The present study constitutes an attempt to flesh out and render visible some of the peculiarly concealed yet effective ways in which power and control are exercised in contemporary societies through a historical investigation of functional music. To that end, it identifies four…
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Sounding the Text proposes a methodology called sounding, an interpretative gesture of listening for sounds and measuring silences in cultural texts in a way that articulates an ethics of committed listening. Sounding counters the silencing of marginalized Francophone voices wit…
This practice research study explores the law as a medium of art and performance-making in order to gain insights into how aesthetics is part of, or characterises aspects of, law. The research was conducted through creating a series of performative artworks culminating in two ma…
The human voice has undergone a seismic reappraisal in recent years, within musicology, and across disciplinary boundaries in the humanities, arts and sciences; 'voice studies' offers a vast and proliferating array of seemingly divergent accounts of the voice and its capacities,…
Scope and method of study. Introspective, exploratory study of how two American English teachers living abroad managed or resolved the cognitive, affective and socio-cultural challenges they encountered when listening to Japanese, Chinese, Acehnese, or Indonesian. Findings and c…
This is an ethnography of listening and a study of the production, circulation, and reproduction of regional pop among the Toraja people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. In the Toraja region (Tana Toraja), entrepreneurial Indonesian musicians and producers have reacted to political…
Amaç: Çalışmamızın amacı, unilateral koklear implant kullanıcılarının ve bimodal koklear implant kullanıcılarının dinleme eforlarını karşılaştırmalı olarak değerlendirerek; bimodal koklear implant kullanıcılarında, bimodal işitmeyle sağlanan binaural uyarımın avantajları ve bu k…
Amaç: Araştırma, hemşirelerin dinleme becerisi düzeylerini ve problem çözme becerilerine ilişkin algılarını belirlemek amacıyla yapıldı. Gereç ve Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı nitelikteki araştırma Bursa İlinde bir üniversite hastanesinde çalışmakta olan 395 hemşire ile gerçekleştirildi. …
This dissertation enacts the dialogue between my creative work as an improviser-composer and my critical engagements with scholarship. Both creative and academic streams of my work have converged on core themes, which have accompanied me as I experiment with my practice as a com…
Rockumentaries are commodities that construct authoritative interpretations of popular music history, shaping how we come to know, value, hear, consume, and identify with popular music and those who create it. The arguments rockumentaries make, and the ways they make them, are t…
Borders today are commonly perceived as sites of tension and conflict. Whether conceptualized as territorial borders that purport to physically separate nations or social, political and cultural borders that ideologically split individuals, the idea of a border as impenetrable a…
Mainline Protestant congregations are struggling to adapt to the rapidly changing culture. Grounding congregants in the biblical narrative, theological reflection, and ethical practices have long been a function of local congregations. However, as American culture has become mor…
Indigenous cultural safety education is crucial to achieving greater health equity for Indigenous Peoples (Browne et al., 2016) by helping counsellors recognize the social, historical, political, and economic context of contemporary Indigenous wellness experiences (Ramsden, 2002…
This dissertation traces the relationship between auditory technology and models of listening in literature and film during the early-twentieth century. It considers a historical moment during which a vivid array of unprecedented sounds arose, such as the roar of the automobile,…
Three widows were selected from Mount Zion Baptist Church to participate in my thesis project on Death and Grief. Their stories are individually told respectively as shared by them during the interview sessions. Although a semi-structured format was used and open-ended questions…
In 2007, the music of Betty Davis was reissued on Light In The Attic Records to a wave of critical acclaim. The reemergence of Betty’s first two studio albums (Betty Davis 1973; They Say I’m Different 1974) cemented the pioneer status of the singer, songwriter, and producer who …
What does it mean to listen—and how can works of literature teach us about listening? Of the four modes of language—reading, writing, speaking, and listening—that together constitute the “language arts” as a curriculum area in secondary English education, listening is relatively…
This paper maps a series of relationships concerning the old time music community on Facebook during the Coronavirus era. Through this examination, it posits that the old time music community has used Facebook during the mass virtual turn not only to maintain the community but t…
This dissertation is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis of "place," especially with respect to comparative modes of listening. I orient my work around a 1923 meeting in San Francisco of the Japanese Zen Buddhist priest, Nyogen Senzaki, and the Indian Sufi mystic and…