The Sound and the Fury
...disenfranchised, Manley had sought out the help of musicians in his campaign, like singer-producer Clancy Eccles, who recorded several songs in support of Manley including the crucial “Rod of Correction.”...
Kill Rock Stars
Jeff Jackson’s new novel is one we’ve all heard before
Mass authentic
...mere consumer culture, something above the reductiveness of profit margins, the crassness of capital exchange. I agree that we should “discard as false the simple opposition between the authentic and...
Haunted House
...and at freeway off-ramps in Toyota Corollas. Like slave songs for a world where everyone thinks slavery is abolished but the people don’t know they’re slaves.” But pop music, with...
The Color and the Sound
...music fandom in his work. “It was still very much the Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs era for me. I told a roommate that I wanted to make stickers that...
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 -...
Don't Stop Beliebing
...Reappropriate the reappropriated! Another nice culture jam or whatever would be a remix or mashup of all these songs without the lines where they talk about dancing – what’s left...
The Privileged White Men of Treme, and Their Hard Working Others
...Octopus: Due to its relentless focus on the drug war, viewers might easily come to the conclusion that urban Baltimore contains no music scene, no culture, and no communal organizations...
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...inequality is political inequality. Notes 1) For a (very) succinct explanation of this conflict, see Beeman, William O. 2011. “Production, Hearing and Listening: Intentional Participation in Musical Culture in the...
Rank and File Countrypolitan
...another nomination from the organization. The culture industry interpreted the envelope burning as a cry of “take this job and shove it.” Rich’s onstage protest was the equivalent of individual...
The Sonic Episteme
To use sound as a tool for theorizing and realizing a more just world, we can’t merely reform Western modernity; we must do something else entirely
Everything Is a Target
...the war, with devastating consequences. But then after Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the American evaluation teams went over to the bombed cities in Japan and their first question was, “What...
Everything is a Target—Full Text of Interview with Peter Galison
...killed at Hiroshima but the amount of radiation on the ground is much higher. Robb Moss and I have been filming in Japan, particularly the cities Futaba and Nanae and...
African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi
.... These days I can’t watch a music video online without you trolling in the comments dressed to kill in your new age binary clothes. The (n)epithet (as Christina Sharpe...
Concept Album
...a Ladies Man, is about music and failure, about utopias posited and dissipated. But its point is not to argue that music makes nothing happen or that it is everywhere...
The Question of Pain
...arms to the point of acute bleeding. In Last Days Here, Liebling is killing himself along with his pain, but the result is not one-dimensional music. Even cracked out on...