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For centuries, Vienna has always had a reputation of being a musical city. Even when national and regional styles of composition developed in various European countries, one cannot doubt that Vienna remained an important ...

Modern wind conductors face the perennial problem of searching for quality repertoire to perform with their ensembles. The comparison is often made between the quality of repertoire available to bands versus orchestras, ...

The purpose of this thesis is to provide imagery related to research, technical drawings, renderings, models, and other materials that document the visual design process of La Finta Giardiniera at the University of Maryland, ...

For the past few decades, there has been a marked rise of interest and advocacy in music composed by women. Yet, the early vocal ensemble music by historical women composers is still scarcely performed in concert halls. ...

The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction studies how globalization has transformed our relationship with scale and creates a problem of representation in fiction. After the Second World War, new geopolitical, economic, ...

In Europe during the long nineteenth century, despite being relegated to the private sphere and excluded from the realms of national and international politics, women were increasingly exposed to the effects of global ...

In the spring of 1968, over six thousand poor people—black, chicano, white, Puerto Rican, and Native American from rural areas to urban centers—converged on Washington, D.C. to call attention to poverty and inequality in ...

This dissertation explores how white woman character tropes on stage, page, and screen are both haunted by histories of post-Civil War racial terror and themselves haunt white women’s everyday embodiment. This spectral ...

The central question of, what is womanhood? anchors this work. Within that wondering and examination is research into feminism, in conversation with rock and roll and 1980s MTV, gender studies, queer studies, and dance ...

Between 1968 and present, members of the Maryland Province of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDN) participated in radical peace activity. These sisters cultivated a distinct religious identity and used the all-woman ...