Alan Durant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Durant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Durant |
| SIGNATURE | DURANT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Environment
"environment" is now the usual name for the main editorial category dealing with news and opinion concerned with humans’ impact on the world around them. The word is also prominent in the names, ambitions, proposed policies and standards of bodies engaged with such issues. Despite the word’s prominence, however, use of "environment" (and derivatives including "environmental" and "environmentalism") is imprecise; and the word is positioned awkward…
Circulation and stability: Language, law and money in Chris Hutton's Language, Meaning and the Law
‘The significance is in the selection’: Identifying contemporary keywords
Research on socially influential but problematic ‘keywords’ (as investigated in Raymond Williams’s pioneering study 'Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society', 1976/1983), has always found the issue of selecting headwords for inclusion and analysis particularly difficult. This article examines what makes a word a suitable candidate for treatment as a keyword in Williams's sense. A ‘keyword selection’ activity is reported, in which members of…
Four ways of looking at a keyword: Introduction
This article introduces four essays, published in a special issue of CQ, which attempt to implement a research programme in historical semantics inspired by Raymond Williams’s 'Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society', 1976/1983. Following brief discussion of questions of approach and method, each of the four essays is described: Katie Wales updates Williams’s 'Keywords' entry for ‘media’; Daniel Karlin examines ‘want’, by reference to Elvi…
Raymond Williams's Keywords: Investigating meanings ‘offered, felt for, tested, confirmed, asserted, qualified, changed’
Reconsiders the approach developed by Raymond Williams for analysing complex words used in cultural and political debate. Contrasts the semantic and lexicographical emphasis of Williams's work with the history of ideas' focus of Tony Bennett et al's New Keywords (Blackwell, 2005). Also argues that new electronic corpus approaches can enrich Williams's close reading method
Politics and Language: Meaning and public deception: a tale of more than ‘very, very few people’
Broad questions of political deception and trust in public figures are examined in this article, with reference to a momentary but explosive interlude in British political life: a series of calls for the resignation of Home Secretary Charles Clarke in April 2006 following allegations that he had misled the public during a BBC2 'Newsnight' interview about the release of foreign nationals from UK prisons. Wider issues concerning accuracy in public …
Allusions and other ‘innuendo’ meanings in libel actions: The value of semantic and pragmatic evidence
Allusions and other cultural references are problematic in defamation actions. This paper presents an account of linguistic evidence concerning a contested expression, ‘economical with the truth’, whose origins as a quotation, coupled with more recent general currency, present an important interpretative challenge. Distinction between idiomatic use and more specialized allusion can be crucial in that qualification is allowed to the ‘ordinary read…
Books
Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd (eds), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, 472 pp., £12.95 p.b. Commission for Racial Equality, ’Sorry it's Gone’: Testing for Racial Discrimination in the Private Rented Housing Sector London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1990, 41 pp., £3.50 p.b. Mohammed Habeebullah and David Slater, Equal Access: Asian Access to Council Housing in Rochdale London: Community …
Innovations in the teaching of literature (2) New ways of reading: A course innovation at the University of Strathclyde
Innovations in the teaching of literature (3) Commentary on ‘Putting stylistic analysis in its place’
Functions of Style
Pound, modernism and literary criticism: A reply to Donald Davie
Pound, modernism and literary criticism: A reply to Donald Davie
Rock revolution or time-no-changes: Visions of Change and Continuity in Rock Music
Discussions of rock or contemporary popular music are very often suffused with suggestions of massive and remarkable 'change' (in musical style, in surrounding fashions, etc.). Just as often, however, they are filled with virtually opposite visions of endless repetition, or continual 'sameness' (the music all merely sounding alike). Diverging in this way, views of change in popular music tend towards extreme polarisation - so much evidently depen…
Rock Today: Facing the Music
Even provisional definitions of the music which is often referred to as rock (or contemporary ‘pop’) music, it is usually agreed, are surrounded by diversity and division. There is diversity in respect of genre, in distinctions between rock and roll, rhythm ’n’ blues, soul, new wave, reggae or funk (as well as in evidently more evaluative definitions: progressive, punk or underground). There is diversity, too, in respect of the agents or performe…
Classical Music
The word ‘classical’ has far wider currency when used of music than of other cultural forms. Within complex and varied usages, it constitutes different grouping of pieces and practices, and makes importantly different distinctions of emphasis and value. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Performance: Sound and Vision
It is a familiar and understandable usage to speak of ‘listening’ when describing acts of perceiving or consuming music. There are the attitudes of visual exclusion, the closed eyes or simultaneous engagement in conversation, dancing, working—various suggestions of a superfluousness of visual attention for pleasures of sound. And from oral traditions of poetry onwards, there is a recognisable mythology of blind music-makers: Homer, by tradition, …
False Relations and the Madrigal: An Alchemy of England’s Golden Age in Music
