- Oct 2023
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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made without the consent of other collaborators
THIS seems like a violation of academic integrity.
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including graduate students
There are no graduate students on the list of presenters in this event.
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A remarkable film demonstrating how generative AI perceives the field of Ethnomusicology
This is a weird displacement of responsibility for the film, and even insinuates that the AI was responsible for the 3 slides with slogans? this is a ridiculous evasion
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there was a late addition
bad practice
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was contributed by a member of the collective in the hours before the event
contributed by a member - but not reviewed or approved by the other members? it sounds like one member took advantage of the collective-authorship context and even sabotaged the group's presentation.
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that briefly used a controversial Palestinian phrase
technically accurate, but misleading
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No one in our collective, including the author of the film, had prior knowledge of the affects these words carry for the harmed individuals
Naive, given the extensive coverage of the past 2-3 weeks.
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the Indigenous graduate student-presenters
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—and also what allegedly happened to Indigenous graduate student presenters after it was over.
this "-- and also..." construction is weirdly melodramatic. It suggests that the use of the slogan was bad, but balanced by a bad action against the grad student presenters. "Allegedly" casts doubt on whether that balancing event actually happened. ALSO, I don't think any of the 6 presenters listed on the conference website were grad students
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the scholars’ experiences.
and yet the scholars on the panel could be said to have experienced many of the things they were analyzing
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How does McDonald know this?
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Such hostility is in violation of SEM’s anti-harassment policy, and we deeply regret that it occurred.
This is a weird statement. "We deeply regret that someone violated our policy" is not the usual response to a policy violation! "Violating a policy" implies consequences. "It occurred" suggests that the event has been investigated and confirmed. What good is a policy if the only response is "we are sorry someone did that"?
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When does a senior scholar criticizing a grad student at an academic conference become a verbal attack?
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the event’s presumed focal point was blurred by an unexpected interpolation of visual and sonic references
passive; no attribution of responsibility
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You need to educate yourself.”
confusing - Hahn is the current/outgoing President of SEM
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They
i.e. the 6 unnamed scholars who complained to Hahn
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That colleague
did the reporter not get this person's name? or choose not to name her?
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quickly moved on from the Middle East
had the presentation been about the Middle East before the 15-30 seconds for these 3 slides? Info above and below suggests not - that 3 slides about the Middle East popped up in an unrelated context.
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the presentation screen went black and displayed the controversial slogan for less than five seconds, then transitioned to similarly brief slides reading “Free Palestine” and “End Israeli Apartheid.”
questions about the creation and operation of the slide deck
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it has never meant an advocacy for destroying Israel.
So Prof. McDonald seems to be distancing himself from the controversy and the negative reactions, and offering a more neutral/ordinary take on the slogan
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according to two professors who attended the event
do we infer that these two professors were the reporter's first source? main source?
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This paragraph only gradually reveals that the author/reported wasn't present at the event. How did the reporter hear about it?
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www.ucpress.edu www.ucpress.edu
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comfort/discomfort as important affective conditions for thinking
relationship of "hospitable" to "comfort/discomfort" - moving away from hospitable = comfortable to hospitable = welcoming, attentive, well-resourced, intentional, careful
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the concept of the “global intimate,” coined
Define?
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connect the (dis)comforts experienced in relation to one’s home(s) to “the global,” this putatively all-encompassing, transcendental-spatial whole
And…?
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wanting to maintain critical purchase
= challenging the status quo
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comfortable these modalities of inquiry were becoming, in their signposting and methodological expression, and the likelihood that they would just be integrated
Assimilated, losing the edge of challenge participants and potential to transform narratives, epistemology, power dynamics
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- Sep 2023
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mtosmt.org mtosmt.org
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Schenkerian Theory
this jump to Schenker feels abrupt to me, maybe because I never got as far as Schenker in my music theory/analysis studies. You have to argue that Schenker is the point of origin behind basic theory (triads, Roman numerals, tonal harmony, phrase structure, antecedent-consequent forms, baroque-classical forms...) and I think that's giving Schenker too much credit. Also, there are settler-colonial historical explanations for the white-classical-european canon of American music education, including theory, and history is much more persuasive to me than this individual attribution to Schenker
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muse.jhu.edu muse.jhu.edu
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I had never once run across the word soars (used as a plural noun) and couldn't deduce its meaning from context clues. Mildly ashamed at my complete unfamiliarity with what James seemed to be employing as a piece of standardly accepted music-analytical lingo, I googled the term, to discover that the only hits online were an obscure 2011 article that seems to have coined the term and a blog post by James.
OMG I had this exact same experience
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I think it is my duty to absolve, preemptively, the reader
AMEN
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the insuperable difficulties I had in appreciating, simply at a ground-floor expository [End Page 126] and rhetorical level, what The Sonic Episteme is trying to say and why it is trying to say it.
yes PREACH
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I got off the boat early, or never quite got on it, in reading The Sonic Episteme
ME TOO
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negative, omnibus term—a catch-all, garbage-pail category—for very nearly any at all recent, at all repugnant aspect of social reality, from automation to Zoom calls, and from alpha males to Omega ratios
i love this :-)
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- Jul 2023
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marxandphilosophy.org.uk marxandphilosophy.org.uk
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she defines ‘woke’ as 1.) a reduction of each individual to the prism of marginalization; 2.) a focus upon inequalities of power rather than attempts to foster justice; and 3.) the conclusion that, because the historical record is rife with crimes against humanity, then all history is criminal
ok! thank you for this succinct and substantial synopsis
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- Jul 2022
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reproduction.
This “expanded sonic practice” sounds exactly like musicology/ethnomusicology
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As a practice, music is positively obsessed with its media specificity
What kind of patently false statement is this? How narrow a definition of “music” would you need to make this statement true?
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