Master of Music / Department of School of Music, Theatre, and Dance / Frank Tracz / The following report is a comprehensive analysis of two works for wind band and one work for small chamber ensemble, prepared by Patrick Sullivan. The report was completed in addition to a Graduate Conducting Recital, taking place on Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 3:00pm. The concert featured the Kansas State University Wind Ensemble and took place on the Kansas State University Campus in McCain Auditorium, the conductors were Andrew Feyes and Patrick Sullivan. Audio and video recordings of the conducted performance can be found within the K-State Research Exchange database. The following report includes three comprehensive Unit Studies or Teacher Research Guides found in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band book series. The report also includes three Tracz Analysis Grids, newly published in The Art of Interpretation of Band Music. The examined pieces are as follows. Full band works, Flight by Claude T. Smith and Baron Cimetiére’s Mambo by Donald Grantham. A chamber work for double woodwind quintet, Suite Persane by André Caplet.

This study focuses on the relation between the picareque genre and the way in which guilt is processed in literature. André Brink’s Inteendeel (On the contrary) was used in this examination and also, for a wider perspective than merely the South African situation, Arthur Japin’s De zwarte met het witte hart (The two hearts of Aquasi Boachi). The possibilities offerd by the picaresque in order to investigate the manifestation of guilt in literary texts were explored with the theories of, inter alia, Wicks, Ricoeur and Todorov. Tracing the origins of the picaresque reveals that this type of text exhibits specific characteristics, e.g. an unethical attitude that is usually imposed on the individual by a society in crisis – “guilt” and a confessional tone are therefore intrinsically part of the picaresque. Using Wicks’s modal-generic approach, the two novels are examined with the purpose of determining their degree of “picaresqueness” to test the validity of the hypothesis, i.e. that the more a text displays picaresque characteristics, the more the issue of guilt would be a central theme to that text. In the two novels relevant to this study, colonial guilt is the main form of guilt examined. / Prof. W. Burger

The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to investigate the descriptions of characters and settings in four autobiographies. The main question is: What picture of women and men, of the West and the Orient do these books provide? To answer this question we have formed three sub questions, which are: In what ways are main and minor characters described? In what ways are the key settings, and the Western and Oriental societies described? Which themes are dealt with, and from what points of departure? The theoretical framework is based on a postcolonial theoretical perspective, where the concept of binary opposites and Edward W. Said’s ideas about orientalism are crucial. The method used is a textual analysis. To analyze the material, a number of analysis questions were designed with the main question, and its sub questions, as a basis. The result shows that descriptions of characters and settings have dramaturgic functions of forming a background to the story. Accordingly, the same features may be described in either negative or positive terms, due to what aspect of the story the book currently deals with. The conclusion suggests that colonial stereotypes are evident today in popular literature, such as these autobiographies, in fact, they are even stronger than they used to be. / Uppsatsnivå: D

Det gränslösa murbyggandet är en studie i politisk teori om den liberala paradoxen i murens politik, det vill säga; hur vi i denna globala värld å ena sidan har idealet om öppna gränser och hög rörelsefrihet, å andra sidan bygger vi fler murar och fortifierar gränser mer än någonsin. Med avstamp i sex olika studier av forskare inom området politisk teori diskuteras vilket arbete muren utför – politiskt, ekonomiskt och ideologiskt, hur dessa paradoxer uppstår, vad som föreslås vara vägen framåt och hur teorierna om muren skiljer sig åt. Analysen är indelad efter de tre paradoxerna som går att utläsa ur den så kallade ’överordnade’ liberala paradoxen. De tre paradoxerna berör ekonomi, suveränitet och säkerhet, och effektivitet. Avslutningsvis sammanfattas kärnan i de tre paradoxerna men det diskuteras även huruvida rädslan för ’den andre’ kan hjälpa till att lösa upp paradoxerna. Vid närmare anblick är de identifierbara paradoxerna i vår samtid inte så paradoxala trots allt

<p>The essay is dealing with the different tensions in hiphop created when appearing in Swedish media. With the teoretical aspect of "the Other" as a tool, the authors of the essay has tried to find out how the "hiphopper" is pictured in swedish written media within the timeframe of 19??-??. We are also discussin the different aspects and importance of autenticity, etnitcity and geografy in regards to the "hiphoper" as "the Other".</p>

<p>All my short stories have been written in an intuitive way according to which no outline of characters, intrigue or plot was made in advance. A consequence of this process is that not even myself as the author is aware of the meaning of the texts and therefore I too have to interpret the stories. Because of the character of the text, I use an analysis of archetypes according to C. G. Jung’s analytic psychology. In addition to this I also use concepts from hermeneutical and existential phenomenology, represented here by Viktor Frankl, Emmanuel Lévinas, Martin Heidegger and Paul Ricoeur. The Jungian analysis shows that the content in the short story <em>Sjön</em> (The lake) in a high degree is structured in a way that correlates very well with this method. When it comes to the phenomenological thinkers, several of their concepts are applicable in my short story. In the philosophy of Frankl and Heidegger, the concept of <em>conscience</em> is a warning to the individual to take care of his life, which is a possible interpretation of the anxiety of my main character.  When it comes to his seeking for the significance of an important earlier event in his life the concept of <em>memory</em> in the discourse of Ricoeur also bring some light to the understanding. Finally, the concept of <em>the Other</em> in Lévinas´ philosophy can explain his longing for a reestablishing of a meaning in his life.</p><p> </p>

