Counting the beat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Davis (0000-0003-1184-5175, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 179 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-69 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07255136231212702 |
| OpenAlex | W4389497687 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
A subtle but insistent beat tracks through the life of Peter Beilharz.The tap is, like Peter, just a little ahead of the time, an improvised jazz rhythm played with brushes, underpinning the ensemble while avoiding solos.Music has been there since the start -still at school in Croydon, Peter haunted the venues of Melbourne, drumming for blues bands, rubbing shoulders with a handful of players who would become famous, and the many for whom music would remain a passion but not a profession.Peter too settled on a life beyond pub rock, but those skills acquired laying down a tempo, holding the band together, would long endure.He taught in schools, completed a doctorate on Trotskyism and began a long journey through sociology and related disciplines, from Marxism to modernism, in Australian universities, in the United States and, latterly, Chengdu, China.And all the time an ear to the pulse of the moment, juxtaposing the familiar and the new in search for fresh sense and tempo.I recall a first encounter -not with Peter but with his work, when an early issue of Thesis Eleven found its way to the Department of Political Science at the Australian National University.Here was a local journal engaging confidently with the world.Consternation followed among us postgraduates.While we lived with limited access to European journals, the Thesis Eleven editors seemed comfortable in a contemporary intellectual world impossibly remote from Canberra yet clearly inhabited by our peers in Melbourne.'Yes, yes, of course', we mumbled as we flicked through the pages, feigning calm to hide the shock.Agnes Heller was familiar from La Trobe (Peter would eventually take her place at the University), but who were these post-Marxists, critical theorists and European iconoclasts discussed issue after issue?We could only read and learn
Optics · Physics · Diverse Musicological Studies · Educational Leadership and Practices · Music History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |