... known as the Bywater, through scholarly accounts of the function of music in the slave trade, through reports on the singing of survivors in the immediate aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and in terms of the ongoing efforts of some New Orleanians to minimize the sound of live music...

... of longer-term residents, the link between them is not uncontested. T. R. Johnson, a professor of English but also a well-known host of a jazz show on the local New Orleans radio station WWOZ, speaks to the power of music in healing wounds and overcoming traumatic 58 the minnesota review...

... their golden boys. He thought the exorbitant tuition checks might erase the stigma of the dirty work of undertaking. But the old man would have slapped the music right out of his son s head if he had known Our Father spent his time in and out of class daydreaming himself into sunny summertime Beach Boys...

... so far and then just improvise. You have an idea that popped; go on it. Delighted by this delicious uncertainty I pursue my journey and freely connect with the motion possibilities offered by the wheel. As background music is playing, Carl starts to rotate the wheel like a coin that spins on its...

.... Or maybe he felt mixed about raising kids in a middle-class neighborhood  so assimilated himself to suburban neighbors while we ran outside with footballs and played like all-Americans. In elementary, I mixed up my place, sat next to Dannys and Michaels, my voice forgetting its music. I became...

... silently here on Rousseau s (1966: 69 70) Essay on the Origins of Language, where the liturgical music of the medieval Catholic church was responsible for the final separation of the primordial unity of speech with music at the origin of human language, more specifically, descant and counterpoint...

..., and the Middle Passage" {Callaloo [Spring 1994 and "Class of'77: Music Making History" (in Poetics/Politics, St. Martin's [1999 His more recent work targets the centrist politics of erstwhile boomer radicals, in "Boomer Liberalism" {Transition [1999]) and "After Identity, Politics...

... Manifesto (1985), as well as to technofeminism, post-humanism, and studies of the Anthropocene. But not all. Some are computer scientists cowriting baroque music with algorithms; others are exploring the boundaries of deepfake and syntheticmedia technologies. Others are working to expose the underbelly...

... the mangoes are ripe before they are eaten, where we can make music without having to bleed into a bucket to paint the language of our dreams, & the universe does not fist every hour, & the feast is not a funeral o, in a good little town, brother, we ll dance around what it means to be the music of the body...

... is currently a medical transportation driver in Northwest Portland where he lives with his longtime partner Karen Hensley, a social worker and his primary editor. Partridge Boswell, singer/lyricist of the musical group The Cows, produces live music, theater, dance and spoken word performances...

... of this we learned from Mrs. Morgan, my music teacher, who'd taught both Mrs. Keenan and Carolyn, the oldest Keenan child, before the fire. “That poor family,” she said, looking over the sheet music, past the great lid of her piano. “Start over, Jessie. And if you ever want to start those violin lessons...

... Park. On weekends the whole neighborhood was in the park and all the partying, arguing, and loud music from fancy cars poured into the street. The nightlife always led to violence. Fist fights and gangs piling up on one man marked the apex of the evening. The occasional shooting...

... believed, allow him to live much longer. Unless, of course, he ran into something big 52 the minnesota review and mean and did not shift his trajectory. But he didn’t worry about that. He drank his beer. He listened to the music. He hoped, peripher- ally, that he would not be arrested. FROM...

...Michael Giddings [email protected] © 2022 Michael Giddings 2022 Michael Giddings Here Comes Mister Fingers Our daughter was on the floor in front of the couch, tablet propped on her knees. What is she watching? I asked my wife. Eerily cheerful music emanated from the other room...

... house, dizzy, a butterscotch cake in tow. “Rhon,” he said, and she opened the door and hugged him. She asked about Aldo, about their music and their apartment. He tried, at first, to tell her that things were fine, but by evening he had lost the energy to lie and could not explain his...

... of political speech, enunciation, and utterance. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 precarity precarious life prayer Jean-Luc Nancy political speech Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. 1978 . “Music and Language: A Fragment.” In Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music , translated...

... craziest people of the century; the 100 best Biblical names no one uses anymore. America distracts me with its music and its mess. It is always as if somebody has to say something. This was the Age of Annihilation. The age of the pink...

... notes that the terms “music” and “noise” are unstable categories; to classify one sound as “music” and another as “noise” is to apply a subjective judgment to each. Within the larger culture of the sixties, Payne’s identification of whale vocalizations as “songs” raised...

.... Importantly, the performative dimensions of this sociality emerge as central in Wynter s work as well. In her account of the Jamaican performance tradition of Jonkonnu (the dances, music, and plays performed by free and enslaved Africans at Christmas time), Wynter describes the establishment of an alternative...

... be called a “great books” approach. He later described himself as “someone whose intellectual life has been dedicated largely to the understanding and teaching of great works of literary and musical art” (Humanism 62). This conviction that humanism is bound up with the close reading...