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During the Great Depression, a time when twenty-five percent of Americans were unemployed, and thousands of businesses closed their doors, gospel music publishing companies of the southern United States experienced a boom in production....
This dissertation examines the portrayals of unconventional and "unruly" female characters in two American operas of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries, Clair de Lune (1984) by Libby Larsen and Patricia Hampl, and Amelia...
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...
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 dissertation provides a comprehensive history of the American collegiate percussion ensemble and assesses how institutional and gendered practices have influenced the size, style, and aesthetic of the genre’s repertoire in...
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