As America goes out to vote for the first time since the tumultuous aftermath of the 2020 election, Gabriel Gatehouse is back in the deep undergrowth of the US political scene, in a bid to understand where the dark energy underpinning the January 6 assault on the Capitol is going now ( Read more... )

A documentary -

The Nearly Lost Legacy of Julius Eastman

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Julius Eastman is one of the greatest contributors to 20th-century music but thanks to racism and homophobia, his legacy was nearly forgotten.

Frank Zappa was a musical magpie like myself. He loved doo-wop, jazz and Edgard Varese as well as blues and other byways.

And the reason he loved doo-wop

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..and my fave Zappa doo-wop song is -

Frank Zappa - What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?

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Eliane Glaser from the BBC Archives - and in the Guardian -

The Joy of Bureaucracy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09sc0t5

Authority

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/09/toppling-authority-populism

All Change: navigating the new political disruption

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Iconic Blue Note jazz album covers. Cool man!

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Another classic documentary - dig the afros, the dancing and the funky clothes -

Soul Train - The Hippest Trip in America

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Few television series were as innovative and influential as Soul Train. Set first in Chicago, and later in Los Angeles, the Soul Train dance party reached national significance and became one of the longest running ( Read more... )

A brilliant documentary about the birth of electronic music in Britain.

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Bill Wasik "And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture" (Penguin)


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