Browsing 2019 Theses (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Musicology (UMKC)"

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  • Cuban Women in Music: a Case Study of Ernestina Lecuona 

    Head, Po Sim (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, ...

  • A Night at the Opera: Performance, Theatricality, and Identity in the Music of Queen 

    Odell, Grace Kate (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 

    Jurkiewicz, MIchelle (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 ...