Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing

Scholarly writing and how to get it done. / And a workshop for my own ideas, scholarly and poetic

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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

How are you feeling?

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How am I feeling? I'm glad you asked. Somewhere half way between ennui and spleen The crust is rough and crumbly On the inside is acid Y...
Monday, June 29, 2020

The Cast of Characters

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I could think of my book as featuring a cast of characters.  Lorca himself, then  Germaine Montero / CamarĂ³n / Silvestre Revueltas / Leonard...

Leonard Cohen - How to speak poetry (spoken)

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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Substratum

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What is Lorca's own musical culture?   Standard Western classical music from Bach to Debussy. The Falla / Debussy nexus.  Specifically S...
Friday, June 26, 2020

The Absent Center

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Flamenco music is the absent center in music inspired by Lorca. It is a strangely elusive target (to switch my metaphors around a bit.) Not ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Workshop

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I had the students in the workshop bring in examples of good prose. They ended up giving me almost random paragraphs of standard academic pr...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Documentary evidence

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