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Recently I brought two authors to campus to share their work with my class — that’s the only connection between the two otherwise disparate topics in the title of this post. (Hope I didn’t alarm anyone by implying improbable causal relationships.) … 1. The “hip-hop Japanthropology” was c/o Ian Condry, a professor at MIT who […]
Read More →W&W is happy to host another loving nod to Tim Haslett. Namely, the two-hour radio show Brian Coleman did on March 24, prior to our Beat Research tribute. A description and tracklist, from Brian, follows — WZBC “School Beats Tim Haslett Tribute” :: 24 March 2008 [audio:http://wayneandwax.com/wp/audio/coleman-ZBC-haslett-trib.mp3] Back To The Old School and School Beats […]
Read More →A couple posts ago I shared some new videos c/o Maga Bo and Ghislain Poirier — two of the transnational bass proponents profiled in Camilo Rocha’s “globalistas” article. It goes without saying that I’m a supporter of what both Bo and Ghis are up to. In partic, I dig their cross-border collaborations, their distinctive […]
Read More →Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) PALAOA – Livestream streaming sound from the antarctic ocean (via bldblg) (tags: audio science sound soundscape nature antarctica) Canyon Cody el canyonazo, studying music in grenada via fulbright, promises to live-blog the making of an al-andulus inspired album, w/ such collaborators as gnotes, over the month […]
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Read More →MC GRINGO- BLOG – – – LIVE FROM RIO DE JANEIRO mc gringo has a blog! (h/t masala) (tags: funkcarioca blog rio brazil germany) … [update: for some reason, several other del.icio.us.ly tagged items didn’t appear a few days ago, so here are a few that i’m “push” publishing] … Phonautogram – Thomas Edison – […]
Read More →Monday night at Beat Research was a lot of fun. Folks and friends came out in force, from veteran DJs to Tim’s family, & the vibes were real nice. Special thanks to Brian Coleman for rallying the people and bringing his deep crates of tunes he knew Tim loved. & Props to all the other […]
Read More →Topical Ointment: WAR FEARY “…the juxtaposition of this [GW Bush action figure] kind of mimesis with Hamas children’s TV propaganda and its anti-semitism seemed an unconvincing ideological symmetry…” (tags: critique academic theory language mimesis war blogpost) Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy archive of bey’s writings (h/t katie h) (tags: theory philosophy culture politics art activism […]
Read More →Mavado’s New Video « ComPromise christina xu on mavado’s new video, but more important: on the way VP has embraced web2.0 by linking the video to the most watched instances of img-based uploads of the track :: nu music industry? (tags: dancehall reggae industry youtube video web2.0 blogpost) The Rub :: Mixes the rub’s impressive, […]
Read More →Dr Pepper Sabrosura Radio Ad Dr. Pepper propels its latest campaign con cumbiaton! :: “Treat your taste buds to Dr Pepper while you indulge in our latest radio ad featuring the best Cumbia to a Reggaetón beat you´ve ever heard!” :: i think calle 13’s got em beat on that count, tho (tags: cumbia reggaeton […]
Read More →My ol fren Derrick Ashong continues to grain traction with his impromptu, utterly eloquent explanation of why he supports Obama. The latest to shine some light: the Grey Lady. Pull quote — Mr. Ashong, with an audience of more than a million so far, thinks he knows what made the difference for him. “My ears, […]
Read More →THE HARD DATA: ENTER THE CUMBIA PHENOMENON “The next step was obvious, neo-cumbia started being exported to the US where it was welcomed by cosmopolitan hipsters, always in search of the newest third-world dance beat, last season it was the Brazilian Favela Funk, now it’s cumbia!” (tags: cumbia narrative blogpost cosmopolitanism hipster globalghettotech funkcarioca) YouTube […]
Read More →The Wire’s War on the Drug War — TIME “If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. … No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons…” (tags: tv thewire […]
Read More →Rap, ragga, reggae in East Africa “This site is about the scenes and the people in rap, ragga and reggae in three African capital cities as it was in 1997.” :: an ethnomusicological perspective (tags: hip-hop africa eastafrica kenya tanzania zambia ethnomusicology ethnography) Dancehall.Mobi “Dancehall bytes from Jamaica and across the Globe … directly to […]
Read More →DanceJam – The largest dance floor on the planet! dance video2.0 emporium !! (tags: dance video archive web2.0 p2p pop digital culture af-am) Blog do Tom Zé – UOL Blog tom zé, one of my favoritest musicians in the whole entire world, has a blog ! (tags: blog brazil tomze portuguese) Africanhiphop.com :: “Ndani ya […]
Read More →global media coverage, proportionally (via) Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business chris anderson’s latest :: on the freeconomy (tags: book business commerce free culture tech economics) Neil Gaiman – Neil Gaiman’s Journal the author discusses making (his) books available for free (tags: books blog free culture literature comics) The Charms of Wikipedia – […]
Read More →1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says — For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local […]
Read More →altmuslim – Our Obama problem “Muslims have found the perfect candidate, but cannot vocally support him for fear that if they do, they may be the reason he loses. How is that for a wake-up call.” (tags: islam US politricks af-am racism election08 obama) Red Bull Music Academy :: Ready D & Shaheen – Can’t […]
Read More →lower end spasm.: mix Thursday some bangin mixes, spanning juke, bmore, bassline, and dubstep :: fun at 140 bpm! (tags: mixes blogpost juke bmore bassline dubstep) lower end spasm.: MAD DECENT niche primer a couple niche/bassline mixes :: get up to speed (tags: mixes blogpost bassline house UK) Middle Eastern Fusions/Crossovers “Middle Eastern Influences in […]
Read More →Spannered | Globalistas Pt. 1 | Wayne Marshall | music | features | artist interview props to spannered for (re)publishing the full interview transcripts from camilo rocha’s piece on “globalista” DJs :: part 1 = me! (tags: interview global ghettotech worldmusic DJ internet) Spannered | Globalistas Pt. 2 | DJ /rupture | music | features […]
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