As with my #Come30 presentation in August 2024, I've created a twenty-minute video presentation for the #Shhh30 virtual symposium happening this weekend. I am over the purple moon to be talking about The Gold Experience, the album and the era. These were my undergraduate years, fall 1992 - spring 1996, and yes, 0(+> taught me… Continue reading Three Epiphanies (sources annotated)
I'm presenting at the #Come30 online symposium tomorrow morning but won't have had a chance to add the Works Cited for my presentation before it's shown. Plus, there are a lot of sources to credit. So here we go. I'll list some in the traditional way where appropriate but also share the original sources for… Continue reading The Problem with Abundance (Sources Annotated)
NOTES ON THE SIGN O' THE TIMES BOXSET, PT. 1. It took me a while to listen to all of the Sign O' the Times outtakes from the boxset released in 2020. Maybe you've had this experience: you know a work of art is going to be so good that you want to hold off… Continue reading Soul Psychodelicide
Dispatches from the virtuality--Prince as superhero--Chris Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0g9Qkrc8nE I was fortunate to participate in another online symposium produced by De Angela Duff, my hero, a.k.a., Polished Solid. <--If you are interested in what's happening in Prince scholarship, De Angela's channel should be your first stop. SexyMF30 celebrated and examined Prince's 1992 Love Symbol album, stylized… Continue reading SexyMF30 Prince Symposium
Like Substack but with less stackin'. Prince Sticks Up for Teachers at Age 11 In April 1970, Prince was eleven years old and Minneapolis teachers were on strike. In recently discovered footage shot by WCCO, the Twin Cities' CBS affiliate, there is Prince, confident but with a familiar shyness, sticking up for the teachers. When… Continue reading Echoes of Ourselves
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