Violent X
...Festival for the backing without which this film and especially these live performances would not have been possible.) Violent X Written, directed, and narrated by Evan Calder Williams Music by...
Native Regard
...is society where none intrudes, / by the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not Man the less, but Nature more. --Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage...
Midwest
...seek to evoke the special quality of a place, and explore the links between weather, landscape, culture, and affect. + SS: Recently, I was reading Space and Place by the...
Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control
...they are free members of society; and they are — attention to food and drink, exercise, education, music and morals, combined with steady industry. Holidays and free alcohol might well...
A Saudi Arabia Reader
...the Arabs, 13 November 1961† †Quoted in Robert Vitalis, America's Kingdom, p. 127. In 2013 I designed and taught a course on the history, literature, and visual culture of contemporary...
Arms and the Man
...culture to the present order of knowledge. And a particularly insidious manifestation of this present order of knowledge is the liberalism that overwhelmingly dominates popular discourse around the execution of...
Day Residue
...ultra of the utopian society gone horribly wrong; as she searches for “resistance” in the music of the People’s Temple, the looming dread of what would come seeps out of...
Five Questions with Elaine Equi
...more sympathetic to the problems writers face and better able to evaluate a literary work. Music has always seemed infinitely more difficult to me, but that’s probably because no one...
Après Nous, le Déluge
...The sequence goes on and on, using vertical pans to give the sense of terrible accumulation, of a pile climbing higher and higher. Finally we reach the end—the music slows...
Martin Scorsese Started the Fire: Hugo and The Bad Thing
...movie gone from the paradigmatic orphan plot to a Behind the Music documentary? How have we been tricked into thinking the real tragedy of the Bad Thing was that it...
Lamin Fofana tribute to Chinua Achebe
...Achebe with some natural sounds and music added. Binyavanga is also a hero. He played at the release party for my last EP." – Lamin Fofana Download as .Zip More...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...and visual culture." Eager to see where Mr. Cole takes us—and eager to find new ways that visual studies interact with beauty. 'Cause I'm a blonde: It's neither wise nor...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Seven
...the chi chi ding dong sound of the berimbau worms its way into my insides and dissipates the pain like an aural analgesic. Music and dance: free Tylenol. ...
What Is an Artist?
...Andy Warhol Atomic Bomb, 1965 (via) A Glossary Classical musicians: Uptight, ambitious squares. Doctors. New Music musicians: Having implicitly resigned from the institutional rat race, they are the...
Vol. 21 Editors' Note: Witches
...take cues from self-help classic The Secret in order to satisfy government-backed dreams of social mobility. Nic Cavell writes of Witch House, the circa-2010 music genre that “made a subject...
Wifey Status
...stardom. In an interview with Vogue U.K. she explains, “I wanted a name I could shape the music toward. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time,...