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These remarkable audio clips appear here courtesy of Professor Clarke Mackey, Department of Film Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

They were featured on his 1998 web site, Memory Palace: Vernacular Culture in the Digital Age, "an audio-visual documentary web site committed to questioning conventional assumptions about art and culture." They originally appeared on his web site in a now-dated Real Player format, and appear here in MP3 format for MayDay Group use. Please contact Professor Mackey at mackeyc@post.queensu.ca for more information. More files to follow!

Ivan Illich 1:
On the cultural construction of the "law" of supply & demand.

Ivan Illich 2:
On language as a medium for the creation of an administrative state and its subjects

R Murray Schafer 1:
On music's separation from environment: its placement 'behind walls.'

R Murray Schafer 2:
On music as communal, ritualized action: as "10-fingered grasp" rather than abstr/action.

Christopher Small 1:
On music as ritualistic affirmation of particular social relationships: "classical" music as the experience of "vicarious triumph."

Christopher Small 2:
"The most fruitful way to think about music is as an act."

Christopher Small 3:
On the history of jazz as quest for greater intimacy, directness, decentralized community.

Raymond Williams 1:
On compulsory education's trivialization and exclusion of "the local".

Raymond Williams 2:
On the supposed "democratizing" functions of technological advances.

Raymond Williams 3:
On the split between political and economic imperatives, and democracy as direct access to decision making.

Raymond Williams 4:
On creating incompetence through schooling: "If you can't do it well enough, you might as well forget it."

Raymond Williams 5:
To be cultivated means learning to shut up.

Raymond Williams 6:
On the linkage between the notions of the fixed work and the notion of "property": The paradoxical result the "work" concept is that it cuts the process off from those on whom its success depends.