“Stupid, stupid signs”: Incomprehensibility, Memory, and the Meaning (Maybe) of R.E.M.'s “Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite”

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By this author: Mercer-Taylor, Peter

Author: Mercer-Taylor, Peter

Source: The Musical Quarterly, Volume 88, Number 3, 2005 , pp. 456-486(31)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdi016

Publication date: 2005-01-01

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The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many important composers and musicologists, including Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, Marc Blitzstein, Henry Cowell, and Camille Saint-Saens. The journal focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where much of the challenging new work in the study of music is being produced.