This treatise is about the Filipino composer Col. Antonino Buenaventura and his 1969 Viola Sonata. It discusses the Sonata’s importance in the Philippines’ search for a distinctive national identity. It also offers information on how to perform the Viola Sonata and suggested bow…
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In France there is a special genre of popular music called chanson engagée that is explicitly socially and politically engaged. This designation poses questions about the nature of music and politics, for example: what does it mean for a music to be socially and politically enga…
Civil war and military incompetence were a mainstay in England for nearly two decades by the start of Edward III’s majority reign in 1330. Moreover, money contracts were beginning to replace the feudal oath, and the gentry and merchants were gaining more economic power. England …
This public history capstone is a research paper that also examines the use of research within the public history field. Within the project, Shannon LeRoy argues that cultural and social factors such as gender and social standing contributed to Roman literary censorship to the p…
At the time of writing, the expectation for a peace settlement on the Korean peninsula is greater than ever due to ongoing inter-Korean summits as well as the historic encounters between the two leaders of the US and North Korea. Although the second Hanoi DPRK-US summit in Febru…
In the 1920s and early 1930s, elites in the public and private sectors in Mexico and the United States who had diverse political and economic interests circulated constructs of national identity by way of writings, photographs, fine art, and popular arts. However, there were inc…
This dissertation presents a multifaceted examination of the complex sociopolitical contexts of contemporary popular and classical music in Russia. By attending to the competing expectations of Russian creators, government officials, impresarios, critics, and listeners, it exami…
The mutually constitutive relationship between constructions of social identity and collective memory is mediated by cultural tools. Across four studies, I explored the relationship between ethnic and national identity and engagement with the final report of the Commission for H…
This dissertation is concerned with the question of whether nations grieve, whether the behaviour they exhibit in the wake of loss can be said to constitute grief. Initially exploring the concepts of both grief and nation in order to establish the feasibility of national grief a…
Since the establishment of the republic in 1923 there has never been a consensus over Turkey‘s national identity, either internally or externally. Westernization was a top-down project that fostered societal resistance from the outset and which received only partial recognition …
This thesis expands the discussion on Iranian national identity into the period of Khatami’s presidency. Within the theoretical and methodological framework of discourse analysis this thesis contends that the multiple constructions of Iranian national identity, which coexist and…
Sociological theorists conventionally see national identity as 'shaped' by large-scale social institutions that operate across a national territory. In this context national identity is a collective phenomenon produced by generic processes of cultural and political socialization…
Historians have shown how, in the last third of the nineteenth century, the language of patriotism and national identity was appropriated by the political right. It has been all too easily assumed that after this they held a monopoly on such language. However, the British left d…
Comprises 13 papers which explore the concept of nationalism and national identity in 12 countries with different types of 'nation-state'. Investigates the roles of ethnicity, race and religion in the origins of each nation and considers the presence or absence of national indic…
This study analyzes the role of three major Bangladeshi newspapers, Janakantha , Prothom Alo and Amar Desh , in shaping national identities in contemporary Bangladesh. I combine two methods: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Content Analysis, to examine these newspapers' con…
This dissertation is a twentieth-century social history of the relationship between mixed marriage and national identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More precisely, it examines the ways in which different types of elites--political, religious and social--operating under different reg…
