This study is an initial examination of the dichotomy of the sacred and the profane in early country music, during the years 1921–1957. These years represent the formational years of country music when the genre was first recorded, until the beginning of the modern period of cou…
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Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve and access their history, and how this affects how they are able to use their history is less researched. This thesis investigate…
Thorough examination of the existing research and the content of ballad and folk song collections reveals a lack of information regarding the methods by which folk musicians learn the music they perform. The centuries-old practice of folk song and ballad performance is well-docu…
Several schools of psychology draw from Buddhist thought and use meditation and mindfulness practices. However, meditation for stress reduction differs from meditation embedded in a project like enlightenment. These evidences led to the hypothesis that Buddhism and psychotherapy…
For my culminating project for my Master of Fine Arts in Television, Film and Theatre I will offer accounts of the aesthetic experience of the California State University, Los Angeles production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner presented in the Fall of…
This is the first time such an extensive application has been attempted. The thesis argues that Gestalt therapy as a modality of perception, can best come to a recognition of itself in the Phenomenology of Perception. That Gestalt therapy requires such a support is apparent righ…
This thesis project explicates the proliferation of “authentic” goods in urban millennial consumer culture. Whether a product makes appeals to its historicity, uses labels such as “Ethically Sourced” and “Fair Trade,” or advertises with cinema verité aesthetics, the production o…
The American Brass Band Movement (1835–1892) is an important period within music history that is disproportionally and inadequately taught in collegiate music history classrooms. By learning about America’s band history and by performing in these ensembles, future music educator…
This project explores the complex roles of power and heritage in the reproduction of cultural and ethnic identities in the context of a local living history museum called Cracker Country. Throughout this thesis, I demonstrate how discourses of Florida heritage are constructed, r…
The nineteenth century witnessed the decline of traditional structures and the birth of new forms of Judaism. During this time, Jews reevaluated the extent to which they were bound by traditional norms. Central to this reevaluation was the authority of traditional Jewish texts, …
Using autoethnography as both methodology and method, this thesis presents an explorative inquiry into the life of a secondary school Catholic Headteacher serving within the Academies programme in England. Situated within a qualitative paradigm with data presented as interpretiv…
Much has been written of the desire for authenticity. That it is a return to the first, the original, to that which is the real. And it is no surprise that such a desire plays an important role among modern evangelical Christians. In a world that often seems topsy-turvy, where t…
The Bauls, itinerant minstrels of rural areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, follow a practice that combines elements from both monotheistic and polytheistic beliefs centered around spiritual experiences that prioritize humanism and nature-centered philosophy over all oth…
In 2018, the impetus for this research study was to explore the intersection of history, identity, and mission at independent schools at a time when these types of institutions faced a supposed existential crossroads. This paradigm was predicated on the assumption that many inde…
This study examined the adult learning journey during a midlife career transition and the role of spiritual practices in transforming professional self-concept and defining career purpose and meaning. The research helped to illuminate how adults apply spiritual practices to incr…
This thesis is an analysis of class as it is represented in select works published and released from Britain during the long ‘80s: a period ranging from the 1980s to the mid-1990s. I will be analyzing the poem v. written by the British author Tony Harrison, as well as songs on t…
In the 1980s, Donald Schӧn put forth his ideas on reflective practice that involved the architectural studio, and in particular, the tutorial interaction, as a model for knowing-in-action, reflection-in-action, and reflection-on-action. Schӧn (1984) noted, however, that the facu…
Folklore: Rescuing Black America from Its Erroneous and Stereotypical Depictions in Literature is a thesis written to reconnect the Black Community’s tether to the foundational truths of the Black American story that were systematically severed. Unfortunately, because of slavery…
Interpersonal communication has dramatically evolved from real-life to online interactions through social media networks. Online communication however comes with caveats, namely, an exact perception of who can see generated content, and how this format influences self-presentati…