Just a little bit of follow up on my post about the black and queer roots of House music. In that post, I really wanted to talk about more of the individual people, but there are too many to discuss, especially when I'm working from the assumption that a lot of readers barely even know... Continue Reading →
Squeaking in just before the end of Black History Month, I'd like to write a little bit about the origins of House music. I get the impression that many people think of techno as a very white genre. Sure, it's huge in Europe, and white European artists, such as Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, are central... Continue Reading →
When I started my last post, "Where are the great black guitarists?" I kinda thought it would go, "What, are you dumb? Look at all these black guitarists!" But 2000 words later, it had become...more. So I decided to separate into two halves, one ideological and historical, the other "check out all this majesty." If... Continue Reading →
I sliced a fingertip open earlier tonight, so please forgive any egregious typos I miss. Trying to shift and hit punctuation when you can't feel the keyboard with that finger is...interesting. (Looking for Part 2?) Since it's Black History Month, I want to take a break from my dissertation research (which is so overwhelmingly white).... Continue Reading →
Katarina von Sporken
Violent Brain Fever 