The aim with this research is to improve and apply vocal tools in duo performance with a pianist, and to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be an expressive vocalist. To answer this, the study has following research questions:  What tools are needed to become a more expressive vocalist?How can those vocal expressions be applied in collaboration with a pianist? How can such collaboration improve our joint expression in duo performance?  The result chapter presents the process of improving the vocal expressive tools through imitation, dividing expressive tools into mood and/ or feeling enhancing tools, and planning of vocal expressive tools. It is further developed with collaborative interpretations of three songs, Smile (Chaplin, 1936), A Case of You (Mitchell, 1971), and I Shall Be Released (Dylan, 1968), in order to apply the expressive tools and study the joint expressions. By using stimulated recall and open coding, the collaborative interpretations were studied to reflect over the progress.  The study concludes that awareness of how to apply expressive tools contributes to being able to express the intended expression without feeling it. In addition to being able to control one's vocal techniques it is useful for an expressive vocalist to contain aspects such as facial expressions, body movements, visible interaction between co-musician(s) and visible interaction between performer and perceiver. By becoming aware of what tools one uses where, and why one uses them, it develops the understanding of how the tools can be used to enhance the individual and joint expression in duo performance.  For the pianist's perspective on the collaborative outcome, read her study in Mellberg (2022).

Uppsatsen behandlar ämnet affären Pop Shop och dess relation till grundaren och konstnären Keith Harings konstnärskap. Studiens syfte är att öka förståelsen för samspelet mellan subkultur, konst och kommers/mode utifrån exemplet Keith Harings butik Pop Shop. Huvudsyftet är att fördjupa förståelsen om butiken Pop Shop som en del av Keith Haringskonstnärskap, och dess relation till gatukonst. Metoden för studien är en kvalitativ analys och Pop Shop studeras utifrån teorier om visuell kultur, hur vi ser och betraktar något, utifrån Martha Stukens & Lisa Cartwrights definition. I studien betraktas mode och gatukonst som uttryck i en visuell kultur. I studien används också den postmodernistiska teori som presenteras av Stuken & Cartwright för att förstå hur Pop Shop kunde vara en del av samtidskonsten och kommers. Uppsatsen är disponerad med en inledning och sedan en analys del. Resultatet visar hur Pop Shop är en del av Keith Harings konstnärskap och hur den är konstruerad och formad utifrån subkultur, gatukonst, mode och kommers.

A look into song identity and the building blocks of music through a process of analysing five different punk songs and then repackaging them into a modern pop production. After completing these new versions, I compared them to their original recordings and discovered that there are more similarities between the two genres than one might initially think, and that each song’s identity was preserved on slightly different levels and in different forms. I discuss my analyses and process in terms of both music theory and non-musical descriptions, leading to generally positive results. Each song was recognizable, but I discovered that some identities were stronger than others because of factors such as original arrangement, era of release or differences in experience from person to person.

My research proposal intends to investigate deployable structures by studying nomadic systems, to be able to create lightweight structures. This is done by studying the local nomadic knowledge, combined with unconventional and experimental techniques from pneumatic, mobile, and tensile structural innovation, enabling a small or no footprint in the fragile context.   My point of departure is the conception of buildings that move while distributing culture fast and democratic, taking into account layers of social, cultural, and environmental necessities. Through this research, I aim to find organizational, conceptual tools and models for regenerating cultural environment, to create an autonomous building system, aware of the complexities of the global pandemic and the crisis of cultural institutions.   Informed by local, vernacular techniques, structural and environmental, secrets are revealed and translated into new flexible components and cultural and educational programs, while pointing at the importance of local techniques and material choices.    Based on theories and techniques borrowed from the fields of nomadic, pneumatic, and deployable systems, this research resulted in a system of mobile structures that deploy culture and democratically empower communities, anchored in its immediate cultural and social context, and responding to new, wide expressions of cultural exchange.

