music-cultures

CALL FOR PAPERS Music Cultures: Journeys into Sound.  Papers wanted across disciplines on diverse range of music-  related subjects. Deadline December 1 2015    THIS IS MY SONG Intimate analysis of favourite songs  selected by contributors  AN UNEARTHLY SOUND TARDIS Materialises for the  First Time  DAVID BOWIE CHANGED MY LIFE FBIspy asked  about his influence on your life and you answered. Here are  the results  BOWIE GENDER, TRUTH AND ARTIFICE IN  DRESS Ziggy Stardust’s appearance owed much more to  Japanese kabuki theatre than to Western forms of cross-  dressing

DO Introducing Music Cultures           PLAY AT MAXIMUM VOLUME         Dene October My Song         RE Little bit of the old Ludvig Van: the figure as composer     Reader: Getting Down Off the Beanstalk (chapter 5 in McClary Feminine Endings) MI  He Hit Me and it Felt Like a Kiss: the performer     Reader: Roland Barthes Grain of the Voice       FA Zang Tumb Tumb: the listener    Reader: Chion Three Listening Modes   SO My Song Present your blog submissions to class   LA All in the best possible Taste / Reader: Carl Wilson TI Even Better than the Real Thing: authenticity    Reader: Sarah Thornton, The Social Logic of Subcultural Capital         DO Fight the Power: music and/as resistance / Reader: Thomas Frank, Why Johnny Can’t Dissent?      last minute tutorials