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Arab Media & Society | Sampling Folklore: The re-popularization of Sufi inshad in Egyptian dance music | by Jennifer Peterson ‘Drawing on the context of mulid festivals and Sufi inshad, the “mulid” trend samples, imitates and remixes elements of mulid festival music, lyrics, and cultural references into a distinct form of boisterous, youth-oriented dance music.’ […]
Read More →Shaggy feat Trix & Flix – Feel The Rush | The Heatwave Blog – dancehall reggae and bashment “la cumbia cienaguera” of samim’s “heater” fame (and a hit in its own right in south america for decades) gets yet another odd reanimation via shaggy and the euro 08 football cup :: and round and round […]
Read More →Jonathan Zittrain | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central berkman’s JZ goes on colbert to talk about the future of the internet — and how to stop it :: nice job, JZ (tags: berkman harvard colbert tv internet humor tech) Minus 10-Year Anniversary | XLR8R podcast recounting 10 years of minimal biz on minus records […]
Read More →Berkman Center pioneers steer the course of cyberspace – USATODAY.com gwaan charlie & co.! (tags: berkman harvard internet academia education activism charlie) DTLBASSTOWN.mp3 (audio/x-mpeg Object) crazed dance mix by dropthelime, as played recently @ basstown (tags: DJ mix mp3 house techno club remix boston) Energy Flash | Gas (director’s cut) simon reynolds on gas (wolfgang […]
Read More →Banned in the U.S.A. (Almost) – washingtonpost.com “What is so unspeakably wrong with saying that justice, secularism, tolerance and equality of citizens — rather than privileges granted on the basis of religion — should be among the values of a state?” (tags: book op-ed middleeast religion government politricks israel palestine censorship) THE VICE GUIDE TO […]
Read More →BOMB Magazine: Ned Sublette by Garnette Cadogan garnette interviews ned about his new orleans book :: knowledge gems dropped left&right (but mostly left, knamean) :: dig the stuff on funkiness toward the end (tags: neworleans book interview caribbean US urban culture race history cuba jazz funk) itwofs.com – chronicles of plagiarism in indian film music […]
Read More →EBONYJET Culture Page | Dancehall and Doiley Boyz ‘I decided to take these people who are put on a platform within that dancehall space — worship of a don or a “shotta” — a bad man — and peel it down to the very feminine, beautiful men using all of the things that are within […]
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 →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 […]
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