Blogs
Blurt!
As reported by Jason Gross at PopMatters, Blurt Magazine online will take the place of the recently finished Harp Magazine. That certainly good news, and well-reported feature writing online is certainly welcome to the party!
Skope RIP
This just in from the GirlGroup list - Skope Magazine is closing its print edition:
Dear Subscriber, I know that many of you are shocked at the news of Skope Magazine closing up the print edition. We appreciate all the emails & phone calls of support & luv. It means so much! We just wanted to let you know that we will continue on with Skopemag.com & Skope Live! Skopemag.com currently receives over 1 million hits/month & over 80K visits/month. Content on the site is updated hourly and the site offers a full
Bert Williams - A Silent Theater Speaking
Camille Forbes's new book on early black pop musician/actor/comedian Bert Williams is finally out on the stands, and today MoMA did a showing of Williams films to go with the book (and Feb. MoMA talk). The three films, Fish, A Natural Born Gambler, and fragments of a third romantic narrative were in amazing high quality - so much so that it was eerie to watch them, as Williams appears in blackface in all three (as he always did, even when everyone else in the film is not in blackface) but the resolution was such that the films could have been from some much more recent past.
kaprow: on canonization of the trickster
Wish that I were in LA for this Allan Kaprow exhibit, written about well in the LA Weekly last week by Doug Harvey.
Sunny sunny Sally Shapiro
On Monday I tried to teach the importance of recording technology/playback/electronic instruments in the 20th century...in 1 hour and 25 minutes. It's kind of hilarious to think about this idea but somehow I went from Russolo to Brussels 1958 to Giorgio Moroder in 1975 in about 10 minutes, and ended up talking about one of my favorite things, disco polo, the Polish nationalist nod to Moroder's bouncesynth empire.
