Honours theses: Recent submissions
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“Can Daft Punk Play At My House?”
Published 2010-02-16This thesis analyses and discusses the tensions between sampling and copyright by posing the question: ‘Can Daft Punk Play At My House?'. It examines one particular case of music sampling - the Soulwax Shibuya Re-remix ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Semantics of ja and ye: Semantic variation in Marathi motion verbs
Published 2010-02-05Ja and ye ('go' and 'come' respectively, from the Indian language Marathi) are first semantically examined as basic verbs of physical motion. Then instances which vary from this basic 'sense' of the words are analysed with ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Typing friendship into being: vocatives in Facebook wall-to-wall conversations
Published 2010-02-03Individuals may write themselves, their communities and their friendships into being on social network sites (Sundén 2003) (boyd 2008). That is, they write themselves into being by providing information about themselves ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Primary school band programs: Attitudes of students, parents and music staff
Published 2010-01-28This study aimed to discover how primary school band programs are organised and for what reasons these instrumental ensembles are constructed as extra-curricular, curricular, or co-curricular activities. It explores what ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Karen indigenous music and dance learning in an Australian non-formal context: A case study in maintenance and transmission
Published 2010-01-21This study examines the viability of transmission and maintenance of Karen indigenous music and dance in an Australian non-formal context. Qualitative in design, the research comprised an ethnographic case study of an ...Open AccessThesis, Honours