like the moon
Lest it get lost in that last post, allow me to note separately that tonight I’ll be joining Gregzinho at WHRB for the beginning of a 7-hour orgy (10 pm – 5 am EST) devoted to nu whirl music. If you’re local to Boston you can catch it on 95.3FM, if not, it’ll be streaming […]
Read More →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. […]
Read More →GHETTO BASSQUAKE: Kuduro Wants You vamanos keeps the torch aloft for kuduro, resisting flavor-of-the-month global-gtech consumption (tags: kuduro blogpost angola africa global ghettotech mp3s video dance blogging) New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere – NYTimes.com first, a pardon for slick rick, and now this?! i’m starting to like this paterson guy (n/h) (tags: […]
Read More →As I linkthunk yesterday, I was gassed to hear (via /rupture) a reggaeton-inflected remix of some Mexican cumbia (video here). I was doubly gassed tho to see it labeled “cumbow,” which I took to mean cumbia + dembow or, perhaps, “with (dem)bow,” as in cum bow, to employ a little Latin, a la the Spanish […]
Read More →it’s a peace scarf Julieta_Venegas_Eres_para_mi(SonideroNacionalCumbowRmx).mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) via /rupture, a mexican cumbia given a reggaeton remix :: i love the term “cumbow” — so apropos! (tags: mexican cumbia remix reggaeton mp3) Comfort food and complaints at a Cairo food stand – Los Angeles Times “…That doesn’t sound bad to Ahmed Ali Mahmoud, who left the […]
Read More →Tito writes: What up Wayne, Hope all is well. Felicidades on 3-2, you don’t look a day over 25. So the other day I was listening to Tony Dize’s new album “La Melodia de la Calle” & one track struck me. The song “Permitame” feat. Yandel, which also happens to be the 1st single off […]
Read More →As some might have noticed in a recent linkthink, “Ghetto Revivalist”® John Brown (aka, the King of da Burbz) — idiot-savvy hypeman extraordinaire — is promoting a new mixtape with a spoof commercial for a cereal product called “Ghetto Revive-Os” — Despite being at the center of a number of truly cringe-worthy moments in the […]
Read More →aka, the big 3-2 not much more to say but i guess that number’s commensurate with the number of gray hairs i’ve got plus, like, having a job and a daughter onward & sidewayz… feel free to leave me a nice comment about not seeming nearly as old as i am or, better yet, buy […]
Read More →SSRC Books » Blog Archive » Structures of Participation in Digital Culture “Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, edited by SSRC Program Director Joe Karaganis, explores digital technologies that are engines of cultural innovation…” (tags: academic book pdf digital culture research tech web2.0) Day 2 of the R. Kelly trial: The “Little Man defense” and […]
Read More →I’ve been meaning to share my reflections on the smut/slackness symposium I participated in @ Penn for some time now, but, well, you know how the end of the semester can go. Many of the themes that emerged in the panel have been ‘verberating in my head, however — ideas which seem to resonate with […]
Read More →CLUB VORTEX MIX MAY 2008 myspace.com:cclubvortexx.mp3 some super summer sounds c/o kkingdomm: freestyle-tinged electro-house/r&b con raveyton b/w self-made remixes!! THIS IS DRIVING MUSIC EVEN IF UR SITTING STILL (tags: DJ mix club remix hip-hop reggaeton rave mp3) 4shared – share folder – baixe malukinha pankadão a trove of eletro melody files c/o CRIADOR eder joe, […]
Read More →The Cosmopolatino Map consuming cosmopolitanism en español en NYC (tags: cosmopolitanism newyork latinidad class) NYMosaico :: Profile Manager :: calabashmusic.com “Cosmopolatinos are young, urban, and bilingual, and are fusing aspects of Latin America with other global trends to create a unique cultural space in New York and other cities.” :: ocio cosmopolatino, eh? (tags: cosmopolitanism […]
Read More →Today marks 4 marvelous months of Nico, aka Droolie Andrews, aka Spitty Cent, aka Squeakapeaka, aka lots of other silly names that should prolly remain unpublished. Can’t wait for her to come up with some for us. As you can see by this latest bit of Nicovision, she’s growing quite chatty in her old age […]
Read More →zSHARE – 02 live set 2.mp3 – “Where They At” vintage nawlins bounce live performance — triggerman & raunch galore (via twankle&glisten) :: http://twankleandglisten.blogspot.com/2008/05/lil-sumtn-sumtn.html (tags: neworleans bounce hip-hop live mp3 vintage digitized) zSHARE – boss man mood. original soul jazz cl.mp3 tis the season for killer instros :: a new reggae-soul-jazz mix c/o dr.auratheft :: […]
Read More →Across the Water | Views | TheRoot.com gary dauphin on his sister’s wedding, foot riots in Haiti, and how, as his cousin puts it, “Haitians are the Haitians of the Caribbean.” (tags: haiti writing af-am america US politics politricks essay caribbean colonialism migration) Beyond The QE2 “high tech soul / future funk radio” congrats to […]
Read More →J. Griffith Rollefson, “Musical (African) Americanization: Hip Hop and Minority Identity in Berlin” award-winning essay on hip-hop in germany by UW-Madison ethno grad student :: saw a version last month in iowa city (tags: academic essay pdf hip-hop berlin germany af-am europe ethnomusicology race nation) YouTube – BoomBapArchive’s Channel video archive dedicated to old school […]
Read More →A Backlash? – New York Times race-based feelings about the dem candidates, post-race-card BS :: this chart speaks volumes (tags: race election08 chart obama clinton nyt) El Nuevo Día – Todo sobre la leche felix jimenez on lipstick, leche, and the war in iraq (tags: spanish op-ed cultcrit war iraq puertorico) YouTube – An Interview […]
Read More →Soca Mafia in Trinidad and Tobago – Reality or myth? :: ttgapers.com re: payola in T&T (tags: trinidad soca payola industry) The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music, by Anthony Thomas “The following article was originally published in the US magazine Out/Look in 1989, and looks at house music’s […]
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