
Ian Pace
Contributor at The Conversation (Australia)
Contributor at Freelance
Pianist, Prof of Music, Culture, Society, @CityUniLondon. Tweeting in personal capacity. Secretary, @lucaf_london, co-convenor @CityUniAFAF. Also at @drianpace
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1 month ago |
cafeamericainmag.com | Ian Pace
Realism is frequently identified with the literary work of writers such as Dickens, George Eliot, Balzac, Flaubert, the Goncourt brothers, Theodor Fontane, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain and many others; and also in the theatre with Ibsen and Chekhov; in the visual arts with Courbet, Daumier, Adolph Menzel, Ilya Repin, Whistler, and others.
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1 month ago |
spectator.co.uk | Ian Pace
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments In a recent article, the historian Katja Hoyer describes an event at the German Embassy prior to a Royal Opera House performance in May of Wagner’s Die Walküre. There she spoke with various individuals, some of them clearly Wagner ‘fans’, and she righteously declares: ‘having studied [Wagner] as a historical figure, I’m perhaps also less able than most to forget the man behind the music.’ Following some discussions...
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Feb 16, 2025 |
timeshighereducation.com | Ian Pace
Source: Darwin Brandis/iStock In a recent radio interview, Cardiff University’s vice-chancellor, Wendy Larner, defended her proposal to drop music degrees (among others) by arguing that “there are two music schools in Cardiff” and that “in a context where resources are so constrained, the sector cannot afford to compete in the way it has historically”. The point about competition may well be true.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
cafeamericainmag.com | Ian Pace
Commercial culture has never had it so good, at least from the point of view of its producers.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
thecritic.co.uk | Ian Pace
Confused thinking and confusing prose has led to a reversible decline At the end of 2024, a short-lived Twitter/X storm raised significant questions about the nature of academic work and public engagement with such work, especially on social media. It also raised questions of the types of language, which some would call jargon, used in certain forms of academic writing, and what purpose it actually serves.
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RT @rfbogardus: Superb essay by Ian Pace, on jargon and academic writing.

RT @prossertj: Don't get me wrong - I love stroking cute animals as much as anyone - but this trend is really quite embarrassing. It trivia…

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