Cambridge in a twist over musicology job

Cambridge in a twist over musicology job

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norman lebrecht

December 29, 2015

The Times Higher Educational Supplement has picked up on a storm generated by Slipped Disc over a Cambridge advertisement for a Senior University Lectureship in Wagner, Liszt and the Cultural History of Technology.

The terms are so specific that it seemed highly likely the job was tailored to a known individual.

We named him.

The THES won’t. But it does report widespread discomfort among academics at the terms of the engagement. As well as the official line:

Nicholas Cook, head of the music department, said that it was for a “strategic appointment”.

A Cambridge spokesman added that it had “advertised to fill an identified need for a specialist academic role” and an “open application process, which includes a rigorous interview stage, is ratified by our human resources team and is fully in line with UK employment law”.

Read the THES report here.

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Comments

  • David says:

    My biggest issue is that, reading the one article I could find, it was shite. Anybody who knows anything about up upmixing could tell you he is just wrong (or incredibly narrow o the point of irrelevance) in this article, appearing to think upmixed audio simply sends the stereo signal to all speakers:

    http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2F5051_B123DBA182C4A008F2074CB01DDAB34D_journals__OPR_OPR26_01_S0954586713000311a.pdf&cover=Y&code=85a1c033007909576798fcc5c0bfb3b2#xml=http://journals.cambridge.org/data/userPdf/

    The one thing that upmixing does is retain the original stereo image…

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