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Data Analysis
Authors: Upton Graham , Brawn Dan 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This book introduces the central concepts of modern data science, beginning with an introduction to simple statistical concepts such as mean and variance together with related methods for presenting and summarising data. The next chapters present the laws of probability, the probability distributions most commonly used to summarise data, the methods for estimating the parameters of these distributions, and the extent to which we can be confident concerning those estimated values. The next chapters are concerned with the relationships between two variables and the selection of models that involve several variables. The final chapter investigates the various methods that are used in dividing a population into distinct classes. The many worked examples include a study of the fate of those on the Titanic, and the factors affecting babies being born underweight. The book demands no particular software familiarity, since the methods presented can be implemented in Python, R (used by the authors), or any other statistical software.
How to Talk about Comics and Not Fear Them
Authors: Borkent Mike 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter describes some important cultural contexts and problematic theoretical underpinnings of engagements with comics in North America in particular. It describes the challenge of engaging comics from a traditional perspective on literacy and highlights the false assumptions about visual and verbal communication. It then turns to describe the emerging multimodal approach to multiple literacies, define media and modalities, and situate the role of interdisciplinary cognitive studies as a tool for elaborating on how multimodal meaning is constructed in comics.
Introduction
Authors: Lee Gavin S. K. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Queers have always listened widely, repurposing straight sounds for the music theorist’s “queer ear,” a concept that stands in contrast with queer soundings, by queer composers, who are also investigated in this volume. Privileging provisional, idiosyncratic, and non-normative listening practices, a queer ear enables us to counter music theory’s tendencies toward rationality, unity, unilinearity, teleology, and logical certainty. What unites the investigation of queer ear and queer soundings is the repurposing of “hard” music-theoretical apparatuses, as well as “soft” apparatuses like narratology and cultural theory, for queer ends. These repurposings contribute to the search for general principles—or “theory”—of queering that counters mainstream music theory’s proclivities, encouraging everyone to experiment with queer ways of listening.
Queer and Critical Race Theory
Authors: Lee Gavin S. K. , Ewell Philip , Hatten Robert 
Published: October 2023

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Queer music theory emerges in conjunction with rising awareness of LGBTQ+ issues and racism in music theory. In this conversation, editor Gavin S. K. Lee engages Philip Ewell, the foremost critic of racism in music theory, and Robert Hatten, who as former SMT president was instrumental in the formation of the SMT LGBTQ+ Standing Committee, discussing ways in which scholars coming from different perspectives can support the LGBTQ+ cause, while always being aware of one’s positionality and limitations. The conversation ranged over recent racist discourse in music theory, the conjunction of LGBTQ+ and other minority discourse, the dialectic of generality and specificity found both in music theory and in queer theory, and ways of cooperating in alliances.
Music Analysis; Queer Academy
Authors: Currie James R. 
Published: October 2023

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This essay posits that the foundations of a queer academy must rest upon the pursuit of activities that are self-justifying and non-instrumental. Drawing from an array of different queer theorists—including Sara Ahmed, Michel Foucault, and Leo Bersani—it argues for forms of academic life and being that work according to tangibly different value systems from those used to justify relevance and moral and political acceptability in the non-academic world. The fact that academics have primarily endeavored, to date, to attempt to eradicate any difference between their practices and those of extra-academic life is seen as resulting from what the author terms—drawing from queer theory—academic shame. The essay thus seeks to extol things such as uselessness, play, loitering, forgetting, and time-wasting and argues that music analysis could provide us with intimations of how such things might manifest themselves within a queer academy. Paradoxically, it also argues that such things might be useful to the academy as it attempts to erase such things as racial capitalism and its pervasive effects from institutional life. But ultimately it concludes with a call for academics to “come out” about the fact that before we think about things, we think because thinking itself is a pleasure.
Queering Schubert’s “Der Atlas”
Authors: Bretherton David 
Published: October 2023

