February 15th, 2008
linkthink #18t3965: Ninjabread Man Edition
Just to make things a little extra personalized in the age of linkthink, ‘low me to add, Sasha-style, a (generally) random photo for your imaginative conneckees –
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vintage mid-80s dr.dre mixtape :: i could listen to these for days
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inteview with ghislain poirier :: pull quote — “Doing experimental music is kind of easy. Doing something more joyful is harder.”
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BARACK OBAMA MADE YOU A MIXTAPE
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“A puke ray? An honest-to-God puke ray? Right here in Jerusalem?” Where else?
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ragga from mauritius — the first remarkably salsified; the second much more audibly engaged with dancehall, incl samples from the “bam bam” riddim and vocal refs to “don dada,” etc.
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‘A science fiction writer coined the useful term “cyberspace” in 1982. But the territory in question, the electronic frontier, is about a hundred and thirty years old.’
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timothy burke on reading asynchronous coversations (comment threads, message boards, etc.)
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whattaya know? JZ has been, quietly and sporadically, keeping a blog; so far, mostly about facebook, other code, open vs. closed systems, etc.; no doubt, soon a lot more on net “generativity”
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larry lessig for congress?
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follow-up post on “hitchhiker’s guide to new world music,” including a funny, funky song called “ghettotech” — anyone help w/ a translation? can’t quite grok the meaning of this. assuming it’s cheeky, but no sé. que onda!
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wordthecat shares a soca song that sounds pretty undeniably influenced by reggaeton — not just the tempo, but the pattern and timbre of the drums too. i think they even switch up the snares. dembow roadmarch!
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Carolina G on the pleasures, challenges, and politics of dancing; w/ 3 videos for motiviation!
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regular bloggage via sean fennessy, mark anthony neal, jaylah burrell, et al. :: and they rate w&w to boot :: what’s not to like?
videyoga ::
musicologist, internet annotator, and rapper-ternt-blogger.
2 Comments Add your own
1. Erin P | February 15th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
This is why European television is much better than American. I’d rather watch this than most of the reality mind pollution that’s on the set (except the Pussycat Dolls show-now that is entertainment).
BTW, I am missing you at the Center for Black Music Research Conference this week. My first scholarly conference and yes, I still want to be an academic!
2. wayneandwax | February 18th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Sorry that I couldn’t be there, Erin. The program looked pretty interesting. Lots of great scholars on hand. Any highlights to report? Did you happen to catch my ol’ advisor, Ron Radano, give his paper? I would have liked to hear Peter Wade’s and T. M. Scruggs’s talks as well, and many more.
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