Al Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 966445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Al Young |
| FAMILY NAME | Al Young |
| SIGNATURE | AL YOUNG |
| AFFILIATIONS | Molecular Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1286-1655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Let Me Whisper in Your Earbud
In the contemporary moment, the typical sonic experience is solitary and portable—occurring through headphones, mobile phone, tablet, watch, laptop or in the automobile. This article evaluates some of the possibilities and constraints of producing music for Pod-dissemination
Scratch and Mix
This paper elucidates the practice by which composers and DJs use the turntable to ‘scratch and mix’ samples of recorded female voices, thereby reframing them into new contextual forms. The paper focuses on two pieces: ‘Got ‘Til It's Gone’, a pop song by Janet Jackson and Q-Tip which samples and manipulates a fragment of Joni Mitchell's ‘Big Yellow Taxi’; and Christian Marclay's turntable scratching on the voice of the late Maria Callas. The disc…
Latent body—plastic, malleable, inscribed
This article examines, through the grooves of the record disc as a site, the inscription of the human voice onto the recorded medium, and the way recording technology has changed how the listener hears and comprehends the physical body. Recording technology allowed human presence to be captured onto a concrete and tactile medium, and enabled the material object of the recording to then be bought, consumed and privately owned. The political implic…
Invitation
Al Young, poet and novelist, is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Heaven: Collected Poems, 1956-90 (1992), The Blues Don't Change: New and Selected Poems (1982), Geography of the Near Past (1976), Some Recent Fiction (1974), The Song Turning Back into Itself (1971), and Dancing: Poems (1969), which won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. His many honors and awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and fe…
From Seduction By Light
Invitation
The Countless Possibilities of Music as a Way of Life
Body and Soul Coleman Hawkins, 1939
Poetry
Interview with Al Young
The following interview took place on April 3, 1978, the day before Young's reading as part of USCs "Contemporary Literature Week."Following the car ride from LA. International, lunch in Venice, an hour or so at the beach in Santa Monica watching workmen repave a parking lot, several rounds of beer in my backyard, and so forth, we got down to "business" in my office at USC, both of us gazing out the window from time to time at the giant neon cat …
What is the Blues
Backwater Blues/Bessie Smith, 1927
Sitting Pretty
Congo Square
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Congo Square
Sitting Pretty
Interview with Al Young
The following interview took place on April 3, 1978, the day before Young's reading as part of USCs "Contemporary Literature Week."Following the car ride from LA. International, lunch in Venice, an hour or so at the beach in Santa Monica watching workmen repave a parking lot, several rounds of beer in my backyard, and so forth, we got down to "business" in my office at USC, both of us gazing out the window from time to time at the giant neon cat …
What is the Blues
Backwater Blues/Bessie Smith, 1927
Body and Soul Coleman Hawkins, 1939
Poetry
The Countless Possibilities of Music as a Way of Life
Invitation
From Seduction By Light
Invitation
Al Young, poet and novelist, is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Heaven: Collected Poems, 1956-90 (1992), The Blues Don't Change: New and Selected Poems (1982), Geography of the Near Past (1976), Some Recent Fiction (1974), The Song Turning Back into Itself (1971), and Dancing: Poems (1969), which won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. His many honors and awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and fe…
Latent body—plastic, malleable, inscribed
This article examines, through the grooves of the record disc as a site, the inscription of the human voice onto the recorded medium, and the way recording technology has changed how the listener hears and comprehends the physical body. Recording technology allowed human presence to be captured onto a concrete and tactile medium, and enabled the material object of the recording to then be bought, consumed and privately owned. The political implic…
Scratch and Mix
This paper elucidates the practice by which composers and DJs use the turntable to ‘scratch and mix’ samples of recorded female voices, thereby reframing them into new contextual forms. The paper focuses on two pieces: ‘Got ‘Til It's Gone’, a pop song by Janet Jackson and Q-Tip which samples and manipulates a fragment of Joni Mitchell's ‘Big Yellow Taxi’; and Christian Marclay's turntable scratching on the voice of the late Maria Callas. The disc…
Let Me Whisper in Your Earbud
In the contemporary moment, the typical sonic experience is solitary and portable—occurring through headphones, mobile phone, tablet, watch, laptop or in the automobile. This article evaluates some of the possibilities and constraints of producing music for Pod-dissemination
Art (10 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Blues (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works)