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Role of Popular Music in Transforming Conflict

Published Date: 02 Mar 2018

17 Pages (6,777 Words)

Abstract Can popular music play a role in conflict transformation and peacebuilding? This kind of question has started to generate a great deal of debate for peacebuilding scholars and pracitioners.Â Most of the recent works have focused on the role of art as a whole without looking at particular form of art or particular genre within one form of art like music and assessing its contributions ...

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Artificial Intelligence and Approaches to Music Education

Published Date: 02 Mar 2018

24 Pages (9,370 Words)

Abstract The goal of this paper is to review the principal approaches to Music Education with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Music is a domain which requires creativity, problem-seeking and problem-solving respectively, from both learner and teacher, therefore is a challenging domain in Artificial Intelligence. It is argued that remedial intelligent tutoring-systems are inadequate for teaching a subject that requires open-ended thinking. Traditional classroom methods ...

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Ethno Musicological Analysis of Music of a Greek Sub-Culture

Published Date: 02 Mar 2018

25 Pages (9,993 Words)

Rembetika is the Greek urban song that emerged during the 20th century. The aim of this dissertation will be to approach, explore, evaluate, and compare rembetika as cultural art expression and as heritage art expression. It will explore the roots of rembetika, the historical and political forces that influenced its development, and the changes that have transformed it into what it has become today. It will ...

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Essential Skills of an Opera Singer

Published Date: 02 Mar 2018

16 Pages (6,155 Words)

In this dissertation emphasis will be placed on the marriage of three concepts namely: good voice (singing technique), musicality and acting for opera (building the character) in the training of a successful opera singer - hereafter referred to as the singer-actor. The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the essential skills that needed to be acquired by the modern opera singer. The ...

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Music, Culture and Value of Music in a Digital Future

Published Date: 02 Mar 2018

22 Pages (8,714 Words)

The uses of Music, Culture and the value of ‘free’ Music In a Digital future “We’ve lost a whole generation of kids, who grew up downloading free music from the web and cannot fathom paying for it” Abstract The past ten years have witnessed an enormous growth of musicology within the music and entertainment industry with questions concerning musical meaning and the extent to which it’s ...

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Biography of the Beatles

Published Date: 02 Mar 2018

16 Pages (6,152 Words)

Music Analysis: The Beatles Introduction So much has been said and written about the Beatles - and their story is so mythic in its sweep - that it is difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, ...

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