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Anne Carson was uncomfortable with the idea of a traditional profile: a journalist following her around for a few days, like a private detective, noting her outfits and mannerisms, shadowing her on errands, making lists of furniture and wall decorations and pets, quizzing her students, standing behind her holding his breath while she tried to write in her journal. Carson is a private person. She prefers to be alone. (When her husband is traveling, Carson will call and tell him, "I miss you, but I'm having a great time.") Her book jackets have no author photo. Her back-flap biography — "Anne Carson was born in
In the end, she agreed to exchange some e-mails. This felt like a significant victory.
Carson is usually referred to as a poet, but just about no one finds that label satisfying: her fans (for whom she does something more than poetry), her critics (for whom she does something less than poetry) or herself. She often labels her work in conspicuously nonpoetic terms. Her book "The Beauty of the Husband" is subtitled "A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos." Her book "Decreation" is subtitled "Poetry, Essays, Opera." Carson gives the impression — on the page, at readings — of someone from another world, either extraterrestrial or ancient, for whom our modern earthly categories are too artificial and simplistic to contain anything like the real truth she is determined to communicate. For two decades her work has moved — phrase by phrase, line by line, project by improbable project — in directions that a human brain would never naturally move. The approach has won her awards (MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan) and accolades and an electric reputation in the literary world.
In her day job, Carson, who is 62, is a professor of erratic subjects (ancient Greek, attention, artistic collaboration) at various universities around
As an e-mail correspondent, Carson was prompt and friendly but slightly unorthodox. She wrote almost entirely in lowercase letters. Her punctuation was irregular. Some questions she answered with several hundred words, others with only one or two ("no pets"). Others she ignored altogether. Her subject lines contained only punctuation marks: an angle bracket, a comma, parentheses. She always referred to me as "SA" and signed herself "ac." As with her published writing, some of her e-mails were so strange and interesting that reading them made me shake my head in excitement and confusion and wonder.
Here, just to give the flavor, are some excerpts from the e-mails of Anne Carson.
On writing: "we're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy. i mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented. . . . i feel i am blundering in concepts too fine for me."Continue reading the main story
On ice bats: "I made up ice bats, there is no such thing."
On teaching: "when i began to be published, people got the idea that i should 'teach writing,' which i have no idea how to do and don't really believe in. so now and then i find myself engaged by a 'writing program' (as at nyu, stanford) and have to bend my wits to deflect the official purpose."
On contradiction: "i realize all this sounds both chaotic and dishonest and probably that is the case. contradiction is the test of reality, as Simone Weil says."
On insects: "i admire the parsimony of ladybugs." (Admittedly, I baited her into this one with a description of my daughter's plastic ladybug biodome, in which the whole colony survives for weeks at a time on two water-soaked raisins. But still, that was Carson's response.)
I was e-mailing with Carson on the occasion of the publication of her new book, "Red Doc >" (that angle-bracket is, yes, a part of the title: "Red Doc >" was the default name Carson's word-processing program gave to the file, and she stuck with it). "Red Doc >," too, is arguably not poetry. Most of the text runs like a racing stripe down the center of the page, with a couple of inches of empty space on either side. This form was also a result of an accident with the computer. Carson hit a wrong button, and it made the margins go crazy. She found this instantly liberating. The sentences, with one click, went from prosaic to strange, and finally Carson understood — after years of frustration — how her book was actually supposed to work.
"Red Doc >" is the sequel — sort of — to Carson's most popular book, "Autobiography of Red," which was published in 1998. In the intervening 15 years,
"Autobiography of Red" purports to be Geryon's autobiography. Carson transposes Geryon's story, however, into the modern world, so that he is suddenly not just a monster but a moody, artsy, gay teenage boy navigating the difficulties of sex and love and identity. His chief tormentor is Herakles, a charismatic ne'er-do-well who ends up breaking Geryon's heart. The book is strange and sweet and funny, and the remoteness of the ancient myth crossed with the familiarity of the modern setting (hockey practice, buses, baby sitters) creates a particularly Carsonian effect: the paradox of distant closeness.
