SEX AND TEXT

SEX AND TEXT

(SEX, GENDER, SUPER-MASCULINITY AND CARE OF SELF)

# Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay *^ দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ^

Abstract

Feminism, is working and the male space is almost deleted within the Bengali imagined academic community. Since 19th C., super-males are spending calories forwoman emancipation. What is the psychological status of such super-males? The semantics of some condemned public-sphere-words (antonyms of super-males/mahapurusa) that trigger against testis-poisoning are discussed to understand the misandrous Bengali-mindset, the worshipers of the goddesses at the crossroads.

The experiences of Life Style Education, IPC 377, rationalized violence, (hi)story of grannies and other issues related to sexuality (act, pleasure, desire) and gender are discussed with a goal to care of corporeal.

NEOLOGISM: সমশৃঙ্গার

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·         2015. একটি হাংরি অ-মানবী-(-ক-)বিতার ব্যর্থ পাঠপ্রয়াস ( An Incessant Struggle for Reading a Hungry Poem) Aynanagar , Editors: Nandini Dhar, Madhushri Basu (pp. 43-49)    Download (.pdf)

·         2015. একাধিক প্রস্তাব (-না): সমশৃঙ্গার  2015. prantasvar: (alternate) sexuality and beyond. (pp.27-33)  Download (.pdf)

·         2013 “Wounds of Love (তোমার প্রেমে আঘাত আছে )”. Pranab K Chakraborty ed. Interaction. IX. (pp. 28-33) ISSN 2277-4335  Download (.pdf)

·         2011"কেন এই হিংস্রতার উদ্ভাস?" [Why Violence?]চট্টোপাধ্যায়, সুমন সম্পা.একদিন।Ekdin Bangla Daily. ২০/০১/২০১১ (Editorial Pg. 4) 4:222, Kolkata. RNI: WBBEN/2006/ 17404 

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·         2011. ““রাজনীতির ভাষা, ভাষার রাজনীতি: পুরুষালিতন্ত্র”” চট্টোপাধ্যায়, সুমনসম্পা.একদিন।1/06/2011 & 2/6/2011 (Editorial Pg. 4) 4:351 & 352. Kolkata. RNI: WBBEN/2006/ 17404.  Download (.pdf)

·         “হরিদাসী ও অনেকে”. [Horidasi and other Grannies] Dutta, Swapna ed. Thakuma-didimara. Kolkata: Unajon. (pp.140-65)  Download (.pdf)

·         2009. “কামনা, শৃঙ্গার, নচিকেত-অভিযাত্রা--কৈশোরেই (Adolescence and Sexuality)”. Koisor:Understanding Ephebe. Ed. Basu, Pathik. Kolkata: Shrayan. (pp. 102-37)  Download (.pdf)

·         2008. “Review of the Book: Lesbian Discourses Images of a Community.” Koller, Veronika Routledge Studies in Linguistics  Routledge (Taylor and Francis) 2008 LINGUIST List 19.3230. Eastern Michigan University.  Download (.pdf)

·         2007. “অধিকার আমার ??? (My Right???)” স্বকন্ঠে swakanthe. Kolkata: Sappho. (p.7)  Download (.pdf)

·         2005 “ডরাইছিলা হ? আরে পুরুষ [Are You Scared, Oh Man?]”2005. Das, Anirban ed. Alochanachakro, XXII (pp. 41-54) RN. 69543/87.  Download (.pdf)

·         2003. “আরবি নিশার শৃঙ্গার: সাহেবরা যা যা শেখেন (Whatever May Be Learnt by the Sahibs from the Arabian Nights)”. Samanta, Subal ed.Ebang Mushayera. IX:4. (pp.344-51) R.N. 53193/94.  Download (.pdf)

·         2003. “স্বপনচারিনী: চিনিতে পারিনি? [Dream-Lady: Can't I Re-Cognize? (Begum Rokeya's Sultana's Dream)]” Janapadprayas..VII: 3. (pp.42-50) January. Chucura. Revised version of the paper :2001. Janapadprayas. Vol .11:2-3. (pp. 20-32) May-August. Chucura.  Download (.pdf)

·         1998“ফুকোর শৃঙ্গারতত্ত্ব (Foucault’s 'History of Sexuality)”. Sur, Chiranjib ed. Alochana Chakra.  Collection-XI. ( pp.33-56 ). Kolkata. RN. 69543/87  Download (.pdf)

MUSICKING AND SPEAKING: DIFFERaNCE (SEGMENTING THE SUPRASEGMENTALS)

MUSICKING AND SPEAKING: DIFFERaNCE (SEGMENTING THE SUPRASEGMENTALS)

# Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay *

^ দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ^

The hypothesis: The supra-segments cannot be cut off.

