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• Milton Nascimento and the Clube da Esquina: popular music, politics, and fraternity during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-85) 

  Holmes, Holly L (2017-04-18)

  While military leaders and politicians plotted to overthrow the João “Jango” Goulart administration, a youth collective of popular music composers coalesced on the esquinas [street corners] of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Led ...

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• “I think we sounded black!”: space and community in Black drum and bugle corps 

  Jorge, Jamil (2017-04-25)

  This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington ...

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• The Tonkünstler-Societät and the oratorio in Vienna, 1771–1798 

  Wuchner, Emily M (2017-04-17)

  Vienna’s Tonkünstler-Societät (Musician's Society) was established in 1771 with the primary goal of cultivating a pension fund to financially assist the widows and orphans of deceased members. Founded by the Habsburg ...

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• Nostalgia, emotionality, and ethno-regionalsim in Pontic parakathi singing 

  Tsekouras, Ioannis (2016-07-05)

  This dissertation explores the multilayered connections between music, emotionality, social and cultural belonging, collective memory, and identity discourse. The ethnographic case study for the examination of all these ...

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• Sound conversations: print media, player pianos, and early radio in the United States 

  Wolter, Catherine Hennessy (2016-07-13)

  While historians frequently identify early twentieth-century sound technologies, such as the phonograph, as playing an important role in the march towards more passive, homogenized, and commoditized ways of interacting ...

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