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Whose Worship? An Examination of Women’s Gendered Experiences in the Contemporary Worship Music Industry
No full textFor Evangelical Christians in North America, the contemporary worship music industry is the primary source of music for radio play, private devotion, and Sunday morning worship services (Ingalls 2018). As the industry has developed, it has become increasingly difficult for women to pursue musical leadership (Loepp Thiessen 2022). This dissertation examines women's gendered experiences in the contemporary worship music ecosystem. Though they face spiritualized limitations, women in the industry contribute through a range of both public facing and concealed roles. Through 22 qualitative interviews with women songwriters, worship leaders, and industry professionals, I examine the factors that dictate their experiences both of limitation and of finding empowerment. The concept of “gendered stages” (McCusker 2017) is used to organize the different facets of women’s experiences: setting the stage (Chapter 3) by exploring their leadership in the early days of the industry; “on stage” (Chapter 4) as worship leaders, instrumentalists, or background vocalists, “off stage” (Chapter 5) as songwriters, producers, or audio/visual supports; and when they have been monitored on stage (Chapter 6) for their gender and sexuality, sometimes resulting in exclusion from the industry. I present case studies of women in each of these stages, interrogating how Evangelical values intertwine with women's careers and personal lives. Ultimately, this project builds upon literature which interrogates questions of agency and empowerment in conservative religious contexts (Avishai 2008, Burke 2012), and explores how women in the Christian music industry thrive in spaces that present limitations
Movement and Memory: Dance Archives and the Implications for Archival Appraisal
No full textThis thesis investigates the state of dance archives in Canada, focusing on collections held in the community. The research is exploratory in nature and uses an ethnographic approach to explore the state of the field and engage with people in the dance community to understand the perspectives and practices of people who create, care for, and use records of dance. This thesis investigates two central questions: how archives are used, and the challenges of documenting and archiving dance. Three complementary data collection methods are used to investigate these questions: a scoping review of publications in the field, a survey of community records and practices, and interviews with individual practitioners. This thesis demonstrates how the ephemeral nature of dance impacts its documentation, the importance of embodied knowledge, and the challenges communities face with regards to their archives. Dance archives also raise questions about the nature of the record, appraisal responsibility, and the connection between appraisal and acquisition.
Cette thèse présente une enquête sur l'état des archives de la danse au Canada, en se concentrant sur les collections conservées dans la communauté. La recherche est de nature exploratoire, utilisant une approche ethnographique pour explorer l'état du domaine et s'engager avec des individus dans la communauté de la danse pour comprendre les points de vue et les pratiques de ceux qui créent, conservent et utilisent les archives de la danse. Cette thèse examine deux questions centrales : les usages des archives et les défis de la documentation et de l'archivage de la danse. Trois méthodes complémentaires de collecte de données sont utilisées pour répondre à ces questions : une analyse des publications dans le domaine, un sondage sur les archives et les pratiques communautaires, et des entretiens avec des praticiens individuels. Cette thèse démontre l'impact de la nature éphémère de la danse sur sa documentation, l'importance de la connaissance incarnée et les défis auxquels les communautés sont confrontées en ce qui concerne leurs archives. Les archives de la danse soulèvent également des questions sur la nature du document, la responsabilité de l'évaluation archivistique et le lien entre l'évaluation et l'acquisition
Escaping The Binaural-Dimension: A Theoretical and Methodological Approach to Discussing and Analyzing Gender and Personae In Popular Music
No full textStandardized binaries can be found throughout the musicological and musical corpus, often pinning concepts between two oppositional poles: this is especially true in discussions of gender. The systems that are in place do not provide the necessary tools to discuss non-heteronormative gender identities, usually avoiding these subjects completely or enforce conventional binaries unto these queer artists. The objective of this paper is to develop a theoretical and methodological framework that will allow researchers to analyze and approach the topic of gender identity when examining popular musicians and their artistic personae. For this specific study, I will be applying these concepts unto a case study of Dorian Electra’s “My Agenda.” By doing this, I will be able to show the effectiveness of adopting a nonbinary approach when analyzing personae and their gender states.
The following multimodal analysis explores the tracks musical and lyrical construction, its intertextual references, and proposes a theoretical framework which centres artists within space and time. Exploring a variety of topics including hyperpop, meme culture, Alex Jones, alt-right conspiracy theories, and gay frogs, the analysis shines light unto how contemporary popular musicians are using memes in the construction of their personae and its gender expression
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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