God never died as scholars of secularization theory from the 1960s and 1970s proposed that he eventually would, but He rather reappeared within the context of Pop music. This work analyzes the lives and music of Yusuf Islam a.k.a. Cat Stevens, Kanye West, Bob Dylan, and George Harrison in order to see how their inner quest for peace brought upon by religious conversion affected their supreme message. Once the artists realized the phenomenal peace found in experiencing personal relationships with the Divine, their music changed so as to inspire others to seek the same greater freedoms from which they benefited upon turning within. These four elite members of secular society did not privatize their faiths, and by sharing their new found beliefs with the world, they turned the minds of millions Godwards.

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This Master's thesis examines girls' self-esteem through a qualitative research project held in the summer of 2010 at Portland, Oregon's Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls. I interviewed ten white, middle class girls between the ages of ten and thirteen on various subjects including demographics, self-esteem, music, Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls and finally, experiences and pressures associated with being a girl. One key finding was the unique set of circumstances and experiences present which may foster higher self-esteem: 1) freedom from gender normative behavior; 2) skill mastery associated with learning an instrument; 3) support for a wider range of self-expression; 4) removal of the male gaze and male approval [in a female only space]; and 5) access to female role models. This thesis suggests that through their involvement with the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, these ten girls experience greater self-esteem.

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Lavada “Dr. Hepcat” Durst was the first African American popular music disc jockey in Texas. His radio program The Rosewood Ramble was broadcast on Austin station KVET-1300 AM from 1948 until 1963. KVET’s white owners, who included future Texas politicians John Connally and J. J. “Jake” Pickle, were not outspoken advocates for the rights of African Americans under Jim Crow, but they hired Durst in a concentrated effort to expand KVET’s African American listening audience. The Rosewood Ramble became a cultural, economic, and psychological resource for black radio listeners in segregated central Texas while also becoming the region’s most popular radio show among white listeners. This paper uses a mixture of oral history and archival sources to argue that Durst’s fifteen-year career at KVET was only the best-known part of a lifetime spent as an information broker to Austin’s embattled black community. / text

Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976) was a jazz pianist who achieved tremendous financial and commercial success in the 1960s with his popular recordings and his work for the Peanuts animated shorts. He cultivated a musical style that drew from several identifiable sources: boogie-woogie, bebop, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban jazz, and rock ‘n' roll. The result was a distinct approach to jazz which, although it may not have been as influential as that of some of his contemporaries, nevertheless constituted a unique and personal voice—what several commentators have referred to as the "Guaraldi sound." This dissertation considers the entire range of Guaraldi's recorded output in order to define and catalog many elements that contributed to Guaraldi's musical style. Using an analytical framework drawn from the work of Leonard Meyer and Benjamin Givan, this study describes both Guaraldi's improvisational style—the licks, patterns, and phrases that he plays while soloing—and common elements of his compositions—the chord progressions, grooves, and other features that are particularly idiomatic. Also discussed are Guaraldi's status within the established jazz canon and the disparity between his widespread popularity and his lukewarm critical reputation. The discussion and analyses provide useful insights for fans of Guaraldi, fans of Peanuts music, jazz musicologists, and any seeking to emulate the Guaraldi sound.

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Mémoire complété dans le cadre de la maîtrise internationale "International Master in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies" suivie à l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3) et l'Université Paris-Nanterre (Paris-X). / Selon le musicologue Richard Leppert, la contradiction sémiotique existant entre la musique en tant qu’expérience vécue corporelle et la musique en tant que phénomène sonore et acoustique trouve une résolution par le biais de la vision humaine. Partant de cette thèse, notre recherche se propose d’étudier trois documentaires qui, portant sur la musique rock et s’attachant à mettre en images le corps de la rock star, cherchent à combler notre besoin de voir et d’écouter le corps du musicien dans sa pratique de création musicale ou durant sa performance spectaculaire. Les trois documentaires examinés – Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars : The Motion Picture, One + One et 20,000 Days on Earth – mettent à l’épreuve la fabrication musicale-sonore et subjective de l’identité de la rock star ; et, par cela, ils déconstruisent la tradition générique du rockumentary. Concentrés sur le foyer catalyseur qu’est le corps sonore de la star, ces films se constituent comme des oeuvres audiovisuelles hybrides où le son et l’image participent dans l’acte de création filmique et de la création et performance musicale. / According to the musicologist Richard Leppert, the semiotic contradiction between music as a bodily experience and music as an acoustic phenomenon finds resolution through human vision. Based on this claim, our research aims to study three documentaries that focus on rock music and the representation of the body of the rock star, which seek to fill our need to see and to listen to the body of the musician during the practice of musical creation or performance. The three documentaries examined – Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture, One + One and 20,000 Days on Earth – problematize the musical, sonorous and subjective fabrication of the rock star’s identity ; and in doing so, they deconstruct the generic tradition of the rockumentary. Concentrating on the catalytic force of the rock star’s sounding body, these films thus constitute hybrid audiovisual works in which sound and image partake in both the act of filmmaking and musical performance.

This study investigated the terms used by drummers and audio engineers to describe the recorded drum kit and the processing applied to it. The main method consisted of semi-structured interviews with six professionals in the fields of drumming and audio engineering. The participants were asked to describe five musical samples of different drum kit mixes containing kick, snare and hi-hat sounds. Their descriptions along with explanations of their communication tactics were compared, resulting in explanations of fourteen semantic descriptors. The comparison of their use of the terms in the context of the samples revealed some differences depending on their professional backgrounds. The results suggested that, while audio engineers have a larger semantic lexicon in regards to the recorded drum kit, the differences in the definitions of terms had a larger degree of variation between individuals than between the respective professions.