Songwriting

Leonard Cohen e i cantautori italiani: i casi di Fabrizio De André e Francesco De Gregori, «Semicerchio», giugno 2012, pp. ??-??

by Paolo Divizia

in corso di stampa

"Ungdomens Segrande tro" Unison sång som social och kultiverande folkhögskolepraktik

by Erik Nylander

Master thesis, Department of Sociology. Umeå University

Musik und Betonung in 'cantigas d'amigo'

by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

in Cramer, Thomas (Hrsg.) / Greenfield, John (Hrsg.) / Kasten, Ingrid (Hrsg.) / Koller, Erwin (Hrsg.), Frauenlieder — Cantigas de amigo, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 2000, pp. 247-57.
Posted by kind permission of Franz Steiner Verlag
Portuguese version: "Música e acentuação nas cantigas d'amigo", in M. P. Ferreira, Aspectos da Música Medieval, vol. I, Lisboa: IN-CM, 2009, pp. 101-12

Accentual patterns in medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry have been rarely investigated as such or in their possible... more Accentual patterns in medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry have been rarely investigated as such or in their possible relation to music-setting. Since the cantigas d'amigo by Martin Codax survive with musical notation and show some correlation between text-accent and melodic composition, they provide a firm point of departure. An hypothesis is proposed: if a similar melodic approach was used in other cantigas d'amigo, then it must have left a residue in accentual patterns running consistently throughout the respective stanzas. This is illustrated by songs attributed to Fernan de Quinhones, Lopo and Estevan Travanca. The parallelistic cantigas by King Dom Dinis are then analysed from this perspective, but they show instead a different approach, largely indifferent to accent..

Frank Zappa:A Tribute

by Paul Carr

A paper writen for The Rhondo Hatton Report (Issue 4) at the end of 2010.

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http://www.rhreport.net/archive.html

"They Don't Care About Us": Michael Jackson's Black Nationalism

by Brian Rossiter

Forthcoming in: Popular Music and Society, Vol. 35, No. 1. Michael Jackson: Musical Subjectivities. London: Routledge, Feb. 2012.

This article examines the presence of black nationalist ideals in Michael Jackson's work, with a focus on the song... more This article examines the presence of black nationalist ideals in Michael Jackson's work, with a focus on the song "They Don't Care About Us." Through a contextualized reading that encompasses Jackson's struggle for self-empowerment following the 1993 child abuse controversy, it shows how he uses both music and video to cultivate a radical ideological allegiance with the greater social plight of black Americans. Jackson's position is revealed as both compelling and conflicted, whereby his work betrays the influence of a deep trajectory of politicized African-American music, but also raises questions of the wider distinction between fixed racial solidarity and postmodern subjectivity.