Ever since the first systematic study of Peruvian music (d'Harcourts 1925), musicologists hav... more Ever since the first systematic study of Peruvian music (d'Harcourts 1925), musicologists have puzzled over the relationship of pentatonic, or five-note music, to other modes of music in the Andes. At that time the enquiry was related to the general musicological debate over whether the pentatonic was the universal form of primitive ‘scale’, from which all other musical scales have evolved. This debate was enmeshed with the hypothesis of nineteenth-century anthropology, that this most basic form of musical system could be derived from a human physiological capacity to distinguish the consonances of the intervals of the fourth, the fifth and the octave. Within this evolutionary paradigm, the accumulation of examples of pentatonic melody from the Peruvian Andes was easily interpreted as further evidence of the universality of this form among primitive people.
Popular Musicology and Identity: essays in honour of Stan Hawkins, eds.Kai Arne Hansen, Eirik Askerøi, Freya Jarman, 2020
Far from the 'Perfect Duet' sung by Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran in 2017, a quantification of gender on... more Far from the 'Perfect Duet' sung by Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran in 2017, a quantification of gender on the annual Billboard charts from 1955 to 2017 shows that the 21st century has seen a reversal of the gains made by women in the latter decades of the 20th. However, the figures also show that in periods when female acts have declined, mixed-gender acts have risen in number. A social exploration of male-female groupings over the same period shows a shift away from 'family' groups to a kaleidoscope of 'collaborations' between individuals in recent years. This process also involves the increased prominence of the producer of a song as a named performer, with singers being reduced to 'featured' vocalists. This shift in song attribution is related to the way in which men form 'fratriarchal' networks around song composition and production, leaving women as outsiders to be invited in.
In her article on women‟s advice books, Arlie Hochschild identifies a “cooling” of the modern fem... more In her article on women‟s advice books, Arlie Hochschild identifies a “cooling” of the modern female self, as intimate life is commercialised and taken over by the metaphors and reality of market forces (“Commercial Spirit”). For her, this represents an “abduction of feminism”, just as the protestant ethic escaped the bounds of religious Calvinism and engendered capitalism (22-3). Hochschild illustrates this cooling with an example from Dowling‟s The Cinderella Complex, where a Chicago woman experiences a “magnified moment” of feeling, as she contemplates her independence having left first her husband (at home), and then her married lover (back at the hotel), while she goes skiing in the mountains on her own:
... of Northern Canada is that a policy of total removal of child-birth from local midwives has b... more ... of Northern Canada is that a policy of total removal of child-birth from local midwives has been effective since the mid-1980s (O'Neil and Kaufert ... put between two linen cloths on the abdomen above the navel, and had it reheated two or three times 16 The Quechua tantay is a ...
Ever since the first systematic study of Peruvian music (d'Harcourts 1925), musicologists hav... more Ever since the first systematic study of Peruvian music (d'Harcourts 1925), musicologists have puzzled over the relationship of pentatonic, or five-note music, to other modes of music in the Andes. At that time the enquiry was related to the general musicological debate over whether the pentatonic was the universal form of primitive ‘scale’, from which all other musical scales have evolved. This debate was enmeshed with the hypothesis of nineteenth-century anthropology, that this most basic form of musical system could be derived from a human physiological capacity to distinguish the consonances of the intervals of the fourth, the fifth and the octave. Within this evolutionary paradigm, the accumulation of examples of pentatonic melody from the Peruvian Andes was easily interpreted as further evidence of the universality of this form among primitive people.
Popular Musicology and Identity: essays in honour of Stan Hawkins, eds.Kai Arne Hansen, Eirik Askerøi, Freya Jarman, 2020
Far from the 'Perfect Duet' sung by Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran in 2017, a quantification of gender on... more Far from the 'Perfect Duet' sung by Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran in 2017, a quantification of gender on the annual Billboard charts from 1955 to 2017 shows that the 21st century has seen a reversal of the gains made by women in the latter decades of the 20th. However, the figures also show that in periods when female acts have declined, mixed-gender acts have risen in number. A social exploration of male-female groupings over the same period shows a shift away from 'family' groups to a kaleidoscope of 'collaborations' between individuals in recent years. This process also involves the increased prominence of the producer of a song as a named performer, with singers being reduced to 'featured' vocalists. This shift in song attribution is related to the way in which men form 'fratriarchal' networks around song composition and production, leaving women as outsiders to be invited in.
In her article on women‟s advice books, Arlie Hochschild identifies a “cooling” of the modern fem... more In her article on women‟s advice books, Arlie Hochschild identifies a “cooling” of the modern female self, as intimate life is commercialised and taken over by the metaphors and reality of market forces (“Commercial Spirit”). For her, this represents an “abduction of feminism”, just as the protestant ethic escaped the bounds of religious Calvinism and engendered capitalism (22-3). Hochschild illustrates this cooling with an example from Dowling‟s The Cinderella Complex, where a Chicago woman experiences a “magnified moment” of feeling, as she contemplates her independence having left first her husband (at home), and then her married lover (back at the hotel), while she goes skiing in the mountains on her own:
... of Northern Canada is that a policy of total removal of child-birth from local midwives has b... more ... of Northern Canada is that a policy of total removal of child-birth from local midwives has been effective since the mid-1980s (O'Neil and Kaufert ... put between two linen cloths on the abdomen above the navel, and had it reheated two or three times 16 The Quechua tantay is a ...
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