december 2022 edition.
Sounds
- The Clean, “Anything Can Happen,” Anthology (RIP Hamish Kilgour)
- Hazel and Alice, Won’t You Come and Sing For Me?
- Hazel and Alice, Who’s That Knocking?
- Sam Bush, Radio John: The Songs of John Hartford
- John Hartford, Radio John
- Miles Davis, Blue Haze
- Unidentified performer, “an-Nar (The Hellfire),” recorded by Alan Lomax in Fez, Morocco, 1967
- Roge, New Sounds, 12 December 2022
- Dorival Caymmi, The Essential Dorival Cayman
- Portuguese Nuggets/Wild 60s Sounds
- Alan Feinberg, piano; Robert Cohen, cello; New World Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas, Morton Feldman: Coptic Light
- Ensemble Recherche, Feldman: Routine Investigation
- Michael G. Morgan, Morton Feldman: Durations I-V; Coptic Light
- Aki Takahashi, Plays Morton Feldman, Vol.1
- Megumi Hashiramoto, Aki Takahashi, Cage: Four Walls
- Yuko Fujiyama, Graham Haynes & Ikue Mori, Quiet Passion
- Fred Frith & Ikue Mori, A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall
- Mali Obomsawin, Sweet Tooth
- Richard and Linda Thompson, Hard Luck Stories
- Akropolis Reed Quintet, Hymns for Private Use-Bright Shiny Things
- Timothy Norton, Visions of Phaedrus
- Victoria Wolcott interviewed by Claire Potter, Why Now? Podcast, 10 November 2022
- Return to North: Soundscapes of Glenn Gould, Ideas, CBC Radio
- Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell, “On Barbara Ehrenreich, with Alex Press and Gabriel Winant,” Know Your Enemy Podcast, Dissent, 12 September 2022
- Moses Asch and Folkways Records Parts 1 and 2, American Songcatcher Podcast, hosted by Nicholas Edward Williams
Words
- Divorced Guy Building Twitter thread
- Paul Robeson’s Freedom
- Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston, eds., Rethinking American Grand Strategy
- Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne, eds., Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories
- Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920
- Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer, Fault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974
- Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein, eds., Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
- William Parker, Conversations I, II, III
- Jess McAllen, “The Sick Proletariat: Health Communism calls for a return to radical patient organizing,” The Baffler, December 5, 2022
- Vikrant Dadawala, “Ethnic Studies,” The Point 28, 18 October 2022
- Thomas C. Lassman, “Putting the Military Back into the History of the Military-Industrial Complex: The Management of Technological Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1945–1960,” Isis 106, 1 (2015): 94–120
- Jed Perl, “Between Abstraction and Representation,” New York Review of Books, 24 November 2022
- Emily Johnson and River Whittle, “In Conversation: What the Land Teaches,” Critical Correspondence, 29 November 2022
- Arlene Gottfried, Sometimes Overwhelming
- Nancy Ireson and Zoé Whitley, eds., Elijah Pierce’s America
“Walls”
- Susan Meiselas, Mediations @ SF MoMA
- Mark Reynolds, Saturday Morning Kid Cartoons @ Stuff By Mark
- Afro-Atlantic Histories @ LACMA
- Marwa Abdul-Rahman, The World @ The Box LA
“Stages”
- Nora Guthrie in Conversation with Peter Glazer @ Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Susman Lecture Series, 5 December 2022
- The Friendly Brothers “Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds,” filmed by Alan Lomax, 1978
- The Band, “Acadian Driftwood” @ The Last Waltz concert, 1976
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, Open Road Theater @ MUCCC, 17 December 2022
- The Seagull, National Theater of England Live Broadcast @ Little Theater, 18 December 2022
- Liof Munimula, Live @ Willy Street Fest, Madison, WI, 1990
- Bob Dylan “I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You” @ Auditorium Theater, Chicago, 03 November 2021
Screens
- Heart Valley
- The Cat’s Meow
- Fleishman Is In Trouble
- The White Lotus, Season 01, 02
- Echo 3
- Slow Horses, Season 02
- Ipcress Files, Season 01
- An Animated Interview with Bluegrass Pioneer Alice Gerrard Smithsonian Folkways