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See a complete overview of theses and dissertations from Aarhus University . Some can only be read on the premises, some can be borrowed, some can be downloaded, etc

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Students and employees at Aarhus University can search for and get access to student projects from AU (Master's theses, Bachelor’s projects, graduate diploma) which the students have given the library permission to display. Furthermore you can find student projects from KU and RUC.

The student projects have been handed in at various fields of study at the universities.

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Aarhus University has closed for public access to online theses etc. for copyright reasons. Therefore only students and employees at AU can search for and get access to the online student projects. To get access you must be connected to either:

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The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)

October 30, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as his thesis project at the VKhUTEMAS, the art and technical School of Moscow, with Alexander Vesnin as his tutor.

The Institute is made of a series of individualized shapes embodied by clear geometrical forms – mostly rectangular boxes and a sphere – which are boldly composed together. The three main buildings of the institute are a massive library with five million books joined by the Institute of librarianship, both contained in a high-rise building; the auditorium which also functions as a planetarium and as a speaking platform for mass demonstrations, located in a huge glass sphere elevated from the floor through a metallic structure; and the actual research institute hosting the research labs, a horizontal slab, suspended, which also connects the two other buildings. The single volumes are related through the composition of two asymmetrical axes on a decentralized circular platform where both the auditorium and the library are located. The library axis is also prolonged by a straight suspended roadway leading to the city center.

An important feature of the overall design is the presence of steel cables with the double role of guy-wires in tension and radio communication antennae. The cables counterbalance the anti-gravitational effect of the highest buildings and especially that of the auditorium which appears as a hot-air balloon ready to take a flight. They also underline the idea of communication among the people working together in the institute and in the whole country.

The center was supposed to be located in Moscow, on the Lenin Hills, the highest spot in the city, just a few kilometers southwest of the Red Square. An aerial tramway with a central aerodrome and suspended roadway would have connected the institute with the center of the city while the radio station would have put it in communication with the whole country.

As to underline an era of unlimited faith in an upcoming technological world, the role of technology is formally and functionally expressed throughout the whole project, especially in the library where an automated book-delivery system with a vertical and horizontal conveyor system delivers the books directly from the stacks to the reading rooms.

The sphere is the most evolutive area: as an auditorium, it can host up to 4000 people, but it can be repartitioned through mobile suspended walls in order to contain smaller audiences. When half of the sphere is opened, and all the seats are withdrawn into the remaining half, it can also be used as a speaking platform for mass gatherings. The sphere of the Planetarium can turn into a science theater after projection screens are installed along the inside skin. A system of elevators provides access to the auditorium.

The whole institute is equipped with communication technology like telephones, radios, and remote televisual pieces of equipment so that the whole staff can work together at the same time.

Further reading : https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/03/21/ivan-leonidovs-proposal-for-the-lenin-institute-in-moscow-1927/

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June 29, 2020 at 6:27 pm

Hi there! Great essay and fantastic illustrations. I’d be keen to re-use some of the Leonidov ‘Lenin Institute’ images in academic publications. Would you be able to let me know where you sourced them from? I want to confirm that they are indeed free of copyright (or to find out who holds the copyright, so I can apply for permission/license to reproduce). Many thanks!

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Oxford theses

The Bodleian Libraries’ thesis collection holds every DPhil thesis deposited at the University of Oxford since the degree began in its present form in 1917. Our oldest theses date from the early 1920s. We also have substantial holdings of MLitt theses, for which deposit became compulsory in 1953, and MPhil theses.

Since 2007 it has been a mandatory requirement for students to deposit an electronic copy of their DPhil thesis in the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) , in addition to the deposit of a paper copy – the copy of record. Since the COVID pandemic, the requirement of a paper copy has been removed and the ORA copy has become the copy of record. Hardcopy theses are now only deposited under exceptional circumstances. 

ORA provides full-text PDF copies of most recent DPhil theses, and some earlier BLitt/MLitt theses. Find out more about Oxford Digital Theses, and depositing with ORA .

Finding Oxford theses

The following theses are catalogued on SOLO (the University libraries’ resource discovery tool) :

• DPhil and BLitt and MLitt theses
• BPhil and MPhil theses 
• Science theses

SOLO collates search results from several sources.

How to search for Oxford theses on SOLO

To search for theses in the Oxford collections on SOLO :

• navigate to the SOLO homepage
• click on the 'Advanced Search' button
• click the 'Material Type' menu and choose the 'Dissertations' option
• type in the title or author of the thesis you are looking for and click the 'Search' button.

Also try an “Any field” search for “Thesis Oxford” along with the author’s name under “creator” and any further “Any field” keywords such as department or subject. 

Searching by shelfmarks

If you are searching using the shelfmark, please make sure you include the dots in your search (e.g. D.Phil.). Records will not be returned if they are left out.

Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)

ORA was established in 2007 as a permanent and secure online archive of research produced by members of the University of Oxford. It is now mandatory for students completing a research degree at the University to deposit an electronic copy of their thesis in this archive. 

Authors can select immediate release on ORA, or apply a 1-year or 3-year embargo period. The embargo period would enable them to publish all or part of their research elsewhere if they wish. 

Theses held in ORA are searchable via  SOLO , as well as external services such as EThOS and Google Scholar. For more information, visit the Oxford digital theses guide , and see below for guidance on searching in ORA.

Search for Oxford theses on ORA

Type your keywords (title, name) into the main search box, and use quotes (“) to search for an exact phrase.

Refine your search results using the drop-downs on the left-hand side. These include:

• item type (thesis, journal article, book section, etc.)
• thesis type (DPhil, MSc, MLitt, etc.)
• subject area (History, Economics, Biochemistry, etc.)
• item date (as a range)
• file availability (whether a full text is available to download or not)

You can also increase the number of search results shown per page, and sort by relevance, date and file availability. You can select and export records to csv or email. 

Select hyperlinked text within the record details, such as “More by this author”, to run a secondary search on an author’s name. You can also select a hyperlinked keyword or subject. 

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The Rare Books department of the Weston Library keeps an author card index of Oxford theses. This includes all non-scientific theses deposited between 1922 and 2016. Please ask Weston Library staff for assistance.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

You can use ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  to find bibliographic details of Oxford theses not listed on SOLO. Ask staff in the Weston Library’s Charles Wendall David Reading Room for help finding these theses. 

Search for Oxford theses on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Basic search.

The default Basic search page allows for general keyword searches across all indexes using "and", "and not", "and or" to link the keywords as appropriate. Click on the More Search Options tab for specific title, author, subject and institution (school) searches, and to browse indexes of authors, institutions and subjects. These indexes allow you to add the word or phrase recognised by the database to your search (ie University of Oxford (United Kingdom), not Oxford University).

Advanced search

The Advanced search tab (at the top of the page) enables keyword searching in specific indexes, including author, title, institution, department, adviser and language. If you are unsure of the exact details of thesis, you can use the search boxes on this page to find it by combining the key information you do have.

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In both the Basic and Advanced search pages you can also limit the search by date by using the boxes at the bottom. Use the Search Tools advice in both the Basic and Advanced pages to undertake more complex and specific searches. Within the list of results, once you have found the record that you are interested in, you can click on the link to obtain a full citation and abstract. You can use the back button on your browser to return to your list of citations.

The Browse search tab allows you to search by subject or by location (ie institution). These are given in an alphabetical list. You can click on a top-level subject to show subdivisions of the subject. You can click on a country location to show lists of institutions in that country. At each level, you can click on View Documents to show lists of individual theses for that subject division or from that location.

In Browse search, locations and subject divisions are automatically added to a basic search at the bottom of the page. You can search within a subject or location by title, author, institution, subject, date etc, by clicking on Refine Search at the top of the page or More Search Options at the bottom of the page.

Where are physical Oxford theses held?

The Bodleian Libraries hold all doctoral theses and most postgraduate (non-doctoral) theses for which a deposit requirement is stipulated by the University:

• DPhil (doctoral) theses (1922 – 2021)
• Bachelor of Divinity (BD) theses
• BLitt/MLitt theses (Michaelmas Term 1953 – 2021)
• BPhil and MPhil theses (Michaelmas Term 1977 – 2021)

Most Oxford theses are held in Bodleian Offsite Storage. Some theses are available in the libraries; these are listed below.

Law Library

Theses submitted to the Faculty of Law are held at the Bodleian Law Library .

Vere Harmsworth Library

Theses on the United States are held at the Vere Harmsworth Library .

Social Science Library

The Social Science Library holds dissertations and theses selected by the departments it supports. 

The list of departments and further information are available in the Dissertations and Theses section of the SSL webpages. 

