WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.976 align:middle line:90%


00:00:00.976 --> 00:00:02.440 align:middle line:90%
[SQUEAKING]

00:00:02.440 --> 00:00:04.392 align:middle line:90%
[RUSTLING]

00:00:04.392 --> 00:00:07.320 align:middle line:90%
[CLICKING]

00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.540 align:middle line:90%


00:00:11.540 --> 00:00:13.160 align:middle line:84%
MICHAEL SCOTT ASATO
CUTHBERT: So this

00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:17.000 align:middle line:84%
is an article I want to say just
a few little things about it

00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:24.350 align:middle line:84%
that it's an article that was
written for other academics

00:00:24.350 --> 00:00:25.140 align:middle line:90%
at the time.

00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:28.640 align:middle line:84%
So just so we know that
it wasn't, at the time

00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.225 align:middle line:84%
it was published in
2004, really designed

00:00:31.225 --> 00:00:32.850 align:middle line:84%
that we were going
to read it in class.

00:00:32.850 --> 00:00:37.140 align:middle line:84%
And we're going to have various
academic articles in here.

00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:41.090 align:middle line:84%
So some people are old hats
reading academic articles

00:00:41.090 --> 00:00:44.750 align:middle line:84%
in the Humanities or in
Science, or in this case

00:00:44.750 --> 00:00:47.210 align:middle line:84%
at the intersection of
Humanities and Science,

00:00:47.210 --> 00:00:51.540 align:middle line:84%
and other people have had
less introduction to that.

00:00:51.540 --> 00:00:54.290 align:middle line:84%
So I just want to
take a minute and say

00:00:54.290 --> 00:00:57.410 align:middle line:84%
how I approach reading a
new article because we'll

00:00:57.410 --> 00:00:58.610 align:middle line:90%
have some of them up.

00:00:58.610 --> 00:01:01.330 align:middle line:84%
First, always take
a second and think

00:01:01.330 --> 00:01:06.931 align:middle line:84%
about the title for a second
and figure out, OK, is--

00:01:06.931 --> 00:01:09.100 align:middle line:84%
sometimes I even just
write it down and put it

00:01:09.100 --> 00:01:13.340 align:middle line:84%
somewhere because when I'm
not assigning articles,

00:01:13.340 --> 00:01:16.280 align:middle line:84%
there are things that you
can put down at any point.

00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:19.190 align:middle line:84%
And so when I get to the point
where I'm somewhere through it,

00:01:19.190 --> 00:01:21.370 align:middle line:84%
and I see they're not
answering, they're not

00:01:21.370 --> 00:01:23.328 align:middle line:84%
talking about the title,
they're not answering,

00:01:23.328 --> 00:01:24.520 align:middle line:90%
then I can throw it away.

00:01:24.520 --> 00:01:27.290 align:middle line:84%
You're not allowed to
do that in this class,

00:01:27.290 --> 00:01:29.320 align:middle line:84%
but that's, you know,
something to do.

00:01:29.320 --> 00:01:32.680 align:middle line:84%
Then I always start paying
attention to the bold points

00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.560 align:middle line:84%
and try to see about
that because I don't

00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.460 align:middle line:90%
read very fast and things.

00:01:37.460 --> 00:01:39.940 align:middle line:84%
So I'll want to
jump ahead a bit.

00:01:39.940 --> 00:01:44.230 align:middle line:84%
But always read the
introduction really carefully.

00:01:44.230 --> 00:01:46.390 align:middle line:90%
In some ways, if you have--

00:01:46.390 --> 00:01:49.340 align:middle line:84%
let's say, this would
never happen to you,

00:01:49.340 --> 00:01:51.830 align:middle line:84%
but you're behind on a
reading or something.

00:01:51.830 --> 00:01:53.860 align:middle line:84%
It's 10 minutes before
class, and you're trying

00:01:53.860 --> 00:01:56.290 align:middle line:90%
to figure out what to do.

00:01:56.290 --> 00:01:58.130 align:middle line:90%
Don't read the whole thing fast.

00:01:58.130 --> 00:02:01.100 align:middle line:84%
Read the introduction
really carefully, twice.

00:02:01.100 --> 00:02:05.320 align:middle line:84%
And that's because that's where
almost everything should be

00:02:05.320 --> 00:02:08.949 align:middle line:90%
there if it's a good article.

00:02:08.949 --> 00:02:11.380 align:middle line:84%
Because you'll get to
very specific things

00:02:11.380 --> 00:02:13.690 align:middle line:84%
as you get to your projects,
we may get to the point

00:02:13.690 --> 00:02:15.980 align:middle line:84%
where you're assigning
yourself articles,

00:02:15.980 --> 00:02:18.910 align:middle line:84%
or it's like, hey, look
at these five articles

00:02:18.910 --> 00:02:20.980 align:middle line:90%
that I may have seen.

