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The Riddim Method: Aesthetics, Practice, And Ownership In Jamaican Dancehall, Peter L. Manuel, Wayne Marshall
The Riddim Method: Aesthetics, Practice, And Ownership In Jamaican Dancehall, Peter L. Manuel, Wayne Marshall
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The Jamaican system of recording and performance, from the 1950s to the present, constitutes a distinctive approach to notions of composition, originality and ownership. Emerging from a tradition of live performance practice mediated by (and informing) sound recordings, the relative autonomy of riddims and voicings in the Jamaican system challenges conventional ideas about the integrity of a song and the degree to which international copyright law applies to local conceptions, as enshrined in decades of practice, of musical materials as public domain. With the spread of the ‘riddim method’ to the sites of Jamaican mass migration, as evidenced by similar …
Structural Analysis Or Cultural Analysis? Competing Perspectives On The "Standard Pattern" Of West African Rhythm, Kofi Agawu
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Polyrhythmic dance compositions from West Africa typically feature an ostinato bell pattern known as a time line. Timbrally distinct, asymmetrical in structure, and aurally prominent, time lines have drawn comment from scholars as keys to understanding African rhythm. This article focuses on the best known and most widely distributed of these, the so-called standard pattern, a seven-stroke figure spanning twelve eighth notes and disposed durationally as <2212221>. Observations about structure (including its internal dynamic, metrical potential, and rotational properties) are juxtaposed with a putative African-cultural understanding (inferred from the firm place of dance in the culture, patterns of verbal discourse, …
The Saga Of A Song: Authorship And Ownership In The Case Of ‘Guantanamera’, Peter L. Manuel
The Saga Of A Song: Authorship And Ownership In The Case Of ‘Guantanamera’, Peter L. Manuel
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No abstract provided.
A Country That Ain’T Really Belong To Me’: Dominicanyorks, Identity And Popular Music, Angelina Tallaj
A Country That Ain’T Really Belong To Me’: Dominicanyorks, Identity And Popular Music, Angelina Tallaj
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No abstract provided.
Review Of Elevator To The Gallows, Michael Adams
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 Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, Michael Adams
Review Of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, Michael Adams
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Review of Taylor Hackford's Chuck Berry documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n'Roll: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2006/08/chuck-berry-hail-hail-rock-n-roll.html
Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus
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 …
Liberace, Janet Butler Munch
Liberace, Janet Butler Munch
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Liberace was a pianist and popular entertainer who projected old-world elegance and set the tone for showmanship in the postwar era.
Flamenco In Focus: An Analysis Of A Performance Of Soleares, Peter L. Manuel
Flamenco In Focus: An Analysis Of A Performance Of Soleares, Peter L. Manuel
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No abstract provided.