From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #242 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, December 1 2006 Volume 06 : Number 242 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] remaster Jam [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] More Wowee and Additional Zowee ["Douglas Stanley" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:36:17 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] remaster Jam I purchased the remaster of The Jam's SOUND AFFECTS, my favorite Jam album, and the sound quality is astounding. It sounds like it could've come out last Tuesday. What surprised me is that these remasters are from 1997, and I thought they were new. Apparently the Jam CDs at my local record haunt just didn't move in years. - --Mark, putting on his best "Republican" smile to go to the Greenville County Schools "Winter Reception" for prospective new hires (I'm not liked by several powers that be in the district, including the principal where I did my student teaching (whose son is a Republican congressman) for my rather controversial editorial in The Greenville News a few years back about local teacher salaries--I just calls 'em like I sees 'em ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:50:52 -0800 From: "Douglas Stanley" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More Wowee and Additional Zowee - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:08:48 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More Wowee and Additional Zowee On 11/29/06, Douglas Stanley wrote: > > > Any thoughts on a Pavement reunion? There is mention of such on the > site: "The sort of lavish, jaw-dropping packaging that you've come to > expect from our previous Pavement reissues? We're on it. Cryptic hints > of a band reunion that may or may not occur this decade? You can get > them somewhere else, we're not trading in such conjecture." > > http://www.matadorrecords.com/pavement/ I wouldn't put much stock in Matador's publicity prose: they tend toward the snarky. I'd say "may or may not occur this decade" is a hint. Practically speaking, Malkmus has moved in a pretty different direction from Kannberg (although I haven't heard what Kannberg's been up to lately, only the first Preston School of Industry album and a track or two from the second), so I can't imagine it working musically either. I think Pavement had their moment in the '90s - bringing them back now wouldn't make much sense. At least not to me... - - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com - ------------------------------ Yeah, I certainly don't give much credence to Matador's PR group but they did mention it, and I haven't heard that kinda talk lately. I don't think a reunion's impossible. IIRC, when SM/Jicks originally toured, they refused to play any Pavement tunes. I believe SM has softened on that stance. At least I've heard an SM solo set that was 3/4 Pavement. I would say their reunion would make as much sense as any of the others (Pixies, Gang of Four, Pogues, Dinosaur Jr.(!), etc.). Maybe a one-off at Coachella? I'm not sure they were real happy about the way it all ended the first time. Also, did anyone else notice the ad-libbed line "In this Lolita Nation" in the live version of "Best Friend's Arm" on this new set? Doug S. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:07:02 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] cultural studies query > Nothing like focusing on someone who's barely made music for 30 years and > is > best known in the US for playing opposite Henry Winkler on _Happy Days_. "Barely made music for 30 years" misses the mark a tad. According to AllMusic she released records on a regular basis through 1983 (and fronted the London revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" three years after that). > So I found myself wondering, is there any way to take the subject of women > "performing" masculinity in rock* with rather more *relevant* and > contemporary examples? I won't presume to know, but, the fellow's choice of subject matter *could* indicate he feels that "performing masculinity in rock," while note- and studyworthy, represents a dead, strictly historical concern. Like castrati, or Pamela Anderson's latest marriage. > * The flyer is full of terrifying academic prose cliches, like "focusing > particularly on Quatro's ability to construct multiple subject positions > that are ambiguous or mutually contradictory with respect to gender and > sexuality" and references to the "paradoxical [role of "female > cock-rocker"] > that destabilizes the gender codings from which it is constructed and > celebrates the polymorphousness and performativity of identity." > > What kind of party favors does such a celebration demand, I wonder? I don't dispute that academic language daunts. I do, however, put forth the notion that it might have its uses, to express things inexpressible through other forms. Too, the small irony of what Professor Norman does for a living... Will you go and file a report, Jeff? Papers wanted (see .sig) (and hell, tell the Suzifan) Andy CALL FOR PAPERS Waking Up From History: Music, Time, and Place The 2007 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project April 19  22, 