Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
I was already more than a little excited when a late-night email from WayneAndWax turned into an excuse to listen more actively to this song: Ne-Yo’s “Miss Independent” seemed to discretely make the case that it was engaged in some important cultural work. My initial impressions of the video for this song by a relative [...]
If more and more people want to participate in a given institution, the institution had better welcome the new energy or risk crumbling. Preventing large emerging groups of people from participating in “marriage” will ultimately do for marriage what keeping large groups of emerging musics from participating in music education did for music education programs. [...]
Jeremiah Wright spoke to an estimated 12,000 people at yesterday’s NAACP dinner in Detroit. I watched on CNN. Here’s part of it: I wasn’t surprised to hear a talented, engaging speaker. I admit to having avoided the notorious youtube clips whose out-of-context media saturation goaded the Clintons and the media corps into a feeding frenzy, [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
