<p> This is a study of contemporary jazz culture in post-apartheid South Africa. It demonstrates that the significance of jazz can productively be understood from the perspective of listeners, complementing the necessary attention that has historically been afforded to the creators and performers of the music. It describes the rich social life that has emerged around the collecting and sharing of jazz recordings by associations of listeners in this country. In these social contexts, a semi-public culture of listening has been created, it is argued, that is distinct from the formal jazz recording, broadcast and festival sectors, and extends across various social, cultural, linguistic and related boundaries to constitute a vibrant dimension of vernacular musical life. South African jazz appreciation societies illustrate that collecting may be a global phenomenon but that recordings can take on quite particular social lives in specific times and places, and that the extension of consumer capitalism to places like South Africa does not always automatically involve the same kinds of possessive individualism that they do in other settings, and might even serve as a catalyst for new forms of creativity. The study demonstrates, moreover, that what is casually referred to as "the jazz public" is an internally variegated and often enduringly segregated constellation of scenes, several of which remain quite intimate and, indeed, beyond the view of the "general public." The study foregrounds how one specific dimension of jazz culture &ndash; the modes of sociability with which the music has become associated among its listening devotees &ndash; can assume decidedly local forms and resonances, becoming part of the country's jazz heritage in its own right and throwing into relief the potential breadth, range and contrasts in the ways that jazz writ large can be figured and recontextualised as it is vernacularized around the world. The study recognizes the significant role that jazz appreciation societies play in creating culturally resonant grassroots social settings for this music, documents and analyses the creativity with which they do so, and considers the broader implications of their contribution to the musical elaboration of public space in contemporary South Africa.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1856. Adviser: Thomas Turino. Includes supplementary digital materials. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 345-352) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2718. Adviser: Charles Capwell. Includes supplementary digital materials. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 437-451) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

New York City: A Collage of Cultures is a single-movement programmatic orchestral work that features polytonality, prallelism, sound-mass, micro-tones, polychordal rhythmic ostinato, neo-impressionism, and folk themes and anthems from sundry cultures and nationalities. The simultaneity of contextual material at one point necessitates the employment of three conductors. The composition portrays America as a "melting pot" through its busiest immigration center, itself a microcosm of diverse international elements. This is achieved by the depiction of three different settings: a boat sailing from a foreign port, bound for New York Cty; New York itself in all of its awesome fury; and a capsule image of a conglomerate of turn-of-the-century emigrants and their interaction throughout the voyage.

This thesis looks into cross-cultural music-making in higher education byexploring the plausible outcomes of the teaching of three Brazilian music teachers thatcame to a Swedish university to teach Brazilian music to Swedish students in theLinnaeus-Palme exchange project between the said university and a Brazilian universityin the 2010s. Through interviews the three Brazilian music teachers have given theirview of the teaching that took place, what they taught and why, and what methods theywere using. Comparing the answers to current literature, this thesis shows that there areboth musical gains that lead to musical maturity in working with new unknown materialwith insider teachers as well as gains in terms of cultural competence, a culturalawareness, when getting the chance to study with insider teachers that introduces thestudent to traditions and cultural values through the methods of their teaching. Culturalawareness is a useful competence when working in a multicultural society and aglobalized world, hence universities with music education should consider finding waysof letting students study with insider teachers.

Inhalt: 1. Vorbemerkung 2. Was Vielfalt nicht heißt 3. Was meint denn nun musikalische Vielfalt? 4. Schlussbemerkung

Inhalt: 1. Interkulturelles Musiklernen in der Schule - einige grundsätzliche Anmerkungen 2. Zielsetzungen eines interkulturellen Musikunterrichts 3. Probleme eines schulischen interkulturellen Musiklernens 4. Methodische Versuche und Optionen eines interkulturellen Musiklernens 4.1 Methodische Wege eines interkulturellen Musiklernens 5. Ausblick

Inhalt: 1. Musikpädagogik in Spanien: ein neues Forschungsgebiet 2. Konzeptionelle Rahmenbedingungen 3. Aktueller Stand und geplante Fortführung des Forschungsprojektes

Content: 1. Introduction 2. Music in the curriculum of The Educación Obligatoria 2.1 Music in Educación Primaria - Listening and Comprehension - Music Making - Rational Analysis (Musical Notation) 2.2. Music in Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (E.S.O. Compulsory Secondary education) and Bachillerato (Pre-University Education) 3. Music in the Spanish Non-Compulsory Education 3.1. Elementary and Medium Levels 3.2. The “Title of Higher Music Education” 4. The new certificate of “Didactic Specialization” 5. Concluding remarks

Are the Germans interested in flamenco nowadays? If so they are, then how can a type of art that is so different from both German cultured and popular music be represented in the culture of that country? Possible answers to this and other questions on the still romantic image of flamenco held in Central Europe, will be provided by the analysis of the flamenco being offered at German universities, festivals, private dance schools, publishing houses and websites.