When intimacy is mentioned in music reviews, daily speech, and research on music—when
a voice or other sound is described as “intimate,” for example—it might at first be understood …

In Performance and Technological Mediation in Popular Music, the relationship between
performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence is investigated …

The definition of “rock,” as well as its splintering, disintegrating, and combining into various
subgenres, has been a constant presence in popular music studies. 1 As a result, in this …

This thesis develops a novel approach to hermeneutical popular song analysis through the
application of cognitive narrative theory. Throughout, I develop a reader-oriented model of …

One approach to studying music videos is through the framework of diegesis, which
considers the relation of sounds to narrative structure in film. Unlike most visual media …

The inevitable and natural changes brought about by technological innovationsin society
are restructuring the relationship between humans and life itself. Thisis because it is nearly …

Bruce Springsteen's run of Broadway shows was similarly hailed as “an intimate spectacle”
and “an intimate triumph”(Als 2017; Greene 2017). This rhetoric continued in the critical …

Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists' recordings and performances as
“intimate.” Yet that discourse often stops short of elucidating how a mass-produced …

This thesis concerns the importance of forming the virtual space in recorded popular music.
Several researchers have addressed the spatial aspects of recorded music, with a focus on …

In this commentary, I design, implement, and evaluate new ways of writing about art. For this
purpose, I contextualise and interrelate four video artworks that I produced between 2013 …