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This study investigates the functional value of music in Zambia's political soundscape in the context of political rhetoric. It evaluates the meaning and influence of music in the political processes on the choices citizens make for...
This dissertation is a study of the Deaf hip hop movement in the United States. It examines the trajectories of major figures in the development of this movement who have been brought together by way of their expression of music from a...
Concepts like cultural relativism, tradition, and authenticity warrants a more critical examination in an age where much of the world's population has adopted a digital lifestyle that is always online. As a cultural artifact, the...
Since its inception in 1976, Junior Panorama, Trinidad and Tobago's youth steelband competition, has continued to grow in popularity, solidifying its prominent position within Trinidad's Carnival festivities. While the competition has...
This study investigates the functional value of music in Zambia's political soundscape in the context of political rhetoric. It evaluates the meaning and influence of music in the political processes on the choices citizens make for...
The rapid decline of regional American identity throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a subsequently increasing recognition and interest in America's cultural past have resulted in the promotion of small-town America as...
This dissertation asserts that members of Ile Asho Funfun, the Lucumí spiritual house at the center of the research, is comprised of members who have undergone the process of converting to the spiritual practice of Lucumí and, as such, ...
This dissertation centers on la danza Bugabita, a rural Panamanian dance-drama expression of los moros y cristianos. It documents, analyzes, and contextualizes the music, text, choreography, and history of the festival, bringing together...
The purpose of this dissertation is to ascertain, explore, and document how music and dance have been used as a means and method of healing, survival, and celebration in Native American communities. This work does not focus solely upon...
In this dissertation, I present an ethnography, social history, musical analysis, and discussion of Afro-EcuadorianBombain its relation toafrochoten∼oidentity based on ethnographic field-research conducted in the Chota-Mira valley, and...
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