I think George Colligan makes a really fine point. After all, even “Pops” had hit singles. Both were great all rounders – and if that makes them an “entertainer”, so what? Furthermore, neither were “uncle Toms”. George ColliganJazzLouis ArmstrongPopular music
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By one-thirty the cross was almost finished. It lacked only the little gold leaf letters that spelled GOD AND COMMERCE which Ignatius had ready to apply across the bottom of the cross. . . . “Now to the filing,” Ignatius said busily. “Then off to the factory. I cannot tolerate social injustice.” . . .…
Gary Gutting weighs in on this discussion that I previously mentioned here. gary guttingHumanitiesPhilosophypost modernismscienceScientism
Music journalist Keith Spera reports on a very recent meeting between “Fats” and Irvin Mayfield. Love the Caddy couch! “Of course it is a big deal to go to Fats Domino’s house,” he said later Wednesday evening. “Everything that’s great about New Orleans is in that house. “As I was driving over, I was thinking that…
Wynton Marsalis waxing philosophical about jazz. Despite the sour grapes one detects aimed at Wynton, he is without doubt the most naturally articulate spokesman for jazz and one of the most insightful thinker-practitioners within music generally – ask Simon Rattle or Eric Clapton. aestheticsand Swing: The Writings of Wynton MarsalisArtsJazzJazz at Lincoln CenterMoving to Higher GroundPhilosophyRhetoricWynton…
Check out this discussion featuring Mark Rowlands on the possibility. Of course, Mark aside from being a preeminent extended mind philosopher has the unusual experience of having lived with a wolf for a decade. animalsExtended MindExternalismMark Rowlandsmorality
This old review of Alan Mendelson’s Philo’s Jewish Identity validates the view that I’ve held since the mid-90s. That is, enabling us to see Philo as a proto-modern Jew. Jewish IdentityJudaismPhilosocial identitysocial ontology
An NPR discussion by Tania Lombrozo motivated by the work of Lara Buchak, her paper available here. My concern in this paper is the relationship between faith and rationality. I seek to develop a unified account of statements of faith concerning mundane matters and those concerning religious faith. To do so, I consider the sense in which faith…
Here is a lovely excerpt from the one and only David Attenborough, the drama heightened by the music. Check out all things swarm related on this excellent website run by Simon Garnier of the Rutgers Swarm lab. antscomputational intelligenceDavid AttenboroughswarmSwarm intelligence
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