S. Alexander Reed on Laurie Anderson, Craig Seymour on Janet Jackson for PMBiP, 11/15/21 скачать в хорошем качестве

S. Alexander Reed on Laurie Anderson, Craig Seymour on Janet Jackson for PMBiP, 11/15/21

S. Alexander Reed’s new book on Laurie Anderson's music focuses on her famous 1982 album, Big Science, seeking to locate a sense of "now" in a music that sprawls with anti-specificity strategies. This talk details highlights of such excavations, including previously untold origins of the hit single "O Superman." The talk's main focus, however, is the divisive song "Sweaters," tracing demo versions, reception histories, and its gendered relationship with albumcraft. Special attention is given to the timbral properties of the song, where Anderson's humming slips in and out of unity with the droning bagpipes and her violin. The fuzzy frisson of mixed timbres presents a topic of undifferentiable unity and slippage. Meanwhile, the text—"I no longer love the color of your sweaters"—comes from an unlikely source, and situates such issues of slippage within specific contexts of art and communist politics. Craig Seymour will discuss his forthcoming Janet Jackson biography in the context of what it means for Black people to write about Black artists in the contemporary publishing climate. He will address such topics as why he chose to change the book from an essay collection to a biography and why he chose to self-publish as opposed to going with a mainstream or academic press. Participants and Links: S. Alexander Reed Links: pre-order the book at: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ... and https://www.amazon.com/Laurie-Anderso... Bio: S. Alexander Reed is the author of the ARSC-prizewinning book Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, and co-author of a 33 1/3 book on They Might Be Giants’ Flood. Alex has published on post-punk and avant-garde musics in Perspectives of New Music, the Journal of Musicological Research, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Popular Music and Society, the Journal of Popular Music Education, and ImageTexT. He is founder of the AMS Popular Music Study Group, and has taught at New York University, the University of Florida, and the College of William and Mary. He is now Associate Professor of Music at Ithaca College. He holds a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. With his bands SEEMING and ThouShaltNot, Alex has released six albums, appeared on MTV and CW, and has toured internationally. Laurie Anderson’s Big Science was the first tape he ever bought. Craig Seymour Links: Mailing List for Book Updates: https://craigspoplife.substack.com “B.B. King Biography Framed In Terms Of White Approval,” The Washington Post, October 13, 2021: https://wapo.st/3ca9mod (free link) “My Life: Mary J. Blige’s Masterpiece Changed R&B,” UMusic, June 15, 2020: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/storie... Other writing: RandBeing.com Janet Jackson interview, 2001 (audio):    • Janet Jackson, VIBE 2001   Janet Jackson interview, 2006 (audio):    • Janet Jackson, VIBE 2006   Bio: Craig Seymour is a Black gay man who has chronicled Black music for more than 20 years. He has written for such publications as The Washington Post, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, the Village Voice, and more. He is the author of Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross and the memoir, All I Could Bare: My Life in The Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C., among other books. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park and has been an Associate Professor of Journalism at Northern Illinois University. He has written two VIBE cover stories on Janet Jackson.