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props to spannered for (re)publishing the full interview transcripts from camilo rocha’s piece on “globalista” DJs :: part 1 = me!
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props to spannered for (re)publishing the full interview transcripts from camilo rocha’s piece on “globalista” DJs :: part 2 = dj /rupture
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props to spannered for (re)publishing the full interview transcripts from camilo rocha’s piece on “globalista” DJs :: part 3 = diplo
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props to spannered for (re)publishing the full interview transcripts from camilo rocha’s piece on “globalista” DJs :: part 4 = maga bo
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2003 interview w/ raquel re: PR & hip-hop
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“The towers at The World Trade Center were the foremost architectural statement of surplus glory.”
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“Every New Years Eve/Xmas Eve time, DC’s local community Jazz station WPFW 89.3FM goes all out. Bobby Hill hosts this show called The Other Side Saturday nights, and he has been doing an instrumental PE/Bomb Squad special every year since 1990 or somethin
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“Since September 11, 2001, the pace of offshoring has surged and is being pursued across the entire spectrum of institutions that populate the higher-education landscape …”
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Michael Berube: “Is someone going to start a whispering campaign that Obama has fathered a white child out of wedlock?” :: me: lololol
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queer punky/funky/technobrega outfit from salvador :: muito polÃtico
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HILLARY CLINTON OWNS A ZUNE
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I can appreciate that you have more important things to do than blogging, but I hope you’ll soon go back to writing about interesting things, instead of just linking to them.
Don’t worry, SFN. There’ll be less linky and more wordy posts in the mix, but, yeah, I’ve got my hands full these days. It’s a lot easier to tag and gloss things on del.icio.us than to compose long posts when one of my hands is holding/feeding/rocking my lil girl. (And a lot of my writing energy has been going toward non-bloggy pieces, which I’ll share here in good time.) Plus, I figured I may as well foreground a lot of the web research (and re-surf) I do on the daily.
Still, it’s good to hear from readers who may be annoyed, or underwhelmed (or overwhelmed, as some have noted via email), by the new format. The intention is to keep people reading & keep the conversations going, not put them off.
Actually writing in response to the “Global Ghettotech VS Indie Rock” post from a couple months back, which I recently read, but it seems you can’t leave comments on archived posts…
[Hi Kiddid! It’s Wayne. I decided to repost your thoughtful reply to the correct post. I had shut down comments there b/c it was getting spammed like hell, but I’ve recently upgraded my spam filter, so I’m hoping I can leave it open again. Glad to see the conversation continue — thx for adding your 2 reais!]
as far as i’m concerned this is a great topic and extremely relevant. thanks for providing a space where we can work out ideas/issues regarding this stuff because it definitely needs to be talked about. as a musician and not as a professor or academic, i directly disagree with other musicians who say “music is just music”…with like what Diplo says in that “Globalistas” interview: “my job is just a DJ/Performer, not a sociologist”. As far as i’m concerned music IS sociology, ESPECIALLY American club DJ’s dealing with music from impoverished nations. that’s not to knock Diplo, i like his stuff. but the sentiment avoids a certain responsibility as an artist and creator…
anyways, keep it goin and pardon me if my comments veer towards the cryptic from time to time…
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Kiddid. It seems pretty obvious to me that musicians are always thinking about the choices they’re making — with regard to their music, their social relationships, their projected image, etc. The idea that the thinking is for academics and the doing is for musicians is a bunch of baloney, a false dichotomy, a cop-out. (And don’t get me started on “sociology,” which is not my discipline by a long shot; why attending to social and cultural contexts suddenly becomes “sociology” as opposed to, say, sociability or social conscience, I dunno.) It does sometimes seem like a shirking of responsibility to me. Which is why we keep the fire burning, you done know — and we’re grateful to people like Camilo (and you) for continuing the conversation.