Search results for "Forming"

Focal Points in Collective Free Improvisation

2013

OLLECTIVE FREE IMPROVISATION (herein abbreviated as CFI), while not a recent phenomenon in music (free jazz’s first experiments date from the late 1950s), remains under-studied. The extant literature either deals with political aspects (Carles and Comolli 2000) or tries to analyze the resulting music, using musicological tools (Jost 1994) or new concepts drawn from the complexity sciences (Borgo 2005). My research on CFI focuses on a cognitive approach, in order to understand the process of collective improvisation: 1 how a group of improvisers who do not know each other and are not using a common referent 2 (Pressing 1988) can answer the challenge of making music together. This paper deals…

Cinema as Social Knowledge

2019

François Ribac discusses how the Beatles—within the field of popular music—gave substance to a technical and social organization that the cinema made culturally possible. Cinema, being just as much a technique as a way of organizing and hearing the world, introduced the Beatles and their sound engineers simultaneously to a nonnaturalistic use of sound and to rock “n” roll which made it possible for them to invent “a cinema for the ears.” Ribac describes how the methods and the temporality of the cinema as well as its conventions, division of labor, and the concept of the studio inspired the envisioning of a musical form that was disconnected from traditional music-making of the time.

From the Scientific Revolution to Rock: Toward a Sociology of Feedback

2007

International audience; For many people, rock's primal scene is set in a recording studio, in Memphis, in 1954. There, three musicians (Scotty Moore, Bill Black and Elvis Presley), a producer/engineer (Sam Phillips) and a tape recorder (Ampex) create a song ('All Right Mama') that durably transforms the physiognomy of music. In this article, I examine the technological, political and intellectual circumstances that made this event possible. One word holds pride of place in my discussion: feedback, a mode of organisation that originated in British scientific laboratories of the eighteenth century. 2 1 A great " thank you " to my sciences studies' mentors Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy,…

Le livre illustré face à la danse : un médium empathique ?

2020

This article looks at the illustrated book as an intermedial transaction relying on a process of empathetic reception. The books examined here belong to the revival of illustration in England after the First World War: the series Impressions of the Russian Ballet (1918-1922) written and published by Cyril Beaumont, and the ‘livre de peintre’ Russian Ballet (1919) written and illustrated by David Bomberg. Part and parcel of the reception of modern dance, and more precisely of the Russian ballet, these books emphasize the symbolic significance of print in its ability to capture the ephemeral performance of dance.

"Dis poem is still not written." A Study of Diamesic Variation in Jamaican Dub Poetry

2020

International audience; This paper looks at diamesic variation in the works of Jamaican and Anglo-Jamaican dub poets such as Linton Kwesi Johnson, Benjamin Zephaniah and Mutabaruka. Dub poetry constitutes a turning point in the history of literature in Creole, since the genre achieved to establish Patwa as the legitimate medium for Caribbean writers, thereby effectively inverting (post)colonial linguistic hierarchies. Though closely associated with the reggae tradition, dub poets have always claimed to be doing “real” literature and published their work in written form as well as in audio or video recordings. The paper analyses various strategies to inscribe orality and orature in written t…

Planches de salut : (trans)figurations théâtrales de Marilyn

2019

Article en accès libre sur le site de l'éditeur.; International audience; Marilyn Monroe, an actress on its own, did well on theatre as well. She was indeed the heroin of numerous plays, and was « embodied » by various actresses. What is the point of putting a film star on the boards? Is it to offer her some kind of artistic redemption? What about her charismatic and so well-known body, thus transferred into another one, living, and offered anew to renewed male and female gazes?

Orlando, posterity and textual survival beyond the book

2022

This paper’s premise is that certain texts call for adaptation in the sense that they encapsulate anxieties about their posterity and their survival beyond their current material actualization. Orlando’s musings on death and immortality in Virginia Woolf’s eponymous novel are a case in point as they reflect a conflicted longing for the solidity of commemorative monuments and for the immateriality of memory-scapes. Lying “entombed” and “embalmed” in the medium of the book, words also rise “like an incantation” when brought to life by the reader (Orlando, Penguin Classics, 2000, 57). This passage is to be related to the modernist revival of interest in the works of Sir Thomas Browne which not…

Was "Notre-Dame of the Arsenal" only the daughter of Charles Nodier?

2021

International audience; Notice biographique abordant différents aspects de la vie intellectuelle, musicale et littéraire de Marie Mennessier-Nodier (1811-1893), fille de Charles Nodier (1780-1844), lui-même bibliothécaire à l'Arsenal et parrain de la 2e génération des romantiques français. Marie Nodier a composé des "Mélodies romantiques", recueil de pièces pour piano et voix sur des textes des contemporains de la famille Nodier (dont Hugo, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ou, entre autres, Alfred de Vigny). Elle est aussi l'auteur de poèmes, de récits (romans et nouvelles), d'un proverbe ("Deux heures de la vie d’un homme qui fut quelqu’un") et de mémoires consacrés à son père. On lui doit en o…

Hélène Mazzariol, « Hélène Miesse, Gianluca Valenti (dir.), « Modello, regola, ordine ». Parcours normatifs dans l’Italie du Cinquecento », Textes et…

2019

« An Age is not just an Age », les âges de Blanche dans "Un tramway nommé Désir"

2019

International audience; No abstract.