El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo general diseñar una colección de moda a partir del estudio teórico y visual del pop art estadounidense desarrollado en la década de los sesenta. Esta investigación de tipo cualitativa recolectó información de tesis, libros y artículos con el fin de cumplir con el objetivo general. Al investigar la bibliografía se identificó que la llegada del pop art a Estados Unidos en la década de los sesenta, se dio cuando este país atravesaba cambios en cuanto al sector social, económico y político regido por el consumismo y la tecnología. Estos cambios se vieron plasmados en esta disciplina, ya que los artistas innovaron en el uso de técnicas, símbolos representados y el uso de color en las principales obras. Estas características desarrollan a el pop art como un tema de valor para plasmar en una colección de moda; además, la fusión de arte y moda se ha desarrollado desde hace años a través de grandes diseñadores de modas, que buscan reflejar las características de estos mediante la indumentaria. De esta manera, para el presente trabajo se espera comprender la realidad de este contexto, las características y temas de este arte para usar como recurso visual en la colección de moda. Posteriormente, se realizará un proceso creativo para identificar las características del tema a través de recursos visuales. Asimismo, se emplearán referentes de diseño, definiciones elementales y descripción del usuario para definir al usuario de esta colección, la cual hará énfasis en el uso de estampados, gráficas y color en sus diseños. / The present research work has the general objective of designing a fashion collection based on the theoretical and visual study of American pop art developed in the sixties. This qualitative research collected information from theses, books, and articles in order to meet the general objective. When investigating the bibliography, it was identified that the arrival of pop art to the United States in the sixties, occurred when this country was going through changes in terms of the social, economic, and political sector governed by consumerism and technology. These changes were reflected in this discipline, since the artists innovated in the use of techniques, represented symbols and the use of color in the main works. These characteristics develop a pop art as a subject of value to capture in a fashion collection; Furthermore, the fusion of art and fashion has been developed for years through great fashion designers, who seek to reflect their characteristics through clothing. In this way, for the present work it is expected to understand the reality of this context, the characteristics, and themes of this art to use as a visual resource in the fashion collection. Subsequently, a creative process will be executed to identify the characteristics of the subject through visual resources. Likewise, design references, elementary definitions and user description will be used to define the user of this collection, which will emphasize the use of patterns, graphics, and color in their designs. / Trabajo de investigación

Bulk atmospheric deposition samples were taken every two months for a year in 2009-2010 at two sites in northern Sweden and analyzed for a suite of legacy and emerging persistent organic chemicals including legacy organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)  and novel flame retardants (NFRs).  To further investigate the urban occurrence and contribution to remote contamination of flame retardants, indoor air, ventilation system air, and dust were sampled in several microenvironments in Stockholm during the winter of 2012 for analysis of PBDEs, isomer-specific hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD), and NFRs.  Outdoor air and soil samples were also sampled around the same time period for analysis of the same compounds.  Five emerging pollutants were detected in atmospheric deposition: the current-use pesticides trifluralin and chlorothalonil; and the NFRs 1,2-dibromo-4-(1,2-dibromoethyl)cyclohexane (TBECH), 1,2-bis(tribromophenoxy)ethane (BTBPE), and Dechlorane Plus (DP).  A decrease in the fraction of the anti isomer of DP was observed at the more remote site, indicating isomer-selective degradation or isomerization during long range atmospheric transport.  The more remote site also received more total deposition of organic pollutants despite its receiving less precipitation.  Although PBDEs and emerging organic pollutants were detected, the bulk of the deposition consisted of PCBs and hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) at both sites.   Several NFRs were identified in indoor and ventilation air samples including TBECH, pentabromotoluene (PBT), hexabromobenzene (HBB), 1,2-bis(pentabromodiphenyl)ethane (DBDPE), 2-ethylhexyl-2,3,4,5-tetrabromobenzoate (EHTBB), and bis(2-ethylhexyl)-3,4,5,6-tetrabromo-phthalate (TBPH).  There was no significant difference between concentrations of contaminants in ventilation system air and indoor air indicating that the flame retardants included in this study reach the outdoor environment via ventilation systems.  Dust and outdoor air samples have only been analyzed for HBCDDs so far.  HBCDD concentrations in apartments, offices, and schools were lower than reported concentrations for other countries in similar microenvironments.   However, an enrichment of α-HBCDD compared to γ-HBCDD was observed in dust taken from near treated products in stores when compared to dust taken directly from those products.  Very low concentrations of HBCDDs were detected in outdoor air.

