William Brooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 358798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Brooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooks |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8257-5566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1899 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Amalgamation and Alluvial Gold Mining at Ancient Sardis, Türkiye
Even though gold was widely used in the ancient world there are few studies of the mining technology used to obtain the precious metal. Ancient Sardis is one of the most well-known of these ancient gold occurrences. At Sardis and elsewhere in the ancient world, gold was washed from alluvial occurrences using gravity methods combined with mercury (amalgamation), a method that is still used today in small-scale alluvial gold mines worldwide. The ‘P…
Digital transformation and socio-economic development in emerging economies: A multinational analysis
Voices, Bodies, Practices
Identity and subjectivity in musical performancesWho is the “I” that performs? The arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have pushed us relentlessly to reconsider our notions of the self, expression, and communication: to ask ourselves, again and again, who we think we are and how we can speak meaningfully to one another. Although in [...]
Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities
Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities
Sherwin, William F(isk)
Arcilla y cultura: Nuevos y viejos datos sobre la cerámica prehispánica en la cuenca alta de la quebrada Piedras Blancas (Antioquia-Colombia)
The discovery of a 1070 BP burial of ceramic fragments corresponding to more than 50 different vessels OF different styles and time frames, points without doubt TO the cosmological significance of the ceramics for the Aburrá Valley people. We present the finding of the ceramics and their analysis. 14 fragments were subjected to chemical analysis by ICP AES and 13 to petrographic analysis to determine their composition and origin. We conclude that…
What is the Aim of Nippon Kaigi, the Ultra-Right Organization that Supports Japan's Abe Administration
Nippon Kaigi [The Japan Conference], established in 1997, is the largest right-wing organization in Japan. The organization is a major supporter of the current Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, and both Japanese and foreign media report that Abe, and many of his cabinet, are prominent member of its Diet Members League. Despite Nippon Kaigi's influence on governmental policies of Japan, the organization was little known to the general public until 2015. …
The Rehearsal
Before the Great War there were lesser ones; and there were some that never really happened. On the border between Mexico and the United States, in 1914 and 1916, two of the latter occurred. In retrospect it is clear that these served in part as a rehearsal for America’s participation in the war in Europe. They served also to rehearse the music industry, in all its manifestations, for the wartime activity to come. This article traces musical Amer…
Resistant Islands – Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States
In re: Experimental Analysis
This article begins by considering the interaction of notation and analysis by means of a comparison of scores from the 1950s. This discussion leads to the domains of error, value, and ethics. An ‘experimental’ mode of analysis is proposed, which takes taxonomy and statistics as a basis; from this one acquires an understanding that is observational rather than evaluative. A philosophical basis is noted in pragmatism, in the writings of James and …
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
Book Review| April 01 2012 Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage. By Kenneth Silverman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4000-4437-5. Hardcover. Pp. 483. $40.00. William Brooks William Brooks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2012) 30 (1): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.30.1.0113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio …
In re: Experimental Music
John Cage is universally associated with the phrase experimental music. But what did that phrase mean, for Cage and for Cage's predecessors? I begin with Cage and Lejaren Hiller, both writing important texts on ‘experimental music’ in 1959. From there, I trace the phrase backwards, eventually reaching Émile Zola, Gertrude Stein, and William James. A final section traces the phrase forward to Cage and Hiller's collaboration on HPSCHD (1969)
Protest, Progress and (Im)possible Music
A contextual analysis of three compositions—One anti-personnel type-CBU bomb ... by Philip Corner, ‘Majority’ by Charles Ives, and Lecture on the Weather by John Cage—reveals that each is ‘impossible’. Each manifests its impossibility in a different domain: moral, physical and perceptual. But the three scores were each resituated by comments made by the composers, independent of the scores; and these comments make these ‘experimental’ works viabl…
