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Although music is commonly considered to be a form of entertainment by musicians, fans, and scholars, its religio-spiritual dimension goes widely unrecognized. However, throughout history many cultures and thinkers have emphasized the importance of music in matters of ritual and worship. The intimate association of religion and music in these ancient cultures has led contemporary scholars to rethink the relationship between popular music and religion in terms of its spiritually transformative aspects. This thesis explores some of the more prominent views of the past regarding this religiospiritual dimension, and presents certain contemporary scholarly analyses, along with those of musicians and funs, in order to show the relevance these worldviews have today. Accordingly, this thesis emphasizes the spiritually transformative power of popular music and demonstrates that the element of entertainment is but one of many inherent within the musical experience.

The purpose of this study is to survey the song lore of the American youth culture, beginning with the rock Int roll era of the fifties, treating the topical-folksong movement of the early sixties, and finally focusing upon the folk-rock genre that resulted from an amalgamation of the two forms of expression. In addition to the art of folk rock and the cultural values reflected in the lyrics, attention will be given to the folk aspects of the performance, the life-style of the performer, and the participation of the youth as a cultural group.

Mit der Arbeit wird angestrebt, die komplexen Prozesse der Herstellung von an Tonträger gebundenen Klangkonfigurationen innerhalb des Tonstudios, die im Zuge feldspezifischer Prozesse als Popmusik funktionieren können, unter bestimmten Rahmenbedingungen durch Beobachtungen, Beschreibungen und Analysen bzw. Interpretationen zu erfassen. Die Funktion bzw. Funktionsweise dieser Institution des Feldes der populären Musikproduktion soll unter Verweis auf wahrgenommene Mechanismen und Strukturen jenes Feldes nachvollziehbar gemacht werden. Zur Auswertung der in Feldstudien erhobenen Daten werden Theorien von Pierre Bourdieu und Michel Foucault genutzt, da die Komplexität der untersuchten Prozesse mit Hilfe nur eines Ansatzes nicht hinreichend hätte interpretiert werden können. Im Gegensatz zur Intention Bourdieus wird jedoch auf einen allgemeinen, übergreifenden Gültigkeitsanspruch der Erkenntnisse auf gesellschaftliche Prozesse oder vermeintlich verwandte Felder verzichtet; die Arbeit orientiert sich vielmehr an der Herangehensweise einer auf den Untersuchungsgegenstand bezogenen Theorie der Grounded Theory. Die verwendeten Daten sind der Arbeit in transkribierter Form als Anhang beigefügt. / This dissertation attempts to adequately represent and explain the complex field-specific processes which take place in the recording studios of popular music production during the creation of configurations of sound. Using participant observation in Berlin-based recording studios for data collection, this data was analyzed by utilizing and modifying the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. In contrast to Bourdieu’s claims that fields have an identical structure, the field of popular music production is quite unique in its workings and cannot be explained in such a manner. Based on these findings, a partially different model and terminology is being developed. Most of the used data is available as (German) transcription in the appendix.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-07-11T12:29:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Emilio Gonzalez.pdf: 7220736 bytes, checksum: b4846906d139b0e7bc2299aac25473cf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-11T12:29:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Emilio Gonzalez.pdf: 7220736 bytes, checksum: b4846906d139b0e7bc2299aac25473cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research analyzes social practices, memories and narratives produced by musicians that are living (or have lived) in the triple border region between Brazil / Paraguay / Argentina, since the 60s to the present. The hypothesis that we seek to develop suggests that these people are producing memories and musical identities from their movements within those frontiers, constructing own ways of elaborating their experiences . These ways have found in music the means to express their new identities and memories. In order to undertake this work, we have dialogued with oral testimonies (interviews) of some musicians who have crossed the border in the last decades, as well as consulted other materials such as songs and compositions of those authors, articles and interviews, all published in newspapers of the frontier region, as well as other materials obtained from the musicians themselves (records, booklets, photographs, publicity materials, etc.) We also have dialogued with some authors (historians, anthropologists, memorialists, journalists, etc.) who sought to produce and analyze images and discourses about the triple frontier and the historical and social processes that shaped it since the end of the 19th century. Acting autonomously, the musicians and artists, within that frontier, have moved from their own issues, interests and needs , sometimes proposing and achieving transnational aesthetic and stylistic hybridizations and experimentations, sometimes reaffirming "national" identity elements, or proposing identity syntheses. Thus, even with no intention, they ended up being part of the debates that reaffirmed the frontier, operating as factors of invention and having the regional popular music as an important interlocutor and vector / A presente pesquisa analisa práticas sociais, memórias e narrativas produzidas por músicos que vivem (ou viveram) na região da tríplice fronteira entre Brasil/Paraguai/Argentina, desde a década de 1960 aos dias atuais. A hipótese que buscamos desenvolver sugere que estes sujeitos produziram memórias e identidades musicais a partir de seus deslocamentos realizados no interior dessas fronteiras, construindo formas próprias de elaborar essas experiências, e que tiveram na música o elemento onde expressar essas novas identidades e memórias. Para empreender este trabalho, dialogamos com depoimento orais (entrevistas) de alguns músicos que passaram pela tríplice fronteira nas últimas décadas, além de outras fontes que também consultamos, tais como: músicas e composições destes autores, matérias e entrevistas publicadas em jornais da fronteira e região, sites, blog e revistas, além de outros materiais obtidos das mãos dos próprios músicos, (discos, cartilhas, fotografias, materiais de divulgação, etc). Dialogamos também com alguns autores (historiadores, antropólogos, memorialistas, jornalistas, etc) que buscaram produzir e analisar imagens e discurso acerca da tríplice fronteira e dos processos históricos e sociais que a conformaram desde o final do séculos XIX Atuando de maneira autônoma, a partir de suas próprias questões, interesses e necessidades, músicos e artistas se deslocaram no interior dessa fronteira, ora propondo (e realizando) hibridizações e experimentações estéticas e estilísticas transnacionais, ora refirmando elementos identitários “nacionais”, ora propondo sínteses identitárias. Assim, mesmo sem pretender, acabaram se inserindo nestes debates que ressignificaram a fronteira, operando como fatores de invenção, tendo na música popular regional um importante interlocutor e vetor

