Citizen of West Philly, musicologist at @UDelaware What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity (Oxford, 2017).
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If you need some counter-programming for your triumphalist, exceptionalist semiquincentennial, my digital walking tour of Philadelphia’s Independence Mall is now live, as part of the @SocAmMusic “Digital Lectures on American Music”series. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Glg_pC…
Amazing that the Inquirer refuses to acknowledge @sixtysixwards even in this context. 🙄
Democrats in Philly say they think overall turnout poised to overtake 2020 in the city. (This is largely based on promising but *anecdotal* reports as of midday). inquirer.com/politics/electi…
Okay, but how is it that Iowa and New Hampshire seem to get so many material benefits from being early primary voting states, and yet all we get is harassed to death by earnest blue state canvassers every four years.
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Just noticed the AT&T building next to the south street bridge has incoming-hurricane-style flood barriers up; do they know something we don’t? 😬
Are we doing Trump/Rage Against the Machine discourse again? online.ucpress.edu/jpms/arti…
Speaking of churches and center city and the election, Saint Mark’s (16th and Locust) is keeping its space open for the public from 9 to 6 tomorrow; I am going to be one of the volunteers there for a chunk of the day. saintmarksphiladelphia.org
I understand that these omnipresent ads are supposed to make you think voting by non-citizens is an actual problem, but I really think it has the opposite effect—reminding Republicans that normal laws on the subject already exist.
It’s not an uncommon move, but one of the depressing things about this piece is its unacknowledged sense of what constitutes a “movement,” and thus ends up comparing the suffrage and Civil Rights movements with…presidential elections. nytimes.com/2024/11/02/magaz…
Voting for a presidential candidate is not the same thing as fighting for an issue. building solidarity across lines of race and gender as an organizer is different from a candidate trying to appeal to different demographics of people who mostly don’t care about politics.
Excited for this Curtis Opera presentation of Poppea presented simultaneously with George Lewis’s The Comet, based on a short story by Du Bois. Apparently they do the two operas simultaneously on a stage that slowly rotates between two audiences.
As a Christian, I'm always curious when someone starts a thread implying a Christian rationale for voting for Trump, but it always ends up being a vote out of spite, which to be fair is famously the missing third Great Commandment--love God, love your neighbor, and be spiteful.
"Theologically conservative" is one of those insidious phrases wielded as if it means something (it very much doesn't, certainly not when it comes to "who to vote for president"), when it really is just a mask from behind which to air grievance and resentment.