Archive for August, 2009
Spinners
If you’ve never seen a really great DJ spin, you should make plans now. Go to NY, LA, London, Chicago, Vegas, Tokoyo, whatever big music scene is closest. Now.
Here’s the recently deceased (RIP) DJ AM turning Wonderwall into MIA>>>>
And here’s a set close up, so you can see it happen. Amazing.
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One Frontier
Under the title, “auto-tune is not the problem. problem is humans”, Sasha posts this video:
At the ASAs, I had the following to say about the potential for sociologists to study auto-tuning:
Auto-tuning is another recent technological innovation in recorded sound. Any of you who have heard Cher’s 1998 single, “Believe” are [...]
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Jumping off “anonymous’s” suggestion that the department should have a pro-seminar:
Graduate departments and other small social environments tend to be relatively simple organizational environments, where new programs, activities, and the like are relatively easy to establish. In my experience, the biggest impediment to innovation is the “someone should do it” disease.
In graduate school, I saw [...]
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Face work and fashion.
I’ve been thinking on-and-off this week about a question posed to me by a teaching assistant: How should I dress when I’m working with the students (on behalf of your class)? My answer was that I did not want to prescribe her dress, but asked that she dress according to her role as a professional [...]
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Speaking of attitude
We all make mistakes in our presentations of self. Despite our intentions to keep things to ourselves, we will pass along a bit of gossip, share “too much information”, or tap our feet when we are impatient with a friend’s long story. The consequences of these mistakes can range from small to large, and it [...]
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Attitude
Do you think it is “too much” if I told my students that one role played by the university is to convince them to “talk white” so they can have “white jobs”? They’re seniors, after all…
Sorry about the blog disarray with the network. Monkeys on the prowl and such. More later.
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Psych Out
Amazingly, rap artist Roxanne Shante got a record company to pay for her school tuition:
“Everybody was cheating with the contracts, stealing and telling lies,” she said. “And to find out that I was just a commodity was heartbreaking.” But Shante, then 19, remembered a clause in her Warner Music recording contract: The company would fund [...]
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Macedonian hip hop
…About which I know very little. But for those interested, here is what I wrote to them in an on-line interview.
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The dream
The invitations came through campus mail. She was invited to participate in a discussion, held in the evening in one of the wood paneled classrooms in the oldest building on campus. She was a young faculty member, so she was flattered by the invitation and puzzled over who might have sent it. That night the [...]
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