Locations for Anthropology and Archaeology theses

The Balfour Library holds theses for the MPhil in Material and Visual Anthropology and some older theses in Prehistoric Archaeology.

The Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library holds theses for MPhil in Classical Archaeology and MPhil in European Archaeology.

Ordering Oxford theses

Theses held in Bodleian Offsite Storage are consulted in the Weston Library. The preferred location is the Charles Wendell David Reading Room ; they can also be ordered to the Sir Charles Mackerras Reading Room .

Find out more about requesting a digitised copy, copyright restrictions and copying from Oxford theses .

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Sacramento State requires graduate students with a departmentally approved thesis, project, or dissertation to submit it electronically on Proquest ETD Administrator . These publications are also discoverable and available full-text via Sac State Scholars , the University's institutional repository, and through the Library catalog,  OneSearch . Descriptive information about deposited works is made available to Google Scholar and other services.  

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Bachelor's project.

The purpose of the Bachelor's project is to give students an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to independently formulate a business-related problem statement within a given topic, select relevant literature, apply methodologies, collect and process data, make critical assessments, conduct analyses and conclude on the question raised in the problem statement.

On these pages, you will find relevant information, links and dates regarding the Bachelor's project in the sixth semester for bachelor students in Economics and Business Administration.

Before the registration deadline

Introduction meeting.

In the fall , Thursday 12 October at 14.15-16.30  you are invited to an introduction meeting about the Bachelor's project. The introduction meeting will be held online via Zoom .

At the introduction meeting you will be presented to a presentation by Head of Bachelor programmes at Department of Management, Christian Waldstrøm. You will also have the chance to ask former bachelor students for advice when writing the Bachelor’s project and get inspiration for your project.

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Writing on your own or in a group?

A bachelor's project is a comprehensive written paper, and you must decide whether you wish to write it on your own or in a group (groups of up to four persons are allowed). The most important thing to remember when choosing whether to write on your own or in a group is that you should do what is right for you. 

There are advantages of writing a bachelor's project in a group, because you will have someone to be your partner to discuss and reflect on theories and ideas with. This will usually be a great advantage, because different angles on the project   will often provide a better result. But a bachelor's project requires a lot of work and will often involve many hours spent together in the group and sometimes compromises. For this reason, it is important that the group members both work well together and are socially compatible. A good tip is therefore to know the expectations of the person(s) you are writing the project with, as it is important that everyone in the group agree on the objective of the project. You should note that it is not possible to change groups during the process. On Boost your Student Life and AU Studypedia you will find information and inspiration on how to work in study groups.

Choice of topic

The topic of the project is typically based on an existing real-life problem, that is, an issue within the academic fields of the bachelor’s programme. It may be problems in a given organisation (private or public company, interest group, etc.), an industry or the community. You choose/define the topic for your bachelor's project yourself, as long as it stays within the academic frames of your programme. When choosing the topic, you might be inspired by a problem, an observation or a phenomenon that you find interesting or by models and theories from courses you have had. It might be helpful to discuss ideas for topic(s) with a possible supervisor for your project. 

It is a good idea to search for inspiration in the links below: 

• The AU Job and Project Bank At AU Job and Project Bank , you can find both student jobs, project collaborations, internships and full-time positions
• The news/Companies' own websites: Use the news, the newspapers or the companies' own websites to find problems that may be relevant for a bachelor's project . You have access to news media and company information through  the library's databases .
• Supervisors and topics: You can also be inspired by the available supervisors and the topics on the supervisor lists (please find the lists under 'Supervisor').

Before you register a supervisor and a title for your bachelor's project you must contact a potential supervisor who will commit to give you supervision within your chosen topic. The registered title will typically be a draft for your problem statement rather than your final problem statement.

All supervisors are specialised in each their different field. Below you will find a complete list of supervisors in the individual departments and their individual fields of expertise.   

All supervisors may be contacted through the links below:

• Department of Economics and Business Economics - Supervisor list
• Department of Management - Supervisor list  

Please only contact ONE supervisor at a time and await this supervisor's reply before you contact any others.

Registration

You must register the working title of the project and the name of the supervisor no later than  1 December.

The registration must be done via an online registration form that will be accessible on this page (below) after the introduction meeting.  

If you plan to write a group project, only one of the members should register the project in the registration form and state the names and email addresses of the other members. 

