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Behind Immaterial and Material Divides: East German Photography, 1949-1989.
(2016)
In 1950, Walter Ulbricht declared socialist realism as the official artistic method in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Using the implementation of this method in the East German art world as a starting point, this ...
The Sonic Dimension as Dramatic Driver in 21st-Century Pop Music.
(2016)
This dissertation proposes a methodology for analysis of 21st-century pop music, with a particular focus on songs released between 2011 and early 2016. One of the primary factors that distinguish this music from most other ...
Disability Ecology: Re-Materializing U.S. Fiction from 1890-1940
(2016)
Disability Ecology: Re-Materializing U.S. Fiction from 1890-1940 argues that disability is the material-semiotic product of an ecological network of human and non-human actors. As social forms, disability ecologies move ...
Out Came the Sun
(2018)
“Out Came the Sun” for chamber orchestra was commissioned and premiered by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at the Carnegie Hall on December 2, 2017. It is written for chamber orchestra consists of flute, oboe, clarinet, ...
Scenes from Thurso's Landing
(2019)
Scenes from Thurso’s Landing contains roughly half of the materials from an anticipated opera in two acts, Thurso’s Landing, based on Robinson Jeffers’ (1887-1962) lengthy narrative poem by the same title, first published ...
The Othello Effect: The Performance of Black Masculinity in Mid-Century Cinema
(2011)
This dissertation attempts to theorize the performance of black masculinity in the mid-twentieth century as a cultural process, by analyzing films with narratives that creatively confronted the problem of race and intercultural ...
Opera behind the Myth: An Archival Examination of Einstein on the Beach.
(2016)
The celebrated 1976 European tour and sold-out Metropolitan Opera House performances of director Robert Wilson’s and composer Philip Glass’s opera EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH heightened its artists’ reputations and amplified ...
Three Recitals of Repertoire for Wind Ensembles
(2020)
Three Recitals of Repertoire for Wind Ensembles features music from the last 250 years, including compositions written for chamber and full wind ensemble, brass ensemble, winds and strings, and winds and voice. Composers ...
Superfluous Women: Gender, Art, and Activism After Ukraine's Orange Revolution.
(2015)
Analyzing firsthand interviews, visual art, literature, manifestos, official speeches and other materials, I demonstrate how several contemporary collectives in Kyiv reject past Soviet and Western connotations with feminism ...
Music, Race, and Gender in the Original Series of Star Trek (1966-69).
(2015)
The original television series STAR TREK (1966–69) enacted the social turmoil of the American sixties, as long-existing power structures struggled with progressive ideas, illuminating charged social and political tensions. ...