...though Spotify may be, you must enjoy your outcast songs alone. Though Spotify promises to make musical community—and social capital—so easily available, these perks are only accessible when you stay...
...the music being discussed had arrived in the public consciousness in the usual way, via record labels. Eventually, though, participants in online music culture started making our own things. Our...
...preferences, inertia, textures, and tendencies. Such was the point of what I tried to unpack elsewhere about salvage and sabotage. The innate, obscure, and tremendously specific hostility of things -...
...of staunch traditionalists or embittered culture warriors. Wallen’s confessional, conversational songwriting is fully conversant with hip-hop, and Combs’ decision to keep the original gendered pronouns intact on his Tracy Chapman...
...the meta-discourse is all about identifying "influences." In this sense, music is culture as worked over, "taken from American Negro jazz and hammered out on the anvil of the South...
...on a different theme: the story of Willis’ changing relationship to the music she loves, and the story of a certain strain of popular American culture. The book follows rock...
...to puffing works of uncertain literary value in reviews.” The same infection can be found in the PRC’s musical culture, where the boundaries between music criticism and press releases are...
...I know you've written on music and worked on film for years, but historically, where does your interest in youth culture come from? JS: I suppose, really, I'm the kind...
...don’t exist in Western music and which Westerners can’t generally recognize. As mp3s, songs are predigested for these programs, which can quantize them to Western grids with the click of...
...of translating black music is fraught, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. As hip-hop culture was making its way mainstream, rappers often built translation into their lyrics and performances...
...your music streaming subscription. That is absolutely, unambiguously the case. Trying to convince you of that would be a complete waste of my time, though. No, not because streaming is...
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
...pop culture sometimes claim it is just a government-pushed PR mirage, but neither is remotely true…only after Korean music was established and significant did the government get interested.” And yet,...
...want to understand the invisible world of machine-machine visual culture, we need to unlearn how to see like humans. We need to learn how to see a parallel universe composed...