The Cultural Cold War: Folk Music and Communism w/ Carsie Blanton | Upstream

Introducing the Swiss music scene to Bluesky

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Party Music by Rickey Vincent | East Bay Booksellers

Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America.

Swiss music scene by @hilk.eu

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The Communist and the Caricature: The Missed Opportunity in August Nimtz and Kyle Edwards' "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution"

Nimtz and Edwards offer caricatures where a fascinating and nuanced reality was available.

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The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology. Reading time: ~4 minute read | Published: Aug 18, 2026 | Updated: Sep 12, 2026

Black Music, White Halls: Toward a Black American Music Curriculum – ACT

Published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 25 (1): 52–76 [pdf]. https://doi.org/10.22176/act25.1.52

The Community Artists' Collective | Non Profit | Houston, TX

The Community Artists' Collective is the catalyst which provides the inspirational and educational sources for artists and citizens so that they can use their talents and creative abilities to solve economic, cultural and social challenges in the natural and built environments in which we live, work

[Interview] Snow J of Cheerful Music dives into the cross cultural intersection of AI and music – EARMILK

In conversation with Earmilk, Snow. J explores how AI has restructured the foundation of music culture, striking a balance between AI and human-made music as well as Cheerful Music's distinct approach to engaging AI technology in music making and marketing.

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Toward an Anti-Racist Music Education: A Critical Pedagogy of Popular Music Teacher Education

In this article, we propose a framework for a critical pedagogy of popular music for teacher education to better prepare music teachers to enact anti-racist praxis within their classrooms. Although a growing body of literature in music education addresses issues of racism within the field, fewer scholars have studied this within teacher education. Drawing from critical pedagogy, our framework centers popular music as a means for music teacher educators to interrogate issues of identity and power and (re)contextualize pedagogy, considering the socio-political contexts and communities from which music practices originate. These processes facilitate reflection on how racisms shape taken-for-granted practices within music education by centering the socio-political contexts of popular music. Through our framework, music teacher educators could prompt pre-service music educators to consider the multiple racialized epistemologies of musical value students and teachers bring to the classroom, working toward the possibility of enacting a multicentric approach to music education.

SZA, Kenneth Blume Decry Use of Their Songs in AI Training Data Sets

“I can’t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and dreams of artists”

“Political violence!”: Chaotic school board meeting descends into screaming match over Stonewall

"Political violence is not something we praise with music or song!" one board member said as they voted to ban a musical composition.