Talking Musicology

In this episode Liam and Stephen discuss Seth Brodsky’s fascinating and complex article, ‘Rihm, Tonality, Psychosis, Modernity,’ in which Brodsky presents an innovative Lacanean reading of modernist music and tonality through the case of Wolfgang Rihm. Check it out below, or on iTunes of your podcatcher of choice.

Seth Brodsky, ‘Rihm, Tonality, Psychosis, Modernity,’ Twentieth-Century Music, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2018, pp. 147-186 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/article/rihm-tonality-psychosis-modernity/5BC398E47ADEAF9C530F3A5343C24243)

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In this episode Liam and Stephen discuss the disciplinary divide between the natural sciences and the humanities, and ways we may or may not bridge that divide.

This discussion is inspired by Nina Sun Eidsheim’s ‘Maria Callas’s Waistline and the Organology of Voice’, in which Eidsheim constructs a feminist critique of the cultural yoking of Maria Callas’s voice and weight using an intriguing interdiscipline she describes as vocal organalogy. Check it out below, or on iTunes of your podcatcher of choice!

Nina Sun Eidsheim, ‘Maria Callas’s Waistline and the Organology of Voice’, in The Opera Quarterly, Volume 33, Numbers 3-4, Summer-Autumn 2017

http://www.holdfastnetwork.com/talkingmusicology/7/5/2018/episode-11

In this episode your intrepid hosts discuss musical omnivory, discourse analysis, whither musicology, meta-musicology, #twittermusicology and more.

The discussion is in response to David Blake’s ‘Musicological Omnivory in the Neoliberal University’, published in The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp. 319–353.

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In this episode Liam and Stephen discuss the internet and the post-internet, millenials and post-millenials, multi-modal culture and digitial utopias…and a little bit of music too (including Holly Herndon, a still from whose ‘Chorus’ can be seen above).

The discussion is in response to Michael Waugh’s ‘”My laptop is an extension of my memory and self”: Post-Internet identity, virtual intimacy and digital queering in online popular music’, published in Vol. 36, Issue 2, of Popular Music.

Research in the Round this episode covers everything from Steven Shaviro’s Digital Music Videos to the Kyoto Prize and Susan McClary and Robert Walser’s new endowment.

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In this episode of Talking Musicology, Liam and Stephen discuss recent debates on canons and curricula, diversification and notation, through the lens of Alejandro L. Madrid’s article ‘Diversity, Tokenism, Non-Canonical Musics, and the Crisis of the Humanities in U.S. Academia’, available in the Spring 2017 issue of The Journal of Music History Pedagogy.

Episode 8 is available on iTunes and other podcast clients, and can be streamed here.

In this episode of Talking Musicology Liam and Stephen discuss ethnography and ethnomusicology, post-colonial theory and narrative, and literature as alienation. This is all through the lens of Katie Graber writing on Francis La Flesche (pictured above), in ‘Francis La Flesche and Ethnography: Writing, Power, Critique’, available in the Winter 2017 issue of Ethnomusicology.

Meanwhile in Research-in-the-Round, we highlight an upcoming conference based on the work of Barry S. Brook, and Tim Rutherford-Johnson’s new book Music After the Fall.

Episode 7 is available on iTunes and other podcast clients, and can be streamed here.

In Episode 6 of Talking Musicology Stephen and Liam discuss the New Deleuzicology by way of Klaas Coulembier’s “Multi-Temporality: an Analytical Approach to Contemporary Music, Embracing Concepts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari”; and new music and hybridity by way of Mike Vaughan’s “Register, Dialect, Convolution, and ‘Crosstalk’: Reflections on ‘…the Zones of Influence and Hybridity Between Electroacoustic, Acousmatique Music, Techno, and IDM’”.

Liam having fallen down a well the day before recording, his contribution had to be delivered over the phone; we apologise for the poor audio quality.

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Klaas Coulembier, “Multi-Temporality: an Analytical Approach to Contemporary Music, Embracing Concepts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.” Music Analysis, 35/iii (2016): 341-372.

Mike Vaughan, “Register, Dialect, Convolution, and ‘Crosstalk’: Reflections on ‘…the Zones of Influence and Hybridity Between Electroacoustic, Acousmatique Music, Techno, and IDM’”. Contemporary Music Review, 35:2 (2016): 166-183.

In this episode of Talking Musicology we discuss Ben Piekut’s ‘Indeterminacy, Free Improvisation, and the Mixed Avant-Garde: Experimental Music in London, 1965-75’, in which Piekut writes about overlapping avant-garde musics in Britain and elsewhere through the lens of Music Now, a non-profit music organisation run by Victor Schonfeld.

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Benjamin Piekut. “Indeterminacy, Free Improvisation, and the Mixed Avant-Garde: Experimental Music in London, 1965-75.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 67/3 (Fall 2014): 769-824.

In this episode of Talking Musicology we discuss an article by Richard Taruskin focused on music and power in Soviet Russia.

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Richard Taruskin, ‘Two Serendipities. Keynoting a Conference, “Music and Power”,’ in The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 33 No. 3, Summer 2016, pp. 401-431
Abstract: http://jm.ucpress.edu/content/33/3/401

In this episode of Talking Musicology we discuss articles by Mark Greif on Radiohead and the philosophy of pop and by Jennifer Walshe et al on a new movement in composition, the New Discipline.

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Mark Greif, ‘Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop,’ in n+1, Issue 3 (Fall 2005).
Article online: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-3/essays/radiohead-or-philosophy-pop/

Jennifer Walshe et al, Various articles on the New Discipline, in Musiktexte, 149 (May 2016):
Articles online: http://musiktexte.de/MusikTexte-149