Ornette Coleman, “Love Call,” Love Call, 1971.
Ornette Coleman, “Love Call,” Love Call, 1971.
Michael Paul Smith’s Elgin Park photographs are worth a look. There’s a documentary about Mr. Smith as well, and you can watch the trailer here.
John Zorn, “Back To Bokhara,” The Concealed: Esoteric Secret And Hidden Traditions Out Of The East, 2012.
O.V. Wright, “Eight Men, Four Women,” A Nickel and a Nail and the Ace of Spades, 1970.
Paul Roberts, The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification, 2014.
Mr. Roberts’ book covers a nearly-overwhelming range of causes and effects of consumer-rule across the spectrum of economic development, investment, and production in our society.
An example of the kind of thought it bears: rather than contribute to the restoration and improvement of our increasingly unsafe and unstable roadways for all who might use them, we instead use whatever means we have to buy a car that will keep us individually safe against the threat of our crumbling infrastructure, with no explicit regard for the others with whom we nevertheless share the roads. In which light, self-satisfaction and short-sightedness characterize our economic behavior both up and down the line, and it doesn’t bode well.
Recommended.
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric, 2014.
Amanda Petrusich, Do Not Sell at Any Price, 2014.
D. Foy, Made to Break, 2014.
Eula Biss, On Immunity: an Inoculation, 2014.
Records that made no apparent history other than their own, the faint marks they left on the charts or someone’s memory, might count for more than any master narrative that excludes them.
— Greil Marcus, The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs, 2014.