If you are unable to find a supervisor as the deadline approaches, you must register your project with a working title and description of the project before the deadline. You will then get a supervisor appointed to you by the department after the deadline.

If you are enrolled at Economics and Business Administration, BSc  and wish to write your bachelor's project with a student from Economics and Business Administration, HA,  notice that your project must be written in English. In addition, you must both do the following:

1) In the registration form under 'Comments', you must write that your group is interdisciplinary.

2) Send an email to  [email protected]  in which you write that you wish to write an interdisciplinary bachelor's project. Please remember to state both your names and student numbers in the email.

Registration for reexamination in September/December

You will find information about reexamination in September/December and a link to the reexamination registration form in the section ' Reexamination '.

The writing process

Formal requirements and guidelines for written assignments.

In the course descriptions you will find the specific requirements for the Bachelor's project including types of theses and formal demands of the thesis such as summary, word count, front page, language and layout. 

Your bachelor's project must adhere to the specific requirements (formal demands) specified in the course description in order to be accepted for assessment.

The course description for the Bachelor's project in the spring semester 2024 can be found below:  

• Course description for Bachelor's Project spring 2024

The guidelines for written assignments include: referencing tools, how to refer to your sources and make a reference list, and how to avoid plagiarism.

You can enclose appendices where you find it necessary to include extra material such as (but not limited to): 

• Supplementary information about the empirical setting
• Interview guides, transcriptions of interviews, questionnaires, etc.
• Reports used as secondary data sources 

The project is evaluated solely on the basis of the contents of the main project and therefore the main project must be a complete and meaningful document independent of the appendices.

If you use interviews as data collection, there are no formal requirements that you transcribe interviews. However, transcribing interviews will often lead to significantly better analyses of the data.

Processing personal data

If you gain access to or collect personal data to be used in your assignment, you are responsible for taking care of that data.  

Learn about the the rules for collecting and processing personal data (GDPR) .

Confidentiality

When you contact external parties (organisations or individuals) about a possible cooperation in connection with your project, you might need to use a confidentiality agreement between you and the company, which can be found here:

Confidentiality agreement

Note that your supervisor and the external examiner (censor) both have implicit confidentiality through their jobs. However, some companies might still ask for a confidentiality agreement between AU and the company.

Note: When handing in your project, you can choose whether it should be ‘open shelf’ (i.e. accessible to others in the future). Choosing ‘closed shelf’ will ensure that only your supervisor and the external examiner will ever see your project.    

From the summer 2024 the use of generative artificial intelligence tools will be permitted for this exam. The general rules on plagiarism apply if generative artificial intelligence is used. You must specify how generative artificial intelligence has been used in an appendix to the assignment.

Special situations

If you have any problems, such as personal or health problems which will affect your ability to complete your project, or you have unsolvable problems with fellow students in your group, contact the Student Counsellor’s Office to get information on how to handle this.

For any major changes affecting your project, please inform your supervisor. In the rare instances of problems between you and your supervisor, first try to sort it out with the supervisor by mentioning your concerns or issues to the supervisor. If this is not possible or the problem persists, you should contact the Programme Coordinator at the department where your project is registered:

• Christian Waldstrøm at Department of Management (MGMT), [email protected]  
• Charlotte Christiansen at Department of Economics and Business Economics (ECON), [email protected]

It is important that you do not wait until you have handed in your project or until after the defence to address these issues, as misunderstandings or issues about the supervision process are not grounds for a subsequent complaint about the final grade.

Handing in the Bachelor's project

Handing in the project in wiseflow.

The bachelor's project must be submitted on 1 May at 12:00.

The bachelor’s project must only be uploaded in respectively WISEflow. You are not allowed to hand in a paper copy of the project, as it is the uploaded version that is legally binding. When you have handed in the project in WISEflow it will automatically be send to supervisor and external examiner.

WISEflow You will receive an e-mail from WISEflow when it is possible to upload your project. Deadline for handing in the project in WISEflow is 1 May at 12:00. This means that you should begin uploading well in advance before deadline, since the flow closes exactly at 12:00. Uploading a big project like the bachelor's project can take up to 30 minutes.  If the submission date is a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, the deadline is the first working day after the deadline.

If you experience problems with uploading your project, please contact the technical and/or administrative support . 

If you have not previously tried to upload an assignment in WISEflow as a group, please read and follow the  instructions on how to submit as a group .

