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Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection, a creative thesis, explores patterns of change in stories from the perspective of connection and disconnection. The preface examines the effects of temporal disconnection, the relationship of conflict and connection to narrative rhythm, and the webs of connection formed during the process of creation. Included in the body of the work are six fiction stories, one metafiction story, and two nonfiction essays.

My Kind of Music: Two New Orleans Stories is written in two parts, a fictional story about Mickey, an eleven year old white girl, growing up in New Orleans in 1954 and a non-fictional story of my experience as a teenager in New Orleans in 1959. Part I is Mickey's personal coming of age story influenced by the forbidden music of rhythm and blues. Since Mickey's story is set in the same year of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, it is also a coming of age story of a new social consciousness. Part II is a non-fiction recounting of an integration incident from my own teen years which serves as a fictional element later in Mickey's story when she is a teenager.

Although the analysis of popular music has become widely accepted by theorists, rap and related genres are still relatively unexplored. The small body of existing literature suggests several promising analytic methods, such as the discernment and comparison of rhythmic layers within a song. This thesis reviews the current state of rap research and synthesizes a comprehensive theoretical model out of previously published sources and the author’s original ideas. This model is then used to investigate several case studies of varying complexity, revealing a number of previously undocumented musical devices and promising avenues for further research.

Thesis (M.M.)--University of North Texas, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-80).

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Music depends on the perception and production of complex temporal patterns, or rhythms, as a vital part of its power to communicate. These experiments investigated the neuroanatomical substrate of rhythm perception and production in patients with focal cerebral lesions, and in neuroimaging studies with normals. The hypotheses focused on the role of the primary and secondary auditory cortex, as well as the cerebellum and other motor-related areas. / Experiment I. To estimate the extent of removals in the region of auditory cortex in neurosurgical patients, a 3D probabilistic map of Heschl's gyrus (HG) was developed from magnetic resonance imaging (NW scans of normals. The map was coregistered with patent MRIs, revealing that most removals involved only anterior secondary auditory cortical regions, with relatively little encroachment onto primary auditory cortex. Additionally, this experiment compared the volumes of HG between hemispheres and found a consistent L > R asymmetry in the volume of cortical white matter, which could contribute directly to the preferential left-hemisphere processing of speech. / Experiment II. Using a paradigm contrasting reproduction of auditory and visual rhythms, four groups of patients were tested: those with right or left anterior temporal-lobe removals (RT-a, LT-a) and those with similar removals which also included HG (RT-A, LT-A). RT-A patients were impaired on auditory but not visual rhythms, particularly when accurate reproduction of stimulus durations was required. In contrast, LT-a, RT-a and LT-a patients were not impaired. These results demonstrated a role for the right anterior secondary auditory cortical regions in the retention of auditory temporal information. / Experiment III. The rhythm reproduction paradigm was adapted for a positron emission tomography (PET) activation study in normals. These data confirmed the participation of secondary auditory regions in the retention of auditory temporal information. They also demonstrated a supra-modal contribution of the lateral cerebellar cortices, vermis and basal ganglia to the task, pointing to a distributed system of neural structures involved in the production of a timed motor response from external stimuli. / The results are discussed in relation to possible interhemispheric differences in auditory temporal processing as well as the role of the cerebellum in motor and perceptual timing.

Thesis (B.Sc. (Hons.)) -- from the Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, 1977.

Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 38). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-106). Also available via the Internet.