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... This chapter concerns the question of the relationship between humans and manufactured objects anew. It begins by getting rid of a metaphysical barrier. Not all objects created thanks to humans' creative and inventive expansion have had the aim of increasing automatism. Such objects were...

...!)” and Yaz’s “Situation.” The paradigm shift toward electronic dub gathered pace when Kiss FM DJ Shep Pettibone started to mix tracks such as Sinnamon’s “Thanks to You.” Mark Kamins joined the dub parade after he started to date Madonna and mixed her first single, “Everybody.” The soundscape also hummed...

... Thanks to the promotional efforts of Fred Brathwaite, Michael Holman, and Ruza Blue in particular, the idea that hip hop existed as a cohesive culture that melded the four elements of DJ-ing, MC-ing, breaking, and graffiti had become a reality by the time Wild Style premiered in the United...

...” begat “Go Bang!” begat “Thanks to You” in just a couple of months, with “The Message,” “Situation,” “Buffalo Gals,” and “Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)” following in close succession. The relative absence of the corporates provided independent labels with the kind of market freedom that had last existed...

... Hettie goes for “second stint” in Wyoming; thanks Helene for sending story by Ursula Le Guin that clears up a mystery for her. Helene puts stitches on an AIDS quilt. In her last letter from Laramie Hettie encloses brochure about NYU conference on Beat writers that has a panel of women for first...

... decried the violence in Santiago’s now sinister, near-empty streets; the funeral procession of a fallen rebel attracted 60,000 outraged mourners into Santiago’s previously abandoned streets. Rebels seized control of Oriente’s Central Highway, proclaimed El Cobre “free territory,” and thanked the Virgin...

... in the depths of their colonial stupor. Much of this nationalist critique was anticipated by American colonial writings on the inability of Filipinos to learn English properly, thanks largely to the insurgent recalcitrance of the vernaculars. The chapter asks if there is an alternative to this conception...

... Chapter Four: Elvis Presley Belatedly Records “Hound Dog”. This chapter offers a view of Elvis up close. Thanks to YouTube and DVDs we can linger on the TV appearances, where past listeners had only recordings to replay. This chapter traces the steps by which Elvis Presley covered “Hound Dog...

... that enabled Argentine young people to reimagine their nationality. Thanks to a persona and musical style crafted in dialogue with European and North American images and ideas, Sosa combined Piazzolla’s cosmopolitan nationalism with Sandro’s mass, Latin American appeal. Mercedes Sosa folk Nuevo...