The project including appendixes must be saved as one PDF-file and uploaded under “Paper”. You will receive information regarding upload via Brightspace.

Under the category “Extra material” you can upload material like movies, sound, programs (Excel, SAS mv.). The extra material does not have to be a pdf-file and you can hand in more than one file up to a maximum size of 1 GB. If you need to hand in more than 1 GB as extra material you can send this directly to your supervisor on a USB-stick. 

Confidential projects You are not required to attach your confidentiality agreement when you upload and submit your bachelor's project.

When you upload your bachelor's project in WISEflow, you must indicate (in the 'Cover') whether the project contains confidential material.  

The oral defence

The department will contact you by e-mail or by Brightspace with information about when your defence will take place (at the latest 6 weeks after it is handed in). 

The total duration of the oral examination (incl. deliberating, grading and feedback) depends on the number of students: 

1 student = 45 minutes

2 students = 60 minutes

3 students = 75 minutes

4 students = 90 minutes

Presentation The oral exam starts with a presentation of the project (approx. 5 min. per project regardless the number of group members). There are no formal requirements for the initial presentation, but it can profitably be a quick presentation of the purpose and results of the project, but it can also be beneficial to use the time for selecting one or two areas in the project which you want to emphasise, e.g.:

• A discussion of some of the selections and delimitations which have been made
• Considerations concerning how the topic could be examined further
• Correction of essential mistakes, clarifications of unclear parts or pointing out defects in the project
• Relevant additions which have become available after the project was handed in (e.g., from the media, literature, feedback from the case company, etc.).

There are no requirements concerning how to make the presentation (poster, cue cards, presentation on your laptop, etc.). It is not recommended to use a projector for the presentation as this always ends up taking time away from the presentation.

If you are part of a group, there are no requirements concerning the division of content in the first 5 minutes.

Discussion After your presentation, the supervisor and the external examiner will take over with questions and comments as the basis of a discussion with you about the project.

Deliberation Afterwards you will be asked to leave the examination room, while your supervisor and co-examiner are deliberating. Please note that you must bring your personal belongings with you when you leave the examination room.

Grading and feed back After the deliberation you (or your group) will receive your overall feedback, including your respective grades. 

Reexamination

If you do not hand in or fail the Bachelor's project in May/June, you can register for the reexamination in September or December. Registration for the reexamination in September or December must take place no later than 15 June.

The deadline for submission of the Bachelor's project at reexamination is 1 September or 1 December. If the submission date is a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, the deadline is the first working day after the deadline.

The  re-exam  is similar to the ordinary exam. There is no formal requirement that students change their problem statement before beginning their second or third attempt. However, students are encouraged to contact their supervisor in order to identify relevant sections of the project, which may be in need of revision, before the project is resubmitted.

You register for the reexamination of the Bachelor's project online in the registration form  before 15 June .

The registration form opens on 1 June.

It is possible to attend the reexamination only if you have been  registered for and thereby used an attempt  at   the ordinary exam.

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Celebrating Contemporary Indigenous Music

Markus Teuton (Cherokee Nation) spent years listening to bands perform at Seattle’s annual Folklife Festival. This May, he took the stage with his own band, Joint Souls . Made up of UW jazz musicians, Joint Souls performed songs written by Teuton.

“I’d been going to Folklife since I was a kid,” Teuton says of the milestone performance. “To be playing there as a performer was a full circle experience. It was surreal.”

Weeks after Folklife, Teuton has reached another milestone: He's graduating from the University of Washington, earning a double degree in jazz studies and comparative history of ideas in the College of Arts & Sciences . The two majors enabled Teuton to explore music from multiple perspectives, including performance, history, and culture. One area of particular interest has been contemporary Indigenous music.

The Importance of Individuality

Though Teuton plays lead guitar in Joint Souls, he had only a limited knowledge of guitar until high school, with a repertoire that consisted of three chords. Then he attended a performance of his high school’s award-winning jazz band and noticed guitar players on stage.

“I was like, ‘Wait a minute. You can play guitar for class?’” Teuton recalls of the concert at Seattle’s Roosevelt High School. “I gotta get with it.”

Teuton was told he’d be unlikely to reach the level of musicianship necessary to be accepted into the jazz band the next year, but he was undeterred. “I’m very ambitious,” he says. “When people tell me ‘no,’ I really put the pedal to the metal.” He was accepted into the high school jazz band, which led to his jazz studies major in the UW School of Music .

