When I reflect on the materials of a course, I sometimes like to consider the things that we didn’t explicitly discuss in class. The things that we left unsaid, if you will. It goes without saying that one of the major themes of our course has been just how not German French music was during […]
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All That Glitters is Not Gay
There’s a certain level of humor I have to have when writing this post, since it’s being written well after I have conducted the last bit of research for this class. I think for the sake of getting past the silly gags, I’ll just pretend that I’m currently doing this research. Ahem… When conducting my […]
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A Score of Many Colors
The entirety of this post comes from the perspective of a queer man. Reader discretion is advised. Before we dive into the arguements made by Dorf and Moore, it should be heavily noted that Queerness and Gender are both heavily fluid concepts. You can be as heteronormative or hella-gay as you want to be in […]
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Absolutely Not.
There are so many moving parts in this prompt, let’s start with love. As a working definition of this term and to elaborate on my (eventually explained) opinion, in order to truly love someone or something, you must also give them their deserved respect and celebrate all parts of them. Their flaws, their successes, their […]
Since I’m publishing all of these posts in a rather quick succession, it is nice to have some shape or form to my narrative here – and considering that this prompt is asking which of all the sources has best helped be understand my thoughts toward French music, it is only slightly amusing that I […]
Why hello Music 345b! Come here often? The joke is, I haven’t! I’ve been lacking in the blog-post department this semester, so I wouldn’t really be able to know if anyone comes here often – though I hope you have been posting more often than I have. That’d really be embarrassing… Anyways, music! Paris! The […]