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Symptomatic Minaj and the Politics of Fun « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Symptomatic Minaj and the Politics of Fun. A couple of months ago, when I was moving to New York from Minnesota, and doing a lot of cross-country driving, I noticed that two of the most often played pop hits on the radio were Nicki Minaj’s “ Starships. 8221; and Fun’s “ We Are Young. 8221; that Minaj believes herself to be possessed by the devil or is a member of the secret Illuminati. Nevertheless, the relationship of pop music to political ideologies and economic issues is a ques...
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Blurred Lines and Musical Conditioning « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Blurred Lines and Musical Conditioning. As everyone has probably heard. 8221; The court ruled in favor of Gaye’s family. My friend and colleague Leigh over at the ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore. Since I don’t think I’m fully doing justice to Leigh’s nuance and sincere love of music. And I encourage you to read her argument. Because I am about to disagree with it, so we’re going to have a bit of a blog-o-sphere throw down. 8221; that begins,. This is a sampling sport,. I would agr...
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2015 June 15 « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. The Obvious Question about Rachel Dolezal that Nobody Is Asking… and Why It Matters. The past week, the image of Rachel Dolezal has been almost obsessively posted, tweeted, hashtagged, social-mediated, and journal-ismed, prompting a flurry of anger to be directed at this one individual by other individuals of all racial backgrounds. Her story about racially passing as a black woman — perhaps most concisely and thoroughly summarized by this. Like Professor Hobbs, I wondered why they...
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2014 August 31 « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Ceci n’est pas un chat. This past Wednesday, the. Interviewed anthropologist and author of. Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific. Christina Yano, on the occasion of a new Hello Kitty exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum. In that interview, Dr. Yano remarked that the creator of Hello Kitty, Sanrio. Was emphatic that Hello Kitty is not a cat; rather, she is a girl named Kitty White…. Who knew? Magazine’s “ The Truth about Hello Kitty. 8212; the how...
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Ceci n’est pas un chat « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Ceci n’est pas un chat. This past Wednesday, the. Interviewed anthropologist and author of. Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific. Christina Yano, on the occasion of a new Hello Kitty exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum. In that interview, Dr. Yano remarked that the creator of Hello Kitty, Sanrio. Was emphatic that Hello Kitty is not a cat; rather, she is a girl named Kitty White…. Who knew? Magazine’s “ The Truth about Hello Kitty. 8212; the how...
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2015 March 13 « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Blurred Lines and Musical Conditioning. As everyone has probably heard. 8221; The court ruled in favor of Gaye’s family. My friend and colleague Leigh over at the ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore. Since I don’t think I’m fully doing justice to Leigh’s nuance and sincere love of music. And I encourage you to read her argument. Because I am about to disagree with it, so we’re going to have a bit of a blog-o-sphere throw down. 8221; that begins,. This is a sampling sport,. I would agr...
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2014 November 16 « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Diverging from Diversity, or, in other words, “Subversity Act One! 8221; and whether or not that’s how I conceptualize my aspirations. Given that I fancy myself a provocateur, wielding my weapons of sarcasm, irony, and dialectical reasoning to get my students to think outside the box, I came up with some other words to help me imagine an alternative to diversity, such as alterity. And even made up a few words that don’t actually exist, such as obversity. Began making “diversi...
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2015 February 09 « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Fishing for Communities: the “Conservative” Rock Song and the Poem that Isn’t. 8221; And the avid reader of the. Might even think, “oh, is he the guy. Who writes those snarky columns about higher education and famously pisses off both the right. 8221; If you’re a reader of my blog, you may recall my own angry reaction. But how does this notion of “interpretive communities” in any way affect how we read? We can — and should — begin with hilarity. 8221; way back in 2006, the. To use ...
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Fishing for Communities: the “Conservative” Rock Song and the Poem that Isn’t « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Fishing for Communities: the “Conservative” Rock Song and the Poem that Isn’t. 8221; And the avid reader of the. Might even think, “oh, is he the guy. Who writes those snarky columns about higher education and famously pisses off both the right. 8221; If you’re a reader of my blog, you may recall my own angry reaction. But how does this notion of “interpretive communities” in any way affect how we read? We can — and should — begin with hilarity. 8221; way back in 2006, the. To use ...
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Marshall Grossman and the Work of Mourning « Theory Teacher's Blog
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Theory Teacher's Blog. Marshall Grossman and the Work of Mourning. This past Tuesday, Marshall Grossman died. He is remembered fondly on the University of Maryland English department’s website [ here. He was my professor for just one year, from the spring of 2000 to the spring of 2001, when I completed my masters degree in English. I met him again a few years later at a conference where we talked at length about the book he was then working on,. That was in vogue at the time by noting that this method co...
