Arabic Ebonics

ethnotechno :: the best in left-field asian-tinged electronica an unabashed embrace of the "ethnotechno" tag — sooooo 90s, no? (tags: worldmusic representation ethnicity orientalism electronic fusion) Blackdown: The man who cycles through glass walls interesting post by blackdown about photographing london's "margins" (tags: london photography representation urban architecture space race class blogpost) Scene and heard: […]

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linkthink #2303: Remember When Heavy Metal Was Scary

Welcome To ‘The Disco’: Music As Torture – CommonDreams.org “…Haj Ali, the hooded man in the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs, told of being stripped, handcuffed and forced to listen to a looped sample of Babylon, at a volume so high he feared that his head would burst.” (via caro) :: Babylon, eh? you don’t say […]

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Notes on Neighborhood

Although my research/interests often turn to (trans)nationalism, lately I’ve been thinking less about nationhood and more about neighborhood — not in terms of an actual space or place (though that’s part of it), but something more akin to neighborliness, to being a good neighbor, to finding an ethics of neighborhood in an intensively globalized/mediated era. […]

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linkthink #8: Funky Digitalia

zSHARE – dj_green_lantern-we_need_barack_feat._mavado_and_barack_obama.mp3 mavado makes a dubplate for obama :: big chune!! (tags: dancehall reggae dubplate mavado obama election08 US mp3) MASALA: A Statement About Kuduro: An Angolan Point of View interesting thoughts about kuduro (and its circulation abroad) from an angolan perspective (tags: kuduro angola africa europe DJ worldmusic tech internet blogpost) Kuduro de […]

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linkthink #2525: Afro Sheen

African music meets China – Assiko and coupe decale | Museke Coupé Décalé Chinois?!?! (via boima) (tags: africa china ivorycoast coupedecale video blogpost) YouTube – Unreported World: Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money Part 1 of 3 british documentary on the garissons/gullyside inna kingston (via tomas) (tags: jamaica kingston video youtube documentary violence police politricks) videyoga […]

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