Sed contra: Yes, it can be cut off by using musical notation.

Existing literature on gauging intonational contours in Linguistics, mainly depends on the three parameters (High, Mid, Low) to be determined by the trained ears of the professional Phoneticians. Though there are software and machines for analyzing sound waves, those software do not provide us with a generalized picture of intonational contours with varied and specific reference points with calculated intervals. Parameters like “High, Mid, Low” (as they are used in linguistics) as reference points for intonational contours do not tell us anything as none exactly knows the proportionate distances or intervals among such naïve parameters. Therefore, I thought to take cue from music, where there is a rich system of archewriting or making notation of musical pieces.

This paper deals with the differAnce (a la Derrida) between so-called normal speech and music. The author, for the time being, is deferring the difference between speech and music. Though the melody of music is “heavy” and the melody of speaking is “light”, still both of them follows the same algorithm — the algorithm of do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti and do 2, i.e., the ad hoc hypothesis is that, any normal speech falls within the octave that has a definite range. If the lower DO 1 is x, upper Sa DO 2 is 2x and this x to 2x octave range is considered as y, the intermediate noticeable frequency-points, as per Indian musical system, are 22. Therefore, our point of concentration is Y/22. In a scale y that has a range of x to 2x (i.e., any points on y, say y_p, satisfies the relation x y_p 2x). And the interval between two notes follows logarithmic pattern as the gap between two notes (say y_p and y_q ) is 2 multiplied by root 22 (please note the human love for binary-figure in the formulated representation). Thus, this hypothesis leads to an activity — i.e., making notation of “normal” speech to understand the intonation pattern of speaking vis a vismusicking.The ad hoc hypothesis is that any normal human speech falls within the octave that has a definite range.  The speaking range must fall within the Sa (Do1) and upper Sa (Do2). If the lower Sa (DO) is x, upper Sa (DO2) must be 2x and this x to 2x octave range is considered as y, the intermediate notable frequency-points are 22. It is proposed here to follow the conventional pattern of musical notes as reference-points for gauging human intonational pattern. The other variables considered here are: metrics, speed, rhythm, moods/speech acts and context or pre-text.

From the perspective of cognitive psychology or Cartesian bio-lingustics, the formal algorithm of proportionate distances among different notes or the musicking algorithm, N_pm = n.2^m (¹²Ö2)^p,  is a matter   of cognitive ability or  a genetic endowment—a competence for performing speech act. However, depending on the outside-sociality, it is either erased or proliferated, either repressed or rejected (in a form of foreclosure) or formalized (as in school or army). Therefore, a person or a society may or may not be harmony-impaired –it depends on the structure of the society that en-/discourages musicking. The crippling of creativity hypothesis is proposed in connection with empty linguistic organism and human malleability. (cf.  CHOMSKIAN LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY, CRIPPLED CREATIVITY AND PSI-PROPERTIES)

Application:

Computer Science: Text to Speech Software development; Simulation of intonated speech;

Speech Pathology: Rehabilitation of hearing impaired persons through tactile sensation—tangible intelligibility of speech.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• 2006. “TECHNOLOGY WITHOUT MACHINE: GAUGING NORMAL INTONATION BY DEPLOYING THE CONVENTIONAL MUSICAL ALGORITHMS: A PROPOSAL” © Reg. No. L-26150/2006  Download (.pdf)

·         2006. “কথায় সুরে, সুরে কথায় Musicking in Speaking or Speaking in Musicking”. Prasanta Chattopadhyay ed. Kalodhvani. XIII: 2. (pp. 52-57)  Download (.pdf)

·         2007. “Kirtana: Speaking in Musicking”. Journal of Indian Music, Movement for understanding Sangeet- The Indian Concept.  Kolkata. ( pp. 32-54)

