scholarly journals More Than Just Guide Tones: Steve Larson's Analyzing Jazz—A Schenkerian Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Henry Martin
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Jazz Studies ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Music Theorist

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">Henry Martin, a composer, music theorist, professor of music at Rutgers University–Newark, and co-editor of the <em>Journal of Jazz Studies</em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">, contributes a review-essay about Steve Larson’s recent book, <em>Analyzing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach </em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">(Pendragon Press, 2009).</span>

Rethinking Soviet Marxism: The Case of Evald Ilyenkov

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-195
Author(s):  
Giuliano Andrea Vivaldi
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Soviet Marxism ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
The Ideal

This review-essay explores approaches to the thought of the creative Soviet Marxist thinker Evald Ilyenkov as discussed in a recent book edited by Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen, Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism. The book consists of a series of commentaries and contextual essays which centre on the translated text of Ilyenkov’s Dialectics of the Ideal. The approach the authors take to Ilyenkov’s work differs from previous ones of exploring the totality of Ilyenkov’s thought or eclectic aspects of it. By commenting on and contextualising Ilyenkov’s major text on the Ideal they locate the contribution of Ilyenkov in dialogue with traditions of classical European philosophy, and Western and Soviet Marxism, and in his importance to contemporary issues in philosophy and other disciplines. A deep analysis of Ilyenkov’s dense and often complex text is also given. By doing so the authors highlight the immense contribution of Ilyenkov to contemporary thought.

Islamic Law in Action: A Historical Discussion

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (04) ◽  
pp. 1041-1057
Author(s):  
Boğaç A. Ergene
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Made In

This review essay engages Kristen Stilt's recent book, Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt (2011), in a fashion that highlights its contributions to the study of Islamic law. In particular, it underlines the methodological arguments made in the book that might help us think about Islamic legal practice in sophisticated and historically grounded ways. As elaborated in the article, these arguments have important implications for modern as well historical settings. Specifically, Stilt's discussion of “Islamic law in action” reveals the inherent flexibility of Islamic legal practice to accommodate political change. The article also discusses how further research on the topic could benefit from specific approaches and orientations.

The Abusive Society: A Review Essay

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Abuse Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
English Speaking

This essay reviews a recent book on a New Zealand child abuse case which has become well-known in that country. It uses the review to explore broader issues associated with the differing and controversial forms of child sexual abuse that have come into focus in some English speaking societies over the last 20 years and the social context which has made their emergence possible.

scholarly journals Unforgivable Whiteness[a review of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture, by Krin Gabbard]

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Randy Sandke
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Font Size

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">Randy Sandke, a working professional trumpeter and composer for the last thirty years, contributes a review-essay on Krin Gabbard’s book <em>Hotter Than That: The Trumpet</em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">, <em>Jazz, and American Culture</em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;"> (Faber and Faber, 2008).<br /></span>

Q in Matthew: A Review Essay

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 169-191
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Rollens
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Memory Theory

This essay reviews Alan Kirk’s recent book Q in Matthew: Ancient Media, Memory, and Early Scribal Transmissions of the Jesus Tbrradition, which analyzes the techniques of ancient scribal composition alongside memory theory to better understand how the author of the Gospel of Matthew used his sources.

Unified Fragmentation: Andrew Hill’s Street Theory of Black Musical Space

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-152
Author(s):  
James Gordon Williams
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Jazz Improvisation ◽  
Music Curriculum ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Jazz Studies ◽  
Musical Space ◽  
Rutgers University

This chapter examines Andrew Hill’s philosophical approach to improvisation based on a textual analysis of his unfinished theoretical treatise called Project Acculturation (1994) found amongst Hill’s papers in his archives at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. At the heart of Hill’s theory is a pedagogical paradigm he called “street approach to jazz improvisation.” Hill wanted institutional music curriculum to acculturate to the ways of learning that had shaped his musical approaches that extends from his experiences as a young musician in the Chicago Black jazz clubs, where he was encompassed by feeling of Black sociality. This is a feeling which he says is missing in what he calls white jazz. This chapter claims scholarship on Hill has largely focused on analyzing his compositional and improvisational analysis because he resisted musical and political categories. Hill’s musical approach to musical space in his composition “Malachi” (2006) is analyzed.

Advancing the Aristotelian Project in Contemporary Metaphysics: A Review Essay

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-442
Author(s):  
Robert C. Koons ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Philosophy Of Physics ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Central Focus

In a recent book, Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar, Ross Inman demonstrates the contemporary relevance of an Aristotelian approach to metaphysics and the philosophy of nature. Inman successfully applies the Aristotelian framework to a number of outstanding problems in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of physics. Inman tackles some intriguing questions about the ontological status of proper parts, questions which constitute a central focus of ongoing debate and investigation.

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