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Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art (2025)
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Bräuchler, B., & Supartono, A. (online). Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art. Cultural Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740251323341

Documenta 15, a global exhibition of contemporary art that took place in 2022 in Germany, over a period of 100 days, stands out for two reasons: (1) for the first time documenta was under artistic directorship of an art collective, and (2) it was sca... Read More about Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art.

Capitalist Realism and Higher Popular Music Education: Towards a Counter-Hegemonic Alternative (2024)
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Moir, Z., Harvey, A., & Veldon, E. (in press). Capitalist Realism and Higher Popular Music Education: Towards a Counter-Hegemonic Alternative. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 24(2), 186-223

This article presents a theoretical consideration of some of the ways in which capitalist realism is shaping the field of higher popular music education. We begin by presenting an overview of our understanding of Fisher’s concept and then offer a cri... Read More about Capitalist Realism and Higher Popular Music Education: Towards a Counter-Hegemonic Alternative.

We need to talk about Lynne: Modular structure as a reflection of the traumatized psyche in We Need to Talk about Kevin (2024)
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Neilan, C. (2024). We need to talk about Lynne: Modular structure as a reflection of the traumatized psyche in We Need to Talk about Kevin. Journal of Screenwriting, 15(3), 257-271. https://doi.org/10.1386/josc_00162_1

Conventional linear three-act structure has become the dominant form in anglophone screen industries and creates a particular meaning and viewing experience. Modular structure, a feature of the puzzle film, uses radical non-linearity and complex plot... Read More about We need to talk about Lynne: Modular structure as a reflection of the traumatized psyche in We Need to Talk about Kevin.

From a place of silence: Articulations of the unspoken (2024)
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Medbøe, H. (2024). From a place of silence: Articulations of the unspoken. Jazz Research Journal, 17(1-2), 32-50. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.28151

This article discusses two albums of freely improvised music in duo settings recorded during the year following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. A reflection thereupon takes the form of a paper presented informally as work in progress at the Inte... Read More about From a place of silence: Articulations of the unspoken.

Recontextualizing the referent: An iterative approach to composition and collective music-making (2024)
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Irwin, K. (2024). Recontextualizing the referent: An iterative approach to composition and collective music-making. Jazz Research Journal, 17(1–2), 75-96. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.28262

This article investigates the musical text within an original-music project, aligning manifold perspectives on this with a practice-led research endeavour. Some form of text is central to musical engagements involving jazz musicians, in the form of l... Read More about Recontextualizing the referent: An iterative approach to composition and collective music-making.

« L’attente silencieuse »: Antiquités javanaises et photographie au xixe siècle dans les Indes orientales néerlandaises (2024)
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Supartono, A. (2024). « L’attente silencieuse »: Antiquités javanaises et photographie au xixe siècle dans les Indes orientales néerlandaises. Photographica, 9, 62-80. https://doi.org/10.4000/12paq

This essay discusses the significant role of archaeological expeditions in the early development of photography in the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia). In the wake of competitive archaeological treasure hunts in the 19th century, the camera wa... Read More about « L’attente silencieuse »: Antiquités javanaises et photographie au xixe siècle dans les Indes orientales néerlandaises.

Thought Experiments in Design Ethics (2024)
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Buwert, P., & Sinclair, M. (2024). Thought Experiments in Design Ethics. Temes de Disseny, 40, 54-73. https://doi.org/10.46467/tdd40.2024.54-73

How is the designer to approach questions of responsibility, obligation, or right and wrong in relation to their role in creating, sustaining and altering the complex worlds which we inhabit together? Every design decision stands as the first teeteri... Read More about Thought Experiments in Design Ethics.

‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime (2024)
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Frayn, A. (2024). ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime. Modernist Cultures, 19(1), 128 - 151. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2024.0421%29

The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for rural areas to remain ‘living and organic communities’, as he puts it in his topographic book Greater Lakeland (1969). Here, I argue that his po... Read More about ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime.

Digital Musicianship in Post-Pandemic Popular Music Education (2024)
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Cheng, L., Moir, Z., Bell, A. P., Humberstone, J., & Hein, E. (online). Digital Musicianship in Post-Pandemic Popular Music Education. International Journal of Music Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/02557614241287558

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about dramatic changes in popular music education, underscoring the importance of technology in both practice and transmission. Nevertheless, the celebration of technological integration as a one-stop solution has le... Read More about Digital Musicianship in Post-Pandemic Popular Music Education.

Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2024)
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Bhattacharya, A. (2024). Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing. Postcolonial Text, Vol 19(1 & 2),

This chapter explores how Shubhangi Swarup’s novel Latitudes of Longing (2018) breaks out of the developmental narrative of nation-time into an exploration of the impressions of deep time in which events impact human consciousness on a planetary scal... Read More about Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing.

The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920 (2024)
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Frayn, A. (2024). The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920. Humanities, 13(3), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13030086

This article analyses together, for the first time, Ford Madox Ford’s short stories about the First World War. A surprisingly unfamiliar form for Ford, who valued allusion, subtlety, and omission as narrative devices, we see in these stories his firs... Read More about The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920.

Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy (2024)
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Boehnert, J., Alexander, A., & Sinclair, M. (2024). Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación, 222(27), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi222.11202

The longstanding dismissal of the ecological in civilisations that have developed dramatic ecology-altering and planetary boundary crossing technologies is at the crux of contemporary planetary polycrisis. Desirable and even viable futures depend on... Read More about Against Dystopias with Ecological Literacy.

Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia (2024)
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Bhattacharya, A., Cháirez-Garza, J., & Gould, W. (2024). Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 47(1), 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2326755

This special section brings together the work of historians, anthropologists and museologists, exploring how anthropological and sociological knowledge has been produced, consumed and reproduced in India. In particular, the special section is interes... Read More about Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia.

Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’ (2024)
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Lyall, S. (2024). Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 183-185. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.11

Provides the biographical context and publication history for Denis Saurat’s essay ‘Le groupe de “la Renaissance Écossaise”’, which included Saurat’s French translation of some MacDiarmid poems, describes the essay’s importance in the history of the... Read More about Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’.

Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100 (2024)
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Lyall, S. (2024). Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.2

Explains the background for this special issue, Hugh MacDiarmid at 100, in the Scottish Revival Network’s conference in August 2022, which marked the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name in The Scottish Chapbook in... Read More about Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100.

'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism (2024)
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Lyall, S. (2024). 'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 28-49. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.4

Examines C. M. Grieve’s (Hugh MacDiarmid’s) most important journal enterprise, The Scottish Chapbook, which critics have assumed marks the beginning of a modernist Scottish renaissance. Against this view, this article argues that the range of contrib... Read More about 'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism.

The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy (2024)
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Donn, R., Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2024). The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy. Music Education Research, 26(1), 58-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2024.2309204

This article, which is intended as a contribution to wider conversations around music literacy, explores current conceptions of music literacy within the UK, using the area of aural skills training as a focus. Specifically, it considers the nature of... Read More about The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy.

Review of Music Literacy Strand of the Oxford Music Analysis Conference (July 2023), Society for Music Analysis (2024)
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Donn, R., & Elphick, D. (2024). Review of Music Literacy Strand of the Oxford Music Analysis Conference (July 2023), Society for Music Analysis. Music Education Research, 24(1), 82-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2024.2309206

This review provides a summary and discussion of the ‘Music Literacy’ strand (day 1) of the Society for Music Analysis's OxMAC conference (University of Oxford, July 2023). The review highlights how the ever-expanding range of musics currently studie... Read More about Review of Music Literacy Strand of the Oxford Music Analysis Conference (July 2023), Society for Music Analysis.