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Classical Radio Communities: Thoughts on Mediation

by Chadwick Jenkins

[27.Apr.07] :. Classical music radio gives rise to a prophylactic form of community: we are somehow participating with other listeners without having to engage directly with those others. The music becomes a pretense for communal participation.

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Why Don’t the Planets Speak?: An Inquiry Into Music and Language

by Chadwick Jenkins

[23.Mar.07] :. Speech involves saying something individual in a rigid system of conformity. Music seems to attempt something similar -- or, more appropriately, people attempt something similar through music.

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The Sounds of Now, Part Three: Anthony Braxton and the Ethics of Improvisation

by Chadwick Jenkins

[23.Jan.07] :. Jenkins's latest installment in a series of contemporary composer profiles discusses Anthony Braxton, who seems to have looked to music as a means not to erase or ignore cultural dissonance but rather to confront it directly.

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