Search for dissertations about: "song texts"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words song texts.

  2. 1. Sempronia's Song : Attitudes to Women's Music-making in Ancient Rome

    Author : Erika Lindgren Liljenstolpe; Gunnel Ekroth; Gullög Nordquist; Hillevi Ganetz; Gunhild Vidén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Rome; Roman; Music; Music-making; Women; Gender; Patriarchy; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : This study explores attitudes towards women’s music-making in ancient Rome (c. 120 BC–130 AD), as expressed in love poetry, satire, letters, historiography, biography, rhetoric and philosophy. The texts are studied from an intersectional perspective considering gender, social status, age and ethnicity to explain various attitudes. READ MORE

  4. 2. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity

    Author : Nathan Light; USA IN Indiana University; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Folklore; Song; Islam; Muqam; Modernity; Language; literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Turkic; Canonization; Middle Eastern literature; Uyghur; Performance; China; Asian literature; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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

  6. 4. Enthusiasm, Contemplation, and Romantic Longing : Reconsidering Schubert's Sectional Songs in the Light of Historical Context

    Author : Tobias Lund; Musikvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johann Georg Sulzer; Johann Wötzel; Friedrich Schiller; Romanticism; Neo-Platonism; depth; free fantasia; English landscape garden; declamation; friendship; friends; interpretation; ballad; Lied; Franz Schubert; sectional song; Ossian; Johann Mayrhofer; Die Bürgschaft; Die Nacht; Liedesend.;

    Abstract : In twentieth-century music scholarship, those of Franz Schubert’s songs from the 1810s that form sectional musical structures have normally been presented as being unfortunately dependent on aesthetically disparaged eighteenth-century models. Authors have often treated these songs succinctly, preferring instead to invest their energy in the “masterworks” of Schubert’s later years. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Making of Embrace and Exclusion: Isaiah 53 in the Light of Homecoming After Exile

    Author : Fredrik Hägglund; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Repatriation; Homecoming; Reconciliation; Vicarious Suffering; Atonement; Exclusion; Isaiah; Deutero-Isaiah; Servant Song; Isaiah 53; Suffering Servant; Bible; Old Testament; Bibelvetenskap;

    Abstract : Abstract This study attempts to understand what problem Isa 53 addresses and seeks to answer. The question is asked as an historical question and it is argued that Isa 53 address a specific historical problem, arising out of the conflicts created after the return of those who had gone into exile. READ MORE