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·         2007. “Wor(l)d Spaces: The Definition of ‘Word’" Encyclopedia of Science of Language.  Milan, Italy: Polimetrica Onlus. (p. 127)

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See also: Musicology: http://www.scribd.com/collections/3469366/Musicology

Colophon: De Penning & De Penning, Raj Kumar Roychoudhuri

Digiart: Akhar Bandyopadhyay

FOLK AND NON-FOLK: QUESTIONING THE DICHOTOMY

FOLK AND NON-FOLK: QUESTIONING THE DICHOTOMY 

# Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay *

^ দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ^

Abstract

What a dichotomy: Folk and non-folk! Loukika fact has become aloukika fiction and vise versa. The folk and tribe are colonially (either internal or external) created categories that surrogate history and physiology and metanarratives born. Reporting of academic tribes helps governmentality. Docile bodies are penetrated with anatomo-bio-political tools of disciplinary technology. The differance between folk-art/songs/plays and classical -art/songs/plays has become blurred if the nature of sponsorship is considered. Thus political economy of such dividing practices (folk and non-folk, tribe and non-tribe) was also investigated.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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·         2012. লোক-অ-লোকের ধন্দে: লোকসংস্কৃতি —উপনিবেশের পাঠক্রম (Folklore: A colonial Discipline)  Kolkata: Deep Prakasahan. ISBN 978-93-82040-51-4.

·         2011. "শিল্প- সুন্দরের রসোপভোগ  নাকি বর্গবিভাজন?—একটি সংকলন" চক্রবর্তী, বরুণ কুমার সম্পা. লোকজ শিল্প. কলকাতা: পারুল. (৪৫৭-৬৮পাতা). ISBN 978-93-81140-57-4. Reprinted with additions from: 2004”sundOr-OsundOrer collage” [Collage on Fair and Ugly Sites] SOHoj jiboner path. Kolkata: Shrayan. (pp.365-78) 2nd ed. 2009. pp. (277-89)

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·         2010. “প্রলয়-এর মুখে শুনি একার বাণী ?"[ Whose Voice Am I Hearing At This Disastrous Moment?“] Barun Kumar Chakroborty ed. “ প্রবাদপ্রসঙ্গ. কলকাতা: অক্ষরপ্রকাশনী. ISBN 978-81-910300-2-  Download (.pdf)

·         2009. “Entries in Dictionary of Folklore and Anthropology.”  Eds. Chakraborty, Barun & Sumahan Bandyopadhyay. Kolkata: Aparna Book Distributors.

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ü   “Axiom.” (p.47)

ü  “Celestial Myth”. (p. 61)

ü  “Ceremony”. (pp. 62-3)

ü  “Comparative Folklore.” (p. 83-4).

ü  “Deconstruction.” (pp. 118-19).

ü  “Demythologization.” (pp. 122-23).

ü  “Differance ” (pp. 130-31).

ü  “Discourse” (pp. 133-34).

ü  “Discourse Analysis ” (p. 134).

ü  “Epic Simile. ” (p. 153)

ü  “Fairy Tale.” (pp. 171-72)

ü  “Habitus” (p. 230)

ü  “Hermeneutics.” (p. 233)

ü  “Hyper-Reality.” (pp. 244-45)

ü  “Origin Myth.” (pp. 340)

ü  “Paradigm.” (pp. 344-45)

ü  “Praxis.” (p. 376)

ü  “Reader.” (p. 392-3)

ü  “Reflexivity.” (p. 395-96)

ü  “Self-reflexivity.” (p. 416-17)

ü  “Symbolism.” (p. 439)

·         2008. ধর্ম ও জনসংস্কৃতি প্রসঙ্গে [On Religion and Popular Culture]. Avishek Ray ed.Dhormo o jonosonSkriti prosonge.(pp. 111-128) Kolkata: Barta Prakasani.

