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Bluegrass
Authors: Bidgood Lee , Přibylová Irena 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Bluegrass is a form of country music that originated in the United States but which is now played throughout the world. This style occupies a position between popular, folk, and traditional music: professional and amateur participants create bluegrass through use of acoustic instruments, respectful use of earlier musical material, and pastoral themes—as well as instrumental virtuosity, entrepreneurial innovation, and stylistic fusion. The style can be a means for evoking a sense of rootedness and also for forging new musical and social practices. Bluegrassers negotiate these paradoxes through critical discourses and a global, translocal community. Scholarship on this style has seen a shift of focus: from grand narratives” of the genre to biographies of individuals, and from ideas (or ideals) of place to concrete places. In addition, there is increased attention to non-canonical and marginal participants in bluegrass scenes—especially those outside of the territory often considered the homeplace” of the genre. Considering bluegrass as a globally popular genre that provides participants with a means for expressing a sense of rootedness, progress, and connectedness within their own contexts, this chapter directs our attention to bottom-up globalization, entrepreneurship, amateur music making, and activism. This review of scholarship on and participation in bluegrass reflects on the global presence of the music to shed light on current debates and indicate directions where new research and action in this style might take place.
Rights and Recognition
Authors: Corn Aaron 
Published: October 2022

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The 1960s brought significant changes to Australian Government law and policy that began the process of redressing systemic injustices suffered by Indigenous peoples. This coincided with influential experiences of rock and other globalized popular styles that inspired Indigenous musicians to explore and experiment with new forms of musical expression. By the 1980s, popular music had become an influential vehicle for publicly expressing of Indigenous values and aspirations as Indigenous Australians asserted new claims for due recognition and rights. This chapter addresses the diverse and dynamic approaches that characterize Indigenous expressions through popular music. It explores the original music of Indigenous artists who have contributed substantially to promoting improved recognition and rights for Indigenous Australians, and to shaping public perspectives on vital matters for Indigenous and all Australians, including land rights, native title, child removals, incarceration rates, nationhood, racism, reconciliation, and constitutional recognition. It also reviews existing scholarship on Indigenous popular music in Australia, and examines current thinking and research approaches surrounding studies in this field. Drawing upon the author’s extensive research collaborations with Indigenous musicians, communities, and scholars since 1996, the author critically examines the progress and direction of debates into surrounding Indigenous Australian popular music, and identifies trends that are informing both musical and research developments in this field into the future. While it is not possible to address all Indigenous popular music and musicians or related research in this chapter, the author seeks to offer an insight to their depth and diversity.
Oral Tradition, History, and Archaeohistory of Indigenous Australia
Authors: Davidson Iain , Burke Heather , Connelly Pearl , Porter Stephen , Sullivan Hazel , Sullivan Lance , Tarragó Isabel , Wallis Lynley A. 
Published: October 2022

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This article considers some of the uncertainties about the position of oral traditions in relation to historical studies with written texts and in the narrative studies derived from archaeological evidence that may be called archaeohistories. There are issues about the ways in which we learn about Indigenous peoples, sometimes using non-Indigenous people as intermediaries and sometimes, though rarely, in the direct voices of Indigenous peoples. This article discusses the relationships among oral history, oral tradition, history from written texts, and archaeohistory, including the role of sanctification in the survival of knowledge. This discussion includes some consideration of the accuracies of these sources given the different time and personal scales over which they operate. Illustrating the argument with examples of Indigenous oral knowledge from communities in different parts of eastern Australia, it then discusses the possibility that other Indigenous accounts include narratives about different sea levels around Australia. The article concludes with a discussion of the complex interplay of memory and forgetting, verifiable secular knowledge and ritual beliefs, and different classes of historical knowledge. Application of different cultural knowledge to these sources by different agents produces different accounts of the past.
Hobbes Reading Hobbes
Authors: Martel James R. 
Published: October 2022

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This chapter argues that Hobbes’s instructions for how to read a text can be applied to Hobbes’s own writings. When we do this, our reading changes from one in which we must obey the sovereign in all things to one in which individual interpretations are valued over and above one centralizing interpreter’s. Following an analogy that Hobbes himself made between the author and the reader of the text on the one hand and the sovereign and subject of the nation on the other, we see that the way Hobbes subverts his own textual authority has implications for the politics that his books promote as well.
Tocqueville’s Rhetoric
Authors: Shulman George 
Published: October 2022

