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"Alive and deadly": a sociolinguistic reading of rock songs by Australian Aboriginal musicians
Introduction As aural events, Aboriginal rock songs confront both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal listeners with a number of features through which this music's indigenous sources can be identified...(Continue Reading) Dziga Vertov's Three Songs about Lenin : a visual tour through the history of the Soviet avant-garde in the interwar years
THIS PAPER EXAMINES the relationship between the films of Dziga Vertov and Soviet photography during the interwar years. While Vertov's reputation has ......(Continue Reading)Animals by ear
An avid birder recently invited me to join him on a spring walk. His ability to rattle off" the names of the species flitting through the scrub ......(Continue Reading)Evolutionary anthems: the songs of Darwin finches might be responsible for the group rapid speciation - Biomechanics
On Santa Cruz Island, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the morning sounds of songbirds foraging and courting are reassuringly familiar in the otherwise ......(Continue Reading)Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia/Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular Song, 1900-1955
Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, eds. Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. x, 338 pp. Illustrations....(Continue Reading)
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