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Title: Cycles, Soundscapes, An Electronic Musician’s Guide to Kinetic Sound Sculpture: The Conceptual Development of Cycles, Cycles and Soundscapes, Sound Sculpture and Electronic Music
Description: Consists of the Music 495 Senior Project proposal and the products of the project including the program from the public performance, movies, photos, music and text.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3859

Title: Dona nobis pacem, Ensemble recital
Description: Program from concert on December 9, 2006, with works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Britten, Tormis and Gorecki.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:3480

Title: Landscapes of affect : exploring the concept of safe space and identity formation at Grinnell College, Exploring the concept of safe space and identity formation at Grinnell College
Description: Explores issues of identity formation at Grinnell College during the years 2007-2010 during which time several homophobic incidents took place.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:3418

Title: Managing the Faithful: The Internal Labor Market of the Roman Catholic Church, Internal Labor Market of the Roman Catholic Church
Description: Although economists in recent years have begun to apply economic theory to the activities of religious organizations, very few have ventured deeply into the realm of the Roman Catholic Church and almost none have considered the confluence between Internal Labor Market Theory and the promotional job ladder for ordained Catholic clergyman. This analysis explores the implications of the Catholic Church’s internal promotional ladder on its level of theological flexibility and hence its ability to adjust to changing market conditions. Specifically, by treating the Catholic Church as an organization subject to many of the same market forces as ordinary business firms, the research presented in this analysis shows how much of the “crisis” the church is confronting in the modern era—such as the rapid decline in the number of priests—can be explained by microeconomic structures that have developed over the past two millennia. At the broadest level, this analysis offers a new paradigm for viewing resistance to change in the church and provides a model for understanding the long-term implications of inflexibility on the viability of the church as an institution.
PID: grinnell:31983

Title: Music and Metaphor: Legacies of Representation in Abstract Instrumental Music, Legacies of representation in abstract instrumental music
Description: Understanding why critics’ responses to Beethoven and to Schoenberg were so different lies in recognizing the commonality of the critics’ approaches.
Date Created: 2007
PID: grinnell:114

Title: New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the critique of neoliberalism, Film and the critique of neoliberalism
Description: In 1992, B. Ruby Rich coined the term New Queer Cinema to describe a cycle of films in the late 1980s and early 1990s that broke with conventional cinematic practices to show rethought subjectivities, generic subversions, and revised histories. New Queer Cinema, however, saw little of the same bursts of innovative directors and their films after 1992. This lag in revolutionary filmmaking left many evaluating queer cinema’s current state, even mourning the supposed end of New Queer Cinema. In this paper, I argue that queer filmmaking is not void of revolutionary potential; it is more that the driving force behind these films has changed. Instead of acting in opposition to a conservative government that failed to respond to the AIDS crisis, current queer work resists the normalizing effects of today’s neoliberal government. A cycle study of recent queer films reveals this driving revolutionary force.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:3419

Title: Objectivity, Authority, and Truth: Confirming a Homosexual Identity in Lesbian and Gay Fights for Asylum, Confirming a Homosexual Identity in Lesbian and Gay Fights for Asylum
Description: By not specifically citing sexual minorities in the Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the U.N. relegates to individual states the power to decide how they will treat their lesbian and gay citizens.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:168