French Intellectuals and Anti-Globalism
Cet article fait part des prises de position des intellectuels francais face au spectre grandissant de la mondialisation. L'A. analyse les principes universalistes de la pensee francaise et tente de comprendre l'exeption culturelle francaise et la recurrente culture d'opposition des intellectuels de gauche contre une hegemonie economique inegalitaire et dominatrice
The Music of John Cage
Liselotte: Rauschenblattenknecht
Mistrust and Misconception: Music and Literature in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France
A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives
Further Remarks on Lully and Quinault at Court
(1989). Further Remarks on Lully and Quinault at Court. Seventeenth-Century French Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 147-150
Theatrical Success and the Chronology of Productions at the Hotel de Bourgogne: New Evidence from Racine and Quinault
It is a commonplace regret of theatre historians that, for the Hôtel de Bourgogne (as, indeed, for the Théâtre du Marais) there exists no continuous record of performances analogous to that maintained by La Grange in respect of Molière's troupe. Thus one cannot always be certain which plays were performed, still less when. Such dates as are certain—or even, virtually certain—are so, only because they arise in the writings of contemporaries. In pa…
America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present
America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present
Lully and Quinault at Court and on the Public Stage, 1613–86
Lully and Quinault at Court and on the Public Stage, 1613–86
Digital transformation and socio-economic development in emerging economies: A multinational analysis
On being tasteless
It is hard to be tasteless.It is not so hard to have bad taste, I grant, but that is another matter. To have bad taste, one simply must consistently make choices which offend those with good taste - an ability which is relatively commonplace. For some, bad taste seems to appear naturally, as a birthright; others must learn to cultivate it. But no matter how acquired, or how skilfully employed, bad taste is not tastelessness
In re: Experimental Music
John Cage is universally associated with the phrase experimental music. But what did that phrase mean, for Cage and for Cage's predecessors? I begin with Cage and Lejaren Hiller, both writing important texts on ‘experimental music’ in 1959. From there, I trace the phrase backwards, eventually reaching Émile Zola, Gertrude Stein, and William James. A final section traces the phrase forward to Cage and Hiller's collaboration on HPSCHD (1969)
Theatrical Success and the Chronology of Productions at the Hotel de Bourgogne: New Evidence from Racine and Quinault
It is a commonplace regret of theatre historians that, for the Hôtel de Bourgogne (as, indeed, for the Théâtre du Marais) there exists no continuous record of performances analogous to that maintained by La Grange in respect of Molière's troupe. Thus one cannot always be certain which plays were performed, still less when. Such dates as are certain—or even, virtually certain—are so, only because they arise in the writings of contemporaries. In pa…
The Foundations of Zoology
On being tasteless
It is hard to be tasteless.It is not so hard to have bad taste, I grant, but that is another matter. To have bad taste, one simply must consistently make choices which offend those with good taste - an ability which is relatively commonplace. For some, bad taste seems to appear naturally, as a birthright; others must learn to cultivate it. But no matter how acquired, or how skilfully employed, bad taste is not tastelessness
American Music. Nos. 1–3. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983
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Pocahontas: Her Life and Times
New York theater in the fall of 1855 offered a variety of diversions. For the upper ten, New York's ruling class, there was opera, the first American appearance of the great French actress Rachel, the tempestuous American actor Edwin Forrest presenting his famous impression of the tempestuous Edwin Forrest in a variety of roles ranging from Hamlet to Metamora, and at Wallack's Theatre a repertory company--one of the best in memory-that opened the…
America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present
Lully and Quinault at Court and on the Public Stage, 1613–86
Lully and Quinault at Court and on the Public Stage, 1613–86
Further Remarks on Lully and Quinault at Court
(1989). Further Remarks on Lully and Quinault at Court. Seventeenth-Century French Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 147-150
Theatrical Success and the Chronology of Productions at the Hotel de Bourgogne: New Evidence from Racine and Quinault
