Music therapy is widely portrayed either as a paramedical practice within which music is a technology applied as a form of treatment or as a form of psychotherapy within which the music plays a primarily symbolic role or acts as a lead in to verbal consideration of the patient’s…
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This thesis examines the marketing and branding behaviours of a sample of microbusinesses that operate in Scotland’s diverse craft sector by examining brand narratives they create. Context of the sector is first given and demonstrates that this particular topic has received litt…
This dissertation proposes that between World War I and World War II, the relationship between war, politics, and language can be best understood through a political-theological prism. One strain of twentieth-century political philosophy considers sovereignty to be a matter of a…
Can an architectural intervention provide positive and sustainable cultural, economic and environmental developments for a Turkish village? The architectural formation of a cultural center that fortifies cultural traditions and creates bridges between locals and visitors, dimini…
This research examines the ideas, plans, and policies in promoting and reshaping the craft industry in China in the 1920s and 1930s. After coming to power, the Nationalist government in Nanjing pursued new economic policies for economic development and state building. One of the…
This dissertation is a study of the mechanization of cotton spinning in turn-of-the-twentieth-century China. More specifically, it examines efforts made by the Chinese workers to keep imported spinning machines performing at maximum efficiency in their cotton mills. Such efforts…
Offerings is an investigation of my relationship between faith, craft, and place. Through artist’s books, handmade paper, tools, and sculptural works, I explore my environment and create a space for questioning the traditional lines of science, magic, religion, and the roots of …
Artists working to develop today’s popular games reference images of historic objects and architecture when constructing in-game vistas and digital objects. Scholars have often labeled their creations as quasi-historical pastiche, mere explorations of fantasy, retrofuturism, and…
A bee staggers out of the peony., is a curation of fragments, an assembly of moments whose temporal roots have been dug up and grafted. The results of this process present themselves as decontextualized familiarity, the details of which, concrete and known, become obscured when …
The 1960s saw major fashion innovation for women’s styles. Increasingly young people made deliberate choices to convey their stances on political, economic, and social issues through dress. The counterculture adopted crochet along with vintage and do-it-yourself styles. They for…
This dissertation, the first dedicated study of the reception of the music of Anton Webern in the United States, focuses on moments at which U.S. musicians, scholars, and institutions have sought to render Webern’s music accessible to mainstream classical music audiences. The fi…