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SUMMARY:Performing Confession in Indie Music: William Fitzsimmons and 'The
  Sparrow and the Crow' - Ariana Phillips\, Faculty of Music
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:Confession is a word laden with connotations\, whether of a re
 ligious rite\, a salacious exposé\, or even a crucial tool in the arsenal
  of every hard-bitten TV detective. It is not a word that has been frequen
 tly applied to music but I suggest that people use musical performance as 
 a vehicle for confession and as a means of requesting forgiveness. Within 
 this broad field of musical confession through performance\, I focus on th
 e work of indie singer-songwriter William Fitzsimmons and on his album The
  Sparrow and the Crow (2008). I argue that Fitzsimmons’s performances ca
 n be profitably understood as ritualised performances of confession that s
 uccessfully blur the borders between the public and private worlds or betw
 een the person and the artistic persona. The result is a confession that i
 s directed at an individual and yet enmeshes the listener in the spectacle
  as a witness.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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