Metrical Experimentation

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-220
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Crist
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Characteristic ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Time Out ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Temporal Basis ◽  
Unique Ability

A fundamental characteristic of Dave Brubeck’s Time Out album is that it eschews common meter, which had long formed the temporal basis for jazz. This chapter takes stock of this central aspect of Time Out. A judicious appraisal of Brubeck’s work with unusual meters and rhythms must be informed by several considerations. First, by 1959 Brubeck had been interested in metrical experimentation for more than two decades. Second, Brubeck’s fascination with the temporal aspects of jazz continued in four additional albums during the 1960s. Finally, Brubeck’s enduring legacy rests on his unique ability to pursue this progressive musical agenda while simultaneously achieving broad popular appeal.

Dave Brubeck's Time Out

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Crist
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Central Group ◽  
Time Out ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Vital Element

This book is the first full-length study of Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, one of the most commercially successful albums in the history of jazz. Although the music of Time Out is exceedingly well known, and it remains a vital element of the American soundscape, it has received very little scholarly investigation until now. A central group of chapters examines the project’s seven cuts from several different points of view. The Quartet’s creative process is charted, from Brubeck’s earliest compositional sketches and drafts through multiple takes of the recording sessions in 1959. Other topics that receive attention include Brubeck’s ability to meld jazz with classical and world musics, the album’s recorded legacy, the role of lyrics in later recordings of this repertoire, and Brubeck’s contributions to metrical experimentation in jazz. These chapters are preceded by several others that trace the path leading to Time Out, from Brubeck’s student days and the Quartet’s rise to fame in the early 1950s. The book concludes with consideration of its resonances in four additional “time” albums in the 1960s. Informed by a wealth of documentary evidence from several major archives, this study reveals many aspects of Time Out that previously have been hidden from view. It also attempts to articulate a judicious view of this album’s role in jazz of the 1950s and 1960s.

Tinkering with Cultural Memory

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Music History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Radio Corporation Of America ◽  
Male Subjects

In 2015, analog synthesizers are resurgent in popular appeal. Robert Moog is often celebrated as the central and originary figure who launched a so-called revolution in sound by making synthesizers widely available in the late 1960s and early '70s. This essay examines the figure of the humble tinkerer, as exemplified by Moog, along with other historically specific and archetypal forms of masculinity that are embodied by the male subjects at the center of electronic music's historical accounts. Critical readings of audio-technical discourse, and of the periodization of synthesizer histories, reveal that women are always already rendered out of place as subjects and agents of electronic music history and culture. Yet a set of letters, written by young women across the United States to Harry F. Olson at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in the mid-1950s and analyzed in this article, demonstrates that women were an enthusiastic audience for the RCA synthesizer a decade before Moog built his prototypes. As they did with new media, including wireless radio and the phonograph, in the early twentieth century, women played a key role at midcentury in enabling the broad-based market for analog synthesizers that greeted Moog and others in the 1960s once these instruments were made available for widespread use.

scholarly journals Georges Perec and the Significance of the Insignificant

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Highmore
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Georges Perec ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Cherry Picking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Central Claim

Georges Perec died in 1982 at the age of forty-five. What is he for us now, thirty-three years later, in the second decade of the twenty-first century? How do we make him our contemporary? To make Perec’s work part of our present-day involves (perhaps counter-intuitively) grasping his project in its historical specificity. It isn’t by cherry-picking useable aspects of the work that we will ensure some relevance to its afterlife: rather, it will be by recognising his larger project as a response to a particular historical situation. While Perec’s situation in the 1960s and 1970s in France is not ours, it still has a relation to our world. Perec becomes our contemporary in the act of seeing these relations, how a continuity of feeling and mood percolates through historical ruptures, and how changes in mood and feeling activate historical continuities. The central claim of this chapter is that a central aspect of Perec’s project was the latter’s attempt to register actuality, that is, that this project was a form of realism. Moreover, like many forms of realism, it was a quest and a question rather than an answer or solution.

Music and Lyrics

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Crist
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Time Out ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

Although Time Out is a purely instrumental album, several of its cuts either originated as songs or later were supplied with words. Two singers—Claude Nougaro in the 1960s and Al Jarreau in the 1970s and 1980s—rose to fame largely on the basis of their vocal renditions of tunes from Time Out. This chapter examines the interplay between music and lyrics in the origins and history of these numbers. It begins with examination of the interdependence of “Everybody’s Jumpin’ ” and “Everybody’s Comin’ ” (the latter a song from The Real Ambassadors). The vocal versions of “Strange Meadow Lark” and “Take Five,” with lyrics by Dave and Iola Brubeck, and their recordings by Carmen McRae, are considered next. The chapter concludes with discussion of Nougaro’s “À bout de souffle” and “Le jazz et la java,” and Jarreau’s “(Round, Round, Round) Blue Rondo à la Turk” and “Take Five.”

Bringing Political Economy Back In

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura L. Frader
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Working People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Power Of Language ◽  
The 1960S

As other contributors to this roundtable suggest, the practices of social and labor history as we have known them have been in methodological and epistemological turmoil for some time. The dominant paradigms that guided much of the work of social historians in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s have been thrown into question by poststructuralism and by the emergence of new analytical perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicities. Attention to culture and to the meanings that historical subjects imposed on the habits of everyday life, as well as to the constitutive power of language and cultural practices, have now become a central aspect of much historical work that has sought to analyze the operations of gender, race, and ethnicities as the subjects of social history and the history of working people in particular.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Improving x-ray map resolution with image restoration techniques

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 598-599
Author(s):  
Richard B. Mott ◽  
John J. Friel ◽  
Charles G. Waldman
Keyword(s):  
Image Restoration ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Small Object ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Mapping Parameters ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Map Resolution

X-rays are emitted from a relatively large volume in bulk samples, limiting the smallest features which are visible in X-ray maps. Beam spreading also hampers attempts to make geometric measurements of features based on their boundaries in X-ray maps. This has prompted recent interest in using low voltages, and consequently mapping L or M lines, in order to minimize the blurring of the maps.An alternative strategy draws on the extensive work in image restoration (deblurring) developed in space science and astronomy since the 1960s. A recent example is the restoration of images from the Hubble Space Telescope prior to its new optics. Extensive literature exists on the theory of image restoration. The simplest case and its correspondence with X-ray mapping parameters is shown in Figures 1 and 2.Using pixels much smaller than the X-ray volume, a small object of differing composition from the matrix generates a broad, low response. This shape corresponds to the point spread function (PSF). The observed X-ray map can be modeled as an “ideal” map, with an X-ray volume of zero, convolved with the PSF. Figure 2a shows the 1-dimensional case of a line profile across a thin layer. Figure 2b shows an idealized noise-free profile which is then convolved with the PSF to give the blurred profile of Figure 2c.

Time Out of Mind?

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 695-696
Author(s):  
PETER SUEDFELD
Keyword(s):  
Time Out

Personal Relationships: Out of Time, Out of Place

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol M. Werner
Keyword(s):  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Time Out
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