2007 Seattle, Washington Music happens, then it ripples. What is the relationship between the circumstances that produce music and our swirling notions of pop's past, future, and zeitgeist? How do the times affect the notes? What factors literally and figuratively change the beat of a city? Some decry postmodern "pastiche," while others defend pop concoctions as multiculturalism in action or intoxicating aesthetics. But what are the power relationships at work when music stops time and lets us dance in place? For this year's Pop Conference, we invite presentations on music, time, and place. This might include: Reading time and place into musical innovation. The breakbeat as a refunking of sonic structure and origin myth; or the social history of changing time signatures. The racial, class, and gender components that constitute a pop place or time's "we"; the mutating New Orleans of the hip-hop, funk, R&B, and jazz eras, for example. Evolving notions of musical revivalism: retro culture, questions of periodization in music, and the validity of the concept of youth culture as a sign of the times. Geographies of sound, or how place is incorporated sonically. Lise Waxer called Cali, Colombia, an unlikely bastion of salsa revivalism, a "city of musical memory." The dematerialization of the album into the celestial jukebox and other new media. Does the Chicken Noodle Soup dance live on 119 and Lex or on Youtube? How dichotomies of nearness/experience and farness/history affect music fanship, music writing, and music making. The "place" of pop now, culturally, professionally, and certainly politically. Proposals should be sent to Eric Weisbard at EricW@emplive.org by December 15, 2006. For individual presentations, please keep proposals to about 250 words and attach a brief (75 word) bio. Full panel proposals and more unusual approaches are also welcome. For further guidance, contact the organizer or program committee members: Jalylah Burrell (New York University), Jon Caramanica (Vibe), Daphne Carr (series editor, Da Capo Best Music Writing), Jeff Chang (author, Can't Stop Won't Stop), Michelle Habell-Pallan (University of Washington), Josh Kun (University of Southern California), Eric Lott (University of Virginia), Ann Powers (Los Angeles Times), Simon Reynolds (author, Rip it Up and Start Again), Bob Santelli (author, The Big Book of Blues), and Judy Tsou (University of Washington). We are excited to announce that presentations from this year's conference will be considered for a future issue of The Believer. The Pop Conference connects academics, critics, musicians, and other writers passionate about talking music. Our second anthology, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, will be published by Duke in 2007. The conference is sponsored by Rhapsody and the Seattle Partnership for American Popular Music (Experience Music Project, the University of Washington School of Music, and radio station KEXP 90.3 FM), through a grant from the Allen Foundation for Music. - --from http://www.emplive.org/education/index.asp?articleID=815 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:51:25 -0500 (EST) From: Miles Goosens Subject: [loud-fans] FW: 2006 World AIDS Day - 5 Things You Can Do to Help Hey folkses - I've been asked to help spread the word about tomorrow (December 1st) being World AIDS Day, and hope you don't mind this bit of activism in mentioning this. The forwarded message below has some suggested activities (sorta youth-skewing), but the main thing is that as many people as possible do something tomorrow, and it can be as simple as wearing a red ribbon. The main site for World AIDS Day is http://tinyurl.com/y2rk7f where links to all sorts of commemorations and other activities abound. thanks, Miles >From: YouthAIDS [mailto:YouthAidsInfo@psi.org] >Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:04 PM >Subject: 2006 World AIDS Day - 5 Things You Can Do to Help > > > >More than 20 million lives have been lost to AIDS and it's estimated that >worldwide 40 million people are infected with HIV. > >Young people between the ages of 15-24 are at greatest risk for infection >and the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female. > >Tomorrow is World AIDS Day. Here are 5 things you can do to help. > >1. Join Ludacris and Emmy Rossum for the YouthAIDS Kick Me campaign. >- Visit http://www.youthaids.org/ and register today. >- Download your Kick Me kit, grab your sponsor form and hit the road. For >every hour you wear or post the sign, ask friends and family to sponsor you >or simply ask for a flat donation. >- Wear the sign on World AIDS Day, December 1st. Talk about HIV. Collect >your pledges. Send in funds raised to YouthAIDS by December 15th to collect >great rewards from ALDO, Kiehl?s, and others. > >If you've already registered and are participating, keep going and help >spread the word! > >2. Stop into any ALDO store or visit >http://www.youthaids-aldo.org/ and purchase an ALDO Fights AIDS tote bag >or Empowerment Tag. 100% of the net proceeds from the sales of the bags and >tags support YouthAIDS. > >3. Shop at Kiehl's. Kiehl's will donate 100% of proceeds from ALL SALES in >free-standing stores between 5:00 - 7:00pm on World AIDS Day (December 