"Red Doc >" is both close to and distant from its predecessor. The cast of characters has changed almost entirely. Geryon is referred to only as G. (The book is obsessed with initials and acronyms, which G at one point calls "name rations.") Geryon has returned to his pre-Herakles state as a herdsman, lovingly tending a group of musk oxen. This idyllic life is interrupted, however, when he meets a woman named Ida, who introduces herself by knocking him unconscious with a two-by-four. The two of them, along with a traumatized war veteran called SBG (Sad But Great), embark on a picaresque road trip. There is a dreamlike journey into the heart of a glacier, where Geryon meets a flock of ice bats: "They are blueblack. They are absolutely silent. They are the size of toasters." There is a sweet lyrical passage in which Carson takes us inside the mind of Geryon's favorite musk ox, Io, as she wakes up one morning. There is a combination auto-repair shop/psychiatric hospital. There is an erupting volcano. Throughout the book we hear from a kind of Greek chorus — called, mysteriously, Wife of Brain — which pops in to comment elliptically on the action.
"Red Doc >" is more difficult than "Autobiography of Red"; its style is fragmentary, its pace herky-jerky, its rhythms of information trickier to pick up. When I asked Carson if she felt any pressure to follow up her most popular book with a similar book, she answered firmly: "no. Red Doc> seems a different book and i'm a different person and everyone who read the A of Red has moved on by now."
The new book was also, for Carson, much more difficult to write. She wrote "Autobiography of Red" in less than a year, happily. "it made sense to me all the way through as a work, as an offering," she wrote in an e-mail. "Red Doc >," by contrast, was "a mess, obstacle course, uphill grapple in the dark, almost totally disoriented and discontented experiment every minute of the thousand or so years it took to work out."
It actually took somewhere between 9 and 11 years, off and on. In the beginning, "Red Doc >" was set in a hut just off
The dedication page of "Red Doc >" reads simply: "To the randomizer." The term suggests, in light of Carson's work, all kinds of tantalizing possibilities: an ancient deity or a private muse or some kind of supercomputer deep in an undersea cave, powered by whale song and squid tears and sea-filtered traces of honey-wheat Grecian sunlight.
But the randomizer, it turns out, is just a regular man. "Oh," Carson told me when I asked her about it. "That's him." She pointed to her husband, Robert Currie, who was sitting in the chair next to her, wearing jeans and tennis shoes, with his long gray hair pulled back off his face.
Our e-mail correspondence had gone reasonably well, so Carson agreed to meet me in person on a brief trip to New York. We met at a gallery in Chelsea, where we watched a video of a naked Icelandic man playing his guitar in a bathtub. Then we headed to a nearby restaurant for coffee and tea. This is where I brought up the randomizer.
"Are you wearing your shirt?" Carson asked Currie. (She always refers to him as "Currie.") Currie stood up and unbuttoned his long-sleeved flannel to expose a black T-shirt. Its front, sure enough, said "Randomizer." On the back was a reproduction of one of Carson's volcano paintings. (Carson is obsessed with volcanoes.)
"That's one of my better volcanoes, I think," she said.
I asked them where the randomizer nickname came from.
"It's more than a nickname," Carson said. "I would say it's a functional epithet." (Carson, as a classical scholar, likes to be precise about such things.)
Currie is the randomizer, it transpires, because he does many things for many people. He loves to collaborate with everyone, everywhere, on everything. Once a year, he and Carson teach a course together at
In the 15 years since the publication of "Autobiography of Red," Currie has been perhaps the biggest change in Carson's life and work. If she was already leaning hard toward a rejection of official categories and genres (which she was), Currie gave her a sturdy shove into the interdisciplinary abyss. "I was bored with my work, pretty generally," Carson told me. "And he said, 'Well, let's put dancers in it.' So we did." Together, they turned a sonnet cycle into a grand spectacle featuring modern dancers, live and projected on a screen, arranged around Carson reading. They're now planning to blow up that spectacle into something even larger: a choral work featuring dueling choirs, with somewhere between 200 and 10,000 voices. (Carson says that their collaborator, a former member of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, wants to use 10,000 Estonian singers — "which," she said, "is the whole population of
In person, Carson and Currie seem amusingly, but fascinatingly, mismatched, a bit like the disparate elements in Carson's work. Currie is short and bouncy and relentlessly social; he always seems to be talking and laughing. He likes to use the word "swell." Carson is tall, still, shy, cautious, measured. In person, she can be surprisingly casual; she laughs easily and seems willing to chat about anything. In public, she tends to watch, eyebrows raised, from a distance. When a room of several hundred people laughs, she will smile very slightly. Currie says he draws energy from other people, whereas being around other people tends to drain the energy out of Carson. This, he said, is because everybody wants something from her, whereas no one has any idea who he is.
