William O'Hara
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Michael Dekovich deleted the file: George Walker, “Spatials” (1961) from
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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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Keith Salley replied to the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThanks, Walt!
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Walt Everett replied to the topic Readings in the Analysis of African-American Popular Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThanks to those with suggestions for my African American pop music course. I’ve finished drafting a 73-page syllabus with lengthy bib and tracklist that’s too large to attach here. Please email me at weverett at umich.edu [with @ for ” at “] and I’ll be happy to send you a copy.
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Walt Everett replied to the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoKeith, my favorite rock octatonic passage is the guitars/bass trio in the transition of “You Never Give Me Your Money.”
There are a number of equal divisions of the octave, such as in the Fifth Dimension’s “Up—Up and Away,” the Doors’ “Touch Me” and Lorraine Feather’s “The Girl with the Lazy Eye.” I may list others in Foundations of Rock. Have fu…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego posted an update in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago“Vox Populi”: Of Relevance to Digital Humanities as a Subject of Enquiry https://epriego.blog/2020/08/14/relevance-digital-humanities-subject-enquiry-humanist-email/
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Keith Salley started the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHi everyone,
Hope you’re all well and reasonably rested.
Was wondering about rock or general pop tunes that feature symmetrical/synthetic scales like WT and OCT. I don’t mind fleeting surface occurrences where the scales are just run through, like those WT scales in the intro to Stevie Wonder’s ‘You Are the Sunshine . . .’ or the recurring OCT…[Read more]
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Mitchell Ohriner uploaded the file: Chinquinha Gonzaga, Sospiro to
Composers of Color Resource Project on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA tango with a habanero accompanimental rhythm published in 1881
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Walt Everett replied to the topic Readings in the Analysis of African-American Popular Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agothanks, Beth–good to hear from you. My bib and listening guide is coming along by leaps and bounds, but I hadn’t come across that journal yet. I’ll put my syllabus up by the end of the month.
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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 – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) 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 “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 – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) 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 “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 – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) 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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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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Beth Hiser replied to the topic Readings in the Analysis of African-American Popular Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHi Walt,
Not sure if you’re familiar with the Journal of Hip Hop Studies, but it’s a wonderful open-access, peer reviewed journal that you might find useful for your course.
Enjoy!
Beth
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Ernesto Priego deposited Where Comics and Cultural Heritage Meet: A Conversation with Damien Sueur and Yannis Koikas on BDnF: The Comics Factory in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF; French National Library) recently launched a free comics creation desktop and mobile application, “BDnF”. Designed and produced by the BnF, BDnF is a digital creation tool for making comics and other multimedia stories, mixing illustration and text. BDnF allows users to engage creatively in specific aspe…[Read more]
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Antonio Rojas Castro deposited FAIR enough? Building DH Resources in an Unequal World in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn this presentation I will argue that, while the FAIR Principles can guide how we build DH resources in the Global North, any attempt to apply them in the Global South (especially in Latin American countries) may replicate colonialist practices that ignore the digital divide and local needs and practices in favour of hegemonic standards. This…[Read more]
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João Gilberto N. Saraiva deposited Para americano e brasileiro ver: uma memória das relações bilaterais por meio da rede social Flickr in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]
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