Browsing by Subject "Applied Musicology"
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"I Need to Wake Up" The narrative function of soundtracks in climate change documentaries.
(2020)Climate change has been a much-debated topic for years and will continue to be so. The documentary is a medium to inform people about climate change issues. Soundtracks in these documentaries cast our perception of and ... -
"I'll Grind 'till I Own It": African-American Feminism in Hip-Hop
(2017)This thesis investigates African-American feminism in hip-hop, by researching how African-American female hip-hop artists deal with stereotyping, sexism, racism and black feminisms in their music, lyrics and music videos. ... -
Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? A Musicological Research on Authentic Representation in Musical Biopics
(2019)Lately, many musical biopics have been released and are set to be released in the coming few years. Despite the controversy surrounding it, Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) has become the most successful biopic of all time. The ... -
Is Xiao Youmei a Criminal of Westernization of Chinese Music?
(2020)Some Chinese scholars always criticized the situation of 20th-century Chinese music education when criticizing post-colonial Chinese music education. Some of the arguments made by several music educators and musicians of ... -
Liszt‘s Dutch reimagination: A review of the repertory deployed in the Dutch Liszt Festivals from 1980 to 1986 and the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition from 1986 onwards.
(2019)The image of Franz Liszt changed in the Netherlands during the 1980‘s. This thesis explores who were responsible for this change and what motivation they had. During six annual Liszt Festivals, Liszt was aligned again as ... -
Live is Live: Liveness in the Livestreamed Performance of Electronic Music at GÂRDEN
(2022)Liveness is an important factor in both the performance of electronic music and livestreamed concerts. This thesis looks into the way liveness in a livestreamed performance of electronic music can be increased. Although a ... -
Made for you: Music discovery in the age of the algorithm.
(2022)TikTok, streaming, friends, or music reviews: How does Generation Z discover new music? Existing research is outdated and does not include factors such as algorithms which are ever present in social media and streaming ... -
Masculiniteit in Punk: De kritiek op masculiniteit in IDLES’ Joy As An Act Of Resistance (2018) (NL)
(2021)In dit eindwerkstuk wordt onderzocht op wat voor manier de Britse punkband IDLES omgaat met manifestaties van vormen van masculiniteit in punkmuziek. Op het album Joy As An Act Of Resistance (2018) wordt het onderwerp ... -
Motivations for using Artificial Intelligence in the popular music composition and production process.
(2020)While there has been significant academic interest in AI-systems for musical composition, adoption of such systems by practitioners has been slow. Concurrently, Pearce, Meredith and Wiggins argue that research into AI is ... -
Music blogs as a model of electronic Word of Mouth: The impact of new media on music consumption and sales.
(2020)Today, music blogs and websites are playing a substantial role in discovering new talents, promoting them, and determining the future appreciation or unappreciation of their work. However, with the development of the online ... -
Music Censorship and Freedom of Expression : Is China’s Lady Gaga Ban a Violation of Her Human Rights?
(2020)The thesis explores music censorship and freedom of expression, using a case study of the bans of Lady Gaga’s music in China. The hypothesis under which this research lies is that the discourse on music censorship does not ... -
MUSIC EDUCATION IN COMPULSORY SCHOOLS IN ICELAND A LOOK INTO THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND A GLIMPSE OF A POSSIBLE FUTURE
(2019)Abstract In this thesis, I will look into the challenges that music education in compulsory schools in Iceland is facing and try to find possible solutions. I will analyse music education by looking into the regulatory ... -
Music Placement and Sonic Branding in Coca-Cola’s Holiday Commercials: The Evolution of Consumer Marketing and its Influence on Sonic Branding and Music Placement in Television Commercials
(2019)This thesis focuses on the question on how music placement and sonic branding have been influenced.by the leading schools of consumer marketing from the second half of the twentieth century until the present day. It provides ... -
Music To My Ears: Exploring the Potential of Podcasts to Make Classical Music More Accessible
(2020)The image of classical music as inaccessible is a widely debated issue among professionals and academics. When it comes to attracting new audiences, making the classical music genre and its cultural context more accessible ... -
Musical parameters and synchronization in instrumental music AMVs
(2020)AMVs or anime music videos have been created since the 1980s and are still being made by fans in the West who want to express their love for anime, or Japanese animation. The website animemusicvideos.org was established ... -
“My Boy Like a Queen”: Musical and Visual Queer Performance in Music Videos of Sam Smith and Troye Sivan
(2020)In this thesis, I examine the ways in which queerness is portrayed in music videos of Sam Smith and Troye Sivan, applying (queer) musicological and gender theories in order to argue that the medium of the music video is ... -
Parsifal van The Metropolitan Opera: een 21e-eeuws multimediaal Gesamtkunstwerk?
(2018)Het Gesamtkunstwerk van Richard Wagner bestaat al anderhalve eeuw in de theaterzaal, en bijna een eeuw op het scherm. Sinds de komst van televisie is de mediatisering van opera gestart, en sindsdien heeft opera op beeldscherm ... -
Performing Hybridity: On the construction of cultural difference in Tan Dun’s Marco Polo (1996) and The First Emperor (2006)
(2020)Issues about cultural encounter and interchange in Tan Dun’s music have been examined by different theoretical frameworks, with a focus on issues of orientalism and exoticism. These theories can interpret the music from ... -
Performing muzica tiganeasca
(2022)‘Authenticity’, a laden concept whereof there is no academic consensus on whether it even exists. Despite all of the challenges and questions surrounding this concept within musical discourses, it is still a word that is ... -
‘Prepare your lube, cockring, and put the sound on high volume’: How Music and Sounds are used in inducing a Masturbatory Trance within online Male-to-Male Poppers Training
(2020)The industry of online pornography has become one with great influence, and academic interest in this field has gradually increased. However, the academic field of porn studies has generally neglected the role of music and ...