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Deadness: technologies of the intermundane
No full textPosthumous duets—performances involving a dead singer and a living one—have become ubiquitous in popular music. As the case of Natalie and Nat “King” Cole’s “Unforgettable” makes clear, all sound recording harnesses the productive capacities of both living and dead, patterned through specific forms of co-laboring, or “deadness.
Creative Applications of Interactive Mobile Music
No full textThis chapter examines the foundational research concerning the applications of interactive mobile music conducted at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris and at Culture Lab Newcastle. It analyzes the forms and formats that music can take on when deployed on mobile devices and wireless infrastructures and looks at the development of conceptual thinking of mobile music creation outside the sphere of consumer markets and commercial applications. The chapter also discusses efforts to leverage the possibilities of contextual sensing coupled with dynamic media delivery systems to create new musical experiences that can be shared by groups of performers and listeners
Jason Bond Family History
No full textJason Bond authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Fall 2017 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Jason vs GIJOE
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2019Jason vs GI JOE is partly an exercise in autobiography, an experiment in relational aesthetics, and an interdisciplinary artist project at the intersection of comic books, creative writing and performance art. This comic book, Jason vs. GIJOE, is a postmodern double erasure, based on the comic book GIJOE: Cobra II (Issue 1). The original pictures from the comic book have been removed, and replaced by a series of short narratives, describing autobiographical events from the life of the author: me, Jason. Speech bubbles from the original have been left to comment back over top of the stories, obscuring meaning but creating moments of unplanned dialogue. The comic is a readymade, twice erased: once to replace the drawings of the initial comic, and again when using the original dialogue bubbles to speak back to the narrative
Oral history interview with Jason Poudrier
No full textJason Poudrier, author, discusses growing up in a military family and living in Alaska, North Dakota, Oregon, and finally Oklahoma. He describes what it was like enlisting in the Army after high school in 2001 and how his military service affected him. A recipient of the Purple Heart, he shares his experiences getting injured by shrapnel in Iraq. He later talks about how he uses poetry and writing to cope with his memories of war, and how he hopes to help others do the same.The Deep Roots: Oklahoma Authors Collection is a series of interviews with authors who discuss their lives, work, and creative processes
Lynn Brunelle and Jason Chin: Cook Prize 2025, Gold Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Lynn Brunelle and illustrator Jason Chin give an acceptance speech for Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1016/thumbnail.jp
The people behind the papers – Jason Ko and Daniel Lobo
No full textPlanarians grow when they are fed and shrink during periods of starvation. However, it is unclear how they maintain appropriate body proportions as their size changes. A new paper in Development investigates the differences between growth and shrinkage dynamics and builds a mathematical model to explore the mechanisms underpinning these two processes. To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author, Jason Ko, and corresponding author, Daniel Lobo, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.20298
Once upon a time in Za’atari refugee camp: music and Syrian displacement in Jordan
No full textEstablished in 2012 for those fleeing the armed conflict in Syria, Za'atari Refugee Camp is located in north Jordan and is home to some 78,000 Syrians. It is now the largest camp for Syrian refugees in the world. Za'atari has a thriving musical culture. There are community gatherings, weddings, parties, concerts, and social events. Musicians regularly perform at events both inside and outside the camp. Residents also perform and compose songs documenting their experiences. Syrians listen to and enjoy a wide range of musics and sounds, including different forms of Arabic contemporary music, Western classical instrumental music, and recordings of recitations of the Qur'an and the call to prayer. Non-governmental organisations operating in the camp support various music activities, from music lessons in theory and instrumental instruction to music therapy sessions, Zumba, and the Brazilian martial art, capoeira. My thesis brings the different musical practices of Za'atari into focus to tell the story of the role of music in contexts of displacement. Traditional conceptualisations of forced migration have depicted refugees as passive victims of circumstance, and refugee camps as liminal or exclusionary spaces. Recent scholarship has sought to challenge these depictions, revealing the ways in