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Adopting a broad, intersectional approach to queer studies, this chapter reflects on the impact that the author’s own queer and disabled positionality has had on their interpretation of Franz Schubert’s “Der Atlas” over a twenty-year period. Following a detailed music analysis of the song, the author offers various readings (“Surface,” “Straight,” “Gay,” and “Disabled”), evaluates each in turn with reference to their own experiences, and—given Schubert’s reported disabilities and the suggestion that he was homosexual—speculates on the possibility that the song could be a coded autobiographical statement. These four readings are then queered, before an attempted “Queer Reading” concludes that, regardless of Schubert’s illnesses and sexuality, the song’s message is deeply conservative: submit to the powerful and know your station. The chapter concludes by arguing for queer music theory to embrace subjectivity, ambiguity, and multiple readings, and that the queer reading of a composition should not be considered contingent on its composer having a queer sexuality.
Sun Ra’s Fletcher Henderson
Authors: Stover Chris 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Black radical artist Sun Ra’s relationship with jazz’s histories was materially and sensually different from that of his contemporaries in the Afrological musical avant-garde. He adopted an exaggerated and playful—yet lovingly attentive—mode of engagement with his predecessors, notably bandleader-pianists Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, that could be read as an ongoing series of drag interpretations. This chapter examines one of Sun Ra’s live recordings of “Queer Notions,” a composition by swing-era saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, arranged by Henderson, that in its time was already queering aspects of jazz syntax. This analytic foray is in the service of larger rumination on the relation between music analysis, the lives and actions of musicians, and both real and “fabulated” histories. In doing so it draws largely on the work of Jose Esteban Muñoz and others, considering how what has been richly theorized as “queer temporality” can be put to work in musical inquiry.
Queering Musical Chrononormativity
Authors: Solomon Bill 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter examines works for percussion ensemble from the 1930s and 1940s through the lens of queer temporalities and Asian exoticization and appropriation by queer West Coast composers Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Lou Harrison. The concept of queered chrononormativity leads to an analysis of the ostinato in percussion composition, which is an attempt to achieve static time inspired by a Western understanding of gamelan and other Asian musics. The West Coast composers’ fascination with Asian culture was part of an apparatus of queer desire that sought out alternative socialities free from the pressures of heterodominant society, yet simultaneously erased the presence of Asian bodies. Seeking out uses of queer time in music by queer individuals illuminates one way in which sexuality can be problematically reflected in an orientalist musical practice. An analysis of Cowell’s Ostinato Pianissimo (1934) demonstrates the construction of static musical temporality that reveals a problematic relationality between the composition and its eroticized source materials.
Queer Sexuality and Musical Narrative
Authors: Maus Fred Everett 
Published: October 2023

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The study of “music and narrative,” as it developed in music theory and historical musicology especially from the 1980s on, intersected with issues of sexuality in foundational queer musicology essays by Susan McClary and Philip Brett. It intersected with gay male subjectivity in another way: the field as it took shape is hard to imagine without the formative writings of Edward T. Cone and Anthony Newcomb. Cone and Newcomb, openly gay in their personal lives, did not explicitly bring their sexualities into their professional work. I suggest, though, that continuities exist between personal gay subjectivity and their theoretical and interpretive writings. Such connections make sense in light of the frequent use of music and other cultural products by LGBTQ+ subjects in search of self-understanding. A recent essay on Poulenc by Campbell Shiflett continues the work of these earlier texts in sophisticated ways, dealing with sexuality with a welcome openness.
“Legendary In-Reading”
Authors: Franseen Kristin 
Published: October 2023

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Edward Prime-Stevenson (1858–1941) is best known, insofar as he is known at all, as “Xavier Mayne,” the pseudonymous author of the early gay novel Imre: A Memorandum and the monumental work of historical sexology The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life. In public life, however, Prime-Stevenson was also a prolific writer on musical subjects, beginning during his time as a newspaper critic and editor in New York City and continuing through his last two known books, Long-Haired Iopas: Old Chapters from Twenty-Five Years of Music-Criticism and A Repertory of 100 Symphonic Programmes. While Prime-Stevenson made some pretenses toward keeping his queer and musical writings separate, this chapter demonstrates how the efforts at queer canon building in his sexology informed his listening practices and analytical writing, especially when it came to his queer reading of Beethoven’s symphonic music.
Animating Indeterminate Agency
Authors: Luong Vivian 
Published: October 2023

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In his 1988 article “Music as Drama,” Fred Everett Maus argued that the indeterminacy of musical agency—the elusive identity of who acts in musical experience—is a fundamental quality of music-analytical language. Taking this indeterminacy as a challenge, subsequent responses to Maus often posit hierarchical taxonomies to pin down the elusive location of musical agency. In this scholarship, the higher status of human agents, such as analysts, composers, and performers, is continually assumed over that of nonhuman musical agents. However, by treating the ambiguity of musical agency as a problem to be solved with anthropocentric solutions, music theorists have yet to consider the transformative, beyond-human potential in music’s agential indeterminacy. Through situating Maus’s observations in the context of feminist and queer interventions in music theory, this chapter rearticulates musical agency to better illuminate its queer post-humanist potential for imagining our disciplinary world otherwise. To do so, it links music’s erotic agency and animism with the concept of animacy developed by queer theorist and linguist Mel Y. Chen. Resisting the human-centric hierarchy of animacy in linguistics, they point to instances when language subverts the agential status quo as opportunities to rethink who and what matters for biopolitical and ethical ends. Thinking with Chen, this chapter re-contextualizes the purpose of analytical writing beyond knowledge production. Rather, our writing always invites readers to imagine and enact particular worlds. This orientation could invite scholars to write alongside a coalition of minoritized interventions to build more liberatory worlds.
Content before Curriculum
Authors: Searcy Yan Dominic , Harden Troy 
Published: October 2023

