STEM Ed+ Commons | Richard Elliott | Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/richardelliott/activity/ Activity feed for Richard Elliott. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:12:11 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 00405d90b03b7938d23a39214be2724d Richard Elliott's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1906048/ Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:25:17 +0000 0 12064cb045bd95dfb8a24e671a1596e1 Richard Elliott's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833511/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:09:35 +0000 0 a46db06607ca33c6793f77a4623e0797 Richard Elliott's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609764/ Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:43:46 +0000 0 645c44f4682fad3f03a334b1e29fb808 Richard Elliott deposited A Dream Deferred: Nina Simone and the Work of Mourning in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601687/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:33:53 +0000 This talk presents work from Richard Elliott's recent book about the late singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Nina Simone. It focuses on Simone's reaction to what she saw as the failure of the civil rights movement and how that reaction was played out in her work from the end of the 1960s onwards, blending into a personal but…[Read more]

]]> 0 9176bc1b3d0bab8e171b8b56f7115811 Richard Elliott deposited A Dream Deferred: Nina Simone and the Work of Mourning in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601686/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:33:51 +0000 This talk presents work from Richard Elliott's recent book about the late singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Nina Simone. It focuses on Simone's reaction to what she saw as the failure of the civil rights movement and how that reaction was played out in her work from the end of the 1960s onwards, blending into a personal but…[Read more]

]]> 0 76cfb3f9deb3282281a2927af25843f8 Richard Elliott deposited “All You See Is Glory”: The Burden of Stardom and the Tragedy of Nina Simone in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601684/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:33:01 +0000 Although most often remembered as an icon of the civil rights era, Nina Simone enjoyed (and occasionally endured) a long career during which the bulk of the songs she performed dealt with the politics, pains and precariousness of the self. Her work—always suffused with longing, sensuality and the passion of being—took on, in her later career, wha…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bc20f87432b364fed212a6aae1bc029 Richard Elliott deposited “All You See Is Glory”: The Burden of Stardom and the Tragedy of Nina Simone in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601683/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:32:59 +0000 Although most often remembered as an icon of the civil rights era, Nina Simone enjoyed (and occasionally endured) a long career during which the bulk of the songs she performed dealt with the politics, pains and precariousness of the self. Her work—always suffused with longing, sensuality and the passion of being—took on, in her later career, wha…[Read more]

]]> 0 c30370a5978924ada3bab6d04331dfd5 Richard Elliott deposited “Time and Distance Are No Object” in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601681/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:32:22 +0000 Whether temporally or spatially focussed, nostalgia results from a division between what is longed for and the moment of longing. This article examines this “nostalgia gap” alongside the analogous gap found in representation. The relationship is highlighted via an analysis of “holiday records”, a genre of recordings that became prevalent in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a2e104e2153531c6b8aab81f16fdb3e Richard Elliott deposited “Time and Distance Are No Object” in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601680/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:32:20 +0000 Whether temporally or spatially focussed, nostalgia results from a division between what is longed for and the moment of longing. This article examines this “nostalgia gap” alongside the analogous gap found in representation. The relationship is highlighted via an analysis of “holiday records”, a genre of recordings that became prevalent in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 db31faf3f0db40416d8f81927a36dcec Richard Elliott deposited A Blank Space Where You Write Your Name: Taylor Swift’s Early Late Voice in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601678/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:31:44 +0000 Taylor Swift’s songs invite listeners to connect art and life in the tradition, if not always the style, of the ‘confessional’ singer-songwriter. From an early age, Swift has written and sung about ‘big topics’ like time and experience with a remarkable sense of self awareness. Her songs hymn youthful experience to great effect through reference…[Read more]

]]> 0 51679dbc48a6a15e4b69c2080658a535 Richard Elliott deposited A Blank Space Where You Write Your Name: Taylor Swift’s Early Late Voice in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601677/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:31:41 +0000 Taylor Swift’s songs invite listeners to connect art and life in the tradition, if not always the style, of the ‘confessional’ singer-songwriter. From an early age, Swift has written and sung about ‘big topics’ like time and experience with a remarkable sense of self awareness. Her songs hymn youthful experience to great effect through reference…[Read more]

]]> 0 85c331e2d0b98b5b97de02bf0beb1b52 Richard Elliott deposited A Dream Deferred: Nina Simone and the Work of Mourning https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601637/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:24:39 +0000 This talk presents work from Richard Elliott's recent book about the late singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Nina Simone. It focuses on Simone's reaction to what she saw as the failure of the civil rights movement and how that reaction was played out in her work from the end of the 1960s onwards, blending into a personal but…[Read more]

]]> 0 df604f9c05f0b52ce9a66ad24935aa77 Richard Elliott deposited “All You See Is Glory”: The Burden of Stardom and the Tragedy of Nina Simone https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601627/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:26:46 +0000 Although most often remembered as an icon of the civil rights era, Nina Simone enjoyed (and occasionally endured) a long career during which the bulk of the songs she performed dealt with the politics, pains and precariousness of the self. Her work—always suffused with longing, sensuality and the passion of being—took on, in her later career, wha…[Read more]

