January 2012
38 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….
Occupy 2012: Occupy Your Life, by Vandana Shiva →
occupy-2012:
“Occupy Your Life”, by Vandana Shiva, posted on her blog on 15th November 2011.
Take back your food
Take back your money
Take back your health care
Take back your livelihood
Take back your value system
…Read the full post on her blog
December 2011
45 posts
“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”
– V. Nabokov (via lotus-eyes)