It is frequently affirmed (but is no less striking on account of repetition) that music and song in England, rising in turmoils of the Reformation and dispersing in currents of the 1620s and 1630s that were later consolidated in the Restoration, passed through a brief period of excellence, a Golden Age. The view occupies a place in conceptions of a national musical heritage: much subsequent history of music, the reasoning goes, has its centres of…
Tuning and Dissonance
There is an important sense in which to think of music, either directly or in metaphor and analogy, is to conceive mellifluous arrangements of sounds which offer pleasures of harmony and agreement. A whole range of literary and pictorial representations testify to this broad conception. Indeed to trace the sounds of music in their apparently widening development in Europe and the United States (in monophonic, polyphonic, dodecaphonic and polytona…
Music and its Language
Playing and listening to music remain especially resistant to description and commentary. The difficulty of finding a vocabulary to speak of musical forms within their social contexts, whilst at the same time accounting for their expressive or affective potential, makes extremely precarious any notion of response that makes claim to something more than personal impression. In addition, the range of relations involved in a musical performance or e…
Conditions of Music
Music is performed, reproduced, and heard differently today as a result of twentieth-century technology. A new consideration of these changes is a practical and cultural necessity. In Conditions of Music, Alan Durant extends Deryck Cooke's Language of Music, placing the insights of Cooke into a much wider sociological and historical framework. \nConditions of Music provides a basis for detailed commentary and criticism of music. Unlike literature…
Veterinary Military History of the United States, with a Brief Record of Veterinary Education, Practice, Organization and Legislation
Veterinary Military History of the United States, with a Brief Record of Veterinary Education, Practice, Organization and Legislation A. J. Durant CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.26.8.836 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Manual of Veterinary Bacteriology
Manual of Veterinary Bacteriology A. J. Durant CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.24.7.770-a Published Online: August 29, 2011
The Principles of Animal Hygiene and Preventive Veterinary Medicine
The Principles of Animal Hygiene and Preventive Veterinary Medicine A. J. Durant CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.22.11.1203-c Published Online: August 29, 2011
Conditions of Music
Music is performed, reproduced, and heard differently today as a result of twentieth-century technology. A new consideration of these changes is a practical and cultural necessity. In Conditions of Music, Alan Durant extends Deryck Cooke's Language of Music, placing the insights of Cooke into a much wider sociological and historical framework. \nConditions of Music provides a basis for detailed commentary and criticism of music. Unlike literature…
Rock revolution or time-no-changes: Visions of Change and Continuity in Rock Music
Discussions of rock or contemporary popular music are very often suffused with suggestions of massive and remarkable 'change' (in musical style, in surrounding fashions, etc.). Just as often, however, they are filled with virtually opposite visions of endless repetition, or continual 'sameness' (the music all merely sounding alike). Diverging in this way, views of change in popular music tend towards extreme polarisation - so much evidently depen…
The Principles of Animal Hygiene and Preventive Veterinary Medicine
The Principles of Animal Hygiene and Preventive Veterinary Medicine A. J. Durant CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.22.11.1203-c Published Online: August 29, 2011
Manual of Veterinary Bacteriology
Manual of Veterinary Bacteriology A. J. Durant CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.24.7.770-a Published Online: August 29, 2011
Veterinary Military History of the United States, with a Brief Record of Veterinary Education, Practice, Organization and Legislation
Veterinary Military History of the United States, with a Brief Record of Veterinary Education, Practice, Organization and Legislation A. J. Durant CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.26.8.836 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Rock Today: Facing the Music
Even provisional definitions of the music which is often referred to as rock (or contemporary ‘pop’) music, it is usually agreed, are surrounded by diversity and division. There is diversity in respect of genre, in distinctions between rock and roll, rhythm ’n’ blues, soul, new wave, reggae or funk (as well as in evidently more evaluative definitions: progressive, punk or underground). There is diversity, too, in respect of the agents or performe…
Classical Music
The word ‘classical’ has far wider currency when used of music than of other cultural forms. Within complex and varied usages, it constitutes different grouping of pieces and practices, and makes importantly different distinctions of emphasis and value. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Performance: Sound and Vision
It is a familiar and understandable usage to speak of ‘listening’ when describing acts of perceiving or consuming music. There are the attitudes of visual exclusion, the closed eyes or simultaneous engagement in conversation, dancing, working—various suggestions of a superfluousness of visual attention for pleasures of sound. And from oral traditions of poetry onwards, there is a recognisable mythology of blind music-makers: Homer, by tradition, …
False Relations and the Madrigal: An Alchemy of England’s Golden Age in Music
It is frequently affirmed (but is no less striking on account of repetition) that music and song in England, rising in turmoils of the Reformation and dispersing in currents of the 1620s and 1630s that were later consolidated in the Restoration, passed through a brief period of excellence, a Golden Age. The view occupies a place in conceptions of a national musical heritage: much subsequent history of music, the reasoning goes, has its centres of…
