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A discussion of Robert Darden's "People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music" with hosts Nate Wilcox and Garrett Cash. This episode focuses on the evolution of Afro-American music in the late 19th Century.
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TechnoRoll 3.4: Rave and Early Internet Culture Rose Together in the Bay Area in the Early 90s5/20/2022
Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America" with a look at the Bay Area in the early 90s.
A discussion of Robert Darden's "People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music" by hosts Nate Wilcox and Garrett Cash who kick off a new mini-series with some talk about spirituals and Gospel's roots in African music.
A discussion of Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America." Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness continue their conversations about the slow build of rave culture in the USA in the 1990s.
An interview with Robert Harwood author of “I Went Down to St. James Infirmary.” Host Nate Wilcox asks Robert Harwood about the origins of "St James Infirmary" and how he determined that prior histories of the song that linked it to the old British ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" were completely wrong.
A discussion of Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America." Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness mull Matos' telling of the emergence of the first wave of Detroit Techno, led by the Belleville Three: Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. As May said, "The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company."
An interview with Dave Thompson author of "Cream: The World's First Supergroup." Host Nate Wilcox asks Dave to delve into the story of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker and the out of control super group they formed in 1966 and its less than 2 year life span.
Hosts Nate Wilcox & Ryan Harkness discuss Michaelangelo Matos' "The Underground is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America." Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness discuss the role of radio, dance clubs, DJs like Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy and the Hot Mix 5 in the first outbreak of modern electronic dance music in the USA.
An interview with Dave Thompson author of "I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music." Host Nate Wilcox asks Dave to discuss the origins of "I Feel Love", the careers of Summer and Moroder before and after the song, and some of the other songs and artists whose work anticipated electronic dance music.
Metal Evolution 6: Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth Brought Thrash to a Global Audience4/24/2022
Hosts Nate Wilcox, Eugene S. Robinson & Alexei Auld discuss the "Thrash" episode of Metal Evolution. Nate debates the virtues of thrash with Eugene and Alexei who have some strong opinions about the virtues of the various thrash bands of the 1980s.
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