Category: Art and Music
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Strange Beautiful Music
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Strange Beautiful Music is the title of Joe Satriani’s “musical memoir” which was published in 2017, a book I read recently and highly recommend. It’s also the title of his record of 2002 and the name of his publishing company. It’s a well-chosen name, for of all the adjectives that come to mind when listening…
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Where Have All the Songwriters Gone?
Podcast: Transcript: If you grew up in the 1960s or ‘70s, you grew up with music on the radio that’s now called classic rock. We didn’t know there was anything classic about it at the time. It was just great music, and there was a lot of it, too much to listen to, too many…
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Artists: Stop Trying to Shock Us Podcast
Is Shock Art dead? Is it still relevant and should it be? What purpose, if any, does it serve in today’s world? Can we still be shocked? In this podcast, Paul Fairfield discusses his views on so-called shock art.
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Artists: Stop Trying To Shock Us
Crush #20 Much of the art of the last century or so did more than surprise their audiences. It shocked them, usually by design. You can think of any number of examples: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, and so on. These are all first-rate artists, and I have…
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Random Riffs: A Conversation with Brian Hayman
I am pleased to present you with our inaugural Conversations Podcast, Random Riffs with Brian Hayman. In this podcast we explore the links between jazz improvisation, the culture of organizations and philosophy. Brian is jazz pianist, educator, writer and professional consultant. In recent years, he ran the Jazz Vespers group at St Jude’s Anglican Church…
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Rush Crush Podcast
What is it about this highly unusual rock band that gets them nominated for the list of the greatest of all time? After a career which lasted almost 50 years, why do they belong in the same category as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, or the Who? What is it about the…
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Rush Crush
Crush #12 Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins had this to say about the Canadian rock trio, Rush: “I believe when people step back and actually really look at who the great bands were, they are one of those bands. But somehow they were never popular enough that they get commonly name-checked as one of…
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Why is Bob Dylan The Greatest Songwriter? Podcast
Bob Dylan has been called everything from a genius to an enigma, the original singer-songwriter, “the Shakespeare of songwriting,” and “the poet of our time.” Saying someone is the greatest in their field is hardly an objective statement. It cannot be a universal truth for everyone, yet it can subjectively be the case for the…
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Why is Bob Dylan The Greatest Songwriter?
Crush #6 Bob Dylan has been called everything from a genius to an enigma, the original singer-songwriter, “the Shakespeare of songwriting,” and “the poet of our time.” Enormous legend has surrounded this artist for over half a century now: some forty studio albums and counting (not including various bootleg, best of, and live albums), writer…
Philosophy Crush 