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Anthony Rasmussen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Jake Johnson deposited PERFORMING THE PATRON: BETTY FREEMAN AND THE AVANT-GARDE in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 8 years agoLittle can be said about music during the last century without encountering the men and women who supported it financially. Pierre Bourdieu’s impression that the services rendered freely for the good of society reinforce a symbolic debt between giver and recipient complicates motivations behind patronage. Indeed, applying Bourdieu’s theory to alt…[Read more]
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Jake Johnson deposited “Unstuck in time”: Harry Partch’s Bilocated Life in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 8 years agoIn a letter dated to 1960, Harry Partch describes living two lives simultaneously—one in modern America and another in ancient Greece. Furthermore, throughout his life, Partch exhibited striking dualities in both his music and personal life. Partch’s affinity for Greek themes and modalities in his music and musical theory is well known, but les…[Read more]
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Jake Johnson deposited “That’s Where They Knew Me When”: Oklahoma Senior Follies and the Narrative of Decline in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAmerican musical theater occupies a unique space relative to other popular music genres. This is particularly true with regards to the ways aging performers are valued. Whereas aging or aged voices in popular music are often revered as “authentic,” aging musical theater performers face an industry largely uninvested in positive representations of…[Read more]
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Jake Johnson deposited Calling out the nameless: CocoRosie’s Posthuman sound world in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 8 years ago“To engage with CocoRosie requires absolute suspension of disbe- lief,” writes The Guardian. This has as much to do with their music as their appearance, for sisterly duo CocoRosie have embraced what they call a “posthuman kind of style” rooted in the dissolution of gender. In an effort to imagine a world beyond human constructions of gender,…[Read more]
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Marysol Quevedo's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Jake Johnson deposited PERFORMING THE PATRON: BETTY FREEMAN AND THE AVANT-GARDE on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
Little can be said about music during the last century without encountering the men and women who supported it financially. Pierre Bourdieu’s impression that the services rendered freely for the good of society reinforce a symbolic debt between giver and recipient complicates motivations behind patronage. Indeed, applying Bourdieu’s theory to alt…[Read more]
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Jake Johnson deposited “Unstuck in time”: Harry Partch’s Bilocated Life on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
In a letter dated to 1960, Harry Partch describes living two lives simultaneously—one in modern America and another in ancient Greece. Furthermore, throughout his life, Partch exhibited striking dualities in both his music and personal life. Partch’s affinity for Greek themes and modalities in his music and musical theory is well known, but les…[Read more]
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Jake Johnson deposited “That’s Where They Knew Me When”: Oklahoma Senior Follies and the Narrative of Decline on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
American musical theater occupies a unique space relative to other popular music genres. This is particularly true with regards to the ways aging performers are valued. Whereas aging or aged voices in popular music are often revered as “authentic,” aging musical theater performers face an industry largely uninvested in positive representations of…[Read more]
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Jake Johnson deposited Calling out the nameless: CocoRosie’s Posthuman sound world on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
“To engage with CocoRosie requires absolute suspension of disbe- lief,” writes The Guardian. This has as much to do with their music as their appearance, for sisterly duo CocoRosie have embraced what they call a “posthuman kind of style” rooted in the dissolution of gender. In an effort to imagine a world beyond human constructions of gender,…[Read more]
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Jake Johnson deposited The Music Room: Betty Freeman’s Musical Soirées on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
For over ten years, Los Angeles arts patron Betty Freeman (1921–2009) welcomed composers, performers, scholars, patrons, and invited guests into her home for a series of monthly musicales that were known as ‘Salotto’. In this article, I analyse Freeman’s musicales within a sociological framework of gender and what Randall Collins calls ‘intera…[Read more]
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Richard Elliott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Richard Elliott deposited The Late Voice (Introduction) in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years agoIntroduction to The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music.
Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, age, memory, innocence and experience in modern popular…[Read more]
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Richard Elliott deposited The Late Voice (Introduction) in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 8 years agoIntroduction to The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music.
Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, age, memory, innocence and experience in modern popular…[Read more]
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Richard Elliott deposited The Late Voice (Introduction) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoIntroduction to The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music.
Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, age, memory, innocence and experience in modern popular…[Read more]
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Michael Gallope's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Introduction to The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music
Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, age, memory, innocence and experience in modern popular…[Read more] -
Richard Elliott's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Douglas Shadle's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Richard Elliott deposited The Sound of Nonsense in the group
Sound Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 years ago‘Watch the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves’; so says the Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But can we be so sure of this? The Duchess, like her creator Lewis Carroll, often seems to put more emphasis on the sound of words than their sense, a technique that can also be detected in other written texts and in works of so…[Read more]
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