Deciphering Culture
Jeffrey Callen, Ph.D.
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- Kronos Quartet feature “Women’s Voices” / An Interview with Tanya Tagaq (@PopMatters)
- Short Takes: Tracking Musical Taste — Trendsetting Cities
- The limits of GPS: looking for a labyrinth on the edge of a cliff
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- Moroccan Tape Stash: Najat Aatabou (and the Jordanaires) moroccantapestash.blogspot.com/2012/05/najat-… cool ethnomusicological parallel 3 days ago
- James Mollison's Musical "Tribes": thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012… 4 days ago
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Art
- Gomp/arts I’m Will Gompertz, the BBC’s arts editor and this blog is for insights, views and ideas – yours and mine.
Community-based Art / Arts & Community
- Center for the Study of Art and Community The Center for the Study of Art & Community believes the time is ripe for creative pioneers. The building of sustainable creative communities and organizations must be undertaken by citizens and institutions with enormous energy and imagination.
- Community Arts Network promoting information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based art
- Cultural Agents (Building Society through Arts and Humanities) The mission of Cultural Agents is to promote the arts and humanities as social resources. We foster creativity and scholarship that measurably contribute to the education and development of communities worldwide.
- Jubilation Foundation When people are happy, connected, and fully alive, life is good for the individual and the community. The Jubilation Foundation will help young people feel fully alive through rhythm as expressed in dance, music and poetry.
- Judith Tannenbaum Judith Tannenbaum is a writer and teacher whose work has focused on community arts and issues of cultural democracy.
Music
Music Business
- Hypebot.com music. technology. the new music business.
Popular Culture
- David Byrne's Journal
- PopMatters Intelligent Commentary on Pop Culture
Popular music
- Afropop Worldwide “Your Guide to African and World Music via Public Radio and the Web”
- Pop Culture Transgressions Exploring the boundaries of genre, gender, culture, and race
