This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Popular Music & Culture, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
“Fashionable to be Ethnic”: Malka Marom, Yorkville Reimagined, and the CBC’s A World Of Music, Maureen Chow
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
"Dance like nobody's paying": Spotify and Surveillance as the Soundtrack of Our Lives, T. Andrew Braun
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
'Calling Out From Some Old Familiar Shrine': Living Archivism and Age Performativity in Bob Dylan's Late Period, Matthew Lipson
"I Need to Fight the Power, But I Need that New Ferrari": Conspicuous Consumption, New-School Hip-hop and "the New Rock & Roll", Emmett H. Robinson Smith
The Elements of Production: Myth, Gender, and the "Fundamental Task" of Producing Popular Music, Lydia Wilton
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Girls, Rock Your Boys: Female Tribute Acts and the Reclamation of Rock, Sandra J. Canosa
"Whatever I Want:" Death Grips, Disobedience and the Music Industries, Grant M. Hawkins
Establishing Female Resistance as Tradition in Country Music: Towards a More Refined Discourse, Catherine Keron
Not In "Isolation": Joy Division and Cultural Collaborators in Popular Music, Briana E. Morley
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Game Scoring: Towards a Broader Theory, Mack Enns
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Covers Uncovered: A History of the "Cover Version," from Bing Crosby to the Flaming Lips, Sean Dineley
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Treasuries of Subcultural Capital: Three Indie Institutions in the London, Ontario Independent-Music Scene, Samuel C. Allen
The Halifax Pop Explosion: Music Scenes, Sloan, And The Case For A Halifax Sound, Danielle Hamel
“The Future is Medieval”: Orality and Musical Borrowing in the Middle Ages and Online Remix Culture, Claire E. McLeish
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"Rap is easy, career is the hard part:" analyzing success, longevity and failure within the framework of the hip-hop career, Christopher R. White