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New Kids on the Block's Hangin’ Tough
Authors: Wallwork Rebecca 
Published: March 2017

Hangin’ Tough, the second album by the New Kids on the Block, has sold more than seventeen million copies worldwide since it was released in 1988. But the album and the band have also been dismissed, derided and deemed uncool by the music establishment.
Almost thirty years later, the New Kids still perform the songs from Hangin’ Tough. Hundreds of thousands of grown women still flock to their concerts to hear—and go bat-shit crazy for—the songs they first heard when they were teenagers. Is this mere nostalgia or can the science of music help explain the enduring success of Hangin’ Tough? What is it about this album that made it so special? Is the music any good or are there other factors at play too?
Journalist and New Kids fan Rebecca Wallwork sets out to analyze the quality of Hangin’ Tough with the help of music cognition experts, critics, producers and music industry pros. This is not a story about crazy fans, boy bands and truckloads of cheesy merchandise; it is an exploration of a watershed album and moment in pop culture history. It is a glimpse into the brain of not just New Kids fans, but into the minds and hearts of anyone who loves music.
Sigur Rós’s ( )
Authors: Hayden Ethan 
Published: March 2017

Words like “inspiring,” “expansive,” and “moving” are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title-or rather, its title is no title: just an empty pair of parentheses. The intention being that listeners will fill in the parentheses with their own title, their own interpretation of the sounds on the record. The CD sleeve consists of twelve pages that are essentially blank, lacking song titles, liner notes or production credits. Instead, it contains only semi-translucent frosted images of abstract natural scenes (tree branches, clouds, etc.), on which the listener is free to inscribe their own notes-or no notes at all. And then there are the lyrics, sung in a deliberately unintelligible tongue called “Hopelandic” which the band invites listeners to interpret freely.
Ethan Hayden's book doesn't try to fill in the gaps between the album's parentheses, but instead explores the ways in which listeners might attempt to do so. Examining the communicative powers of asemantic language, the book asks whether music can bring sense to nonsense. What happens to the voice when it stops singing conventional language: does it simply become another musical instrument, or is it somehow more “human”? What role does space play on ( )? And how do we interpret music that we cannot possibly understand, but feel very deeply that we do?
The Modern Lovers' The Modern Lovers
Authors: Maloney Sean L. 
Published: March 2017

From the “War on Hippies” to the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock ‘n’ roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a changing world. One of punk rock’s foundational documents, the archetype for indie obsession and all but disowned by its author, The Modern Lovers was an album doomed by its own coolness from day one. Powered by the two-chord wonder “Roadrunner” and its proclamation that “I’m in love with rock ‘n’ roll,The Modern Lovers is the essential document of American alienation, an escape route from the cultural wasteland of postwar suburbia. The Modern Lovers is the bridge connecting the Velvet Underground and the Sex Pistols; they were peers of the New York Dolls and friends with Gram Parsons and they would splinter into Talking Heads, The Cars, and The Real Kids.
But The Modern Lovers was never meant to be an album. A collection of demos, recorded in fits and starts as Jonathan Richman and his band negotiate modernity and the music industry. It is a collection of songs about a city and a society in flux, grappling with ancient corruptions and bright-eyed idealism. Richman observes a city all but abandoned by adults, ravaged by white flight and urban renewal, veering towards anarchy as old world social moors collide with new attitudes. It is a city stands in stark contrast to the the ranchstyle bedroom community where he was raised. All of these conflicts are churned through Richman’s intellectual acuity and emotional unrest to create one of the 20th century’s most enduring documents of post-adolescent malaise.
Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
Authors: Norelli Clare Nina 
Published: March 2017

When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-loving FBI agent’s investigation into the murder of a small town teen queen, Twin Peaks brought the aesthetic of arthouse cinema to a prime time television audience and became a cult sensation in the process.
Part of Twin Peaks’ charm was its unforgettable soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti, a frequent and reoccurring collaborator of film director and Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch. Badalamenti’s evocative music, with its haunting themes and jazzy moodscapes, served as a constant in a narrative that was often unhinged and went on to become one of the most popular and influential television soundtracks of all time.
How did a unique collaborative process between a director and composer result in a perfectly post-modern soundtrack that ran the gamut of musical styles from jazz to dreamy pop to synthesizer doom and beyond? And how did Badalamenti’s musical cues work with Twin Peaks’ visuals, constantly evolving and having the ability to break with television convention; playing off viewers’ expectations and associations? Under the guidance of Angelo Badalamenti’s diverse sonic palette Clare Nina Norelli delves deep into the world of Twin Peaks to answer all of these questions and more.
Morrissey
Authors: Hopps Gavin 
Published: March 2017

Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey’s early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of celibacy, abstinence and rock ‘n’ roll revolutionized the world of British pop. As a solo artist, too, he consistently adopts the outsider’s perspective and dares us to confront uncomfortable subjects. In his brilliant book, Gavin Hopps examines the work of this compelling performer, whose intelligence, humour, suffering and awkwardness have fascinated audiences around the world for the last 25 years.
Hopps traces the trajectory of Morrissey’s career and outlines the contours and contradictions of the singer’s elusive persona. The book illuminates Morrissey’s coyness (how can he remain a mystery when he tells us too much?), his dramatized melancholy (surely more of a radical existential protest than the gimmick some believe it to be), and his complex attitudes towards loneliness and alienation, as well as his intriguing sense of the religious.
Brian Eno's Another Green World
Authors: Dayal Geeta 
Published: March 2017

The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practicallymeditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled byadrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album tobe composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio,over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proofof concept for Eno’s budding ideas of “the studio as musicalinstrument,“ and a signpost for a bold new way of thinking about music.
In this book, Geeta Dayal unravels Another Green World’s abundantmysteries, venturing into its dense thickets of sound. How was analbum this cohesive and refined formed in such a seemingly ad hoc way?How were electronics and layers of synthetic treatments used to createan album so redolent of the natural world? How did a deck of cardsfigure into all of this? Here, through interviews and archivalresearch, she unearths the strange story of how Another Green World formed the link to Eno’s future -- foreshadowing his metamorphosisfrom unlikely glam rocker to sonic painter and producer.
J Dilla's Donuts
Authors: Ferguson Jordan 
Published: March 2017

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music” is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying?
Drawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla’s own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artist’s declining health as it is an example of what scholars call “late style,” placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.
PJ Harvey's Rid of Me
Authors: Schatz Kate 
Published: March 2017

Rid of Me joins Music From Big Pink by John Niven and Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice as one of three fictional titles in the 33 1/3 Series, and tells the story of Kathleen and Mary, two women who find themselves alone in a house in the middle of the dark, forbidden forest that borders their depressed valley town. Amidst a dramatic natural setting, they negotiate their freedom, their pasts, their survival, and each other. Rid of Me is a story of escape and desire, violence and gender, landscape, family, and memory. It’s a twisted fairy tale, a queer dystopia/utopia, and a lyrical exploration of kidnapping, dreams, murder, sex, revenge, and love.
Kate Schatz’s Rid of Me is at once a wholly original work of fiction and an innovative meditation on one writer’s relationship to an album. The album in question is PJ Harvey’s 1993 recording Rid of Me, a release noted again and again for its raw sound, dark lyrics, and unabashed presentation of female sexuality, desire, and rage. In her prologue, Schatz states that the book is “not about Rid of Me, but because of it” and the book’s 14 chapters (one for each song on the album) use the lyrics, moods, images, and characters to create something entirely different, yet intimately connected to the music.
Portishead's Dummy
Authors: Wheaton R. J. 
Published: March 2017

An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead’s Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself, piecing together interviews, impressions of time and place, cultural criticism, and a thorough exploration of the music itself.
The approach focuses as much on the reception and response that Dummy engendered as it does on the original production of the album. How is that so many people have, collectively, made a quintessential headphone album into a nightclub album? How have they made the product of a niche local scene into an international success? This is the story of how an innovative, experimental album became the iconic sound for the better part of a decade; and an aesthetic template for the experience of music in the digital age.
Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation
Authors: Astor Pete 
Published: March 2017

To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into the pre-punk UK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager himself at the time, was most impressed. The fact that it emerged (after many years) that Hell himself had not worn the T-shirt but had convinced junior band member Richard Lloyd to do so, actually fitted very well with Astor’s older, wiser self looking back at Blank Generation. Richard Hell was an artist who could not only embody but also frame the punk urge; having seeded and developed the essential look and character of punk since his arrival in New York in the late 1960s, he had just what was needed to make one of the defining records of the era.
This study combines objective, academic perspectives along with culturally centred subjectivities to understand the meanings and resonances of Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation.
Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson
Authors: Anderson Darran 
Published: March 2017

Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast.
His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo, provocation, humour, exoticism and ultimately tragedy. Composed and arranged with the great Jean-Claude Vannier, its score of lush cinematic strings and proto-hip hop beats, combined with Serge’s spoken-word poetry, has become remarkably influential across a vast musical spectrum; inspiring soundtracks, indie groups and electronic artists. In recent years, the album’s reputation has grown from cult status to that of a modern classic with the likes of Beck, Portishead, Mike Patton, Air and Pulp paying tribute.
How did the son of Jewish Russian immigrants, hounded during the Nazi Occupation, rise to such notoriety and acclaim, being celebrated by President François Mitterand as “our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire”? How did the early chanson singer evolve into a musical visionary incorporating samples, breakbeats and dub into his music, decades ahead of the curve? And what are the roots and legacy of a concept album about a Rolls Royce, a red-haired Lolita muse, otherworldly mansions, plane crashes and Cargo Cults?
Slint's Spiderland
Authors: Tennent Scott 
Published: March 2017

Of all the seminal albums to come out in 1991-the year of Nevermind, Loveless, Ten, and Out of Time, among others-none were quieter, both in volume and influence, than Spiderland, and no band more mysterious than Slint. Few single albums can lay claim to sparking an entire genre, but Spiderland -all six songs of it-laid the foundation for post rock in the 1990s. Yet for so much obvious influence, both the band and the album remain something of a puzzle.
This thoroughly researched book is the first substantive attempt to break through some of the mystery surrounding Spiderland and the band that made it. Scott Tennent has written a long overdue look at this remarkable album and its origins, delving into the small, insular musical universe that included bands like Squirrel Bait, Maurice, Bitch Magnet, and Bastro. The story, helped by in-depth interviews with band members David Pajo and Todd Brashear, explores the formation of Slint, the recording of Tweez, and the band's dramatic move into the sound of Spiderland.
The Band's Music from Big Pink
Authors: Niven John 
Published: March 2017

“Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man’s cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy....This well-written first novel captures not just some of the dreams of that bygone era, but the way those dreams died.”
—Greg Kamiya, The New York Times Book Review
Music From Big Pink is faction: real people like Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman rub shoulders with fictional characters and actual, documented events thread their way through text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of 23-year-old Greg Keltner, drug-dealer and wannabe musician, we witness the gestation and birth of a record that will go on to cast its spell across five decades - bewitching and inspiring artists as disparate as The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Travis, Wilco and Mercury Rev.
The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs
Authors: Beghtol LD 
Published: March 2017

A fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs - an album that was afforded "classic" status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol's book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in equal measures. It documents a vital and influential scene from the inside, involving ukuleles and tears, citations and footnotes, analogue drum machines, and floods of cognac. Oh, and a crossword puzzle too.
The centre of the book is the secret history of these tuneful, acerbic, and sometimes heartbreaking songs of old love, new love, lost love, punk rock love, gay love, straight love, experimental music love, true love, blue love, and the utter lack of love that fill the album - as told by participants, fans, imitators, naysayers, and others.
Also included are a lexicon of words culled from the album's lyrics, recording details, performance notes from the full album shows in New York, Boston and London, plus rare and unpublished images, personal memorabilia, and much much more.
The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime
Authors: Fournier Michael T. 
Published: March 2017

The story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this book focuses purely on their music – the punk ethic and the remarkable, enduring songs that comprise this, their greatest achievement. Including extensive interviews with Mike Watt and many others close to and inspired by the band, this is a great tribute to a classic piece of American underground music.
Included are extensive interviews with Mike Watt, the band's bass player, as well as interviews with several artists, musicians, studio owners, and fanzine writers who have been devoted followers of the band for years.
Is de nietigheidsecarterende (en/)of conversieclausule (severability clause) eigenlijk wel toegestaan?
Authors: van Wechem T.H.M. 
Published: March 2017

Is de nietigheidsecarterende (en/)of conversieclausule (severability clause) eigenlijk wel toegestaan?
In het artikel wordt de vraag behandeld of een “severabilty clause” – een clausule die vaak standaard als boilerplate in een contract wordt opgenomen en waarin partijen nietigheden en vernietigbaarheden op voorhand willen reguleren – wettelijk is toegestaan en/of opname van een dergelijke clausule zinvol is.De auteur komt tot de conclusie dat dergelijke clausules – binnen een bepaalde bandbreedte – zijn toegestaan, maar hij bepleit dat opname van een dergelijk clausule tot een dermate grote onduidelijkheid kan leiden, dat opname daarom niet zinvol is. Dit geldt temeer omdat er een uitgebalanceerde wettelijke regeling bestaat voor de gevallen dat partijen geen afspraken hierover hebben gemaakt.
Recht doen aan wat partijen bedoelen
Authors: Spanjaard J.H.M. 
Published: March 2017

