Alexander Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3989078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1821 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African cinema on demand? The politics of online distribution and the case of the African Film Library
This article considers the impact of online distribution on the long-term availability and preservation of African cinema. It examines the case of Electronic Media Network’s (M-Net) African Film Library (AFL), a video-on-demand (VOD) library of classic African films that was launched in 2012, but taken offline by 2013. The article argues that this short-lived project represents a pivotal moment in the way we think about African film archiving and…
Vocal Spaces and Oral Traces
This chapter examines voice in two of Ousmane Sembene’s earliest film works, Borom Sarret (The Wagoner, 1963) and La Noire de ... (Black Girl, 1966). Both of these films are characterised by their uses of first-person voice-over narration, uttered by protagonists who would in reality be denied such liberating platforms of expression. However, these voice-overs are recorded and mixed in such a manner that they frequently work against the grain of …
Music and Religious Identity in Counter-Reformation Augsburg, 1580–1630
By the late-sixteenth century, Augsburg was one of the largest cities of the Holy Roman Empire, boasting an active musical life involving the contributions of musicians like Jacobus de Kerle, Hans Leo Hassler, and Gregor Aichinger. This musical culture, however, unfolded against a backdrop of looming religious schism. From the mid-sixteenth century onward, Augsburg was the largest 'biconfessional' city in the Empire, housing a Protestant majority…
Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
Fisher, Alexander J. Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2016, pp. 5-221), on Érudit
Music and the Jesuit “Way of Proceeding” in the German Counter-Reformation
The present essay considers the Jesuits’ relationship to musical culture along the confessional frontier of Germany, where the immediate presence of religious difference led to an explicit marking of space and boundaries, not least through visual and aural media. While Jesuit reservations concerning the appropriate use of music were always present, individual churches and colleges soon developed ambitious musical practices aimed at embellishing t…
Modes of griot inscription in African cinema
A recurring idea in the criticism of African cinema has been that the films frequently deploy the narrative techniques of the griot, the storyteller of West African tradition. In particular, Manthia Diawara (1989, 1992) alerted us to the inscription of the oral narrator within the visual discourse of particular African films, while other critics have considered how the films recall the narrative forms of traditional oral tales. However, these cri…
Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week
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Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, in the Years 1819 And 1820
Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
" ... Explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound--…
Music, Magic, and the Mythic: The Dynamics of Visual and Aural Discourse in Souleymane Cissé’s Yeelen
The 1980s saw a wave of African films that aimed to represent, on both local and international screens, a sophisticated pre-colonial Africa, representing ancient myths and traditions while simultaneously debunking notions of the continent as primitive. Toward this aim the films inscribed the conventions of oral performance within their visual styles, denying spectator identification with the protagonists and emphasising the presence of the narrat…
Between "the Housewife" and "the Philosophy Professor: Music, Narration and Address in Ousmane Sembene'sXala
The acclaimed Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene conceptualised himself as a modern day griot (West African oral performer), producing often didactic films that address a diverse spectatorship. Examining Xala, this paper argues that this address cannot be fully understood without attention to the film’s complex music/image relationships, which refigure classical and modernist film aesthetics to mobilise a discourse that recalls oral performance…
Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on responses to material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany trace how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of deprivation through a spectrum of activities, often turning loss into gain and acquiring agency.
