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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Ubwinga, a subset of Bemba indigenous knowledge systems : a comparative study of pre-colonial and post-independence wedding ceremonies in Lusaka and Kitwe, Zambia

Lumbwe, Kapambwe January 2009 (has links)
Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-284). / This study has, by way of ethnographic investigation, compared the Bemba ubwinga ceremonies performed in Lusaka and the Copperbelt during the pre-colonial era and the white wedding ceremonies performed during the post-independence era. It has further investigated the nature and existence of Bemba IKS. This study employed qualitative research methods involving extensive fieldwork in Lusaka and the Copperbelt. Apart from audio-visual recordings and analysing 25 marriage ceremonies, individual and focus group interviews were conducted with participants of wedding ceremonies and a sample of research participants from various age groups. Participant observation was used to collect data, while the interviews served as a means to clarify information about ubwinga ceremonies.
2

Educational content in the performing arts : tradition and Christianity in Kenya

Miya, Florence Ngale January 2004 (has links)
Includes bibliographical references (p.235-263). / The performing arts (a combination of music, dance and dramatisation) in the church in Kenya have not received much scholarly attention. These performing arts as adopted by Christian dance groups in Kenya have not been fully accepted into Christian circles because of the indigenous and popular music influences that govern them. This study therefore sets out to determine the educational role that the performing arts in the church in Nairobi play as demonstrated by a Nairobi Christian dance group, the Maximum Miracle Melodies.
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Jews and Mappilas of Kerala: A study of their history and selected song traditions

Aranha, Mark 15 July 2021 (has links)
This dissertation restudies the history and selected archival musical recordings relating to the Jews and Mappila Muslims on the Malabar coast of Kerala, India. These two communities arose out of transoceanic migrations and interactions over the longue durée, and in reconstructing their past, this work aims to uncover traces of their links to each other and to others across the seas. This is a part of a larger project, Re-Centring AfroAsia, which seeks to trace human and musical migrations between 700-1500CE. Previous studies, apart from suffering from colonial biases, have tended to focus on a single religion, a single community, or a single discipline, with the aesthetic fields remaining largely untapped as a source. This work combines diverse sources and methodologies – using a musical archive, restudies, field interviews, field recordings, as well as a range of secondary sources, and crosses over multiple fields of study. The field research threw up certain inadequacies in the existing secondary literature, which this dissertation has attempted to untangle: 1) Ideas and reform movements of the twentieth century have affected the interpretation of past cultural practices in Malabar. This is true of studies of both Jews and Mappila Muslims. 2) The role of Sufism and Sufi tariqats in the propagation of Islam in Malabar has been historically underplayed in the literature. The influence of Jewish mystics on the Malabari Jewish community is also rarely identified as such. 3) While the Mappilas' links with Arab nations are known, their Tamil roots are relatively understudied. The latter emerged in my restudy of the archival music selection. 4) A minority of elite Jews in Kerala seem to have taken over the historical narrative of the entire group, skewing almost all secondary literature right from the early colonial period into the twentieth century. It is apparent that the Malabari Jews have been denied a voice in most of these works, and so my field work with the Jews primarily focused on this subgroup.
4

Musical values and modes of music education in Mafi-Ewe communities: Case studies from Sasekpe, Kutime, Srekpe, and Gidikpe.

Braun, Mark. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2008. / Vita. Advisor : Marc Perlman. The CD's listed as accompanying this dissertation did not accompany the dissertation. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 307-322).
5

The concertina in the traditional music of Clare

OhAllmhurain, Gearoid January 1990 (has links)
No description available.
6

Performance and entrepreneurialism : the work of professional musicians in Crete

Dawe, Kevin January 1994 (has links)
No description available.
7

Problems of music education : a comparative study

Akapelwa, Emma Ziweyi Mwangala January 1989 (has links)
No description available.
8

Jamaican folkmusic with special reference to Kumina and the work of Mrs. Imogene 'Queenie' Kennedy

Lewin, Olive Wilhelmina January 1987 (has links)
No description available.
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The voice of the future : seeking freedom of expression through VOCALOID fandom

To, Kit Yan 10 October 2014 (has links)
Hatsune Miku is a celebrity; she is also a virtual singer with no real entity. The phenomenon of her success in Japan and abroad provides the starting point for this report, which examines the different forms of collaborative creativity that grow out of social energy arising from a collective interest in the dazzling Vocaloid characters and VOCALOID singing synthesis technology. From an outside observer's perspective, the feverish reception of this anime character may be found to be uncanny. How can this "unreal" thing possess such affective power? By attaching themselves to a non-real object, are Japanese otaku (nerds) exhibiting pathological tendencies? Or has their frequent exposure to anime and manga predisposed them to be emotionally receptive to virtual characters in way that neophytes lack the experience to understand? Taking a cue from Bruno Latour, this report confronts these questions by opening the malfunctional social black box of otaku group formation. I try to understand how the meaning of otaku is made stable through a social explanation, and why the VOCALOID fandom is distinct from ordinary people. In contrast to the technological determinism and socially determined use of technology, I apply Actor-Network-Theory's theoretical and ethnomethodological perspectives to the VOCALOID community constituted from sociotechnical networks. Based on a position of ANT that each actor interacts with other actors (human and nonhuman) that constitute the network, this report looks at the particular media platforms and their infrastructures that allow the distribution and circulation of songs and videos. I then provide my ethnographic account based on a local VOCALOID event in Hong Kong in an attempt to understand how fans are recruited to the network, and what their motivations to collaborate, create, and share are. Making the connections evident, I conclude that the stereotypical social theory is somewhat unessential to our understanding of social relations. / text
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Indigenous choral music in African Christian worship : An analytical study of the youth songs in the Niger Diocese of Nigeria

Agu, D. C. C. January 1984 (has links)
No description available.

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