Timing och sväng är begrepp som återkommit frekvent i min musikutbildning. Min upplevelse är att ämnet är viktigt, men att det samtidigt saknas forskning på området. Studien syftar till att få en djupare insikt i hur pianopedagoger definierar begreppen timing och sväng samt hur de ser på undervisning när det gäller dessa. Jag är intresserad av att hitta didaktiska redskap och metoder för att på ett konkret sätt kunna tillämpa timing och sväng i pianoundervisningen.Undersökningen genomfördes med hjälp av en kvalitativ intervju-form där jag intervjuade fyra pianopedagoger, med inriktning jazz, verksamma på olika musikhögskolor och konservatorier. Resultatet visar, enligt respondenternas tolkning, att timing och sväng spelar en viktig roll i musiken i stort.

The essay explores nationalism in the curriculum of the swedish school from 1878 to 1994. The text has been undertaken an analysis in three levels of discourse based on Norman Faircloughs critical language analysis. The first level is the text, the second is types of discourses and the third is order of discourse.The nationalism in the curriculum has been related to three nationalistic types of discourses, derived from earlier studies on Swedish nationalism. They are conservative nationalism, ?folkhemsnationalism? and contemporary nationalism.

AbstractPilo, Joakim: George Gershwin och den symfoniska jazzen. Etablering av ett musikidiom. - Uppsala: Musikvetenskap ht 1998. - 60p. Hur kommer det sig att den musikaliska kombinationen mellan seriös konstmusik och populära inslag företrädesvis jazz, kunde vara så pass framgångsrik? Den frågan ligger till grund för uppsatsen, där huvudsyftet är att visa hur den amerikanska tonsättaren George Gershwin (1898-1937)  med Rhapsody In Blue (1924) lyckades etablera ett musikidiom, symfonisk jazz.

In Sweden, discussions about artistic freedom are common both in a political and media context. At the same time, the role of contemporary art in Sweden?s society continues to grow and contemporary art has become more visible to the public. In the present work, we analyze the ?artistic freedom? concept by examining what it stands for and how it is being used.

This thesis concerns the term contemporary history and its role in landscape architecture. Today?s contemporary history is defined as the planning and architecture connected to the 60s and 70s, in Sweden carried out as a large scale planning project called ?Miljonprogrammet?, which set out to build one million new residences in ten years. Initially, the term contemporary history and its complex of problem are examined. To deepen the picture of today?s situation, a historical review has been made, starting in early 1900s ending in 2000s concerning how different planning and architectural influences has varied through the years.

This research looks into the modern revival of opera based on the study of two recent productions of Giuseppe Verdi?s Don Carlo; the first is the 2010 production at the Gothenburg Opera in Gothenburg, Sweden and the second is the 2013 production at Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg, Austria. The goal is to discover what aspects a contemporary audience can relate to and identify with and why opera is still relevant today. This has been done partly through a semiotic analysis of the visual image (e.g. set, costume and lightning) and partly through a hermeneutical analysis of the themes in Don Carlo.

Swedish films are often based on the genres romance and comedy. The films dealing with relations and comedy can almost be seen as a genre of its own. The composition of the complex relation between the audience and the genre is the primary research focus of this thesis. With the teoretical ground in intertextuality, sociology and romances the thesis examines three relations in three different films. The films english titles are, Adam & Eva, Making Babies, and Double Shift.

Drawing from the theoretical foundations of the ?critical theory? of the Frankfurt School and the media ethnographic ?cultural studies? approach of the british Birmingham School, this study attempts to sketch out a media theoretical overview of the contemporary state of media culture. Using the term convergence culture as the foundation, this study offers a theoretical background to the two contemporary streams that are the significant and distinct tendencies of convergence culture: intermedial convergence, its contemporary state and historical tendencies that can be traced back using the past media theoretical approach of the Frankfurt School, and cultural convergence, its contemporary state and historical tendencies, which lineage in a media theoretical context can be traced back to the british ethographic ?cultural studies? field. Using contemporary drama serials to identify and pinpoint these two stream, this study shows how intermedial convergence expresses itself today through media conglomeration in terms of branding, product placement and marketing as the result of the ?completed? convergence between screen culture and popular music as the current defining state of commodity culture.

Syftet med mitt projektarbete är att undersöka hur frånvaron av ackordsinstrument påverkarmusikerna och musiken i en liten jazzsättning. Först intervjuades några basister för att ta reda på hurde tänker när de spelar med denna sättning. Sedan analyserade jag lite av musiken i ensembler utanackordsinstrument. Jag utvecklade mitt eget spelsätt för att tydligt kunna framhäva harmoniken.Genom repetitioner med en jazztrio kunde jag belysa mina frågor: Vad händer med dynamiken ochdrivet? Vad händer med rollerna i ensemblen? Hur kan man hålla spelningen intressant? Vad händermed musikernas frihet? Något oväntat så visade det sig att det var drivet som påverkades mest.Dessutom kom man inte undan med lika mycket ?fulspel? som man kan göra i en vanlig sättning.

AbstractThis research is about how some swedish teachers in high school choose literature in schools. The purpose is to underline the reasons for how some teachers think about selection, canon, classic and contemporary literature. Two survey methods were used to find the answers, wich consisted of interviews and questionnaires. The letter methods was used to obtain informations about student´s views on literature.Previous research shows that there are different opinions in what kind of literature the pupils should read in school. The results of literature, questionnaires and interviews also showed that the underlying reasons for the choice of literature, varied among those interviewed further forward ofthe students also prefer to read books during lessons, and that they prefer reading books by popular contemporary writers..

This addresses the problems when a film doesn?t easily fit in to one specific genre. Using No Country for Old Men as an example the study analyses the film from a Western perspective. Is it possible to say that it is a western? To determine that, I compare a number of acknowledged westerns, on the basis to list a number of generic conventions.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the religious testimony in the following works of the Swedish poet Majken Johansson (1930-1993): Liksom överlämnad (1965), Omtal (1969) and Från Magdala. Fragment ur en självbiografi (1972). A part of the purpose is also to investigate how Johansson phrases this testimony using a contemporary aesthetics. The thesis also studies how her works were received by the contemporary critics. The result shows that they tended to deprecate Johansson?s religiosity but were generally appreciative when it came to her poems.

Fokus på basens roll i musik. Hur används instrumentet i ensemblen? Vad händer om basens roll utvecklas och hittar nya ytor i gruppen? Ett arbete om skapa musik med influenser från jazz och fusion som sätter basen i nytt ljus..

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the Swedish Plymouth brethren?s relation to contemporary technology. What types of technology are considered acceptable and where do they draw the line? Due to the brethren?s separation from the parts of the world they believe leads people away from God, such as the entertainment industry, immoralities etc., they reject use of television and radio. These two are viewed as uncontrolled types of technology since the user does not have control of its contents.

ABORT ?n GO is a design project within the crossing boundaries of Critical Design and IndustrialDesign.The contemporary discourse on abortion is problematic, and infected by double norms. Thesenorms may cause feelings of guilt and shame in women who have an abortion. The abortion rightis built upon conflicting standpoints; one is that women have right to have an abortion, withoutbeing questioned. Second is the notion that abortion is something that should be avoided, implyingthat you?ve done something wrong if you have had an abortion.With this project and physical product I want to explore and discuss the contemporary discourseon abortion in Sweden.