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Tom Petty, a songwriter who melded California rock with a deep, stubborn Southern heritage, died on Monday after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 66 and had lived in Los Angeles. Tony Dimitriades, Mr…
Math on Voyager's Golden Record Tells a Story Copies of the Golden Record, sent journeying into deep space on the sides of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in 1977, carries the sounds and mus…
Prodigy, Rapper Who Helped Forge the Sound of New York Hip-Hop, Dies at 42 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/arts/music/prodigy-mobb-deep-dead.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOV0_VZEvGI
Gregg Allman, a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, the incendiary group that inspired and gave shape to both the Southern rock and jam-band movements, died on Saturday at his home in Savann…
Chuck Berry, who with his indelible guitar licks, brash self-confidence and memorable songs about cars, girls and wild dance parties did as much as anyone to define rock ’n’ roll’s potential and atti…
My culture for the evening. I just downloaded from iTunes Musiques rituelles maconniques du 18ème siècle ('Masonic ritual music from the 18th century'), conducted by Roger Cotte. It includes…
Tis perhaps appropriate that my fondness for historically informed performances (HIP) of classical music ties into international political economy for two obvious reasons. First, with most music com…
An IPE@UNC homie name checks yours truly and points us in the direction of--I kid you not--the " US-Sino Currency Rap Battle ." It's actually very entertaining if I have a quibble here…
It shouldn't surprise anybody that I am an avid Philip Glass fan. While I generally disdain low American strip mall, subprime, and SUV culture, his work is of a higher standard. Known almost to a…
Never let it be said that there's no art to blogging. Alike in the offline world, there are talented folks who know how to weave a compelling narrative out of a mundane story, and there are those…
Appropriately given the EU's current situation, I am reading leading institutional scholar Johan Olsen's Europe in Search of Political Order . Having had the pleasure of meeting him, I am mos…
Are you kidding me? Did we take advantage? That's what we do, that's how the world works! If you want an objective morality, you're living in a dream. So when you ask, 'did we take …
Dear readers, rest assured that I do not watch films replete with toilet humour on a regular basis. I prefer to watch, ah, documentaries . This bias, however, has let me down in one respect: I missed…
This being the IPE Zone, you should by now expect a higher standard of prose than average blog fare. After all, I claim to affect attitudes of elegant despair on subprime globalization. Now, one of …
You're probably wondering why you're staring at yet another 80s video at what's purportedly the International Political Economy Zone, not Stuck in the 80s (a superb blog, BTW). Well, let…
I'm strapped for time but, in light of this place becoming the International Protectionist Economy Zone, here's my choice for this year's new official song. This one is off Jamaican disc…
[WARNING: This is a rather morbid post. However, events recounted here are symptomatic of larger troubles. Those seeking uplifting tales amidst financial meltdown are advised to skip it. ] A few days…
[ After a long hiatus, I bring you...a weekend feature. ] One of the ironic things about technological advancements in the realm of audio is that the quality of reproduced sound is going backward, no…
I truly, madly, deeply do believe that this is a rather retro post in more ways than one: The well-respected currency commentator Simon Derrick of the Bank of New York suggests in the Financial Time…
Like in many other states, the state government of New Mexico is having difficulty raising revenues in this time of economic downturn in the US. Property taxes, sales taxes, and what else have you …