00:02:20.980 --> 00:02:22.970 align:middle line:84%
If at the end of
the introduction,

00:02:22.970 --> 00:02:24.755 align:middle line:84%
again, you don't
know anything what

00:02:24.755 --> 00:02:27.380 align:middle line:84%
it's going to be about, throw it
out, move to the next article.

00:02:27.380 --> 00:02:31.810 align:middle line:84%
But a well-written article
should give everything there.

00:02:31.810 --> 00:02:33.830 align:middle line:90%
I go to the pictures yet.

00:02:33.830 --> 00:02:36.460 align:middle line:84%
Next, I don't want to ever
see that cliche a picture is

00:02:36.460 --> 00:02:38.450 align:middle line:84%
worth a thousand words
in any of your things,

00:02:38.450 --> 00:02:39.740 align:middle line:90%
but it's kind of true.

00:02:39.740 --> 00:02:41.410 align:middle line:84%
So you can figure
out, OK, what are we

00:02:41.410 --> 00:02:43.300 align:middle line:90%
going to be talking about?

00:02:43.300 --> 00:02:44.950 align:middle line:84%
From reading the
introduction, I knew

00:02:44.950 --> 00:02:47.242 align:middle line:84%
we were going to be talking
about music representation.

00:02:47.242 --> 00:02:50.033 align:middle line:84%
So I start asking, are
these music representations

00:02:50.033 --> 00:02:51.200 align:middle line:90%
that are being talked about?

00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:53.750 align:middle line:84%
And then when I look at
the text, I can do it.

00:02:53.750 --> 00:02:58.018 align:middle line:84%
I can see, OK, the next topic
is issues of representation.

00:02:58.018 --> 00:02:59.560 align:middle line:84%
I've skimmed ahead,
so I know there's

00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:02.210 align:middle line:84%
only two real topics
in this, so this

00:03:02.210 --> 00:03:03.900 align:middle line:90%
should be the first half of it.

00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:08.750 align:middle line:84%
Oh, my gosh, that's why I
remembered like, gosh, yeah, OK.

00:03:08.750 --> 00:03:11.760 align:middle line:84%
And just read the
first sentence,

00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:13.560 align:middle line:90%
the first paragraph of that.

00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:20.180 align:middle line:84%
And go ahead and see
if the ending tells you

00:03:20.180 --> 00:03:21.390 align:middle line:90%
what it's going to be about.

00:03:21.390 --> 00:03:26.150 align:middle line:84%
This is not like watching
your favorite movie.

00:03:26.150 --> 00:03:27.950 align:middle line:84%
An academic article,
you shouldn't

00:03:27.950 --> 00:03:32.570 align:middle line:84%
feel like you're spoiling
the great reveal.

00:03:32.570 --> 00:03:35.480 align:middle line:84%
There's maybe five
articles in my life

00:03:35.480 --> 00:03:40.350 align:middle line:84%
where I think if I read this
way the first time I saw it,

00:03:40.350 --> 00:03:42.000 align:middle line:90%
I would have ruined the article.

00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.630 align:middle line:84%
All the rest, I
just improved my--

00:03:44.630 --> 00:03:47.870 align:middle line:84%
so I can see that,
OK, so we have

00:03:47.870 --> 00:03:49.740 align:middle line:84%
a problem of multiple
requirements,

00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:52.460 align:middle line:84%
and we have some sort of a
solution that doesn't work.

00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:54.380 align:middle line:84%
So then I can go
back and read and try

00:03:54.380 --> 00:03:57.320 align:middle line:84%
to figure out what it is we're
going to be talking about.

00:03:57.320 --> 00:04:00.440 align:middle line:84%
And we can see
the final thing is

00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:03.880 align:middle line:84%
an introduction to
the next section

00:04:03.880 --> 00:04:05.890 align:middle line:84%
and see that the
second part is a case

00:04:05.890 --> 00:04:10.630 align:middle line:84%
study of one particular
example of computational

00:04:10.630 --> 00:04:14.260 align:middle line:84%
and comparative and
computational musicology.

00:04:14.260 --> 00:04:18.579 align:middle line:84%
And I can see OK, I
probably should have

00:04:18.579 --> 00:04:20.660 align:middle line:90%
some fun looking at that later.

00:04:20.660 --> 00:04:22.700 align:middle line:90%
And then jump to the conclusion.

00:04:22.700 --> 00:04:28.150 align:middle line:84%
This article is great in that it
does label its conclusion with--

00:04:28.150 --> 00:04:30.370 align:middle line:84%
where is it --the
word conclusion.

00:04:30.370 --> 00:04:32.360 align:middle line:90%
Not every article does that.

