Piano concerti have been heard on the soundtracks of innumerable feature films since the 1930s. In American films, classics such as the Chaikovsky First Concerto and the...
Read More“What about doing it about the Chicanos?”[1]Leonard Bernstein to Arthur Laurents, quoted in Otis L. Guernsey, Broadway Song and Story: Playwrights/Lyricists/Composers Discuss Their Hits (New York: Dodd, Mead,...
Read MoreFor Ronald Hitzler “The current official guidebook of the city, endorsed by city mayor Eberhard Diepgen, is divided into two parts: The Past and The Future. The present is...
Read MorePhilip Brett first presented “Queer Musical Orientalism” by invitation at the Conference on Aesthetics and Difference at the University of California, Riverside in October 1998, and subsequently...
Read MoreFor it might be at first thought that the whole kingdom of imagination was one of deception also. Not so: the action of the imagination is a...
Read MoreOf the many forms of expression through which their thought moves, flowing and multiplying without privilege or hierarchy, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari number “pop” among the...
Read More“Intensification is the Name of the Game”[1]Victor Turner, on the necessity of an acute centering of attention on the “here and now” in ritual performance. See Turner,...
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