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Charles Mingus and the paradoxical aspects of race as reflected in his life and music
Textural depth, structural depth, expressive depth: Ladders from line to sonority in Arvo Part and Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, and, Burning the Deep Red Sea (an original composition for chamber ensemble)
 
Creating a home culture for the phonograph: Women and the rise of sound recordings in the United States, 1877--1913
Transnational cultural traffic in northeast Asia: The "presence" of Japan in Korea's popular music culture
 
Two ways of looking at Messiaen's "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus", with, Baptism (an original composition for chamber orchestra)
"Japanese in the samba": Japanese Brazilian musical citizenship, racial consciousness, and transnational migration
 
Sound, technology, and interpretation in subcultures of heavy music production
Visions of a "musical America" in the radio age
 
Composing, revising, and performing Suzhou ballads: A study of political control and artistic freedom in tanci, 1949--1964
Conflicting lines, cohesive structures: Multiple-directed linearity in Witold Lutoslawski's "Third Symphony" and "Proximate Spaces" for piano and chamber orchestra
 
Reshaping American music: The quotation of shape-note hymns by twentieth-century composers
'We are the Mods': A transnational history of a youth culture
 
Want the history? Listen to the music! Historical evidence in Anlo Ewe musical practices: A case study of traditional song texts
Pennsylvania Dutch tune and chorale books in the early Republic: Music as a medium of cultural assimilation
 
West African music in the music of Art Blakey, Yusef Lateef, and Randy Weston
Development of African American gospel piano style (1926--1960): A socio-musical analysis of Arizona Dranes and Thomas A. Dorsey
 
Samuel Babcock (1760-1813), archetypal psalmodist of the First New England School of composers
Performing Islam through Indonesian popular music, 2002--2007
 
Afrobeat, Fela and beyond: Scenes, style and ideology
Heroes y bandidos: Iconos populares y figuraciones de la nacion en America Latina
 
The birth of musicology from the spirit of evolution: Ernst Haeckel's Entwicklungslehre as central component of Guido Adler's methodology for musicology
The multivoice sacred music of Nicolas Gombert: A critical examination
 
A coalescence of liturgical consensus on the chants for the Mass for the Dead from its origins through the fourteenth century
Pitch and Harmony in Gyorgy Ligeti's "Hamburg Concerto" and "Syzygy" for String Quartet
 
Pitch symmetry in Martin Bresnick's "My Twentieth Century" and "Meden Agan" for chamber ensemble
Keep going: Narrative continuity in Luciano Berio's "Sinfonia" and "Dillinger: An American Oratorio"
 
What a "thump" means: Morton Feldman's treatments of Samuel Beckett's texts, and, "This Report Must Be Signed By Your Parents" for orchestra
Expressive prosody in French solo song: Gabriel Faure's "Melodies," and their historical antecedents
 
Re-membering trauma in the flesh literary and performative representations of race and gender in the Americas
Intercultural Composition: An Analysis of the First Movement of Justinian Tamusuza's "Mu Kkubo Ery'Omusaalaba" for String Quartet, and, Baakisimba Ne'biggu (an Original Chamber Composition)
 
Composing consciousness: Psychological design in the late dramatic works of Robert Schumann
"My arm is complete": A cognitive approach to gestural life in Stephen Sondheim's musical genres