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This dissertation discusses brass bands in Mobile, Alabama and their individual "brands"(performance norms) and their relationship to the broader branding aspects of the city's Mardi Gras. I call this brass branding. How do the brass...
The works of Alvin Ailey have been largely overlooked by musicologists interested in studying the intersections between music and dance. This is true despite his overrepresentation in dance scholarship in large part because of the...
Swiss composer, educator, and creator of eurhythmics Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) oriented his pedagogical philosophy around the concept of unifying the mind-body split, the ontology that is often attributed to René Descartes and...
Wizard rock is a community of musicians that creates and performs music based on the narrative, characters, and tropes found in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. In this dissertation, I explore several key questions regarding wizard...
This dissertation explores the American wind ensemble community, specifically focusing on the relationships between composers and conductors. Using Kay Kaufman Shelemay’s definition of musical communities, the history of the wind...
This thesis focuses on women's music education and music-making in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century America through the accounts of female students and educators at female seminaries. The development of women's education and...
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