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Dissertation Digest: The Flute in Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Scotland...
[Ed. Note: This "Dissertation Digest" is the first in an ongoing series aimed at drawing wider attention to in-progress and recently completed dissertations in musicology. Drafts of posts as well as...
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Preview: Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music
by David Brackett[Author note: This excerpt contains excerpts from chapters one and nine.]Like many readers of this blog, after I tell people that I’m a musicologist I’m frequently asked about what...
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Dissertation Digest: The Spanish Lamento: Discourses of Love, Power, and...
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Double Bind Taste Test: On the Music in THAT Pepsi Ad
By Joanna LovePepsi just did it again.Almost thirty years after sending shock waves through religious communities and leaving the advertising industry reeling from a commercial that featured loaded...
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Dissertation Digest — The Theatre of Politics and the Politics of Theatre:...
By Austin GlatthornA group of tourists learn about Regensburg’s imperial past in front of the old city hall. Originally built as a dance hall c.1360, the building hosted the Empire’s Reichstag from...
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Musicology Now is pleased to present its first installment of summer Quick Takes, featuring analysis and commentary on music and sounds from some of this summer's most popular films. Our first four...
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Quick Takes: Diegetic Music, Mythmaking, and the Heroic Theme in Guardians of...
By William O'HaraBefore their cinematic debut in the summer of 2014, the Guardians of the Galaxy were one of Marvel's lesser-known properties. While various teams of superheroes have operated under the...
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Quick Takes: Foreshadowing and Mirroring in Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
by Catrin WattsAs I watched the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, I was struck with a sense of déjà vu: the first three songs of Vol. 2 are used in exactly the same way as Vol. 1! Looking...
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Quick Takes: Allegories of the Self in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
By James BuhlerAbout two-thirds of the way into the film, Ego (Kurt Russell) is trying to persuade his son, Peter (Chris Pratt), that they are two of a kind and deserve to be able to remake the...
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Quick Takes: Chains of Nostalgia in The Guardians of the Galaxy
By Brooke McCorkleAmong the many Marvel Cinematic Universe films to grace the summer screens over the last decade, The Guardians of the Galaxy stands out for its unique jouissance. Amidst epic space...
View ArticleQuick Takes on Wonder Woman
Today, Musicology Now begins a series of Quick Takes on the summer blockbuster hit, Wonder Woman. Grace Edgar, Jessica Getman, Caitlan Truelove, and Naomi Graber will discuss the film, its score, and...
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From Sex Object to God: A New World for Wonder Woman
By Grace EdgarIn her first solo outing, Diana (Gal Gadot) faced the daunting task of defeating the very concept of war itself. Raised by Amazons on an isolated island, she is thrown into the thick of...
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A Woman’s Voice (Wonder Woman)
By Jessica GetmanDespite Steve Trevor’s attempts to convince her otherwise, Diana continued to insist that Ares was behind The Great War. In the end she was right, and she saved the world.Wonder...
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Reflections on the Nature of Evil or, Eichmann in Themyscira
By Naomi Graber[1]The creative team behind Wonder Woman faced no simple task: they had to create a stand-alone film that would still fit neatly into the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), a franchise that...
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Balancing the Sound and Score: Sonic Storytelling in Wonder Woman
By Caitlan TrueloveWonder Woman is not your standard superhero film in many ways, the most important being the balance of sound and score. Previous research indicates that superhero films contain 1) a...
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Earth Music
By Alexander Rehding and Daniel KL ChuaCarl Sagan proudly exhibits the Golden Record.Exactly forty years ago, in 1977, the two spacecraft of the Voyager mission left Planet Earth to start their...
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Dissertation Digest — Timbeando en Nueva York: Cuban Dance Culture in Havana...
By Sarah TownNew York's casineros come together in Central Park on a recent Saturday afternoon, their dance circle mirroring those of the Bethesda Fountain, which rises behind them.June 30, 2014....
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Six Easy Ways to Immediately Address Racial and Gender Diversity in Your...
By Kira Thurman and Kristen TurnerMany of us have probably had “the talk.” No, not the birds and the bees, the talk on how to bring women and people of color into the overwhelmingly white, male world...
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The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
By Marianna RitcheyMarianna Ritchey at the opera. Image courtesy of Marianna Ritchey.On July 26, I attended The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, a new opera by Mason Bates. (R)evolution was co-commissioned...
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Inheriting Ivalice: The Multiple Sonic Legacies of Final Fantasy XII: The...
By Ryan ThompsonFinal Fantasy XII was originally released in 2006 for the Playstation 2, and a remastered edition was released in 2017 for the Playstation 4 under the title Final Fantasy XII: The...
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