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Swinging with Duke
By dogpossum On 12th September, 2012 · 2 Comments · In cat blogging, fillums, history, ideas, lindy hop and other dances, music
This is a post about Duke Ellington and dance, because he is on my mind at the moment.
I’ve recently discovered the 1951/52 stuff by the Johnny Hodges band on this dodgy digital download album Pound of Blues is really great for teaching dance, particularly choreography which recognises strict phrasing. It’s good, [...]
I’ve read two interesting pieces about Peter Singer this week. Harriet McBryde Johnson’s 2003 piece is deeply moving Unspeakable Conversations and Stella Young’s piece The case against Peter Singer from today is a response to his recent visit to Australia.
Twitter was alive this week during Singer’s spot on Q&A (Big Ideas and [...]
This Jazzwax post “Coleman Hawkins: 1922-1947” is an interesting complement to the Mosaic Coleman Hawkins set and to the idea of Anthologies or collections of individual works as a creative product in its own right (as I began discussing in my post “More thoughts, also illness-addled and pseudoephedrine-fuelled.“).
I’m also interested in [...]
This playlist:
Eleven charming songs from dogpossum on 8tracks.
These lyrics from ‘Honeymoon Suite’
Music & Lyrics by Suzanne Vega
the ceiling had a painting on it
in our room in France
so we were living underneath
some angels in a dance
[...]
January round up
By dogpossum On 11th January, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In academia, c25k, djing, fitness, ideas, lindy hop and other dances, menz, music, people i know, running, speakeasy, swimming, wimminz
(photo of Mary Lou Williams, extremely awesome woman pianist, who fucking PWND the fairly dick-centred boogiewoogie piano world, from here. She was all about OWNING the discourse.)
I’m back running, desperate to get some serious exercise during the christmas dancing drought. So far it’s going well, except today I did run [...]
Matthew Bailes, one of the scientists who discovered that diamond planet writes about how his experiences would have been a bit different if he’d been a climate scientist in the article Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method.
Where newspapers thrive is Judy Muller’s story about local newspapers, news values and journalism [...]
Look, just to be clear, the posts about getting your rags, emotions, feminist rage, fucking over the patriarchy, food and badass cooking are the heart of this blog. That means that every post about DJing or dancing or any of that other ‘objective’ ‘rational’ stuff is actually a post about vaginas or fighting the power [...]
digitising public collections – a long talk
By dogpossum On 16th October, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In curating and collecting, ideas, learning, research, webbing
This post is going to be a bit of a mishmash of thinking I’ve done in my classes this semester (I’m looking at digital archiving and organising information digitally), my previous work during my PhD (I was interested in how communities of users employ a range of digital tools to complement their face to face [...]
I want to add something to my first post discussing the CSIRO diet.
Here is some very basic information I’ve found in the two CSIRO books. I haven’t looked further afield (yet).
The acknowledgments in the second book write:
CSIRO gratefully acknowledges all those who have contributed to the funding [...]
thinking about victoria spivey and discographies as historical resources
By dogpossum On 12th December, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In ideas, lindy hop and other dances, music, research
I’ve recently come across some Victoria Spivey songs quite by accident. I have quite a few by her, but mostly bits and pieces from various compilations. I haven’t put any effort into collecting her, in part because my resources are limited and in the other part because my attention was caught by Bessie Smith. [...]
