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CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Sep 26 - Oct 2)

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Top of the CHIRP Charts for the week of 9/26/22:

The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)

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CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Sep 19 - Sep 25)

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Thee Sacred Souls – Thee Sacred Souls (Daptone)

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CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Sep 5 - Sep 11)

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Stella Donnelly – Flood (Secretly Canadian)

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CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Aug 29 - Sep 4)

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Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)

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Josh Friedberg: Music Historian's Corner writesCHIRP Radio Summer Reading List 2022: Josh Friedberg

From July through September, CHIRP Radio is sharing reading recommendations from its DJs and volunteers. Up next is a list from CHIRP volunteer Josh Friedberg.

Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music by George Lipsitz

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George Lipsitz is one of the most important and insightful American cultural historians of the last few decades, known for writing such books as The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. His work on music does a better job than most at incorporating academic concepts and terminology into useful and accessible essays and chapters. This 2007 book looks primarily at music movements and moments from the 1990s and 2000s. I’ve read more than half of the book so far, and I appreciate Lipsitz’s wide range of musical subject matter and expertise. The book is very theoretically sophisticated, but very much worth reading for anyone interested in pop, hip hop, jazz, EDM, salsa, and other forms and their connections to the wider world.

 

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