{"id":5706,"date":"2011-07-05T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/05\/links-for-2011-07-05\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:15:07","slug":"links-for-2011-07-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/05\/links-for-2011-07-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-07-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2011\/07\/04\/performance-and-recording-everyone-sing-the-chorus%e2%80%94including-intellectuals\/\">Performance and Recording: &#8220;Everyone sing the chorus&#8211;including intellectuals!&#8221; &#8212; Crooked Timber<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I just read two books back to back to good effect: Walter Ong&#8217;s Orality and Literacy and Elijah Wald&#8217;s How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ong&#8217;s book is a classic. Out of date in some ways (published in 1982), but still worth a read for the way it stakes out a para-McLuhanite position on the orality-literacy debate. Wald&#8217;s book came out a couple years ago and is a real eye\/ear-opener (I&#8217;ll let my kids decide whether it&#8217;s a classic, when they&#8217;re old enough). What makes them go together is that Wald, in effect, rehearses Ong&#8217;s argument &#8211; unawares, so far as I can tell. This helps me see what&#8217;s right and wrong in Ong, who tells the story of how we ended up with this oxymoron, &#8216;oral literature&#8217;. Wald tells the parallel story of how we ended up with &#8216;live music&#8217; &#8211; not an oxymoron, but it would have considerably puzzled our ancestors. Let me just give a thumbnail version of both stories.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/crooked-timber\">crooked-timber<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/quantum_diaries_survivor\/blog\/say_week-80555\">The Say Of The Week<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;&#8221;I envy University Professors. They are paid to question people who know nothing but try very hard to say something, while I have to question people who know everything but do their utmost to say nothing at all.&#8221;<br \/>\nPiercamillo Davigo, Italian Judge investigating corrupt politicians&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dorigo\">dorigo<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance and Recording: &#8220;Everyone sing the chorus&#8211;including intellectuals!&#8221; &#8212; Crooked Timber &#8220;I just read two books back to back to good effect: Walter Ong&#8217;s Orality and Literacy and Elijah Wald&#8217;s How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music [&#8230;] Ong&#8217;s book is a classic. Out of date in some&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/05\/links-for-2011-07-05\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-07-05<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}