Although Teuton’s major has “jazz” in its title, his own music is not easily categorized. With musical heroes that include Jimi Hendrix, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Bobby Womack, and Curtis Mayfield, it’s no surprise that his own music blends jazz and soul, blues and rock. He credits jazz faculty at the UW, particularly professors Cuong Vu and Ted Poor , with encouraging him to develop his own cross-genre style.

“I really like that there’s strong encouragement to find your individuality, to find your voice in that way,” he says. “When you get to a certain point in musicianship, it’s not about who’s got more chops. It’s about having a voice of your own that adds something to the music.”

Teuton’s band reflects his voice. In 2022, he asked a few friends in the jazz studies program if they’d be willing to play some songs he had written. They recorded a single in a friend’s basement studio and decided to continue as a band. More musicians joined — Joint Souls now includes two horns, two keyboard players, drums, bass, guitar, and vocals — and the band eventually landed a gig at the Royal Room, a popular music venue in South Seattle, followed by a spring break tour in clubs along the West Coast. They have since performed at more Seattle venues, including the Mural Amphitheatre at the 2024 Folklife Festival .

Exploring Cultural Aspects of Music

While music has been central to Teuton’s life and UW experience, he also sought more reading- and writing-focused academic work. He chose a second major in comparative history of ideas (CHID), a degree program with an interdisciplinary emphasis. Students in CHID can shape the major to reflect their interests; Teuton focused on cultural aspects of music. He explored this topic globally through his work with  CHID's program in Lima, Peru  on "The Arts of Politics." 

“As a citizen of Cherokee Nation , one of the things I wanted to learn more about was the intersection of Black American music and Native music, and how that informs the modernization of Native music,” Teuton says. “In CHID, I was able to learn more about the cultural and historical influences for both of these kinds of music.”

"There’s a lot of Indigenous creativity, a lot of Indigenous genius out there. There are great musicians who should have recognition. Markus Teuton (Cherokee Nation) BM, Jazz Studies, BA, Comparative History of Ideas, 2024

For his CHID senior thesis, Teuton created an avant-garde jazz version of the Feather Dance — a traditional song performed within the Cherokee Nation — and wrote a paper about the complexities of modernizing a traditional Indigenous song, including how that can play a role in cultural resurgence.

“It’s a nod to the past but also a leap forward to the future,” he says of his project, bringing traditional Indigenous music into conversation with jazz ideology. “I see revitalizing the music as a way of protecting the culture. It’s a way of taking those traditions, that musical language, and reviving and reinterpreting it to reflect what it means to people today.”

Celebrating Indigenous Musicians

Beyond his own music, Teuton is dedicated to highlighting the work of other Indigenous musicians. For the past two years, he has hosted “ Indigenous Jazz ,” a weekly program on Daybreak Star Radio . As host, he has spent untold hours seeking out music that can be hard to find. The station’s music library has increased from 3,000 to over 10,000 titles, but more importantly, Teuton has introduced new audiences to the work of many talented Indigenous jazz musicians.

“I feel like as Indigenous people, we’re not often represented in the media,” says Teuton. “I want to highlight our triumphs. There’s a lot of Indigenous creativity, a lot of Indigenous genius out there. There are great musicians who should have recognition. That’s what I wanted to do with the show.”

Teuton will continuing hosting “Indigenous Jazz” in the coming year. And he will continue as a student in the UW School of Music, now as a graduate student in the Ethnomusicology Program . His long-term goal is to pursue a PhD, with a focus on Indigenous music.

“There’s still so much yet to be written about what Native people are doing today within music. I’d like to see that literature be created,” he says of his decision to attend graduate school. “I thought, ‘Well, if not me, then who?’”

For Teuton, a major draw of the UW program is the opportunity to work with Indigenous jazz musician John-Carlos Perea , associate professor of ethnomusicology, whose interests include Native and African American jazz cultures. Teuton is excited to get started on this next chapter at the UW.

“I love doing music, but I also want to contribute to those intellectual conversations about music,” he says. “I want to be around that kind of community. At the UW, there’s just so much curiosity, so many interesting ideas flowing around. How could I not want to be around that?”

Watch Joint Souls perform "Hope is in my Hand" at MoPOP Sound Off! 2024. Video courtesy of Joint Souls. 

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