Grammarians and Rhetoricians

McNelis, Charles

doi:10.1002/9780470996485.ch21

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“…From grammar to rhetoric; ocular to acoustic McNelis (2007) clarifies the distinctions between grammar and rhetoric as a function of education. A child aged around 7 or 8 would learn letters qualifying them to study grammar, which would begin by students learning to read aloud accurately, with prose and poetry providing the resources for examining language constructs.…”

Section: Towards Polyphonymentioning

confidence: 99%

Josh Hawley meets Igor Stravinsky: A leadership symphony

Bathurst

2023

Leadership

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In this essay I explore two leaders: the composer Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) and United States of America Senator Joshua Hawley (b. 1979). These two offer an opportunity to re-describe leadership as an acoustic art thereby enriching the field beyond its current ocular orientation. Through this discussion, then, I invite readers into the world of music. The year 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death, and in that same year, Hawley came to international fame through the 6 January invasion of the United States Capitol building by people protesting the confirmation of Joe Biden as the 46th President. I offer a polyphonic analysis of Hawley and Stravinsky by operationalizing the music construct of tonal pairing which allows two tonalities to play together. I conclude the essay by noting the ubiquity of Manicheanism, a belief system that affords leaders an ability to characterize opponents as being evil. I mitigate this deleterious system by proposing that symphonic leadership calls for diversity and difference. Leadership as an acoustic art has implications for understanding the current war in Ukraine and China’s role on the international stage, including her relationship with the United States of America.

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Section: Towards Polyphonymentioning

confidence: 99%