web02.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:11:11 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Writing” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/writing Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:30:00 -0500 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Holiday Bonus: Waiting for the Next Sentence https://www.weirdstudies.com/181b a158e078-8d3e-4f97-b9d4-2c5193a04f84 Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:30:00 -0500 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel In this conversation originally recorded for members of the Weird Studies Patreon, JF and Phil discuss certain challenges of the writer's craft. 44:43 yes With the next flagship show set to drop on January 8, 2025, we thought we'd tide you over with this conversation on the art and craft and writing, originally recorded for Listener's Tier patrons on the Weird Studies Patreon. To join our Patreon community, please visit www.patreon.com/weirdstudies. To purchase tickets to Phil and JF's winter solstice celebration, happening on Weirdosphere on Thursday, December 19, at 8 pm Eastern, please visit www.weirdosphere.org. We wish you a happy and safe holiday season! The journey continues in 2025. writing, inspiration, creative process, longhand, typewriters, organization, weird studies With the next flagship show set to drop on January 8, 2025, we thought we'd tide you over with this conversation on the art and craft and writing, originally recorded for Listener's Tier patrons on the Weird Studies Patreon.

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]]> Episode 38: Style as Analysis https://www.weirdstudies.com/38 2ab94660-59a1-47dc-a8ba-9cdde1974fad Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:30:00 -0500 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 38 Style as Analysis full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF discuss a recently published article of Phil's authorship on how to write about music. 1:10:15 yes Music writing has always been something of an occult practice, trying by some weird alchemy to use concepts to describe stuff that defies the basic categories of intellect. So long as we stick to classical music, we can pretend that nothing too odd is happening, since the classical tradition has been steeped in notation for centuries. But when a musicologist attempts to analyze, say, an ambient track by Brian Eno, things aren't so simple. Suddenly notation won't do, and there comes the need to make use of every tool in the poet's shed. This episode focuses on a recently published article by Phil on this question. In due course, the discussion turns to the power of good writing: its capacity not just to convey an author's subjective impressions, but to disclose new facets of the ineffable, baroque objective world. SHOW NOTES Phil Ford, "Style as Analysis" in The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Popular-Music-Analysis-Expanding-Approaches/Scotto-Smith-Brackett/p/book/9781138683112), edited by Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith and John Brackett Christopher Ricks, [Dylan's Vision of Sin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan%27sVisionsofSin)_ Ferrucio Busoni, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31799/31799-h/31799-h.htm) Susan McClary, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/feminine-endings) Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=1360) Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (https://www.amazon.com/Dig-Sound-Music-Hip-Culture-ebook/dp/B00DPJ6RE6) Jerry Hopkins, [No One Here Gets Out Alive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoOneHereGetsOutAlive)_ Brian Eno, [Another Green World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnotherGreenWorld) Mitchell Morris, The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s (http://california.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1525/california/9780520242852.001.0001/upso-9780520242852) William Youngren, “Balliett’s Bailiwick,” Partisan Review 32, no. 1 (Winter 1965) Whitney Balliett, Collected Works (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1168302.Collected_Works) E.M. Forster, [Aspects of the Novel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AspectsoftheNovel)_ Henri Bergson, [Matter and Memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MatterandMemory) pop music analysis, music writing, musicology Music writing has always been something of an occult practice, trying by some weird alchemy to use concepts to describe stuff that defies the basic categories of intellect. So long as we stick to classical music, we can pretend that nothing too odd is happening, since the classical tradition has been steeped in notation for centuries. But when a musicologist attempts to analyze, say, an ambient track by Brian Eno, things aren't so simple. Suddenly notation won't do, and there comes the need to make use of every tool in the poet's shed. This episode focuses on a recently published article by Phil on this question. In due course, the discussion turns to the power of good writing: its capacity not just to convey an author's subjective impressions, but to disclose new facets of the ineffable, baroque objective world.

SHOW NOTES

Phil Ford, "Style as Analysis" in The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, edited by Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith and John Brackett
Christopher Ricks, Dylan's Vision of Sin
Ferrucio Busoni, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music
Susan McClary, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey
Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
Jerry Hopkins, No One Here Gets Out Alive
Brian Eno, Another Green World
Mitchell Morris, The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
William Youngren, “Balliett’s Bailiwick,” Partisan Review 32, no. 1 (Winter 1965)
Whitney Balliett, Collected Works
E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

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SHOW NOTES

Phil Ford, "Style as Analysis" in The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, edited by Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith and John Brackett
Christopher Ricks, Dylan's Vision of Sin
Ferrucio Busoni, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music
Susan McClary, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey
Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
Jerry Hopkins, No One Here Gets Out Alive
Brian Eno, Another Green World
Mitchell Morris, The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
William Youngren, “Balliett’s Bailiwick,” Partisan Review 32, no. 1 (Winter 1965)
Whitney Balliett, Collected Works
E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

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