Best The Backbeat Podcasts (2024)

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Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024) 1:39:03

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The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also underscored a wider separation of labor from leisure and of the workplace from the domestic sphere. These were changes characteristic of an industrial society where pleasure was to be sought outside of …

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Ataraxis - Julian Osbourne 39:06

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Send us a Text Message. Also watch the video of this podcast on the Drums and Rums YouTube channel. We learned about our guest and his band from fellow podcast Hook and Bridge. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio the home of the rock and roll hall of fame. We learn about Julian the drummer for Ataraxis. We also put him through, In Four Beats or Less: 1. W…

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Inside Out - EP 41 56:45

1d ago56:45

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Send us a Text Message. Leave us a RATING and REVIEW on Apple Podcasts. . Talking about releasing music as a indie artists Release of his new CD Check out Jason's new cd "Inside Out" available on platforms. Music review Guitar We also review the song "My Endless Nightmare" by AMOV to see if its the Riff or the Rhythm that makes the song. SUBSCRIBE …

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Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023) 57:38

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Las Vegas is a place the American dream made; a city built in the middle of desert visited by millions of people every year hoping to make their dreams (big or small) come true. The essays in The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines Las Vegas not as a kitschy, vaguely embarrassing American t…

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Drinking Rum at Mile Marker 0 - Key West Rum Fest Preview 35:48

6d ago35:48

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Send us a Text Message. Where is Mile Marker 0? Well it's at the end of US 1 in Key West, Florida. Also can you believe there's never been a rum festival in Key West before? I can't! Well I traveled down recently and hung out with Key West Rum Fest co-owner & director, Neil Lindley. Neil and I talk about the upcoming inaugural Key West Rum Fest, Au…

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Is He the Reincarnate of Tito Puente? 40:41

7d ago40:41

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Send us a Text Message. Is our guest possibly the reincarnate of Tito Puente? In the episode with Tito Puente Jr, he mentioned that our guest is almost like watching his father perform. Our guest is Wally El Timbalero. Wally tells me that he was mesmerized by seeing Tito Sr. perform on Sesame Street which sparked his passion into learning everythin…

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Arizona Brothels & Loki - EP 40 42:40

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Send us a Text Message. Leave us a RATING and REVIEW on Apple Podcasts. . Kevin and Paul reviewed our guest's song on ep 39 and now we have him on the couch. We have talented Jason Montero, singer songwriter. He performs solo, with a trio and with the Sour Mash Band. Jason shares with us how he landed in Arizona where the music scene was huge back …

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On Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo Jefferson 48:45

11d ago48:45

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In September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir…

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Don't Tell This Guy He Can't Do Something 50:55

14d ago50:55

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Send us a Text Message. David Reif, CEO of Reif Rum joins me over Zoom (sorry for a little video lag) to talk about his drive, becoming an entrepreneur at an early age to starting a rum company during Covid and killer rum cakes. Also we talk about being part of the inaugural Tampa Bay Rum Experience event. Also he shares a drum story that you might…

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The Most Controversial Music Topic - EP 39 1:03:45

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Send us a Text Message. Send us a Text Message. Leave us a RATING and REVIEW on Apple Podcasts. . Kevin and Paul discuss one of the most controversial music topic..... Tribute Bands. Is it still the same band even when there's only one original member left? We discuss a few examples of bands where there's a few original members and ones with no ori…

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Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024) 51:46

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For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians--from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile--and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has al…

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A Drummer's Tale 41:13

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Charles Hayward is one of the most propulsive, resourceful and generative rock-plus drummers of the past half-century. An influential percussionist, keyboardist, songwriter, singer of songs, and forward thinker through sound, Charles spoke with Phantom Power about a 40thanniversary touring with a partly reformed and enlarged This Heat as This Is No…

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Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) 54:20

18d ago54:20

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Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) explores the subculture’s emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they …

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Where to See Live Music - EP 38 52:33

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Send us a Text Message. Leave us a RATING and REVIEW on Apple Podcasts. . Some of the venues we mentioned where you can see live music in the Treasure Coast surrounding areas. Stuart: - COnchie Joes, Terra Ferr Mata. Ocean Republic, Coastal Karma, Hop Life, Side Door Brewery, Charlies Fort Pierce Area: - The Tiki, Sunrise Sands, Square Grouper, On …

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Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024) 59:56

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Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega (Backbeat, 2024) by Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere is the first biography on the life of Alan Vega, best known as the co-founder of the punk duo Suicide. In their exhaustive biography Davis-Chanin and Vega's wife of 30 years, Liz Lamere, start with Vega's early life and attempts at astrophysics in college, …

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Opera Dog - EP 37 59:28

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Send us a Text Message. Leave us a RATING and REVIEW on Apple Podcasts. . Billy and Chris from "Back-n-Business" are back and we get into a deep discussion about the current state of music. From Kiss's avatars to how backing of large marketing can make a difference to Chris being neighbors with Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Jon Oliva. Also, in our Rif…

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Screwed and Chopped 35:55

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Since the 1990s, many of Houston’s African American residents have customized cars and customized the sound of hip hop. Cars called “slabs” swerve a slow path through the city streets, banging out a distinctive local music that paid tribute to those very same streets and neighborhoods. Folklorist and Houston native Langston Collin Wilkins studies s…

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Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020) 59:13

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Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama, who eased the musical embargo of the island and restored relations with Cuba. Musical exchanges during this period act as a lens …

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Punchlines with a Backbeat: Comedic Rapper Zach Sherwin 1:15:32

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Meet Zach Sherwin, comedic rapper, writer, and former scribe behind the rhymes on The CW's hit show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. You might also recognize Zach from his epic throwdowns on the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History. Zach and Dennis discuss the strange jobs comedians take on (because, let's be honest, comedy doesn't always pay the bills).…

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Corey J. Miles, "Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South" (U Mississippi Press, 2024) 48:11

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In Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South (University of Mississippi Press, 2023), Corey J. Miles narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the "carceral South," to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can f…

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Matthew D. Morrison, "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (U California Press, 2024) 1:17:56

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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States (U California Press, 2024) explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncov…

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Tara López, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024) 51:21

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Tara López's Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso (University of Texas Press, 2024), is an immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas. Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco Punk, Tara López dives into the rebellious sonic history of the…

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Back n Business - Ep 36 49:58

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Send us a Text Message. Listen to the Show on all Podcast Apps "Riffs n Rhythms" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast.. . New band with some familiar faces. Our guests are Billy T and Chris from the band Back-n-Business. They tell us about their new project about ready to launch. Paul and Billy catch up about a gig when they were in the band Sonic…

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Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020) 1:07:58

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In Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry (University of Michigan Press, 2020), Kyle Barnett tells the story of the smaller U.S. record labels in the 1920s that created the genres later to be known as blues, country, and jazz. Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways …

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