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2006

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Review Of Pretty Poison, Michael Adams Jan 2006

Review Of Pretty Poison, Michael Adams

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Review of Noel Black's Pretty Poison: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/11/pretty-poison.html


Review Of Elevator To The Gallows, Michael Adams Jan 2006

Review Of Elevator To The Gallows, Michael Adams

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Review of Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/06/elevator-to-the-gallows.html


Review Of Petulia, Michael Adams Jan 2006

Review Of Petulia, Michael Adams

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Review of Richard Lester's Petulia: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/06/petulia.html


Rousseau's Gift To Geneva, Helena Rosenblatt Jan 2006

Rousseau's Gift To Geneva, Helena Rosenblatt

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People often seem to forget that Rousseau dedicated his Second Discourse to “The Republic of Geneva.” This is a shame because, in doing so, they miss precious clues not only about the meaning of the Discourse itself, but also about its place in Rousseau’s political thought as a whole.

It is no accident that Rousseau dedicated the Discourse on Inequality, his most radical work of all, to his hometown of Geneva; but it requires some research into the historical context to understand why. In Geneva a patrician ruling elite was using social contract theory to subvert the democratic principles …


Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus Jan 2006

Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus

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The emerging interdisciplinary field of disability studies takes as its subject matter the historical, social, and cultural construction of disability. After a brief introduction to disability studies, this article explores the interconnected histories of disability and music as they are manifested in three theoretical approaches to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Western art music (the musical Formenlehre and the tonal theories of Schoenberg and Schenker) and in three works by Beethoven and Schubert. Around the turn of the nineteenth century in Western Europe, disability began to be understood not as something natural and permanent but rather as a deviation from …


Review Of Yellow Sky, Michael Adams Jan 2006

Review Of Yellow Sky, Michael Adams

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Review of William Wellman's 1948 Western, inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest.