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Sex, Race, and Gender in Bounce Music Culture
Bounce is defined by its “up-tempo, call-and-response, heavy base, ass-shaking music” and by its transgressively liberatory power.
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Hettie Williams
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Black Perspectives
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October 25, 2022
Scratch Cyborgs: The Hip-Hop DJ as Technology
Hip-hop DJ culture provides a rich site for exploring how culture and industry can converge and collaborate, as well as how they need each other to move forward.
by
André Sirois
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The MIT Press Reader
on
September 22, 2022
Bad Bunny and the Political History of Reggaeton
The genre is the product of migration, rebirth, and the struggle to be heard.
by
Catherine Osborn
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Foreign Policy
on
September 2, 2022
Mapping Punk Rock in the Early 1980s
The nationwide spread of a counterculture.
by
Glenn Dowdle
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Northwestern University Knight Lab
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August 15, 2022
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An Evangelical Youth Event Could Offer Clues About the Movement’s Future
TOGETHER ’22 aims to mimic EXPLO ’72 — which provided hints about the rising conservative evangelical tide.
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Benjamin J. Young
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Made By History
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June 24, 2022
Our Flag Was Still There
In his comprehensive study of the national anthem, a historian and musicologist examines our complicated relationship to a famously challenging song.
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Peter Sagal
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New York Times
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June 14, 2022
The National Anthem Was a 19th-Century Meme
Like many patriotic songs of its time, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ was created by fitting a popular tune with topical new lyrics.
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Mark Clague
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The Wall Street Journal
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June 11, 2022
Yoko Ono’s Art of Defiance
Before she met John Lennon, she was a significant figure in avant-garde circles and had created masterpieces. Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist?
by
Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
on
June 8, 2022
The Complicated Story Behind The Kentucky Derby’s Opening Song
Emily Bingham’s new book explores the roots of the Kentucky Derby’s anthem. It may not be pretty, but it’s important to know.
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Rebecca Gayle Howell
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Washington Post
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May 3, 2022
The First Music Streaming Service
In the 1930s, a Seattle entrepreneur created a successful analog streaming platform—and ran it out of a drugstore.
by
Ted Gioia
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The Honest Broker
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April 4, 2022
Emilio Delgado, ‘Luis’ for 44 Years on ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 81
On "Sesame Street," Delgado was able to build a character who challenged stereotypes. Luis was a business owner, a neighbor, and later a husband and father.
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Kathryn Ostrofsky
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Current (public media)
on
March 14, 2022
Elevator Sounds
What are elevator passengers listening to?
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Alexandra Hui
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Perspectives on History
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March 3, 2022
Reconsidering Scott Joplin's 'The Entertainer'
The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music.
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Lara Downes
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NPR
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February 7, 2022
‘Dvorák’s Prophecy’ Review: America’s Silent Tradition
The Czech composer came to New York with the conviction that African-American melodies would be the ‘seedbed’ for their nation’s 20th-century music.
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John Check
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The Wall Street Journal
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January 28, 2022
“Do You Hear What I Hear” Was Actually About the Cuban Missile Crisis
The holiday favorite is an allegorical prayer for peace.
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Reba A. Wissner
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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December 22, 2021
Ambushing Geronimo
An introduction to salvage anthropology.
by
Samuel J. Redman
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 27, 2021
‘It Didn’t Adhere to Any of the Rules’: The Fascinating History of Free Jazz
In the documentary "Fire Music," the hostile reaction that met the unusual genre soon turns into deep appreciation and a lasting influence.
by
Jim Farber
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The Guardian
on
September 7, 2021
In the Dead Archives
The comment section of a Grateful Dead concert archive offers a sometimes-dark glimpse into a dedicated fan community.
by
Max Abelson
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n+1
on
August 20, 2021
Freedom for Sale
In the 1950s and 1960s, a new generation of American artists began to think of advertising and commercial imagery as the new avant-garde.
by
Fintan O’Toole
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New York Review of Books
on
July 1, 2021
Songs of the Bad War
Some of the earliest and most powerful anti-war songs of the Sixties era don’t mention Vietnam, but rather World War I.
by
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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National Review
on
June 11, 2021
Minor Listening, Major Influence: Revisiting Songs of the Humpback
Recorded accidentally by the Navy during the Cold War, "Songs of the Humpback Whale" became a hit album that changed perceptions about the natural world.
by
Alaina Claire Feldman
via
E-Flux
on
May 1, 2021
Lincoln’s Rowdy America
A new biography details the cultural jumble of literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the making of the foremost self-made American.
by
David S. Reynolds
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Sean Wilentz
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 29, 2021
How Americans Re-Learned to Think After World War II
In ‘The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,’ Louis Menand explores the poetry, music, painting, dance and film that emerged during the Cold War.
by
Carlos Lozada
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Washington Post
on
April 16, 2021
Islands in the Stream
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
by
David Dayen
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The American Prospect
on
March 22, 2021
'It Shook Me to My Core': 50 Years of Carole King's Tapestry
James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece.
by
Dave Simpson
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Laura Snapes
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The Guardian
on
February 12, 2021
Citizen DJ 2020 Retrospective
The long history of sampling in music, and a new tool that lets artists sample without fear of copyright claims.
by
Brian Foo
via
Citizen DJ
on
December 31, 2020
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The Forgotten Civil War History of Two of Our Favorite Christmas Carols
Over time, the historic roots of some holiday music have been forgotten.
by
Christian McWhirter
via
Made By History
on
December 23, 2020
How Young America Came to Love Beethoven
On the 250th anniversary of the famous composer’s birth, the story of how his music first took hold across the Atlantic.
by
Nora McGreevy
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Smithsonian
on
December 16, 2020
Ukulele Ike, a.k.a. Cliff Edwards, Sings Again
Ukulele Ike, otherwise known as Cliff Edwards, was a major American pop star and an important early force in jazz. It’s time to give him another hearing.
by
Donald Fagen
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Jazztimes
on
December 7, 2020
How Weird Was Frank Zappa?
Alex Winter’s new documentary about the musician fails to capture his deeply conventional streak.
by
John Semley
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The New Republic
on
November 26, 2020
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