1st). >To find a store near you, visit http://www.kiehls.com/. > >4. Buy a pair of Levi's? jeans at http://www.levisstore.com/ and the Levi's >brand will donate $5.01 to >YouthAIDS. In support of World AIDS Day, the Levi's? brand is partnering >with YouthAIDS to donate up to $30,000 by allocating $5.01 for each >transaction on http://www.levisstore.com/ that includes a purchase of at least one pair >of Levi's? jeans. For details visit http://www.levisstore.com/. > >5. Tune in to TLC at 8/7c to watch Ashley Judd and YouthAIDS: Confronting >the Pandemic. One of Hollywood's most celebrated actresses, Ashley Judd, is >teaming up with her friend Salma Hayek for a one-hour documentary. On this >trip through Central America, Judd takes Hayek on an unforgettable journey. >From the brothels of Guatemala City to the coast of Honduras, these women >are on a mission to get the message out. > >On their travels, Judd, Hayek and Latin rock star Juanes (also featured in >this documentary) meet with the leaders who can affect change in their >countries, as well as with the women and children who are directly impacted >by the ravaging disease. TLC follows along as they document the personal >stories of a disease that still carries great shame and stigma in Central >America. For more information, visit >http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/youthaids/youthaids.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:10:38 EST From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] FW: 2006 World AIDS Day - 5 Things You Can Do to Help Could you tell us more about Ashley Judd and her friend Salma Hayek in the brothels of Guatemala City? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:10:17 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] cultural studies query In a message dated 11/30/2006 2:10:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, zoom@muppetlabs.com writes: or Pamela Anderson's latest marriage. I was reading about Kid Rock (a redneck wannabe?...who knew) calling Pamela Anderson a "whore" or some such at a screening of "Borat" (where a camper full of University of South Carolina frat boys, who were eerily similar to the frat boys I went to school with at the USC Spartanburg campus, get Borat drunk and show him a disillusioning porno of Anderson) and I was thinking, and your point would be?? That's like Heather Mills screaming at Paul McCartney that he's a clingy co-dependent backstage at McCartney concert. - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:17:25 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] cultural studies query On 11/30/06, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: > > > > So I found myself wondering, is there any way to take the subject of > women > > "performing" masculinity in rock* with rather more *relevant* and > > contemporary examples? > > I won't presume to know, but, the fellow's choice of subject matter > *could* indicate he feels that "performing masculinity in rock," while > note- and studyworthy, represents a dead, strictly historical concern. > Like castrati, or Pamela Anderson's latest marriage. Nah, there's all sorts of present tense - it's not put forth as a historical concern. > * The flyer is full of terrifying academic prose cliches, like "focusing > > particularly on Quatro's ability to construct multiple subject positions > > that are ambiguous or mutually contradictory with respect to gender and > > sexuality" and references to the "paradoxical [role of "female > > cock-rocker"] > > that destabilizes the gender codings from which it is constructed and > > celebrates the polymorphousness and performativity of identity." > > > > What kind of party favors does such a celebration demand, I wonder? > > I don't dispute that academic language daunts. I do, however, put forth > the notion that it might have its uses, to express things inexpressible > through other forms. It's not so much that it's daunting (although it may be that to some) as that it's terribly cliched. Somewhere online, there must be a Postmodernizer(tm), which automatically creates fragments of academic prose. Too, the small irony of what Professor Norman does for a living... Actually, it has nothing to do with what I do for a living. I teach; as a non-tenure-track instructor, I have no requirement whatsoever to either produce or read scholarly research. The general public still suffers from the notion that research universities exist to teach undergrads: they don't; they exist to provide employment for academics (and to be fair, in many fields that research is actually valuable...even, sometimes, in English) and suck money from undergrads. Yr avg. suburban parent still thinks it's impressive that Junior attends the very same university that sports the renowned Prof. Verbitz on its faculty...but Prof. Verbitz will have little to no contact with Junior (at least not in Junior's first couple of years), with the possible exception of Junior's enrolling in a thousand-person lecture course. Will you go and file a report, Jeff? I'd be tempted to go to the talk...but I have (ha!) too many papers to grade. Which I am avoiding at this very second. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #242 *******************************