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A Night at the Opera: Performance, Theatricality, and Identity in the Music of Queen
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Many discussions of the rock band Queen (vocalist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian
May, drummer Roger Taylor, and bassist John Deacon) reference their theatricality, yet few
analyze what makes Queen’s music and ...
The Otaku Lifestyle: Examining Soundtracks in the Anime Canon
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Japanese animation, or anime, has been popular around the globe for the last sixty years.
Anime has its own fan culture in the United States known as otaku, or the obsessive lifestyle
surrounding manga and anime, which ...
Cuban Women in Music: a Case Study of Ernestina Lecuona
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Cuba, with only a short history as an independent nation, was under Spain’s control
for over five hundred years. As an exporter of sugar and agricultural products, Spain brought
to the island African slave laborers, ...