Morgan James Luker
Biographic Data
| ID | 176125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morgan James Luker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morgan James |
| FAMILY NAME | Luker |
| SIGNATURE | LUKER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Matrix Listening; or, What and How We Can Learn from Historical Sound Recordings
A matrix number is an alphanumeric code that is inscribed into the run-out area of commercially recorded gramophone discs. In this article, I argue that orienting our scholarly listening around matrix numbers-what I call "matrix listening"-can help us reframe our engagement with historical sound recordings as primary sources and thereby lend valuable insights into any number of scholarly questions. It can also help us revisit the issue of materia…
Un disparo en la noche 2
Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music
Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay: Los Gauchos de Roldán. 2011. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40561. Engineered by Pete Reiniger. Annotated by José Curbelo. Produced …
Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay: Los Gauchos de Roldán. 2011. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40561. Engineered by Pete Reiniger. Annotated by José Curbelo. Produced by José Curbelo and Daniel E. Sheehy. 40-page booklet with notes in English and Spanish. Spanish translation by José Curbelo. Colour and b/w photographs, map, bibliography. CD, 19 tracks (55:10). Recorded at Sondor Studio, Montevideo. - Volume 46
Robert Lehmann-Nitsche: Walzenaufnahmen aus Argentinien 1905–1909 / Grabaciones en cilindros de Argentina. 2009. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv Historische Klangdokumente BPhA-WA4/5. Original wax cylinder…
Robert Lehmann-Nitsche: Walzenaufnahmen aus Argentinien 1905–1909 / Grabaciones en cilindros de Argentina. 2009. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv Historische Klangdokumente BPhA-WA4/5. Original wax cylinders recorded by Robert Lehmann-Nitsche. Mastered by Albrecht Wiedmann. Annotated by Miguel A. García, Barbara Göbel, Lars-Christian Koch, Albrecht Wiedmann, and Susanne Ziegler. 112-page booklet with notes in German and Spanish. German translation by U…
Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay (review)
Reviewed by: Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay Morgan James Luker George Reid Andrews . Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Photos, tables, bibliography, index. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8078-7158-4 At once brisk and deliberate, sweeping and detailed, George Reid Andrews's Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay is the first book-length …
The Managers, the Managed, and the Unmanageable: Negotiating Values at the Buenos Aires International Music Fair
Diversity has become a key discourse of international cultural policy-making following the neoliberal turn. This article traces how diversity discourses were put into practice by the city government of Buenos Aires, Argentina, following the devastating 2001 Argentine economic crisis, taking the first Buenos Aires International Music Fair (BAFIM) as a case study. A key event within broader policies aimed at developing the local music industry as b…
Diccionario bibliográfico de la música argentina y de la música en la Argentina (review)
Reviewed by: Diccionario bibliográfico de la música argentina y de la música en la Argentina Morgan James Luker Leandro Donzo. 2006. Diccionario bibliográfico de la música argentina y de la música en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical Ediciones. 534 pp. ISBN 9877266409. By the title alone, Leandro Donzo’s Bibliographic Dictionary of Argentine Music and Music in Argentina is nothing if not ambitious. The book takes a broad view of its top…
Tango Renovación: On the Uses of Music History in Post-Crisis Argentina
Long celebrated as a "national" genre in Argentina, tango has not been massively popular there since the late 1950s. Beginning in the late 1990s, however, a renewed interest in the genre began to develop among many Argentines, and tango has since risen to again occupy a prominent position within the wider domain of the country's cultural life. The reemergence of tango was punctuated by the devastating Argentine economic crisis of December 2001, w…
Tango Renovación: On the Uses of Music History in Post-Crisis Argentina
Long celebrated as a "national" genre in Argentina, tango has not been massively popular there since the late 1950s. Beginning in the late 1990s, however, a renewed interest in the genre began to develop among many Argentines, and tango has since risen to again occupy a prominent position within the wider domain of the country's cultural life. The reemergence of tango was punctuated by the devastating Argentine economic crisis of December 2001, w…