Currie walks slowly; Carson walks fast. Currie eats tiny amounts. Carson (according to Currie) eats multiple heaping plates. Currie sits courtside at every
They don't even agree on how they met. In Currie's version, he was working the book table at one of Carson's readings in
"I have no memory of this," Carson said.
In her version, Currie was suddenly just hanging around. "There you were, and then you were there more."
Now he is there all the time. Every time I saw Carson in New York, they were together, chatting, challenging each other's claims, nudging each other affectionately.
The day after our meeting, Carson led a performance of "Antigonick" in a small theater at N.Y.U. More than 700 people R.S.V.P.'d for 300 available seats. The crowd overflowed not only the theater but also the lobby, where the performance would be broadcast on screens via
For the performance, Carson was wearing what she called her "
It was, by all accounts, a grand success. Butler, as Kreon, was hilarious: small in stature, gigantic in influence. As the voice of the chorus, Carson was characteristically otherworldly. She stood very still and upright, eyebrows perpetually slightly raised. She did not, by contrast, seem to enjoy the mandatory postperformance Q. and A. The stage was full of academics. There were roughly 34,000 questions about Hegel, most of which Butler fielded. Carson, in the brief moments she couldn't avoid speaking, kept bouncing questions back to the audience. Her most memorable contribution was the delivery, out of nowhere, of a terrible joke. "Where do otters come from?" she asked, and then without pause or inflection delivered the punch line: "otter space." The crowd roared with laughter. Carson smiled slightly.
Where does Anne Carson come from? There are several ways to answer this. The first is Canada. She was born and grew up there, the daughter of a banker. Because of the nature of the Canadian financial system, in which bankers are circulated like coins, the family was forced to move more or less constantly. Carson's steadiest companions were her books.
The second answer to the question is
The third answer to the question of Anne Carson's origin is ancient
When I asked Carson what appealed to her so much as a teenager about Greek, she answered, "It just seemed to me the best language." I asked her to elaborate. "It's just intrinsic," she said. "Just a different experience." I asked her to describe the nature of that experience. "It's just like what it is," she said. "If it were like something else, you could do the other thing. It's just like itself. I really can't analogize." This launched us into a five-minute circular conversation that felt like an allegory of the futility of all human language. "That's as far as we can go with that," she said.
Carson did admit, in the end, that part of her desire to learn Greek came from her childhood desire to be Oscar Wilde — classically educated, elegantly dressed, publicly witty.
I asked her when she stopped wanting this.
"I didn't," she said. "Who could stop? It's unachieved, as yet."
The most animated moments in my discussions with Carson came when she spoke about boredom, which she can't stand. ("I will do anything to avoid boredom," she once wrote. "It is the task of a lifetime.") When she writes, she has a constant drive to feel as if she's doing something new with every sentence. When she lectures, regardless of the subject, she wants to uproot people.
"I'm really trying to make people's minds move, you know, which is not something they're naturally inclined to do," she told me. "We have a kind of inertia, sitting and listening. But it's really important to get somehow into the mind and make it move somewhere it has never moved before. That happens partly because the material is mysterious or unknown but mostly because of the way you push the material around from word to word in a sentence. And it's that that I'm more interested in doing, generally, than mystifying by having unexpected content or bizarre forms. It's more like: Given whatever material we're going to talk about, and we all know what it is, how can we move within it in a way we've never moved before, mentally? That seems like the most exciting thing to do with your head. I think it's a weakness to fall back into merely mystifying the audience, which anybody can do. You know, throw in a bit of Hegel. Who knows what that means? But to actually take a piece of Hegel and move it around in a way that shows you something about Hegel is a satisfying challenge."
