Spotivangelism
...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...
Streaming Services
...on the internet. We started posting zip files full of our music and artwork to Tumblr, for free. There was a very well-developed culture around music on the internet back...
RENT STRIKE 2020
A RESOURCE LIST
American Sajaegi
...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...
What Even is African Literature Anyway
...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...
Heroine: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
...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...
Power Pop
...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...
Just Play
Ruminations on the themes of McCoy Tyner’s life on the occasion of his passing
Teenage Dream
...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...
The Noonday Shadow
...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 -...
Footnote Records
...music for mainstream audiences, and more than a half-century later, the practice remains. Today, rap culture is pop culture, but there still exists a strong desire to “decode” rap music’s...
Country Crushes
...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,...
Radical Strain
...of magazine and encyclopedia in music culture, hold women to rigorous standards of music-making. At the time of writing, nearly 84 percent of Pitchfork's Best New Album designations have been...
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
...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...
Loving the Alien
...Bruits in 2001, which has not been translated into English.) In Noise, Attali tried to account for the hypercommodification of music and our resulting alienation from musical creativity and pleasure....
The Summer of Love and the Holy Fair
...pop songs can save souls came from. The revivalists established a playbook for winning over large crowds that still sees regular use. The distinctive culture of camp meetings produced new...