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Miles Davis' album was released 50 years ago today. Fred Kaplan has a nifty analysis of the music.

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The video below about the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (Mopho) reminded me of Anne Wysocki's talk (which I wrote about at the time) at the 2007 Penn State conference. What kind of new aesthetic theories might be necessary (or possible) given technologies like this?

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Some superb pictures of great jazz trumpeters from Slate. I'll repeat my usual mantra from Ralph Ellison, "We have Louis Armstrong and the Bill of Rights--what more do we need?"

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I'm teaching an undergraduate digital rhetoric course right now so I've been on the lookout for good video examples. I found this one over at my colleague's blog Arab Woman Progressive Voice. I think it provides a good example of an effective low-fi approach, something that my students could replicate.

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The 50th anniversary of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

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Juliette Greco singing Serge Gainsbourg's "La Javanaise":

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Van Morrison's most recent CD is so worth your time.
Here's a tasty taste.

"No wavelength
no mileage
no current currency...."

Hard to decide which track to share....

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Sa Dingding singing "Lama Chenno." A little mental health break.

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The Onion News Network: Country Music Stars Challenge Al-Qaeda With Patriotic New Song ‘Bomb New York.’ Link via Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces.

Country Music Stars Challenge Al-Qaeda With Patriotic New Song ‘Bomb New York’

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