TT 441: Cranks and Shadows
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Political, all interrelated, all concerning the internet and tribalism:
What about our culture creates and reinforces school shootings? Katherine Dee may have some answers. A powerful essay, I haven’t read anything quite like this before.
Hurricane Helene has wrought horrible devastation. Nick Rafter parses some of the fear-mongering response from the right.
Nobody agrees on what the news is or how it should operate anymore. This interesting interview of Taylor Lorenz by Parker Molloy is partly a pan of legacy media. Lorenz is obviously correct about the way things are going, but I am struck at how the words “facts” or “fact-checking” are nowhere on the page. This would be the role of legacy media, in my opinion: having somebody next to the writer who will check the facts before disseminating information. (See also the Rafter post just above.)
It's important to support the workers even if a strike is inconvenient. Great post by Hamilton Nolan.
As usual, Freddie deBoer makes telling points against my peer group, the liberal elite: “They Still Won’t Say That They’re Sorry.”
Music:
Andrew Smith on Metronomes.
Brit Primack on Walter Bishop Jr. (This is surely most comprehensive overview of Bishop Jr. extant.)
Matt LaVelle on Bix Beiderbecke. Important post. Beiderbecke was great — truly great and vastly influential — but he has also traditionally been an excuse for a kind of institutional racism in jazz. (After reading one of the idolizing Beiderbecke biographies, Paul Motian told me, “I didn’t like the book. Bix wasn’t that great.”)
Ted Gioia on Terry Gibbs.
Phil Freeman on Bill Dixon.
Michelle Mercer on Wayne Shorter and Bud Powell.
Tom Moon on the latest Wayne Shorter archival release.
Joshua Kosman on Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi.
Alex Ross on Missy Mazzoli.