Music Performativity in the Album: Charles Mingus, Nietzschean Aesthetics, and Mental Theater
David Landes

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also here (YouTube) and here (spotify)



» link to liner notes by Charles Mingus and clinical psychologist Edmund Pollock. (also here)


» David Landes (PhD in Communication, Rhetoric and Media, University of Pittsburgh) is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and the Director of the Communication Skills Program at the American University of Beirut. This essay draws upon his background as a freelance musician, film scorer, and jazz practitioner in order to provide a case study for his research into the social construction of attention. [website]

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