Ethan Hein joins the show to talk about no less than the following: Ableton Live, bias in harmonic analysis, hip-hop in music education, music education in hip-hop, the racial politics of defining genre, white people covering hip-hop songs on acoustic instruments, basing a dissertation on blog posts, the aesthetics of dubstep and metal, and Ethan and Will Kuhn’s forthcoming book.

 

Show Notes:

-Animoog iOS app

-John Lee Hooker

-Howlin Wolf 

-Philip Tag, musicologist 

-Old Town Road - Lil Nas X, ft. Billy Ray Cyrus

-Lil Nas X and the racial politics of country music - Ethanhein.com

-Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

-Hey Jude - The Beatles

-Naima - Ethanhein.com

-Steven Feld, ethnomusicologist

-Animals as Leaders

-Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Metal Cover - Leo Moracchioli

-Chris Thile covering Kendrick Lamar’s Alright on Prarie Home Companion

-White people with acoustic instruments covering rap songs - Ethanhein.com

-Punch Brothers Covering Radiohead’s Kid A

-Biz Markie - Just A Friend

-Angel of Doubt - Punch Brothers

-willkuhn.com

-Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skrillex

-Instapaper

-Why hip-hop is interesting - Ethanhein.com

 

App of the Week: OmniGraffle | Scrivener | Audacity 

 

Album of the Week: untitled unmastered. - Kendrick Lamar

 

Where to Find Us:

Ethan Hein: Facebook | Twitter | Blog | SoundCloud

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

 

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