There is hardly a pause before she added, in her usual deadpan, "So maybe I didn't make any clear point there, but I was impassioned."
"You were," Currie said, laughing. "I've never seen you so heated."
Toward the end of "Red Doc >," the story leaps into tragic territory: the death of Geryon's mother. They are some of the saddest pages I've ever read. "And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgivable. They do not forgive it. He turns away. This roaring air in his arms. She is released." When I told Carson how devastating this was, she seemed surprised. She said she couldn't quite tell.
"I somehow wrote that book without having any relation to it," she said.
In the days that followed, I thought about this statement and realized I had no idea what it meant. Carson was back in Michigan by then, so I sent her one last e-mail, asking her to explain. This, in its entirety, was her response:
1 a particle is a thing in itself. a wave is a disturbance in something else. waves themselves are probably not disturbed.
2 there are some big particles inside Red Doc> — of information (ice), of grief (mother), of caprice (musk ox mind) — but by the time i wrote them down i had moved out to the condition of wave.
3 maybe i'm just saying that i'm a tough old bugger.
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Despite the fact that the women of Ulong laid low, the tribe's votes showed their weakest link was a quiet 22-year-old college student from South Carolina.
"I know that they all sensed I was about to crumble," said practicing Mormon Ashlee Ashby, who received four ousting votes at tribal council.
In a strategy that seemed to have been proven sound by the first episode, Ashlee stayed in the shadows (unlike Jolanda, the aggressive lawyer whom Ulong booted last week) and did nothing outstanding during either of the challenges. Nor did she build any major alliances.
Perhaps that's where the second-youngest member went wrong. She couldn't get by on her smile alone, unlike Kim Mullen, whose glowing blonde tresses and "cuddling" with team member Jeff Wilson didn't seem to have hurt her in tribal council. She received one vote.
When host Jeff Probst first pitted teams Ulong against Koror for a food-reward challenge, Kim showed up wearing her team's blue bandana around her midsection and a matching blue padded bra on top. Cute, yes. Island apparel? Perhaps. Did she look like she was roughing it? Not exactly.
Each team member was challenged to make it across a wobbly rope-and-barrel course suspended over the water. The prize: a deluxe fishing kit, including a six-foot-long spear.
This challenge seemed easy, until Jeff added two members from the opposing team swinging weighted bags at them.
Several narrow misses of the weighted bags (some swung directly at the women's heads) made viewers wonder what footage was edited out.
The highlight of this challenge: the little ballerina-like flourish the hairdresser from Texas made with his arms before setting off across the rotating barrels. Poor Coby made it about two feet before crashing not so-delicately into the barrels and flailing down into the lagoon.
Ulong won the challenge, the spear kit and a bonus: flint.
But perhaps more importantly, the challenge spurred a Cinderella story: Angie Jakusz.
Once thought to be the team's Achilles Heel, Angie, the tattooed, melancholy bartender from New Orleans, pulled more than her weight.
"She completely dominated. I don't know what got into her, but it was good," Bobbie John Drinkard, the waiter from Alabama, said.
Angie didn't have to sweat at all. Despite her newfound popularity, her team, Koror, won immunity in the second team challenge.
After the second challenge, Ulong went back to camp dejected. Their fire was burnt out and so were their spirits.
Shivering, they turned to playing favorites between Kim and Ashlee. We all know who lost, but watch out for Stephenie LaGrossa. She proved herself to be the honest one. She told Kim and Ashlee they were each candidates for elimination. She told them what she thought of them. And, miraculously enough, everyone still seems to like her.
Also watch out for Ian. His team, picking up on his aquatic skills (he's a dolphin trainer), sent him diving for the lost flint, which he successfully snagged from 20-plus feet undersea.
After her departure, Ashlee did have one thing to say for herself: "I didn't use the excuse that I was cold to cuddle with Ibrahem, because he sure is a cutie."
To see what else Ashlee has to say about Ibrahem Rahman (and the 15 other remaining Survivors), check out Friday's The Early Show.
