I Love It!: Icona Pop’s Feminine Endings

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Icona Pop’s “I Love It” is definitely going to be one of the big songs of 2013. It’s a great little pop song that’s all over charts and in several advertisements. Some people are writing about the sociological and cultural…

Ancient Greek & Neoliberal Harmony Pt. 1: Sophrosyne as Proportion

Ancient Greek & Neoliberal Harmony Pt. 1: Sophrosyne as Proportion

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It seems like the ancient Greeks are actually kinda neoliberal in some ways. In Disagreement, Ranciere calls consensus democracy “the perfect realization” of Plato’s Republic, and, as Shannon Winnubst notes in her great new article in Foucault Studies(which everyone should…

Schenker and “The Soar”: Modifying tonal conventions for not-really-tonal music

Schenker and “The Soar”: Modifying tonal conventions for not-really-tonal music

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“Rhythm” and “Harmony” are often offered as contrasting, if not opposed, ways of organizing pieces of music. As the famous diagram attests, Western music uses harmony (chords) as its way of organizing pieces of music: all you need to start…