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Collective ImpulsesField Studies[4 May 2007] by Andrew GilstrapPopMatters Associate Music Editor The wife disposing of her ex-husband's collection. The estate sale. The stash of records sold for pennies on the dollar because the water bill was overdue. Collecting music often depends on someone else's misfortune.
Field Studies
Vinyl: Got to Get You Into My LifeAndrew Gilstrap24.Jul.08 Maybe it's because current methods of listening aren't cutting it that I've started buying more vinyl. Not because it sounds better or evokes nostalgia, but because listening to vinyl is a more structured and formal experience. 
Righteous PathsAndrew Gilstrap09.Jun.08 The Drive-By Truckers' live shows once played like a songwriters-in-the-round session with electric guitars and increasingly empty bottles of Jack Daniels. Then Jason Isbell came along -- and it only got better. 
Anger With Stoic DignityAndrew Gilstrap21.Mar.08 Protest music can go one of three ways: angry, storytelling, or communal. Sowing the Seeds is communal, meant to shore up the spirits of people who are locked together, arm-in-arm, to fight for a common cause.
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Rabble Without a Cause: Let’s Spice-up the 2008 Election, Iron Chef-Style
By Bill Reagan [22.Jul.08] Pop Goes Philosophy: George W. and J. Peterman, Philosophically Speaking
By George Reisch and Norah Martin [16.Jul.08] Negritude 2.0: Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong
By Mark Reynolds [3.Jul.08] Variations on a Theme: The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding Stasis
By Chadwick Jenkins [2.Jul.08] |
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