Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
Know of a high school or college/university that's owned & operated cooperatively by teachers/students/parents? Send me a link. #cooperative— Greg Brown (@BunnyBlinks) April 15, 2011
This got me thinking of two things I learned from Allen Ginsberg, whom I briefly met 15 years ago after he read and sang to a large group at my alma mater: (1) William Blake’s poems are meant to be sung. Ginsberg performed some of Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” with a slightly slobbery [...]
If more and more people want to participate in a given institution, the institution had better welcome the new energy or risk crumbling. Preventing large emerging groups of people from participating in “marriage” will ultimately do for marriage what keeping large groups of emerging musics from participating in music education did for music education programs. [...]
Jeremiah Wright spoke to an estimated 12,000 people at yesterday’s NAACP dinner in Detroit. I watched on CNN. Here’s part of it: I wasn’t surprised to hear a talented, engaging speaker. I admit to having avoided the notorious youtube clips whose out-of-context media saturation goaded the Clintons and the media corps into a feeding frenzy, [...]
My recent post on “Poolboy, Tags, and Labels” developed from thoughts I’d mulled over concerning a (straw-man variety of) music theorist’s tendency to label musical events (think: a sonata’s purported “exposition, development, recapitulation”) without addressing the (to me) more interesting things like, say, process or meaning. I brought something personal–Poolboy, in this case–into the discussion [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
