Sound Philosophy
By Chadwick Jenkins
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Episodes: 115
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A podcast exploring philosophical and interpretive approaches to the history of popular music.
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117-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 6
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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116-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 5
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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115-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapters 3-4
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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114-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 2
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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113-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 1
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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112-J Dilla
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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111-Rhyme, Flow, Content: Eminem and Mac Miller
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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110-Tool
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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109-Math Rock
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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108-Funk Counterpoint and James Brown
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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107-The Bass and Larry Graham
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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106-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 10-12
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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105-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 8-9
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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104-Minimalism and Popular Music
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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103-Minimalism, Temporality, Repetition
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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102-Flamenco, Compas, and the Siguiriyas
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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101-Twos and Threes: Hemiola, Odd Meters, Tresillo
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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100-Thumb Like God--Ragtime Guitarist
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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099-Meter and Time
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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098-The Backbeat
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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097-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 6-7
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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096-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 4-5
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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095-Cross Domain Application
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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094-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 2-3
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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093-Empathy or Sympathy?
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May 16, 2024 |
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092-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 1
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May 15, 2024 |
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091-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 7-9
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May 01, 2024 |
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090-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 5-6
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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089-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 3-4
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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088-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 1-2
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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087-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 12-13
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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086-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 10-11
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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085- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 8-9
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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084- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 7
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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083- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 5-6
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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082- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 3-4
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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081- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 1-2
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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080-Ambivalence in Neutral Milk Hotel and Nana Grizol
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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079--Punk Wordsworth: The Smiths
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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078-MF DOOM and the Materiality of Language
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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077-Agency and Fate in the Narcocorridos of Chalino
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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076-The Rhetoric of Law and the Narcocorrido
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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075-The Fictional Real in Edith Piaf
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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074- The Elliptical Nature of Subjectivity in Björk
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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073-Tom Waits and Melancholy
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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072- Randy Newman's Off-Kilter America
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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71-Cole Porter and the List Song
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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70- Aristotle's Rhetoric and Cole Porter's Wit
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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069- Lyrics as Material and Museme
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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068- Twelve Open Questions Concerning Lyrics
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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067-Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, part 2
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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066- Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, part 1
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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065-Video Game Music
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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064-BTS, Carl Jung, and the Psyche
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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063-Death Grips and Accelerationism
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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062--The Early Beatles and the Artistry of Fun
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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061-The Aesthetics and Ethics of Taylor Swift's Re-recordings
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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060-Spotify, Star Texts, and Taylor Swift
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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59-Anti-Capitalist Hip Hop
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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58-Hip Hop and the Romance of Capital
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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057-Neo-Soul and the Body
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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056-Neo-Soul and Temporality
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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055- Hardcore Punk and Ronald Reagan
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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054-Politics and Hardcore Punk
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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053-Reggae Confronts Babylon
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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052-Economic and Political Violence in Early Reggae
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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051- Gospel Music and Surplus Value
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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050-Early Gospel Recordings and the Ecstasy of Suffering
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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049--The 1930s Musical Commodity Fetish
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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048-Tin Pan Alley and the Depression
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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047- The Numbing Sublime of DJ Screw and Cloud Rap
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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046--Gangsta Rap and the Hip Hop Sublime
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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045--Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger, and Murder
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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044-Outlaw Country, Kant, and Low Down Freedom
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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043--Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.3 Introduction
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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042--Bebop and Freedom in Play
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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041--Sapere Aude: Bebop and (Kantian) Autonomy
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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040--Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.2 Prefaces
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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039-Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.1 Background
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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038--Giving the Idea to Art: Kant, the Genius, and Prog Rock
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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037--Progressive Rock and (Kantian) Form
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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036--The Transcendental Aesthetic of Space and Time in Hindustani Music
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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035--Shortcut to Transcendence: The US Reception of Hindustani Music
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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033-Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s and the Problem of the Self
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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032- Kant's Syntheses and the Ontologies of Music
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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031--Kant's Three Syntheses and the Album
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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030- The "First Death" of Hip Hop and "Rapper's Delight"
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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029-Bossa Nova and Middle-Class Melancholy
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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028-DJ Kool Herc, Deconstruction, and Synecdoche
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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027-The Problem with Payola
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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026- Feeling Otherwise: Music, Commodity, and Streaming
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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025- Digitalization and the Ontology of Music
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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024-Graffiti and the Aesthetics of Transgression
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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023- On Distance, Nietzsche, and Conscious Rap
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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021--The Carter Family and the Death of God
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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020 Ralph Peer and the Bristol Sessions
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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019 Appalachia, Disaster Songs, and Fiddling Contests--Early Country Music
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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018-Crossing Over: Billboard, Nietzsche, and the Supremes
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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017-Motown, Black Uplift, and Fordism
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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016-Booker T. at the Crossroads: Country Blues
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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015-The Emergence of the Blues in the Mainstream
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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014 Nietzsche’s Rausch, Aesthetic Form, and Highlife Music
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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013 Syncretism and Highlife Music of Ghana
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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012 WEB DuBois, Double Consciousness, and Bert Williams’s Jonah Man
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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011 An Improvisation on Nietzsche, Adorno, and the Grateful Dead
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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010 Ragtime, Reversal, and Syncopation
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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009 Nietzsche Birth of Tragedy, Sections 3-25 and the 1960s Dionysian
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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008 Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and Repetition in Music
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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007 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy, Sections 1-2
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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006 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy: An Introduction
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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005 Sousa, Nationalism, and Masculinity
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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004 The 19th-Century Parlor Ballad
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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003 Early Blackface Minstrelsy and the Racialized Other
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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002 Colonial Music and the Copyright Act of 1790
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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001 Popular Music and Mass Art
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Jul 16, 2020 |