Browsing by Department "Performance Studies"
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How is the continued COVID-19 pandemic interfering with the live art and entertainment industry? Embarking on performance as research and making art about world events while they occur instead of a reactive piece made after ...
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(2016-07-27)This presentation given at the "Music Scholarship Online" meeting describes the procedures for peer reviewing digital projects employed by the Advanced research consortium
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(2016-07-27)This presentation presents the Resource Data Framework (RDF) requirements of the Advanced Research Consortium.
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(2014-06-04)African American women in Appalachia have lived, survived and long been overlooked by dominant narratives that support stereotypical depictions of the Appalachian region and its inhabitants. A little over twenty years ago, ...
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(2022-12-12)This research analyzes how the women from Tente theater group transformed their traumatic experience concerning disappearance into the theater play Anunciando la Ausencia or Announcing the Absence, which engages the audience ...
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(2021-06-04)Bachata is a genre of music and dance which originated in the Dominican Republic and became globally popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. As a social dance form, bachata provides a framework for dancers to enjoy human-to-human ...
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(American Folklore Society/University of Illinois Press, 2002-01)In Richard Bauman's landmark study Verbal Art as Performance, reflexivity plays a small but important role. Combining ideas from Verbal Art with insights from phenomenology, this article uses the concept of reflexivity ...
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(2022-12-15)This thesis explores the connections between the artistic practice of Jerzy Grotowski and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Specifically it seeks to examine the potential for Grotowski style performance to cultivate ...
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(2016-08-29)While individuals in the gugak (Korean traditional music) scene have been predominantly females, traditional gendered barriers still persist, limiting women’s musical practices. Through historical and ethnographical analysis, ...
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My project has produced the first act of a written play examining the concept of judicial lockjaw and bipartisanship’s positive and negative effects on the Supreme Court. My work contributes to the genres of “Theatre of ...
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(2014-04-24)On April 20 1967, the Carmen-Suite ballet, starring Maya Plisetskaya in the leading role, premiered in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Theatre. The production was immediately banned by the Soviet Ministry of Culture for perceived ...
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(2019-05-21)Classical music is heavily characterized by tradition and conventions that shape and dictate the way is supposed to be performed. As a performer (classical guitarist and conductor) I’ve been looking for ways to negotiate ...
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(2013-06-03)The main focus of this thesis is to understand the myriad ways in which crust punk as an expressive cultural form creates meaning, forms the basis for social formation (or music scene), and informs the ways in which its ...
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(2015-08-10)In recent years, electronic dance music (EDM) and dance music culture have gained immense popularity. This thesis looks at EDM’s contemporary cultural landscape and what changes this popularity has brought about. While ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 1999-05)
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(2015-05-04)Opera divas are stereotypically temperamental, but many singers learn diva behaviors through Euro-classical vocal pedagogy. Two conditions of opera vocal training contribute to performances of diva identity. First, opera ...
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(2012-10-19)There is a discursive formation of incapability that surrounds senior women's sexuality. Senior women are incapable of reproduction, mastering their bodies, or arousing sexual desire in themselves or others. The senior ...
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(2016-04-29)Marginalized students face disparities that impact their ability to successfully navigate higher education. Educational institutions that provide spaces for these students to express and explore their experiences can create ...
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(2016-05-05)Cubanos con Decendencia Africana, or Cubans of African descent (CDA) in Havana have endured generations of being overlooked by the dominant historical discourse of the country that characterized them as second-class citizens. ...
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(2016-04-28)Genderfuck is a performative gender critique. It is sometimes playful, sometimes serious, and always political. Genderfuck empowers artists to critique binaried gender through performance. Using four case studies, I suggest ...