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Item Interactivity in Game Audio: Instances in Which Listening Improves a Player's Gameplay(2017-12) Thompson, RyanOccasionally, video game developers utilize game audio as a means to communicate gameplay-related information to the player. In these instances, actively listening to the audio improves a players gameplay by providing them with knowledge they would not otherwise possess. This dissertation is a series of case studies exploring a few of these types of situations. Sometimes this information conveys details about an enemy position, or an enemy type; other times, information gleaned by listening to the audio is pointed towards spectators or newer players. In every case, these communication channels speak to broader trends in the video game industry moving forward.Item Teutonic time-slip: travels in electronic music, technology, and German identity, 1968-2009(2013-04) Nye, Sean Culhane"Teutonic Time-Slip" traces intersections between popular electronic music and German identity from 1968 to 2009, examining identity representations in electronic music both as cultural export and import. Broadly speaking, it traces the transformation of Germany's reputation as a nation of classical music to a nation of electronic music. Its history begins with the forming of Krautrock bands amidst the cultural shifts of 1968 and ends with the self-reflective, though fractured, position of German electronic music in 2009, twenty years after German unification. The project demonstrates that electronic music, often considered a purely international music of the computer age, has represented new forms of regional, national, and European identities both within Germany and abroad. Furthermore, the dissertation examines both the construction and political-social critique of German identity through electronic music. It focuses on how German electronic pop emerged in the constant exchange with two distinct musical traditions: first, pop and rock cultures in the United Kingdom and the United States; and second, German classical music and avant-garde electronic music. Finally, as an American scholar, I frame the cultural constellations of musical sound, modern travel, technology, and performance with an examination of constructions of contemporary Germany identity that have been central to the cultural exchange between the United States and Germany.