Poetry about the Brumadinho disaster

In a 1963 episode of The Outer Limits called “The Sixth Finger,”
Gwyllm Griffiths (David McCallum) volunteers for a scientist who has
found a way to advance man’s evolution by over one million years, thereby
creating human supergeniuses with an aptitude for rapid learning and
enhanced mental capacity. The final script was ten minutes too short…[Read more]

How does history sound? What kind of historical document is music? What does it mean to study past music as music, and what do we learn when we think of past music as sound? In this seminar, we will take up these questions together, applying them to the sounds of Europe—musical and otherwise—in the two centuries between 1550 and 1750. While mus…[Read more]

The re-use of storylines from radio plays on early television was not uncommon; indeed, much of the television programming of the 1950s and early 1960s consisted of repurposed radio scripts. Columbia Presents Corwin ‘Moat Farm Murder’ (Bernard Herrmann, 18 July 1944) was among the many radio programmes from the 1940s that had music featured in The…[Read more]

Archives are full of ghosts—the ghosts of music long-forgotten, technologies now superseded, practices that have faded away with time. This talk examines music used to accompany and signify the supernatural the silent film, as well as what can be learned by excavating the ghosts of musicians’ lives and careers now held in archives both at the Uni…[Read more]

Archives are full of ghosts—the ghosts of music long-forgotten, technologies now superseded, practices that have faded away with time. This talk examines music used to accompany and signify the supernatural the silent film, as well as what can be learned by excavating the ghosts of musicians’ lives and careers now held in archives both at the Uni…[Read more]

Review of Composer Diversity Database, https://composerdiversity.com Music Theory Examples by Women, https://musictheoryexamplesbywomen.com

For anti-rock activists in the 1980s, lyrical descriptions and visual depictions that glorified and promoted violence, sex, drug and alcohol abuse, Satanism, and related forms of occult activity were symptomatic not only of the declining moral standards of many forms of popular entertainment but also of the overall moral decay of America. Many of…[Read more]