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2015 Sonic utopia and social dystopia in the music of Hendrix, Reznor and Deadmau5
https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15988 Boston University BOSTON UNIVERSITY
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Dissertation
Sonic Utopia and Social Dystopia in the Music of Hendrix, Reznor and Deadmau5
by
EVAN FRANCIS BARROS
B.A., Boston College, 2004
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
2015 © Copyright by EVAN FRANCIS BARROS 2015 Approved by
First Reader ______Victor Coelho, Ph.D. Professor of Music
Second Reader ______Bruce Schulman, Ph.D. William E. Huntington Professor of History DEDICATION
For my parents, Jack and Rose.