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Gavin Holman deposited Brass bands in Africa – a brief introduction to a continent-wide topic in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoBrass bands in Africa have been in existence since the 19th century after the various colonial powers had established their presence across the continent. The history of such bands is very sketchy and limited, and the small amount of information I have collected so far is presented here. I hope that future researchers will be able to open up much…[Read more]
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Ben Geyer replied to the topic V in Rhythm Changes in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoGarrett,
Thanks for responding to this! I’m working on hierarchy within cyclical chord progressions (I do think at least some aspects are hierarchical) but certainly don’t want to be chasing windmills.
Ben
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Randye Jones deposited Recorded Concert Spirituals: A Guide for the Solo Vocalist in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 6 years agoA book project with the goal of documenting commercially produced recordings of Negro spirituals composed for solo concert vocalists. Portions of this information is currently available on the online site, The Spirituals Database (http://spirituals-database.com).
Over 5,600 entries cover more than a century of recordings on compact discs,…[Read more]
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Neil Gregor deposited ‘Introduction’, Neil Gregor and Thomas Irvine (eds) Dreams of Germany. Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor (New York: Berghahn, 2019) in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThis co-authored piece introduces our co-edited volume ‘Dreams of Germany’. It explores how, where and by whom notions of ‘musical Germanness’ have been constituted in the modern era, and to what effect. Picking up on ideas first explored systematically by Celia Applegate and Pamela Potter in their 2002 collection ‘Music and German National…[Read more]
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Christine Boone replied to the topic Popular Music Interest Group Examples Database in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHi Peter,
We’re going to send a message to the whole group, but I wanted to respond to you here first.
We write to you with bad news – the PMIG Examples Database Google Sheet has disappeared. Alyssa has been in touch with past officers and tried to recover it, but what appears to have happened is the owner of the sheet either deleted or closed…[Read more]
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP – Romanian Forum panel on Eugene Ionesco in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Romanian Forum of the MLA invites proposals for presentations on its guaranteed panel at the 2021 Convention of the Modern Language Association (Toronto, January 7-10, 2021):
Eugène Ionesco’s Theater of Language
The year 2021 will mark the seventieth anniversary of the first performance of Eugène Ionesco’s classic work of the Theater of th…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.
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Adam Rosado started the topic ICJ Submission Deadline in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHi all,
I’ve posted the CFP on SMT Announce a couple of times, but I wanted to give JIG folks specifically a reminder that the submission deadline for the Issues in Contemporary Jazz Conference is this Friday. I hope y’all submit any papers and/or scores you’ve been working on! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
Adam
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Megan Lavengood uploaded the file: Analysis of Popular Music Spring 2020 to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThis is just the syllabus but the entire course can be viewed at http://popclass.meganlavengood.com
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Mark Anson-Cartwright replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThanks to all of you—Keith, Christine, and David—for pointing out this literature to me. I will look into these leads.
Best,
Mark
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoDespite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies…[Read more]
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Amadeu Corbera Jaume deposited Dues dones recol·lectores de cançons: la relació entre Maria Antònia Salvà i Palmira in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 6 years agoEn aquest article presentam la relació entre Maria Antònia Salvà i Palmira Jaquetti, dues dones que des de perspectives i amb finalitats diferents, s’acostaren i s’interessaren pel món de la cançó popular.
http://www.escolademallorqui.cat/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PAPERS-DE-SA-TORRE-72.pdf
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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoW. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]
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Garrett Michaelsen replied to the topic V in Rhythm Changes in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoBen:
Sorry for the extremely slow reply! I don’t think that one can give a generic answer. The concept of a chord relating more to ones that come before or after seems to me to be wrapped up in so much additional context that making such a determination on the basis of chord changes alone doesn’t make sense. Think of Gershwin’s original: in this…[Read more]
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Richard Nance started the topic Organised Sound: Call for Papers in the discussion
Music on Humanities Commons 6 years agoOrganised Sound Volume 26, Number 1
Issue thematic title: The Sonic and the Electronic in Improvisation
Date of Publication: April 2021
Publishers: Cambridge University Press
Issue co-ordinator: James Andean (james.andean@dmu.ac.uk)
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2020Improvisation is an important cornerstone of musical practice.…[Read more]
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David Carson Berry replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHello Mark,
You might also check: John Graziano, Compositional Strategies in Popular Song Form of the Early Twentieth Century,” in A Music-Theoretical Matrix: Essays in Honor of Allen Forte (Part V), ed. David Carson Berry, Gamut 6/2 (2013): 95–131. It’s online.
As Graziano writes: “In this essay, I am interested in exploring the expansion of…[Read more]
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Christine Boone replied to the topic Analysis of the bridge in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years agoMark, there is a lot of stuff on form more generally, which may contain info about bridges within each article. (The only one I know entirely about the bridge is the one that Keith mentions above.) Check out the stuff on form in our bibliography: https://hcommons-staging.org/docs/popular-music-bibliography/
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