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Christopher Webber

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Mar 31, 2013, 6:03:16 AM3/31/13
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A gem from the latest OUP Music Catalogue:

"This book shows how 'le hip hop' reflects a republic of culture rather
than a culture industry; a minority identity politics that takes shape
as a movement poetics or figural language; and the public valorization
of dance as a technique, meriting unemployment compensation and
understood as a high-tech knowledge practice." ('The Cultural Politics
of le hip hop')

An inspiring dictum. I've often felt the same could be said of Albert W.
Ket�lbey.

Let's name names. The abstract above is of the book "The Cultural
Politics of le hip hop" by Felicia McCarren, a Professor of French at
Tulane University. Academic American English seems to bear about the
same relation to a spoken language as Latin does to modern Italian.

John Wiser

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Mar 31, 2013, 9:46:13 AM3/31/13
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"Christopher Webber" <zarz...@zarzuela.invalid.net> wrote in message
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>A gem from the latest OUP Music Catalogue:
>
> "This book shows how 'le hip hop' reflects a republic of culture rather than a culture industry; a
> minority identity politics that takes shape as a movement poetics or figural language; and the
> public valorization of dance as a technique, meriting unemployment compensation and understood as
> a high-tech knowledge practice." ('The Cultural Politics of le hip hop')
>
> An inspiring dictum. I've often felt the same could be said of Albert W. Ketčlbey.
>
> Let's name names. The abstract above is of the book "The Cultural Politics of le hip hop" by
> Felicia McCarren, a Professor of French at Tulane University. Academic American English seems to
> bear about the same relation to a spoken language as Latin does to modern Italian.
>

Drivel knows no nation.

jdw

Bob Harper

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Mar 31, 2013, 9:59:07 AM3/31/13
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On 3/31/13 6:46 AM, John Wiser wrote:
> "Christopher Webber" <zarz...@zarzuela.invalid.net> wrote in message
> news:arqfv5...@mid.individual.net...
>> A gem from the latest OUP Music Catalogue:
>>
>> "This book shows how 'le hip hop' reflects a republic of culture
>> rather than a culture industry; a minority identity politics that
>> takes shape as a movement poetics or figural language; and the public
>> valorization of dance as a technique, meriting unemployment
>> compensation and understood as a high-tech knowledge practice." ('The
>> Cultural Politics of le hip hop')
>>
>> An inspiring dictum. I've often felt the same could be said of Albert
>> W. Ket�lbey.
>>
>> Let's name names. The abstract above is of the book "The Cultural
>> Politics of le hip hop" by Felicia McCarren, a Professor of French at
>> Tulane University. Academic American English seems to bear about the
>> same relation to a spoken language as Latin does to modern Italian.
>>
>
> Drivel knows no nation.
>
> jdw

Agreed. BS is BS, whther in English, French, German, or Esperanto.

Bob Harper

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Mar 31, 2013, 10:09:10 AM3/31/13
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In article <MiX5t.77616$Zp1....@en-nntp-15.dc1.easynews.com>, Bob
It's just this generation's "The Revolution will not be televised."

-Owen

graham

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Mar 31, 2013, 12:17:18 PM3/31/13
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"Christopher Webber" <zarz...@zarzuela.invalid.net> wrote in message
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>A gem from the latest OUP Music Catalogue:
>
> "This book shows how 'le hip hop' reflects a republic of culture rather
> than a culture industry; a minority identity politics that takes shape as
> a movement poetics or figural language; and the public valorization of
> dance as a technique, meriting unemployment compensation and understood as
> a high-tech knowledge practice." ('The Cultural Politics of le hip hop')
>
Just try reading Susan McClary's paper on Schubert: "Constructions of
Subjectivity in Franz Schubert's Music"
Graham


John Wiser

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Mar 31, 2013, 12:29:33 PM3/31/13
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"graham" <g.st...@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:jkZ5t.339744$KR.2...@newsfe27.iad...
I take offense at this suggestion,
which smacks of Bum Steer.
I have more amusing ways
to fritter away my golden years

jdw

Christopher Webber

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Mar 31, 2013, 12:38:24 PM3/31/13
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On 31/03/2013 14:46, John Wiser wrote:
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> Drivel knows no nation.

Certainly. But this particular flavour of drivel has been 'valorized'
(or puffed) by North American academics - it is their special
contribution to intellectual history (or mystery).

John Wiser

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Mar 31, 2013, 12:55:34 PM3/31/13
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"Christopher Webber" <zarz...@zarzuela.invalid.net> wrote in message
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That's as may be. I'm in favor
of persuading academics
to keep their grubby minds
off music entirely.

jdw

Bob Harper

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Mar 31, 2013, 1:23:29 PM3/31/13
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I'll pass, thanks very much. BTW, isn't she the 'scholar' who discovered
a rape in Beethoven 9/i?

Bob Harper

graham

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Mar 31, 2013, 2:05:59 PM3/31/13
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"Bob Harper" <bob.h...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Yes!
"The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth is one of
the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is
frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling
murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release."
I think she sees everything from a "feminazi" standpoint.
Graham


Curlytop

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Apr 1, 2013, 2:32:25 PM4/1/13
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graham set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum:

>> I'll pass, thanks very much. BTW, isn't she the 'scholar' who discovered
>> a rape in Beethoven 9/i?
>>
> Yes!
> "The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth is one of
> the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is
> frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling
> murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release."
> I think she sees everything from a "feminazi" standpoint.
> Graham

A real rape is depicted in the middle of Sibelius' Kullervo Symphony.
Unfortunately for the title character, the young lady whom he has picked up
(and bundled into his sledge) turns out to be his long-lost sister. . .
--
ξ: ) Proud to be curly

Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply

Curlytop

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Apr 1, 2013, 2:37:41 PM4/1/13
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Bob Harper set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

> Agreed. BS is BS, whther in English, French, German, or Esperanto.

Ĉu vi vere kredas tiun?

John Wiser

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Apr 1, 2013, 2:52:15 PM4/1/13
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"Curlytop" <pvstownse...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:kjck1k$lgk$2...@dont-email.me...
> Bob Harper set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
> continuum:
>
>> Agreed. BS is BS, whther in English, French, German, or Esperanto.
>
> Ĉu vi vere kredas tiun?
> --
???diru al vi, ne eblas BS en esperanto?

jdw

John Wiser

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Apr 1, 2013, 2:56:09 PM4/1/13
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"Curlytop" <pvstownse...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:kjcjno$lgk$1...@dont-email.me...
Ya wonder why Finns have such a rep.

There was a young wench from Toledo
with an overinflated libido
when a couple of Finns made her mother of twins
she cried out in joy "Oh you keedo!"

jdw
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