Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

Pianist, Professor of Music, Culture and Society, @citysociology. Views here my own. Also at @ianpacemain . Co-convenor @cityuniafaf, Secretary @lucaf_london City of London, London Joined September 2018

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Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

2 days ago

So, Labour are going to implement the fee levy on international students, and use this for means-tested maintenance grants in ‘priority areas’. But the fee levy may drive institutions further into the red, and what exactly are the ‘priority areas’? timeshighereducation.com/news/labour-pr…

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Ian Pace @ianpacemain

4 days ago

More than other Britpop bands, Oasis still resemble what they did in the 90s. Their appeal today represents a nostalgia for more optimistic times than the uncertainty and economic decline of today, when the flag could be celebrated. I am quoted in here. independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

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Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

5 days ago

I am quoted in this @Independent article on Oasis-mania: independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

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Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1

6 days ago

The move from a world where the authority of cultural elites rested on critical distance and objectivity (no arguments from authority!) to one where those same elites now try to ground themselves in appeals to emotion, morality, and new status hierarchies.

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Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

6 days ago

‘The most rigorous formalist methods are demanding, but that is the point of specialist criticism: to yield insights beyond those available to the lay reader, viewer, or listener. To lose this would be a tragedy.’ cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecutio…

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6 days ago

‘Whereas Bell, in 1914, declared art independent of history and ethics, Tynianov’s 1920s essaysproposed a more nuanced view: literary history develops according to its own logic, yet intersects with broader history.’ cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecutio…

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6 days ago

The second part of my article on formalism and anti-formalism. @CAmericain_mag ‘Like the Russians, the New Critics imagined criticism as quasi-scientific, and their methods scaled well pedagogically, shaping U.S. literary study for several decades.’ cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecutio…

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Committee for Academic Freedom @ComAcFreedom

a week ago

The OfS’s final guidance on the Free Speech Act is now in force. As Prof @ianpacemain notes in @TheCriticMag, unis can take some quick compliance steps this semester. But the bigger danger lies in “soft” pressures — ostracism, exclusion, and REF capture.thecritic.co.uk/depoliticising…

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Ian Pace @ianpacemain

2 weeks ago

Great article by @Paul_Heron_ on Roger Fry, Paul Nash, Dora Carrington and the major differences between London and Paris in attitudes towards art prior to the advent of these figures. thecritic.co.uk/when-modern-ar…

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Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

2 weeks ago

And Ivan Grozny Part 2. youtu.be/vnNgoS8VsoQ?si…

Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

2 weeks ago

And Ivan Grozny Part 2. youtu.be/vnNgoS8VsoQ?si…

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Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

2 weeks ago

Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan Grozny (Ivan the Terrible), Part 1, with a score by Prokofiev. One of the works denounced by Zhdanov. Do watch if you never have. youtu.be/ZYOxxp_EVxc?si…

Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

2 weeks ago

Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan Grozny (Ivan the Terrible), Part 1, with a score by Prokofiev. One of the works denounced by Zhdanov. Do watch if you never have. youtu.be/ZYOxxp_EVxc?si…

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Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

2 weeks ago

If you think opera as a whole is elitist, then you need to learn more about it and its history. Many operatic genres have been decried as vulgar spectacle in the past.

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera

2 weeks ago

If you think opera as a whole is elitist, then you need to learn more about it and its history. Many operatic genres have been decried as vulgar spectacle in the past.

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Glynne Williams @GlynneVW

2 weeks ago

This should be a useful read, even for opera ignoramuses like me. The same self-fulfilling 'elitist' nonsense has plagued classical music as a whole.

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera

2 weeks ago

This should be a useful read, even for opera ignoramuses like me. The same self-fulfilling 'elitist' nonsense has plagued classical music as a whole.

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Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

2 weeks ago

A man I would have never messed with. His thought was all over the place, and a side of me sees him as a narcissist who conveniently rode waves of radical change when they suited his own purposes, but came to a tragic end after public denunciation (even though Stalin loved him).

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Prof Ian Pace @drianpace

2 weeks ago

Part two of my article on formalism will consider the New Critics, amongst others. I think they are still very worth reading. Four recommended books.

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2 weeks ago

The real agenda of those pushing the ‘Decolonizing the University’ can be read in their own words, in the atrocious book edited by sociologist Gurminder K. Bhambra. It’s nothing less than a form of Leninist entryism. thecritic.co.uk/exhausting-div…

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2 weeks ago

More Jakobson: ‘The plastic arts involve the shaping of self-sufficient visual impressions, music the shaping of self-sufficient sound material, dance the organization of the self-sufficient gesture; and poetry is the formulation of the self-sufficient, “self-centered” word’