It is a commonplace regret of theatre historians that, for the Hôtel de Bourgogne (as, indeed, for the Théâtre du Marais) there exists no continuous record of performances analogous to that maintained by La Grange in respect of Molière's troupe. Thus one cannot always be certain which plays were performed, still less when. Such dates as are certain—or even, virtually certain—are so, only because they arise in the writings of contemporaries. In pa…
America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present
A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives
Mistrust and Misconception: Music and Literature in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France
Liselotte: Rauschenblattenknecht
The Music of John Cage
French Intellectuals and Anti-Globalism
Cet article fait part des prises de position des intellectuels francais face au spectre grandissant de la mondialisation. L'A. analyse les principes universalistes de la pensee francaise et tente de comprendre l'exeption culturelle francaise et la recurrente culture d'opposition des intellectuels de gauche contre une hegemonie economique inegalitaire et dominatrice
Protest, Progress and (Im)possible Music
A contextual analysis of three compositions—One anti-personnel type-CBU bomb ... by Philip Corner, ‘Majority’ by Charles Ives, and Lecture on the Weather by John Cage—reveals that each is ‘impossible’. Each manifests its impossibility in a different domain: moral, physical and perceptual. But the three scores were each resituated by comments made by the composers, independent of the scores; and these comments make these ‘experimental’ works viabl…
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
Book Review| April 01 2012 Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage. By Kenneth Silverman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4000-4437-5. Hardcover. Pp. 483. $40.00. William Brooks William Brooks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2012) 30 (1): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.30.1.0113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio …
In re: Experimental Music
John Cage is universally associated with the phrase experimental music. But what did that phrase mean, for Cage and for Cage's predecessors? I begin with Cage and Lejaren Hiller, both writing important texts on ‘experimental music’ in 1959. From there, I trace the phrase backwards, eventually reaching Émile Zola, Gertrude Stein, and William James. A final section traces the phrase forward to Cage and Hiller's collaboration on HPSCHD (1969)
Resistant Islands – Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States
In re: Experimental Analysis
This article begins by considering the interaction of notation and analysis by means of a comparison of scores from the 1950s. This discussion leads to the domains of error, value, and ethics. An ‘experimental’ mode of analysis is proposed, which takes taxonomy and statistics as a basis; from this one acquires an understanding that is observational rather than evaluative. A philosophical basis is noted in pragmatism, in the writings of James and …
The Rehearsal
Before the Great War there were lesser ones; and there were some that never really happened. On the border between Mexico and the United States, in 1914 and 1916, two of the latter occurred. In retrospect it is clear that these served in part as a rehearsal for America’s participation in the war in Europe. They served also to rehearse the music industry, in all its manifestations, for the wartime activity to come. This article traces musical Amer…
Arcilla y cultura: Nuevos y viejos datos sobre la cerámica prehispánica en la cuenca alta de la quebrada Piedras Blancas (Antioquia-Colombia)
The discovery of a 1070 BP burial of ceramic fragments corresponding to more than 50 different vessels OF different styles and time frames, points without doubt TO the cosmological significance of the ceramics for the Aburrá Valley people. We present the finding of the ceramics and their analysis. 14 fragments were subjected to chemical analysis by ICP AES and 13 to petrographic analysis to determine their composition and origin. We conclude that…
What is the Aim of Nippon Kaigi, the Ultra-Right Organization that Supports Japan's Abe Administration
Nippon Kaigi [The Japan Conference], established in 1997, is the largest right-wing organization in Japan. The organization is a major supporter of the current Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, and both Japanese and foreign media report that Abe, and many of his cabinet, are prominent member of its Diet Members League. Despite Nippon Kaigi's influence on governmental policies of Japan, the organization was little known to the general public until 2015. …
Sherwin, William F(isk)
Voices, Bodies, Practices
Identity and subjectivity in musical performancesWho is the “I” that performs? The arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have pushed us relentlessly to reconsider our notions of the self, expression, and communication: to ask ourselves, again and again, who we think we are and how we can speak meaningfully to one another. Although in [...]
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