We are pleased to announce that Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form, by Katherine In-Young Lee, is the recipient of The Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology from ASCAP. From the judging committee citation: “Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form by Katherine In-Young Lee, published by Wesleyan University Press, received The Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology. The book explores how a percussion genre…
The Bauhaus, 1919–1933 In the wake of the First World War, conceptions of art, mechanization, and technology were becoming much-discussed subjects by aestheticians. German architect Walter Gropius attempted to synthesize these subjects in 1919 when he opened the Bauhaus, a studio in Weimar, Germany that would eventually become eponymous for the ideals of the school.…
“This is an excellent, much-needed study of the ‘gentle, ubiquitous, cacophonous’ soundscapes of Tokyo. Plourde combines descriptions of Tokyo’s sites of listening—experimental-music venue, classical-music café, department store, office—with insightful analyses to link seemingly disparate listening cultures in compelling and unexpected ways.”—David Grubbs, author of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, theSixties, and Sound Recording Tokyo…
From the novel Native Tributes, by Gerald Vizenor: Dummy Trout surprised me that spring afternoon at the Blue Ravens Exhibition. She raised two brazen hand puppets, the seductive Ice Woman on one hand, and the wily Niinag Trickster on the other, and with jerky gestures the rough and ready puppets roused the native stories of winter…
Michael Eigen’s post to the APA/Psychoanalysis listservShared here is Michael Eigen’s recent post to the American Psychological Association’s Psychoanalysis listserv The need to redress injury, get even. The young man experienced severe humiliation in his life and compensated with a show of gun strength. About eighteen years ago I noted this subcurrent of mood and what seemed like…
