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...Simon Porzak Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Zerbinetta’s Laughter An Introduction to the Marginality of Song simon porzak “If you once begin, sir,” added the cheerful Pedgift, “you’ll fi nd it get uncommonly easy as you go on. Music is a science which requires to be taken...

... himself or as he once was when his poetic calling fi rst dawned on him. In “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (PP, 388), Whitman associates the fl ower’s scent with his fi rst indirect experience of mourning when listening to the song of a bird bereft of its mate...

... (that is, alter) one's habits of listening. On this occasion, I draw on the problematic of listening from an additional source. Beyond the strictly musical questions that emerge out of a bold experiment in the song form — the collabo- ration between the poet Bertolt Brecht...

... Archive/Getty Images. 152 qui parle fall/winter 2012 vol.21, no.1 David Bowie’s 1973 album Pin Ups consists entirely of covers— his versions of songs originally recorded by other British bands between 1964 and 1967. Pin Ups...

... into purely electronic streams of sound, thus creating a whole new array of fetish-objects that in- teract with the body differently (wires that plug directly into the ears, for instance). Do you think the rise of electrifi ed songs and the shift from a record paradigm...

...- logue. INVISIBLE MUSIC (ELLISON) 179 Prologue: Music's (Black and Blue) Face The prologue to Invisible Man is like a hypertext with the Fats Waller-Andy Razaf song "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue?" functioning as its...

... and imagines life in a new shape, a fairer one. So I would say that the booty in contemporary politics is still about whose suffering mat- ters more, and, relatedly, what forms of repair the representation of such suffering would intend. jg: I’ve sent you Justin Vivian Bond’s song...

... rocks. Though it might just be one’s own fault: for, who ever heard of drinking brandy on the rocks. Where, dilution is precisely the call of the sirens; where the sirens call through the very melting itself. Which is the danger that Odysseus was aware of: for, it’s not the song that kills you...

...Jonathan Skinner Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 From Warblers jonathan skinner Bay-Breasted Dendroica castanea 3 songs wishing well-wishers because you rode all the way things of each possible indistinct lisping series of 3 to 10...

... into this somewhere nowhere in which everyone participates). 7 Life ceaselessly departs, and in its passage it leaves behind no inheritance save the radiant, ungraspable traces of its dispersed traversal. The child’s question to Nancy recalls the scene with a questioning child in Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself...

... the ticks, even slugs and snakes. “Well,” Lucille told me, “they’ll eat just about anything. They ain’t particular, not picky like you.” When the subject is possums, questions of good and evil, blame and fault come to life in sharp relief. Years later, I found a possum song in a book called Slave...

... that popular song takes (including recordings, sheet music, television, radio, digital videos, cinema, etc.) encourage its fans to develop a queer relationship to meaning. adriana cavarero teaches philosophy and political theory at the Uni- versity of Verona, Italy. Among her books are In Spite...

... of literature will force a rethinking of the nature of experience as such and thus of the apparently metaphorical relation between objects and their meanings. From the start Les chants de Maldoror presents itself as an anomaly, since it is a novel made up of songs further divided into strophes...

..., the dead and the unborn, for which she offered her “antiphonal call,” through her story, her song, and her pain.13 Roqiya’s story is woven of returns to the uninhabitable zone of an event, peregrinations around an intractable real, which re- mains active and alive in her perception...

..., but a complex imbrication, sometimes an agonized struggle. The encounter with the other’s being, as seen in the barbershop, is potentially both inspirational and flatulent: Its anguish produces the poet’s ecstatic song but also his empty rhetoric, the mere hot air of an egoistic defense. Now...

... is on the mind intently ( zhi ); song makes language (yan ) last long.” 16 That is, the poem exteriorizes what is interior, a spoken communication of mind (the same word, yan , is used for “articulates” and for “language”) that takes place through the materiality of poetic language. To put it another way...

... to be a somebody than our inability to speak as if we were less than a divine somebody. The Alpha and the Omega take us back to Lucretius’s focus on the alphabet, although in Celan’s song of songs it is not a reorganization of letters that enlivens language, since the poem moves from death, the “dust” ( Staub...

... of ballet, spoken dialogue, and song, Cambert’s work in fi ve acts is widely considered a forerunner of French opera. Although little of it survives beyond the libretto and the music of the prologue and fi rst act, the event inspired one spectator to comment on the audience’s response.1 Titled...

... are dealing, according to Horkheimer and Adorno, with a voice of bodily enjoyment that opposes the self’s rationality by induc- ing it to melt back into the bliss of its prehistory (Horkheimer and Adorno 1969). This analysis applies all the more readily to song, in which mu...

... music technology du jour: the piano roll machine.2 The question at hand was whether or not a piano roll constituted a "copy" of the sheet music that it played. If so, copy- right owners could enjoin unauthorized piano rolls of the songs for which they.owned the copyright. If not, piano roll...