After the period of splendour experienced by the musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina during the 18th century, we witnessed a period of decline, which was part of the crisis experienced by Spanish religious music during the 19th century. The effects of the War of Independence, the successive…[Read more]

This article focuses on the personal and artistic career of one of the most representative composers of Spain in the second half of the 18th century and the first third of the 19th century. Ramón Garay, born in 1761 in Asturias, held the post of Chapel Master of Jaén Cathedral for 36 fruitful years, which saw the birth of an extraordinary p…[Read more]

This article focuses on the decline of Spanish ecclesiastical music from the beginning of the 19th century, coinciding with the outbreak of the War of Independence. This decline worsened as a result of the application of successive disentailments by the various liberal governments and the signing of the Concordat of 1851. To remedy this situation,…[Read more]

In contemporary performance, “action” seems to include acts, emergent action and the potential for action—even sometimes non-action. Performers include the human and nonhuman, the living and the nonliving. Through all this runs a complexity of technics—technologies and techniques—and these increasingly involve computational processes. How do we…[Read more]

Exploration, from 20 years ago, of the concept of the virtual in Deleuze, De Landa, Massumi, Grosz, Bergson, Zizek and others. This is the main concern though it is tie into VR and related technologies (as things were around 2004). I wrote this a very long time ago and never quite published it (I don’t think I tried). So it’s very much a draft.…[Read more]

Presented in the spirit of Open Educational Resources. Full Course Outline for The World as Medium and/vs The Third Media Revolution. Level 3 course designed across many programs (Journalism and Comms, BA, Design, PR, Screen and Sound, Law, etc). So it’s a somewhat generalist course. It begins with a summary of standard approaches (from standard…[Read more]

How did so much of contemporary technics become so disappointing, so deadening? How is technics being thought, and worked with, to enliven? What different assemblages and principles are involved? This chapter begins in sympathy with Michel Serres’ “aggrieved shame” and then moves to Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s discussion of an “undeadness” at the heart…[Read more]

A theological biography of Michael Sattler and an examination of some of his final written correspondence prior to his execution. Sattler’s biography was particularly influential because of its unique circulation and historical reception.

Study on the personal and artistic career of the master from Lleida, José Cortasa Rives, chapel master of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor de Talaveta de la Reina.

This is the first monographic work to be published on one of the most important musical centres and chapels in the Valencian Community: the cathedral of Segorbe, which until now had not been researched. Thanks to the work carried out in the archives of the cathedral on the chapter minutes, factory books and other unpublished documentation, it has…[Read more]

This book was the result of the Prize ‘X Premio-Beca Serapio Múgica’, awarded in 2008 on a competitive basis by the City Council of Irún to develop the research project ‘La música en Irún en el siglo XIX: La capilla de música de la Iglesia de Santa María del Juncal’ (Music in Irún in the 19th century: The music chapel of the Church of Santa María…[Read more]

Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]

Journal article about the organization of the music chapel at the royal monastery Descalzas in Madrid during the 18th century

This editorial appeared in the last print issue of FORWARD Press, published from New Delhi. The article discusses the need for a democratic form of the newsroom. Along with this, various dimensions of Dalit-Bahujan journalism have come to the fore.

The Forward Press magazine was bilingual (Hindi and English). The article uploaded here is also…[Read more]

Together with the cathedrals of Valencia and Orihuela and the Seminary of Corpus Christi in Valencia, the Cathedral of Segorbe is one of the main musical centres of the Valencian Community. This article is an introduction to the origin of the diocese, its difficulties in establishing itself and, finally, its administrative structure and the main…[Read more]

इक्कसवीं सदी के दूसरे दशक में भारत में महिषासुर आंदोलन द्विज संस्कृति के लिए चुनौती बनकर उभरा। इसके माध्यम से आदिवासियों, पिछड़ों और दलितों के एक बड़े हिस्से ने अपनी सांस्कृतिक दावेदारी पेश की।

लेकिन यह आंदोलन क्या है, इसकी जड़ें समाज में कहां तक फैली हैं, बहुजनों की सांस्कृतिक परंपरा में इसका क्या स्थान है, मौजूदा लोक-जीवन में महिषासुर क…[Read more]

महिषासुर आंदोलन के इस कदर अचानक फैल जाने का एक बड़ा कारण था कि बहुजन समाज में इन परंपराओं की जड़ें बहुत गहरी रही हैं और इनका प्रसार उसके अवचेतन तक रहा है। इन समुदायों से आने वाले फुले, आंबेडकर, पेरियार समेत सभी चिंतकों ने असुर-संस्कृति की न सिर्फ विस्तृत गवेषणा की है, बल्कि अगर आप ध्यान से देखें तो पाएंगे कि यही उनकी वैचारिकी का प्रस्थान…[Read more]

भारत की हिंदुत्ववादी ताकतों के निशाने पर राम के बाद कृष्ण आएंगे। अनेक संगठन इसके लिए सक्रिय हैं। फरवरी, 2012 में प्रकाशित इस लेख में बताया गया है कि किस प्रकार न्यायालय के फैसले के जरिए इसकी पृष्ठभूमि बनाई गई है।

After Ram, Krishna will come under attack from Hindutva forces in India. Hindutva organizations are active in this direction. This article, published in February 2012, explains how the background has been created through the court’s decision.

प्रमोद रंजन और उनकी टीम द्वारा वर्ष 2009 में किए गए सर्वेक्षण में पाया गया था कि बिहार की पत्रकारिता में फैसला लेने वालों पदों पर एक भी दलित, पिछड़ा, आदिवासी नहीं है। फैसला लेने वाले पदों पर स्त्रियों की भागीदारी भी शून्य है। इस सर्वेक्षण में प्रिंट व इलेक्ट्रॉनिक दोनों माध्यमों को लिया गया था तथा इसमें हिंदी, अंग्रेजी और उर्दू के मीडिया संस…[Read more]