...Nathaniel Mackey [email protected] Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Song of the Andoumboulou: 300 — for n. o. brown: “the h.d. extension” —  Once over the summit we saw clear to the bay, white sunlight bounced off the water.  The shells of a thousand ships lay...

...Rochona Majumdar What changes in our understanding of Indian films when we treat the song sequence as a separate medium situated both within and outside the film text? I argue for treating the song text as operating simultaneously on multiple levels, both within the film and in its afterlife...

...Hoon Song Authorship is the key site where the power of North Korea's leader gathers itself. The founding father, Kim Il Sung, “authored” the nation by scripting the philosophico-political text Juch'e . But this element of leader-as-author—the “king” who is also “philosopher”—is constitutively...

... to the officially orchestrated New Folk Songs movement (1958), this understanding of the correspondence as a Romantic bildungsroman with two protagonists probes the question of the possibilities of a socialist developmental narrative, of agency and participation in the emergence of new subjectivity, and of the role...

..., halting rhythms, repetitions, asides, and idiosyncratic quotes. As in the Orphic tradition, the professor becomes what he's professing: Brown teaches us to sing a love song according to the Muses, finding the meaning in the singing and in the etymology of the names of the divine sisters. Brown's nearly...

... poems, folk songs, letters, and the original lyrics of the “Bed Hangings” sequence—the whole designed to create an elegiac memoir of the poet's mother, Mary Manning Howe, that is also an autobiographical account of the poet's own discovery of her vocation and her place in her maternal family history...

...Rob Wilson Abstract By a transfigurative recoding of selfhood and quasi-biblical analogizing of historical events across space and time, Bob Dylan enacted in his poetic name change from Zimmerman to Dylan (as he would writing across the larger body of his song-poetry) what Norman O. Brown had...

...: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 7–8. Shank / ‘‘That Wild Mercury Sound’’ 99 gives us a history of more or less successful attempts at self-recreation—a reconstruction created out of songs and dreams shared by strangers. The most curious aspect of all...

... altogether,” when his songs like “Masters of War” tracked Cold War social antagonisms linking home and abroad, still activates work that is “his most timely and his most out of time.”7 2. David Yaffe, Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (New Haven, CT: Yale Univer- sity Press, 2011), 17, 21, 95, 82...

... how hard it was for a hillbilly to hold his head high. Takes a worried man to sing a worried song. These were men, especially Williams, for whom speak- ing out loud and sustaining a song was the hardest job. That song by Ten...

... effects and how Prince engages and extends the blues idiom. As in “Horny Toad,” Prince initiates the instrumental section of “Kiss” with the statement “I think I wanna dance” and a groan. The subsequent sixteen-bar guitar solo echoes the riff that has appeared throughout the song, but it develops...

...-baring”­ conversations [between Song Siming and Haizao]. It recorded eleven hundred thousand visits in three days and some three thou- sand responses. Since the lines are “very bone-baring the SARFT could no longer tolerate [Woju]. It criticizes Woju...

..., of the quality of inevitable-seeming momentum that the world calls swing, of boundary 2 30:2, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Duke University Press. 116 boundary 2 / Summer 2003 the relaxed, and of the playful impulse to reinvent a song that is called jazz singing. Harder to evaluate with certainty...

... with allegories drawn from ancient Greece. In Homer’s Odyssey, Circe warns Odysseus of the dangers of the hypnotic sounds of the Sirens. Odysseus’s overwhelming desire to hear the Sirens is tempered by Circe’s warning that their song will lure him and his men to their death. To avoid this, Odysseus has...

... as the Meera tradition because it has an unbroken and yet discontinuous history. Coauthorship in the Meera tradition involves the collective action of inter- pellating the local, historically specific community experience into a Meera song. We have to rethink the critical assumption that secular...

... away from Western- directed modernity and attempts to “discover history in China An earlier case of this indigenous modernity thesis was made by the Japanese schol- ars of the Kyoto school, who view China’s Song dynasty as the beginning of East Asia’s own homegrown modernity, parallel...

... in Their Eyes Were Watching God, or the violent laughter that psychologically liberates Ellison’s Invisible Man more than once during his odyssey? If we deepen our analy- sis and trace the source of tragicomic lyricism in Their Eyes to specific blues songs, such as Memphis Minnie’s ‘‘Bumble Bee Blues...

... to the Chinese sage in this context. Consider the work of the Taoism-influenced Beijing-based artist Song Dong. In a short text about Song's work that was published on the occasion of the exhibition The Allure of Matter (shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2019 until 2020), Nancy P. Lin ( 2019...

... that other large cultural movements have. This commentary is about a song. This song and the MC I emphasize here were the hinge upon which “the joints, the jams” swung. 1. Follow Him into the Flow J. L. Austin and Rakim (full stage name Rakim Allah, a.k.a. William Michael Griffin Jr...

... calla el cantor / calla la vida / porque la vida / la vida misma / es todo un canto (If the singer is silenced / life is silent / because life / life itself / is one big song) Mercedes Sosa, Si Se Calla el Cantor boundary 2 46:4 (2019) DOI 10.1215/01903659-7859165 © 2019 by Duke University Press...