Matrix Listening; or, What and How We Can Learn from Historical Sound Recordings
A matrix number is an alphanumeric code that is inscribed into the run-out area of commercially recorded gramophone discs. In this article, I argue that orienting our scholarly listening around matrix numbers-what I call "matrix listening"-can help us reframe our engagement with historical sound recordings as primary sources and thereby lend valuable insights into any number of scholarly questions. It can also help us revisit the issue of materia…
Tango Renovación: On the Uses of Music History in Post-Crisis Argentina
Long celebrated as a "national" genre in Argentina, tango has not been massively popular there since the late 1950s. Beginning in the late 1990s, however, a renewed interest in the genre began to develop among many Argentines, and tango has since risen to again occupy a prominent position within the wider domain of the country's cultural life. The reemergence of tango was punctuated by the devastating Argentine economic crisis of December 2001, w…
Diccionario bibliográfico de la música argentina y de la música en la Argentina (review)
Reviewed by: Diccionario bibliográfico de la música argentina y de la música en la Argentina Morgan James Luker Leandro Donzo. 2006. Diccionario bibliográfico de la música argentina y de la música en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical Ediciones. 534 pp. ISBN 9877266409. By the title alone, Leandro Donzo’s Bibliographic Dictionary of Argentine Music and Music in Argentina is nothing if not ambitious. The book takes a broad view of its top…
The Managers, the Managed, and the Unmanageable: Negotiating Values at the Buenos Aires International Music Fair
Diversity has become a key discourse of international cultural policy-making following the neoliberal turn. This article traces how diversity discourses were put into practice by the city government of Buenos Aires, Argentina, following the devastating 2001 Argentine economic crisis, taking the first Buenos Aires International Music Fair (BAFIM) as a case study. A key event within broader policies aimed at developing the local music industry as b…
Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay (review)
Reviewed by: Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay Morgan James Luker George Reid Andrews . Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Photos, tables, bibliography, index. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8078-7158-4 At once brisk and deliberate, sweeping and detailed, George Reid Andrews's Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay is the first book-length …
Robert Lehmann-Nitsche: Walzenaufnahmen aus Argentinien 1905–1909 / Grabaciones en cilindros de Argentina. 2009. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv Historische Klangdokumente BPhA-WA4/5. Original wax cylinder…
Robert Lehmann-Nitsche: Walzenaufnahmen aus Argentinien 1905–1909 / Grabaciones en cilindros de Argentina. 2009. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv Historische Klangdokumente BPhA-WA4/5. Original wax cylinders recorded by Robert Lehmann-Nitsche. Mastered by Albrecht Wiedmann. Annotated by Miguel A. García, Barbara Göbel, Lars-Christian Koch, Albrecht Wiedmann, and Susanne Ziegler. 112-page booklet with notes in German and Spanish. German translation by U…
Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay: Los Gauchos de Roldán. 2011. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40561. Engineered by Pete Reiniger. Annotated by José Curbelo. Produced …
Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay: Los Gauchos de Roldán. 2011. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40561. Engineered by Pete Reiniger. Annotated by José Curbelo. Produced by José Curbelo and Daniel E. Sheehy. 40-page booklet with notes in English and Spanish. Spanish translation by José Curbelo. Colour and b/w photographs, map, bibliography. CD, 19 tracks (55:10). Recorded at Sondor Studio, Montevideo. - Volume 46
Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music
Un disparo en la noche 2
Matrix Listening; or, What and How We Can Learn from Historical Sound Recordings
A matrix number is an alphanumeric code that is inscribed into the run-out area of commercially recorded gramophone discs. In this article, I argue that orienting our scholarly listening around matrix numbers-what I call "matrix listening"-can help us reframe our engagement with historical sound recordings as primary sources and thereby lend valuable insights into any number of scholarly questions. It can also help us revisit the issue of materia…
Art (7 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cartography (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works)