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Graduation date: 1994

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Bluegrass as it is played in the United States today is not simply a resistant category of country music, but performs a particular and emergent view of past/present relations. More than a "micromusic" mediating between "supercultures" and "subcultures" (in Mark Slobin's terms 1993), in fact bluegrass's complex history resists simple top down or bottom up perspectives, articulating a distinct space of authenticity. Active `genre tending' in a jam setting poetically articulates emergent social relations, in a specific spatiotemporal frame, at New York City's The Baggot Inn jam scene, a site of bluegrass performance at which the genre is employed creatively as a way of socializing and articulating contemporary presence. Learning a genre on an individual level is an actively embodied linking of technique and feeling, and differing listening experiences may lead to differing ideas of what a musical text represents. Expressive skill, executed through embodied musical gestures derived from specific pieces of music, may embed personal biography with social history and experience. Successful coperformance of a genre (bluegrass, in this case) requires a dynamic performative flexibility. This flexibility in turn can permanently affect both player and context, though different players may have to work to agree or disagree. These live, face to face interactions which depend on local specifics, maintain the coherence of the wider musical genre that facilitates those very actions themselves.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-91). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-91). Also available on the Internet.

In response to environmental concerns about NO3- leaching research has shifted toward the increased incorporation of nitrogen-fixing legumes, such as red clover, into agroecosystems to promote tighter cycling of nitrogen (N). Although more sustainable than fertilized systems, red clover still has the potential to contribute to leaching. The objective of this study was to ascertain the contribution of red clover to soil NO3- when grown in mixture with bluegrass. Soil solute samples were collected at 15 and 45 cm depth using ceramic suction lysimeters from two experimental pastures in Nova Scotia in 2009. The concentration of NO3--N in the soil solute of bluegrass-red clover mixtures was 10 to 25 times higher in Truro, and 5 to 16 times greater in Nappan, compared to the corresponding unfertilized pure bluegrass stand. Neither sub-surface irrigation nor two distinct red clover cultivar mixtures were found to significantly alter NO3- leaching patterns.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Kentucky, 2008. / Title from document title page (viewed on March 18, 2008). Document formatted into pages; contains: viii, 73 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-72).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233).