which refugees act as creative agents who use music to negotiate and mediate their everyday lives in displacement. In this thesis, I explore the different layers of Za'atari's musical culture to show how Syrians use music to articulate understandings and experiences of displacement in myriad ways. Through examination of weddings, everyday performance and listening practices, the use of technologies in music-making, and the use of music in humanitarian programming, I argue that Za'atari's musical culture is dynamic, multivalent, and complex, and demonstrate the everyday creativity and agency of Syrian refugees. I also claim that music programming can play an effective role in empowering displaced communities when it is approached in sensitive, sustainable, and participatory ways. By telling the different musical stories of Za'atari, this thesis aims to uncover the integral place of music in contexts of displacement, and the value of the lens of music in the study of migration and humanitarianism
‘Nap chache ouvèti’ (We’re seeking openness): translation, production and songwriting amongst Haitian artists in Brazil
No full textThe present thesis concerns an ethnomusicological study of the musical endeavours of Haitian migrants living in Brazil during the transition from the 2010s to the 2020s, with special emphasis on the period of the Covid-19 pandemic. It investigates different instances of the music making of Haitians who have afforded central importance to the development of careers as independent artists and musicians in the country, seeking to bring to the fore how their experience as diasporic Haitians and Black Caribbean migrants in search of a better life in Brazil has impacted and shaped their music.
The research supporting this study is based on a multi-sited ethnography, which included online and offline participant observation, direct musical collaboration, and interviews with key members of what I propose to call the diasporic Haitian musical community in Brazil. This community primarily consists of young men aged between twenty and forty years. They are part of the recent post-quake Haitian migration to Brazil and lead double lives as both low-skilled workers and independent artists. Given the distribution demographics of Haitians in Brazil, this community is predominantly concentrated in the country’s south and southeastern regions. Through theoretical framings that explore the music-related actions of translation, production, and songwriting, I consider the aesthetic agencies of musicians, singer-songwriters, and beatmakers/producers, attempting to provide a portrait and a critical analysis of the music-making practices of recently arrived migrants.
With the recent expansion of the Haitian migratory system towards South America during 2010s, my research attempts to follow the lead of recent scholarship on Haitian migrant experiences in South America by scholars of the Global South. The goal is to diversify and complexify scholarly understandings of music and its relations with the transnational Haitian diaspora, migration, and the lives of marginalized non-white migrants in Brazil. I foreground how music has played an integral part in Haitians’ search for and negotiation of belonging and recognition within Brazilian society, using it to foster and advocate intercultural sociability in a relationship in which power is unequally distributed and prevalent stereotypes about Haiti and Haitians exert negative impact on their reception and appraisal by Brazilians
Ep. #085 - Jason W. Moore
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic talk capital and Vanilla Isis and then (11:21) we welcome to the podcast the one and only Jason W. Moore from Binghamton University, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (PM Press, 2016). We chat with Jason about his most recent work, co-authored with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (U California Press, 2017), forthcoming this October. We talk about why he wanted to write a book for a broader audience, the problems with the “anthropocene” concept in the human sciences, how “capitalocene” can improve our thinking about world history, and how we can avoid vulgar materialism in critical environmental research and activism today. We cover the role that states and agriculture have played in shaping modern capitalism and Jason calls for a seriously engaged pluralism to tackle the urgent challenges of our era. We discuss the cheapening or thingification of life, capitalism as a gravitational field, the importance of frontiers, the violence of the Great Domestication, and why if green energy remains in the mode of “cheap fuel” nothing will change about capitalist accumulation. Jason explains why racial and gender domination are so often lacunae in critiques of petromodernity. Finally we ruminate on how to unmake the capitalist world-ecology and the key principles of the “reparation ecology” that Jason and his colleagues are calling for. Tired of the debate within the left about whether to prioritize jobs or the environment? Then you’ll want to listen on
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