Recht doen aan wat partijen bedoelen
Het leerstuk van de uitleg van overeenkomsten blijft in beweging. Waar in 1981 en 1993 de grenspalen werden geslagen door ontwikkeling van de Haviltex-norm en de cao-norm, is sindsdien binnen die norm verfijnd. In 2004 oordeelde de Hoge Raad in DSM/Fox dat tussen beide normen een vloeiende overgang bestaat. Tussen de Haviltex- en cao-norm bleef evenwel een waterscheiding bestaan. Op 25 november 2016 sloeg de Hoge Raad in zijn arrest FNV/Condor een brug tussen cao en Haviltex. Bij uitleg gaat het om wat concreet met een bepaling is bedoeld, niet om wat partijen zouden hebben gewild als ze overal rekening mee hadden gehouden, aldus de Hoge Raad in zijn arrest Flexabram/Iprem van 9 december 2016. Beide arresten worden in deze bijdrage besproken.
P(o-chlorophenol–co-o-hydroxyphenol): kinetic formation studies and pH-sensor application
Authors: Sayyah Said M. , Abd-Elrehim Sayed S. , Azooz Rehab E. , Mohamed Fatma 
Published: March 2017

<p class="PaperAbstract"><span lang="EN-US">Electrochemical copolymerization of o-chlorophenol (o-ClPh) with o-hydroxyphenol (o-HOPh) was conducted in aqueous H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> using cyclic voltammetry technique at the Pt electrode. The reaction rate was found to be of the second order in the monomer concentration and first order in the acid concentration. The activation energy, enthalpy, and entropy for the copolymerization were found to be 20.20 kJ mol<sup>-1</sup>, 19.24 kJ mol<sup>-1</sup> and -281.47 J K<sup>-1 </sup>mol<sup>-1</sup>, respectively. The obtained copolymer films show smooth feature with amorphous nature. Copolymer films adhere Pt electrode very well and show less reactivity in the H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> medium. The pH sensitivity of the poly(oClPh-co-HOPh)-modified electrode has been investigated potentiometrically using different polymer thicknesses. The potentiometric responses to pH change of the poly(oClPh-co-HOPh)-modified electrode appeared reversible and linear in the range from pH 2-11 with a maximum sub-Nernstian potentiometric response slope of 40.7 mV/pH (30 °C). The slope became close to 56.2 mV/pH in the range from pH 4 to 9 at (30 °C). The poly(oClPh-co-HOPh)-modified electrode readily responded to pH change but was not stable with time. </span></p>
FALTA VONTADE POLÍTICA PARA GARANTlR OS DIREITOS DE CIDADANIA DAS CRIANÇAS
Authors: Costa Antonio Carlos Gomes da 
Published: March 2017

A nova legislação brasileira se opõe ao paternalismo e assistencialismo do governo em relação às crianças e jovens excluídos das políticas sociais básicas. O assistencialis~no é uma abordagem inadequada para suprir as falhas gritantes de um país que não consegue dar moradia, alimentação, saúde, educação, trabalho e lazer a milhões de jovens. Pela nova concepção jurídica, a criança passa de “ser carente” a “sujeito de direitos exigíveis” na forma da lei. Ou seja, conquista a condição de cidadania. O Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente traz um conceito revolucion~rio de gestão: a União, os Estados e os MunicIpios devem dividir responsabilidades para atender o Jovem das classes sociais mais desfavorecidas. A população deve participar nos programas sociais por iutermédio de suas organizações representativas. Isso significa um espaço inédito para a cidadania se introduzir na questão direta das políticas públicas.Mas falta vontade política para o estabelecimento de uma política social efetiva, que garanta os direitos dos pequenas cidadãos brasileiros. Há no Brasil um profundo abismo entre a lei e a realidade, entre o país legal e o país real. Por isso, é preciso desenvolver uma consciência política e capacitar tecnicamente os representantes da coletividade.
FAMÍLIAS DAS CLASSES POPULARES: TRADIÇÃO E MUDANÇA
Authors: Mello Sylvia Leser de 
Published: March 2017

As famílias das classes populares, na cidade de São Paulo, têm sido vitimadas pelas condições adversas de sobrevivência na cidade, uma vez que são, quase todas, de origem migrante. Sofrem, ainda, dois processos simultâneos de segregação e desqualificação. Este artigo discute, brevemente, as noções de tradição e mudança vividas pelas famílias das classes populares urbanas, enfatizando as diferenças culturais e a necessidade de adaptação aos desafios que o meio urbano propõe. Esses desafios estão presentes nas transformações dos padrões de autoridade masculina e na construção de novas modalidades de vida familiar.