Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Author "Abbate, Carolyn"
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Breath, Gravity, Giants, and Death: Puppet-Musical Encounters from Die Zauberflöte to Today
Fenn, Hayley Alexandra (2022-05-11)Puppets are silent. But they are never apart from sound. In fact, they are immersed in it, entwined with it, inextricable from it. Prevailing definitions of the puppet allow its sounds to go unheard, rendering puppetry a ... -
EVALUATION OF COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI)-MEDIATED MUSIC PROCESSING USING ELECTRODOGRAM MAPPING TO COMPARE WITH PERCEPTION
Hodges, Aaron (2021-06-17)Appreciating and perceiving music has been a persistent challenge for using cochlear implants (CIs). Despite having speech perception capabilities in quiet environments, CI users struggle with foundational components of ... -
EVALUATION OF COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI)-MEDIATED MUSIC PROCESSING USING ELECTRODOGRAM MAPPING TO COMPARE WITH PERCEPTION
Hodges, Aaron (2021-06-17)Appreciating and perceiving music has been a persistent challenge for using cochlear implants (CIs). Despite having speech perception capabilities in quiet environments, CI users struggle with foundational components of ... -
Kisaeng: A Sociopolitical History of Entertainment Labor in Korea, 1900–1950
Lee, Laurie (2023-06-01)This dissertation is a labor history of the early-twentieth-century kisaeng, a class of women entertainers in Korea whose labor comprised a fluid combination of musical performance and sexual commerce. While the figure of ... -
Media, Knowledge, and Oratorio Culture in Britain, 1840–1900
Dilworth, John (2022-03-17)In nineteenth-century Britain, musical progress was often imagined in terms of “the diffusion of musical knowledge;” music was in a constant process of emancipation from the confines of elite culture into the lives of ... -
The Keyboard as Sensorium: Pedagogy, Pleasure, and Philosophies of the Body, ca. 1750-1800
Williams, Etha (2021-11-16)Denis Diderot’s famous formulation that “we are [harpsichords] endowed with feeling and memory” is but one example of a prevalent later-eighteenth-century trope that used the keyboard as a metaphor for the human body. In ... -
The Unsung Revolution: The Music of Haitian Independence, 1804–1820
Stoll, Henry (2022-06-06)When Haiti, a former French colony in the Caribbean, won its independence in 1804, it became the first nation to permanently abolish slavery. In an age of revolutions, this was revolutionary. Yet no sooner had Haiti done ...