After months of pondering, I have finally struck upon a dissertation topic that's worth a couple hundred pages of writing. It hit me while reading this bbc article, and my unofficial title is:
Sweet as Honey: The Effects of Serbian Turbo-Folk Music on the Protected Wildlife of Macedonia
My only concern is finding the bear to get his side of the story, you know, with him being a convicted criminal and all...
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What a fine and important scholarly endeavor, Mark. This topic would be a perfect companion piece to my ongoing thesis entitled "La Boheme or Tosca?: Analyzing the Cuddliness Level of Cats Exposed to Each Work," a piece of research that I believe will become a seminal musicological monograph.
Zach, I imagine your topic will elicit quite a bit of feline subject research. Make sure you get the proper release forms... Now all we need is to gather a few other music/animal studies, and we can publish a collection. What do you say, joint editorship?
It could be the birth of a new branch of the musicological tree: carnal musicology, gender musicology, animal musicology...
Zoomusicology is already a burgeoning sub-field, my friend. I remember scratching my head a couple years ago in a Ph.D. seminar as we were asked to painstakingly transcribe a bird song (you think Charlie Parker plays quickly!) and search for periodic structures in the transcription. What I propose is the new sub-sub-field of post-modern zoomusicology, wherein we closely examine frivolous issues with a sarcastic eye to the existential fragmentation of our original sub-field. It's zoomusicology with less substance and more pretension - but at least we could say we founded something!
I'm in.
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