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Thursday, November 03, 2005
First Books
There's such a tasty list of non-fiction here that I am actually afraid to read the details least a serious attack of bookgreed sets in.
But I have no appetite to read at the moment while I'm churning out words ...
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- Barrie said...
Good luck with the NaNoWriMo words! Are you going to keep a clock on the site updating your total? That's got to be a great way to waste some time you should be writing.
Just read about it for the first time this year (so have a whole year to prepare excuses for not doing it in 2006).
- November 03, 2005 9:10 pm
- bibliobibuli said...
thanks barrie! I did put the clock in my sidebar but it made the page so slow to load I took it down again - this internet provider seems to be having a lot of problems ... I might just put it up again on a web page ...
the nanowrimo is serious fun ... you might decide to try it next year, who knows ...
- November 04, 2005 12:49 am
Loading times were okay here. I think you should put the clock back, so every time you see it you'd be reminded of where you are, and where you should be. I guess it's a matter of priorities. What's fun to you is work to me :) seriously I can't imagine someone _wanting_ to write.. voluntarily and for free :) it's like someone saying "you should go for root canals, they're fun !" anyway I think not many guys write for fun. Bet if you looked at all the people participating most of them would be women :)
- November 04, 2005 2:20 am
- bibliobibuli said...
anon - apparently two-thirds of the participants are women so you're not far wrong.
- November 04, 2005 7:39 am
- Yvonne Foong said...
All the best for the Nanowrimo! Am excited to read your novel.
- November 04, 2005 10:57 am
- bibliobibuli said...
yvonne - arrgh - i'm not excited to read my novel so i don't thuink i'd wish it on anyone else - this year it feels like swimming in wet cement
- November 04, 2005 11:28 am
But swimming in wet cement is fun. I mean think of the possibilities. it's wet, it's grey, and you're waiting to die. And then you could have a flashback.. and the story would start from there.
- November 16, 2005 12:59 am


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Everybody knows Jonathan Ive. The master craftsman at Apple, who is behind legendary products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and the iPad influences and touches all our lives knowingly or otherwise. There probably isn't a popular gadget out there that hasn't been either designed by him or inspired by his designs.
He is the Senior Vice President of Design at Apple Inc. and considered one of the Top 100 Influential People in the world.
He is the master brain behind the legendary designs of iPad, iMac and iPod and is famous (for lack of a better word) for being precise and sharp with this designs.
But one might wonder, as we often do with the rich and famous, what would Sir. Jonathan Ive wear and call his personal favorites, when it comes to design? Take for example his watch, especially since it is rumored that Apple is working on an "iWatch."
Well, according to this article, here is the watch he wears. He designed it himself for an AIDS-charity auction and it is only one of three in the world. Estimated at ~$15K, it was auctioned off at $365,000!
Well, Sir. Jonathan Ive's watch is obviously no ordinary one. It is uniquely one among only 3 available in the world, and was crafted by Swiss high-end brand Jaeger-LeCoultre (did you pronounce that right?).
What's so unique about this watch? Well, a couple of things.
1. It is worth 365,000 USD!
Evaluated at ~$15K, the watch was auctioned off at $365,000. For a watch, that is quite a price. (Source)
2. He custom designed it for the auction.
He designed his own watch… that's hardcore. (Source)
3. There are only two other such pieces in this world.
Ok, that explains it. (Source)
Here's the other watch from the auction, the ATMOS 561, which was auctioned at 425,000 USD at Sotheby's. (Source)
The auction featured icons of design selected by Sir Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson and works that were personally customized by the pair.
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Calder last saw the small herd of ostriches featured in national and local stories on ostrich breeding when she moved out of her Blue Heaven Ostrich Ranch in Loxahatchee. She left the ostriches, some of which she had nurtured for 21 years, with plans to find a new place for them to stay.
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She's been fighting to get them back ever since filing several lawsuits, the latest in September. "We've been together through everything, those birds and me," Calder said.