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This chapter explores the rhetoric in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. It contrasts his invocation of “prophecy” as a form of theorizing to contemporary interpretations of prophecy (and of his work) as engaging in acts of prediction we can confirm or invalidate. It traces the rhetorical impact and political implications of the three narratives by which he analyzes the gifts and dangers of “democracy” and democracy “in America.” It elaborates his interpretation of American political rhetoric as a dangerous, inflated “poetry” that will only augment “democratic despotism” at the expense of political freedom. It unpacks the gendered and racial assumptions fueling his anxieties, analysis, rhetoric, and prescriptions. In these terms, this chapter emphasizes the profound resonance of his work for theorizing contemporary political life.
Ernesto Laclau and the Rhetorical Ontology of Politics
Authors: Liou Stacey 
Published: October 2022

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This chapter critiques the rhetorical ontology that undergirds Ernesto Laclau’s theory of politics. Rhetoric, according to Laclau, is not a matter of persuasion or demagoguery, as critics of populism would charge. Instead, rhetoric concerns foundational and contested matters of signification: it is the object and medium of political contest and the means for refiguring the social. Here rhetoric is understood tropologically as the transfer and movement of social discourses, and Laclau’s notion of the empty signifier is the linchpin of this rhetorical operation. Despite its theoretical force, this chapter argues that the formal character of Laclau’s rhetorical ontology neglects social agents’ foundational place in refiguring the social, as well as the historical contingencies that circumscribe what and how discourses can be refigured. Instead, this chapter suggests that rhetoric be understood formally, as a linguistic trope, as well as intersubjectively, in its situated use. Theorizing the logics of identity formation and popular politics therefore requires that Laclau’s rhetorical ontology also attend to the role situated social agents play in refiguring the social.
Paul Hindemith’s Trautonium and a Technologically-Mediated Concept of Nature
Authors: Monchick Alexandra 
Published: October 2022

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Hindemith’s relation to spectralism seems remote in the usual terms of direct influence. However, this chapter argues that if one moves away from a discussion of a lineage of influence and instead towards one of comparative aesthetics, a different question emerges: was Hindemith thinking like a spectral composer? One can draw broad comparisons between Hindemith’s aesthetics, theory, and practice with that of spectral composers. Hindemith learned how to build new timbres with electronic instruments, recreating a sonic world by means of subtractive synthesis and non-linear synthesis techniques. With the trautonium, Hindemith opened up a spectral world nearly fifty years before the term “spectralism” was coined.
Olivier Messiaen: Spectralist
Authors: Sholl Robert 
Published: October 2022

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This chapter seeks to understand Messiaen’s music and aesthetics as spectralist through the writings of Hugues Dufourt and Gérard Grisey, and through a Lacanian framework. To understand Messiaen’s music as spectral is to listen to a reciprocal relationship between past and future, and to appreciate the way its religious-modernist fantaisie works on the listener. This chapter examines Messiaen’s output through a number of discourses and follows the trajectory of his compositional development. Initially, it connects Messiaen’s religious-modernist aesthetics with synaesthesia and color in his earliest music, to the organ, and to religious mysticism. It then uses a range of discourses, including symbolism and the occult, the materiality of sound, and the philosophy of listening to examine spectralist thought in works from the 1930s, his ‘experimental’ period (1949–52), to the emancipatory colorist aesthetics of Couleurs de la Cité céleste (1963). The last two sections, on birdsong and meaning in his opera Saint François d’Assise (1975–83), examine liminal concerns of glory, listening, narrative, and meaning in Messiaen’s form of spectralism. The conclusion briefly discusses an arena of mutual critique between Messiaen and the école spectrale.
Psychedelic Rock, Techno, and the Music of Fausto Romitelli
Authors: Arbo Alessandro 
Published: October 2022

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This chapter examines the textures of Fausto Romitelli’s music, specifically focusing on Audiodrome, the Professor Bad Trip trilogy, and An Index of Metals. These works force the audience to become aware of the complex web of aural symbols that inform the modern world, including its mediations and technologies. Romitelli reinterprets the main tenets of spectralism, in particular the idea of working on the noisy periphery of sound, in order to accentuate its internal dynamics. His works saturate sound spaces, creating a new, dense symbolic space, one that escapes conventional associations. The chapter also explores some important cultural and musical references of Romitelli’s music, such as Henri Michaux’s poems, Francis Bacon’s paintings, psychedelic rock and techno. These latter act as subcultural parallels for Romitelli’s antirhetorical constructions: the “dirty sounds” are marged with the innovations rooted in spectral music, in order to create a sound universe that is eminently gestural and visceral. In a nutshell, Romitelli proposes a radical and somewhat nihilistic stance, in which the noise inherent in every sound is made explicit ; his work pushes the audience to listen to sounds as stratified cultural objects, from which the expressive power of music emanates, in light of an imagery associated with the idea of an altered perception.
Philippe Leroux and the Notion of the Post-Spectral
Authors: Clift Paul 
Published: October 2022

