The other night Anna and I went to see Beats, Rhymes And Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest.
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Also tagged a tribe called quest, cassettes, digging the crates, documentaries, fugees, hip-hop, jazz, lil wayne, minnie riperton, movies, nineties, q-tip, Sampling
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Spoiler alert: don’t read until you’ve watched to the end of season three. Mad Men is well-made television, but so is plenty of other television. Why is this particular show so compelling to me and so many of my buddies? I think it’s that watching Mad Men is like watching a documentary about our parents [...]
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Okay, so we’ve all firmly established that he’s not exactly Mr Personality. President Obama called him a jackass. Even before he disrupted the MTV awards, a lot of my friends disliked him intensely. This dislike crosses racial, class and gender boundaries. And yet, I like Kanye’s music better than just about anything that anyone is [...]
Filed in Emotion, Key Musicians, Music, Race and Identity
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Also tagged autotune, depression, drum machines, electronica, Emotion, hip-hop, kanye west, lil wayne, pop, posthuman, remixes, t-pain, taylor swift
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Here’s one of my favorite bits of South Park.
Filed in Dance, Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Video Games
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Also tagged america, beatles, dance, electronica, gender, guitar hero, Recording, remixes, rock, rock band, simulation, south park, Video Games, visualization
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