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J. Temperance

is an independent music scholar. Always respect the scene. Follow on Twitter @j_temperance

Marginal Utility

Finer Things

By J. TemperanceAugust 25, 2015
The American Psycho of 1980s pop albums
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Notes toward a reconceptualization of Boney M.'s "Daddy Cool"

By J. TemperanceAugust 7, 2015
Is Daddy Cool anti-Oedipus?
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Fun Will Find a Way

By J. TemperanceJuly 16, 2015
Pablo Cruise is the sound of the fun morality
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Got No Shame, Got No Pride

By J. TemperanceJanuary 28, 2013
Rainbow's Down to Earth as queer theoretical intervention. A guest post by J. Temperance
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Kippers for Breakfast

By J. TemperanceNovember 21, 2012
Guest post by J. Temperance: How Supertramp and Baudrillard reached similar conclusions about the land of plenty
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Sade Is Punk as Fuck

By J. TemperanceSeptember 23, 2012
If punk necessarily denotes the identity which is not one, than Sade is its ablest exponent
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The Birth of the Uncool: Yacht Rock and Libidinal Subversion

By J. TemperanceSeptember 4, 2012
After the cultural forms of the 1960s were co-opted in the name of the manufacture of cool, yacht rock was the next dialectical turn
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Future's Coming Much Too Slow

By J. TemperanceAugust 11, 2012
Post-punk is unthinkable without the trailblazing work of 1976 proto-punk band Boston. A guest post by J. Temperance
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