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The music of Philippe Leroux (b. 1959) is often categorized as “post-spectral,” a term introduced by Damien Pousset. While being strongly evocative of a milieu—Paris of the 1980s—the term post-spectral says little of the style of composers such as Leroux to whom it is regularly applied. Indeed, attempts to characterize a post-spectralist aesthetic are often predicated on vague terminology and overly broad notions. While use of the key components of spectral music proper—e.g., the protracted use of components of harmonic/inharmonic spectra, acoustic modeling by technological means, and the appropriation of notions from the fields of cognition and psychoacoustics—may persist in works by so-called post-spectralist composers, this factor alone is by no means determinative of stylistic homogeneity. Therefore, taking Leroux as a case study, this chapter attempts to address the question: What is post-spectral about post-spectral music?
Local Mythography
Authors: Berman Daniel W. 
Published: October 2022

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“Local mythography” is a problematic category, though there is little question that many surviving mythographical texts could be defined as such. This chapter begins with a theoretical discussion that seeks to contextualize both the “local” and “mythic” components of the concept and continues by examining two case studies: one an early “local” mythographer by the name of Armenidas, and the other the tradition of “Atthidography,” the chronicling of Athenian myth and history begun by the mythographer Hellanicus. “Local mythography” must be distinguished from “local historiography” (a concept championed by the great Felix Jacoby) and from more universal expositions of myth in prose (for example, “Panhellenic” mythography such as the Library of Ps.-Apollodorus, and even “ethnography”).
Mythography and Paradoxography
Authors: Pajón Leyra Irene 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Paradoxography is, strictly speaking, a branch of historiographic literature that deals with facts. That is, in principle, its contents, as strange as they can appear to the reader, can be verified by autopsy. For this reason, mythographical contents are a minority in the works of the paradoxographers, which are instead interested in natural phenomena and barbarian customs. Indeed, myths are rarely the core of the anecdotes they collect. Nevertheless, myths sometimes appear as explanations of the strange phenomena in the paradoxographical lists. In these cases, the collected items somehow enter into the field of miracles. On other occasions, however, myths appear as parallel examples of other similar anecdotes of a historiographical nature. In these cases, a sort of “Euhemeristical” intention can be perceived, which turns myths from stories of supernatural facts into stories rather associated to exotic and far-away places.
Mythographer and Mythography
Authors: Calame Claude 
Published: October 2022

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To modern eyes, Greek mythography constitutes a distinct discursive genre if not a “literary genre.” If we go back to the “native” categories we notice that neither mythographos nor mythographia are used before the Alexandrian period. An investigation about the terms designating genealogists as Acusilaos of Argos or Pherecydes of Athens will show that their works have to be understood as creations in prose of heroic history referring to a precise historical and cultural situation, in a certain city. The development of these forms of historiographical inquiry and composition has to be considered in relationship with their poetic function and pragmatics in the time and circumstances they were written for.
Wild Pedagogies for Doing Multispecies Organizational Ethnography
Authors: Wels Harry , Kamsteeg Frans 
Published: October 2022

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Teaching and researching multispecies organizational ethnography needs a pedagogy that decentres the human animal and has a basic multisensorial approach to sensemaking in organizations, in order to try to do (more) justice to nonhuman sentience, animals, and plants, that is to be included in the research. A wild pedagogy claims that getting outdoors, and specifically avoiding lecture halls and other indoor spaces, raises awareness and skills in people for understanding multispecies and multisensorial realities, not only in organizations, but also elsewhere. For inspiration in developing such a wild pedagogy further, the authors turn to the San in Southern Africa, one of the oldest human inhabitants on earth, whose animated worldview and cosmologies have always included nonhuman sentience in animals (and plants), in non-hierarchical ways next to humans. Their environmentalist and contextualized understanding of the sense-making processes of nonhuman animals is based, amongst other things, on their renowned and critically acknowledged tracking skills. Tracking is a combination of finding and interpreting spoor, a reiterative combination and cycle of ‘Observation’, ‘Becoming with’, and ‘Reflexivity’ (OBR), that could inspire and guide teaching and researching multispecies organizational ethnography. The chapter includes teaching experiments with a wild pedagogy in a course entitled ‘Sensemaking in Organisations’ that explores possible wild ways further.
Tinkering with Relations
Authors: Vogel Else 
Published: October 2022

