This dissertation identifies and presents four works for saxophone, each featuring folk elements from a different culture. The introduction to this document outlines the historical development and implications of the term “folk music.” Rather than an art set in stone, folk music…
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La Santa Muerte is a folk saint depicted as a female Grim Reaper in Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The Grim Reaper, as an iconic representation of death, was derived from the Angel of Death found in pseudepigrapha and apocalyptic writings of Jewish and early Christia…
This thesis analyzes how the idea of “folk” is used in discourse by the state and intellectuals to gain internal legitimacy and to reposition themselves globally in early twenty-first century China. By interrogating the discourse of “folk” as intangible cultural heritage and art…
This project unpacks questions of cultural legacy and power: the decades of cultural memory that have made Dylan a figure worthy of blind appreciation and left Odetta to the margins of being known yet unknown. At the core of this are, unsurprisingly, questions of race and gender…