February 2012
20 posts
“Intellectual alienation is a creation of middle-class society. What I call...”
– Frantz Fanon/ Black Skin, White Masks
M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized : The New Yorker →
The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that’s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven’t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was...
January 2012
40 posts
The Music Lovers
lareviewofbooks:
FRANKLIN BRUNO on 19th century musicking
and SARA JAFFE on punk’s racial politics.
First Appearance of Jenny Lind in America, September 11, 1850
FRANKLIN BRUNO Gilded Age Fan Club
Daniel Cavicchi Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum
Wesleyan University Press, November 2011. 256 pp.
In 1869, Patrick Gilmore, the former Union army bandleader, who...
“For if it is true that no production of knowledge in the human sciences can ever...”
– Edward Said, Orientalism
Back to the Garden
lareviewofbooks:
LINDSAY RECKSON
on Joanna Southcott, the messiah.
Collage of advertisement from 1939 The Telegraph, UK and Wikimedia Commons image of Joanna Southcott
Jane Shaw Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers
Yale University Press, October 2011. 398 pp.
In style it took the shape of any other garden party, that signal diversion of the...
: The Co-op Wars →
mn70s:
It may be hard to imagine from today’s perspective—what with mainstream culture’s acceptance of organics, locally-grown produce, and the like—but Twin Cities food cooperatives were once rife with intrigue and occasional violence. During the mid 1970s, the co-op movement in Minneapolis and St….
