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- From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields)
- Subject: Re: academia, power, priveledge...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.190909.25191@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Dec23.202529.29725@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <gXecwB1w165w@dorsai.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:09:09 GMT
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- In article <gXecwB1w165w@dorsai.com> idealord@dorsai.com (Jeff Harrington) writes:
- >No thanks, I'm too busy writing music. Funny, most of my friends who are
- >employed by the _academy_ (this is laughable btw, universities are more
- >like factories for composers then academies) say they don't have enough
- >time to compose. Too many meetings. Matt, wake up man, you really want
- >a one year contract to teach beginning theory at Podunk University?
- >Floating around with one year contracts is not the life for me. I want
- >to live in NY and luckily :-) there's no teaching jobs here or I might be
- >tempted - NOT!!!
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- >BTW, Bach and Mozart (as you stated in a previous post) did make a living
- >writing music. BUT!!! when you teach at a university you're getting paid
- >to _teach_ not write.
-
- Hmm. Ever heard of "Publish or perish"? I always thought that teaching
- was the one thing most UNDERvalued in academia. I'm explicitly looking
- for 3-year tenure-track appointments, btw. My impression is that in
- academia you're explicitly getting paid to bring fame and glory to the
- particular academy of which you're a part.
-
- >Then, (here it gets good) your teaching and your writing are judged by
- >thieves who pray nightly that a real musician would never come their way
- >and spot their ruse.
-
- I've spotted such ruses before, and taken my business to a different
- academy.
-
- > Bach and Mozart wrote music which was judged by
- >intelligent, cultured music lovers. I'm sorry, this ain't the case no
- >more.
-
- Intelligent, cultured music lovers don't grow on trees! Hence modern
- academia.
-
- >Matt, sorry to get personal, but, I've heard your music and you're a good
- >composer! You don't have a f*cking chance in academia....
-
- :-7 Well, that's nice of you to say, I guess, but where'd the folks who've
- inspired me over the years come from, like Schoenberg (UCLA, '37-'50), George
- Crumb (at U-Penn/Philly since about '58), Leslie Bassett (U-Mich '50's-'91),
- etc.?
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- Matt
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