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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 […]
Read More →The Second Plane – Martin Amis – Book Review – New York Times “The genital theory of history may be novelistically useful, but it is analytically silly.” :: that, and other gems, in a skewering review by leon wieseltier (tags: book review nyt islam middleeast orientalism 911 writing) Guess The Country [30 PICS] – world […]
Read More →From my Trinidadian spy bredrin inna PR — Marshall to the Wayne, Que hay, brother? (said in a boricua accent…loved how these chaps drop the ‘brother’ in spanglish) I don’t know if it’s just me, but reggaeton game is jus getting jiggier, and a lot of today’s hits have influences from southern bounce (tamo a […]
Read More →Beat Diaspora: Beats, Buses, Bricks: Unlabeled: The Anonymous as Exotic in Presenting Proibidão greg scruggs examines the exotic-as-anonymous approach wrt “baile funk” c/o diplo & sublime frequencies (tags: funkcarioca rio brazil sublimefrequencies diplo representation rule#4080 critique academic blogpost) The Tecnobrega Business Model arising from Belém do Pará .: banco de cultura :. from ronaldo lemos […]
Read More →Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’ – New York Times “The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.” (tags: US prison stats nyt) Globalization or Zoo-Like Exploitation? Slum Tours on the Rise at Racialicious – the intersection of race and […]
Read More →Overprogrammed for Being There :: Stop Smiling Magazine dave tompkins waxes davetompkinsesque on “some good ole watch-the-fuck-out futuristic shit.” (tags: hip-hop writing newcleus electro tech future afrofuturism) Birdseed’s Tunedown: The Melbourne Shuffle another tubedance phenom — malaysian hardstyle runningman via australia via belgium?! (tags: dance video malasia asia global rave australia youtube blogpost EDM techno) […]
Read More →MySpace.com – ScaryÉire – IE – Hip Hop / Other – www.myspace.com/scaryeire “Hold Tight remix” = yet another zunguzung riff (around 1:30), this time from a mid-90s recording by an irish hip-hop group :: thx to a student @ Brandeis for spotting it ! (tags: ireland hip-hop zunguzung madmad myspace) CIRP Stations :: Caribbean Internet […]
Read More →Today marks 3 months since Nico joined us in the post-womb world. It’s been a really wonderful time. And I mean that — filled with wonder. Seeing and hearing her learn to interact with the people and things around her has been totally fascinating. The arrival of smiles, focused eyes, a strong neck (keep keepin […]
Read More →Dave Stelfox on ‘white reggae’, once reviled, but now taking off around the world | Urban | guardian.co.uk Music “Once reviled, ‘white reggae’ is now taking off all over the world – even in Jamaica. But is it any more than a pale imitation of the real thing? Dave Stelfox investigates” (tags: global reggae race […]
Read More →rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs half math, half amazing (tags: hip-hop humor visualization charts awesome) Democracy in Dakar : Nomadic Wax documentary re: hip-hop (and democracy) in senegal (tags: hip-hop documentary senegal africa activism politics) We’re not racist, but … – In Depth – theage.com.au re: racism in contemporary australia (tags: race racism […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →“Globalists” Seek Peripheral Sounds – norient.com – independent network for local and global soundscapes new english translation of camilo rocha’s globalistas article (by me, after tweaks by andre albert of google’s machine translation) (tags: worldmusic global ghettotech DJ journalism poco US MTL brazil cumbia tech) Full List of Stuff Educated Black People Like « Stuff […]
Read More →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 →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 →!! Tonight at Beat Research !! two top-notch worldly/whirledly DJs: Maga Bo and Chief Boima — neither of whom should be a stranger to readers of this bloggg As described here last year, Boima embodies global flows, reppin Sierra Leone via Wisconsin and the Bay Area. His Diamonds for Sierra Leone mix offers up his […]
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