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In Chapter 6, curriculum development through incorporation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) is discussed. Youth programs are encouraged to use best practices for designing activities that engage young people. Activities are often derived from standards that are driven by evidence-based research and practices. After defining EBPs, the chapter provides a critique detailing advantages as well as disadvantages of a rigid incorporation of EBPs. The chapter questions assumptions of youth outcomes in order to examine front-line youth worker practitioner traits linked to positive program outcomes. The chapter then provides details of curriculum development based on EBPs, practitioner attributes, desired program outcomes, and utilizing program moments to achieve high impact.
News from the Front
Authors: Timmons Jill 
Published: October 2023

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In Chapter 2, the author presents a compelling narrative regarding the current state of the music profession. Moreover, as musicians embark on the path of professional training, later entering what may become a lifelong profession, they will be required to continually adapt to a rapidly changing market place. In this chapter, the author explores the key components to embracing change, igniting transformation, and embarking on new frontiers, ever enriching a vibrant and personal artistic life. By learning how to operate as an entrepreneur in today’s market place, artists can bring to fruition their own professional dreams and goals.
Musicians and the Path of Entrepreneurship
Authors: Timmons Jill 
Published: October 2023

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Chapter 3 describes music entrepreneurship as the ability to create and sustain a viable career in the music industry. A music entrepreneur is one who is able to generate a personal career vision and who has the necessary training and skills to construct and put into action a plan for that vision. This chapter sets the stage for what it means to be an entrepreneur and the requisite skills that are required. The author suggests that entrepreneurs know that opportunity favors the prepared individual and that successful careers are firmly in their hands. Thriving artists creatively develop opportunities, acquire necessary professional skills, are adaptable, and engage in lifelong learning. This chapter lays the groundwork for a new paradigm shift which powerfully undergirds entrepreneurship—the vision-plan continuum.
Your Plan
Authors: Timmons Jill 
Published: October 2023

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Chapter 7 develops further the narrative from Chapter 6, focusing first on the critical details of an effective business plan. An artist’s strategic business model or plan is the underpinning of a successful career. It makes your planning real and serves your unique artistic vision. There it is in black and white: who you are, your mission or artistic statement, your vision, your goods and services, your marketing strategies, the reality of your finances, a precise and doable timeline, and your advisory team of professionals. In this chapter, the author explores how each of these components and more can create a dynamic and effective plan that serves one’s artistic vision. Whether one is looking to create an independent enterprise, climbing the ladder of the music industry, working in the nonprofit sector, or even thriving in the field of education, all roads lead to first creating your business model. The author provides a template that allows the reader to think about their professional goals in a systematic way.
States of Anxiety
Authors: Rosenberg William G. 
Published: October 2023

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What were the effects of scarcity and loss in Russia between 1914 and 1922: scarcities of necessary goods as well as their accompanying insecurities and anxieties, unimaginable loss in the carnage of war as well as its physical, socioeconomic, and psychological displacements? And why has the vast literature on revolutionary Russia largely ignored the importance of these effects? Based on archival and other contemporary sources, this study attempts to answer these questions by “putting the Russian revolution in its place,” examining the period by contextualizing the grave issues of scarcity and loss that each successive regime was forced to address. In the process, it focuses not on the well-known efforts of the individuals and parties that sought to shape Russia’s historical future, although these are duly referenced, but on the locations and nature of power in terms of their ability to manage the determining effects of scarcity and loss that increasingly defined the material and emotional deprivations of revolutionary Russia as a whole. The emphasis throughout is on the continuity of these underlying processes through radically different regimes during Russia’s “long world war” from 1914 to 1922. A brief concluding epilogue suggests their continuation in various ways throughout the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods, as well as perestroika and its aftermath. States of Anxiety is thus written to further inform general readers about this seminal historical moment as well as to stimulate scholars to reconsider the ways the Great Stories of Russia’s revolution, as well as others, have largely been told.
Introduction
Authors: Rosenberg William G. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
By way of introduction “ ‘Beyond the Great Stories’ ” of Russia’s wars and revolutions takes up the question of why the histories of this seminal period—the “Great Stories,” as the American historian Robert Berkhofer has called them—largely focus on politics and power. It discusses the ways all major actors in this seminal drama saw their political tasks through ideologized historical teleologies that prescribed how Russia should and could progress toward their respective visions of modernity. Three principal “Great Stories” are identified: liberal, democratic socialist, and Bolshevik. The failures of all three to address the effects of scarcity and loss in all their material and emotional dimensions after 1914 are set out as the key issues of the book, along with the ways their historically ideologized mindsets may have scripted political solutions.
“Fighting with God” and the Languages of Loss
Authors: Rosenberg William G. 
Published: October 2023

