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Sounds from Nowhere: Reading Around 'Raga-Jazz Style'

Lateral, 2020
When Pandit Ravi Shankar began performing for Western audiences in the 1960s, his collaborative instinct for the meeting of Hindustani music and jazz was challenged by what he described as "shrieking, shouting, smoking, masturbating, and copulating ...
Shantam Goyal
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Maître ou esclave ? Jazz, ragtime et cake walk en Allemagne avant et après la Première Guerre mondiale

Amnis, 2013
In 1919, jazz music comes to Germany. This is the beginning of fierce debates over this unheard-of music. Some fear a two-fold dehumanization, linked to the rise of Negro culture and to a kind of modernism gone wild.
Pascale Cohen-Avenel
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Signification, Objectification, and the Mimetic Uncanny in Claude Debussy’s “Golliwog’s Cakewalk”

Current Musicology, 2010
On October 30, 1905, Emma Bardac gave birth to Claude Debussy’s only child, a daughter named Claude-Emma (1905-1919). Debussy was a doting father; he dedicated his 1908 piano suite entitled “Children’s Corner” to her, and named four of the six movement ...
Elizabeth de Martelly
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Ragtime in Its Time, 2022 Templeton Ragtime and Jazz Festival

, 2022
In this video Donald Ryan presents Ragtime in Its time at the Saturday afternoon session of the 2022 Templeton Ragtime and Jazz Festival. The video opens with Ryan playing a song on the piano.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-ragtime/2171 ...
Mississippi State University Libraries
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A Tale of Two Annies: Historical Memory, Archives and the Perpetuation of the Sinners to Angels Trope in American Sex Worker History

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 606-620, July 2025.
Abstract As a historian of sex work, I analyse the power dynamics in the archiving practices and interpretation of sex worker lives, deconstructing the historic and current discourses shaping the possibilities for sex workers. In this article, I explore the legends of nineteenth‐century Madams Annie Cook and Annie Chambers.
Ashley Barnes‐Gilbert
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Outside Forces: “Autumn Leaves” in the 1960s

Current Musicology, 2001
Is there a problem of form in the jazz tradition? Does the reliance upon repeated 32-bar frameworks create an unavoidable formal, harmonic, and metric redundancy? How do jazz improvisers transcend or evade this cyclic regularity?
Keith Waters
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The Pedagogy of “As If”

Educational Theory, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 145-164, April 2024.
Abstract In this paper Johan Dahlbeck sets out to propose a pedagogy of “as if,” seeking to address the educational paradox of how students can be influenced to approximate a life guided by reason without assuming that they are already sufficiently rational to adhere to dictates of practical reason.
Johan Dahlbeck
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Soundtracks of Empire: “The White Man’s Burden,” the War in the Philippines, the“Ideals of America,” and Tin Pan Alley

European Journal of American Studies, 2012
America’s War with Spain inspired Tin Pan Alley music publishers to generate popular songs to accompany America’s military victories and subsequent occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines.
Robert W. Rydell
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Transcribing Ragtime for Guitar

, 2021
Classic ragtime piano solos can be made playable on guitar. The guitar, of course, is home to capabilities and limitations alien to the piano, and we start by trying to appreciate them fully.
Brehm, William
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Phonic Musicality as a Means of Recoding in E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime

American and British Studies Annual, 2016
The article examines art interactions, one of the most topical problems in literary criticism, in the form of literary-musical intermedial aspects in E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime.
Lidia Bilonozhko
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