Music

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

• The Escapes and Escapades of Rick James

  There’s no logical reason Rick James should have lived as long as he did.

  Lary WallaceNov 5, 2014

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  The Sob in the Spine

  Mikel Jollett’s Rock ’n’ Roll Alchemy

  Cornel BoncaOct 24, 2014

  • Music

• Work It on Out

  Bob Stanley’s musical history Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! loves the social, material world where music is made and heard.

  Joshua Joy KamenskyOct 23, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Music

• Paul McCartney: The Wilderness Years

  If Paul McCartney wasn’t a Beatle, then who was he? What was he?

  Lary WallaceOct 17, 2014

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Music

• Records Don’t Love You Back: In Search of Lost 78s

  These records, like the collectors who chase after them, enjoy transient existences and sharing them gives that ephemerality some meaning and purpose.

  Oliver WangOct 15, 2014

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  From Outer Space, or Something: Fantasizing Capital in Contemporary Hip-Hop

  Rappers like Rick Ross, Jay-Z, and Kanye West use fantasy to challenge the duty to represent lack within black life.

  Ismail MuhammadOct 14, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

  • Music

• Rock ’n’ Roll Lives, Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll

  "Rock ’n’ roll acts as a language rather than a genre — one whose health is measured not by chart positions or album sales, but by artists and listeners."

  Stephen DeusnerOct 6, 2014

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  Adventures in Cultural Appropriation

  As white pop stars like Taylor Swift continue their excursions into the fantasy of racial drag, the backlash fails to recognize the deeper structural inequity from which such music emerges. It also ceases to appreciate how cultural appropriation may be liberatory.

  En Liang KhongSep 9, 2014

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• Analog, Again: Jack White’s “Language Lessons”

  Jack White’s Third Man Records launches its publishing wing with Language Lessons: Volume 1, a monument to White’s stalwart analog sensibility in the digital age.

  Lauren O’NealSep 3, 2014

  • Music

• Duane Allman, Skydog, Explained

  Lary WallaceAug 8, 2014

  • Music

• Bobsession

  We don’t choose our obsessions; our obsessions choose us. Nowhere is this truer than in the obsessive following Bob Dylan has amassed since his rise to fame in the early 1960s.

  Lary WallaceAug 6, 2014

  • Music

• Living Fast: Revisiting Oasis's "Definitely Maybe"

  Rhian E JonesJul 28, 2014

  • Music