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Thursday, March 22, 2018

The abject badness of Lorca studies


"It is intended that this dissertation present the fact that Castelnuovo- Tedesco took seriously the poetry presented by GarcĂ­a Lorca."  

3 comments:

Leslie B. said...

I have GOT to wrest control of my life away from my department, finish that book on race so that I get it off my chest, and return to Vallejo studies. SOMEONE has to do it.

Vance Maverick said...

I had to go look up the sentence. I think it may reflect more on the intellectual standards of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree than on Lorca studies.....

Jonathan said...

I think that getting a DMA could be ok in some cases, but making someone write a thesis who cannot write or think at all is downright cruel.