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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 ...
The appropriate extent of intellectual property rights in art
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-06)
The paper examines whether intellectual property rights in art should be extended to the entire world. In earlier papers, the economics of patent rights have been examined and the argument made that world welfare is likely ...
Joyce Piell Wexler, Who Paid for Modernism?: Art, Money, and the Fiction of Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-03)
Cabinet of Curiosities Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra.
(2016)
Cabinet of Curiosities, a concerto for saxophone quartet and orchestra, is cast in three main movements, preceded by a short prelude. The instrumentation of the work is as follows: Solo Saxophone Quartet (Soprano in B-flat, ...
Performative Analysis: Theorizing the Interpretation of Tonal Music.
(2013)
This study seeks to redress two related concerns. First, scholars of classical music have traditionally viewed the musical work as an abstract entity, as conceptually prior to its performances. I propose instead a ...
Amesha Spenta for Two Pianos and Orchestra
(2017)
Amesha Spenta is a 9-minute musical composition for two pianos and orchestra (2fls., 2cls., 2obs., 2bsns., 2hns., 2tpts., tbn. b. tbn. , timp., perc., and strings). It incorporates the Zoroastrian story of creation as its ...
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 ...