Enduring loss in early modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
The Cambridge History of Christianity
This authoritative volume presents the history of Christianity from the eve of the Protestant Reformation to the height of Catholic Reform. In addition to in-depth coverage of the politics and theology of various reform movements in the sixteenth century, this book discusses at length the impact of the permanent schism on Latin Christendom, the Catholic responses to it, and the influence on the development of the Orthodox churches. This comprehen…
Per mia particolare devotione: Orlando di Lasso'sLagrime di San Pietroand Catholic Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Munich
In his magisterialLagrime di San Pietro(1595) Orlando di Lasso composed a cycle of 20 madrigals on texts by Luigi Tansillo on the theme of St Peter's denial of Christ and his subsequent remorse, capped by a Latin motet ('Vide homo') representing the rebuke of the crucified Christ. TheLagrimemay be seen as a penitential gesture on Lasso's part, but a textual and musical analysis also suggests numerous parallels with contemporary Catholic spiritual…
Song, Confession, and Criminality: Trial Records as Sources for Popular Musical Culture in Early Modern Europe
In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the city government of Augsburg, Germany, struggled to maintain religious peace as the confessional boundaries between its Catholic and Protestant communities hardened. As tensions gradually rose, city officials feared and scrutinized the disruptive potential of the psalms and chorales sung by Augsburg's Protestant majority. Those suspected of owning, singing, or distributing inflammatory songs were subj…
A journal of a voyage of discovery to the arctic regions: In His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, in the years 1819 & 1820 /
Xl voyage, were furnished by Government with a suit of warm clothes, and a wolf-skin blanket, gratis.The means of preserving the health of the crews were also well attended to; for besides the salt provisions being of a good quality, and recently cured, there was a large quantity of Messrs. Donkin and Hall's preserved meats and soups supplied.Antiscorbutics, of different kinds, were also provided, such as lemon-juice, sour-crout, essence of spruc…
Modes of griot inscription in African cinema
A recurring idea in the criticism of African cinema has been that the films frequently deploy the narrative techniques of the griot, the storyteller of West African tradition. In particular, Manthia Diawara (1989, 1992) alerted us to the inscription of the oral narrator within the visual discourse of particular African films, while other critics have considered how the films recall the narrative forms of traditional oral tales. However, these cri…
Between "the Housewife" and "the Philosophy Professor: Music, Narration and Address in Ousmane Sembene'sXala
The acclaimed Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene conceptualised himself as a modern day griot (West African oral performer), producing often didactic films that address a diverse spectatorship. Examining Xala, this paper argues that this address cannot be fully understood without attention to the film’s complex music/image relationships, which refigure classical and modernist film aesthetics to mobilise a discourse that recalls oral performance…
Per mia particolare devotione: Orlando di Lasso'sLagrime di San Pietroand Catholic Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Munich
In his magisterialLagrime di San Pietro(1595) Orlando di Lasso composed a cycle of 20 madrigals on texts by Luigi Tansillo on the theme of St Peter's denial of Christ and his subsequent remorse, capped by a Latin motet ('Vide homo') representing the rebuke of the crucified Christ. TheLagrimemay be seen as a penitential gesture on Lasso's part, but a textual and musical analysis also suggests numerous parallels with contemporary Catholic spiritual…
A journal of a voyage of discovery to the arctic regions: In His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, in the years 1819 & 1820 /
Xl voyage, were furnished by Government with a suit of warm clothes, and a wolf-skin blanket, gratis.The means of preserving the health of the crews were also well attended to; for besides the salt provisions being of a good quality, and recently cured, there was a large quantity of Messrs. Donkin and Hall's preserved meats and soups supplied.Antiscorbutics, of different kinds, were also provided, such as lemon-juice, sour-crout, essence of spruc…
Song, Confession, and Criminality: Trial Records as Sources for Popular Musical Culture in Early Modern Europe
In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the city government of Augsburg, Germany, struggled to maintain religious peace as the confessional boundaries between its Catholic and Protestant communities hardened. As tensions gradually rose, city officials feared and scrutinized the disruptive potential of the psalms and chorales sung by Augsburg's Protestant majority. Those suspected of owning, singing, or distributing inflammatory songs were subj…
The Cambridge History of Christianity
This authoritative volume presents the history of Christianity from the eve of the Protestant Reformation to the height of Catholic Reform. In addition to in-depth coverage of the politics and theology of various reform movements in the sixteenth century, this book discusses at length the impact of the permanent schism on Latin Christendom, the Catholic responses to it, and the influence on the development of the Orthodox churches. This comprehen…
Per mia particolare devotione: Orlando di Lasso'sLagrime di San Pietroand Catholic Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Munich
In his magisterialLagrime di San Pietro(1595) Orlando di Lasso composed a cycle of 20 madrigals on texts by Luigi Tansillo on the theme of St Peter's denial of Christ and his subsequent remorse, capped by a Latin motet ('Vide homo') representing the rebuke of the crucified Christ. TheLagrimemay be seen as a penitential gesture on Lasso's part, but a textual and musical analysis also suggests numerous parallels with contemporary Catholic spiritual…
Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on responses to material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany trace how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of deprivation through a spectrum of activities, often turning loss into gain and acquiring agency.
