Essays about: "CULTURAL MUSICOLOGY"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words CULTURAL MUSICOLOGY.

  1. 1. Nina Simone In Concert : Identifying Activism and Self-awareness Through Interactive Qualities

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

    Author : Nadja Ali; [2018]
    Keywords : Nina Simone; musicology; performance study; interaction; self-awareness; activism.;

    Abstract : The singer and activist Nina Simone played a crucial role in the political and musical outcome of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s. This thesis aims to assess how Simone’s activism and self-awareness are expressed through interactive qualities by doing a case study of the performances of “Go Limp” and “Mississippi Goddam” on the live album In Concert. READ MORE

  3. 2. "Not eager to fit in" : The collective work of creating an alternative cosmology of Heavy Metal

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Lisa Schug; [2017]
    Keywords : Heavy Metal; Cultural Studies; Queer Studies; Gender Studies; Cosmology; Musicology; Community Building;

    Abstract : The celebration of a White heteronormative masculinity is still vivid in Heavy Metal. This has embodied and discursive consequences that are visible in the domination of Metal spaces or the marginalisation of female, trans* or non-binary musicians, but also in an aesthetics of (hetero- and cis-) sexism and racism that is often apparent. READ MORE

  4. 3. The visual album as a hybrid art-form: A case study of traditional, personal, and allusive narratives in Beyoncé

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Cara Harrison; [2014]
    Keywords : Visual album; narrative; Beyoncé; character development; visual leitmotif; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The combination of visual art and music has resulted in many innovative audio-visual phenomena and provides an on-going exciting avenue of artistic production. This thesis explores one such phenomenon, the visual album. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Musical Journey: Music as Gameplay, Meaning and Narrative in Digital Games

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Musikvetenskap

    Author : Mikko Zuniga Jokela; [2014]
    Keywords : Musicology; Digital Games; Video Game Music; Journey; Narratology; Hermeneutics; Meaning; Play; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay presents a detailed analysis of the music and its relations to gameplay, meaning and narrative in the interactive digital game Journey. Taking as its foundation multiple thorough playthroughs of the game, observation and questioning of test subjects has been conducted for greater perspective and objectivity. READ MORE

  6. 5. Feel It In Your Body : Hybridization of Musical Habitus in Swedish Cultural-Educational Tourism to Ghana

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

    Author : Nicole Vickers; [2014]
    Keywords : ethnomusicology; musicology; phenomenology; hybridisation; musical habitus; cultural tourism; polyrhythm; musiketnologi; musikvetenskap; fenomenologi; hybridisering; musikaliska habitus; kulturresor; polyrytm;

    Abstract : On the surface the practice of African musics and dances in Sweden seems to be evidence of otherization and exoticization of African cultures. However, those Swedes of non-African background who do African musics and dances are genuinely engaged with the practice in the sense that they participate wholeheartedly and seem to both value and feel positive outcomes from their participation. READ MORE