Thursday's virtual lecture for Philosophy and Digital Media may be found here
This video is also available at the Video On Demand - Fordham University
Libraries Digital Collections.
See link below, but the spooling before the video loads can seem very long depending on your connection: http://digital.library.fordham.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/BabBabich/id/6/rec/15
Intriguingly, the topic of this lecture (which all about ‘covering’ Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah as well as apparent ubiquity of such covers as well as the conventions that accrue to these covers as the song is used in popular media, television, movies, but also award ‘shows,’ the ‘effect’ I call The Hallelujah Effect), was also the subject of an article in the Monday edition of the New York Times, “How
Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’” by Nick Murray.
Or for a link for those who like html:
Despite some some surprising omissions (the author does not manage to mention kd lang), the article -- about the choice of music for Sunday night’s Emmy Awards and which includes a useful selection, which as I point out along with Bryan Appleyard who years ago made a similarly journalistic point, barely grazes the surface of such covers -- the question remains a timely one.
It might thus be worth reflecting that my lecture itself also turns on performance music video, k.d. lang’s performance of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah which was originally presented at a Canadian Pop Music award show or concert event, the 2005 Juno Awards.
The text on which the video lecture is based is also published online, including illustrations not in this case of images but embedded music videos, ergo just as ‘digitally’ as you please (the digital archaeology is part of this):
Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine presents…
The lecture became a book, The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice and Technology, first published in Ashgate’s Folk and Pop Musicology series in 2013 and now available via Routledge, available at a discount at the Routledge page (see previous link) and also available at The Juilliard School book store.
