Tag Archives: sammy davis jr.

leon trotsky: hipster

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dave

Member of the rat pack. The poster is almost ninety years old and does evoke a Trotsky as a sort of hipster of the digital age; rappy, street savvy, beat box man who bears a smattering of resemblance to Sammy … Continue reading →

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say hey kid

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Dave

To close out black history month its inextricably bound up with the cultural politics of race, and the infinite constructions of structural restrictions that have defined those relations. The Jim Crow segregation, the African American were not America’s only victimized … Continue reading →

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Day-O : cut him some slack?

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Dave

There was a great deal of controversy over jazz and swing music in Nazi Germany, with a public antipathy towards it, yet for the higher ups the debate was more nuanced. To even conceive of Goebbels as a jazz afficionnado … Continue reading →

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