Composing music for worship in the twenty-first century is intriguing in that there are so many traditions, styles, genres and forms to draw on for inspiration. Even modern idioms (such as Contemporary Christian Music) have a history and tradition that one may study and emulate.…
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The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil Spill, which occurred on April 20, 2010, remains the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, causing catastrophic impacts on the ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico coastal regions. The objective of this study was to investigate if there was any …
On a program for a classical music recital today you will typically find the names of the performers, as well as the names of the various composers who wrote the music. At first, this seems perfectly ordinary, until we consider that there was a time when such a distinction betwe…
This dissertation explores how and why scholars in Rhetoric and Composition, who study religious topics, choose to disclose (or not) their positionalities in relation to their research. Included in this investigation are scholars of atheist rhetorics, as well. Through interviews…
This project is a practice in telling a small part of a less common story: one about negotiating commitments to academic and church communities when the stories told across those communities don’t always line up or are incomplete. Through the stories of my three participants as …
Electronic music, including the subgenre of interactive electronic music, has a century-old history and has established itself as a vital and important element of modern music cultures throughout the world. Acoustic musicians in the twenty-first century will be expected to perfo…
Film composers of the Modernist Era, by nature of their unique role occupying both a commercial and an aesthetic space, served two masters of necessity: the narrative needs of their client’s or studio’s film production, and their own need to create artistically satisfying music.…
This literary study offers an alternative approach to children's literature. Focusing on the works of two prominent Israeli authors--Efraim Sidon and Meir Shalev--the study analyzes the textual perspectives of the child and adult addresses in the discursive system designated chi…
“Power” is a word with myriad definitions and has been studied by linguists and other scholars in as many contexts. Kiesling (1998) identifies seven varieties of power from which roles may be built, Fairclough (1992) indicates that power can be both overt and covert, and Foucaul…
Rhetoric developed in the West by centralizing verbal/visual modalities. Other sensory modalities, like smell, were de-emphasized. This dissertation, in a series of essays, theorizes the rhetorical potential and detriment of smell as a non-verbal factor in persuasion by explorin…
This dissertation examines how academic English shapes and is shaped by the growing number of non-native speakers around the world who research and write in it. More specifically, the dissertation discusses data from an interview-based study of Arab researchers who write academi…
This dissertation presents an investigation of the formal and functional properties of rhetorical questions in the Quran, based on their high occurrences in the text (809 rhetorical questions in total). Unlike previous analyses of rhetorical questions, this study employs a multi…
This dissertation examines the contemporary paradoxes, impasses, and new possibilities negotiated by Syrian Muslim men who practice the musical group worship of dhikr. Dhikr is group activity often associated with Sufism, and has long been an important part of Islamic practice i…
Methods and ideas for the creation of ‘transparent’ music in the classroom The aims of this port-folio are as follows; To provide a coherent sequence of pieces and methods which can be used to create music in an educational context and also encourage students and teachers to d…
Thesis based on the submission of orchestral compositions relating the music pieces to visual works. The compositions are also discussed in terms of where they fit within a contemporary, orchestral context.
"Kulper and Chard examine the potential of uncertainty in architecture. As this fits awkwardly with normal research methods they have each developed their own processes of study and proposal where the act of drawing is an important component in generating the content of the work…
« An all-in-one guide to the human body!Anatomy 101 offers an exciting look into the inner workings of the human body. Too often, textbooks turn the fascinating systems, processes, and figures of anatomy into tedious discourse that even Leonardo Da Vinci would reject. This easy-…