RE: OFF TOPIC - nuclear music -Reply

[Mark Hammond <mhammond@mail.doh.state.ar.us>]

Did anyone other than me see the "dead horse" that we're beating?

Mark C. Hammond
Health Physicist
Arkansas Department of Health
Division of Radiation Control
and Emergency Management
4815 West Markham, Slot #30
Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
(800) 482-5400 ext. 2865


-----Original Message-----
From:	Dr Aadu Pilt [SMTP:pilta@gov.on.ca]
Sent:	Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:31 AM
To:	Multiple recipients of list
Subject:	Re: OFF TOPIC - nuclear music -Reply

At 08:58 AM 7/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>M. Woo wrote:
>Take it to private e-mail please.  I believe we've seen more
>than enough
>messages on this thread.
>Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
>

Joyce Davis wrote:


>Melissa, I'm going to have to differ with you.  I think this
>thread is absolutely on topic.  It shows the impact of
>radiological issues on society.  It gives us insight into the
>history of  the nuclear issues as well as of pop (and other)
>music.  It provides us with possible ways of reaching the
>public and understanding what shapes their values.
>
<snipped>

Hear, hear, Joyce. I think we've all had a great deal of both fun and
intellectual stimulation from this. My few references to nuclear music,
BTW, are all from what is known as the "contemporary classical" or "new
music" repertory. The whole issue of how nuclear things affects society as
a whole is clearly extremely important to all of us -- why do you think
it's so difficulat to convince people that (eg) eating irradiated
vegetables is NOT going to make them "glow in the dark".

There is an excellent book entitled "Nuclear Fear" by a historian of
science (Weat, I think) that goes into this in a most profound manner.
Highly recommended!!

A careful study of the music, lyrics and (in the case of "serious" music,
the program notes) of compositions with a "nuclear" theme could well form a
valuable addition to this work. I will be passing this thread on to a
musicologist who may want to explore it further (or at least have a grad
student look into it).

This has been a tremendous thread! Thank you all. The information we have
gathered should  most certainly be posted on the Web with full
bio-bibliographical details and relevant hyperlinks. It should not be
forgotten. Any takers???

Dr Aadu Pilt
Emergency Measures Ontario

pilta@gov.on.ca