Discussing Music and Race – a response
Discussing music and race – a response to the Introduction to “Music and the Racial Imagination”, edited by Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago Press (2001). If modern musicology...
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Thoughts on Music and Culture: a discussion with reference to “Music and Culture: Historiographies of Disjuncture” by Philip V. Bohlman and “Music and Social Categories” by John Shepard, both essays...
View ArticleLaurie Anderson: musings of an admirer
Laurie Anderson: post-modern Renaissance woman, Houdini of artistic stereotype and 21st century iconoclast. There is no ‘frame’ or ‘box’ in which Laurie Anderson may be contained – she is an...
View ArticleIs Music a Language? (the seed)
A brief thought. I am reminded by a discussion two years ago with a well known ethnomusicologist and a brilliant music composer-theorist, about whether music is a language or not. The ethnomusicologist...
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