All Outputs (3)

The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music (2023)
Thesis
Gardner, J. A. The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

It has become commonplace today to invoke the word improvisation when discussing the soloistic melodic dimensions of the music of the kora, the twenty-one-string bridge harp of the Mande people of West Africa. Typically, the term is used to denote th... Read More about The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music.

Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique (2022)
Thesis
Campbell, R. Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research explores relationships between dyslexia and music-making through an experiential open-access web-thesis. That the project can be interpreted in multiple ways challenges conventional forms of academic knowledge production, as well as ins... Read More about Dyslexic Ways of Thinking: a reflexive study of Chopi timbila xylophone musicking in Mozambique.

Listening, Khaleeji-Style: An Exploration of Music, Power and Geopolitics in the United Arab Emirates (2020)
Thesis
Tadros, V. Listening, Khaleeji-Style: An Exploration of Music, Power and Geopolitics in the United Arab Emirates. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The Gulf States have enjoyed several decades of economic prosperity, and this prosperity (along with religious influence) has, somewhat surprisingly, lent itself to increasing cultural influence. However, whilst further contributing to the ways in wh... Read More about Listening, Khaleeji-Style: An Exploration of Music, Power and Geopolitics in the United Arab Emirates.