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Monday, January 9 2012

Is This the Twilight of Blues Music?

— Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune, 28 December 2012)
Filed in: Music

What the Great Recession Wrought: The State of the U.S. in 3 Years of Polls

— Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic, 7 January 2012)
Filed in: American Studies | Business & Economics

The Duchess of Cambridge and the Rise of the Sloane Ranger

— Harry Mount (The Telegraph, 9 January 2012)
Filed in: Consumerism | Cultural Identity | European Studies | Geographies | Lifestyle

Monday, December 19 2011

The Clerk, RIP

— Scott Timberg (Salon, 18 December 2011)
Filed in: Business & Economics | Culture Industry | Cyberculture & New Media | Film | Literature | Music

In an iTunes Age, Do We Need the Record Store?

— Marc Hogan (Salon, 20 November 2011)
Filed in: Business & Economics | Culture Industry | Cyberculture & New Media | Music

Thursday, December 1 2011

Critical Theory: Useful Distinction or Unconscious Smugness?

— PJ Rey (The Society Pages, 20 September 2011)
Filed in: Criticism | Humanities | Philosophy | Theorists & Critics

Please Chuckle Here: The Return of the Sitcom Laugh Track

— Josef Adalian (New York, 27 November 2011)
Filed in: Television

Cutting the Cord: How the World’s Engineers Built Wi-Fi

— Iljitsch van Beijnum and Jaume Barcelo (Ars Technica, November 2011)
Filed in: Cyberculture & New Media | Science & Technology

The Epic A to Z Guide of Expressions That Should Be Retired From the Internet (and IRL)

— Jen Doll (The Village Voice, 14 November 2011)
Filed in: Cyberculture & New Media | Language

Frank Miller and the Rise of Cryptofascist Hollywood

— Rick Moody (The Guardian, 24 November 2011)
Filed in: Film | Gender | General Culture | Politics & Government
The Monoculture Is a Myth
— Steve Hyden (Salon, 10 October 2011)
Filed in: Culture Industry | General Culture | Music | Television
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
— Foreign Policy (Foreign Policy, December 2011)
Filed in: Business & Economics | Criticism | Global Affairs | Philosophy | Politics & Government | Theorists & Critics

Monday, October 24 2011

How Music Changes Our Brains
— Thomas Rogers (Salon, 23 October 2011)
Filed in: Music | Science & Technology
The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami
— Sam Anderson (The New York Times Magazine, 21 October 2011)
Filed in: Asian Studies | Literature

Tuesday, August 30 2011

All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books
— TIME (TIME, 2011)
Filed in: American Studies | European Studies | General Culture | History | Humanities | Politics & Government

Friday, August 26 2011

Top 100 Most Sought After Out-of-Print Books in 2011
— BookFinder.com (BookFinder.com, 2011)
Filed in: Humanities | Literature

Wednesday, August 10 2011

The UK Riots: The Psychology of Looting
— Zoe Williams (The Guardian, 9 August 2011)
Filed in: Consumerism | European Studies | General Culture
Man of a Hundred Thousand Books
— George Fetherling (Geist, 2011)
Filed in: Business & Economics | Literature
Why Don’t We Love Our Intellectuals?
— John Naughton (The Observer, 8 May 2011)
Filed in: European Studies | General Culture | Theorists & Critics
Oh, Britannia, How You Have Changed
— Andrew Sullivan (The Sunday Times, 24 July 2011)
Filed in: European Studies | General Culture
How British Social History Is Written Through Our Cookbooks
— Felicity Cloake (New Statesman, 27 June 2011)
Filed in: European Studies | Food | History

Thursday, August 4 2011

How Google Dominates Us
— James Gleick (The New York Review of Books, 18 August 2011)
Filed in: Cyberculture & New Media | General Culture | Science & Technology

Tuesday, August 2 2011

The 50 Most Special Effects of All Time
— David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf and Keith Uhlich (Time Out, 29 July 2011)
Filed in: Film

Thursday, July 28 2011

Is Music Tribalism Dead?
— Vanessa Thorpe (The Observer, 24 July 2011)
Filed in: Music

Saturday, July 23 2011

Ty Cobb As Detroit
— Anna Clark (Grantland, 22 July 2011)
Filed in: Geographies | Sports

Monday, July 18 2011

Daniel Ek’s Spotify: Music’s Last Best Hope
— Brendan Greeley (Bloomberg Businessweek, 13 July 2011)
Filed in: Business & Economics | Culture Industry | Cyberculture & New Media | Music
Blow-Up: An Oral History of Michael Bay, the Most Explosive Director of All Time
— Sean Fennessey (GQ, July 2011)
Filed in: Film
Ticketmaster: Rocking the Most Hated Brand in America
— Chuck Salter (Fast Company, 21 June 2011)
Filed in: Business & Economics | Culture Industry | Music | Performing Arts
When Country Was King
— Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson (Los Angeles Times Magazine, June 2011)
Filed in: Music
40 Noises That Built Pop
— Rhodri Marsden (The Word, 9 July 2011)
Filed in: Music
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  21. Counterbalance No. 67: John Coltrane’s 'A Love Supreme' (Sound Affects)
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