Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
wayneandwax.com � Modern Ancient African Music: “Noting, for example, that Baaba Maal’s Firin in Fouta (1994) was received ambivalently by the “world music” market because of its incorporation of funk, reggae, hip-hop, “techno” (don’t know why Monson and Eyre call it that — sounds much more like house to me)” Such comfortably dropped off-the-cuff declarations [...]
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 [...]
To those of you who got spammed because of me: my apologies. Live and learn. Wayne&Wax forwarded me a spam this morning, which at first glance appeared to come from me. While the scare prompted me to change my passwords to something even more ridiculously complicated, it turns out I was just silly to leave [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
