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Doyle, Robert C. "In the Public Domain: Musical Performance as Social Communication in a Folkloric Context," Bowling Green State University, December 1987. Advisor: William E. Grant (10, 2, 15)
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of folkloric, ethnomusicological, and communication social phenomena in American musical culture. Based on the theoretical positions of folklorist Samuel P. Bayard, ethnographer Henry Glassie, enthnomusicologists Marcia Herndon, Norma McCleod, Tim Rice and others, it represents a step in the search for a clearer understanding of how and why folkloric lifeways in the Anglo-American tradition remain a vital component of modern American culture. The project pilots a conceptual synthesis of folklore, ethnomusicology, and communication ethnography and suggests that musical performance is a multi-channeled, dynamic, ongoing, symbolic process of communication which influences not only the tradition’s inner aesthetic values but reflects the individual tradition-bearer’s self-worth and his or her community folkway value systems as well.
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