Tuning and Dissonance
There is an important sense in which to think of music, either directly or in metaphor and analogy, is to conceive mellifluous arrangements of sounds which offer pleasures of harmony and agreement. A whole range of literary and pictorial representations testify to this broad conception. Indeed to trace the sounds of music in their apparently widening development in Europe and the United States (in monophonic, polyphonic, dodecaphonic and polytona…
Music and its Language
Playing and listening to music remain especially resistant to description and commentary. The difficulty of finding a vocabulary to speak of musical forms within their social contexts, whilst at the same time accounting for their expressive or affective potential, makes extremely precarious any notion of response that makes claim to something more than personal impression. In addition, the range of relations involved in a musical performance or e…
Conditions of Music
Music is performed, reproduced, and heard differently today as a result of twentieth-century technology. A new consideration of these changes is a practical and cultural necessity. In Conditions of Music, Alan Durant extends Deryck Cooke's Language of Music, placing the insights of Cooke into a much wider sociological and historical framework. \nConditions of Music provides a basis for detailed commentary and criticism of music. Unlike literature…
Rock revolution or time-no-changes: Visions of Change and Continuity in Rock Music
Discussions of rock or contemporary popular music are very often suffused with suggestions of massive and remarkable 'change' (in musical style, in surrounding fashions, etc.). Just as often, however, they are filled with virtually opposite visions of endless repetition, or continual 'sameness' (the music all merely sounding alike). Diverging in this way, views of change in popular music tend towards extreme polarisation - so much evidently depen…
Pound, modernism and literary criticism: A reply to Donald Davie
Pound, modernism and literary criticism: A reply to Donald Davie
Innovations in the teaching of literature (2) New ways of reading: A course innovation at the University of Strathclyde
Innovations in the teaching of literature (3) Commentary on ‘Putting stylistic analysis in its place’
Functions of Style
Books
Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd (eds), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, 472 pp., £12.95 p.b. Commission for Racial Equality, ’Sorry it's Gone’: Testing for Racial Discrimination in the Private Rented Housing Sector London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1990, 41 pp., £3.50 p.b. Mohammed Habeebullah and David Slater, Equal Access: Asian Access to Council Housing in Rochdale London: Community …
Allusions and other ‘innuendo’ meanings in libel actions: The value of semantic and pragmatic evidence
Allusions and other cultural references are problematic in defamation actions. This paper presents an account of linguistic evidence concerning a contested expression, ‘economical with the truth’, whose origins as a quotation, coupled with more recent general currency, present an important interpretative challenge. Distinction between idiomatic use and more specialized allusion can be crucial in that qualification is allowed to the ‘ordinary read…
Raymond Williams's Keywords: Investigating meanings ‘offered, felt for, tested, confirmed, asserted, qualified, changed’
Reconsiders the approach developed by Raymond Williams for analysing complex words used in cultural and political debate. Contrasts the semantic and lexicographical emphasis of Williams's work with the history of ideas' focus of Tony Bennett et al's New Keywords (Blackwell, 2005). Also argues that new electronic corpus approaches can enrich Williams's close reading method
Politics and Language: Meaning and public deception: a tale of more than ‘very, very few people’
Broad questions of political deception and trust in public figures are examined in this article, with reference to a momentary but explosive interlude in British political life: a series of calls for the resignation of Home Secretary Charles Clarke in April 2006 following allegations that he had misled the public during a BBC2 'Newsnight' interview about the release of foreign nationals from UK prisons. Wider issues concerning accuracy in public …
Four ways of looking at a keyword: Introduction
This article introduces four essays, published in a special issue of CQ, which attempt to implement a research programme in historical semantics inspired by Raymond Williams’s 'Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society', 1976/1983. Following brief discussion of questions of approach and method, each of the four essays is described: Katie Wales updates Williams’s 'Keywords' entry for ‘media’; Daniel Karlin examines ‘want’, by reference to Elvi…
‘The significance is in the selection’: Identifying contemporary keywords
Research on socially influential but problematic ‘keywords’ (as investigated in Raymond Williams’s pioneering study 'Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society', 1976/1983), has always found the issue of selecting headwords for inclusion and analysis particularly difficult. This article examines what makes a word a suitable candidate for treatment as a keyword in Williams's sense. A ‘keyword selection’ activity is reported, in which members of…
Circulation and stability: Language, law and money in Chris Hutton's Language, Meaning and the Law
Environment
"environment" is now the usual name for the main editorial category dealing with news and opinion concerned with humans’ impact on the world around them. The word is also prominent in the names, ambitions, proposed policies and standards of bodies engaged with such issues. Despite the word’s prominence, however, use of "environment" (and derivatives including "environmental" and "environmentalism") is imprecise; and the word is positioned awkward…
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