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Comment on Short Takes: Tracking Musical Taste — Trendsetting Cities by Geared2research

Geared2research — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:16:14 +0000

My intuitive sense said to check on Last.fm ratings and I found this; http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2341738,00.asp

Comment on This is how to write about music! James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” by journalisme musical | Pearltrees

journalisme musical | Pearltrees — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:12:01 +0000

[...] This is how to write about music! James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” « Deciphering Culture After a minor medical emergency and a ridiculously busy week, I am back to my major endeavor for the month of March, rewriting the first chapter of my manuscript on Moroccan alternative music. It opens with a musical vignette that introduces the music, sets the scene and sets up the theoretical framework for the book. It’s a tricky section to write: writing about music is always tricky. Attempting to capture a primarily aural experience in print is an exercise in capturing lightning in a bottle, especially if you are writing for an academic audience. Too often “serious” writing on music loses the immediacy of the musical experience in overly careful prose designed to maintain some misguided allegiance to accurate representation — misguided because losing the truth of an experience is a high price to pay for obsequious fealty to maintaining the real. And is it a choice we have to make? [...]

Comment on The Sync/Lost Project — charting the history of electronic music by Arntr

Arntr — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:47:35 +0000

Great information. I was looking for this for some times now.

Comment on Tommy on the edge of a cliff by The limits of GPS: looking for a labyrinth on the edge of a cliff « Deciphering Culture

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:00:33 +0000

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Comment on Tommy on the edge of a cliff by Tommy on the edge of a cliff (Redux) « POP CULTURE TRANSGRESSIONS

Tommy on the edge of a cliff (Redux) « POP CULTURE TRANSGRESSIONS — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:34:12 +0000

[...] that gets me going and inspires me is entitled “Tommy.” For the original post go to Tommy on the edge of a cliff and scroll down below to the YouTube video of the lesser-known [...]

Comment on Ethnographic Storytelling – a lesson from Haruki Murakami by Short Takes: Haruki Murakami on talent, focus & endurance « Deciphering Culture

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:12:31 +0000

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Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:12:29 +0000

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Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:10:19 +0000

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Comment on Ethnographic Storytelling – another lesson from Haruki Murakami by Short takes: Storytelling — illness narratives as healing tools « Deciphering Culture

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:03:16 +0000

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Comment on Short takes: Design Storytelling & User Experience by Short takes: Storytelling — illness narratives as healing tools « Deciphering Culture

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:03:13 +0000

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