Thesis (D.M.A.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-89).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester, 1946. / Typewritten. Bibliography: part 3, p. 153-156. Digitized version available online via the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music http://hdl.handle.net/1802/6095

Title: Facemasks or antidepressants?    The purpose of this study is to investigate how Indy Beauty communicates on their website and in their first campaign as a means of establishing customer involvement. Therése Lindgren is one of many influencers whom have created or acquired their own brand. Therése uses herself as the face of brand and relies on her own social platforms to advertise her products. To further clarify the study’s purpose two question statements: “In what way does the usage of rhetoric and visual expressions convince the consumer to “Love Yourself”?” and “How do they use mental illness in their strive to create relationships with the consumer?”. To analyse the two question statements we have used theories regarding rhetoric, semiotic, Customer Relationship Management and Customer Involvement Management. The foundation of this study are texts from Indy Beauty’s website together with Indy Beauty’s first advertising campaign. This has been analysed through a qualitative content analysis based on rhetoric analysis and visual social semiotic analysis. The combination of these methods enabled us to answer both question statements within the purpose of this study. Our results show that Therése Lindgren’s own experience of mental illness provides her with a legitimacy and ethos to communicate the “Love yourself” message. Both texts from the website and the advertising campaign portrays Indy Beauty’s products as the solution to mental illness through the usage of both rhetoric and visual expressions. The message itself “Love yourself” can be interpreted contradictory and falls within the framework of femvertising. The consumer is told to “Love yourself” exactly as you are but you still need to use the company’s products to alter and enhance your outside appearance. Our conclusion is that the community and kinship that Indy beauty creates with its consumer, where mental illness is the common denominator, can be disputed about whether its main point is patronage or whether it is just a means to an end for the company to sell its products.

Chronic disease and unhealthy weight is an epidemic threatening the future wellbeing of Indianapolis. This study identifies how the City, and its partners, can improve fresh produce access and availability in high-risk neighborhoods through urban farming and gardening strategies. Recommendations for the City and allied organizations include: the degree of participation, food production and distribution, land policy and farm/garden location, educational programming, and economic sustainability. Target areas for new farms and gardens are identified through GIS overlay mapping and computational of indicators for chronic illness, food environment, and food insecurity. The intended outcome is a guide for the City of Indianapolis, and others facing similar problems, to implement and sustain City programs that address health in highrisk neighborhoods. / Department of Landscape Architecture

When the Internet was created it did not include any protocol for identifying the person behind the computer. Instead, the act of identification has primarily been established by trusting a third party. But, the rise of Distributed Ledger Technology has made it possible to authenticate a digital identity and build trust without the need of a third party. The Swedish Maritime Administration are currently validating a new maritime digital infrastructure for the maritime transportation industry. The goal is to reduce the number of accidents, fuel consumption and voyage costs. Involved actors has their identity stored in a central registry that relies on the trust of a third party. This thesis investigates how a conversion from the centralized identity registry to a decentralized identity registry affects the usability and the risk for compromised data integrity. This is done by implementing a Proof of Concept of a decentralized identity registry that replaces the current centralized registry, and comparing them. The decentralized Proof of Concept’s risk for compromised data integrity is 95.1% less compared with the centralized registry, but this comes with a loss of 53% in efficiency.

Parisian musical life underwent a tectonic shift in the late nineteenth century. Throughout the 1800s, and particularly during the Second Empire (1852-70), opera and other forms of theatrical entertainment had dominated the French musical scene. In the final decades of the century, however, a generation of French composers devoted considerable efforts to large-scale symphonic forms. A driving force in the advancement of orchestral music was the "Franck circle" or bande à  Franck--a group of more-or-less young composers mentored by an unassuming organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire. In their symphonic works, these musicians challenged the longstanding Austro-German dominance of serious instrumental genres and cultivated a distinctly French musical voice. This dissertation explores the burgeoning symphonic culture of Paris circa 1880-1900 by examining four representative compositions by prominent members of the Franck circle: Augusta Holmès's Les Argonautes (1880), Ernest Chausson's Viviane (1882-83, revised 1887), César Franck's Psyché (1886-87), and Vincent d'Indy's Istar (1896). Each of these pieces, the subject of an individual chapter, offers a study in the relationship between compositional practice and cultural identity. The critical success of Les Argonautes catapulted Holmès to national prominence and established her reputation as one of the most progressive composers in France. Chausson's extensive revisions to Viviane, his first major orchestral work, reveal his evolving attitudes about descriptive music and Wagner--the composer who cast the longest shadow in fin-de-siècle France. Although Franck based Psyché on a legend from Greek antiquity, his approach to musical signification allowed his disciples to interpret the piece variously as a Christian allegory or as absolute music. D'Indy's polemical stances on genre, artistic influence, and morality belie the ideological complexities and paradoxes in his Istar. In addition to illuminating these works through reception history, musical analysis, manuscript studies, and the composers' own writings, the dissertation will address three interrelated topics in each chapter. First, I explore how the bande à  Franck understood the concept of "serious" music, and how this conception shaped Third Republic attitudes about orchestral genres, absolute music, and program music. Second, I examine how French composers responded to the legacy of Wagner in non-theatrical genres. Finally, I discuss how these four musicians fashioned a cultural, national, and personal identity through--and sometimes in tension with--their orchestral works.

The diploma thesis analyses the beginnings of hip hop in the Czech Republic in the context of domestic music magazines. It aims to examine the media depiction of this cultural phenomenon in its entirety with an emphasis on the musical genre of rap. Through qualitative content analysis of text data, it observes specific periodicals in two time periods. The first of them was in the years 1989 to 1999, when the first attempts to transfer the originally American genre to the domestic environment began to appear in the country. The second analysed stage is limited to the years 2000 and 2002, in which two key albums were released, namely Repertoár by the group PSH and My 3 by Indy & Wich. The magazines Melodie, Rock & Pop, Report, Tripmag, Ultramix and Bbarák were used in the qualitative content analysis. The thesis examines the first printed mentions of Czech hip hop, but also focuses on reviews, interviews and other extensive journalistic genres, especially at a later stage. Qualitative content analysis of textual data is complemented by semi-structured interviews with leading music publicists, but also artists who have contributed to the establishment of rap in terms of Czech music. The research method of oral history was also used and made it possible to obtain information with witnesses that have...