00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:40.930 align:middle line:84%
But again, go ahead and read
the last couple paragraphs

00:04:40.930 --> 00:04:43.280 align:middle line:84%
of the article, so you
find where it ends.

00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:46.870 align:middle line:84%
Go back, and go
ahead and figure out

00:04:46.870 --> 00:04:49.870 align:middle line:84%
what the article is
going to be about.

00:04:49.870 --> 00:04:52.810 align:middle line:84%
When you're assigning
articles to yourself--

00:04:52.810 --> 00:04:56.080 align:middle line:84%
and the articles just
keep getting longer.

00:04:56.080 --> 00:04:59.170 align:middle line:84%
It's this weird
thing that people

00:04:59.170 --> 00:05:01.570 align:middle line:84%
used to write things
in typewriters, double

00:05:01.570 --> 00:05:04.230 align:middle line:90%
spaced in Courier 14 point.

00:05:04.230 --> 00:05:07.970 align:middle line:84%
Now we write single spaced
in times New Roman 11 or 12

00:05:07.970 --> 00:05:08.820 align:middle line:90%
or something.

00:05:08.820 --> 00:05:12.110 align:middle line:84%
But people keep thinking
that my article needs

00:05:12.110 --> 00:05:13.880 align:middle line:84%
to be 30 pages long,
and that's actually

00:05:13.880 --> 00:05:15.390 align:middle line:90%
double the length of articles.

00:05:15.390 --> 00:05:17.430 align:middle line:84%
So they're starting
to get too long.

00:05:17.430 --> 00:05:20.610 align:middle line:84%
I do encourage you
to read like this.

00:05:20.610 --> 00:05:24.470 align:middle line:84%
And then only after
you figure out

00:05:24.470 --> 00:05:31.550 align:middle line:84%
what the main conclusions
of the article are--

00:05:31.550 --> 00:05:35.390 align:middle line:84%
this one is pretty obvious
to those of us in this class

00:05:35.390 --> 00:05:39.020 align:middle line:84%
that you can use computational
methods without giving up

00:05:39.020 --> 00:05:40.410 align:middle line:90%
humanistic values.

00:05:40.410 --> 00:05:43.580 align:middle line:84%
Only once we've done
that, we go back.

00:05:43.580 --> 00:05:46.880 align:middle line:84%
Hopefully, you can skip
notes the first time

00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:49.470 align:middle line:84%
you read, because if
they've written well,

00:05:49.470 --> 00:05:52.760 align:middle line:84%
these should be additional
parts or places that you

00:05:52.760 --> 00:05:54.380 align:middle line:90%
can look at later.

00:05:54.380 --> 00:05:55.980 align:middle line:84%
If it's a poorly
written article,

00:05:55.980 --> 00:05:59.540 align:middle line:84%
then you have to read
the notes to get to it.

00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:03.870 align:middle line:84%
And if it's a new subject, go
ahead and look at the references

00:06:03.870 --> 00:06:07.390 align:middle line:90%
and see who appears a lot.

00:06:07.390 --> 00:06:10.960 align:middle line:84%
So you can see, OK, these are
probably important people.

00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:15.040 align:middle line:84%
But OK, this guy Paul von
Hippel, Huron, Huron, Huron,

00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.430 align:middle line:84%
Huron, Huron, Huron,
I should probably,

00:06:17.430 --> 00:06:20.790 align:middle line:84%
if I want to go further,
read something by Huron.

00:06:20.790 --> 00:06:22.150 align:middle line:90%
This is what I'm thinking.

00:06:22.150 --> 00:06:25.815 align:middle line:84%
Yeah, it's just more and
more and more of them.

00:06:25.815 --> 00:06:28.530 align:middle line:84%
And then also, if
there's anybody

00:06:28.530 --> 00:06:31.230 align:middle line:84%
that we recognize
from the class.

00:06:31.230 --> 00:06:34.200 align:middle line:84%
You'll be looking at Eleanor
Selfridge Field's writings

00:06:34.200 --> 00:06:34.950 align:middle line:90%
today.

00:06:34.950 --> 00:06:38.040 align:middle line:90%
She's awesome.

00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:43.050 align:middle line:84%
So with this in mind, these
are some of the strategies

00:06:43.050 --> 00:06:45.640 align:middle line:84%
that I go through
in looking at it.

00:06:45.640 --> 00:06:49.170 align:middle line:84%
And then the other great
strategy is talk to people

00:06:49.170 --> 00:06:55.410 align:middle line:84%
and hopefully, they can give
you their take on the article.

00:06:55.410 --> 00:06:59.330 align:middle line:90%
We can be richer for it.

00:06:59.330 --> 00:07:05.000 align:middle line:90%