Search for dissertations about: "song lyrics"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words song lyrics.

  2. 1. Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko

    Author : Marianna Smaragdi; Grekiska (nygrekiska); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; rebétiko; Greek music; song texts; lyrics; metaphor; metaphorical expressions; figurative language; conceptual metaphor; emotion concepts; force metaphors; Lakoff and Johnson; Kövecses;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of metaphors of emotion in rebétiko song texts. Rebétiko is a major popular-music style of modern Greece, consisting mostly of melancholic songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree attitude to life. READ MORE

  4. 2. The language of passion : the order of poetics and the construction of a lyric genre 1746-1806

    Author : Anna Cullhed; Bengt Landgren; Lars Gustafsson; Mats Malm; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; The lyric; genre; poetics; neoclassicism; romanticism; tradition; discourse; ode; song; hymn; canon; imitation; authenticity; expression; original poetry; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The subject of this dissertation is the construction of a lyric genre in academic poetics between 1746 and 1806, in handbooks and lectures by Ch. Batteux, J. A. Schlegel, J. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Brothers Al-Kuwaity and the Iraqi Song 1930–1950

    Author : Dafna Dori; Lars Berglund; Virginia Danielson; Martin Greve; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iraqi music; Saleh al-Kuwaity; Daud al-Kuwaity; Iraqi Jews; Iraqi Maqam; Hashemite Iraq; Baghdad; صالح الكويتي; داود الكويتي; يهود العراق; المقام العراقي; צאלח אל-כויתי; יהדות עיראק; מקאם עיראקי; האחים אל-כויתי; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

    Abstract : The brothers Saleh al-Kuwaity صالح الكويتي (1908–1986) and Daud al-Kuwaity داود الكويتي (1910–1976) were active as performers, composers, teachers and music entrepreneurs in Baghdad between 1930 and 1950, and they continued to work after immigrating to Israel in 1951. This thesis explores the brothers’ work in Iraq, and how it was intertwined with processes of modernisation and westernisation, at a time when Iraq was forming itself as a nation-state. READ MORE

  6. 4. In Search of the Generic Identity of Ci Poetry

    Author : Lena Rydholm; Torbjörn Lodén; Kang-i Sun Chang; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Chinese language; Kinesiska; Sinology; Sinologi;

    Abstract : The aim of  this dissertation is to create a coherent and systematic description of the ci genre through discussing a large number of characteristics attributed to it in some well-known theories and studies from the Song dynasty up to our day. Some major issues of debate concerning the ci genre are discussed and certain traditional research methods and research attitudes among mainland Chinese scholars are questioned. READ MORE