July 15th, 2008
Linkthink #93877: We Want Easy
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“A tribute to and expression of Jamaica’s sexual minorities in the struggle to overcome prejudice and violence and to assume their rights as citizens, as full human beings”
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my former (gay black) mayor is — news to me — jamaican :: here is a recent letter he wrote in dismay over the violence and shameful state of public discourse around (homo)sexuality inna JA
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“A Chronology Of The Loudness War”
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lengthy, media-rich (actually, audio gone) post on cumbia, mostly of the buenosaires / villera variety — alongside an overview of the club scene / context in BA
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re: the loudness war & da music industry’s current cultcha of compression
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‘Stories like the “Iced Espresso Incident” don’t reflect underlying social reality: they _make_ it.’
videyoga :: (wowowomfg thx kevin!)
musicologist, internet annotator, imagined community organizer.
2 Comments Add your own
1. ripley | July 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I had no idea Ken Reeves was jamaican!
2. yocahuna | July 18th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
You may have missed our earlier post on the then mayor, with original local Cambridge links http://jalgbtq.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
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