by Ip Pui Yee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-93). / Chapter I --- Articulating Hong Kong Culture/Identity --- p.1 / Chapter II --- Popular Culture and Cultural Identification --- p.17 / Chapter III --- Sam Hui in Use --- p.39 / Chapter IV --- Identity Formation as Voice Formation --- p.59 / Chapter V --- Cultural Identity and The Ordinary --- p.82 / Bibliography --- p.87 / Appendix --- p.94

A presente pesquisa investiga os caminhos trilhados pelas gravadoras de discos 78rpm que atuaram na cidade de São Paulo, desde a inauguração da gravação elétrica até a consolidação do rádio. Analisa-se, especialmente. o processo de incorporação, seleção, ou recriação das empresas fonográficas diante da produção musical brasileira. A tecnologia elétrica conferiu uma densidade sonora inédita à reprodução das músicas e alterou profundamente a experiência auditiva do ouvinte, a forma de conceber a gravação de sons por parte das companhias fonográficas, e a sua relação com as empresas de radiofonia, criando um modelo de atuação que será utilizado ao longo de todo o século XX. Como objeto privilegiado de análise estão as primeiras séries de gravações produzidas na capital paulistana, cujos acordes e vozes registrados - como os tangos, gravados nos anos 20 - foram emudecidos pelo esquecimento ou pelas péssimas condições de conservação dos fonogramas; outros - como a \"música caipira\", ou os choros e as valsas - foram intensamente reproduzidos pelas rádios e vitrolas, e permanecem vivos até hoje em nossa memória musical. / This work examines the paths follwed by the 78rpm disc recording companies, that operated in São Paulo city, since the inauguration of the electric recording process, until the consolidation of the radio companies. Particularly, the record companies\' processes of incorporation, selection and re-creation of brazilian music are analyzed. The new technology granted an unprecedented density to the sounds reproduced by the victrola and deeply transformed the listener\'s auditive experience. It also changed the way that the recording companies conceived the recording process and their relation with the radio companies, creating an operating paradigm that would be used during the whole 20th century. The first series of records produced in the city of São Paulo are the main research objects analyzed, which voices and chords registered - like tangos, recorded during the 1920\'s - were silenced by the forgetfullness or the discs\' bad conditions of conservation; others - like the \"caipira music\", \"choro\" or valses - were intensily reproduced by the radio or victrolas, and remain alive in our musical memory.

Exchange between musical cultures has always occurred, but in the age of the global music industry, marketing categories have multiplied and often created boundaries between musics. Today the term “crossover” is attached to many of the musical exchanges that occur across these boundaries. One such exchange is represented by the intersection between Western art music string instruments and popular musics. A well-known commercial niche, this particular crossover is often discussed in popular media, but has been examined by relatively few music scholars. By way of addressing this gap, this study considers the crossover between Western art music string instruments and popular musics in the context of extra-musical promotion and critical reception. It examines four artists in the period 1995 to 2005. These four examples are: U.K./Australian string group bond; Australian string group FourPlay; U.K. violinist Nigel Kennedy; and U.K. violinist Vanessa-Mae. It also draws on other relevant cases to illuminate the discussion. The primary aim of the study is to discover and analyse the complex ways that parties engage, consciously or unconsciously, with the term “crossover”. The inherent complexity of the term is not commonly captured by scholarly musical writing since crossover is often regarded simply as a marketing term. The study begins by establishing the scholarly and popular context of the crossover between the Western art music string tradition and popular forms. Nine constructions or layers of meaning evoked by the term “crossover” are then identified. In the context of each of these nine constructions, the work continues by exploring how the term “crossover” is used in the promotion and critical reception of the examples. It is argued that crossover is constructed as a marketing category, to mark individuality, to provide media shortcuts and signposts, to evoke associations of prestige and of credibility, to increase accessibility, to encourage confrontation and to take part in larger musical debates. This research thus identifies multiple layers of meaning evoked by the term that are “subject to change” and that, in turn, illuminate deeper social and cultural implications of “crossingover”, ones which no doubt themselves continue to change. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1338922 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium of Music, 2008

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Chinese

Based on Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index. "List of recordings and websites": p. [171]-172.