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The middle-class blues
This new track by XL Middleton, I think could resonate with many working people...
http://www.fluofiles.com/idibizzle/XL%20Middleton%20-%20Middle%20Class%20Blues.mp3
Art - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading around the subject of art, film, music and literature.
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General Problems of Culture
- Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture – Nelson/Grossberg, Eds.
- Recapturing Marxism – Levine/Lembcke, Eds.
Literature and Art
- The Dada Painters and Poets – Motherwell, Ed.
- The Dada Almanac – Huelsenbeck, Ed.
- The Situationist International Anthology – Knabb, Ed.
Saul Williams, The Fader Label, 2005. Music review
Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...
Slam Dunk Funk Sunk by Clunky Punk Junk
Ms Dynamite, Judgement Days, Polydor, 2005. Music review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings judges Ms Dynamite’s second album a mismatch of unremarkable smooth music and remarkably self-indulgent rant.
MsJudged Blandishments by Tom Jennings
Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings (2004). Music review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings’ essay on contemporary urban music, gender and class.
Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings
Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large, by Carolyn Cooper, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Book review – Tom Jennings
Carolyn Cooper’s Sound Clash sees contemporary reggae as rebel music, still. Tom Jennings is mightily impressed
A (New) Message from Rudy by Tom Jennings
Beautiful Struggles and Gangsta Blues. Music review/essay – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings’ urban music review of the year 2004.
Beautiful Struggles and Gangsta Blues by Tom Jennings
‘Life is a beautiful struggle / People search through the rubble / For a suitable hustle / Some people using their noodle / Some people using their muscle / Some people put it all together / Make it fit like a puzzle’ (Talib Kweli, ‘I Try’).
Pick A Bigger Weapon, The Coup, Epitaph Records, 2006. Music review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings reviews a new album from the radical Cali rap duo.
Weapons-Grade Funk by Tom Jennings
Dead Prez: three new albums in 2006. Music review – Tom Jennings.
A slew of new Dead Prez releases deepen and diversify revolutionary US hip-hop, according to Tom Jennings.
Zero Sum Game by Tom Jennings
Rebel Poets Reloaded. Music review
Tom Jennings’ essay reviews recent radical US hip-hop
Rebel Poets Reloaded by Tom Jennings
