I'm being quite strict - to the extent that I will "miss" stuff from smaller artist communities I appreciate - in refusing to click on tracks with archetypical low-effort AI coverart. Abiding by your principles is hard work these days.
I think there are some interesting takes, but don't recall the exact language/identity discussion being put front and center. Mickey Hess' "A guest in the house of hip-hop" is cool, for example. I feel comfortable writing (about) Norway's hip-hop history and drawing connections. But the US's? 🪹🐝
There is clearly some truth to this "pervasive belief", but anyone still holding those beliefs were outdated decades ago (really more, but I suppose there were more dinosaurs around then). There is an enormous amount of scholarship on rhythm - some might not care, but that's them falling behind.
Would like to note that there are huge differences between European conservatories and many European University Musicology (including "Theory") institutions. The term "conservatory" is etymologically descriptive. There's always some discussions about goals, but I can teach theory of G-funk freely.
There might be some differences between countries here, because in Norwegian kids' shows there's a significant amount of openness and educational content about where food comes from. It's generally not there in all the imported and dubbed shows, though. Some subtext in Peppa pig (for parents?).
Is it really a presentation if it has not been made in transit or at a transit facility? A foundational ontological question if there ever was one.
20+ parallell sessions, so there's bound to be conflicts! No worries for that. I can send the script and powerpoint if you DM me an e-mail. :)
Agree! really inspiring conference
Elon Musk tweets: "Just saw this in a conference room at Tesla Global Engineering HQ in Palo Alto" The attached photo shows a dripping graffiti-style spray-painted text on a wall, which reads: The Future is Autonomous
kind of annoys me when people use the aesthetics of graffiti to show they're edgy and cool while also calling for more punitive laws, which punish the graffiti artists who give that aesthetic its cultural meaning
Because I couldn't name an international "indie" band, and feel meaningfully certain that they are representative of a broader category. Like, is Radiohead "indie"? They are quite different from Bloc Party, for example, which I dug a lot and seemed "indie". And who's indie now? I'm too old and hipho
I have never really "gotten" that term, and thinking about it I think it's because it meant something somewhat specific in/to Norway when I was in my late teens/early twenties. There were these groups that were just more about groove than the punk and metal groups. And those were "indie".
About my turf, but relevant: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Quite happy with my choice of starting one of the first lessons of the first semester with a blues melody and have the students discuss tonality and key centre and similar concepts. Only good reading available is your blues primer, but I have no qualms assigning it.
most people make music not to create monetizable content, but to share and be in community with other people. true creativity requires the sometimes frustrating but often rewarding process of interacting with other people & their ideas. that community bleeds out to other areas of life.
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I agree with both your take on the book and on the specific gripes you point out. It's far and away the best theory textbook per now (if we acknowledge that it's hard to teach _just_ from Everyday Tonality II :P). I feel like it's book I can responsibly recommend students to read on their own too.
Really moving to be mentioned by the eminent Griff Rollefson in his chapter "Beats, Rhymes and Life" in The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap. Great chapter on the history and future of analytical/theoretical approaches to hip-hop. Griff er heil ved, to say it in Norwegian.
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Like, it is great that we have standardized terminology known to both amateur and professional transcribers, but lyric and tab sites demanding standard section names can also be problematic. Nuances dissappear, and sometimes a "pre-chorus" is a second hook. An instrumental intro a rhythm section etc
Recalling my learning-shred-guitar-from-tabs-in-the-internet's-infancy experience, the song section labeling was not standardized to the degree it is now. Labels of "Riff" 1,2 or A,B etc. was common. Also sections dubbed "Rhythm section X,Y" was a thing. Those tabs had a point, I think.
A peer-reviewed article—on Indigenous dance in Palestine and Native North America as resistance to genocide—was formally accepted then rejected by the editors of The Journal of Somaesthetics, citing fear of criticizing Israel’s genocide.
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That would be really dope, Mike! Appreciate that. 🙏
If I qualify as academia it does! Would've loved to be there with you (I couldn't justify travelling over for a two-day conference, so had to pull out :( ). Say hi to all the great hip-hop scholars there!
