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161 Glass: Site Specific Music in an Artistic Context

Description: The composition 161 Glass is a 17-minute musical work with percussion, wind and brass instruments in which the intersection of mid-century architecture, and the art and culture of a dynamic city are inextricably linked. Through this paper, I explore the process of composing a musical work in relationship to the significance of site specific context. The paper begins by defining the concept of site specific art works; then reviews the discourse of the intersection of art, music and architecture.… more
Date: May 2010
Creator: Rusnak, Christina S.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[8th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance, Rhythm and Soul of a People - Workshop with Stella Morris Dance Ensemble]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 8th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance, Rhythm and Soul of a People event in 2012. This video features a workshop with Stella Morris Dance Ensemble in preparation for the event.
Date: March 3, 2012
Duration: 22 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Waller, Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[8th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance, Rhythm and Soul of a People - Workshop with Stella Morris Dance Ensemble]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 8th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance, Rhythm and Soul of a People event in 2012. This video features a workshop with Stella Morris Dance Ensemble in preparation for the event. The video cuts at 30:07 then cuts back to workshop at 46:14. The video cuts at 1:26:25.
Date: March 3, 2012
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Waller, Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[8th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance, Workshop with Dereque Whiturs]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 8th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance event in 2012. This video features a workshop with Dereque Whiturs in preparation for the event.
Date: March 3, 2012
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Waller, Alonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[9th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 9th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance event. Performances of various interpretive dances by Stella Maris Dance Ensemble of Jamaica and the Black Academy Dance Ensemble. Hosted at the Naomi Bruton Main Stage in 2013.
Date: 2013-02-22/2013-02-23
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Evans, Tracy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[9th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance: Rhythm and Soul of a People]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 9th Annual Weekend Festival of Black Dance: Rhythm and Soul of a People event. Performances of various interpretive dances by Stella Maris Dance Ensemble of Jamaica and the Black Academy Dance Ensemble. Hosted at the Naomi Bruton Main Stage in 2013.
Date: 2013-02-22/2013-02-23
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 59 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Act Like a Punk, Sing Like a Feminist: A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Feminist Themes in Punk Rock Song Lyrics, 1970-2009

Description: Punk rock music has long been labeled sexist as copious media-generated accounts and reports of the genre concentrate on male artists, hyper-masculine performances, and lyrics considered to be aggressive, sexist, and misogynist. However, scholars have rarely examined punk rock music longitudinally, focusing heavily on 1980s and 1990s manifestations of the genre. Furthermore, few systematic content analyses of feminist themes in punk rock song lyrics have been conducted. The present research is … more
Date: May 2015
Creator: Levine, Lauren E.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Aesthetics in the Popular Culture

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to consider three opposing statements regarding aesthetics in our popular culture. The first statement is that the youth of this age are demolishing the old standards of aesthetic taste and are creating a nonaesthetic; the second statement is that the youth are enlarging the vision and scope of the accepted standard of aesthetic and changing its direction; the thrid statement is that the creations of the youth in our popular culture of today are neither new nor non… more
Date: May 1968
Creator: Holland, Barbara
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[Art Smart article, April 9, 1995]

Description: An article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram written by Clara Herrera. The article covers Brandon Lewis and other students in art classes and the logistics behind what courses are available to them.
Date: April 9, 1995
Creator: Herrera, Clara G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Artistic Expression in Music and Poetry

Description: This paper delineates meaningful relationships of passions, emotions, feelings, affections, nuances and aural perceptions of expressions and utterances, for understanding human artistic possibilities historically and contemporarily in the fraternal arts of music and poetry, with reference to sounds, silences, sequences, rhythms, rhymes, repetitions, retards, accelerations, tempos, harmonies, melodies, forms, etc., in four poetic and three musical compositions uniquely created by its author.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Wertz, Charles Bradley
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Attitude Assessment of Amateur Musicians in Adult Community Bands

Description: The purpose of this study was to ascertain certain factors which lead adults to participate in community band activity. This study attempted to answer the following questions: 1. What are the factors of rewards for community band participants based on the responses of a selected sample to validated attitude statements? 2. What are the relationships that might exist between certain demographic characteristics of the sample such as age, gender, education, occupation, musical training, geographic … more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Spencer, William David, 1952-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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