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…

My Talk/Paper on Musical Ineffability

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I’m talking Saturday at the American Philosophies Forum meeting at Emory. This year’s theme is ineffability, so I’m talking on musical ineffability. In particular, I’m talking about Jankelevitch, Abbate, & Spivak.I’m also going to attempt to do some “drastic” (i.e.,…

The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On The Plain: On Sound & The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy

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Here’s an excerpt from a rough draft of a paper I’m working up for the American Philosophies Forum at Emory in April. The theme of the meeting is “The Ineffable,” so I’m writing on Vladimir Jankelevitch‘s and Carolyn Abbate‘s work…