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Ce texte constitue la majeure partie du chapitre 10 du livre de Harris M. Berger publié en 1999, Metal, Rock and Jazz. Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience (p. 252-253 et 261-275). Après une partie épistémologique dont un court extrait programmatique est seulement traduit ici, le chapitre propose des matériaux d’enquête recueillis en 1992 et 1993. Resituant le contexte de l’expérience de ceux qu’il étudie, Berger cherche ici à qualifier le sens qu’ils donnent à leurs actions..

New Directions for Ethnomusicological Research into the Politics of Music and Culture: Issues, Projects, and Programs

This article is one of six pieces in the “Call and Response” section of the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of the journal Ethnomusicology. The section, which was guest edited by Harris M. Berger, is entitled “Music, Power, and the Ethnomusicological Study of Politics and Culture.” The six articles in the section are revised and expanded versions of papers delivered for the President’s Roundtable at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, which was held in New Orleans, Louisiana from November 1 to 4, 2012.This article identifies a set of issues that are at the heart of contemporary ethnomusicological research on the politics of music and suggests directions for future work in this area. Populism, the dialectical relationship between the expressive and the instrumental dimensions of musical practice, and the tension between critical and relativistic impulses in ethnomusicology are explored. The article argues that further work is needed on the concrete mechanisms by which music making and listening impact conduct in other spheres of social life and suggests the utility of a practice theory approach to the notion of power for ethnomusicological inquiry on the politics of culture

Getting Your Work Published: An AFS Professional Development Lunchtime Roundtable

This document reports on a professional development workshop for graduate students and new professionals in the field of folklore studies sponsored by the AFS at its 2005 annual meeting in Atlanta. The roundtable leaders were: Harris M. Berger and Giovanna P. Del Negro – Texas A&M University; incoming co-editors, Journal of American Folklore and Judy McCulloh – Executive Editor, University of Illinois Press.The Folk and Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts provided funding for this workshop

Short Gamma Ray Bursts: a bimodal origin?

Short-hard Gamma Ray Bursts (SGRBs) are currently thought to arise from gravitational wave driven coalescences of double neutron star systems forming either in the field or dynamically in globular clusters. For both channels we fit the peak flux distribution of BATSE SGRBs to derive the local burst formation rate and luminosity function. We then compare the resulting redshift distribution with Swift 2-year data, showing that both formation channels are needed in order to reproduce the observations. Double neutron stars forming in globular clusters are found to dominate the distribution at z<0.3, whereas the field population from primordial binaries can account for the high-z SGRBs. This result is not in contradiction with the observed host galaxy type of SGRBs.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA

Charm quark and D^* cross sections in deeply inelastic scattering at DESY HERA

A next-to-leading order Monte Carlo program for the calculation of heavy quark cross sections in deeply inelastic scattering is described. Concentrating on charm quark and D^*(2010) production at HERA, several distributions are presented and their variation with respect to charm quark mass, parton distribution set, and renormalization-factorization scale is studied.Comment: 15 pages including 8 figures. Uses Latex, Revtex, and psfig. References added - others updated. Several sentences/words added for clarity. Results/conclusions unchanged. To appear in Phys. Rev.

Oddness of residually reducible Galois representations

We show that suitable congruences between polarized automorphic forms over a CM field always produce elements in the Selmer group for exactly the ±-Asai (aka tensor induction) representation that is critical in the sense of Deligne. For this we relate the oddness of the associated polarized Galois representations (in the sense of the Bella ̈ıche-Chenevier sign being +1) to the parity condition for criticality. Under an assumption similar to Vandiver’s conjecture this also provides evidence for the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture for polarized Galois representations of any even dimension

Bauman's Verbal Art and the Social Organization of Attention: The Role of Reflexivity in the Aesthetics of Performance

In Richard Bauman's landmark study Verbal Art as Performance, reflexivity plays a small but important role. Combining ideas from Verbal Art with insights from phenomenology, this article uses the concept of reflexivity to re-examine basic facets of expressive interaction and explores the structure of intersubjectivity in performance. Field data on American heavy metal music and the promenade of central Italy are used to reveal the crucial role that reflexivity plays in the aesthetics of performance

On a Conjecture of Rapoport and Zink

In their book Rapoport and Zink constructed rigid analytic period spaces $F^{wa}$ for Fontaine's filtered isocrystals, and period morphisms from PEL moduli spaces of $p$-divisible groups to some of these period spaces. They conjectured the existence of an \'etale bijective morphism $F^a \to F^{wa}$ of rigid analytic spaces and of a universal local system of $Q_p$-vector spaces on $F^a$. For Hodge-Tate weights $n-1$ and $n$ we construct in this article an intrinsic Berkovich open subspace $F^0$ of $F^{wa}$ and the universal local system on $F^0$. We conjecture that the rigid-analytic space associated with $F^0$ is the maximal possible $F^a$, and that $F^0$ is connected. We give evidence for these conjectures and we show that for those period spaces possessing PEL period morphisms, $F^0$ equals the image of the period morphism. Then our local system is the rational Tate module of the universal $p$-divisible group and enjoys additional functoriality properties. We show that only in exceptional cases $F^0$ equals all of $F^{wa}$ and when the Shimura group is $GL_n$ we determine all these cases.Comment: v2: 48 pages; many new results added, v3: final version that will appear in Inventiones Mathematica