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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 162–183.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Eric Drott This article interrogates music’s role in the work of social reproduction by bringing into dialogue two seemingly antithetical approaches to thinking music’s relation to the social. One is historical materialism; the other is work informed by the “practice turn” in music sociology...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 111–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
... by the recent rush to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other mass online informational offerings. We base our argument on current developments in music education and music technology that we see as being preemptive of wider trends. We use examples from a three-year study of online and offline music...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 265–268.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Sue Miller Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba , Moore Robin D. , Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2006 , 367 pages, $24.95 / £15.95 , PB ISBN 0–520–24711–6 © BERG 2007 PRINTED IN THE UK 2007 In Music and Revolution Robin...
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in Collective Crafting in Post-Suharto Indonesia: A Journey with Ruangrupa from the Jakarta Institute of the Arts to Documenta Fifteen in Kassel
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 11 Ruangrupa, “THE KUDA: The Untold Story of Indonesian Underground Music in the 70s,” rock music festival, Jakarta, 2012.
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 188–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the “musical act”: a supervening decomposition of subjectivity through a sonic fold in space-time-sound. Thus composers work through and against musical customs to render audible what was once inaudible (or, simply, to render musical what was once noise). With varying degrees of exception, Lyotard's musical...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 121–137.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Uros Cvoro This essay discusses the music style of turbo-folk as the vanishing mediator between two kinds of nationalism in Serbia: anti-Yugoslav nationalism and pan-Balkan regionalist nationalism. Using Slavoj Žižek's account of the concept of the vanishing mediator, I suggest that the nationalism...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 July 2020
... much time discussing art, his brief remarks are used as an entry point to move to Lyotard’s writings on music and art, where the author fleshes out an aesthetic dimension to the general intellect and the project of exodus. The argument focuses on the artistic gesture (the “art” in/of the artwork...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 5–24.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of Live 8, but traces this back through Make Poverty History, Jubilee 2000, and Live Aid; and it makes contrasts with another example of music’s use for political ends: Rock Against Racism. What we are concerned to show is how Geldof’s role was constituted both by the political and aesthetic ideology...
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Published: 01 November 2007
Carrie Moyer, “Beauty Is In the Streets, ” 2005. Screenprint. 24 × 18 inches. Installed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Fall 2005.
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 64–78.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the politics of cool intersects with race and gender. The article considers the epistemology of “cool” across different consumer media. The music video, This Is America , it is argued, resists easy classification but expands the concept of and jouissance of ‘cool’ so that violence too becomes a kind...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 241–260.
Published: 01 July 2023
... the image of Escobar in their music, lyrics, aesthetics, and rhetoric and, on the other hand, Colombian institutional memorialization of the war on drugs. The author argues that Wiz Khalifa's pictures exemplify how mainstream hip-hop brings together the images of the Black American “hustler” and the Latin...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 413–427.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Alighieri's Divine Comedy , Jean-Luc Godard's Le mèpris , and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey . Kittler is concerned with the linkage of poetry, music, and sex from the Greeks to media- and computer-driven modernity. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Homer The Odyssey alphabetization Dante...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 2012
... arguments made in his late work Music and Mathematics . His work is seen as determined by two movements of excursion, going out to the exotic, whether North American or Mediterranean, and recursion, meaning the closure of mathematical or logical systems. Yet recursion, in Kittler, turns out to be more...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 170–187.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Matthew Mendez This article sketches the development of Jean-François Lyotard's musical thinking through the lens of the composer with whom he was most often associated, John Cage. I contend that the affinity Lyotard felt for Cage's work came about on the basis of two shared concerns: first...
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 13 Screenshot from the Digital Audio Workstation, Ambisonic plugins from the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics from Gratz, Grapes 3D sound VST on a beta stage of development and a custom tool to recreate the turbulence, 2023. Photograph by Víctor Mazón Gardoqui.
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 202–216.
Published: 01 July 2016
... for a jazz program, they are getting two things at once: the music they want to hear and a little exercise in individual freedom. [pause] [to recording engineer]: You suppose Eisenhower will agree? Engineer: Yes he will. 1 Ellington—an African American Christian, Republican, capitalist...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 March 2024
... documentaries, in which vistas of human-free domains like Chernobyl and the deep oceans preempt the disappearance of the human species and, of special interest for this article, music, including Jem Finer's one-thousand-year-long composition Longplayer (1999 – ) and popular songs like Tom Waits's bleak “Earth...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 287–296.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Music—“just a sweet pressure of the air” 1 But for music to once again turn into air after two and half millennia of notes and six hundred years of sheet music...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2007
... in the phenomenon of jazz outside America has been growing in recent years. The processes of exporting and import ing, and subsequently reproducing and develop ing a genre that is often considered to be “America’s classical music” are, of course, inherently political. George McKay addresses this directly...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 345–357.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of old academic disciplines and shaped new ones. Such shifts reveal profound challenges both to the staid posture of the academy and to the music itself. Cherished for its unassailable energy and style, hip-hop might in fact be banalized by academic treatments, emptied of real politics, and, instead...
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