls; women; gender; social change; agency; music education; discourse analysis;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  6. 9. Authenticity and its Contemporary Challenges : On Techniques of Staging Bodies

    Author : Franziska Bork-Petersen; Lena Hammergren; Gabriele Brandstetter; Ramsay Burt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; techniques of the body; staging; self; authenticity; Menschenbilder; The Swan; Germany’s Next Topmodel; cosmetic surgery; Enlightenment; models of identity.; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : 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’. READ MORE

  7. 10. Magical Flutes : Music Culture and Music Groups in a Changing Bolivia

    Author : Sari Pekkola; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Bolivia; ethnography; urban music movement; emergent culture; popular music and society; Music culture; musicians; Sociologi;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE