New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
Joining me this afternoon in the 5 o'clock hour, writer, director, Astra Taylor, discussing her most recent book, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Ms. Taylor will be appearing at the Oakland Book Festival
the following Sunday, May 31, in a panel discussion, Radical Lives, Radical Cities: Oakland and Beyond, with Elaine Brown and Frank B. Wilderson III.
"Taylor is the Marshall McLuhan or the Neil Postman of our new digital economy, the lonely voice raising urgent questions we need to answer together . . . If The People's Platform doesn't spark the conversation about the kind of democracy and culture we deserve, then we'll deserve the one we get."--NY1 News' The Book Reader
The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where all can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People's Platform argues that the Internet in fact amplifies real-world inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them. Online, just as off-line, attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have plenty of both. A handful of giant companies remain the gatekeepers, while the worst habits of the old media model--the pressure to seek easy celebrity, to be quick and sensational above all--have proliferated in the ad-driven system.
We can do better, Astra Taylor insists. The online world does offer a unique opportunity, but a democratic culture that supports work of lasting value will not spring up from technology alone. If we want the Internet to truly be a people's platform, we will have to make it so.
Genre
Jazz
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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
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Kenny Dorham | Afrodisia | Afro-Cuban | Blue Note | |
Horace Silver | Pretty Eyes | Cape Verdean Blues | Blue Note | |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | Pensativa | Free for All | Blue Note | |
Phineas Newborn, Jr. | Manteca | A World of Piano | Contemporary | |
Airbreak | ||||
Modern Jazz Quartet | Django | Django | Prestige | |
John Lewis featuring Eric Dolphy | Afternoon in Paris | The Wonderful World of Jazz | Atlantic | |
Dakota Staton | Summertime | The Late, Late Show | Capitol | |
Dakota Staton | Misty | The Late, Late Show | Capitol | |
Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee | Misty | Together Again! | Contemporary | |
Jimmy Heath | Gemini | Triple Threat | Riverside | |
Airbreak | ||||
Kenny Dorham | Basheer's Dream | Afro-Cuban | Blue Note | |
Santana | El Nicoya | Abraxas | Columbia | |
Santana | Se a Cabo | Abraxas | Columbia | |
Horace Silver | Nutville | Cape Verdean Blues | Blue Note | |
Eddie Jefferson | Sister Sadie | The Jazz Singer | Inner City | |
Eddie Jefferson | So What | The Jazz Singer | Inner City | |
Airbreak | ||||
Cecil Taylor | Conquistador | Conquistador! | Blue Note | |
Sun Ra & The Myth-Science Arkestra | Love in Outer Space (excerpt) | Planets of Life or Death | Art Yard / Strut | |
Airbreak | ||||
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Sun Ra & The Myth-Science Arkestra | Love in Outer Space (excerpt) | Planets of Life or Death | Art Yard / Strut | |
Herbie Hancock | Round Midnight | The Other Side of Round Midnight | Blue Note | |
Airbreak | ||||
John Lewis | Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West | The Wonderful World of Jazz | Atlantic |