"Ideally" is the key word. But there is an academic industrial complex out there. Get the PhD written. Completed. Get hired. Get published. Get tenure in a world with far fewer of those plums waiting to be plucked.
And, of course, this dissertation had a raft of references.
But really, who, reading it, is going to go to the originals and check their validity?
Ideally everyone!
IRL pretty much nope. And it's going to be cited by others. And the telephone game continues. I mean really, in my studies (undergrad psych, graduate history and English), did I ever go and check out the validity of references in papers and books? (Although if it's a source you have first-hand, it's good, even, necessary, to analyze it for its bias and include that in your writings.)
In the academic industrial complex, you find someone else has referenced a reputable-looking, reputable-sounding source, you use it. Then people reference you and your sources. Thus the telephone game of research, and knowledge-creation in the humanities. Thus the need for, and joy of, "Fact Trek"!
And please note, that yes, we had recognized Asian-inflected music without a Ph.D.
It was the concept that "othering" (a verb new to me then) was a bad, that was new to me. I mean Star Trek is predicated on "the other," though many eps stress that we have commonalities with the other. Even Klingons. People in the real world were not aware that TOS composers used Asian-inflected cues to other. Thus the opening to write a dissertation and get your degree in musicology and otherness studies.
And, of course, this dissertation had a raft of references.
But really, who, reading it, is going to go to the originals and check their validity?
Ideally everyone!
IRL pretty much nope. And it's going to be cited by others. And the telephone game continues. I mean really, in my studies (undergrad psych, graduate history and English), did I ever go and check out the validity of references in papers and books? (Although if it's a source you have first-hand, it's good, even, necessary, to analyze it for its bias and include that in your writings.)
In the academic industrial complex, you find someone else has referenced a reputable-looking, reputable-sounding source, you use it. Then people reference you and your sources. Thus the telephone game of research, and knowledge-creation in the humanities. Thus the need for, and joy of, "Fact Trek"!
And please note, that yes, we had recognized Asian-inflected music without a Ph.D.
It was the concept that "othering" (a verb new to me then) was a bad, that was new to me. I mean Star Trek is predicated on "the other," though many eps stress that we have commonalities with the other. Even Klingons. People in the real world were not aware that TOS composers used Asian-inflected cues to other. Thus the opening to write a dissertation and get your degree in musicology and otherness studies.
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