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bridge | brij |
noun
1 a structure carrying a road, path, railroad, or canal across a river, ravine, road, railroad, or other obstacle
2 the elevated, enclosed platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations
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5 Music the part of a string instrument over which the strings are stretched
6 Music a bridge passage or middle eight.
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A bridge—a structure spanning an impasse, a place from which to direct operations, a section of the instrument where strings are stretched… “In music, especially Western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section… The bridge is often used to contrast with and prepare for the return of the verse and the chorus” (“Bridge [music],” 2022, para. 1-2, bold in original). We want to take a moment—and a part of our website—to begin this bridge. May we think about the bridge as a break from the chorus, the repetition of sameness or “a simultaneous utterance of something by many people”2 as well as from the verse, “When two or more sections of the song have almost identical music but different lyrics” (“Song Structure,” 2022, para. 8). We are here/hear for the cacophony, but if we are to bridge any discordance and create, perhaps someday, any semblance of harmony, we must do important connection—bridge—work. The bridge is meant to ease the movement of change, connecting two possibly disharmonious elements. Part of our bridge—figuratively and literally—is connecting to the outside within this website tab… to places, spaces, voices/vocalists beyond the call and our field and our conference. Part of an educational bridge is additional learning. May we utilize this space to imagine how a bridge might help us in becoming more harmonious as we create a (re)new(ed) future. If you have any quotes, links, images, and more that you would like us to consider adding to the bridge, please reach us via this Google form. And/or please enjoy the (musical) movements this bridge may create for/in/with you.
References:
Bridge (music). (2022, May 26). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_(music)
Song Structure. (2022, October 13). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_structure#Verse
Notes:
1. Dictionary entries are excerpted from the Apple Dictionary tool which pulls from the New Oxford American Dictionary. Dictionary entries sometimes change or get updated; this definition for “bridge” was pulled on February 27, 2023.
2. Dictionary entries are excerpted from the Apple Dictionary tool which pulls from the New Oxford American Dictionary. Dictionary entries sometimes change or get updated; this definition for “chorus” was pulled on February 27, 2023.
“One never writes alone. As Deleuze and Guattari say, one writing alone is always a crowd. Our words in this book are never without the echoes of the voices of those whose difference we chose to write with. Not to mention the moves, gestures, colors, architectures, and the events of the creative practices we encountered. A veritable cacophony. Or better: an ecology” (Manning & Massumi, 2014, p. viii).
“I imagine a cacophony of ideas swirling as we think about our topics with all we can muster—with words from theorists, participants, conference audiences, friends and lovers, ghosts who haunt our studies, characters in fiction and film and dreams—and with our bodies and all other bodies and the earth and all the things and objects in our lives—the entire assemblage that is a life thinking and, and, and…” (St. Pierre, 2011, p. 622).
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Presented by the CUFA Social Justice Committee
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