The Field Recorders’ Collective is dedicated to preserving and distributing non-commercial recordings of traditional American music that are not available to the general public. In January, took three gems out of the archive and made them available to stream and download.
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Album Review: “Satan Is Busy in Knoxville: The Knoxville Sessions, 1929 & 1930” — The Devil’s in the Details
Ted Olson continues bringing important location recordings of early American music back to light.
Electronic Music Review: Macroblank’s ANALOG レアリティ– Plenty of Scarcity to Go Around
A commentator on Macroblank’s Bandcamp page makes this telling assertion: “AI is Macroblank. Macroblank is AI.”
Chiptune Album Review: YMCK’s “Family Innovation” — 8bit Cynicism Toward Web 3.0
In its ninth album, YMCK shows that it is becoming self-aware. They are no longer just avatars we are to identify with, but also (satirically) the corporate entity behind them, a corporation preoccupied, like all others, with innovation.
Pop Music Review: Ginger Root’s “Nisemono” and the Virtues of Creative Recycling
The music of Cameron Lew, in the persona of Ginger Root, makes us confront a fundamental truth: the familiar, after the passage of time, becomes the exotic
Book Review: “We Carry Their Bones” — Life and Death at a Reform School During Jim Crow
We Carry Their Bones arrives at a time of increased interest in the history of racism and reform schools, particularly in Florida.
Video Game Commentary: Roblox — Exploiting Child Labor in the Metaverse
The most popular game/platform in the world shows us how some of the darkest chapters of labor history can easily repeat themselves in virtual reality.
Book Review: The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’t
We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.
Book Review: The Lost Southern Chefs — A History of the Commercialization of Southern Hospitality
For all of the book’s fascinating revelations, The Lost Southern Chefs leaves the reader with a number of unanswered questions.
Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive
What do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?