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Beth Harpaz started the topic Racism and Music Theory: A Professor Speaks Out in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoProfessor Philip Ewell (City University of New York Graduate Center, Hunter College) spoke last fall at an SMT meeting about racism in the field of music theory and also recently published an article in SMT’s online journal on the topic. The Graduate Center this week published a piece about his talk, his paper, and the controversy surrounding it,…[Read more]
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John Michael McCluskey deposited “This Is Ghetto Row”: Musical Segregation in American College Football in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA historical overview of college football’s participants exemplifies the diversification of mainstream American culture from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. The same cannot be said for the sport’s audience, which remains largely white American. Gerald Gems maintains that football culture reinforces the construction of American…[Read more]
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John Michael McCluskey deposited “This Is Ghetto Row”: Musical Segregation in American College Football in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA historical overview of college football’s participants exemplifies the diversification of mainstream American culture from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. The same cannot be said for the sport’s audience, which remains largely white American. Gerald Gems maintains that football culture reinforces the construction of American…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “The Performer’s Experience: Positional Listening and Positional Analysis,” in G. Borio, G. Gioriani, A. Cecchi, and M. Lutzu, eds. Investigating Music Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections (Routledge, 2020), 56-68. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter presents an approach to musical listening and analysis that privileges the individual perspectives of performers in a rock ensemble. Using passages from Yes’s “And You And I,” this study examines how each musician hears the texture in different ways while each of these “positions” differs from the Ideal Listening Position, which is…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “Popular Music in the Theory Classroom,” in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, edited by Leigh VanHandel (Routledge, 2020), pp. 331-339. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter considers the role of popular music in the undergraduate music theory curriculum, proposing three models for integrating pop into theory teaching.
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John Covach deposited “Jimmy Miller, the Rolling Stones, and Beggars Banquet,” in “They Call My Name Disturbance”: Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Revolution, edited by Russell Reising (Routledge, 2020), pp. 19-25. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis paper surveys the career of Jimmy Miller and explores his role as producer for the Rolling Stones, with particular emphasis on Beggars Banquet.
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Pablo Suárez deposited Música, humor y crítica social en el performance Buena Risa Social Club (León de Los Aldama, 2018) de Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo” in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoBuena Risa Social Club es un performance humorístico-musical del cantautor cubano-mexicano Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo”, quién lo presentó en el Café Antropía (León de Los Aldama, Guanajuato, México) el 30 de noviembre de 2018. Al tener en cuenta los pocos estudios realizados sobre sus composiciones performativas, para la presente com…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Momentos sociológicos en el performance musical “El humor en estos tiempos da cólera” (ca. 1986) de Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo” in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago“El humor en estos tiempos da cólera” (ca. 1986) es uno de los performances que escribió, musicalizó y dirigió el cantautor Alejandro García Villalón Virulo para el Conjunto Nacional de Espectáculos de Cuba. De éste se conserva una adaptación televisiva del Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión, que no ha sido abordada en investigacion…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Panorama de la música popular cubana en los Premios Lucas 2016 in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEn la actualidad se manifiesta una pluralidad discursiva en la música cubana, donde la diversificación de sus soportes de difusión juega un papel fundamental para que determinados músicos sean tenidos como populares. Bajo esa tesitura, los Premios Lucas brindan una variedad de fuentes primarias incomparables, poco abordadas como objetos de est…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Algunas consideraciones analíticas sobre el performance musical in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoCon el presente trabajo se busca allanar la zanja que existe entre los abordajes tradicionales del discurso musical y los estudios de performance. Para la realización de investigaciones artísticas sobre performances musicales se debe tener en cuenta dicha expresión como subjetividad cambiante a lo largo de su devenir histórico, construido en las…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited El Génesis Según Virulo (2001) de Alejandro García Villalón como performance humorístico de intertextualidad literaria-musical in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLa pluralidad discursiva manifiesta en la música cubana se ha encontrado enmarcada en una realidad estético-musical cambiante, causada por una postmodernidad social cada vez más abierta a la globalización de las expresiones culturales de los pueblos. Es dentro de esta dinámica creativa que se encontraron inmersos los performances musicales del…[Read more]
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Laura Hernández Lorenzo deposited Sr Juana Inés de la Cruz y Los empeños de una casa: la comedia de capa y espada desde una perspectiva femenina in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEn este trabajo analizamos Los empeños de una casa de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, una versión de la comedia de capa y espada en la que los valores patriarcales se critican y subvierten, mientras que los personajes femeninos adquieren complejidad y un inusitado protagonismo, pues en ellos se refleja cómo las mujeres de la época encaran los obst…[Read more]
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Shayna Silverstein deposited The Punk Arab: Demystifying Omar Souleyman’s Techno-Dabke in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEssay analyzing Syrian wedding singer Omar Souleyman’s popularity in rave, techno, and other popular Western music markets.
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Christopher Joseph Helali deposited ‘The Only Logic of Trident is Omnicide’: Christopher Helali interviews Peace Activist Martha Hennessy in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoInterview with Martha Hennessy, the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, on her life, her anti-nuclear and peace activism, and ongoing trial as part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.
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Christopher Joseph Helali deposited Women of the World, Unite!: An Interview with Nancy Fraser in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the summer of 2018, I visited Nancy Fraser at her home to conduct an interview on the various social, economic, and political struggles of our day. From the fight against neoliberalism to the movements challenging the far-right, Fraser analyzes our contemporary situation, remaining firmly rooted in the Marxist tradition. Central to Fraser’s…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG 2020 Publication Awards – Nominations Sought! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNominations are officially open for the Pop Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the publi…[Read more]
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England.” in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the year 1397 in the parish of Tuttington (Norfolk), a woman whose name is lost to history, frantic to rid herself of the evil spirit that possessed her, turned to suicide. She attempted first to hang herself, but her husband discovered her while life remained in her body, cut down the rope, and comforted her. A few weeks later she tried once…[Read more]
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Lies, Damned Lies, and the Life of Saint Lucy: Three Cases of Judicial Separation from the Late Medieval Court of York.” in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAn examination of three cases of judicial separation from the late medieval court of York.
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Spousal Abuse in Fourteenth-century Yorkshire: What can we learn from the Coroners’ Rolls?” in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoSince the publication of Philippe Aries’ Centuries of Childhood in the early 1960’s, historians of the family have been intrigued by the prospect of a history of change in familial sentiment. 1 Aries’ study of attitudes about children from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, based primarily on art and material evidence, demonstrates…[Read more]
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