2.2 - ECHO

Articles

Making Old Machines Speak: Images of Technology in...

By Joseph Auner

Narratives of progress and innovation have dominated the story of music and technology throughout the twentieth century.[1]Early versions of this essay were presented at the Humanities Institute...

Articles

Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century...

By Susan McClary

In a classic essay from 1973, art historian Michael Fried focused on a quality he had discerned in French eighteenth-century painting—a quality he called “absorption” (Fried, “Absorption”...

Reviews

The House that Jimi Built: Seattle’s Experience Music...

By Russell Reising

Reviews

Boston Lyric Opera, Akhnaten, Die Zauberflöte, and Aida

By John Richardson

Reviews

James Joyce’s “The Dead,” by Richard Nelson and...

By Erin Templeton

Reviews

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City

By Mark Slobin

Reviews

“The Art of Piano: Great Pianists of the...

By Malcolm Bilson

Interview

Schoenberg at UCLA: Reminiscenes from Leonard Stein

By Maiko Kawabata

Los Angeles is the city of paradox. Where else could Shirley Temple, the Marx Brothers, and other Hollywood luminaries live in the vicinity of eminent Viennese composer...

Roundtable

Music As Object? A Discussion

By Reebee Garofalo, Robert Fink, Casper Partovi, Becky Gebhardt,

REEBEE GAROFALO To begin with, the history of the music industry is that it has greeted any new technology—from piano rolls to radio to cassette tape—with suspicion....