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Space Oddities for the Age of Space Tourism
Author Info
Lupro, Michael Mooradian
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1239723528
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2009, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies/Communication.
Abstract
This research focuses on musical representations of space in the context of the nascent space tourism industry. The argument contextualizes music as a political practice, one that conceptually constructs spaces and thus could intervene in the colonization of space as produced, largely discursively so far, by transnational entertainment corporations. I specifically focus on the musical texts “Space Oddity” by David Bowie, “Rocketman” by Elton John, and “Space is the Place” by Sun Ra as examples of interventions and revisions of dominant space discourse. Methodologically, the production and reception processes of popular music are used as a template for generating analyses of how particular musical texts might intersect with other culture industry productions such as space tourism. The research concludes that popular music has the capacity to help keep space open for multiplicity, diversity, equity, and, if need be, resistance.
Committee
Donald McQuarie, PhD (Committee Chair)
Ellen Berry, PhD (Committee Member)
Jeremy Wallach, PhD (Committee Member)
Lynn Pearson, PhD (Other)
Pages
180 p.
Subject Headings
Aerospace Materials
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American Studies
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Communication
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Geography
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Mass Media
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Motion Pictures
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Music
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Science History
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Social Structure
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Technology
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Transportation
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Urban Planning
Keywords
Space
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Tourism
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Space Tourism
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Popular Music
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Space Oddity
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Rocketman
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Space is the Place
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Lupro, M. M. (2009).
Space Oddities for the Age of Space Tourism
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1239723528
APA Style (7th edition)
Lupro, Michael.
Space Oddities for the Age of Space Tourism.
2009. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1239723528.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Lupro, Michael. "Space Oddities for the Age of Space Tourism." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1239723528
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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