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Sustainability, Solutionism, and the Problem of Music
No full textIn this interview, Kyle Devine and Christoph Jacke discuss how the worlds of popular music, and popular music research, are responding to climate issues. They touch on Devine’s recent books, Decomposed (2019) and Audible Infrastructures (2021), as well as the book he is currently finishing: Recomposed: Music Climate Crisis Change. The discussion takes a critical, reflexive perspective in relation to several key issues in popular music’s (and wider culture’s) mainstream climate discourse: sustainability, solutions, crisis, capital, class structure, responsibilization, environmental humanities—even music as such. One of Devine’s central points is that much climate thinking, and many responses to climate issues, actually keep the secrets they pretend to tell
PRODUCTION PERSPECTIVES
No full textThe chapter illustrates and critically discusses theoretical perspectives on the studpy of music production (art worlds, field theory and the production of culture approach) providing examplars in the sociological literature
Introduction: Gender, creativity and education in digital musics and sound art
No full textThis special issue examines the politics of gender in relation to higher education, creative practices and historical processes in electronic music, computer music and sound art. The starting point is a summary of research findings on the student demographics associated with the burgeoning of music technology undergraduate degrees in Britain since the mid 1990s. The findings show a clear bifurcation: the demographics of students taking British music technology degrees, in comparison to traditional music degrees and the national average, are overwhelmingly male, from less advantaged social backgrounds, and slightly more ethnically diverse. At issue is the emergence of a highly (male) gendered digital music field. The special issue sets these findings into dialogue with papers by practitioners and scholars concerned with gender in relation to educational, creative and historical processes. Questions addressed include: What steps might be taken to redress gender inequalities in education, and in creative, compositional and curatorial practices? How can we combat the tendency to focus exclusively on the ‘problem of women’ while at the same time ignoring the challenges posed by the marked styles of masculinity evident in these fields? Is the gendering of electronic and digital musics and sound art evident in certain aesthetic directions? And what musical futures are augured by such imbalances
Kyle Haselden
No full textKyle Emerson Haselden, D.D., Class of 1934, was a distinguished Baptist minister, author and editor. He authored three books, including 'The Racial Problem in Christian Perspective' published in 1959. He was also the editor of 'The Christian Century.' He is a Charter Member of the Furman University Hall of Fame
First person – Kyle Wegner
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Kyle Wegner is first author on ‘Edar is a downstream target of beta-catenin and drives collagen accumulation in the mouse prostate’, published in BIO. Kyle is a PhD candidate in the lab of Chad M. Vezina at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, investigating principles of toxicology and urology to evaluate mechanisms of urinary dysfunction in aging men
Book review: the VP advantage: how running mates influence home state voting in presidential elections by Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko
No full textWhen it comes to US elections, a perception exists that a vice presidential (VP) running mate can help to deliver their home state’s electoral votes. But is this presumption of a VP ‘home state advantage’ correct and does it have the power to influence the eventual result? In The VP Advantage: How Running Mates Influence Home State Voting in Presidential Elections, Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko undertake a quantative analysis to suggest that such an advantage is, in fact, relatively rare. While those interested in the impact of VP candidates on presidential elections will welcome this book, Richard Berry is left wondering as to where the potential value of vice presidential running mates actually lies
005 - Kyle Singer
No full textI highlight the importance of flaws, trauma, and repression by evoking concepts of “the unconscious” through surrealist methodologies. Considering all that is suppressed/repressed within my psyche to form the culturally accepted version of myself, and by examining the distance between my identity, and the repressed self. Engaging the viewers through superabundance, tackling issues of consumerism with construction that grapples with the excess of daily life. I question aesthetic value, moral responsibility, and political agency in my efforts to sublimate the abject. The abject touches on the fragility of our boundaries and the spatial distinction between our interiority and exteriority. My art stems from an insatiable appetite for new materials and compulsive ways I can explore new methods and processes. The impetus for my work is a cultural and political critique imbued with my own flavor of cynicism and disillusionment. I endeavor to destabilize perceptions by creating overwhelming masses of matter and meaning; meant to be all-consuming. This non-hierarchical kind of making causes a slow unraveling of my work allowing for an unpredictable composition and use of materials.The abject deals with a vast array of issues such as marginalized people, mortality, boundaries, and repulsion. It is usually used to describe the human reaction to horror and threatens to breakdown meaning by causing the loss of distinction between subject and object; between self and other. In an era of mass displacement due to natural and political disasters, this conceptually interest me and seem particularly relevant. The abject calls into question hierarchical values that allows for the dispersion and displacement of people: whether it be refugees, or low in-come families pushed out by gentrification. In the age of information, we have become incredibly efficient at codifying people and separating them from their personhood and seeing them only as replaceable objects with a set value; as a cluster of information to be used and exploited for profits. I plan to continue exploring the possibilities of media combination and new technologies. I am currently working with laser cutting, 3D printing, 3D scanning and the CNC machine. I am trying to explore new ways of misusing the machinery as a chance operation that allows the ebbs, flows, and limitations of the process itself to become a way of making. These new processes drastically change the way we think about construction and the possibilities of form. It blurs the boundaries between the hand-made and the mass-produced, dovetailing nicely with my ideas of consumerist cultural critique.College of Liberal Arts - Highest Achievement - Visual and Performing Arts
Gods, Spirits, People: Resource Collection
No full textThis collection of primary sources on Gods, Spirits, People in the early modern period accompanies the Gods, Spirits, People chapter. Curated Dr Andrew Redden and Dr Kyle Jackson, University of Liverpool.Collection of primary sourcesThis collection of primary sources on Gods, Spirits, People in the early modern period accompanies the Gods, Spirits, People chapter found at https://kora.kpu.ca/islandora/object/kora:579 and https://liverpooluniversitypress.manifoldapp.org/read/untitled-493687ea-d192-4880-b61e-19bd082917ba/section/0b9435bf-9209-45e7-bf35-81be5a2c3da
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