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Burn Up The Floor: Pop & Politics In 2013 Dance Music
Photo by Anna Spysz It felt like you couldn't move ten metres for a four-to-the-floor beat...
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Wreath Lectures 2013: Celebrating A Great Year For Men In Music!
10! David Bowie This year began with the return of a great dame, although we all worried...
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Governance By Algorithm: Big Data, The NSA & A Sinister Future
In October 2003, AT&T technician Mark Klein was transferred to a new post in the comp...
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Terror In The Terroir: Resisting The Rebranding Of The Countryside
Two years ago, I wrote a handful of articles, including a Wreath Lecture for this publica...
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Wreath Lecture: Braying Crowds & The Accidental Death of Quiet Music
Photo by Valerio Berdini On Eurythmics' masterpiece Savage there's an acoustic track, 'I N...
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A World Of Dreaded Fear: Revisiting Band Aid's Lyrical Crime Scene
Sunday, November 24th, 1984. It must be a cold, cold day, if not on the streets of Nottin...
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The Boiler Room & Why Channel 4 Got Live Streaming Wrong
Twenty years ago, an ever-swelling group of New Age travellers, ravers and hippies gather...
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GIFwave, Groundhog Day & Culture After The Apocalypse
Understanding the lessons of Groundhog Day has itself been a reiterative process for me. ...
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Gangnam Style & How The World Woke Up To The Genius Of K-Pop
Will 2012 go down in music history as the year the rest of the world finally realised tha...
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Give Us Your Eyes: 2012 Content Wars & The Attention Economy
Ears and eyeballs. Entire industries are rising or being torn apart and reconstructed aro...
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