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Tom and Chris in the Rose Garden, or: how two music historians, with a shared 1990s history in radio but very different academic journeys since, found their way to the cafe of a British heritage site, brainstorming a global history of empires, culture, labor, energy, and data – and then a podcast to go with it.
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Published 12/22/21
What price does the planet pay for music? Where has the material presence of music gone now that it comes to consumers mostly in the form of data on portable devices? What is the environmental price of the way we live musically today? The music scholar Kyle Devine has written a provocative book...
Published 12/22/21
It’s hard to map a sound. Soundwaves don’t care about borders drawn on maps, even if these involve high fences, unless they are being jammed by censorius regimes. And even then short wave radio often bounces through. Sound, perhaps even more than people’s physical bodies, finds a way. This week...
Published 12/15/21