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 week 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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2 months ago |
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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Dec 5, 2024 |
ianpace.wordpress.com | Ian Pace
| Filed under: Academia, Higher Education, History, Politics | Tags: Alan Sokal, angela last, anibal quijano, anna krylov, arab mathematics, austrian empire, bach, beethoven, carol azumah dennis, charles aldous, chemistry, christina mobley, colonialism, decolonisation, decolonising the university, decolonization, dream of the red chamber, engineering, ethiopian music, frantz fanon, gottfried wilhelm leibniz, gurminder k.
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RT @joshxhowie: If we can’t criticise the ideology of Islam, then this society is done.
‘The big danger is that this new definition will treat Islam as a race, as the APPG definition does. Contrary to received wisdom, Islam is a religion, and therefore Islamophobia cannot be a type of ‘racism’. Its adherents come from every race under the Sun..’
I was hung out to dry by my university for teaching a course on Islam. Apparently, the ‘sensitivities’ of believers matter more than facts. Labour’s coming crackdown on ‘Islamophobia’ will lead to many more cases like mine, says Steven Greer https://t.co/DFWpb3LiPr
RT @MForstater: This interview by @bphillipsonMP is very good and clear. The government recognises and welcomes the Supreme Court ruling.…
