The phenomenon of "suicide bombing" is not new, and yet the involvement of Muslim women in this violent political activity has received much media attention, especially since the Second Intifada. This dissertation challenges interpretations of female bombers in academic writing …
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The aim of this work is to study the dynamics of mass media and individual identity by outlining the patterns of interaction between hip-hop culture (as it is packaged in the mass media) and Black women (as a socio-historical and cultural position). The project asks the followin…
Chapters 40–55 of the book of Isaiah, also known as Deutero-Isaiah, are concerned primarily with the themes of comfort and return. Its context is the time period of the Babylonian exile, though some scholars date portions as late as the mid-fifth century B.C.E. The message of co…
This dissertation focuses on defining, describing and analyzing the music and context of the gazino, a type of nightclub found primarily in Istanbul, Turkey. Dating back to the beginning of the Republican era, gazino music is drawn from many sources that make up the Turkish musi…
That the biblical text was intended to be performed publicly and not read privately is an axiom in biblical scholarship, and yet, until recently, with the emergence of performance criticism, scholars have essentially ignored this axiom. As an interdisciplinary methodology borrow…
This practice-based thesis explores the possibilities presented by dissonant relations between site and text in site-specific theatre. Identifying the under-examination, and so under-theorisation of site/text relations in site-specific scholarship, the thesis pursues an enquiry …
The term Alternative Comedy refers to a circuit of comedy clubs that emerged in London in 1979 and grew in popularity throughout the Eighties. The stand-up comedy performances presented in the clubs were notable for their attempts to avoid sexist and racist humour, and their wil…
The creative potential and work of the performer in new music extends from the moment of conceptualising a concert to the moment of presenting it on stage and comprises many areas between and around those two points. In this thesis I explore the nature of this activity, from the…
This thesis is about the construction of 'satire' as an exclusive practice among the Cefalonian and hence proposes the term satiricity (satirikotita). It explores the construction of the category of the Cefalonian "madman" by means of dialogics between performance and evaluation…
To better understand the role of the Kuwaiti news media, this research looked at the Kuwaiti audience's perception of the role of the news media in society using traditional media analogies, and the audience's perceptions of the press' performance in citizen involvement in publi…
The audience, and its varying levels of participation, is a vital element for the communication of a story. The stories of Jesus Christ as told in the gospels, and of the early Church as found in Acts, rely on the audience members and their participation as do all others. In fac…
H.D.'s treatment of the classics offers alternatives to dominant reception traditions, which have used classics to fortify a fascist aesthetics. Her anthological syncretism puts classical elements into new juxtapositions, emphasizing the poet's role as arranger and creating a po…
One consequence of the anti-Jacobin fervor that swept England after 1789 was an increasingly aggressive machinery for the suppression of radical thinking and writing. Since it worked to excise any direct political criticism from public discourse, this baldly ideological censorsh…
The Supreme Court of the United States often finds itself at the center of political controversies due to the increased judicialization of value and policy matters. These controversies threaten the Court’s authority. This dissertation examines the argument strategies that the Co…
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.…