<p>Det är en betydande andel svenska resenärer som idag reser till och runt i Thailand som ”backpackers”. Mitt syfte är att ta reda på om den svenska backpackerdominansen i Thailand skulle kunna betecknas som en kolonisering. Material och metod består av intervjuer och deltagande observation med sju informanter, samt fältundersökningar som bedrivits i Thailand. Slutresultatet tolkas med hjälp av den postkoloniala teoribildningen. Frågeställningarna koncentreras kring interaktionen mellan svenska backpackers och lokala subjekt, återvändandets betydelse, samt om en modern kolonisering i enlighet med Victor Mudimbes terminologi kan appliceras. Jag kommer fram till att svenska backpackers i Thailand visar tendenser och tillämpningar som tyder på en modern kolonisering av platserna de befinner sig på.</p>

Det är en betydande andel svenska resenärer som idag reser till och runt i Thailand som ”backpackers”. Mitt syfte är att ta reda på om den svenska backpackerdominansen i Thailand skulle kunna betecknas som en kolonisering. Material och metod består av intervjuer och deltagande observation med sju informanter, samt fältundersökningar som bedrivits i Thailand. Slutresultatet tolkas med hjälp av den postkoloniala teoribildningen. Frågeställningarna koncentreras kring interaktionen mellan svenska backpackers och lokala subjekt, återvändandets betydelse, samt om en modern kolonisering i enlighet med Victor Mudimbes terminologi kan appliceras. Jag kommer fram till att svenska backpackers i Thailand visar tendenser och tillämpningar som tyder på en modern kolonisering av platserna de befinner sig på.

Drömmen om att resa utanför det egna landets gränser och upptäcka andra länder och kulturer blir allt vanligare och möjliggörs i och med allt billigare flygbiljetter. I och med detta har även backpackingresor tenderat att öka de senaste decennierna och har även kommit att bli något av ett socialt fenomen i Sverige. Uppsatsen berör fenomenet backpacking och vad en backpackingresa har för betydelse för identitetsskapandet hos den enskilde individen. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka huruvida en backpackingresa motsvaras av en inre resa hos individen. Backpacking är sedan tidigare utforskat inom andra discipliner och uppsatsen önskar bidra till forskningsområdet med ett socialpsykologiskt perspektiv. Valda teorier utgår från den symboliska interaktionismen och innefattar Meads teorier om samspelet mellan individ och samhälle i den sociala handlingen samt Giddens teorier om identitetsskapande i det globala samhället. Det empiriska materialet består av åtta intervjuer med unga svenska backpackers. Resultatet från studien visar att informanternas identitet förändrats genom resan samt att de genomförde resan vid en brytpunkt i deras liv. Vidare belyser resultatet att resan används i syfte att skapa en berättelse om sig själv och att den även kan användas som en statusmarkör för omgivningen. / The dream of traveling abroad and to discover different countries and cultures are becoming more common and is made possible with cheaper airline tickets. Backpacking has tended to increase during the last decades and has come to symbolise a new social phenomenon in Sweden. This paper concerns the phenomenon of backpacking and how backpacking is significant for the creation of an identity of the individual. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether a backpacking journey corresponds to an inner journey of the individual. Backpacking has already been explored in other disciplines and this paper wishes to contribute to existing research with a social psychological perspective. The selected theories are based on a symbolic interactionist perspective, which include Mead's theories about the interplay between the individual and society in social action and Giddens' theories of identity formation in the global community. The empirical data consists of eight interviews with young Swedish backpackers. The result of the study show that the informant’s identities changed during and after their trip and that they completed their journey at defining moments of their lives. The result also highlights that the journey can be used in order to create a story about the self and also that some of the informants may use their journey as a status marker to their surroundings. v

Abstract We decided to explore former school pupils’ experiences of not conforming to the norm. Earlier studies have focused on the children as “the problem”.  We see this as worrying, especially since there is very little research focusing on the pupils’ own experiences. The children’s own perspective needs to be brought to the fore. We hope in a small way to contribute to this. Our study consists of retrospective qualitative interviews with former school children, now all over the age of eighteen. We have adopted a social constructionist perspective to illuminate the area. Social constructionism can be seen as a meta-theory underlying the choice of method, theory and research questions in our study. The study is qualitative and consists of five semi-structured interviews. As a theoretical and analytical tool we will construct a discourse using a psychological perspective. We will base this on the work of Potter and Wetherell as well as Winther Jörgensen and Phillips’s discourse theories. Our qualitative approach means we will look at the role of speech production based on interpretation repertoires and subject positions. In this way, we can see how meanings form the building blocks used in the way people talk about, and thereby construct, the world of everyday interaction (Winther Jorgensen &amp; Phillips 2000: 116). In other words the discourses are a social act, a discursive practice. We are interested in analysing how the interviewees construct versions of social reality in their stories in relation to current social norms and discourses. In addition to discursive psychological theory we have used Börjesson &amp; Palmblad’s descriptions of the impact of verbal discourse about pupils at school on a macro level. They found that the pupils had been categorised as “deviant” and “problem children” during their time at school, also that there was an image of how the “desirable child” should be. We also applied Beckers’ theory of using the “outsider” in order to understand the mechanisms behind the position of not fitting into the norm.  Utilising these theories we analysed the five interviewees’ description of themselves, others and their situation at school to illuminate their experiences and also to highlight their description of the experience of being viewed as “deviant” during their school period. Key words: Identity, Normality, School Norm, Outsider, Discourse psychology, Social constructionism