Yes, vinyl and digital are not the same. But vinyl isn’t always better. Continue reading

April 7, 2021
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April 7, 2021
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Yes, vinyl and digital are not the same. But vinyl isn’t always better. Continue reading
March 11, 2021
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The full recording of our recent workshop Continue reading
March 2, 2021
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This is entry #74 in our ongoing 100 Philosophers, 100 Artworks, 100 Words Series.
February 26, 2021
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True diversification will ultimately require aesthetic integration to create something new that appeals to a diverse constituency. Continue reading
January 20, 2021
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This is entry #72 in our ongoing 100 Philosophers, 100 Artworks, 100 Words Series.
January 13, 2021
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This is entry #71 in our ongoing 100 Philosophers, 100 Artworks, 100 Words Series.
June 29, 2020
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The question of which genre “Old Town Road” belongs to isn’t just an idle curiosity. It’s pretty important. Continue reading
June 16, 2020
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These days, when I think of singing with others, I am reminded in a very different way that sounds are physical waves. Continue reading
April 8, 2020
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In January, we hosted an interview and preliminary discussion of some pressing issues in rap and hip-hop. We wanted to investigate the fact that, in Bill Adler’s words, hip-hop has never been “a model of civil discourse”. We did that by talking to two queer Black women rappers, BL Shirelle and Bates, to get their takes on the matter. Now we follow that up with a roundtable of scholars, each reflecting in their own way on what BL Shirelle and Bates had to say. [Warning: This discussion contains explicit language, including a variation of the n-word.] Our contributors are: Bria Gambrell, MPP and MA candidate in Gender and Cultural Studies at Simmons University T.M.G., PhD student in Philosophy at Dalhousie University [website] Charlotte Henay, lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor in Philosophy at Georgetown University [website] Michael Thomas, assistant professor in Philosophy … Continue reading
January 27, 2020
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This is Part I of a two-part series. Part II is a roundtable discussion of the below interviews, featuring scholars working on these issues. I. What Is There To Discuss? A Prompt for Discussion by Bill Adler Bill Adler is a music journalist, hip-hop archivist, and legendary Def Jam publicist. As wonderful as it is, as impactful as it is, hip-hop music has never exactly embodied a model of civil discourse. On the contrary, it has often been—and remains—rough, rude, and heedless. Indeed, those very qualities are at least part of what makes the culture so appealing to so many folks. Happily, hip-hop has also generated a body of exemplary critical commentary from the very beginning. For over thirty years now, critics and journalists who came of age as hip-hoppers have wrestled with the music’s sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and materialism… and have done so with love, from inside the culture. … Continue reading