Palestine is Free (If You Want It)
The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.
Dragged Down by the Stone
...how drugs, celebrity, and the music business conspired to make Pink Floyd's original leader, Syd Barrett, into a nonmusical, nonfunctioning mentally ill recluse, Animals would broaden its contempt to include...
Consultancy Rock
...songs — that tracks from, say, Rush’s 1993 grunge disc Counterparts are somehow over the heads of ordinary music fans rather than simply being inaccessibly boring. But maybe the Rush...
Silence Is a Woman
...the many other ethnic communities in the Kenyan story as told by Gikuyu men. Here, I also want to insist on the strong tradition within Gikuyu women's culture of resisting...
Powers of the Bottom
...Lately I keep returning to Debordian idioms of the spectacle, “whose function it is to bury history in culture,” making me cautious about working right now unless it arises naturally...
An American Education:
Notes from UATX
Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin, the campus of the "anti woke" commentariat. Student names have been anonymized.
And It Felt Like A Kiss: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Specter
...as an opportunity for the viewer to be struck by Spector’s very real musical achievement. Jayanti lets many of the songs play with little interruption, some in their entire original...
Ghosts
To tell the stories of a blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia provoked by the Disney Channel is to draw energy from a ghosting of severed connections, an otherwise movement of unnamed but present intimacies
Long Live Said
...of street artists and hip-hop musicians to vibrant virtual communities that live in a constant exchange of words, images, songs, political opinions, and passionate debate. Of course, the forms that...
A Heaven of Hell
...the 1970s punk scenes, that afternoon. Actually listening to the music came next, as a sort of footnote. I got to the punk scene through its philosophies, the big worded...
All The Wild Animals
...Ealing, from which his lover may or may not alight. Has she made her decision? But there she is. When the pair are reunited the music swells and the returning...
Open Wide
...classes mingle … to produce a common of perpetually changing and transitory life," from the irrepressible energy of Manhattan to the café culture of Rome to Barcelona's distinctive architecture to...
Dreaming of NAFTA
...music and its slightly slower (but otherwise almost identical) sibling, conjunto. Conjunto became associated with Tejano culture, adding in soupçons of rock and roll and R&B as the century progressed....
"To 'blow one's mind' means to become more aware."
...make skiing a "part of real culture." It's certainly the kind of book that makes you think about which side you are on, and in that sense, it may have...
Doing it Wrong
...groups as such seems to have a political reasoning, as you suggest, and I’m not sure my relationship with sexuality is political. True, culture in general sets aside the asexual...
Rape Culture: The War At Home
...that the Kenya police “have contributed to the development of a culture of tolerance for pervasive sexual violence against girl children and impunity.” In Kenya, men dominate social, political and...