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The advent of sound recording at the end of the 19th century fostered seemingly firm distinctions between live musical performance and the mere playback of records.
Reproducing piano rolls created a sensation when unveiled in Leipzig in 1905 by the Freiburg based firm Welte und Söhne. Welte’s Mignon disrupted the established market for rolls, especially…
The Stanford English and Creative Writing Departments, with the support of the Stanford Humanities Center, are sponsoring a unique opportunity open to all Stanford students (undergraduates,…
Please join the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Creative Writing Program
for a special evening with
Philip Knight, founder of Nike
Consider transmission art as taking place in “radio space”: a continuous, available, fluctuating intersection of transmission ecologies, described by the reach of signals within overlapping fields…
While it is common for us to understand rhythm as a resolutely temporal phenomenon, this has not always been the case.
In this hands-on workshop, we introduce colleagues in the humanities with little or no experience in computer science or programming to the rudiments of automated text analysis (or colloquially, “…
This talk demonstrates how large-scale text analysis can provide new evidence for old questions in the cultural historiography of modern Japan and China.
Alan Lelchuk is Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies and Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies at Dartmouth University.
In the intervals between longer plays, mid-19th-century Russian actors performed comic monologues and dialogues featuring the encounters between people from the empire’s many ethnicities and…