• todo mundo » Blog Archive » Is that Lil Twane on the keytar?
  great post by kevin linking lil wayne to coltrane, miles, george duke and other techno-musical visionaries :: including the great question, "Is not Auto-Tune the wah pedal of today’s Black pop?" :: and, to boot, he inserts his video-supported commentary into recent discussions @ duttyartz re: language and voice and identitititity
  (tags: blogpost analysis video af-am hip-hop lilwayne miles coltrane jazz tech autotune voice)
• MASALA: Dancing In Tongues Mix by Khiasma
  guillaume/khiasma responds to recent nu-whirled conversations in a most eloquent manner: w/ a blazing, polyglot dance mix !
  (tags: mix blogpost globalghettotech mp3 french montreal reggaeton soca dancehall cumbia arabpop)
• Música del Pueblo: A Smithsonian Virtual Exhibition
  interactive site on latin american music, w/ video interviews/demos w/ musicians from across the continent discussing rhythm, harmony, community, y otras temas :: bomba, plena, cumbia, son huasteco, vallenato, y mas!
  (tags: latinamerica video interview cumbia plena bomba son vallenato spanish)
• Twisted Village on Vimeo
  brynmore's lil doc on the best (last?) record store in harvard square, and the future of vinyl retail
  (tags: records vinyl commerce harvardsquare cambridge documentary video)
• Made In Queens * The Film
  new doc on souped-up bicycles as mobile soundsystems in queens :: T&T youth represent !
  (tags: soundsystem documentary film newyork queens caribbean trinidad urban art trailer)
• YouTube – Lee Scratch Perry – Pum Pum
  jeeeeeeeeeeee-zus! (gimme more!!) :: lee perry has a new song & video, and, boy, it's something
  (tags: reggae video slackness sexuality leeperry)
• reggaetonica: Straight Outta Puerto Rico: Reggaeton's Rough Road to Glory
  raquel rivera reviews a new documentary on reggaeton, as well as its sensationalist promotion on MUN2
  (tags: reggaeton puertorico documentary video blogpost review critique race nation)
• Who Do You Love? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
  ned sublette on bo diddley — the man, the music, the legacy :: a pull quote, among many: "It was positively modernist: a song called 'Bo Diddley' about the exploits of a character named Bo Diddley, by an artist named Bo Diddley, who played the Bo Diddley beat. No other first-generation rock 'n' roller started out by taking on a mystical persona and then singing about his adventures in the third person. By name-checking himself throughout the lyrics of his debut record, Bo Diddley established what we would now call his brand. Today this approach to marketing is routine for rappers, but Bo Diddley was there 30 years before. He was practically rapping anyway, with stream-of-consciousness rhyming over a rhythm loop."
  (tags: bodiddley obit neworleans af-am rock cuba clave africa blues chicago)

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