Hello, dear readers. I set blogging aside for a while for two reasons: I had an injury that made it physically impossible to sit and write for several months; and with how much that injury held up my dissertation work, since then, I've put 100% of writing effort into finishing in-progress chapters. I'm happy to... Continue Reading →
“Where are the great black guitarists?” (Part 2: Here they are!)
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 →
Stonewalling Nazis Works
As a brief departure from strictly music/arts discussion⸺I just picked up a book again that I started reading earlier this year, called Reichsrock. Kirsten Dyck published it last year, stemming from her dissertation research. Basically, it is a history and map of "the international web of white-power and neo-Nazi hate music." In each chapter, she... Continue Reading →
How Drums Affect How You Hear Genre
Maybe I just continually gloss over it, but it seems like drumming styles are frequently neglected in discussions of genres in rock music. I've realized more and more over the years how much I rely on drum style as a genre marker, just for my own ear and tastes. It's something I still have a... Continue Reading →
Medieval Metal: An Introduction
While I wait to have a good idea for a new Music 101 post—and remember, ask me your questions about music and I'll answer them!—it seems a good time to start getting into some of the preliminary research I'm doing for my dissertation. I'm in the proposal stage, so what I'm doing now is reviewing... Continue Reading →