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Sales of products to treat obesity will climb to $5.9 billion in the year 2000, 60% over 1994 levels, Irvine, Calif.-based Medical Data International predicted in a report published today. In 1994, prescription drugs represented 3% of the total obesity management product market in the U.S., while weight-loss programs totaled 83%, said MDI. In the year 2000, however, the use of prescription drugs is forecast to increase to more than 30% of the total market and weight-loss programs will decrease to 58%.
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Dallas Mavericks star forward Lamar Odom did not return to his team Tuesday after taking a leave of absence for unspecified "personal" reasons last week.
Odom, who was scheduled to return to the team after the All-Star break, was not in the Mavericks lineup for the NJ Nets vs Mavs game Tuesday night in Dallas. He also missed the previous game the Wednesday night before the break, against his former team the Lakers.
Speculation is running rampant about Odom's future with the team. Coach Rick Carlisle and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban have both refuted rumors of a possible buyout of Odom's contract.
"I knew I'd get the question over and over again until I said I wouldn't do it," Cuban told the Washington Post, adding there hadn't even been a discussion about a buyout. "We want him to contribute. We want him to help."
Sources close to Odom's camp told Sandrarose.com that Odom, a 13-year veteran, missed a game last week to re-shoot scenes for his reality show 'Khloe & Lamar' on E!
Another NBA team that could be affected by the reality TV shooting schedule of one of its star players is the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Cavs guard Daniel "Booby" Gibson is in the midst of filming his reality show, 'Family First,' starring him and his wife, R&B singer Keyshia Cole-Gibson. The show was picked up by BET and is on the July 2012 programming schedule.
"We're proud," Gibson told the News-Herald. "It got picked up. I want to wait until we finish the contract before we disclose (anything)."
Coach Byron Scott allowed the film crew to shoot footage of Gibson shooting around after practice on Monday.
"The reality show isn't going to affect us," Scott said. "They have to go around his schedule. It's not going to affect what we do."


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During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.
• An engaging and accessible exploration of how Westerners across the centuries have viewed distant places and peoples • Focuses on a crucial 300-year period (1500–1800), when Europe was founding colonial empires overseas and combating the Ottoman Empire • Illustrates how music, far from being an isolated aesthetic activity, participated in conveying stereotypical images of peoples living 'elsewhere' and minority peoples at home • Includes rare illustrations, music examples that can be played or sung, and a list of recommended recordings and DVDs
Part I. Introduction: A Rich and Complex Heritage: 1. Images and principles; 2. Exotic in style?: paradigms and interpretations; Part II. The West and its Others: 3. The early cultural background; 4. Encounters; Part III. Songs and Dance-Types: 5. Popular songs; 6. Dances and instrumental styles from (or 'from') elsewhere; Part IV. Exotic Portrayals on Stage, in Concert, in Church: 7. Courtly ballets; 8. Distinctive developments in Venice and other Italian cities and courts; 9. Oratorio and other religious genres; 10. Early opera and partly sung stage-works; 11. French and Italian serious opera, especially Lully and Handel; 12. Eighteenth-century comic operas and short danced works; 13. Obsession with the Middle East: from the Parisian fairs to Mozart; Afterword: a helpfully troubling term.
