All Entries Tagged With: "Research"
All You Ever Wanted To Know About The Passion 2000 Project And Then Some
Readers that have maxed out on Thanksgiving family fun already may wish to have a look at the newly posted pages in the Essay section.
Three years ago, this Taruskinesque paper served as a thesis and was part of Miss Mussel’s campaign to join the ranks of those with a post-graduate degree. It worked and [...]
Hindu Maidens and Hot Jazz
Terry Teachout’s call for title suggestions got Miss Mussel thinking about a paper she wrote in her undergraduate days called something like Yellow Fever: Orientalism and Hot Jazz in 1920s Chicago. Slightly awkward title aside, it was a fascinating subject to research, mostly because it quickly became apparent that black musicians had no qualms about [...]
On The Other Hand
On Friday, Miss Mussel wrote on the relationship between humour and criticism, taking great care to disparage academic hubris, or, to use the vernacular “having [one's] head up [one's own] ass.”
After some late night YouTube trawling, it appears that there is a fault in her argument. As Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie clearly [...]
Sehr Interessant
Alex Ross kindly pointed the way the other day to a very interesting collection of videos made by the Arnold Schoenberg Center. There are 42 in total including a short one of the composer’s camera-shy daughter giving a bit of a tour. Well at least it looks like a tour. Miss Mussel’s German [...]
Getting To Know You
On Miss Mussel’s last trip to London, she had the good fortune to discover a used bookshop in South Ken with a basement full of treasure. After spending an hour or so considering various volumes of poetry and history, the prize find came into view. Letters To Beethoven & Other [...]
Sunday Afternoon In The Stacks
Miss Mussel spent a good part of today in the university library slaving away on a book project. It is the day before classes start and there is an eerie calm about the place. Students are either recovering from a week of Frosh activity or only just arriving, smug in the knowledge that [...]
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