This study will define what the “one-hit wonder” syndrome means in the American
Hip-Hop/Pop/and RnB Industry. The “one-hit-wonder syndrome” is based on the likelihood of an
artist literally becoming a one-hit-wonder. ...
Housing nonprofits exist everywhere and each one has a different method to help its
clients obtain stable housing. Yet it is difficult to determine which methods are effective. This
project investigates how to evaluate ...
This collection of poems explores the folk ballad in both traditional and modernized forms. Inspired by the emphasis on “flash” short form writing in the Ball State University creative writing program, I sought to combine ...
The purpose of this study is to compare the gender roles evident in 19th-century opera
“mad scenes” and ascertain if those roles differ in relation to gender. This study was conducted
by examining a soprano “mad scene” ...
For decades, there has been a well-traveled path for journalists to leave the television
business and enter other career fields. But that trend seems to be greatly accelerated in recent
years as the television industry ...
The availability of comprehensive, representative sources of local news remains core to a
community’s level of civic engagement, whether in local politics and elections, community
improvement efforts, or general public ...
A Foreboding Future- The Endangered Crafts of the Artisan is an exhibition that explores
the possibilities of a world bereft of Heritage Crafts. This exhibit uses recognizable objects that
serve metaphorically for the ...
An emerging topic being taught in schools is digital literacy. Digital media and
technology have seen exponential growth and have become an essential set of skills for students
and teachers. A continued reliance on digital ...
This creative project presents a peek into the world of LGBTQ sober safe spaces in central Indiana. Growing up in a small town, environments that nurtured or encouraged identity exploration simply did not exist. Large urban ...
My story, titled Trusted Sources, is a satire comedy that follows student-reporter Joe
Millsap on his journey to understanding the harsh and dangerous realities of misinformation in
news. Joe’s producer, Nick Hardy, is ...
The tone of a cello is often the reason why people decide to play the instrument. The
right-hand controls the bow through movement in the arms, hand, and fingers. The ‘tone
triangle’ comes from the combination of bow ...
In the last twenty years, population growth in the South Bend region has been fueled by
immigrants. A significant number of these immigrants start small businesses. Yet they are not
using services available in the community ...
Harmonic motion in JS Bach’s Suite IV, BWV 1010, from his set of unaccompanied cello suites,
is interpreted in various ways in professional performances by both cellists and bassoonists.
Although polyphony is clearly ...
Childhood trauma can cause lasting problems that effect health and wellbeing.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019), 61% of adults have
had at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE) in ...
This study examines the Italian composer Luigi Nono’s proximity to extremist violence
and state oppression in the period between 1954 and 1968. American scholarship typically
analyzes Nono’s work in this time through a ...
When I was a sophomore in high school, I wrote Je suis suffisante—slightly incorrect
French for “I am enough”—over and over in my notebook, trying to hold back intrusive
thoughts. I dug myself out of this hole when I ...
Amy Beach’s Three Browning Songs are among her most well-known and popular pieces
performed by singers today. Beach herself is perhaps the most prominent female composer of the
United States in the early 20th century. ...
Arrivals / Departures is a chapbook-length collection of flash fiction connected by the
fact that all stories center around the physical displacement of their characters. Thus, my project
has travel as a thematic core. ...
This creative project presents a look at the background of Mozart’s Concerto for Bassoon
and Orchestra in B-flat Major, K. 191, its form and ornamentation. The Concerto was written in
1774 and was believed to have been ...
During the COVID-19 global pandemic, some people socially distanced, vaccinated, and
wore masks in public; Others went about in public unvaccinated and unmasked with a seemingly
reckless disregard for their own and others’ ...