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Annotation This is the very first historical and theoretical work to consider the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael Brocken charts the revival from its origins in left-wing political ideology through to the convergence of folk and…
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Or more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the lost paradise of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire s enshrinement as the national…
'"The last few years have seen not just a revival but a rebirth of the analogue record. Much more than merely a nostalgic craze, vinyl has become a cultural icon. While vinyl never ceased to be the key format for many music lovers and DJs, for two decades the recording industry …
This project develops a system of learning and training through which the students and parental figures of the Learning and Achievement Academy grow in their understanding of the gospel. Chapter 1 describes the context and need for this project. Chapter 2 engages with the biblic…
As both a student of Pentecostalism and the moving of the Holy Spirit has effected Christianity as well as how the Christian faith has impacted western history, I am intrigued by the impact the movement known as the First Great Awakening had on the formation of America as a nati…
This thesis presents an ethnographic analysis of the contemporary folk music scene in Budapest, based primarily on fieldwork in the city between 2013-2015. It draws on concepts from ethnomusicology, cultural studies and popular music studies, while sustaining a particular focus …
This study addresses eighteenth-century English-speaking evangelicals' understandings of church history, through the lens of published attempts to represent preceding Christian centuries panoramically or comprehensively. Sources entail several short reflections on history emergi…
The 1778 Meschianza of Philadelphia lived large in the nineteenth-century historical memory of the American Revolution. All but faded from our cultural memory today, the then-famous eighteen-hour regatta, theatrical performance, and fancy-dress ball came to represent the materia…