This study analyses the functions and meanings of tattoos in the specific social and cultural context of the underground musicians and fans in urban East Java. The research methodology is based on qualitative data and uses ethnographic and social science methods. The ethnographi…
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Born May 9th, 1884, Arthur Meulemans’s robust oeuvre of more than 350 compositions has gone largely unnoticed in the 21st Century. As the first conductor of the Belgium National Radio Orchestra, Meulemans played a prominent role in shaping the Belgian musical landscape by embrac…
The transition from the Trenton Group to the Utica Shale in the eastern Mohawk Valley, New York State, marks a basin-wide transgression within the Taconic foreland basin and rise of an orogenic belt along the margin of Laurentian in the Late Ordovician. This area has been studie…
I have chosen to be assessed as an instrumentalist and interpreter of music. The criteria laid down by the University of Salford Senate Research and Graduate Studies Committee has influenced the selection of repertoire performed on both my studio recording projects (one and four…
This recital performs two functions in addition to providing the audience with an enjoyable concert. The first purpose of this recital is to trace the origins of the trombone as a solo instrument through the selection of repertoire. The purposefully varied styles of repertoire h…
This project comprises an album of flexible-instrumentation music for wind band (flex band music) and an accompanying manuscript discussing the need for this type of music in support of music education in the United States. Recordings took place at the Bryant-Jordan Hall recordi…
The church at large in North America faces shrinking congregation sizes and attendance with estimates that forty-million young people who were raised in Christian homes could walk away from faith by 2050 (The Great Opportunity Study). The underlying problems the church faces are…
The class meeting, a Wesleyan discipleship construct, played a pivotal role in the sustained growth of the Methodist movement in Britain and America. John Wesley and his associates designed Methodism to be a “connexion,” a network of interlocking groups in which Christians were …
A staple in wind band literature, composer Alfred Reed left over 250 works for the medium. Works such as “Russian Christmas Music” and “Armenian Dances Part 1” are commonly performed at home concerts and festivals alike. He helped define the wind band sound through groundbreakin…
When rock music began to appear on Broadway in the 1960s with Bye Bye Birdie and Hair, it opened up the door for new styles to be notated into musical theater scores. Since then, a wide variety of rock and pop genres have been incorporated into Broadway shows. Musical theater sc…
In 1930s Hawai‘i, the statehood movement allied with the tourism industry to use the music industry to market their causes on a global scale using a fantasy that presented the islands as a feminized and exoticized, yet white-dominated space. White elites had used this fantasy, b…