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·         2008. “সংস্কৃতি বিদ্যাচর্চা :সংকট ও মোচন” [Culture Studies: Crisis and Solutions]”Sumahan Bandyopadhyay ed. Loukik. II:1 (pp.99-107). Kolkata.  Download (.pdf)

·         2008. “ধাঁধার অছিলায় ভাষাতত্ত্বের তৃতীয় বিপ্লব” [Puzzle, Riddle and Third Revolution in Linguistics].  dhaMdha : Sorup SOndhan. Ed. Chakroborty, Barun. Aksar prakasani: Kolkata. (pp. 291-300)  Download (.pdf)

·         2007. “Kirtana: Speaking in Musicking”. Journal of Indian Music, Movement for understanding Sangeet- The Indian Concept.  Kolkata. ( pp. 32-54)

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·         2005. “Blurring the Divide: Folk art and Classical Art”. Departmental Journal of Folklore (lokodarpan), Kalyani University. (pp. 181-93)  Download (.pdf)

·         2004. ““স্ব-/স- আখর-এর ইস্তেহার” [The Manifesto of Sign-atured Literate: Hans Christian Andersen] Samanta, Subal ed. Ebang Mushayera. Jul-Sept’04. XI: 2-3. (pp.138-41).R.N. 53193/9.  Download (.pdf)

·         2004. “শিল্পকলার ভেদ-অভেদ: প্রণবরঞ্জন রায়ের সঙ্গে সাক্ষাৎকার” (an Interview on “Indian Art History and Dividing Practices” with Pranab Ranjan Roy). Ababhas. IV:3 (pp.1-18)

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·         2003. “লোকভাষা [Folk Language]”baNalir bhaSacinta: SomajbhaSa. Ed. Sandip Bandyopadhyay. Kolkata: Progressive Publishers. (pp.33-35) ISBN: 81-8064-058-2.  Download (.pdf)

·         2003. “Other ব্যাপারি: মহাশ্বেতা ভায়া গায়ত্রী [Others’ Business or Business of Others : Mahasweta Via Gayatri]”. Sil, B. ed. KuRal uTThaw. [A collection of Bangla Articles on Mahasweta Devi] ChuchRa, W.B: Janapadprayas. (pp. 18-27) Reprinted from: 2003. Janapadprayas. (pp. 18-27)  Download (.pdf)

·         2001. “Folklore: Searching for Logistics.”  Singh, U.N. ed. Culturation. Jawharlal Handoo Felicitation Volume. Mysore: CIIL. ISBN 81-7342-094-7. (pp.26-34)

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·         “Final  Sound and Initial Sound: A Note on Playing Antyaksari.” Reddy, K.N. and Fatehi, A.R. ed. Studies in Phonetics and Phonology. Aligarh :  Ess Ess Publication. (pp.110-13).    Download (.pdf)

·         2000. “Folksong-Classical Songs: The Discursive Formation of Dividing Practice”. Pondicherry  Institute of Language and Culture Journal of Dravidian Studies. (pp. 63-70).Pondicherry. ISSN 0971-0957  Download (.pdf)

·         “Vedic Songs: Technology without Machine”. Reddy, K.N. ed. Speech Technology: Issues and Implications in Indian Languages. Thiruvantapuram: Dravidian Linguistics Association, International School of Dravidian Linguistics (pp.257-265) ISBN 81-85692-29-7  Download (.pdf)

·         1999. “প্রান্ত থেকে বলা Voices from Margins.” Dasgupta, Arun, Goutam Bhadra, Alak Ghosh ed. Aitihasik. VIII 1-2 (pp.31-62), Kolkata.  Download (.pdf).” Reprinted in ChuramaniHati, ed., LokosNskritirDigdiganta, Kolkata: Granthabikas, (pp.108-35)

·         “The Myth of Regionalism” Chakraborty, Dasgupta, Subha ed. Regionality and Comparative Literature. (pp. 77-83). DSA, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.  Download (.pdf)

·         1995. Folklore and Folklanguage: Myth or Reality? West Bengal: Department of Folklore, Kalyani University.    Download (.pdf)

·         1995. Entries in Bangiya Lokosamskritikos. Chakroborty, Barun ed. Kolkata: Aparna.  ISBN 81-86036-13-X  Download (.pdf)

ü   “William Cerry.” (pp.41-3)

ü  “G. A. Grierson.” (pg.109)

ü  “Sub-altern.” (pp.205-6)

ü  Folklanguage.” (pp.392-93)

ü  “Lokayata.” (pp.412-13)