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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers...
Was this the Twee avant-garde? In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if...
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What’s So New about New Wave?
Vanity Fair, August 2008 (cover). I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming), but here I want to examine the New Wave tradition...
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Oh Death, Up Yours! (R.I.P. Poly Styrene)
It’s been rough recently for the punks: we lost Ari Up last October, and now comes the very sad news that Poly Styrene passed away yesterday. At least we still have the music. In memory of Ms. PS, I’ve...
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