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Dancehall.mobi has the scoop today on a lawsuit instigated by producer Dave Kelly — In Jamaican dancehall culture, “re-licking” a riddim has undoubtedly been a way of life. Almost monthly there seems to be a remake of a dancehall, reggae or rocksteady riddim that originated anywhere from just a few years ago to decades ago, […]
Read More →Pace this post (see comments for continued convo), thx to Christina — who also wonders how hip-hop’s use of East Asian imagery fits into all of this (I think it leans more toward the I-talian than the A-rab) — for pointing me to three mashup “valorizations of the gangsta” via the dancehall/Mavado’s imagination (both of […]
Read More →Is Michelle Obama's "Ass" Off Limits? | Critical Noir | Blogs | Vibe.com Mark Anthony Neal — 'Never before has a First Lady's body been subject to the amount of scrutiny and surveillance as is the case with Michelle Obama; she has been rhetorically poked, prodded and groped. Many would have found such a line […]
Read More →Speaking of the belly of the beast, somehow I missed this first time around, but a UK-based jihadist rap group known as Soul Salah Crew released a Diwali-propelled critique of the War on Terror® back in 2004. That in itself is not exactly surprising. The UK has been the seat of some searing Islamist critique […]
Read More →c/o Ivanna B (aka DJ Philomena), one of my fave “local” DJs / dancers / artists / people, don’t miss this month’s stateside / tri-city showing (NYC, Boston, Providence) of politically & culturally charged art (drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, mixed media, video and more!) from Chile & Argentina — more info: www.glaciersofnice.com/labestia/ escupidodelapanza@gmail.com
Read More →photo by {?N.tella} Flickr: The Hipster Intifada Pool "excellent hipster kufiya photos" (via hawgblawg) (tags: hipster kufiya photos flickr middleeast fashion babylonia) hawgblawg: back on the kufiyaspotting tip: "Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization" ted swedenburg on the hipster-kufiya connection, w/ a sharp critique of that adbusters piece: "I'm not sure that the kufiya […]
Read More →Gambit Weekly : Sissy Strut : August 12, 2008 nice piece on "sissy bounce" in new orleans (tags: neworleans bounce hip-hop queer homophobia sexuality journalism) Generational Myth – ChronicleReview.com siva takes on the myth of all "kids these days" being "digital natives" fluent in info/communication technologies (as well as the general problem of generalizing and […]
Read More →McCain’s Daddy Yankee Endorsement – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com 'Daddy Yankee called Mr. McCain “a fighter for the Hispanic community” and “a fighter for the immigration issue.’’ Mr. McCain, who noted that his wife, Cindy, had gone to Central High School, said, “I just want to say thank you, Daddy Yankee.’’ ' :: (thx, […]
Read More →11:29 AM a: hey duder morning! U-S-A me: and a happy independence to you too, good sir kinda gray so far, but we’re hoping it clears up a: ya no doubt when you headed over? me: oh we’re there now just dropped a grant at wholefoods a: hahaha wrd what should we bring? we’re just […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →Really enjoying the discussion on that sha3bi post — please help keep it going if ur so inclined. This post is mainly a way of bringing that discussion “to the top” but I might as well share a related find… It’s not embeddable, but this video mashup of a sha3bi song and a Shakira/Beyonce vid […]
Read More →MySpace.com – BIG CITY 101.3 FM BOSTON – BOSTON, Massachusetts – www.myspace.com/bigcityfm my favorite radio station in boston, hands-down (tags: radio boston caribbean reggae soca) todo mundo » Blog Archive » Throwback videogames, digital distro, and atavistic joy nice piece by kevin on the retro video game design trend in the wake of digital distribution […]
Read More →For really tho, how impossible can it be to send a guitar to Botswana? Post Office says it’s too big for them to ship; UPS wants to charge me more than the thing is worth; and my most recent attempts to send it as cargo via airline (as recommended by my fren there) have been […]
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 →I have to admit, when I first heard MIA sing “slang tang” during the opening salvo on Arular, I found it an awfully clever gesture. And I liked it. A lot. I appreciated the allusion to a classic riddim and the winking rearticulation to describe how the gyal’s (s)language — London calling / speak the […]
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 →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 […]
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