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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama (2022)
Thesis
Hussain, A. Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama. (Thesis). University of Salford

Portrayals of Turks in early modern cultural discourses resisted historical accuracy: Turks are represented as violent, lustful, barbaric, and despotic despite the existence of numerous seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman correspondence documents, in w... Read More about Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama.

Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact (2022)
Thesis
Dorbayani, S. Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact. (Thesis). The University of Salford

This cross-disciplinary critique of commercially available publications and releases exemplifies aspects of my practice as I have navigated through the roles of executive consultant, adviser, international songwriter and cultural diplomat over the pa... Read More about Cultural diplomacy: the role of music and creative industry in establishing dialogue and understanding for social impact.

Where do I go from here? Filmmaking for raising awareness: the plight of the Kuwaiti (Stateless) Bidoon (2022)
Thesis
Alameir, H. (2022). Where do I go from here? Filmmaking for raising awareness: the plight of the Kuwaiti (Stateless) Bidoon. (Thesis). University of Salford

This practice-based Ph.D. research investigates how drama filmmaking can be used as a tool to raise awareness on social matters, specifically the plight of the Kuwaiti (stateless) Bidoon. The originally scripted and produced 60-minute drama film, Whe... Read More about Where do I go from here? Filmmaking for raising awareness: the plight of the Kuwaiti (Stateless) Bidoon.

Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington (2022)
Thesis
Sunderland, S. (2022). Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington. (Thesis). University of Salford

This practice-led PhD explores the role of mimicry (simulation, impersonation, imitation) in the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington. It evaluates mimicry both as a feminist critical technique and as a form of ca... Read More about Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington.

The baritone horn : an exploration of historical and contemporary repertoire (2022)
Thesis
Richardson, R. The baritone horn : an exploration of historical and contemporary repertoire. (Dissertation). University of Salford

The title of this portfolio, ‘The Baritone Horn: An exploration of historical and contemporary repertoire’, represents the mission behind the three projects that make up my course of study. The aim behind these is to enhance the status of the barit... Read More about The baritone horn : an exploration of historical and contemporary repertoire.

Participatory design process engaging intergenerational cohorts: using value elicitation to co-create interactive media experience (2022)
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Pialorsi, V. Participatory design process engaging intergenerational cohorts: using value elicitation to co-create interactive media experience. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis explores the inclusive design challenges of engaging intergenerational participants (IGP) in a participatory design process. The IGP comprise a paired generation, grandparent (aged 65 and over) and grandchild (4-6-years-old), leveraging t... Read More about Participatory design process engaging intergenerational cohorts: using value elicitation to co-create interactive media experience.

Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television (2022)
Thesis
Nelson, T. (2022). Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television. (Thesis). University of Salford

This interdisciplinary original research engages with the fields of TV documentary production, children’s television, historiography, and the pedagogy of history teaching. From this large field, I am taking what is necessary for my research as a prac... Read More about Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television.

The Distin legacy : the rise of the brass band in 19th-century Britain (2021)
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Farr, R. The Distin legacy : the rise of the brass band in 19th-century Britain. (Thesis). University of Salford

Throughout the nineteenth century the brass band movement emerged as part of the larger processes of social, cultural and political change, and the rapid progress of industrialization. The growth of the movement was determined, most significantly, by... Read More about The Distin legacy : the rise of the brass band in 19th-century Britain.

‘As I cannot write’: transforming perceived barriers to autobiographical writing through the use of experimental writing practices (2021)
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practices. (Thesis). University of Salford

Conventional approaches to autobiography assume access to memory, personal history and a coherent sense of self which is stable through time. These assumptions disadvantage those who have difficulties with writing for reasons such as cognitive impair... Read More about ‘As I cannot write’: transforming perceived barriers to autobiographical writing through the use of experimental writing practices.

Performance Portfolio (2021)
Thesis
Hamami, M. Performance Portfolio. (Thesis). University of Salford

Arabic music continues to struggle to reach an international presence in the music world due to one of two reasons: either it was not transcribed and notated properly, including stylistically correct ornamentation, or it was never written down at a... Read More about Performance Portfolio.

Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing (2021)
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Barnes, E. (2021). Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis argues that Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), Tekahionwake (E. Pauline Johnson) and Mary Kawena Pūku’i mobilise literary representations of more-than-human beings – plants, animals, and the land – to express resistance to the gendered... Read More about Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing.

Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art (2021)
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Ellis, R. Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art. (Thesis). University of Salford

Gallery film and video installation have been figured within a discourse on the phenomenological subject, the avant-garde and its relation to the gallery as a site of political and cultural activity, and with respect to medium specificity. A question... Read More about Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art.

Yoruba Opera: A practice-based research enquiry into the idea of vocal composition in a non-European cultural framework. (2021)
Thesis
Oyewale, A. Yoruba Opera: A practice-based research enquiry into the idea of vocal composition in a non-European cultural framework. (Thesis). University of Salford

Yòrùbá professional traditional musicians and performers have been making music persistently for centuries. Therefore, in this project, I will investigate and explore their context, process and methods of compositions and put it to practise in perfor... Read More about Yoruba Opera: A practice-based research enquiry into the idea of vocal composition in a non-European cultural framework..

The biology of heavy metal : evolutionary links between science and culture (2021)
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Skeech, M. The biology of heavy metal : evolutionary links between science and culture. (Thesis). University of Salford

The modern landscape of heavy metal can be seen as a splintered and interconnected mass of seemingly disparate styles and sub-styles. Literature that examines the history and culture of this music is increasingly common, but musicological study into... Read More about The biology of heavy metal : evolutionary links between science and culture.

Salt in winter : a fictionalized biography with critical reflections (2021)
Thesis
Garbutt, J. (2021). Salt in winter : a fictionalized biography with critical reflections. (Thesis). University of Salford

This practice-based thesis comprises a novel exploring the life and legacy of 16th century philanthropist Henry Smith, with critical reflections on the research foundational to the creative text. The novel is a biographical work that argues for ficti... Read More about Salt in winter : a fictionalized biography with critical reflections.

Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon (2021)
Thesis
Kugler, K. (2021). Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon. (Thesis). University of Salford

Simon Amstell, Kevin Bridges, Billy Connolly, Adam Hills, Michael McIntyre, and Sarah Millican are not only well-known stand-up comedians in the United Kingdom, but they have also all written autobiographies, with the majority becoming bestsellers. C... Read More about Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon.

New perspectives : a reappraisal of the lap steel guitar (2021)
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Buckley, S. New perspectives : a reappraisal of the lap steel guitar. (Dissertation). University of Salford

As a critical study accompanying a creative project which involves composition, rearrangement and recording featuring my work as a performer on lap steel guitar, New Perspectives is invested in both a historical consideration of the role of the instr... Read More about New perspectives : a reappraisal of the lap steel guitar.

The cyclical, reciprocal relationship between funk drumming and the hip-hop technologist (2021)
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Walker, S. The cyclical, reciprocal relationship between funk drumming and the hip-hop technologist. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis seeks to reveal the cyclical and reciprocal nature of the relationship between live drummers, DJs, and beat producers (hip-hop technologists), illustrating the ways that these artists have continued to inform and inspire one another to ev... Read More about The cyclical, reciprocal relationship between funk drumming and the hip-hop technologist.