Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening. | | | | | Los Mambises, Havana, 2006. (Paul Arps/Flickr) | | | | |  | “Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.”
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| | rantnrave:// While diplomatic relations between the US and CUBA may be headed for a downgrade in the DONALD TRUMP/RAÚL CASTRO era, the two leaders can no more stop the flow of music between their two countries than they can stop the wind from blowing between HAVANA and KEY WEST. Music (and other arts) will always bind what diplomats can not. Here's BILLBOARD on "the ambivalence Cuban musicians felt for [FIDEL] CASTRO," and here are the ESTEFANS and other Cuban-American cultural figures weighing in on their homeland... ARETHA FRANKLIN's astonishing four-and-a-half minute "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" before the LIONS-VIKINGS game on THANKSGIVING DAY belongs in the SSB Hall of Fame with WHITNEY HOUSTON and MARVIN GAYE. If you ripped her on TWITTER for going on too long—you know who you are—you are now legally barred from ever complaining about a player protesting the anthem. (But I'll give half a chuckle to CBS for this "time of possession" graphic)... CHANCE THE RAPPER would like you to stop confusing his mixtapes for albums... OK GO have morphed from talented film directors working without scripts into top-notch special-effects departments working without directors. Their videos are fantastic. But... No, it is not a righteous punk-rock move for you, a multimillionaire heir, to burn what you claim is £5m worth of punk memorabilia after you failed to auction it off for charity at a price that was acceptable to you. But congratulations for discovering that "punk has become another marketing tool to sell you something you don't need," and I hope you get a nice tax write-off... In addition to being one of the 20th century's great experimental/electronic composers (read that slash as an "and"; she was a giant in multiple disciplines), PAULINE OLIVEROS was an environmental activist who believed it was the composer's and the listener's job to be aware of all sounds at all times. And she was influential enough that we all do, in a way, listen to music differently because of her. RIP... QUESTLOVE is the world's best obituary writer, a job he has been called on to perform way too many times this year. Here's his beautiful farewell to COLONEL ABRAMS... RIP also: TONY MARTELL, JEAN-CLAUDE RISSET, RAYNOMA SINGLETON, AL CAIOLA, BEN ZION SHENKER. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Complex |
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 | NPR |
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 | The New Yorker |
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