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'European encounters with Asia and the Americas found echoes in the theater, church, and chamber, as music itself found new ways to convey meaning and provoke a wide range of feelings. Ralph P. Locke's magisterial tour of the exotic takes us not only to lands both far and near, but also through changing musical worlds laced with danger and excitement.' Tim Carter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
'In this immensely learned and amazingly wide-ranging companion to Musical Exoticism … Locke moves back in time to consider the musical portrayal of Otherness in European music from 1500 to 1800. [He] is a cultural historian of the highest order: he draws together a broad range of literary, historical, visual, and musical materials to demonstrate how the performing arts participated in the delineation of center and periphery, Us and Them. Particularly impressive is [his] attention to the semiotic fluidity of works in performance and his elucidation of the exotic as 'relational' rather than essential, even as he argues for a historically grounded interpretation of the musical depiction of the Other. [This book] should be required reading for anyone interested in this period, and I expect it will have a profound effect on our understanding of how the imagined Elsewhere shaped European culture.' Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University
'With a rich and diverse set of compelling case studies, and many beautiful images, Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart offers a gold standard for the scholarly interpretation of cross-cultural representation through music in the early modern period. Ralph P. Locke shows how Europeans used musical works to engage with the wider world, not merely as a passive reflection or commentary, but as a symbolic means of representing to themselves 'exotic' cultural identities for specific political purposes.' David R. M. Irving, Australian National University
'Fascinating, entrancing and thoroughly enjoyable. Locke's survey and (re)evaluation of works from L'homme armé masses of the fifteenth century to Mozart's portrayal of Osmin's rage in Die Entführung aus dem Serail is truly inspiring … Ambitious but nuanced explorations characteristic of post-Edward Said scholarship. Exoticism as explored by Locke … ranges across a dazzling swathe of historical material from the appropriated dance styles of folk culture to the choruses of Handel's Old Testament oratorios … This is Locke's great strength as a writer and historian: what sounds so abstruse in theory is explored with such enjoyable relish in musical examples.' Edward Breen, Gramophone
'Locke's consideration of Venetian opera, French Baroque opera and eighteenth-century [operatic] comedy is detailed and insightful.' George Hall, Opera
'This is a fascinating study which argues compellingly that exoticism - a troublesome term! - resides in relationships, which are formed within and between cultural contexts and practices. Locke identifies and evaluates the fruits of such cultural transferences during the years 1500–1800, which were based variously upon ignorance, assumption, knowledge, caricature, indifference, curiosity and admiration - and often a mix of many such perspectives. And, as he has previously shown in his companion work, Musical Exoticism, images of Otherness have been continually revived and developed in the years since - images of 'Them' which can help us to understand 'Us'.' Claire Seymour, OperaToday.com
'The only book-length study that provides a theoretically-framed, encyclopedic exposition of the pervasive phenomenon of musical exoticism during the … first long period of European exploration, conquest, and colonialism. Of particular interest is Locke's willingness to allow degrees of exoticism: there is the exoticism of peripheral regions and social groups, and that of truly remote and alien peoples and locales; exotic representation that denigrates, equivocates, or extols; and sometimes there are works here [in which] two groups are exotic but one more so than another. Locke provides a fascinating insight into [the alla turca style's] selective, generic use in opera. Locke manages to discern some ambivalence and complexity even in the extremely stereotypical role of Osmin in [Mozart's] Die Entführung as well as the unusual exotic masquerade of Così [fan tutte]. Riveting revelations are found throughout the book [and] provocative observations that continuously invite further development, discussion, and debate. Should refresh learning … at every academic level.' Shay Loya, Music Library Association Notes
'… Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart is a major contribution to musicological scholarship, offering a fully comprehensive and imaginative exploration of musical exoticism during the years 1500–1800. Its accessible style makes it suitable as a core textbook for an undergraduate module, and for scholars working in related fields such as theatre studies, cultural history, literary criticism, and social anthropology. This ambitious study will no doubt encourage scholarship in the field by broadening the repertory under discussion and offering alternative Interpretations.' Angela Kang, Music and Letters
'When it comes to the challenge of describing and understanding the ways in which this fascination [with foreign lands and peoples] left its mark on the Western musical imagination, certainly no one has been more committed or resourceful than Professor Locke himself. … Encyclopedic in scope, [Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart] offers thoughtful, insightful reflections on one of the most important cultural developments in the history of Western music. At the same time it manages to be admirably clearly and engagingly written. Quite an achievement!' Robert L. Marshall, Min-Ad Israel Studies in Musicology Online
'A much-needed addition to the literature. It is the first sustained study of specific [exoticist] works composed during the years 1500–1800, while it also highlights broader trends in composers' approaches to the exotic and audiences' reception of their music … Locke's book, along with his Musical Exoticism [Cambridge 2009], thus essentially redefines the exotic in relation to music and provides a model for how scholars might interpret it. … Among Locke's most insightful chapters are those treating eighteenth-century staged works. … Locke approaches [Mozart's operas] from new angles and offers fresh, thought-provoking insights into them. Engagingly written, free of jargon and lavishly illustrated with reproductions of many artworks that are little known and not readily available. … Indispensable to anyone interested in investigating exoticism in early music.' Catherine Mayes, Eighteenth-Century Music


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LOL you silly boy.
