This is the fourth in a series of posts looking at the crusades mounted on both sides of the Duke lacrosse case. The first has an introduction and overview. The second and third are about the potbanging protest and its connection to and impact on the controversy surrounding the “listening” statement. This one turns to […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse, flame wars, KC Johnson, liestoppersI left out a few things when I hastily posted this earlier today, so this is version 2… I’ve been hoping to finish a full-blown post with the evidence Johnson was wondered so much about. As usual, things drag on. So, as a stopgap, some responses to Johnson and other commenters. [A “full-blown post” is […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse, KC JohnsonThis is my email exchange with KC Johnson before he posted in answer to my first three posts in my Duke Lacrosse case series. References to Claire Potter are explained, more or less, in this entry and the entries it links to. [Dec. 11: I originally posted only paraphrases of Johnson’s emails to me but […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse, KC JohnsonThis is the third in a series of posts looking at the crusades mounted on both sides of the Duke lacrosse case. The first for an introduction and overview. This post continues directly from the previous one about the potbanging protest held at the lacrosse team captains’ house soon after the rape allegation became public. […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse, flame wars, KC Johnson, liestoppers, potbangers, Wahneema LubianoThis is the second in a series of posts looking at the crusades mounted on both sides of the Duke lacrosse case, in the hope of shedding some light on the way they’ve overshadowed meaningful debate about the incident and its aftermath. You can click back to the first post for an introduction and overview. […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse, flame wars, liestoppers, potbangersNear the end of yesterday’s post, I described the liestoppers as having to prop up their claim to be crusading for Truth, Fairness, and Justice on the basis of the lacrosse case by engaging in “rhetorical warfare that brings the battle lines into sharp relief” (I’m using the term “liestopper” loosely for the vehement defenders […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse, flame wars, KC JohnsonAfter a few months of dealing with unfinished business, I’ve managed to put together a two-sides-of-the-coin analysis of the Duke lacrosse case that’s been on my mind for a while. For better or worse, the lacrosse case has been a blogger’s boon, and while I was taking stock of my time at Duke anyway I […]
Also tagged Duke lacrosse, flame wars, KC Johnson, liestoppersIt looks like the whole goodbye to teaching thing may have been premature. I was out of the country and away from easy internet access for most of the summer (thus no blogging). While I was away I got an email asking if I’d be interested in teaching the songwriting class again in the spring […]
Also tagged jazz, Miles Davis, music criticism, Stanley Crouch, teaching musicA couple of weeks ago I wrote a bit about the songwriting class I’d been teaching at Duke. I’m going to continue in the mode of self-debriefing, I guess you could call it, with some thoughts about how classical music fits into the general undergraduate curriculum. I’ve never had much sympathy with the point of […]
Also tagged Alex Ross, classical music, teaching musicA few weeks ago my 8th class full of songwriting students met in the Duke Coffeehouse on east campus to sing their final-project songs. It was a final for me, too—my last significant act as an instructor at Duke—and it was a great way to close things out. I don’t remember the event ever going […]
Also tagged pop music, songwriting, teaching music