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In the Netherlands, vets play a key role in the continuation, regulation, and innovation of industrial livestock production. Extending studies of care in health care and farming and drawing on fieldwork with veterinarians, this chapter details how vets treat animals, coach farmers, perform animal welfare procedures, or otherwise try to achieve ‘good’ farm animal care. Describing the different roles vets take on in livestock production, it highlights that vets are not only juggling different forms of the good, but also are part of different practices of doing good—each with its own care and accountability relations, and particular promises, challenges, and limits. What emerges, is that while ethicists and animal activists elevate the relation to the animal as the primary ethical relationship, in practice veterinarians are entangled, and operate, in a web of relations. It is in tinkering with these complex relations, the chapter suggests, that a situated form of veterinary ethics is ‘done’.
When Disaster Hits, Dissonance Fades
Authors: Tallberg Linda , Jordan Peter J. 
Published: October 2022

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This chapter develops understanding of human-animal work (HAW). Work with animals may include ‘dirty work’ laced by physical, social, moral, and emotional taints such as killing those cared for. Much animal care-based work includes a work calling to help animals while the reality can be conflictual for workers, creating paradox and dissonance. The chapter is based on an insider affective multispecies ethnography in an animal shelter when a sudden natural disaster hit the shelter, flooding the organization and forcing a sudden evacuation of animals and humans. The crisis reframed wellbeing for the multispecies organizational actors, leading to less dissonance as callings were enacted in that workers could save more animals than prior to the crisis. The chapter argues that wellbeing, especially in multispecies organizations, is entangled across species barriers. Adopting a posthumanist framing, the chapter argues for a need for multispecies organizations (especially those in the animal welfare sector), to better consider their organizational processes and policies through a lens of interconnected wellbeing among human and animal actors.
Robotic Animals in Dementia Care
Authors: Redmalm David , Persson Marcus , Iversen Clara 
Published: October 2022

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Robotic animals in the shape of cats, dogs, and seals are increasingly used in dementia care. The robots are built to respond to users’ touch and talk for various purposes such as calming, activating, or entertaining patients. Drawing on media representations, marketing materials, reports of experts, and interviews with care workers we take a closer look at the ideas of animality that shape the robots and their application in care organizations. We find that the robots’ animality is described as connecting with a fundamental mammal aspect of our humanity. At the same time, concerns are raised that patients risk being dehumanized when robots replace human-to-human interaction, and the robots are thus treated as a threat to patients’ human dignity. The chapter discusses how notions of animality and a biopolitical understanding of the human as mammal play an integral role in robotized care organizations.
Posthumanist Praxis and the Paradoxes of Agency, Responsibility, and Organization in the ‘Anthropocene’
Authors: Nimmo Richie 
Published: October 2022

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Initially framed as a provocation intended to challenge the exclusion of human activity from studies of long-term physical changes in the earth system, the Anthropocene remains an essentially contested concept. Despite its increasing prevalence across multiple disciplines and fields, there is little consensus over its veracity either as a geological, socio-environmental or socio-historical hypothesis. But for anyone committed to thinking seriously about what used to be called society-environment relations, engagement with the Anthropocene is now inescapable. This chapter engages with the Anthropocene from the perspective of posthumanist thought, arguing that whilst the concept is riddled with contradictions, tensions, and potential flaws, these are also productive paradoxes which can contribute to our thinking, ethics, and politics in the context of the spiralling ecological crisis. The discussion undertakes a critical posthumanist reading of the Anthropocene, with particular attention to its central paradoxes around agency and responsibility, and the implications for various influential approaches to environmental politics and green social transition.
Organizing a Real that Is Yet to Come
Authors: Pedersen Helena 
Published: October 2022

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The aim of this chapter is to introduce education as a key area of critical inquiry in animal organization studies by analyzing its embeddedness in the animal-industrial complex (A-IC) (Noske, 1997). The concept of the A-IC has been defined and its analytic force examined in a few influential texts (Noske, 1997; Twine, 2012), but the role and function of educational institutions in the A-IC is largely unexplored (Pedersen, 2019). The first part of the chapter offers a brief account of significant intersections of the A-IC and animal organization studies, based on the animal studies and organization studies literature. The second part of the chapter explores what work education does in the A-IC, drawing on an example from ethnographic fieldwork in a Swedish upper secondary school theorized through Deleuze and Guattari ([1980] 2004). In the end, the organizing of promissory futures for students as animal science professionals relies on educational reproduction of the status quo of exploitative arrangements for animals in society, and in this way, education emerges as not only a central actor in, but a condition for the A-IC. Understanding the A-IC as an organizing concept for critical animal organization studies thus requires analyses of the multifaceted, dynamic and productive functions of education. Further research could focus on both what is at stake for the animals as well as the students caught up in educational spaces of the A-IC, and explore potential roles of education in collective resistance to this exploitation.