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So I was getting on the case of my room-mate for being controlling of his girlfriend, and he told me "Baker, why don't you do things the way you want to do and I'll do things the way I want to?"
I don't understand why his same logic doesn't apply to females... I thought they were people, too. Could just be my opinion.edit on 18-1-2013 by darkbake because: (no reason given)edit on 18-1-2013 by darkbake because: (no reason given)
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Then you lost the argument initially due to your insulting me first.


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On Saturday, February 24, 2018, we'll be hosting the first Accelerator Run Series alongside the Triathlon Show: London in partnership with AAT Events.
Suitable for all ages and abilities, there will be 10km and 5km races, followed by a Kids Race (approx 1.5km).
The run will be on marked-public footpaths around the Docklands area, encompassing sections of the London Triathlon route.
1st and 2nd place in the mens and womens 10km/5km races will receive prize vouchers and a race belt courtesy of exhibitor Zone3.
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A Bangladeshi woman looks at a wall filled with portraits of missing persons near the site of a garments factory that collapsed in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Ashraful Alam Tito)
Following a series of tragedies in Bangladesh garment plants that claimed the lives of more than 1,100 in Dhaka and 112 in Tazreen, Western retailers have come under pressure to improve working conditions in their factories. In May, more than seventy companies signed on to a legally binding plan, the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. It has been largely welcomed by labor rights NGOs for ensuring international inspectors into facilities, greater contractor transparency and for a requirement that retailers fund necessary safety upgrades at garment factories.
But Walmart, Target, J.C. Penney, Gap, Sears and the largest federation of US-based retailers balked, claiming the recent accord would increase their liability. On Wednesday at 10 am, the dissenting retailers are poised to unveil a rival plan, one already panned by critics as a smokescreen designed to help them skirt responsibility for fixing their factory "deathtraps."
To release their rival accord, called the Global Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, the US retailers turned to George Mitchell (D-ME) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), along with the Bipartisan Policy Center, a group affiliated with both former senators. The decision to release the plan through an independent, bipartisan think tank may have been made to boost the plan's credibility. In a letter to inform European counterparts that they would not be meeting to discuss safety plans, Mitchell and Snowe presented their involvement in the rival agreement as neutral brokers. "Under the auspices of the Bipartisan Policy Center, we are independently facilitating a robust and principled dialogue among leading garment retailers and brands as they work to achieve consensus on a single, unified safety plan designed to improve worker conditions in Bangladesh garment factories," the senators wrote in their June 25 message to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.


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More than half of all Japanese enterprises believe that Vietnam's administrative and taxation procedures are overly complicated and hope the issues will be addressed, Mr. Atsusuke Kawada, Head of the Representative Office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), told the "Vietnam Export Promotion Forum 2016" held in mid-April.
The forum was hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in cooperation with the Central Economic Committee (CEC) and other ministries and sectors and organized by the Trade Promotion Agency.
Mr. Kawada said that JETRO conducted a survey on Japanese enterprises on the perceived difficulties contained in Vietnam's export and import policies. Two-thirds (65.2 per cent) said there were difficulties purchasing domestic materials and components and 77.9 per cent thought the minimum wage was too high.
Reducing production costs, enhancing product quality, and attracting good human resources were among the most important matters Vietnamese enterprises must improve upon to make Vietnamese products competitive.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai told the forum that Vietnam signing free trade agreements (FTAs) will result in changes to State management and administration and the country looks forward to reaching the necessary targets in this regard.
On the sidelines of the forum, Mr. Ngo Dong Hai, Deputy Chief of the CEC, said that besides the orientation role the government plays there must be self motivation and creativity and dynamism from Vietnamese enterprises, which will play a decisive role in the success or failure of the country's global integration.
Agreeing, Mr. Kawada added that while support from the government is necessary the efforts made by enterprises are of greater importance. They must be flexible in their approach to FTAs when considering export destinations and the origin of their import materials.