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May 9, 2013
The Four Ways of Practice
Phil Ford [This is written a couple of months after the post below -- I have to add some stuff just to clarify a couple of things. Back when I this blog's last post, Jonathan and I decided to discontinue... Continue reading
Posted Jun 25, 2010 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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Mar 15, 2010
Oswalt on teaching
Phil Ford I spent the end of last semester in a frenzy of activity punctuated by moments of pure unmotivated idleness. While procrastinating one day I discovered the comedian Patton Oswalt, who is smart and funny and whose standup is... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2010 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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Philly AMS breakdown
Posted Nov 19, 2009 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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Consciousness
Phil Ford There was a young man who said "though it seems that I know that I know, what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know." --Alan... Continue reading
Posted Nov 9, 2009 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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Exercise no. 5: the second seminar game piece
Phil Ford Two things. First of all, friend of the blog David Brent Johnson has done a new show for Night Lights on the 1957 film The Sweet Smell of Success. David interviewed me and James Naremore, whose book on... Continue reading
Posted Oct 27, 2009 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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Exercise no. 4: Dress badly and become a fascist
Posted Oct 22, 2009 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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Bad habits and fortune cookies
Phil Ford Here's another dumb developmental essay. I realized the other day that this is pretty much all I ever write anymore -- stuff about the place of education within broader issues of human development. This has given things a... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2009 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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The moving soundscape meditation
Phil Ford Lyle Sanford just added a wonderful quote from Daniel Goleman's Vital Lies, Simple Truths to my last post: The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail... Continue reading
Posted Oct 1, 2009 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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On Ignorance
Phil Ford The other day my daughter asked me what "ignorant" means. It's one of those words which is itself an abstraction, surprisingly hard to define in concrete terms, although we know the concrete manifestations the instant we see them.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 26, 2009 at Dial "M" for Musicology
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