Author: farrellne

First, I would like to take a moment to thank you all for such an engaging quarter. I know that I can be on the quiet side, but I truly enjoyed class discussion and learned so much from everyone. For my final post, I had originally drafted a long post that tossed out an idea … Continue reading Final Thoughts on the Course and Coronavirus

After class on Wednesday, I was haunted by my inability to come up with a research topic relating ideas of post-truth to music scholarship. A critical making project would be the most obvious (see composer Kate Soper's project here: https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/singing-your-pants-fire-musical-lies-post-truth-world). But I'm really, really, not a composer. If music is asymbolic and indexical, can it … Continue reading Musical Lies

(N.B. I was just looking through my blog posts, and I have no idea why this post didn’t go up when I originally tried to publish it, but I completely understand if I only get partial credit!) This weekend, rather than doing my readings or drafting essays like a good grad student, I binge watched … Continue reading Should I Want to be like BoJack Horseman?

Although I am hesitant to engage in any sort of analysis that may be deemed anachronistic, I would like to use this space as an opportunity to explore the potential resonances of Stuart Hall's process of encoding and decoding with the complicated relationship between the sacred and the secular in the collection and distribution of … Continue reading Decoding Meaning in Medieval Motets