Critical Theories in Education
Christian Christensen explores the quarter-century long misunderstanding of Bruce Springsteen’s most famous song in a short, but incisive critique published in yesterday’s edition of CounterPunch. Born in the USA is one of a small number of songs, films or television programmes (produced in large part in the United States) that can generate near-physical negative reactions […]
I encourage you to get your library to purchase the new memoir by Staughton and Alice Lynd. EWR Friends, Greetings. Alice and I have written a joint autobiography entitled Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together. We need your help in getting the book into the hands of the young people for whom it is […]
From the ARN listserv: This article summarizes an argument from Richard Rothstein’s recent book, co-written with Rebecca Jacobsen and Tamara Wilder, Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (Teachers College Press). Rothstein (riroth@epi.org) is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute. For a review by FairTest of the book, see http://www.fairtest.org/improving-accountability-review-grading-education. Education Week Commentary Getting Accountability […]
Copyright Criminals, a documentary about digital samplings head-on collision with copyright law, features many of hip-hop musics celebrated figures—including Public Enemy, De La Soul, the Beastie Boys, and Digital Underground—as well as emerging artists from record labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more. The documentary also provides an in-depth look at artists who have […]
It was a superb year for music listening and adding a Sonos system transformed listening habits at our place. Having access to on-demand streaming of millions of tracks from Napster as well as hundreds of radio stations made it easy to listen to just about anything we wanted to hear—from 70’s schlock pop to opera. […]
The Guardian: World’s first heavy metal conference hits Salzburg Salzburg to play host to the world’s first scholarly conference on heavy metal, the brainchild of UK academic Dr Niall Scott The quaint alpine city of Salzburg is used to two kinds of musical visitors: fans of Mozart or the Sound of Music. It is, after […]
Here’s Dave Marsh on The Four Tops frontman, Levi Stubbs: From http://www.RockRap.com SOMETHING ABOUT YOU…When I was 15, I met the Four Tops on a downtown Detroit street, where they were doing a photo shoot with the Supremes. The group—especially Duke Fakir—were extraordinarily kind to a trio of white kids totally out of their element. […]
Image from modernhumorist.com From Wired.com via RockRap.com: File Sharing Lawsuits at a Crossroads, After 5 Years of RIAA Litigation By David Kravets September 04, 2008 | 5:55:39 PM from wired.com RIAA attorney Donald Verrilli Jr. says file sharers are automatically liable for copyright infringement and monetary damages for using peer-to-peer networks. Casey Lentz is trying […]
The Boston Herald reports that Boston rap trio East Coast Avengers’ new single, “Kill Bill O’Reilly,” whose lyrics call for the Fox News star to “be hanged like Benito Mussolini and otherwise killed,” is causing outrage among Reilly’s right-wing admirers and others, like Keith Olberman: “Gentlemen, I’m the last person to disagree with you on […]
Hundreds Of Musicians Removed From Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame For Drug Use
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