Enduring loss in early modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Between "the Housewife" and "the Philosophy Professor: Music, Narration and Address in Ousmane Sembene'sXala
The acclaimed Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene conceptualised himself as a modern day griot (West African oral performer), producing often didactic films that address a diverse spectatorship. Examining Xala, this paper argues that this address cannot be fully understood without attention to the film’s complex music/image relationships, which refigure classical and modernist film aesthetics to mobilise a discourse that recalls oral performance…
Music, Magic, and the Mythic: The Dynamics of Visual and Aural Discourse in Souleymane Cissé’s Yeelen
The 1980s saw a wave of African films that aimed to represent, on both local and international screens, a sophisticated pre-colonial Africa, representing ancient myths and traditions while simultaneously debunking notions of the continent as primitive. Toward this aim the films inscribed the conventions of oral performance within their visual styles, denying spectator identification with the protagonists and emphasising the presence of the narrat…
Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, in the Years 1819 And 1820
Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
" ... Explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound--…
Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Music and the Jesuit “Way of Proceeding” in the German Counter-Reformation
The present essay considers the Jesuits’ relationship to musical culture along the confessional frontier of Germany, where the immediate presence of religious difference led to an explicit marking of space and boundaries, not least through visual and aural media. While Jesuit reservations concerning the appropriate use of music were always present, individual churches and colleges soon developed ambitious musical practices aimed at embellishing t…
Modes of griot inscription in African cinema
A recurring idea in the criticism of African cinema has been that the films frequently deploy the narrative techniques of the griot, the storyteller of West African tradition. In particular, Manthia Diawara (1989, 1992) alerted us to the inscription of the oral narrator within the visual discourse of particular African films, while other critics have considered how the films recall the narrative forms of traditional oral tales. However, these cri…
Vocal Spaces and Oral Traces
This chapter examines voice in two of Ousmane Sembene’s earliest film works, Borom Sarret (The Wagoner, 1963) and La Noire de ... (Black Girl, 1966). Both of these films are characterised by their uses of first-person voice-over narration, uttered by protagonists who would in reality be denied such liberating platforms of expression. However, these voice-overs are recorded and mixed in such a manner that they frequently work against the grain of …
Music and Religious Identity in Counter-Reformation Augsburg, 1580–1630
By the late-sixteenth century, Augsburg was one of the largest cities of the Holy Roman Empire, boasting an active musical life involving the contributions of musicians like Jacobus de Kerle, Hans Leo Hassler, and Gregor Aichinger. This musical culture, however, unfolded against a backdrop of looming religious schism. From the mid-sixteenth century onward, Augsburg was the largest 'biconfessional' city in the Empire, housing a Protestant majority…
Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
Fisher, Alexander J. Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2016, pp. 5-221), on Érudit
African cinema on demand? The politics of online distribution and the case of the African Film Library
This article considers the impact of online distribution on the long-term availability and preservation of African cinema. It examines the case of Electronic Media Network’s (M-Net) African Film Library (AFL), a video-on-demand (VOD) library of classic African films that was launched in 2012, but taken offline by 2013. The article argues that this short-lived project represents a pivotal moment in the way we think about African film archiving and…
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