]]> 0 a685ff3ffe10f18ff7ae3e2300fbfa99 Richard Elliott deposited A Blank Space Where You Write Your Name: Taylor Swift’s Early Late Voice https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601626/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:18:27 +0000 Taylor Swift’s songs invite listeners to connect art and life in the tradition, if not always the style, of the ‘confessional’ singer-songwriter. From an early age, Swift has written and sung about ‘big topics’ like time and experience with a remarkable sense of self awareness. Her songs hymn youthful experience to great effect through reference…[Read more]

]]> 0 c893c900dc0dd71f9d3d616a0c71655f Richard Elliott deposited “Time and Distance Are No Object” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601621/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:35:07 +0000 Whether temporally or spatially focussed, nostalgia results from a division between what is longed for and the moment of longing. This article examines this “nostalgia gap” alongside the analogous gap found in representation. The relationship is highlighted via an analysis of “holiday records”, a genre of recordings that became prevalent in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 938bb066efc8c1e48bc2b5804eaba6b9 Richard Elliott deposited Where I Come From: Place, Race, Memory and Experience in Rap and Country Music – A Comparative Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1600344/ Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:42:42 +0000 This work examines certain lyrical elements in rap and country music and the ways they are voiced. As different as these genres are from each other they share certain important characteristics. The main themes I focus on are place, race, memory and experience. I also look at how these themes are used in the creation of authenticity and how…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3b223d175f8910d31b54ae0922ab75c Richard Elliott's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596961/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:27:59 +0000 0 0e861cacd77f7311a412d7848e56ffb8 Richard Elliott deposited The Late Voice (Introduction) in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596929/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:17:34 +0000 Introduction to The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music.

Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, age, memory, innocence and experience in modern popular…[Read more]

]]> 0 982194167e0e72cbdfd947fc826991cd Richard Elliott deposited The Late Voice (Introduction) in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596928/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:17:33 +0000 Introduction to The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music.

Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, age, memory, innocence and experience in modern popular…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c345b7f4f2287c19a518a56e16f678e Richard Elliott deposited The Late Voice (Introduction) in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596927/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:17:31 +0000 Introduction to The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music.

Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, age, memory, innocence and experience in modern popular…[Read more]

]]> 0 7cae5dfde0aca741bbf71bdee0ce1b1e Richard Elliott deposited The Late Voice (Introduction) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596865/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:03:00 +0000 Introduction to The Late Voice: Time, Age and Experience in Popular Music
Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice undertakes such an analysis by considering issues of time, age, memory, innocence and experience in modern popular…[Read more]

]]> 0 71318a7e574a83a15142b412514e1243 Richard Elliott's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596864/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:34:44 +0000 0 39b9a97fe14482a8c1ddf95775a7ad85 Richard Elliott deposited The Sound of Nonsense in the group Sound Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596435/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:05:54 +0000 ‘Watch the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves’; so says the Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But can we be so sure of this? The Duchess, like her creator Lewis Carroll, often seems to put more emphasis on the sound of words than their sense, a technique that can also be detected in other written texts and in works of so…[Read more]

]]> 0 2999028cbd0ad1d4637d3593bc6ee031 Richard Elliott deposited The Sound of Nonsense in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596434/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:05:53 +0000 ‘Watch the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves’; so says the Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But can we be so sure of this? The Duchess, like her creator Lewis Carroll, often seems to put more emphasis on the sound of words than their sense, a technique that can also be detected in other written texts and in works of so…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c4a5eee9414bcb0c444af9f6e388e98 Richard Elliott deposited The Sound of Nonsense in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596433/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:05:50 +0000 ‘Watch the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves’; so says the Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But can we be so sure of this? The Duchess, like her creator Lewis Carroll, often seems to put more emphasis on the sound of words than their sense, a technique that can also be detected in other written texts and in works of so…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c1dcf49efa8c25b68417cd94d3c3644 Richard Elliott deposited nonsensemix in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596427/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:03:59 +0000 An audio taster of my book The Sound of Nonsense. The taster includes samples of recordings of the work of some of the novelists, poets, musicians and performers who are used as case studies in the book. The taster is designed to both provide an overview of the subject matter of the book and to model one of the types of sonic nonsense discussed in…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a02406ea6317df4f713b8bb2e740bc9 Richard Elliott deposited The Sound of Nonsense https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1595585/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:56:32 +0000 ‘Watch the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves’; so says the Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But can we be so sure of this? The Duchess, like her creator Lewis Carroll, often seems to put more emphasis on the sound of words than their sense, a technique that can also be detected in other written texts and in works of so…[Read more]

]]> 0 7cd0f99463bcfa37d183abc82a6b907e Richard Elliott deposited nonsensemix https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1595421/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 19:13:51 +0000 An audio taster of my book The Sound of Nonsense. The taster includes samples of recordings of the work of some of the novelists, poets, musicians and performers who are used as case studies in the book. The tatser is designed to both provide an overview of the subject matter of the book and to model one of the types of sonic nonsense discussed in…[Read more]

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