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Lived residencies, experiential learning and thick geographies: how artists produce knowledge(s) in the social studio
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-25)This practice-based research articulates how contemporary artists learn from their peers and others within social studio, or group, artists’ residency (SSAR), and ways in which the disruption of one’s habitus contributes ... -
Lives of the interview: the development of the artist interview in twentieth-century Britain and the United States
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-21)This thesis examines interviews with artists in Britain and the United States, mapping changes in their form, function and status over the twentieth century, and highlighting Transatlantic connections. The modern meaning ... -
“How can you have music therapy without humour?!”: a phenomenologically informed arts-based reflexive study exploring humour in music therapy with persons living with dementia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-22)In music therapy practice, humour is closely linked to playfulness and play and is largely taken for granted by music therapists. Despite music therapists’ anecdotal interest, to date there has been little in-depth focus ... -
Collecting practice and institutional legacy of Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)The aim of this thesis is to advance the study of the history of collecting through the reassessment of an underestimated exemplar in the fields of culture and philanthropy. The examination of Bliss's motivation, methods, ... -
Playing no solo imagination: synthesising the rhythmic emergence of sound and sign through embodied drum kit performance and writing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)This practice-based PhD explores musical imagination by examining the relationships of embodied musical performance and writing. The submission comprises audio recordings of original musical material and accompanying ... -
Becoming a composer: a portfolio of musical compositions documenting the development of a fluent composition practice incorporating formalist and intuitive methodologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-18)This portfolio consists of nine compositions accompanied by live and reference recordings of the works. The compositions span a wide variety of instrumentations ranging from solo piano, string quartet, ensemble, choir and ... -
Make belief: the art of inventing religions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-16)Attention has recently turned, within the study of New Religious Movements, to the phenomenon of invented religions. Invented religions import transmedial works of speculative fiction from art and popular culture and ... -
Women’s still life in London, Paris and the spaces between, 1900-1939
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-16)This thesis is a feminist and queer study of the ways in which gender, subjectivity, domesticity and the cultures of interior space were articulated, interrogated and renegotiated by early twentieth century women artists. ... -
Re-contextualization of culturally fused musical signifiers within a contemporary creative practice via means of transcription and mimicry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-15)LIST OF WORKS: Title #1: Shoggoth. Duration: 11’. Instrumentation: Clarinet, Piano, Violin. Date Completed: 2017 (Rev. 2020). Date of 1st Performance: 04/09/2020. Title #2: Assimilation/Dissimulation. Duration: 13’. ... -
Reassembling Antonio Rodríguez's Colección general de los trages de España (1801-1804): Spanish costume books and sartorial knowledge networks in the early nineteenth century
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-14)In the six decades between 1777 and 1836, five costume books – collections of prints depicting modes of dress worn by one or multiple groups in society – were published in Madrid. These works were a turning point for ... -
Joseph Beuys's non-objective works on paper, in the Artist Rooms collection
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-08)This thesis is a study of non-objective works on paper by the German artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) selected from the one hundred and six original works on paper in the ARTIST ROOMS collection, owned and managed jointly ... -
Investigating digital campaigns on new developments in Edinburgh's Historic Centre: online discourses and sense of place
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-07)This thesis explores the attitudes and relations created by digital communications and social media interactions, this is done using qualitative methods, in opposition to the quantitative ones most used to research data ... -
Association in Creative Idea Generation: a black box dissertation staged in lyric inquiry and glass concepts
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-28)The central argument of this thesis is two-fold: that association, in various modes, is one key to creative ideation; and that using a lyric inquiry with modes of association can aid in generating ideas for creative practice. ... -
Bring the world together one note at a time': a qualitative study of intercultural practice and identity development of musicians
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-22)Musicians face particular communication and identity challenges when working with music and people from other cultural groups. Those challenges impede efforts to promote intergroup projects and rapport. Intercultural ... -
Artes': mythologising reality in interwar Lwów (1929-1935)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-22)This thesis is the first extensive, English-language account of ‘artes’, a group of artists, architects, and graphic designers living and working in the borderland city of Lwów, Poland between the First and Second World ... -
Towards a theory of Chopin's large-scale forms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)Chopin’s large-scale compositions occupy a peculiar, uneasy position in nineteenth-century repertoire. On one hand, works such as the Second Piano Sonata (Op. 35), with its famous ‘Funeral March’ movement, have become ... -
Affordance of Scotland’s pre-war schools in the provision of twenty-first century learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)The launch of the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland has resulted in an extensive school building programme to rebuild or refurbish local authority schools nationwide. The Scottish Government has vowed to improve ... -
Moving knowledges: towards a speculative Arab art residency proto-history
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)Art residencies are initiatives offering temporary living and working space for artists and researchers outside of their usual environments. Since the 1990s these spaces have expanded exponentially on a global scale. ... -
Cellular and molecular anatomy of the mammalian neuromuscular junction in health and disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-07)The vast diversity across the animal kingdom and in particular within the class of mammals is not only of evolutionary interest, but also plays an important role in framing the context of research in which mammalian ... -
Beyond Formalism: developing dramaturgy as the basis for a freer formal expression in music related to the natural world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-24)Having as a background the unique Bulgarian folk music with its irregular rhythms, and the system of the East European and Middle Eastern maqams, as well as the traditions of central European music, these compositions ...