The purpose of this paper is to gain knowledge of the phenomenon of pop-up libraries and what image of pop-up libraries is produced in the media through content analysis of articles and notices in newspapers. Through the results of this analysis, I looked at how the pop-up library can be seen as marketing and what it is marketing for. The aim has also been to investigate whether it is possible to insert the pop-up library into a marketing model by professor E. Jerome McCarthy called 4P: product, price, place and promotion. The method chosen has included obtaining documents in the form of articles from the site ”Mediearkivet”. A content analysis has been carried out within a thematic framework based on the questions: what, where, how and why. The results of this study show the different ways in which the public library designs its pop-up library. A destinctive feature of the pop-up libraries is that there is a willingness among librarians to go outside the library’s walls, show what the public library has to offer and reach new potential borrowers. The result also show that the pop-up library can be seen, and often do so, as a way of marketing the public library. 4P is a model that can be used by pop-up libraries for marketing purpose with certain reservations. In the thesis I suggest that price should be removed in the model as pop-up libraries can not be seen as profit-making. I also suggest an adding of 2 P: person and physical evidence from Booms and Bitners 7P model.

Under 1980-talet myntades uttrycket gerillamarknadsföring av marknadsföraren Jay Conrad Levinson. Denna term skapades för att beskriva en okonventionell marknadsföringsmetod som framförallt skulle ha som syfte att användas av mindre företag som genom kreativitet skulle kunna konkurrera med företag med stora ekonomiska muskler. Tidigare forskning på området har dock fastställt att okonventionella marknadsföringsmetoder har fördelar för flera typer av företag. Denna uppsats har som syfte att genom en semiotisk bildanalys av gerillakampanjer förstå den grafiska formgivningens betydelse för hur reklamen mottagits samt dess effekter. Resultatet visar att gerillareklamens visuella utförande är av stor betydelse för hur reklamen kan komma att tolkas av dess mottagare.

This thesis examines the pop cultural representation of white-collar migrant women (WCMW) through the popular Chinese TV series Ode to Joy. Focusing on various aspects of their lives, this TV series raises many issues about the experiences of WCMW, including perceptions of them as “outsiders” in the megacity, gender inequality, and the tensions between female migrant identity and urban status. This study analyzes those issues by drawing on intersectional theories which examine structural inequalities from the perspective of the interactions of multiple axes of social categories. This thesis asks three major questions: In what way does Ode to Joy represent the experiences of WCMW?; To what extent do issues raised in Ode to Joy impact the wellbeing of WCMW in large cities?, and; What are the “joys” in Ode to Joy for WCMW? In addition to collecting data from the TV series, this study interviewed WCMW informants to provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in an urban culture. By critically analyzing the representation of WCMW characters’ experiences in Ode to Joy, this thesis provides insights on understanding the status of those women in a contemporary Chinese urban setting, thereby filling a gap in academic literature on the pop cultural representation of China’s white-collar migrant women in a Chinese megacity. / Graduate

Archaeological communication often seeks avenues to take in order to convey information to a public. One of these is video games, yet many articles do not delve into the effect that games have on people, taking for granted that people will learn something. This text aims to understand a group’s view on the past after it has gone through a transformative state such as a video game adaptation. With the web page Twitter offering a digital place of discussion, posts and comments will be analyzed in relation to the aim. The literary theory death of the author, interpretation and authority will help understand how the important aspect of accuracy is utilized amongst Twitter users. The findings conclude that accuracy is an important aspect of recreation amongst twitter users. It is to be employed in authentic portrayal of the past, meaning that the users seek to see a true representation, in contrast to a story taking liberties. Twitter users seek a definitive past, or a correct past, that should seek to emulate archaeological information in detail.