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Read “Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music”
I knew the trip from Austin to Traverse City would be lengthy, so I packed this 2001 anthology, edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Arthur Knight. Vanguard film music scholar Claudia Gorbman called...
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Janelle Monáe and Shingai Shoniwa rock the pompadour, among other styles
It took maintaining this blog to realize how much I love talking about hair; the more extreme or edgy the coiffure, the better (think Marie Antoinette hair stylist Odile Gilbert). This is interesting,...
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Blonde on blonde: Madonna Vs. Lady Gaga
So, I just wanna make sure we all saw Madonna and Lada Gaga catfight in a skit on SNL last weekend. If not . . . This skit is interesting, though not without its problems in terms of how conceptualizes...
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Valentine’s Day, Schmalentine’s Day
Ya’ll, this has been a packed weekend for me. Friends have been in town. Parties have been thrown. Tex-Mex and brunches have been eaten. Oscar contenders have been watched (specifically District 9 and...
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Is Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” saved by the soundtrack?
The first time I saw the trailer for Sofia Coppola’s third movie, which featured New Order’s “Age of Consent” . . . the word you’re looking for is “stoked.” I watched the movie several times when it...
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