This dissertation uncovers an alternative theory of the human voice that decenters speech in premodern Chinese literature from the third to the seventeenth centuries. Through an examination of records of reportage, anecdotes, tales, biographies, poetry, and commentary, all cente…
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This dissertation examines the French horn solo as a lyrical “voice” in non-diegetic Hollywood film music, 1954–2012. Through a series of case studies of longer solos (20+ seconds), I consider the changing use of the horn in film scores to show how horn solos evoke a specific ra…
This thesis explores three performances from the early career of lyric soprano Camilla Williams (1919-2012), who, in 1946, became the first Black singer to be given a regular contract with an American opera company (the New York City Opera). By analyzing archival materials from …
Adele V. Holden adds her creative voice to the numerous other Black women who focus and narrate the experiences, the stories, memories, family relationships, the social life, and customs of a people who have endured and survived living in America while Black. Holden's literary c…
This thesis offers the first sustained study of the various ways that English-language authors represented the voice of God during the early modern period. By situating the idea of God’s voice in the context of Protestant anxiety over scriptural usage, I consider how writers wor…
George Elliott Clarke’s ongoing, multi-volume epic, Canticles I, engages canonical and minority racial narratives in order to create a discursive space for (re)presentations of voice. As an epic, Canticles I utilizes many of its traditional structural markers; however, it largel…
A two part project, one half film and the other an analytical essay. A Maine in Progression is a candid documentary following Detroit music artist Illy Maine in his journey and discoveries throughout life and music. The film explores identity, challenges through troubled times a…
While at first glance the differences between Southern Gothic literature and Russian Realism seem vast, Southern Gothic authors have often evoked the works and somber themes of Dostoevsky in both fictional and nonfiction writings. The dialogue between Southern Gothic writers and…
Gospel singing is a musically sophisticated and culturally influential vocal performance style. Yet, its pedagogy is often expressed through the lens of formal/classical training or a Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) umbrella for all non-classical styles. This is problematic …
Throughout Western music from the 1960s until today—in genres and epochs ranging from concert music, to experimental albums in popular music, to goofy YouTube videos—we can hear a peculiar phenomenon: musical works in which the music is organized around sound recordings of speec…
While a great deal of scholarship has critically assessed Holocaust texts, films, and photographs for decades, scholars have largely overlooked music and sound. Musicologists and historians have made substantial contributions to understanding music during the Holocaust and how i…
The research study considers insights and challenges to listening to young children’s voices in a pre-school in England. The study was motivated by the political and social agendas which assert the fundamental involvement of young children as active decision-makers in all aspect…
Focusing on several Italian and Portuguese novels that remarkably thematize the encounter of the human with the machine and its noise, this dissertation is an inquiry into the history and modalities of three archetypes of human-machine interactions: creature-creator (Carlo Collo…
The following paper examines the aspect of control in a non-fiction writer’s life. Is the ability to write in the non-fiction genre one of the greatest forms of control over one’s own life? How are southern writers like Dorothy Allison, Janisse Ray, Carson McCullers, Alice Walke…
The purpose of this dissertation is to amplify the voices of college algebra students to inform researchers, administrators, and educators to make college algebra more equitable. Nearly 50% of college algebra students fail the course at least once, and many of these students are…
Art song, by nature, is a combination of media: text and music. Composers map these two domains onto each other using established correspondences known as conceptual metaphors. The outcome, known as a conceptual blend, manifests a different cognitive perception than if the domai…
Voices are used as a vehicle for language, and variation in the acoustic properties of voices also contains information about the speaker. Listeners use measurable qualities, such as pitch and formant traits, as cues to a speaker’s physical stature and attractiveness. Emotional …
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton's public life represents a specific moment when a generation of women started to materially symbolize the progress made by feminist activists. Because of the struggles of previous reformers, Rodham Clinton was able to serve as a corporate lawyer, a F…
The stylized, romantic song sequence — or the form(ula) of "song-dance-romance" — has remained the most visible, audible, and mobile aspect of Hindi popular cinema. Studies of Hindi film songs have taken the shape of either extended ethnographies of production practices or edite…