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“PRISMatic,” by Victor Szabo 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Despite my long-nagging suspicion that the casual surveillance of U.S. citizens would be silently institutionalized by our corporatized nation-state, recent revelations about the NSA’s PRISM program h...
2014 IASPM-US ANNUAL CONFERENCE: “MUSIC FLOWS” 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Music flows. Evocative metaphorically while directing our attention to the global circulation of songs, the theme for the 2014 IASPM-US Annual Conference takes its inspiration from the UNC campus-wide...
IASPM-US Interview Series: Catherine Tackley, Benny Goodman’s Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Benny Goodman’s Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert is Catherine Tackley’s recent (2012) monograph for the Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz Series. After discussing the book informally during coffee...
“World War IV Techno” by Ryan Diduck 14 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
Albert Einstein presaged that WWIII might be fought with hydrogen bombs, but should World War IV ever occur, it would most certainly come to sticks and stones. Nuclear arms are so fierce, Einstein’s c...
“elegy (for extraordinary black boys and girls)” by Jalylah Burrell 5 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
It was not natural. And he was not the first. I interpolate the opening lines of June Jordan’s essay “The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry: Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley,” to explain t...
“Resurrect the Cassette: Revaluing Bay Area Underground Hip Hop Tapes” by Anthony Kwame Harrison 1 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
During the golden years of Bay Area underground hip hop – circa 1995-2000 – the quintessential subcultural artifact was indisputably the underground (audiocassette) tape. These distinct technologies, ...
“Excitement is Made, Not Born: Jack Good, Television, and Rock and Roll,” by Norma Coates 31 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Throughout July, the IASPM-US website will be previewing articles from “Sonic Visions: Popular Music on Television,” the upcoming special issue of The Journal of Popular Music Studies. In 1968, Ward S...
“Selling Nostalgia: An Abbreviated History of Concert Filmmaking,” by Laura Niebling 30 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Throughout July, the IASPM-US website will be previewing articles from “Sonic Visions: Popular Music on Television,” the upcoming special issue of The Journal of Popular Music Studies. For the last fi...
“Music Supervision Taken Seriously: The Rise of the Music Supervisor in Converging Televisual Environments,” by Tim J. Anderson 25 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Throughout July, the IASPM-US website will be previewing articles from “Sonic Visions: Popular Music on Television,” the upcoming special issue of The Journal of Popular Music Studies. On the face of ...
“Big Numbers on Small Screens: Early Television, Visual Style, and the Cultural Cachet of the Broadway Musical,” by Kelly Kessler 22 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Throughout July, the IASPM-US website will be previewing articles from “Sonic Visions: Popular Music on Television,” the upcoming special issue of The Journal of Popular Music Studies. The following i...