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While acknowledging Russia’s longer-term revolutionary currents, this chapter focuses on ways the outbreak of war itself began to alter Russia’s political and emotional landscapes. It explores first the nature of patriotic enthusiasm in 1914 by contrasting objective images with cloaked emotions. It then shifts focus to the unprecedented and unexpected early military disasters, the deprivations accompanying even marginal successes, and the problematic nature and languages of loss both experiences engendered. Letters from the front are explored here as points of entry into emotional states, along with the methodological problems of accessing them. Their effects are posited as an important way of exploring the problem of loss itself in its various dimensions. The related question of peasant soldiers’ “fatalism” is also discussed, along with other effects of the shocks and losses that occurred all along the expanding military front during the first ten months of modern war.
Social Conflict, Mediation, and the Revolutionary State
Authors: Rosenberg William G. 
Published: October 2023

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How did Russia’s new ruling institutions formulate “solutions” to the multiple crises of scarcity and loss? After discussing the “weighty actor” thesis, which emphasizes the power of the state, this chapter details the multivalent quest by workers for socioeconomic security and dignity and by peasants for control over arable land and the supply of grain. Although social conflict riddled the three months of the first coalition regime, democratic liberals and democratic socialists worked strenuously to mediate conflict in the ministries, factories, and villages and along Russia’s vast railroad system. A spring strike wave is reviewed in these terms, along with growing peasant activism stimulated in part by radical socialists and Bolsheviks. Despite the efforts of those widely regarded as the revolution’s “best and brightest,” the chapter argues that in these terms alone, Russia was soon again, as one prominent spokesperson described, “on the brink of catastrophe.”
“Slaughter” at the Front, the July Insurrection, and a “Government to Save the Revolution”
Authors: Rosenberg William G. 
Published: October 2023

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Chapter 10 repositions the well-known Kerensky offensive in late June as a failed repetition of the Brusilov breakthrough a year earlier, mounted again with little respect for casualties in an effort to finally bring the war to a victorious end. It analyzes why the large-scale offensive became an even greater rout than the earlier endeavor, centering the war and the effects of loss again as primary agents of further revolutionary change. The increasing demand of Ukrainians and other nationalities for political autonomy, the resignation of liberal ministers, and the ensuing July insurrection are reevaluated in these terms, as are the program and politics of the new socialist “Government to Save the Revolution” to meet the “real demands of Russian life.” In the process, the now amplified voices of loss and “extreme need” again underlay political process as revolutionary Russia edged closer to the brink of catastrophic scarcities, economic collapse, and violent chaos.
The Collapse of War Capitalism
Authors: Rosenberg William G. 
Published: October 2023

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To what extent did village sovereignty to control grain deliveries and workers’ demands to control factory management to preserve jobs further defeat the possibilities of democratic liberal and socialist governance in the summer of 1917? Chapter 11 addresses these issues through the lenses radicalized peasants, workers, and soldiers as well as beleaguered ministries and soviet executive committees, detailing the additional effects of military defeat, the July Days, renewed strikes, increasing land seizures, rising prices, and the ever-greater crises of state and public finance. It focuses on changing conceptions of who should “own” the workplace as scarcities made production unprofitable or impossible, as well as the implications of private ownership of productive lands. It asks how in these conditions the policies, practices, and values of war capitalism could be sustained, and what the implications of its collapse were already in midsummer for the future of Russia’s revolutionary state.
Democratic Predicaments and the Bolshevik Coup
Authors: Rosenberg William G. 
Published: October 2023

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This last chapter on the period between February and October 1917 is organized around its democratic predicaments: the weaknesses of politically democratic institutions and mindsets to solve Russia’s urgent problems and rationalize ever growing material and emotional deprivation and loss. This was fully apparent at the Moscow State Conference, as well as during and after General Kornilov’s attempted coup shortly afterward. Claims for political autonomy by Ukraine and other parts of the dissolving empire paralleled at the highest political levels others determined to form their own local “republics” and the dissolution of all restraints against the peasants’ land seizures. Without diminishing the role of Lenin in overthrowing completely the democratic liberal and socialist order, this chapter suggests that anxieties at all levels were likely greater at this time than at any previous moment in the revolution’s long development and underlay before October the socioeconomic and sociocultural foundations of dictatorship.