Rob Detmering

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@tonyprinciotti @ScottGl64858656 How on earth are Schoenberg, etc. responsible for any of this? It's fascinating that relatively unpopular composers, apparently disliked by audiences for generations and barely performed in concert halls, are somehow so powerful as to destroy classical music culture.

@ScottGl64858656 ...a composer's vision within a generation or two. Beethoven went from being "crazy" to being venerated within 20 to 30 years. The fact that we still haven't come to grips with this is another symptom of the general aimlessness afflicting classical music culture.

I don't question the genius of composers such as Schoenberg, Webern and Boulez. But I do think their sophistical theoretical ideas, by being more arbitrarily prescriptive than descriptive of a naturally-evolving common practice, were utterly catastrophic for Western Art Music.

@joan_osborne I think this is fake.

Whoa-

Expect an avalanche of misinformation (& the confusion that follows) in the next few hours. We educators have our work cut out. See our latest in today's LA Times. @nadavsziv @SHEG_Stanford latimes.com/opinion/story/…

One more thing: this little video from the amazing librarians at the University of Louisville, drawing on @SHEG_Stanford's concept of lateral reading, will save your kids much grief. Three minutes of your time, that's it. @robdetmering youtube.com/watch?v=GZvsGK…

@samwineburg Thank you for promoting the University of Louisville Libraries' lateral reading video from our new Citizen Literacy toolkit: library.louisville.edu/citizen-litera… Your followers may also be interested in other videos on our site: algorithmic literacy, evaluating expertise, etc.

@dowellml Jellyfish/Spilt Milk; Daryl Hall/Sacred Songs

What music album do you think more people should know about?

@dowellml At the End of the Century

What Wilco song best captures the end of the semester experience?

@dowellml That's interesting because you sometimes persuade me with your ideas. I'm just not telling you which ones.

@robdetmering I guess what I am saying is I don’t often construct an idea and present it in hopes of persuading anyone.

I’d like to know where faculty who see technology use as “unacceptable” and, therefore, ban it in class fall on all the other (actually) unacceptable behaviors in the academy and what they do about those behaviors. That or admit you like having power and policing down.

@dowellml "It" = people being on phones and computers all the time. That's what I've been assuming "technology" refers to in this discussion.

@robdetmering What’s the “it” as the cultural norm?

@dowellml Regarding the technology thing, I agree it's policing students, and it's probably unrealistic. But it just doesn't seem that different to me from setting other kinds of classroom policies. And just because it's a cultural norm doesn't mean it should be a norm in class.

@robdetmering I don’t think it is objectively setting parameters. I think it’s policing students to and based on a unrealistic norm. Also, I don’t really believe in persuasion. I believe that people can evolve but I don’t think I can persuade them.

@dowellml @CardinalMikeJam Librarians are often faculty too. It might be hard to see us from those upper floors of the ivory tower you occupy.

@CardinalMikeJam @robdetmering Necessary market measure in response to stagnant faculty salaries.

Library due dates are oppressive.

@wilkicg It’s getting more difficult to understand why you didn’t become a librarian. You’ve got all the skills!

When we look at Auschwitz we see the end of the process. It's important to remember that the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation & escalating violence.

Nov 16, 10:00am-1:00pm, graduate students can stop by Ekstrom 117A for cookies, coffee, & cat videos. Librarians to talk about research services and will play funny cat videos on the big screen because, hey, you need a break from the grad student grind once in a while.

Things we've learned about the right lately: People who run ethics centers have no ethics Evangelical leaders who thunder about sin don't actually care about morality Fiscal conservatives don't actually care about deficits And much, much more 1/

@ChrisMarsicano I agree with your point, but I think you could find a less condescending way to express it. Hopefully, you're going out and talking to actual high school teachers, rather than overgeneralizing about their work and shaming them for annoying you.

Dear high school teachers, Please stop telling students that there are "no circumstances" in which they should write in 1st person. 1) It just isn't true, and 2) I have to spend more time than I would like helping them unlearn that "fact." Sincerely, Annoyed college professor